Thomas Murphy

husband, father of 2 boys, dietitian, sports fan. love indie/foreign movies and classic lit

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

This is all so sickening.

[Scott Barber @thescottbarber]

Christian Nationalism went fully Nazi much quicker than I even predicted it would.

[Mark Weisman @CoachWeisman]

9 months ago my brother Andrew (Andy) was walking me down the aisle at my wedding.

He is 37. A husband to Steph and Dad to 8-year-old Eli. He was healthy, active, and just started an exciting new chapter working for the Chicago Cubs.

Then everything changed.

Less than a year ago he started noticing weakness in his right hand. What first seemed minor turned
into months of testing and uncertainty until he got the diagnosis no one is ever ready for: ALS.

There is no cure. No treatment that stops it. It’s a disease you would never wish on your worst enemy.

My brother is one of the most selfless people I know. He showed up to every one of my football games. He once drove my ridiculous truck from Illinois all the way to Myrtle Beach without hesitation. Whatever I needed, whenever I needed it — he was there. No questions asked.

So when he needs us the most… no questions asked.

As a family we’ve partnered with American Friends of Sheba Medical Center to support the ALS research of Dr. Amir Dori. His work on miR-126 is at a critical stage. The scientific breakthrough is
extremely promising, but it needs immediate funding to validate, then move into a clinical trial.

Please stand with Andrew.
My brother. My best friend.

Donate: https://t.co/KzF37o1QoJ

[Jennifer Erin Valent 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @JenniferEValent]

This is full on insane.

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

Almost every morning, I wake up to news that Ukraine has bombed military sites in Russia and that Russia has bombed civilians in Ukraine. Rarely is a war so asymmetrical.

I think of a statement that David Petraeus made in 2023: This war is "about as clear a right-versus-wrong as we've seen in our lifetime." https://t.co/IZWzZTZg5K

[Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. @neoavatara]

This is an absolute, audacious and idiotic lie.

Apparently MAGA is ok when their side lies to the American public about public health.

[Shiri_Sabra @sabra_the]

Bar Asraf, 30, a survivor of the Nova Festival massacre, died by suicide last night at the grave of his girlfriend, Liron Barda, who was murdered by Hamas on October 7, 2023. He had struggled with profound grief since the massacre and remained close to Liron's family.
May their memories be a blessing.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

This is an excellent point. We had reporters embed with us on multiple occasions. They went on raids. They were on air assaults. If you read their reports, you got a sense of what the war was really like for the men and women who fought it.

Now? We have to rely on the most dishonest administration in modern American history for the "news," and when reporters finally do get access to independent information, we find out that much of the administration's "news" was fake from the beginning.

[Dr. Rob Davidson MD, MPH @DrRobDavidson]

He’s an abject failure. He’s attacking the real frontline doctors by spewing total BS about “treatments” for COVID that don’t work. I was there. People were dying and we were doing everything we could to help them. He’s failing us on Measles and explosive diarrhea. He must go.

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

1/n Watching Kennedy make one false statement after another on @CNNSOTU @DanaBashCNN
1. The U.S. neither had the highest number of Covid deaths (that was India by 4X) nor the highest death rate.
2. The U.S. did have 200,000-300,000 unnecessary deaths among people who refused Covid vaccines
3. It was indeed the governors who issued stay at home orders after ICUs across the country were overwhelmed with sick and dying patients

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

If we had only had no lockdowns, didn't use a vaccine, used ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine......

.....tens of millions of more people would have died.

[Jennifer Erin Valent 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @JenniferEValent]

Our president is wholly unfit to lead. And every person who has the responsibility to deal with this resoundingly clear fact yet refuses to act will forever be marked by their astonishing craven cowardice and betrayal to their oaths and to this nation.

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

“Scientists discovered and developed the COVID vaccines that brought the pandemic to an end. It’s the anti-vaxxers, not the scientific community, who should stand indicted in the light of 2026” https://t.co/FHYjZnqZp3

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Or, as a member of the bipartisan COVID Crisis Group noted in a 2023 study on the pandemic, a "key predictor of infections and total COVID deaths" in each state during the pandemic "was the share of people that voted for Trump in 2020," and that "Trump was a comorbidity."

[David Frum @davidfrum]

The 20% who lived in the most pro-Trump places suffered 70,000 more COVID deaths than the 20% in the most pro-Biden places. Red America obeyed those who told them not to mask, not to vaccinate. They died for it. No, Fauci is not the villain here. https://t.co/7hxuP9yOfi

[Jenna Johnson @Jenna_DC]

The case against the Olympic canoeist is over. Federal prosecutors say damage to the Reflecting Pool "was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism,” undermining what President Trump has been saying for weeks, @mviser writes. https://t.co/Y2HjGBtkie

[Rep. Dan Goldman @RepDanGoldman]

These murders are a tragic reminder of the real-life consequences of this administration’s inhumanity. When they mercilessly and carelessly deport asylum seekers to their country of origin, they are thrusted back into the same perilous circumstances they were fleeing.

Now three young children will grow up without their parents. This cruelty shocks the conscience. We must abolish ICE.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Irish musicians came out to pay tribute to Glen Hansard in Dublin today singing Falling Slowly….beautiful 🥺🙏

[On This Day in Simpsons History 🇺🇦 @dailysimpsons]

“Change the channel, JD!” - Trump, probably

[HeyNurseKat’s Science Support Group @HeyNurseKat]

In Canada, if you are a nurse and openly promote antivaccination views, you can lose your license.
I think that should be the case in every nation, ideally.
You can’t be in the science club if you don’t understand the science.