AI was sold as the future. What they left out was the power demand, the water use, the fossil fuels, the tax breaks, the environmental damage, and the where the public gets stuck paying to feed a machine that burns through public resources for private profit slmurphree.substack.com/p/silicon-va...

This is what modern voter suppression looks like. Weakening your vote. Filtering the electorate. Diluting representation. You can still cast your ballot. The problem is everything that happens before and after it gets counted. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Trump said Americans’ finances don’t motivate him “not even a little bit.” Meanwhile, the RNC is building an election army, Hegseth is helping bless the state, and Australia just called the Trump brand toxic. New day, same mess. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

AI was sold as the future. This week, the future showed up as lawsuits, criminal investigations, fake psychiatrists, deepfakes, and job-market fraud. So today we’re doing the damage report. The machine didn’t invent the mess. But it definitely scaled it. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

America’s mothers got a federal website with refusal rights baked in. Trump got a golden idol at his golf resort. CEOs got seats on the China trip. Netanyahu wants to break up with the American checkbook, but not the empire And the Trump phone still hasn’t shipped open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Happy Mother’s Day. America gutted abortion rights, made pregnancy more dangerous, sold dependence as an aesthetic, and still refuses to fund childcare, paid leave, or health care. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission floated a hotline telling people there’s “no separation of church and state.” RFK Jr.’s HHS looked at whether it could ban SSRIs. And Sean Duffy filmed a YouTube road-trip show while serving as Transportation Secretary. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Trump drove over the Reflecting Pool and attacked Rachel Scott. France is coming for Elon Musk, X, and Grok. Immigrants are being pushed out under “voluntary” orders. The new counterterror strategy has an enemy list. And the Vatican is issuing diplomatic side-eye. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Alabama built a trapdoor under the May primary. Trump tried to bully the Strait of Hormuz and got stopped by reality. An AP poll shows how disruptive ICE enforcement is. DOJ found a new enemy in UCLA’s medical school. Clarence Thomas is still there after 35 years. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Indiana Republicans crossed Trump and his revenge machine took their seats. Howard Lutnick answers Epstein questions behind closed doors. Trump’s ballroom rubble tested toxic. And Palm Beach is getting a Trump-branded airport. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Another U.S. boat strike has killed 2 more people. Trump’s “ended” war still has missiles, drones, and tanker escorts. Tennessee wants Memphis carved up on the electoral map. Big Oil got DOJ backup in a lawsuit. Billionaires bought themselves a costume party. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

The Supreme Court still has a demolition list. Rubio is off to clean up Trump’s pope fight. Fox News medicine is heading for federal office. Wind farms are suddenly “national security.” And Trump’s polls are in the basement chewing on the drywall. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Military lawyers are showing up in civilian courts. Congress got skipped on $8.6 billion in arms sales. The Pentagon is very interested in what its independent newspaper is doing. And RFK Jr is still over at HHS treating autism a conspiracy theory. Bring snacks. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

ICE hired a contractor accused of abuse and “torture” to track undocumented kids. DOJ is digging into trans kids’ medical records. Abortion pills are getting harder to access. A whistleblower says DOJ rushed the SPLC case. And press freedom just hit a 25-year low. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Trump wants Europe to clean up the war he says he won. Louisiana voters are trapped in map limbo. Banksy somehow gave the day’s clearest political analysis with one flag-blinded man on a pedestal. The politicians are still talking. The statue already said it all. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Trump says he controls Hormuz.
 Now he needs help reopening it. The Court took another bite out of voting rights.
 Gaza’s ceasefire is still killing people.
 And Saudi’s oil cartel just lost the UAE. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Pam Bondi ducking Epstein questions.
King Charles explaining restraint to a republic.
Chevron getting presidential access during a war.
And the USDA making soybean governance sexist. Just another day in the republic. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Trump’s DOJ put Melissa Isaak on the immigration bench after she publicly reduced some women to a “warm, wet hole.” And now that worldview is sitting in immigration court, where judges decide who gets believed, who gets protected, and who gets deported. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

We keep calling it a doctor shortage. But shortage doesn’t explain who gets pushed out. Women. Minority doctors. Disabled physicians. The medical pipeline doesn’t just train doctors. It filters them. And patients pay for what the system chooses to lose. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

The Trump White House has loosened the rules on preserving presidential records. At the same time, they’re using sloppier, harder-to-track communication. We had a whole scandal about missing records. Apparently, the lesson is make it easier this time. slmurphree.substack.com/p/the-white-...

They cut 11,000+ federal law enforcement jobs and are trying to dump $70 BILLION into ICE. And they’re still pretending this is about crime. It’s not hidden. The numbers are right there. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

From Day 1 EO’s to using emergency powers, Trump and his allies built a coordinated system to put federal power behind fossil fuel allies and tear down the rules in their way.
All at taxpayer expense.
 A year of “national security” moves around coal, oil, and gas. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

ICE is hiring first and finishing background checks later.
People with lawsuits and red flags are already on the job.
“Vetting is ongoing” is a wild thing to say about people who already have arrest power. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

There’s an online rape community. It’s organized. It’s active. And it’s teaching men how to rape and get away with it. CNN just exposed networks where men are sharing tactics, coaching each other, and talking through how to avoid getting caught. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

A 58-year-old grandmother is DoorDashing through her husband’s cancer bills and somehow that got turned into a White House success story.
The GoFundMe is still active.
That’s not a success story. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

After a day of Epstein fallout and survivor pushback, Donald Trump ended it by posting a woman’s killing as political content, pushing an already grotesque White House news cycle into something even darker. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

RFK Jr., the HHS Secretary, is reportedly launching a government-produced podcast about why the government lies. So taxpayers may now be funding a Cabinet official’s personal brand while he uses his government job to tell you not to trust the government. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Trump’s Iran rhetoric is burning through what little international trust the U.S. had left. The world isn’t reacting like America is the steady hand anymore. It’s reacting like we’re the thing most likely to make this worse. slmurphree.substack.com/p/trumps-ira...

The U.S. is back in its 1969 era. War abroad. Corruption at home. Lies holding the whole rotten thing together. Trump threatened Iranian infrastructure on Easter while fears grow that the war itself is being filtered for him like a highlight reel. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Pete Hegseth helped purge the Pentagon and now he may be finding out that doing the dirty work doesn’t make you untouchable. Turns out purge culture eats its own too. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

As two U.S. aircraft were lost and one American remained missing, Donald Trump posted about taking Iran’s oil, opening the Strait of Hormuz, and making a fortune, exposing a grotesque resource-grab mindset in the middle of an escalating war. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

James Madison looked like he’d lose a fight to a strong breeze and still wrote, “Congress shall make no law.” We do not talk enough about how insane that sentence is. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Trump delivered a “Mission Accomplished” speech on Iran while lining up more strikes, turning an active war into a branding exercise and raising bigger questions about executive power, Congress, and who gets to declare a war nearly over while it’s still happening. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

The White House keeps moving markets, somebody keeps looking ready for it. Every time Trump jerks the market around, somebody seems to be standing in exactly the right spot when the money falls out. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Trump just ordered a federal citizenship list for voting, a new mail-ballot choke point and DOJ pressure on election officials This executive order doesn’t protect elections. It makes voting more conditional and easier for the federal government to interfere with open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Donald Trump is now entertaining the idea of a statue in Venezuela, and it fits perfectly with the Kennedy Center takeover, the federal banners, and the gaudy White House ballroom project already turning government and public space into a monument to one man’s ego open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Melania Trump rolled out a robot tutor for kids at a White House education event and called it the future. The administration’s broader push to normalize AI in childhood blurs the line between literacy and dependence. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Trump’s new “Science” Council is packed with the people building, funding, and profiting from AI. Not labor. Not privacy. Not civil rights. Not the public. This isn’t about safety. It’s about who gets to control the machine before the rest of us can. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

The new DHS secretary is not some homeland security savant. He’s a Trump loyalist with work-boot branding, a tough-guy persona, and exactly the kind of resume Republicans keep magically inflating into “executive experience.” open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Trump said there were “productive” talks with Iran. Markets jumped. Iran said there were no talks. Greenland, tariffs, Venezuela, Iran. Same threat. Same market whiplash. Same truth showing up late. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

They blocked TSA funding and now ICE is in airports. That’s not a fix. That’s an escalation. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

After years of failed rapture dates and zero meaningful consequences, the internet has finally invented an apocalypse with standards. The Great Raptor arrives March 22. Some people might wanna start stretching. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Trump went from threatening Colombia’s Gustavo Petro to praising him to watching U.S. agencies circle him again. After Maduro, that kind of whiplash stops looking random and starts looking dangerous. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

The White House posted a piece claiming “Americans agree” the Iran operation is an overwhelming success. When you read it, what they mostly prove is that MAGA Republicans support Donald Trump doing Donald Trump things. That‘s not national consensus. That‘a a base. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

DOGE sold itself as a deficit-cutting revolution. Sworn testimony now shows its staff hurt people, killed grants, used AI keyword hunts, and failed to deliver the savings they promised. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

The media recycled the same old Banksy reveal for another round of clicks and acted like stripping anonymity from an artist counts as cultural insight.
It doesn’t.
They turned art into a Scooby Doo ending and called it understanding. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

New Mexico is finally searching Jeffrey Epstein’s former Zorro Ranch, and the delay says more about wealth, power, and America’s two tier justice system than any official statement ever could. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Leaked CBP memos show Border Patrol embracing Gregory Bovino’s violence-first playbook: broken windows, rolled-back safeguards, and federal enforcement culture that treats brutality like paperwork. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

A DOGE tech bro with SSA access allegedly copied Social Security’s master databases onto a thumb drive and treated your existence file like take-home dev data. Sounds like a bad hacker movie. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

Trump sent his son-in-law and a golf buddy to handle Iran’s nuclear talks, skipped the scientists, walked past an off-ramp on enriched uranium, and gave us a stupid, avoidable war. open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...