"We Are Sleepwalking Into Autocracy"
"Senator Chris Murphy, of Connecticut, describes how free and fair elections might end in America as soon as 2026."
The New Yorker · We Are Sleepwalking Into Autocracy
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This helps to make sense of an otherwise incomprehensible act of self-destruction.
Good to see a Senator speaking up and speaking clearly.
[I write as an outside observer from the UK.]
Mesnetsiz İmamoğlu iddiası: Tutuklanmasına Trump onay verdi: Demokrat Parti'nin Connecticut Senatörü Chris Murphy, yolsuzluk soruşturması kapsamında tutuklanan İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediye (İBB) Başkanı Ekrem İmamoğlu'yla ilgili bir iddia ortaya attı.
Katıldığı bir çevrimiçi toplantıda konuşan Murphy, "Trump, Putin'i ne kadar sevdiğinden bahsediyor ve demokrasilerden ne kadar nefret ettiğinden… https://www.eshahaber.com.tr/haber/mesnetsiz-imamoglu-iddiasi-tutuklanmasina-trump-onay-verdi-215667.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon EshaHaber.com.tr #İmamoğlu #Ekremİmamoğlu #ChrisMurphy #Trump #Türkiye
Read this! The Chris Murphy explainer is great, as in illuminating. The #tariffs aren't tax policy; they're meant to bring us to our knees. Let's not bend. #HandsOff!
"Our brains are just not trained to understand that the president of the United States wants to make us beggars. The Secretary of HHS wants to give our kids measles. The president's corporate sponsor wants to destroy us b/c we respect his child [Vivian Wilson]."
https://thelastbillionaires.com/trump-declared-himself-king/
The Last Billionaires · Trump just declared himself kingHe wants to break us. If we can keep it together, we will win.
Read this! The Chris Murphy explainer is great, as in illuminating. The #tariffs aren't tax policy; they're meant to bring us to our knees. Let's not bend. #HandsOff!
"Our brains are just not trained to understand that the president of the United States wants to make us beggars. The Secretary of HHS wants to give our kids measles. The president's corporate sponsor wants to destroy us b/c we respect his child [Vivian Wilson]."
https://thelastbillionaires.com/trump-declared-himself-king/
The Last Billionaires · Trump just declared himself kingHe wants to break us. If we can keep it together, we will win.
https://www.europesays.com/1962056/ Sen. Cory Booker speaks more than 22 hours to protest Trump’s agenda #APTopNews #CharlesSchumer #ChrisMurphy #CivilRights #CoryBooker #DCWire #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #GeneralNews #Greenland #HakeemJeffries #HumanRights #JohnLewis #NewJersey #NJStateWire #Politics #TedCruz #trump #U.S.DemocraticParty #UnitedStatesGovernment #WashingtonNews
Hab jetzt die Hälft von dem letzten Video von @pallenberg gesehen, in dem Senator #ChrisMurphy die offnesichtlichsten Korruptionsfälle der ersten 6 Wochen von #Trump.
Da wird mir gerade echt Angst und Bange: Die haben gepanzerte #Tesla's bestellt. Das ist ja komplett an mir vorbei gegangen. Jetzt soll dieses Unternehmergenie auch noch Splitterbomben mit Elektrozündung bauen?
Trump & Musk Korruption – Diese Rede schockt den US-Senat! – Senator Chris Murphy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iZFMJW-Cec&t=685s
Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
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He spoke very bluntly about just how real a threat this administration poses for the survival of American democracy, about why the Democratic Party has failed so far to meet the moment and what can be done to fix it — and why it’s ultimately up to the American people to mobilize to stop Trump and Musk from breaking the country’s institutions beyond repair.
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TRANSCRIPT: Senator #ChrisMurphy warns America may be "months" from "irreversible" destruction of democracy
Mechanic Please take the time to listen to this: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Thursday spoke on the U.S. Senate floor to expose the unprecedented corruption of the Trump administration’s first six weeks in office.
Murphy condemned Trump’s normalization of pay-to-play politics, where billionaire donors dictate policy and taxpayer money is funneled into the pockets of the president, Elon Musk, and the corporate elite.
#chrismurphy #trump #musk #doge #corruption #billionaires
https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-six-weeks-in-this-white-house-is-on-its-way-to-being-the-most-corrupt-in-us-history
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Connecticut voters:
Richard Blumenthal's position is unknown for cloture, although he is voting NO on the CR. Call to urge him to vote NO on cloture.
https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/contact
Chris Murphy is NO on CR, but unknown on cloture. Call to urge him to vote NO on cloture.
https://www.murphy.senate.gov/contact
Hint: in most cases, you can scroll down to the bottom of the page to find their office phone numbers.
www.blumenthal.senate.govContact | U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of ConnecticutThe Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut
Sechs Wochen Korruption in den USA
Der demokratische Senator Chris Murphy hat in seiner Rede die ersten sechs Wochen der Trump-Präsidentschaft zusammengefasst – und zwar nur die großen Fälle von Korruption.
https://kaffeeringe.de/2025/03/11/sechs-wochen-korruption-in-den-usa/
kaffeeringe.de · Sechs Wochen Korruption in den USA
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Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
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WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Thursday spoke on the U.S. Senate floor to expose the unprecedented corruption of the Trump administration’s first six weeks in office. Murphy condemned Trump’s normalization of pay-to-play politics, where billionaire donors dictate policy and taxpayer money is funneled into the pockets of the president, Elon Musk, and the corporate elite.
#Coup #trump #Putin #Corruption #bitcoin #Theft #Billionaires #Oligarchs #StopTheCoup #MemeCoin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hycoCYenXls
I found this #TED talk to be a very helpful framework for thinking about a variety of things: https://www.ted.com/talks/charles_duhigg_the_science_behind_dramatically_better_conversations_mar_2025
Most pointedly, #Democrats would do well to reflect on this. We're not having the same conversation, and that's why we're where we are. The nation isn't strictly divided on political lines, it's much more primal than that.
As much as #Trumpism is nakedly awful on its face, it's having an _emotional_ conversation (and to a lesser degree, a _social_ one). Most of us in #America are pissed off, even fully aware that #Republicans are to blame due to their policy priorities and laissez faire approach to damn near everything, all but ensuring immiseration for all but the rich.
What made #Obama and #Biden successful in their 2008 and 2020 runs? A variety of factors, to be sure, but both of those campaigns were having the same kind of conversation, selling "hope" after 9/11 and the Iraq war, and talking about the "soul of America" after the disruption of the pandemic and inhumanity of the prior administration. What made #Kamala fail? Again, a variety of factors, but she was almost exclusively having a _practical_ conversation.
When you have a deep, radiating hurt inside of you (i.e. most key issues driving the general malaise people have felt over the past few years), and someone's response to that is purely logical/practical, it only serves to invalidate and frustrate you, nothing else.
In that framing, it's easy to understand why people did what they did, whether they voted for either party, or not at all. Why would you choose differently if you feel that you won't otherwise have the conversation you want?
This is also why #Bernie, #AOC, #JasmineCrockett, #ChrisMurphy and others are resonating so much with people right now - they are having an _emotional_ conversation, which is exactly what people are seeking in such a painful and worrying time. Nobody is looking for marginal policy improvements or safe poll-tested messaging. They are tapping into the _emotional_ core of those trying to #resist.
BTW, I think this is also why #GavinNewsom went and stepped on his own dick - our #trans friends are in dire need of _emotional_ support right now, not _social_ discussions about an imaginary "common ground".
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Sen #ChrisMurphy also criticized Secretary of #State #MarcoRubio, his former #Senate colleague from Florida, for not opposing #Trump’s efforts to align #America with #Russia. “That’s been a great disappointment to many of his former colleagues in the Senate,” Murphy said of #Rubio.
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Sen #ChrisMurphy said he believed President #Zelensky of #Ukraine appropriately asked #Trump & #JDVance how they could reassure him that #Putin of #Russia would abide by the terms of a #ceasefire agreement. “It is a sad day in America when we are getting closer & closer to Russia, a brutal #dictatorship, & further & further away from #democratic #allies,” Murphy said.
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Senator #ChrisMurphy, #Democrat of CT and one of the most outspoken critics of the #Trump admin, told CNN on Sunday, that “it is absolutely shameful what is happening right now,” speaking about #Trump’s efforts to *end* the #war in #Ukraine.
“The White House has become an arm of the #Kremlin,” Murphy said. “The #WhiteHouse has been pretending as if Ukraine started this war. That’s essentially saying that #Poland invaded #Germany at the beginning of WWII. There are still #facts in this world.”