Tom Murphy

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

YouTube video by KGW News Sen. Jeff Merkley asks Trump nominees if president is a 'Russian asset' | Worth Your Time

Senator Jeff Merkley asked nominees if President Trump is ‘a Russian asset’ in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting last week. I looked and the reporting on the event is really thin. Here's the way KGW-TV in Portland, Oregon covered it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcD6...

Amazon Disregarded Internal Warnings on Injuries, Senate Investigation Claims (Gift Article) A staff report by the Senate labor committee, led by Bernie Sanders, uncovered evidence of internal concern about high injury rates at the e-commerce giant.

Cheap goods come at a high price: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/b...

They all keep saying that it's half the country, when it's actually not. It's more like 26% of the population, but a majority of people are just privileged enough to opt out of politics.

Threads is not sticky or intuitive.

2024 Election Voter Turnout Map: See Where Trump Gained and Harris Lost Trump found new voters across counties and demographics to win the election. But Harris’s failure to match Biden’s 2020 performance was just as consequential.

Thanks to fair weather Dems: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The White House Will Be Shedding Its Union Label After gains by organized labor under President Biden, a second Trump administration is likely to change course on regulation and enforcement.

Read it and weep for labor: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/10/b...