Tim Murphy
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This rules so hard. In law school I remember people who wanted to be federal prosecutors spending three years doing everything they could to be maybe, possibly be competitive for an AUSA job someday. Now you just need to hop on X the everything app and DM a guy named Chad.
January 31, 2026 at 11:02 PM
This rules so hard. In law school I remember people who wanted to be federal prosecutors spending three years doing everything they could to be maybe, possibly be competitive for an AUSA job someday. Now you just need to hop on X the everything app and DM a guy named Chad.
Greg Bovino? The overcoat model? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Greg Bovino? The overcoat model? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
broke the glass on the emergency thomas wentworth higginson www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
What ICE Should Have Learned from the Fugitive Slave Act
Americans took to the streets to defend their neighbors in the nineteenth century, too.
www.newyorker.com
January 31, 2026 at 5:34 PM
broke the glass on the emergency thomas wentworth higginson www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
reaching epidemic levels of yellow snow out there. whatever gods or planets you pray to, please, ask them for some 40-degree temps.
January 31, 2026 at 5:32 PM
reaching epidemic levels of yellow snow out there. whatever gods or planets you pray to, please, ask them for some 40-degree temps.
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The 70th Street bike lane is in the Epstein Files. buff.ly/97ywL08
The Streetsblog Angle: The 70th Street Bike Lane Is In the Epstein Files! - Streetsblog New York City
Somewhere, maybe, Woody Allen finally regrets opposing that bike lane.
nyc.streetsblog.org
January 30, 2026 at 8:18 PM
The 70th Street bike lane is in the Epstein Files. buff.ly/97ywL08
i think we've just got to seal off the bridge to palm beach and turn it into some sort of "Escape from New York" deal
January 31, 2026 at 3:24 AM
i think we've just got to seal off the bridge to palm beach and turn it into some sort of "Escape from New York" deal
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Great piece from someone who really understands how these flights work
These Omni ICE trips include the removal of dozens migrants to Ghana, a country they have never been to, and the transfer deportation of legal asylum seekers back to Russia and Iran, via Omni flights to Egypt, Qatar and Kuwait.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler
A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
www.motherjones.com
January 31, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Great piece from someone who really understands how these flights work
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some Public Service Journalism: I took that Minnesota judge's pdf list of court orders that ICE violated, found all the cases on CourtListener and linked to the dockets reason.com/2026/01/30/j...
January 30, 2026 at 4:52 PM
some Public Service Journalism: I took that Minnesota judge's pdf list of court orders that ICE violated, found all the cases on CourtListener and linked to the dockets reason.com/2026/01/30/j...
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Scoop from @samanthamichaels.bsky.social: More federal prosecutors have or plan to resign b/c Trump admin is making them charge protestors exercising their First Amendment rights: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump's minions are pressuring prosecutors to charge ICE protesters based on scant evidence
Don Lemon is just the tip of the iceberg.
www.motherjones.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Scoop from @samanthamichaels.bsky.social: More federal prosecutors have or plan to resign b/c Trump admin is making them charge protestors exercising their First Amendment rights: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I will say, there's some shit you've just got to figure out for yourself in life www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/d...
Freedom With a Side of Guilt: How Food Delivery Is Reshaping Mealtime
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:55 PM
I will say, there's some shit you've just got to figure out for yourself in life www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/d...
god it's disturbingly easy to read this in his voice
OK, so Musk was planning to go to Epstein's island, but it's not like he went there with the intent to go to a wild party or something, it was probably just some business. Excuse me, an email just came in.
*Reads:* "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"
*Reads:* "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"
January 30, 2026 at 7:48 PM
god it's disturbingly easy to read this in his voice
Melania project on pace to be so bad that there are literally hearings about it
January 30, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Melania project on pace to be so bad that there are literally hearings about it
liberals are getting the second amendment, sports, "protecting white women," and Odin in the national divorce. incredible stuff.
Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
January 30, 2026 at 5:56 PM
liberals are getting the second amendment, sports, "protecting white women," and Odin in the national divorce. incredible stuff.
detaining a worker *at the hotel they're staying in.*
Here's another one from the list where ICE arrested a Nicaraguan refugee who was working at the Hilton where agents were staying, after telling his boss he wouldn't be taken. ICE then transferred him to Texas after a judge entered a TRO to keep him in-state. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![Petitioner is a citizen of Nicaragua who entered the United States as a refugee on
October 26, 2023. (Pet. [Doc. No. 1] ¶ 2; Pet’r’s Ex. A.) His application for lawful
permanent resident status is pending with United States Citizenship and Immigration
Services (“USCIS”), which issued a notice of receipt on February 22, 2025. (Pet. ¶ 2;
Pet’r’s Ex. D.) Petitioner also has a valid work permit, which remains valid through March
17, 2029. (Id. ¶ 2 & Ex. C.)
On January 19, 2026, ICE agents arrested Petitioner at his place of employment, the
Hilton Homewood Suites in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, which was housing ICE agents
deployed to Minnesota to participate in Operation Metro Surge. (Pet. ¶ 4.) Respondents
were previously aware of Petitioner’s legal status and had verbally informed his boss that
he would not be detained if he reported to work. (Id. ¶ 5.) Despite their reassurance,
Respondents arrested Petitioner as part of Operation PARRIS [Post-Admission Refugee
Reverification and Integrity Strengthening] in Minnesota, a process ostensibly “designed
to re-examine refugee cases approved in recent years.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4wgc32lruykyqvmnculpihn5/bafkreidad7ypiqyr43szqj4sglkaexvyqucnybtkf7aaizsh6vibyes57m@jpeg)
January 30, 2026 at 5:45 PM
detaining a worker *at the hotel they're staying in.*
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On January 30, 1919, began an unprecedented exposure of state-sanctioned violence by the Texas Rangers & accomplices. Witnesses testified about murder, torture, displacement, and intimidation of Border Mexicans by the Rangers. Learn more in today's blog post: refusingtoforget.org/the-canales-...
January 30, 2026 at 3:54 PM
On January 30, 1919, began an unprecedented exposure of state-sanctioned violence by the Texas Rangers & accomplices. Witnesses testified about murder, torture, displacement, and intimidation of Border Mexicans by the Rangers. Learn more in today's blog post: refusingtoforget.org/the-canales-...
The fact that this is being done under the Klan Act is, of course, quite sick. But it should also serve as a reminder that when the Klan was formed, *we passed the Klan Act* and essentially created a Justice Department to crush it. And we can do it again. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump DOJ uses anti-KKK law to charge ICE protesters with felony
Federal prosecutors allege that Twin Cities organizers violated an ICE official's civil rights.
www.motherjones.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:34 PM
The fact that this is being done under the Klan Act is, of course, quite sick. But it should also serve as a reminder that when the Klan was formed, *we passed the Klan Act* and essentially created a Justice Department to crush it. And we can do it again. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content
January 30, 2026 at 1:54 PM
there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content
reacting to some more news
January 30, 2026 at 1:33 PM
reacting to some more news
yeah man I don't know www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...
Newsom Files Civil Rights Complaint Against Dr. Oz Over Fraud Video
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:31 PM
yeah man I don't know www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...
man this was so good defector.com/livvy-rizzin...
Livvy Rizzing Up Baby Gronk, Explained | Defector
Did you hear the news? Livvy rizzed up Baby Gronk!!! Despite being a 40-year-old man, I am uniquely in tune with the younger generation because I go to the mall. I am more than happy to explain this a...
defector.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:36 AM
man this was so good defector.com/livvy-rizzin...
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In Maine, masked federal agents stopped a car that contained a baby, and smashed a window. "Glass sprayed over the baby’s car seat." They took the baby's father who was driving, leaving the mother who does not have a driver's license alone in the car with the baby. On video:
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
www.pressherald.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:14 PM
In Maine, masked federal agents stopped a car that contained a baby, and smashed a window. "Glass sprayed over the baby’s car seat." They took the baby's father who was driving, leaving the mother who does not have a driver's license alone in the car with the baby. On video:
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Sixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.
January 30, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Sixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.
let's go bob
🏒🍦If you're happy to see that the Detroit #RedWings soaring high again, check out this 1990 feature from @uaw.org Solidarity magazine about Bob Riedel, longtime ice cream vendor at Joe Louis Arena and member of @unitehere.org Local 24. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. #LGRW
January 29, 2026 at 9:23 PM
let's go bob
future data-center use case www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for ‘mega centers’ and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
www.bloomberg.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:20 PM
future data-center use case www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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New from me: Last month I asked HHS about South Carolina's measles outbreak. They brushed me off, saying they weren't "concerned that this will develop into a large, long-running outbreak."
A month later, it's the biggest since measles was declared eliminated. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A month later, it's the biggest since measles was declared eliminated. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
HHS wasn't worried about South Carolina's measles outbreak. It's now enormous.
“CDC is not currently concerned that this will develop into a large, long-running outbreak," the agency said in December.
www.motherjones.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:13 PM
New from me: Last month I asked HHS about South Carolina's measles outbreak. They brushed me off, saying they weren't "concerned that this will develop into a large, long-running outbreak."
A month later, it's the biggest since measles was declared eliminated. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A month later, it's the biggest since measles was declared eliminated. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...