Tim Murphy Profile Banner
Tim Murphy Profile
Tim Murphy

@timothypmurphy

30,263
Followers
830
Following
1,559
Media
32,882
Statuses

national correspondent @motherjones . tmurphy @motherjones .com

NYC
Joined November 2008
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
Pinned Tweet
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
8 months
My cover story for the magazine on the age of American Oligarchy—like a new Gilded Age, but dumber:
15
124
301
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
I just want to note here that it's literally the opposite of what they do in sports
@washingtonpost
The Washington Post
6 years
Kellyanne Conway on Acosta video: "That’s not altered. That’s sped up. They do it all the time in sports."
2K
725
2K
718
11K
69K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 years
"the Supreme Court will shoot this down" is true and fine, but "nearly 40 percent of state attorneys general signed on to this" perhaps raises some more existential questions
502
5K
44K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
I didn't do it, I'm innocent, all the witnesses should die
201
7K
37K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 years
Some stuff was dangerous, some stuff was petty or cruel, but I'm hung up on Trump saying that insulin is "so cheap, it's like water."
700
6K
35K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
I don't understand why, if Trump was responsible for making the stock market good, he has now decided to make it bad
266
5K
35K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
wow we used to say christmas in this country
@scottwongDC
Scott Wong
5 years
NEWS: Rep. DUNCAN HUNTER (R-CA) says he will resign “after the holidays”
261
226
688
372
3K
25K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
Tom Cotton blocked an Obama nominee until she died, it's weird that all these senators suddenly don't think one of them can make a difference
70
5K
21K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
2 months
every senator's comments on biden are like the thing someone in the mob says when they want to do a crime but they're not sure if the feds are listening in
@KristenEskow
Kristen Eskow
2 months
Sen. Tim Kaine to @JoeKhalilTV : "I have complete confidence that Joe Biden will do the patriotic thing for the country. And he's going to make that decision. He's never disappointed me.“
312
270
2K
172
2K
20K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
extremely wild that Republicans have won the popular vote exactly once in AOC's lifetime
469
2K
16K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
I've been in Robert Mueller's position before and let me tell you, he has not written shit
214
1K
13K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
2 years
buddy we can't even get him to play Gio
@nrarmour
Nancy Armour
2 years
Iranian journalist just asked Berhalter why he hasn't asked US gov't to remove a Naval ship from around Iran. That's where we are today.
203
502
6K
18
1K
13K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
2 years
needed to pick up one seat and not lose any, and they went with Dr. Oz, Blake Masters, Herschel Walker, and Don Bolduc. Man, I don't know.
167
748
12K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
the thing about not turning your places of worship into, basically, airports, is that having open doors is a community value and giving that up means giving up something really profound
119
2K
11K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
2 years
everyone's suddenly acting like "MAL" is an acronym we agreed to use.
322
482
10K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
Tom Cotton held up an Obama appointee until she died to spite the president.
114
4K
10K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
members of both parties now calling for Stephen Miller's resignation -->
139
2K
9K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
1 month
Walz retired at retirement age, but more specifically...he retired to run for Congress on a platform of ending the war, ran ads about the devastation the war had caused, and then voted to bring everyone home within 90 days. (That was, of course, unsuccessful.)
@AdamKinzinger
Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱
1 month
Ok. JD served honorably, but he wasn’t kicking down doors. He was in public affairs. Which again, is fine and honorable. Tim, after he was eligible for retirement, retired. People do that. If it was a real problem he would have been “stop lossed” and prevented from
4K
3K
25K
67
1K
9K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 years
Weston McKennie with a "Justice for George" armband
Tweet media one
20
1K
8K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 years
going from "stop the recount" to "stop the count" in twenty years I think does pretty neatly encapsulate both the starting point and endpoint of the modern GOP
60
1K
8K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
Devin Nunes' complaint is a more devastating takedown of Devin Nunes than anything anyone has ever tweeted
87
1K
7K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
every senator is saying this and, just to be clear, it actually means you don't believe Dr. Ford
@mviser
Matt Viser
6 years
"I believe Dr. Ford," says Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV). "Something happened to Dr. Ford. I don't believe that the facts show it was Brett Kavanaugh."
268
70
197
91
2K
6K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
it'd be weird if, for instance, Meet the Press commemorated the anniversary of the JFK assassination by interviewing someone who thinks JFK is still alive, but that's basically what they do with climate science
19
1K
6K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
This. Guy. Worked. For. DHS.
@ndhapple
Nolan Hicks
6 years
"Smith responded to a group dinner invitation whose host said his home would be “judenfrei,” a German word used by the Nazis ... to describe territory that had been “cleansed” of Jews" Smith replied: “They don’t call it Freitag for nothing.”
104
2K
1K
74
3K
6K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
the entire presidency just feels like that famous Nick Young .gif
48
1K
6K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
just want to add, also, that you should consider washing your hands when there's not a global virus panic also
24
3K
6K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 months
snl team shaking their heads, apologizing to no one in particular, sitting down to write weekend update bit where colin and michael interview the rfk worm (bowen yang)
14
159
6K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 years
love this headline construction. like a car bomb went off or something.
@YahooEnt
Yahoo Entertainment
4 years
Aaron Rodgers is dating actress Shailene Woodley: Here’s what we know
Tweet media one
34
16
136
33
484
5K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
john bolton dropping bombs on people from afar, truly living out his dreams in retirement
52
631
5K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 years
imagine being prosecuted by some freak who signed onto this lawsuit. just a total mockery of an entire system of government.
29
381
5K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
some people have never taken a bus to work and it shows
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
5 years
I have been watching people making phone calls my entire life. My hearing is, and has been, great. Never have I been watching a person making a call, which was not on speakerphone, and been able to hear or understand a conversation. I’ve even tried, but to no avail. Try it live!
31K
12K
72K
125
591
5K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
"he was a teenager" is not a good defense, full stop, but I'd also note that the president who nominated Kavanaugh famously called for the death penalty for teens accused of rape
58
1K
4K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
2 years
a fun fact is that this particular electric vehicle emits more carbon than a gas-powered chevy malibu
@POTUS
President Biden
2 years
On my watch, the great American road trip is going to be fully electrified. And now, through a tax credit, you can get up to $7,500 on a new electric vehicle.
Tweet media one
25K
4K
40K
53
348
4K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
what is a "wrong" overhead bin
@CNNPolitics
CNN Politics
5 years
Gordon Sondland put his luggage in the wrong overhead bin, then said "my whole day has been like this"
Tweet media one
644
1K
8K
145
151
4K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 years
on further review, it was evidence of a circus
@marcorubio
Marco Rubio
4 years
Police in Ohio found a bus near protests filled with bats, rocks & other weapons. But I guess still “no evidence” of an organized effort to inject violence & anarchy into the protests right?
1K
1K
3K
95
1K
4K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
2 months
happy 161st anniversary to the most aaron sorkin moment in american history, a Bowdoin College rhetoric professor leading a bayonet charge to save the union
41
530
4K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 years
"the Texas attorney general has been under indictment for securities fraud for five years" is one of those things that sounds too absurd to be true but it is actually real
72
915
4K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 years
definitely think Liz Cheney has thought more and smarter about how to wield and hold power than many of the people in her caucus
102
259
4K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 years
the main difference between how it started and how it's going right now is that a lot more people just seem pro-Covid. The virus is building a real populist coalition.
@patkiernan
Pat Kiernan
4 years
Mask distribution attempt on Staten Island. The borough is firmly the #NYC coronavirus hotspot with a positive test rate of 4.8 percent.
Tweet media one
1K
4K
20K
97
722
4K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
Dinesh D'Souza is a racist piece of shit, and it's worth keeping in mind that he was pardoned because of that, not in spite of it
65
701
4K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
3 years
George P. Bush is really the rare candidate to affirmatively run on being the only member of his family to profess loyalty to the man who shit-talked his mom.
Tweet media one
130
767
4K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
I know this is supposed to be rhetorical but Andrew Jackson's still on my twenty
@chrislhayes
Chris Hayes
5 years
Who do you think will end up on the right side of history: those cheering on the concentration of tens of thousands of desperate migrants in camps with communicable diseases and contemptuous neglect, or those shouting loudly that this is terrible?
3K
7K
33K
23
530
3K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
the original Florida Recount is finally old enough to have its vote not counted
15
795
3K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
the attempt by Republican officials to stoke conspiracy about an election in which we have no indication of improper behavior is vastly more disturbing than a delayed announcement
92
869
3K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 years
Harris County is larger than Rhode Island and has 4x more people.
@chucklindell
Chuck Lindell
4 years
BREAKING: Gov. Abbott issues proclamation CLOSING (as of Oct. 2) satellite offices where voters can drop off completed mail-in ballots. Counties can only have 1 dropoff point, he says. Travis has 4, including 3 downtown. Harris has 12.
4K
16K
22K
111
2K
3K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
so it sounds like the fence didn't work?
@willsommer
Will Sommer
6 years
Right-wing activist Laura Loomer, last seen chaining herself to Twitter HQ, has jumped the fence at Nancy Pelosi's Napa home and set up a tent protesting immigration. Now she's chanting "Nancy, Nancy!"
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
2K
2K
6K
66
542
3K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
3 years
temperature checks have a real "remove your shoes at the airport" vibe at this point
51
191
3K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 years
I think Trump buying and literally hollowing out the Old Post Office building was one of those symbols that would've been cut by an editor as heavyhanded
21
493
3K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
this is a good point that's rarely raised: why don't central americans seeking asylum simply launch enormously successful musical careers
@mschlapp
Matt Schlapp
6 years
You see you don't have to join a caravan at all.
200
313
2K
37
370
3K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
3 years
driving is amazing because people are constantly asked to place a value on the lives of themselves and others and they regularly come back with like "two or three seconds of my commute"
15
359
3K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
1 month
was the right note from Biden but I would've added a line in there like "I did the inflation. My vice president, Kamala Harris, tried to stop me. She warned me to think about the consequences for hardworking American families and seniors. I should have listened."
45
164
3K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 months
a big Union victory in Chattanooga??
Tweet media one
11
255
3K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
3 years
"helicopters" are a thing that many police departments have too many of
10
172
3K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 years
wearing your varsity jacket eight years after you graduated is an indictment in a different sense
@ryanjreilly
Ryan J. Reilly
4 years
PRO TIP: Don’t do crimes while wearing your high school varsity jacket.
280
1K
7K
36
252
3K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
The biggest Duncan Hunter scandal is still, honestly, how overtly racist and bigoted his 2018 campaign was
46
352
2K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
1 year
the weirdest subtext to all of these stories is that clarence thomas is rich!
34
149
3K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 years
a president can only be elected twice. biden has now been elected 74 times. therefore he is ineligible. In this lawsuit, I will
@daveweigel
David Weigel
4 years
Biden bombed out of two presidential bids; on his third try he's seemingly going to get certified the winner more times than any other candidate ever.
58
270
4K
19
286
2K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 years
McConnell delayed the trial until after the inauguration so he could then argue that it couldn't be held because it was after the inauguration
43
548
2K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
I'm honestly fine with Trump skipping these ceremonies, though, because he's neither thoughtful nor solemn and the occasion of remembrance is worthy of more than he can offer.
91
235
2K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 years
mcconnell going around the country gleefully predicting to donors that RBG's death would be his "October Surprise" is really the perfect encapsulation of mcconnell and everything he represents
Tweet media one
97
1K
2K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
3 years
get this shit off the street
25
262
2K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
man what a sad job to have
@MattWolking
Matt Wolking
5 years
Anyone who says the president told members of Congress to go back to where they came from is lying. He told them to “Then come back and show us how it is done.”
Tweet media one
13K
2K
7K
44
138
2K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
wow who would have that thought the Trump presidency would result in stiffing tons of people out of the money they were owed for their work, wish we'd had some warning
15
408
2K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
After last year it's understandable if you never wanted to read or hear about Georgia's sixth district again, but the new Democratic nominee, Lucy McBath, is a heck of a story:
11
612
2K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
DeSantis has the look of someone who's only just realizing he's not the protagonist in his movie
@AndrewGillum
Andrew Gillum
6 years
As my grandmother used to say — a hit dog will holler.
5K
43K
143K
27
230
2K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
"I didn't know people died from the flu" is one of the most ignorant things the president has ever said, and he's slandered multiple continents
27
216
2K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
does anyone actually sincerely believe that this 53-year-old man who still regularly drinks multiple beers, never once, in his teens or early 20s, got even a little bit fuzzy?
69
232
2K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
Bernie's current riff on health insurance as "you're paying for the guy on the other end of the phone to tell you you're not covered even when you paid for it" gets some good traction in this room
4
163
2K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 years
We heard a ton about this during the Democratic primary, because it matters to people. And lying about it—unlike some of the more abstract fights—is challenging people's lived experience. They're either dirt cheap (free!) or they're not.
15
234
2K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
"running in the morning" is one of those fake habits people tell profile writers, it's a physical impossibility, only serial killers can do it
34
170
2K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
lebanon gets a 2021 first-rounder and a 2023 second-round, celtics get anthony davis
@AmySpiro
Amy Spiro
5 years
According to sources who saw Kushner's plan: Jordan would give land to the Palestinian territories, and "in return, Jordan would get land from Saudi Arabia, and that country would get back two Red Sea islands it gave Egypt to administer in 1950."
367
661
825
26
270
2K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 years
idk I feel like we should do these roll calls every couple weeks, just to check in, see how these states are doing
8
162
2K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
2 years
Reading up on the Netherlands. Vermeer only did 34 paintings. Poor work rate. These guys can be beat.
15
142
2K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 years
man I'm sorry, how are you going to the grocery store every day in a pandemic
50
135
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
a lot of stories incorrectly identifying Stephen Ross as the owner of the Dolphins; Tom Brady owns the Dolphins
80
181
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
oh, is there a family called the Rothschilds? And they're at the center of anti-semitic conspiracies? this is all news to me, Mel Gibson's publicist
@swin24
Asawin Suebsaeng
5 years
Gotta respect the insistence on sounding like a total condescending prick whilst making an on-it’s-face patently dipshit statement like this
Tweet media one
62
234
1K
28
306
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
3 years
it's appomattox day. big win for the woke mob
14
181
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
2 years
what if it's in my bagel. what if they put it in white claw. what if they feed the fentanyl to turkeys and everyone eats fentanyl turkey at thanksgiving.
@atrupar
Aaron Rupar
2 years
"Every mom in the country is worried, what if this gets into my kid's Halloween basket? The rainbow fentanyl." -- Ronna McDaniel
1K
294
2K
83
188
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
2 years
we're lucky we got lead out of gasoline when we had the chance tbh
@DeSantisWarRoom
DeSantis War Room 🐊
2 years
NEW: Governor DeSantis announces that gas stoves will be TAX-FREE in his recommended budget for the state of Florida! #FrameworkForFreedom 🐊
664
167
1K
53
221
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
the Kurds story manages to unite three of the building blocks of Trumpism—deference to authoritarianism; selling-out a vulnerable ethnic minority; and stiffing people who did work for him.
15
503
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
Trump 2016 was about arguing that ordinary things are crooked, Trump 2017–2020 is about insisting crooked things are in fact ordinary
16
317
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
3 years
approximately how much time do you have after a shot before you feel like shit
2K
65
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
3 years
people in these positions of power are so used to not being questioned that they just offer up these enormous indictments of their own management and leadership on a platter
@LAist
LAist
3 years
A "mass exodus" of L.A. County deputies could be on the way due to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, according to L.A. Sheriff Alex Villanueva. He claims he could lose up to 44% of his workforce, causing an "imminent threat to public safety."
Tweet media one
2K
187
1K
27
201
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
2 years
it's great to be Tish James these days because you can get the national media on edge for what eventually turns out to be like "a guy from Brooklyn was trafficking endangered snails. we got him."
@jruss_jruss
JOSH RUSSELL
2 years
New York Attorney General Tish James to make “major announcement” tomorrow morning.
Tweet media one
679
3K
13K
44
159
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
imagine giving money...at christmas...and the charity you choose to give to is...a border wall fund
30
216
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
every election night tweet is just: "Biff is at 45 percent in Barnswallow. Blop got 47 percent in 2015. I project he needs to be at 54 percent there." "UPDATE: Boink struggling so far in Bluffington though. Could be a long night."
26
172
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
4 years
every california ballot provision is like "this will absolutely make fish safer," and then it's paid for by like the grizzly bear trade association
15
191
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
it would be less embarrassing if he just sued his actual mom
13
122
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
3 years
the idea of this blowing back on RCV is wild to me. People voted to have ranked-choiced voting, they didn't vote to have the worst politicians' failsons run elections in NYC. Pretty clear which one you should get rid of.
9
162
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
i love this shit. Yeah actually people who know where Missouri is are the real elites
@mschlapp
Matt Schlapp
5 years
Dear East coast establishment: Kansas City, Kansas is in Kansas.
17K
1K
8K
15
118
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
5 years
hell yeah I'm a "gotcha journalist," by which I mean I say "okay, gotcha" like 40 times during every interview and am extremely self-conscious about it
9
88
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
2 years
don't fully understands the mechanics of someone shooting a guy on the Q train while it's on the bridge, and then...not getting caught at Canal
15
92
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
AP calling #MSSen for David Valadao, wow
22
106
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
everyone forgets when Roosevelt said "the events of December 7th were tragic, but you know, Hawaii is really out there, what are we supposed to do"
13
287
1K
@timothypmurphy
Tim Murphy
6 years
Trump reminds everyone to go vote for Ted Poe, who is retiring
29
247
993