kelseybmurphy
@kelseybmurphy.bsky.social
Senior Editor at Viking Children’s Books, Penguin Random House. Also reader, writer, TV/movie/theater fan, and former UCB performer.
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It's so fucking convenient that they get to "fear for their lives" anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death.
January 7, 2026 at 6:43 PM
It's so fucking convenient that they get to "fear for their lives" anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death.
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Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.
January 7, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.
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If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
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we are led by disgusting trash
The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related care to minors.
Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
House passes bill to criminalize transition care for minors
The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related medical care
www.nbcnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
we are led by disgusting trash
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Heartbreaking and horrifying to go to bed reading about the mass shooting at Brown University and wake up to read about the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. Thinking of the victims, their loved ones, and those affected by the hate that drove these attacks.
December 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Heartbreaking and horrifying to go to bed reading about the mass shooting at Brown University and wake up to read about the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. Thinking of the victims, their loved ones, and those affected by the hate that drove these attacks.
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I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
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I have a recurring donation to Astoria Food Pantry set for about the cost of one grocery run per month and encourage anybody who can swing it to think about what they could do for their neighborhood pantry—hard to overstate how important these non-gov resources are right now
Astoria Food Pantry End of Year Fundraiser
Help us keep grocery bags full in 2025
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October 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I have a recurring donation to Astoria Food Pantry set for about the cost of one grocery run per month and encourage anybody who can swing it to think about what they could do for their neighborhood pantry—hard to overstate how important these non-gov resources are right now
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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more than a decade ago, one Fraction-Aja Hawkeye panel captured the vibe of this entire era we're living in now
September 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
more than a decade ago, one Fraction-Aja Hawkeye panel captured the vibe of this entire era we're living in now
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THIS IS WHY YOU CANNOT HAVE A STUPID MONEY PENALTY OH MY GOD JEFF HILLER!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
THIS IS WHY YOU CANNOT HAVE A STUPID MONEY PENALTY OH MY GOD JEFF HILLER!!!!!!!!!!!!
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“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.”
- Fred Hampton
- Fred Hampton
August 31, 2025 at 1:12 AM
“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.”
- Fred Hampton
- Fred Hampton
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"Listen, we're not on a studio set. We're not on the backlot at Sony. We're in New York City, and it's going to feel like it."
for @defector.com, i talked to the team behind @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's campaign videos to learn their secrets (see: a lot of sincerity; and a dash of Tim & Eric)
for @defector.com, i talked to the team behind @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's campaign videos to learn their secrets (see: a lot of sincerity; and a dash of Tim & Eric)
Selling Zohran | Defector
On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE...
defector.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"Listen, we're not on a studio set. We're not on the backlot at Sony. We're in New York City, and it's going to feel like it."
for @defector.com, i talked to the team behind @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's campaign videos to learn their secrets (see: a lot of sincerity; and a dash of Tim & Eric)
for @defector.com, i talked to the team behind @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's campaign videos to learn their secrets (see: a lot of sincerity; and a dash of Tim & Eric)
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the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this
July 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this
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Truly, it’s the racism.
July 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Truly, it’s the racism.
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Just called my reps - Goldman, Gillbrand & Schumer - to tell them their silence about the murder-by-starvation of children and civilians in Gaza shocks the conscience and they must immediately call for the end of US aid to Israel until Israel institutes a ceasefire and allows aid/food to enter Gaza.
July 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Just called my reps - Goldman, Gillbrand & Schumer - to tell them their silence about the murder-by-starvation of children and civilians in Gaza shocks the conscience and they must immediately call for the end of US aid to Israel until Israel institutes a ceasefire and allows aid/food to enter Gaza.
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At this point, I do not know how anyone denies what is happening in Gaza unless they have no sense of morals. People are starving to death. They are being shot at when they come to get food. What else can you possibly call this but genocide?
July 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
At this point, I do not know how anyone denies what is happening in Gaza unless they have no sense of morals. People are starving to death. They are being shot at when they come to get food. What else can you possibly call this but genocide?
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As the world silently watches live on air, ethnic cleansing unfolds disguised as famine.
This is not mere starvation but a deliberate mass execution of those who survived bombs and shrapnel. What is happening to us today is not far from the suffering of Black people, immigrants,
tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p
This is not mere starvation but a deliberate mass execution of those who survived bombs and shrapnel. What is happening to us today is not far from the suffering of Black people, immigrants,
tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p
July 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
As the world silently watches live on air, ethnic cleansing unfolds disguised as famine.
This is not mere starvation but a deliberate mass execution of those who survived bombs and shrapnel. What is happening to us today is not far from the suffering of Black people, immigrants,
tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p
This is not mere starvation but a deliberate mass execution of those who survived bombs and shrapnel. What is happening to us today is not far from the suffering of Black people, immigrants,
tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p
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It cannot be stated strongly enough that ICE is a Nazi organization that not only needs to be disbanded, but every single masked goon held responsible for their crimes
We’re seeing reports of Feds raiding farms in Oxnard and Camarillo today. This just happened in Camarillo.
July 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It cannot be stated strongly enough that ICE is a Nazi organization that not only needs to be disbanded, but every single masked goon held responsible for their crimes
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July 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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They are doing Defund The Police in reverse: Gutting the social safety net and giving unlimited power to a vast, violent gestapo to deal with the consequences.
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
🚨🚨 NEW: House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
July 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
They are doing Defund The Police in reverse: Gutting the social safety net and giving unlimited power to a vast, violent gestapo to deal with the consequences.