Dan Murphy
Ex Journalist Bloomberg/FEER/CSM. Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, then Iraq/Egypt with a smattering of everywhere else. Same handle over at Mos Eisley Spaceport. Made wine for a few years. Now training a blue heeler in the CA foothills.
- Left: Trump state department appointee Chris Landau greeting white South Africans whose immigration to the United States was expedited by Trump. Right: The apartheid flag of South Africa.
- She only stole $700mln in her first fraud. Silicon Valley is amazing. (I literally spit coffee at NPR saying "Theranos' core technology proved faulty.") www.npr.org/2025/05/10/n...
- Antagonizing European capitals to own the libs. Being a career dip must be incredibly demoralizing now. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
- Reposted by Dan MurphyBonkers. This would be a rerun of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, but in a war-ravaged territory that isn't even a sovereign state and in which no American official has been allowed to set foot for two decades www.reuters.com/world/middle...
- Reposted by Dan MurphySo bonkers, in fact, that whoever is floating this idea for Gaza is literally comparing it to the CPA in Iraq, an entity which two decades later remains a byword for waste, corruption and incompetence
- Reposted by Dan Murphy(With the proviso that much can change...): India will have incentives to underplay the damage, but Pakistan playing up the damage here can mitigate incentives to escalate in turn. That said, I imagine Pakistan will be compelled to retaliate with parity (standoff munitions against 9 targets).
- Reposted by Dan MurphyHe also manually blocked life saving food and aids drugs in Africa, already leading to people dying. It should never go unmentioned that he and Luke Farritor murdered people on Elon Musk’s orders.
- Reposted by Dan Murphy“What’s the benefit for me if I give my favor to you?” A story about the online musings of a self-described “senior advisor” to the health secretary: www.notus.org/health-scien...
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What its like to be a faculty member in Florida, elsewhere, and maybe your local university soon. Racists try to entrap you into saying something that the Governor has deemed is grounds for dismissal, or make false claims. Free speech on campus is clearly declining.- Brutal account of what it’s like to teach at the University of Florida right now in the NYT—extraordinary climate of fear. People afraid to say intersectional and talk about lynchings. Fake students trying to entrap Muslim faculty or just making things up altogether. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/o...
- Reposted by Dan MurphyOne of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.
