Chris Murphy
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Chris Murphy
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Pilot. Political affiliation: Pro-Constitution of the U.S. Despise illiberalism, Putanism, & Trumpism.
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fellas, is it good when the ruling party requires public institutions to recruit for ideological youth cadres
December 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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JUST IN: Trump personally asserts executive privilege to protect 4K+ documents/messages from discovery in J6 civil suit. Court given very bare bones list. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... As first reported by POLITICO last week w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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There’s no other way to spin it.

The strikes are murder. They’re illegal. And they put our troops at greater risk.
December 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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They are now targeting people who did everything by the book and were literally at the ceremony where they were going to become citizens...

"Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"
Immigrants Approved for Citizenship ‘Plucked Out’ of Line Moments Before Pledging Allegiance: Report
Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the ceremony. The incident comes after USCIS told employees to halt all immigrat...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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This does it - I'm canceling cable 🤬

CNN partnering with Kalshi to run live odds on world events where viewers can gamble on them in real time through their phones

One Kalshi betting market let people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation

✏️ by: @truthout.org
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
truthout.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Amplifying the voices of people who tried for an entire year to come up with an “originalist” case against birthright citizenship and failed to persuade anyone who wasn’t already persuaded is not worth it.

Signed, a guy who spent an entire year refuting them
December 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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“We knew very well what we were electing” isn’t a defense of Trump’s actions. It’s an admission of your complicity.
CURTIS: All of us need to wake up every morning & say, 'what am I doing to make immigrants feel welcome' regardless of an individual says

BASH: But he's not just an individual. He's the president calling an entire community garbage

C: We knew very well what we were electing. We wanted a disrupter
December 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Canada, up until the post-war shift to the US sphere, was a vital component of European security, and there are European graveyards that prove it. We should be in on this, not just as supporters but participants.
On defence the emerging Green position is the need to develop a post-American European military alliance, which is a more realistic appreciation of current political trends in the US than a lot of Labour and Conservative thinking
December 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Truly delusional justifications for murder at the hands of the state. We’re only one click away from this logic getting turned to domestic relations.
WELKER: Lawmakers say the 2 men appeared to raise their arms potentially to surrender. Why did Admiral Bradley interpret these actions as anything other than them trying to survive?

TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
December 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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A neat thing about birthright citizenship is how it tests whether a person cares at all about the Constitution. There's no argument against it, birthright citizenship is the unambitious text, the obvious intent of the drafters, and the undisputed way it was followed for the past 150+ years.
I continue to think that Matty coming out against birthright citizenship a few months ago should have been taken as a major warning sign that the group chats have already decided to surrender on this.
December 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Someone who is NOT ME is doing this in Columbia Road in Washington DC and I love it very much.
December 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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This is happening in part because Bill Cassidy is a feckless coward who traded away his Hippocratic oath in exchange for avoiding a GOP primary challenger
@radiofreetom.bsky.social @gtconway.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Trump says that price of beef is down. The receipt from my last trip to the grocery store says it is up. For busy shoppers, it can be hard to know who to trust.
December 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Trump said last year that he would focus on deporting immigrants who were violent criminals. But a study of arrests in major operations in DC, LA, Illinois and Massachusetts shows that the vast majority of those swept up by ICE have no criminal record.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
ICE Arrest Data Shows Many Immigrants With No Criminal Record
In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025
While the outcome should be clear from the plain text of the Constitution, the central project of this court and Administration, together, is to nullify the reconstruction amendments
The Supreme Court Friday agreed to decide whether President Donald Trump can unilaterally limit the constitutional right to citizenship granted to virtually every person born in the United States. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
December 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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And this is why Dem Presidential hopefuls ALL need to start making threats of serious punishments TODAY.

The future is a muddled mess right now, but plenty of powerful ppl no longer see MAGA authoritarian consolidation as likely.

CAPITALIZE (heh) on that. To shape their actions NOW.
Worth thinking about it in these terms. You don't have to trust or like Dimon or JPMorgan Chase but if they're publicly saying a future DOJ won't look kindly on bribing Trump now, that's a good thing and gives other companies pause, too.

www.ibtimes.co.uk/wall-street-...
Wall Street Giant Says No to Trump Ballroom amid Bribery-Risk Fears
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has refused to contribute to Donald Trump's White House ballroom project, citing concerns over perceptions of 'buying favours' and possible scrutiny by the U.S. Departme...
www.ibtimes.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Some Saturday morning thoughts on issues and persuasion.

Psychologists have long understood there to be two processes to persuasion. You may know this as "peripheral" and "central", or as popularized by Kahneman, "fast and slow", or (similarly, slightly different) Riker's heresthetic and rhetoric
December 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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As someone who was troubled by watching members of the Afghan National Army simply kick a detainee…

*who I know with 100 percent certainty tried to kill me personally just hours beforehand*

… I can’t say what I want to do to the entire chain of command here.
December 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM