Reposted by SamJonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 06/04/2026There 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. 1767221259
Reposted by SamAnise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 20/02/2026I 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. 12537217
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Paternal 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. 030
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Maternal 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. 130
Reposted by Sammolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 07/01/2026they’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. 1967302077
Reposted by Sammolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 03/01/2026babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes 211163375490
Reposted by Same.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 03/01/2026trump 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 26977179
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 03/01/2026I’m not changing the Grok typo, I like it better that way now 1290
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Is Hegseth doing pretend computer work to look important and busy or is he generating Gork pornography 3170
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 03/01/2026My low-stakes theory is that this face is always his attempt to recreate Churchill’s facial expression. 0260
Reposted by SamThe Unquiet Ghost of Andrew S. @shoutingboy.bsky.social · 03/01/2026i 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 3447
Reposted by SamMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 13/12/2025So, 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 verifiedirishtimes.comAt least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher 3920721155
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Wild 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. 000
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 10/12/2025They just want to make it crystal clear that disabled folks are not wanted as government employees. 020
Reposted by SamThe Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 06/12/2025Food 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:themarshallproject.orgAramark Cuts Free Prison Meals to Boost Profits, New Suit ClaimsA lawsuit claims the prison food company is cutting institutional meals to force incarcerated people to purchase costly food from the same vendor. 24932
Reposted by SamTyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 01/12/2025The 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 232734
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Thanks. It’s awful regardless, but I’d rather it be a precautionary lockdown related to the Farragut shooting than a simultaneous but separate incident. 000
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Any idea if this is related to the shooting around Farragut Square? 200
Reposted by SamMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 18/09/2025so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining 270300397066
Reposted by SamTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 12/09/2025memes 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 11806105
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 11/09/2025It is wild to think that brain rot will be part of the primary sources of this era of history. 050
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 11/09/2025I’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!” 1111
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 11/09/2025There 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. 000
Reposted by SamTony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 10/09/2025The 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...cnn.comAt least 2 students shot at a Denver-area high school, authorities say | CNNAt least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. 6869673296
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Respectfully, 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. 090
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.) 020
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Although 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. 2101
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 10/09/2025I 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. 1362197
Reposted by SamUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 10/09/2025I think the idea of Dying for Something is very appealing for young men because living for something is much, much harder. 623830
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Granny panties, game pad, hoochie, laggy, go bag Anti-SLAPP law, Lock Screen, nanotech, nevirapine Shoegaze, vacay, paleo BDSM LET’S GO 040
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025JetBlue, 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 040
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 28/04/2025I’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. 000
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 23/04/2025I 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. 1111
Reposted by SamRobert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · 23/04/2025It'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... 7838142046
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 22/04/2025What the fuck does this guy think designers were doing before Figma was released in 2016? 5150
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Just 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! 060
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 25/03/2025I 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. 010
Reposted by SamProPublica @propublica.org · 20/03/2025NEW: 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.propub.liThe October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal BureaucracyHistorians 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 ... 12050652202
Reposted by SamVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14/03/2025The 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. 6132581310
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 10/03/2025So 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. 020
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 10/03/2025I 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. 110
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 10/03/2025I 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. 110
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 10/03/2025And 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… 110
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 10/03/2025I 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… 120
Reposted by SamAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/03/2025While 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. 12453281743
Sam @samturley.bsky.social · 09/03/2025This 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. 140