Tim Murphy

noem might still be talking

No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.

Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

do you like grand theft auto? great news. we're hiring *car-jackers*

there's a not especially healthy situation where they are trying to sort of speak the '90s video game panics into reality. it's like a Pony Express-style PSA for troubled teens, an audience-callout for anyone who has ever played a first-person shooter game and wished "the other person actually died"

spurs are really gonna do the thing

markwayne mullin going on TV and tripping over whether or not this is a "war" marks the triumphant merger of two great strains of american conservatism—a legal tradition rooted in coming up with alternative meanings for ordinary words, and guys who aren't ex-military but want to sound like it

The future in Texas is bright and terrifying Democrats are once more dreaming of what could be. Republicans are dreaming of Rhodesia.

2026 in a nutshell: a Democratic Party with maybe a puncher’s chance if everything goes right—and a Republican base testing just how far gone it can go, before it ever pays a price for anything. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"How am I going to sell my house with this crap in my backyard?" ICE wants to turn warehouses into detention centers. The suburbs are fighting back.

ICE wants to turn warehouses into detention centers. The suburbs are fighting back.

@schuylermitchell.bsky.social reports from a weekend protest in New Jersey:

you can tell the Kennedys who left

it's worth asking, "what is the Clearwater of New York"

hive, assemble, etc.

One of Top Podcasting Awards Honors Reveal for Best News and Politics; Nation’s Top Magazine Awards Select Mother Jones as Finalist for General Excellence, Profile Writing - Reveal The nation’s most prestigious magazine awards announced that Mother Jones is a finalist in two categories—for general excellence and profile writing—and

We're so proud to announce that Reveal has won an Ambie award for "Best News & Politics Podcast!" 🎉

We were also nominated for Best Podcast of the Year" and "Best Reporting" for our episode "The Landlord Gutting America’s Hospitals." 🧵

YouTube video by Conner O'Malley Pipe rock theory

normalize sharing "pipe rock theory" any time you mention "pipe rock theory" to someone www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzuj...

good pull

I'm reminded of the 2019 Europa League final, where Henrikh Mkhitaryan could not even attend the match because geopolitical safety concerns. sporting bodies would simply rather do business with bad governments than have to work around them, barring a huge outcry.

Trump to POLITICO: ‘I really don’t care’ if Iran plays in World Cup The country has pulled back from World Cup preparations after U.S. military attack.

i think it's pretty obvious at this point we should not be hosting the world cup, but of course, i also understand what FIFA is www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Tweet from Vince Shalomi: Suing the GOP Texas for deleting my nickname "Shamwow" in the Primaries so they help the incumbent John Carter so the voters don't recognize me. Rigged election by these rhinos.

The Shamwow Guy, Vince Shlomi, says he is suing the Texas GOP for “rigging” his Texas House race by not including the word “Shamwow” on ballots

he's on his way out the door, and I'm not trying to read any momentum-shift into this. it's just: a lot of them deserve this kind of contempt from senators for reasons that *should* be nonpartisan but have basically not been in a long time.

maybe i've memory-holed something from the first term, but I actually can't remember the last time i heard a republican senator talk to a republican official in public like this.

they're putting up Pirro numbers

We should set aside our petty grievances in order to make room for new and even more petty grievances

it has been pointed out, and corrected, that I have been misstating the name of the president in the West Wing for my entire adult life

thank you

jesus christ i've had it wrong for 20 years

apologies for spoiling season 7 of the west wing

" But if the yearning Talarico taps into wasn’t real, your relatives would not have sent you his videos. For decades, Democrats have longed for messengers, real and imaginary, who can defuse the power of the Christian right. At the apex of the Moral Majority, Aaron Sorkin wrote the West Wing’s Jeb Bartlett as a spiritual foil who quoted Leviticus chapter-and-verse to hypocritical Bible-thumpers. George W. Bush’s real-life successor wrote a bestselling memoir named for the sermon that changed his life. The West Wing, for its part, ended with the only fantasy more persistent than beating a bunch of theocrats at Bible Bonkers—a Democrat rising from obscurity and turning Texas blue."

The Texas Senate primary is today. Here's my profile of James Talarico, a new twist on something old: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

i will say I liked the idea of cracking staten island in part because i like anything that breaks down people's monolithic misconceptions of an area.

Justice Alito’s latest opinion is a very, very bad sign for voting rights A decision upholding a New York GOP congressional district could be a prelude to killing the Voting Rights Act.

maybe they let Big Sam have this one just to get it out of his system...or maybe we're fucked www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

can't recognize everyone there, is that hillary clinton meeting jeffrey epstein

if the executive branch were not working full time we would not have gone to war illegally on a saturday