Erin Murphy

Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.

Workers at top 20 US low-wage firms rely on public assistance, report says Study finds workers at 20 S&P 500 firms rely on Medicaid and Snap as CEO pay and buybacks soar

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Brown University researchers launch AI legislation tracking and analysis portal As a tool for researchers, lawmakers, journalists and the public, the CNTR AISLE Portal provides analysis of state- and federal-level AI bills pending across the U.S.

Great resource for anyone engaged or interested in US AI policy and governance from @geomblog.bsky.social and his team www.brown.edu/news/2026-03...

More detail here: www.ms.now/news/justice...

Small drop in the ocean but I started using Kagi for search and it’s fantastic. It’s like Google before enshittification.

OpenAI’s Pentagon deal raises new questions about AI and surveillance | Fortune OpenAI says its AI won’t be used for mass domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons, but legal experts warn gray areas in U.S. law could leave loopholes.

“‘Right now, under U.S. law, it’s lawful for government authorities to buy up commercially available information from data brokers and other third parties,’ said Samir Jain, the vice president of policy at CDT.”

Dems Sound Alarm About Scared Americans the Trump Admin Stranded in the Now-Warring Middle East This is your TPM evening briefing.

The media, wholesale, derided President Biden’s pullout of Afghanistan as “botched” — over 120,000 people were evacuated, and 13 American soldiers were killed. His popularity took a nosedive and never recovered.

Just now: Texas Democratic Party says “hundreds of Dallas County voters are being turned away from the polls” because of new Republican-led requirements that they vote only in their precinct, rather than anywhere in the county #txlege

The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.

This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

Senator Merkley to me on Trump’s war in Iran:
“This president has chosen to steal the power of the purse, breaking the Constitution; steal the power of taxation, breaking the Constitution; and now, stealing the power of War, breaking the Constitution.
I’m not sure, are we still a republic?”

How Wesley Hunt of Texas Is Working in Plain Sight With Outside Groups

A remarkable level of flouting of the remaining campaign finance rules, as everyone now knows enforcers are sleeping and SCOTUS will shrug away what’s left at some point

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Israel hacked security cameras, phones to track Khamenei - FT

Israel hacked security cameras, phones to track Khamenei - FT | Iran International share.google/YT0LnRFYKNMC...

just had extended debate at home about whether accomplice liability extends to assassination bets how’s your day going

How to register to vote and check your registration status For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

OpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon after Trump orders government to stop using Anthropic On X, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he had moved to label Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" and cancel Defense business with the company.

One way to read the AI/Pentagon news from last night (I covered it but didn't skeet) is that the Department of Defense wants AI to automate weapons and/or spy on Americans and that Anthropic would have the best AI to do that, but OpenAI is at least the second-best so they'll just use that instead.

January - Venezuela
February - Iran
March - Cuba
April - Greenland
May - Panama
June - Somalia
July - Canada
August - Mexico
September - Haiti
October - Norway (retaliation for not winning Nobel)
November - Colombia
December - Ukraine

Wouldn't want a little war to get in the way of a golf weekend.

“Roe will never be overruled….”

Hegseth strikes deal with Scouts: Girls allowed for now, DEI is banned In announcing the Pentagon’s agreement with Scouting America, the defense secretary assailed the group for welcoming transgender children but stopped short of saying they would be denied entry.

At least we know in the hours before the attack Hegseth was laser focused on keeping Americans safe

Donald Trump has said almost nothing to justify going to war against Iran. The real reason may be something he dare not speak of.

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THIS.

I am hopeful that the war in Iran will bring needed democratic change to … the United States of America.

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

Only Trump would drop WAR late on a Friday night as though it were campaign oppo about a sex scandal. Like he just has to make it through a Saturday morning news cycle and no one will notice we’re bombing another country.

Awaiting news that Barron will be enlisting to serve on the front lines so he too has a chance to be an American hero.

No doubt Tulsi Gabbard is drafting her resignation letter as we speak.

You can just say things.