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Screenwriter/Storyteller/Journalist/Red Sox fan/DEMOCRAT (Frivolous, Roast of Paul Hogan, Avon Ladies of the Amazon, The Replacements, Desperate Housewives, Ms., Pipeline Artists, Southbay, etc. ) Full of equal parts: Creativity, sarcasm, and iced coffee.
Murphy: I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so it's no surprise that this war is going horribly
2/2 It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge. Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion.
The full quote from the late and much missed Mr. Hitchens:
Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made
from atoms - had the smallest idea of what was going on.
BLUMENTHAL: Is the agent who shot Ms Martinez sill on the job?
NOEM: Our officers conduct operations every day-
B: Is he still on the job carrying a gun?
N: I dunno
B: Would you agree he shouldn't be?
N: I'll get back to you
B: I think Americans would find it absolutely terrifying if he is
wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"
Perfect 🤣🙌🏻🔥
My goodness.
Tonight let’s boycott Felon Trump’s lies & instead watch the
💥 PEOPLE’S STATE OF THE UNION 💥
Join me & @joyannreid.bsky.social LIVE in DC on the National Mall with Members of Congress, allies, & Americans impacted by the Trump Regime.
You can also watch here: www.youtube.com/live/oArKZut...
This is how you live a life
A win! A federal judge has instructed the Interior Department to restore signage and video exhibits at George Washington’s former Philadelphia residence that explain his ownership of enslaved people.
Trump is selling out our kids’ future so his fossil fuel billionaire friends can get even richer.
The science is clear. Climate change is an existential threat to the planet.
We must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and into sustainable energies.
Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
They talk and act exactly like Nazis in pursuit of the exact same objectives as Nazis using the exact same tactics and rationales as Nazis but it would be wrong to call them Nazis until they grow the little mustache.
State sanctioned death warrant. Good thing that “elections don’t matter” — assuming we ever have legit elections again.
What is happening at the Department of Justice under Attorney General Bondi is a disgrace.
Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."
Everything he touches eventually dies.
It’s the opposite of the Midas touch…
I’m a humanistic atheist, but I’m finding myself praying for my country.
Two days ago, we discovered Trump has engaged in the most corrupt behavior of any president in history—giving secret technology to China's ally in exchange for the Trump family getting half a billion dollars.
And nobody is still talking about it. #Corruption
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
as ever:
archive.org/donate?origi...
The Internet Archive is probably the org I've supported/urged ppl to fundraise for the most, after my own org, #MEAction.
Seriously, if you won't miss $5/month, it's always a good time to support the Archive.
If you can't stand up for a fellow journalist when she's being ridiculously bullied and demeaned for asking a basic question of a public leader, you sure as hell aren't going stand up for anything as abstract as a national principle or ethos.
American journalism is dying. And with it, our republic.
The hometown newspaper that I read as a teenager through Watergate and Vietnam and made me crave the life of a reporter is now being butchered by a billionaire who had $75 million to bribe and flatter a president and his wife but nothing to save journalism, an bulwark of the republic itself. Got it.
Trump promised to lower costs.
Instead, thanks to his chaotic economic policies, families paid an extra $2,120 in 2025.
Trump’s broken promises have consequences that show up in Americans’ bills.
Parents are afraid to send their kids to school, classrooms sit half-empty, children are being taken to detention facilities. We’ve crossed a line.
I stood with education leaders to discuss the growing harm federal actions are causing to children, families, and our schools.
Never forget: Pam Bondi and Kash said there was nothing in the Epstein files back in March
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
I’ve lived in both cities, and I love each in the wrong way, but definitely prefer the shitty, sweaty desperate streets of LA.
Hope you’re able to find your way back to the enshittification capital at some point.
I’ve got some good news for you. These screenings are all in New York (not LA).
Unless you already bought plane tickets back to LA to make Soderberg’s event.
