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Trump just told New York: “Vote my guy or lose your funding.”
That’s not politics.
That’s a shakedown.
Protection Money: Federal Edition → open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...
#Trump #Cuomo #Mamdani #NYC #Corruption #Democracy #ArticlesOfUnreason
Protection Money, Federal Edition
Trump turns New York politics into a mob movie and he’s the guy demanding tribute.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
slmurphree.bsky.social
ICE is hiring private contractors to monitor social media around the clock. Just analysts and algorithms.
The new border is now where the feed begins.

🔗 slmurphree.substack.com/p/surveillan...

#SurveillanceState #DigitalPrivacy #ICE #CivilLiberties #ArticlesOfUnreason
Surveillance State: Online Edition (How power moved beyond borders and into your feed)
The Quiet Bidding War
slmurphree.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
slmurphree.bsky.social
Virginia just flipped the script.
Spanberger wins the governor’s race after running against DOGE layoffs, tariffs, and shutdown chaos.
Trump’s “efficiency” just cost him a state.
Read: open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...
#VirginiaElection #Spanberger #Politics #Shutdown #ArticlesOfUnreason
Virginia Flips the Script: Spanberger Beats the Shutdown Machine
When the cost of living meets the cost of loyalty, Virginia picked groceries over grievance
open.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
slmurphree.bsky.social
The walls are cracking in real time.
100+ Republicans ready to defy Trump over the Epstein files.
The loyalty cult just sprung a leak.

Read here:
🔗 slmurphree.substack.com/p/mutiny-on-ss-trump
#EpsteinFiles #Trump #GOP #WhiteHouse #Politics #Substack #BreakingNews #ArticlesOfUnreason
Mutiny on S.S. Trump
The Epstein files weren’t supposed to surface again, not like this, and definitely not with the crew turning on the captain.
slmurphree.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
slmurphree.bsky.social
Eight Senate Democrats joined Republicans to end the shutdown, splitting their own party and surrendering leverage.

Read here: slmurphree.substack.com/p/shutdown-n...

#USPolitics #Shutdown #Democrats #Congress #PoliticalAnalysis #ArticlesOfUnreason
Shutdown Nears End After Eight Democrats Back GOP Funding Deal
A masterclass in how to lose a standoff with people who like standoffs.
slmurphree.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
slmurphree.bsky.social
California didn’t reform. It retaliated.

Prop 50 wasn’t a policy, it was a power play.

🕯️ The Quiet Coup ↓
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The Quiet Coup
California just did what everyone swore it wouldn’t.
open.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
slmurphree.bsky.social
A federal judge ordered the government to fund SNAP.
Trump said no.
42 million people are now bargaining chips.
SNAP is being held hostage.

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#SNAP #Shutdown #FoodInsecurity #Politics #ArticlesOfUnreason #Trump
SNAP Is Trapped in a Hostage Negotiation
When feeding the Americans becomes a bargaining chip, the government stops serving the people and starts ruling them
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
slmurphree.bsky.social
The Trump administration just turned student debt forgiveness into a loyalty test.

Read “How the Trump Administration Turned Student Debt Forgiveness Into Political Blackmail.”

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#StudentLoans #PSLF #Education #Politics #Substack #DebtCrisis #ArticlesOfUnreason
Loyalty Loans: How the Trump Administration Turned Student Debt Forgiveness Into Political Blackmail
How the Education Department turned debt relief into an instrument of political obedience.
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
slmurphree.bsky.social
NEW: Trump’s DOJ says drone strikes on “narcotics traffickers” don’t count as hostilities.

Translation: the War Powers Act doesn’t apply if your targets can’t shoot back.

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#WarPowersResolution #ConstitutionalCrisis #LatinAmerica #DroneWarfare #ArticlesOfUnreason
The United States vs. Its Own Shadow
A love story between executive power and creative legal writing.
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
slmurphree.bsky.social
We didn’t build a monster.
We built a mirror.
and it’s showing us what we already are.
AI isn’t breaking people. It’s documenting the breakdown.

slmurphree.substack.com/p/we-built-a...
#AIethics #MentalHealthCrisis #ArticlesOfUnreason #Technology #Culture
We Built a Mirror, Not a Monster
AI isn’t breaking people. It’s showing us that we already are
slmurphree.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
slmurphree.bsky.social
Border Patrol is in charge of ICE now.
The same agency filmed leaping from rental trucks and Black Hawks into city apartments.
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#ICE #BorderPatrol #Trump2025 #Immigration #CivilLiberties #Authoritarianism #ArticlesOfUnreason
ICE Got Fired for Being Too Chill: Congratulations, We’re All in a Border Zone Now
Turns out the problem with ICE wasn’t cruelty, it was hesitation.
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
slmurphree.bsky.social
Talk of a Trump third term isn’t just noise, it’s a test.
Every empire begins with someone deciding the rules don’t apply.

The Rule of Two: The Constitutional Sith Edition
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The Rule of Two: The Constitutional Sith Edition
When democracy meets the Dark Side, and the Force is not with us.
open.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
slmurphree.bsky.social
Trump’s 2025 clemency wave isn’t mercy—it’s maneuvering.
From loyalists to laundromats, I break down the pardons, the players, and the quiet rewriting of accountability:
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#PresidentialClemency #TrumpPardons #ArticlesOfUnreason #Substack
Loyalty, Laundering, and Letting It Slide
Inside Trump’s 2025 Mass Pardons and Clemency Scandals
slmurphree.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM