Bill Murphy
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Bill Murphy
@murphy-bill.bsky.social
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To be 100% clear. Johnson read a prayer that came from a 1928 Episcopal book of prayers. The problem is not the words in that prayer, it is his attribution of it to Jefferson. And that’s the part of this story with a fascist genealogy.
January 4, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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For more on good old H.L. Hunt, who should be getting noticed more and more these days. bsky.app/profile/seth...
Musk's Twitter is not the first time the nation's richest person (who also is a terrified reactionary with a childlike understanding of history, culture, & political science) devoted a big chunk of his fortune to creating a right wing propaganda machine. americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-...
NET Journal; H. L. Hunt: The Richest and the Rightest
Haroldson LaFayette Hunt is the American success, a grandfatherly Horatio Alger with a Dallas drawl. He was born in Illinois, son of a Confederate war veteran. Later he drifted west, worked at odd job...
americanarchive.org
January 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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FWIW, here's a 1970 version of that apocryphal Thomas Jefferson prayer that Mike Johnson read in the House of Representatives today. It appeared in The Cross and the Flag, the magazine of Gerald LK Smith, a white supremacist & Christian Nationalist who was America's most notorious antisemite.
January 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs.

Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.

www.propublica.org/article/unit...

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UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism
Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...
www.propublica.org
December 13, 2024 at 1:34 PM