Bruce Murphy

the inside story urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/04/20/mur…

on the national frontier of legislative legal chicanery? urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/04/20/mur…

This👇is quite extraordinary, showing how much Trump is uniting Europeans on all sides 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 him Elly Schlein, Leader of Italy's largest opposition party, (herself 50/50🇮🇹🇺🇸) furiously condemns Trump's attacks on her opponent Meloni. The whole Chamber stands up to applaud the whole time. My English s/t👇 "Italy is a free and sovereign country. Our Constitution is clear - Italy repudiates war. No foreign Head of State has the right to attack, threaten or disrespect our country or government. We are opponents in this Chamber, but we are all Italian citizens and Italian MPs. We are asking for unanimous condemnation of these attacks and threats"

Sen. DURBIN: DOJ closed more than 23,000 criminal investigations, including into drug trafficking and terrorism, in the first six months of the Trump Administration. At the same time, the President pardoned wealthy allies who defrauded Americans and founded dark web drug markets.

🇮🇹 Meloni: „Słowa Trumpa wobec Ojca Świętego są nie do przyjęcia. 🇺🇸 Trump: „To ona jest nie do przyjęcia, nie obchodzi jej, jeśli Iran zdobędzie broń nuklearną i wysadzi Włochy w dwie minuty.” 🇮🇹 Meloni: „Jak dotąd wiem, dziewięć narodów posiada broń nuklearną, a tylko jedno kiedykolwiek jej użyło. Tym narodem są Stany Zjednoczone. Pan Trump musi złagodzić ton. Nikt nie rzuca groźbami nuklearnymi tak jak Waszyngton, i powinien uważać na słowa.”

🚨 63% of Americans support adopting a national popular vote for President.

Sen. DURBIN: In a 20 year period of time, think about all the possibilities of voter fraud. How many do you think? 7 million? No. 700,000? No. 70,000? No. 700? No. It’s 77 people in 20 years.

The Trump administration is very soft on white-collar crime—the softest, in fact.

If current cuts to the Federal Science Budget proposed by the White House are approved by Congress, that will far-and-away be the largest cut to science since the United States began funding it. Republicans & Democrats alike know there’s no surer path to Making America Not-Great

NYT headline for the ages

MAHA going well I see

Inflation was coming down in the United States—and then Trump’s tariffs happened.

Democrats winning using rigged game Republicans created urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/04/15/mur…

@ruggless1 @hochulmandered Both

@hochulmandered @BruceMurphyMKE Did Republicans stay home, or did they flip?

Ripon, WI, Wards 1-3 Precinct (Home to the Little White Schoolhouse where the GOP was founded) 2024 🟥 Trump 56.92% 🟦 Harris 41.63% 2026 🟦 Taylor 52.92% 🟥 Lazar 47.08%

Schimming predicted big Republican turnout and the same this fall urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/04/08/mur…

This morning, add one more mnemonic trio. In 2024, Donald Trump won 34 of 72 Wisconsin counties with 60% or more. On April 7th, 2026, the conservative Supreme Court candidate won only 3 counties by 60% or more: Washington, Taylor, Florence. The WTF counties. 2/n

A mayor's race that the Republicans won by 27 points last time has fallen.

Wisconsin State Supreme Court Ozaukee County (>95% Reported): 🔴 2012: Romney +29 🔴 2024: Trump +11 🔴 2025: Schimel +3 🔵 Tonight: Taylor +5 Democrats flip a historically red suburb.

On March 30th, Festus, Missouri’s city council voted 6-2 to approve plans for a $6 Billion data center in the area despite fierce vocal opposition. Today, one week later, every single incumbent was utterly obliterated. Collier: 34.6% Wehner: 20.2% Venz: 17.6% Tinnin: 19.6%