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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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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Paternal side: things in southern Italy in the early 20th century apparently weren’t so great. Things in Poland in the early 20th century apparently weren’t so great, either.
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Maternal side: Whatever drew folks from Northern England, Ireland, and Scotland in the late 1600s/early 1700s and apparently worked well enough that they all stayed in the region and boinked each other pretty excessively for centuries.
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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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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I’m not changing the Grok typo, I like it better that way now
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Is Hegseth doing pretend computer work to look important and busy or is he generating Gork pornography
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
My low-stakes theory is that this face is always his attempt to recreate Churchill’s facial expression.
“The Roaring Lion” : a famous, black-and-white photo of a 67-year-old Winston Churchill who stares into the camera, scowling.
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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
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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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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Wild journey for me these past few minutes of going from seeing your post about CCP-promoting AI dolls on my feed, clicking your profile, and then seeing you reference a band whose guitarist I took lessons from in 2007.
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
They just want to make it crystal clear that disabled folks are not wanted as government employees.
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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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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Thanks. It’s awful regardless, but I’d rather it be a precautionary lockdown related to the Farragut shooting than a simultaneous but separate incident.
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Where apparently two National Guardsmen were shot?
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Any idea if this is related to the shooting around Farragut Square?
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
He’d love siding with Joja Corporation
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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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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
It is wild to think that brain rot will be part of the primary sources of this era of history.
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I’ll never get my head around taking a picture where Kash Patel looks like he’s utterly bewildered by the concept of a camera and going, “Yes! This is the headshot!”
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
There have been horrific videos from Gaza, absolutely, but they haven’t been getting heavily pushed on mainstream news and social media the way this video has. People who aren’t used to (or actively trying to avoid) graphic content are getting blindsided by exposure to this instance.
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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
Respectfully, I don’t need to watch this specific video to know what’s happening in the world and rising in the US, but I understand where you’re coming from. I made a follow-up comment saying that I think people who live in a bubble perhaps do need to see it.
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
(And I don’t believe hardly anyone on this site lives in such a bubble, to be clear.)
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Although I wonder if there should be a caveat that — if you live in a bubble of cognitive dissonance in which gun violence doesn’t rip lives and bodies apart in this nation — maybe you should? I truly don’t know if that would make a difference. But sometimes I wonder.
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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 · 08/05/2025
I’ve heard the locals prefer tavern Pizzaballa
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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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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I don’t think they see women as having any value unless they’re birthing and raising children. So older women dying probably isn’t a problem in their book.
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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 · 22/04/2025
What the fuck does this guy think designers were doing before Figma was released in 2016?
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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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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I can’t imagine being a Trumper and having to live in a cognitive state where this doesn’t even warrant an apology but maybe being here illegally warrants being human trafficked to an El Salvador prison.
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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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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
So my lines in the sand are different. And to circle back to what started this discussion: “Supporting government kidnapping of anyone deemed an enemy of the state” is one of them.
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I felt horrified and betrayed by their third-party votes or abstentions in 2024, but we have to have a wide tent if we have any chance of saving the nation, so I’m going to keep using my relative safety to get whoever I can under that tent with me.
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I don’t fault anyone who cut everyone out, especially if any part of their identity puts them at imminent risk. But as a white American by birth, I’m going to exercise the privilege I have to keep engaging with anyone who isn’t all-in on Trump at this point.
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
And I did end up cutting ties with some. But a few others ended up becoming Biden and Harris voters. I didn’t do the work alone. But I didn’t stop doing the work…
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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I never said I was surprised, and I spent money and energy in 2024 trying to reach those people. But I didn’t cut out every Trump supporter or third-party voter I knew in 2016. Did I want to? Yeah. But I had the privilege to be safe around them. And I used that privilege to keep engaging with them…
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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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Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
This is a clear “cut all contact with anyone OK with this” situation for me. If you support the government in disappearing someone like this, even if you disagree with — even loathe! — the person, you’re a Fascist. You’re an existential threat.
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