Sam
@samturley.bsky.social
she/her. marshall grad. wv expat in fl. former journo. jaguars fan. storyteller. researcher. aspiring trivia nerd.
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The Nazis did the same with the property of Jews.
There it is
October 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The Nazis did the same with the property of Jews.
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so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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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
September 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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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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...
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.
www.cnn.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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...
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.
You don’t need to see it.
Folks, as someone who watched an enormous amount of graphic footage in my time as a journalist and developed PTSD because of it, please do not watch the Charlie Kirk footage.
Trust me. Once it's seared into your memory you cannot delete it.
Trust me. Once it's seared into your memory you cannot delete it.
September 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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.
You don’t need to see it.
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I think the idea of Dying for Something is very appealing for young men because living for something is much, much harder.
To be clear for those of you chomping for the American Years of Lead, this greatly increases your personal chances of dying in random political violence.
It will not be a heroic, meaningful death.
It will be meaningless, forgotten, and fade into the background noise of a society in free fall.
It will not be a heroic, meaningful death.
It will be meaningless, forgotten, and fade into the background noise of a society in free fall.
September 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I think the idea of Dying for Something is very appealing for young men because living for something is much, much harder.
Granny panties, game pad, hoochie, laggy, go bag
Anti-SLAPP law, Lock Screen, nanotech, nevirapine
Shoegaze, vacay, paleo
BDSM LET’S GO
Anti-SLAPP law, Lock Screen, nanotech, nevirapine
Shoegaze, vacay, paleo
BDSM LET’S GO
MW's Words First Used In Print in your birth year is your personal We Didn't Start The Fire:
commoditize compact disc
core inflation de-stress
closed-captioned
first world problem
female genital mutiliation
laser disc laser printer
hip-hop space elevator
...
www.merriam-webster.com/time-travele...
commoditize compact disc
core inflation de-stress
closed-captioned
first world problem
female genital mutiliation
laser disc laser printer
hip-hop space elevator
...
www.merriam-webster.com/time-travele...
Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster: Words from 1979
See which words were first recorded in 1979. Or search for other words by the year when they were first used.
www.merriam-webster.com
September 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Granny panties, game pad, hoochie, laggy, go bag
Anti-SLAPP law, Lock Screen, nanotech, nevirapine
Shoegaze, vacay, paleo
BDSM LET’S GO
Anti-SLAPP law, Lock Screen, nanotech, nevirapine
Shoegaze, vacay, paleo
BDSM LET’S GO
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
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
May 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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
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
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.
April 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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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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...
Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
April 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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...
Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
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!
March 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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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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.
It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.
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 ...
propub.li
March 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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.
It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.
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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.
It is a neosegregationist attempt to erase everyone but white males from the nation's history.
Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.
Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans
Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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.
It is a neosegregationist attempt to erase everyone but white males from the nation's history.
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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.
March 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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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re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
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.
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
March 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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.
Is this my neurodivergence speaking or is being in that early “this person seems cool as hell and I think they want to be friends and I think I want to be friends” territory a little terrifying for most people? I got less stressed over dating!
March 9, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Is this my neurodivergence speaking or is being in that early “this person seems cool as hell and I think they want to be friends and I think I want to be friends” territory a little terrifying for most people? I got less stressed over dating!
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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?
March 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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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i am once again saying that if you allow polling to define rights, you don't have any real rights at all
the problem with the "trans sports participation is a loser / 80-20 issue" framing is that it ignores how it got that way. it didn't just happen out of nowhere. It's been a 5+ year campaign by Republicans to make it an 80-20 issue, and noone fought back.
March 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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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March 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach."
Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅
Come join us!
Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅
Come join us!
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Amateurs don't dabble in the Leo Frank case; that takes an exceedingly well practiced professional anti-Semite.
Some of the antisemitic conspiracy theories and associations the Pentagon’s new deputy press secretary, Kingsley Wilson, has amplified online:
🔎 Long-debunked lies about Leo Frank
🔎 Great Replacement theory
🔎 Celebrating Christian nationalism
🔎 Praising Germany's far-right AfD party
🔎 Long-debunked lies about Leo Frank
🔎 Great Replacement theory
🔎 Celebrating Christian nationalism
🔎 Praising Germany's far-right AfD party
Pentagon deputy press secretary Kingsley Wilson is a prolific purveyor of antisemitic conspiracy theories
The Trump appointee compared the slaughter of Israeli babies by Hamas to abortion shortly after the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks
jewishinsider.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Amateurs don't dabble in the Leo Frank case; that takes an exceedingly well practiced professional anti-Semite.
They Might Be Giants are so good live that I forgot about the chaos of the world for a couple hours.
March 2, 2025 at 3:25 AM
They Might Be Giants are so good live that I forgot about the chaos of the world for a couple hours.
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?!
Who did I marry?!
March 2, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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?!
Who did I marry?!
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former colleagues from 18F have asked me to share this open letter widely - please pass on 🙏 🇺🇸 💻💪 18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
former colleagues from 18F have asked me to share this open letter widely - please pass on 🙏 🇺🇸 💻💪 18f.org
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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.
February 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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.