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@samturley.bsky.social
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she/her. marshall grad. wv expat in fl. researcher. former journo. jaguars fan. aspiring trivia nerd.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 06/04/2026
There is a path. It’s the path that Michael Vick walked. He has worked with the Humane Society for the last 17 years to educate folk about animal cruelty. He says he’ll do that work for the rest of his life. Call me when Louis or Kanye devotes even one weekend to making reparation.
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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I agree with all the slave ship & forced labor camp comparisons, but also, on a practical level, this is not how you build a detention center where you expect either violent inmates or long-term prisoners. The very floorplans betray the obvious lie; they are meant to warehouse harmless folks.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 03/01/2026
trump the type of messy bitch who could have the ideal internationally-accepted face for his wildly illegal imperial adventure and throw it away because she won the nobel prize and he didn't
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The Unquiet Ghost of Andrew S. @shoutingboy.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
i mean the draft-dodging son of a millionaire slumlord picks this song to launch a war to and i’m like, damn, does nobody in the world listen to fucking lyrics
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
irishtimes.com
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 06/12/2025
Food service company Aramark is leaving incarcerated people in West Virginia with empty stomachs and their loved ones with empty pockets, a federal class-action lawsuit alleges. Our story from @dajaehenry.com:
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Aramark Cuts Free Prison Meals to Boost Profits, New Suit Claims
A lawsuit claims the prison food company is cutting institutional meals to force incarcerated people to purchase costly food from the same vendor.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 01/12/2025
The arts? Totally decimated, no hope there. All the computer jobs kids were told to chase? Also ending to automation and vibe coding. Why on earth would anyone go into education in this climate? The jobs of the future seem to be menial, to keep the computers that do our thinking clean and maintained
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
memes and violence and racism and antisemitism all meld together in the acidic stew a ton of young men dip their heads in daily online, and that shit can cook your brain fast
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...
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At least 2 students shot at a Denver-area high school, authorities say | CNN
At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I got PTSD from this as a journalist and likely again from seeing crime scene and autopsy photos while serving as a juror recently. You don’t need to see it.
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I think the idea of Dying for Something is very appealing for young men because living for something is much, much harder.
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Granny panties, game pad, hoochie, laggy, go bag Anti-SLAPP law, Lock Screen, nanotech, nevirapine Shoegaze, vacay, paleo BDSM LET’S GO
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
JetBlue, earlier this evening: Your flight is delayed by 20 minutes JetBlue, 8:06 PM: Your flight is back to being on time, go to the gate NOW JetBlue, LESS THAN TWO MINUTES LATER: LOL actually your flight is actually delayed even more now, bet you’re out of breath
A text message screenshot showing JetBlue texting a departure time of 8:47 PM with an 8:06 PM timestamp and a departure time of 9:32 PM with an 8:08 PM timestamp
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I’m visiting NYC and know that some areas are rougher than others, but I can’t help but think about the number of suburban acquaintances who were convinced I’d be accosted at every corner. The only time I’ve been yelled at since leaving the airport was by a food cart guy offering me a free falafel.
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Robert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
“A couple days later, on March 6, I was working from home at around 11:30 when I got a notice that my VPN had gone down,” he says. “I didn’t think much about it. It can cut out from time to time. About 10 minutes later, I got a knock at the door.”

Two men were outside Jackson’s door, dressed in slacks and polos. They were not wearing badges.

“I first thought they were going to try to sell me something. But as soon as I opened the door they said, ‘Are you Clayton Jackson?’ I think I shook my head or said ‘yeah,’ and then I heard, ‘We have information that you are obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation.’”

Jackson says alarms went off in his head. “My first instinct was to want to know what this was about. That it must be a misunderstanding. So I started to tell them about how I’ve been involved in some pro bono work. Then this voice in my head kicked in and just said, you need to shut the fuck up — don’t say anything.”

The officers never identified themselves. They did ask if they could come inside.

“I said absolutely not,” Jackson says. “I asked for their names and badge numbers. They said they didn’t have to provide that information at this time. So I told them I’d be calling my lawyer and I shut the door behind me.”

Jackson says his mind started racing. “I needed to know who they were, what agency they were with. Then I remembered that I have the Ring camera. Maybe I could watch the video of the incident and figure out who they were from that.”

There was no video. “That’s when I learned why my VPN had gone down. It wasn’t the VPN. Someone had shut off my Wifi.”

About 15 minutes after the interaction at his front door, Jackson’s Wifi was up and running again.
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Just going to scream into the void regarding Cigna, which just sent me a notice that they’re going to stop covering one of my medications and that I can take a generic version instead. THERE IS NO GENERIC VERSION!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/03/2025
NEW: In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term. It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.
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The October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal Bureaucracy
Historians have hindsight when they look into the past; journalists have the facts on the ground and context to help them look ahead. That means we can sometimes be surprised by how prescient a story ...
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The media can (and should) reject the Right's deceptive frame. This is not about "references to diversity, equity, and inclusion." It is a neosegregationist attempt to erase everyone but white males from the nation's history.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
While the State Department CAN revoke *visas* with very little legal process involved, stripping someone of a green card is done by DHS (not the State Department) and requires filing formal charges alleging a violation of immigration law and a removal hearing in front of an immigration judge.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/03/2025
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I don’t care how you feel about the protests — if you’re OK with the government disappearing someone like this for ANY reason, you’re a Fascist, an existential danger to any hope of a future for this nation. No one you know should feel safe around you ever again.
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Why don’t you say that the Tate brothers built an audience by constantly humiliating the boys and telling them that they’re always in a state of humiliation and emasculation unless they’re abusing or dominating over women in some way? And they brag about their own abuses as triumphs?
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
i am once again saying that if you allow polling to define rights, you don't have any real rights at all
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 06/03/2025
Amateurs don't dabble in the Leo Frank case; that takes an exceedingly well practiced professional anti-Semite.
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
They Might Be Giants are so good live that I forgot about the chaos of the world for a couple hours.
A saxophone player and accordion player (Stan Harrison and John Linell) on stage performing live
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I saw either @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social or his doppelgänger at They Mighe Be Giants and while I had a little “omg is that him” moment, my husband asked who John Green was. Who did I marry?!
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
former colleagues from 18F have asked me to share this open letter widely - please pass on 🙏 🇺🇸 💻💪 18f.org
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We're not done yet | 18F
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I am so sick of this shit. It’s a Sieg Heil. It’s a Nazi salute. Anyone who sees it knows. It’s ridiculous that legal departments presumably won’t let media call it what it is. Bannon made “a provocative gesture that resembled the salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally”? Fuck off.
The Daily Beast tweet:
“Steve Bannon whipped up the CPAC crowd by talking about the possibility of Trump staying in office for a third term - and concluded his speech by giving a provocative gesture that resembled the salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally last month.”
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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
They arrived at the United States border from around the world, hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled and flown by the U.S. military to a faraway country, Panama. Our exclusive look at a new front in Pres. Trump’s immigration crackdown:
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
A white flag with a black star and black text reads “COME AND TAKE IT”. There are black-and-white images of three pills.
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I understand the cruelty is the point, but I don’t understand how there will be any people left to be cruel to at the rate they’re dismantling public health.
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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franciscOOoOo👻 varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
re: 'move fast and break things' - it's important to keep in mind two things: first, this is a good strategy only when everyone else is *excessively* cautious or myopic, and second, it is now a thing believed by people who are mostly idiots
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Ashley Esqueda @ashleyesqueda.com · 10/02/2025
Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/02/2025
Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The whole crowd at the Grammys shouting out A MIIIIIIIIINOOOOORRRRRR might have given me enough life to get through this week.
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Have y’all gotten your…uhh…*double checks notes*…Malcolm X™ shirt from Old Navy yet?
A screenshot of an Old Navy ad that says “Malcom X™ t-shirt $15.99” with an image of a black t-shirt showing images of Malcom X
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Being against “DEI” isn’t about preferential treatment of marginalized people but rather the sheer audacity of us to exist in positions meant for white men.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
More of this. Resigning in protest has little significance anymore. Say no, throw a fit, make waves. Politicize the public in favor of the civil service. We are in danger without it.
Acting fbi director refused order
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
“Many of those interviewed broke down in tears as they described the rapid destruction of decades of work. The programs that have frozen or folded over the past six days supported frontline care for infectious disease, providing treatments and preventive measures that help avert millions of deaths”
nytimes.com
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
As a cisgender she/her person named Sam, I am once again asking folks sitting by to realize that these asshats are fine with harming us non-trans folks, too.
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Free speech doesn’t mean freedom from personal consequences, but these people know that.
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Does anyone who’s truly “on the fence” about trans and non-binary rights realize that this government’s efforts to control your gender expression aren’t gonna end even if you are cis?
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
There is undoubtedly a chunk of this nation that hates HIV/AIDS medications because they saw AIDS as God’s rightful punishment of gay men and drug addicts.
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