Tim Murphy

guy who thinks Spirit Airlines and Spirit Halloween are the same company

"The defaced statue depicts Albert Pike, a Confederate diplomat and general who worked closely with Native Americans from slave-owning tribes that sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War and fought to protect slavery as an institution. He was also a prominent leader of the Freemasons — a secretive fraternal society that included many powerful politicians and elite figures in the 18th and 19th centuries."

fuck it, let's play the hits www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

A Look Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan Lair

"Mr. Barak and his wife, Nili Priel, hailed Mr. Epstein as 'A COLLECTOR OF PEOPLE.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation. Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.

Journalist. Boko Haram survivor. Award-winning restaurant manager. ICE detainee.

Post from r/washingtondc The number of tickets I’m getting now that bus lanes are being monitored has gotten to be insane. Add to that the red shrouds that the city just randomly drops over the pay stations has led to more tickets as well. I feel like I’m working just to pay off my tickets. I’m contesting each of them to buy time to generate the money to pay ($100 for each infraction). Meanwhile, the city doesn’t do anything to food trucks and other curb squatters that block traffic, foul the air and the street view.

i'm starting to think spending time in cars makes people lose object permanence

legal experts say the double-murder could lead to accusations of homicide

"Republican lawmakers proposed a redistricting plan last week that Democrats describe as a gerrymander designed to give more seats in the US Congress to the GOP."

what are we doing here www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

revising this. they should all talk like steve zahn.

"Lobby merchandise included a $35 baseball hat featuring the “Odd Lots” logo — a box overstuffed with a truck, an ear of corn, a chicken, a semiconductor, a house, gold bars and two gummy bears, which referred to an episode in which a Chicago bakery owner, discussing the complexity of supply webs, described a gummy bear maker in Mexico that couldn’t get enough gelatin because fewer hogs were being slaughtered, because less hide leather was needed for car seats, because fewer cars were being made, because the requisite chips from Taiwan weren’t available."

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...

hawthorne never would have gotten that customs house job if he were around today

Opinion | 1,760 Acres. That’s How Much More of Manhattan We Need. (Published 2022)

Cuomo can be the mayor of Long Manhattan www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/o...

he's right, tho. we should build a New New York City, right next to the old one.

He's going to do it. If anyone can pull this off, it's Sean Duffy.

Like chiseling Lincoln off Mt. Rushmore.

this is the second time they have done it this millenium

Fleeing Texas was the only way Democrats could block Trump’s plan to rig the midterms “The Republican members have outsourced our democracy to Mar-a-Lago”

gerrymandering is a thing people don't like, but which basically happens once a decade, and the idea that it should just be done all the time, at a moment's notice is really introducing a whole new dynamic www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This $50 billion band-aid won’t save rural health care It is just a fraction of the money these facilities will lose thanks to massive Medicaid cuts.

When the nearest major hospital is 80+ miles away, rural hospitals (with as few as 2 ER beds) play a critical role in stabilizing trauma patients. The OBBA's $50B rural health fund won't nearly make up for the losses hospitals like these face from Medicaid cuts.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In Trump’s Washington, Palantir is winning big From warfighting and tracking deportations to writing State Department cables with AI, the company is benefiting from a new technology-driven cost-cutting ethos.

"At the State Department, a Palantir-designed AI system is now helping to write some diplomatic cables in a new pilot program" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

(not actually sure that they can)

they can't replace texas. but they can recreate it in the aggregate.

see, I can't tell if this is in reference to NY or Florida

YouTube video by Gulf Coast News Nearly 2,000-acre brush fire burns in Florida's Everglades National Park

they're working on it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_xt...

we've got soul-crushing humidity at home

why would rich people move from new york to florida when we've managed to recreate florida's summer climate

new logo looks like a petroleum company that's threatening sagehen habitat

Olmsted Was the Perfect Restaurant for a Different Time After nine-plus years on Vanderbilt Avenue, Greg Baxtrom will close his restaurant this month.

Trump take Olmsted www.grubstreet.com/article/olms...

The Silo is pretty good but everyone in the silo should have a silo accent. They should all talk exactly like Rebecca Ferguson.

an express tunnel to two different airports, but only car owners from manhattan can use it, and it also has no fire exits. who says no

"In 2017, officials from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey met with Boring executives to hear their idea for a wildly ambitious infrastructure project: a tunnel from the east side of Manhattan to LaGuardia Airport — with an additional tunnel to John F. Kennedy International Airport, according to a former state official who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter."

lol www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Elon's tunnel business is a useful metaphor for the broader project these guys are involved in—promising to solve major societal problems, in the service of simply exacerbating them instead. Life is Boring.