Tim Murphy

New York

National Politics Reporter at Mother Jones

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How a small African nation scrambled to appease Trump on tariffs

2 weeks ago | motherjones.com | Tim Murphy

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. President Donald Trump has not been particularly kind to the small African nation of Lesotho. His administration’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development hit the nation of about 2.3 million people hard, by cutting millions of dollars of funding for public health and other programs.
You Can Stop Asking Where the Mass Opposition Is. It’s Everywhere.

2 weeks ago | motherjones.com | Tim Murphy

It is a cliche to begin a story about a rally with a quote from a funny sign, but one small piece of floppy brown cardboard floating down 40th Street in Manhattan on Saturday seemed to capture the mood of this weekend’s “Hands Off” protests against President Donald Trump: “Where do I start?”You could meet a dozen people and hear at least a dozen different existential threats. Hands off Social Security. Hands off public health grants. Hands off student visas. Hands off women. Hands off trans people.
Elon Musk can’t take the heat

3 weeks ago | motherjones.com | Tim Murphy

Elon Musk has a simple diagnosis of what’s ailing America: It’s being destroyed by empathy. In a long interview with Joe Rogan, in numerous tweets, and possibly even in his sleep, Musk has argued that “empathy” is a “suicidal” trait that is a driving force behind civilizational extinction.
Where is the data to justify DOGE cuts?

3 weeks ago | thegazette.com | Tim Murphy

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. What methodology did the DOGE “boys” use to cut personnel out of the various Federal agencies? Please pass that “methodology” on to the public. If they can’t tell you what methodology they used, that answer is unacceptable. Our elected officials should demand the method and data for each layoff.
Bernie Sanders has been warning about oligarchy for years. People are finally listening.

1 month ago | motherjones.com | Tim Murphy

As he waited in the shadow of a parking garage in Tempe, Arizona, to hear Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speak last Thursday evening, John Ward, a longtime Democrat from the deep-red retirement community of Sun City West, told me he “probably” hadn’t voted for the Vermont senator in the past, but that it felt like Sanders had become a party leader by default. “I mean, Kamala’s not talking. Barack’s not talking. Biden’s not talking,” he said.
Laughter Is the Best Medicine

1 month ago | poz.com | Tim Murphy |Liz Highleyman

When advocate and speaker Daniel Garza shares his journey of living with HIV and other health challenges with crowds of high school and college students and young adults, he leaves little out. “I get up and talk about growing up Latino and gay, about addiction, about my life with HIV, about having anal cancer and living with an ostomy bag and about the connection between all of them,” says Garza, 54, who tested positive for the virus in 2000.
Discover A New Path To Sobriety With 7 SECRET PILLARS OF SOBRIETY By Tim Murphy

1 month ago | menafn.com | Tim Murphy

Discover A New Path To Sobriety With 7 SECRET PILLARS OF SOBRIETY By Tim Murphy 2025-03-19 12:01:15 (MENAFN- EIN Presswire)7 SECRET PILLARS OF SOBRIETYA Groundbreaking Approach for Those Seeking an Alternative to Traditional Recovery MethodsPEYTON, CO, UNITED STATES, March 19, 2025 /EINPresswire / -- Breaking free from alcohol dependency isn't a one-size-fits-all journey.
The more things change, the more they stay the same

1 month ago | newsroom.co.nz | Tim Murphy

Comment: It was all going so well for Chris Hipkins on Friday morning when he gave his State of the Nation speech. He filled a mid-sized room at the Pullman Hotel in Auckland with business people and party folk. His speech was delivered with a footsure, we’re-back-from-the-dead confidence after summer polls had the coalition drifting off and Labour ekeing out increases. And he joshed along in good humour with his Auckland Business Chamber host, the former National leader Simon Bridges.
He sued to block a Biden vaccine mandate. Now he’s helping dismantle USAID.

2 months ago | motherjones.com | Tim Murphy

When workers at the United States Agency for International Development got an email earlier this month informing them they were soon to be put on administrative leave, veteran staffers took note of the name and title appended to the bottom—Peter Marocco, a former USAID political appointee now serving both as USAID’s deputy administrator and as director of foreign assistance in the State Department.
Chaos, Harassment, and Unpaid Bills: Inside Elon Musk’s War on USAID

2 months ago | motherjones.com | Tim Murphy |Abby Vesoulis

Early in the morning of January 29, a few dozen US government employees and their families, clutching pets, small children, and whatever they could fit in a carry-on, left their homes in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and began an exhausting evacuation—by van, boat, and two planes—back to the United States.