John Turpin
@johnturp.bsky.social
Christian pastor in Jordan; from the US; fan of church history, basketball, responsible citizenship, permaculture, DC & TX
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Turning 42 tomorrow & for my Jackie Robinson year I'm cutting back quite a bit on social media (but not cutting back on caring about the world!). Good luck y'all! Jesus loves you.
August 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Turning 42 tomorrow & for my Jackie Robinson year I'm cutting back quite a bit on social media (but not cutting back on caring about the world!). Good luck y'all! Jesus loves you.
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OT reading for 8/24 (Isa 58). DHS won't be quoting it.
If you remove the yoke from among you,
the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil,
if you offer your food to the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the afflicted,
then your light shall rise in the darkness
& your gloom be like the noonday.
If you remove the yoke from among you,
the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil,
if you offer your food to the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the afflicted,
then your light shall rise in the darkness
& your gloom be like the noonday.
August 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
OT reading for 8/24 (Isa 58). DHS won't be quoting it.
If you remove the yoke from among you,
the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil,
if you offer your food to the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the afflicted,
then your light shall rise in the darkness
& your gloom be like the noonday.
If you remove the yoke from among you,
the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil,
if you offer your food to the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the afflicted,
then your light shall rise in the darkness
& your gloom be like the noonday.
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Hey mainstream media colleagues: you cannot be deported to a country you are not from. That’s kidnapping and trafficking. Call it that. You are lying if you say otherwise.
August 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Hey mainstream media colleagues: you cannot be deported to a country you are not from. That’s kidnapping and trafficking. Call it that. You are lying if you say otherwise.
Bad news
UPDATE: Fox News reports that ICE told Kilmar Abrego Garcia they are going to deport him to Uganda on Monday.
August 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Bad news
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August 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
this this this this
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In case there are folks out there thinking of teaching Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston this school year, two quick things:
1️⃣ It is the absolute best.
2️⃣ Here is a resource with 20 things to help you move through it based on my experience!
docs.google.com/presentation...
1️⃣ It is the absolute best.
2️⃣ Here is a resource with 20 things to help you move through it based on my experience!
docs.google.com/presentation...
Teaching Their Eyes Were Watching God - 20 Random Thoughts
20 random thoughts on teaching Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God 01 This doesn’t have a ton of order or theory to it—just some things over the years that I’ve prioritized and shifted t...
docs.google.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
In case there are folks out there thinking of teaching Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston this school year, two quick things:
1️⃣ It is the absolute best.
2️⃣ Here is a resource with 20 things to help you move through it based on my experience!
docs.google.com/presentation...
1️⃣ It is the absolute best.
2️⃣ Here is a resource with 20 things to help you move through it based on my experience!
docs.google.com/presentation...
Good news!
Fox 17 Nashville reports that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from criminal detention in Tennessee and is on his way home to Maryland.
“Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” his attorney, @sean-hecker.bsky.social, said in a statement.
fox17.com/news/local/k...
“Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” his attorney, @sean-hecker.bsky.social, said in a statement.
fox17.com/news/local/k...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia free from Tennessee jail and returning home to Maryland, lawyer says
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been freed from Putnam County Jail and is on his way to reunite with his family in Maryland, his lawyer confirms to FOX 17 News.
fox17.com
August 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Good news!
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There's an mRNA vaccine that shows promise in treating a brain cancer.
How do you all think that's going to develop with RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine policy?
cancer.ufl.edu/2024/05/01/u...
How do you all think that's going to develop with RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine policy?
cancer.ufl.edu/2024/05/01/u...
UF-developed mRNA vaccine triggers fierce immune response to fight malignant brain tumor » Cancer Center » UF Health Cancer Center » University of Florida
The breakthrough by UF Health Cancer Center researchers now will be tested in a Phase 1 pediatric clinical trial for brain cancer.
cancer.ufl.edu
August 21, 2025 at 3:59 AM
There's an mRNA vaccine that shows promise in treating a brain cancer.
How do you all think that's going to develop with RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine policy?
cancer.ufl.edu/2024/05/01/u...
How do you all think that's going to develop with RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine policy?
cancer.ufl.edu/2024/05/01/u...
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begging and pleading for people to start internalizing that “show me your papers” is not just about immigration
August 21, 2025 at 3:40 AM
begging and pleading for people to start internalizing that “show me your papers” is not just about immigration
North Carolina and 8th has some tricky angles.
Best to send the NATIONAL GUARD (!!!) back home and let normal people in normal vehicles living normal lives navigate that intersection.
Best to send the NATIONAL GUARD (!!!) back home and let normal people in normal vehicles living normal lives navigate that intersection.
National Guard vehicle t-boned a passenger vehicle on Capitol Hill this morning
Everything CHC Knows About Enforcement-Involved Traffic Accident on Capitol Hill
Posted August 20, 2025 As the Associated Press is now reporting, a National Guard military vehicle t-boned a regular passenger car (an SUV) early this morning at the corner of 8th Street and North …
capitolhillcorner.org
August 21, 2025 at 6:44 AM
North Carolina and 8th has some tricky angles.
Best to send the NATIONAL GUARD (!!!) back home and let normal people in normal vehicles living normal lives navigate that intersection.
Best to send the NATIONAL GUARD (!!!) back home and let normal people in normal vehicles living normal lives navigate that intersection.
Lord, bring justice swiftly.
"Abolish ICE" is now the median stance. This is the gulag archipelago. Keep up the pressure, Sen. Ossoff!
"Abolish ICE" is now the median stance. This is the gulag archipelago. Keep up the pressure, Sen. Ossoff!
Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody. Led by Sen Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites 100s of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect & sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of states. www.wired.com/story/senate...
Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody
Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of states.
www.wired.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Lord, bring justice swiftly.
"Abolish ICE" is now the median stance. This is the gulag archipelago. Keep up the pressure, Sen. Ossoff!
"Abolish ICE" is now the median stance. This is the gulag archipelago. Keep up the pressure, Sen. Ossoff!
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Hey, look, I don't want to speak out of turn, but maybe, just maybe, these giant military machines shouldn't be deployed on our city streets?
this is what a military machine does when it meets a civilian SUV
A National Guard Tactical Vehicle T-Boned a Civilian Car in D.C.
Emergency workers sent a civilian to the hospital after an Afghanistan War era military vehicle smashed into their car.
www.404media.co
August 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Hey, look, I don't want to speak out of turn, but maybe, just maybe, these giant military machines shouldn't be deployed on our city streets?
Yeeesssss
Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...
August 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Yeeesssss
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the sandwich crimes unit contemplates the incident
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
August 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
the sandwich crimes unit contemplates the incident
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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"[The decrees of the Lord] are more to be desired than gold, than much pure gold." - Psalm 19:10
They've even added that tacky, tasteless, fake gold garbage to the fireplace screen in the Oval Office.
August 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
"[The decrees of the Lord] are more to be desired than gold, than much pure gold." - Psalm 19:10
This is a big deal!
After a 13-year immunization campaign, Nepal is declared to have eradicated rubella.
Rubella eliminated as a public health problem in Nepal: WHO
Nepal has eliminated rubella as a public health problem, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Monday, hailing the breakthrough as a “remarkable achievement”.
news.un.org
August 19, 2025 at 4:52 AM
This is a big deal!
Boston Gospel Fest Turns 25: A Night of Unity, Song, and Celebration – UniteBoston
uniteboston.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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New signs were up this afternoon and bands were playing
August 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
New signs were up this afternoon and bands were playing
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I'm gonna need some nanomaterials folks to engineer a tinier violin to play for the people struggling with Trump's tariffs on ✨gold bars✨.
From Bloomberg - without paywall: archive.ph/wzwek
From Bloomberg - without paywall: archive.ph/wzwek
August 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I'm gonna need some nanomaterials folks to engineer a tinier violin to play for the people struggling with Trump's tariffs on ✨gold bars✨.
From Bloomberg - without paywall: archive.ph/wzwek
From Bloomberg - without paywall: archive.ph/wzwek
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the distinction between agencies is becoming less and less relevant since most have abandoned their legal mandates anyway and they’re all being amalgamated. they’re all just Trump agents now.
Agents amass in DC, unclear why or which agency. Some masked.
Residents: “You’re in a church parking lot—get out!”
“We don’t want you kidnapping our neighbors!”
Agents start recording too.
Soon decide to leave, some mockingly wave their phones. They zoom down the 25mph road, skimming by our feet.
Residents: “You’re in a church parking lot—get out!”
“We don’t want you kidnapping our neighbors!”
Agents start recording too.
Soon decide to leave, some mockingly wave their phones. They zoom down the 25mph road, skimming by our feet.
August 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
the distinction between agencies is becoming less and less relevant since most have abandoned their legal mandates anyway and they’re all being amalgamated. they’re all just Trump agents now.
Can confirm! It's great!
Here in Montgomery County (MD) they will come and plant a shade tree in your yard for free. Awesome program! treemontgomery.org/request-a-tr...
August 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Can confirm! It's great!
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"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie." -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Explore more quotes:
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#aleksandrsolzhenitsyn #takepart #lie #courageous
Explore more quotes:
https://loom.ly/PiOcYGo
#aleksandrsolzhenitsyn #takepart #lie #courageous
August 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie." -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Explore more quotes:
https://loom.ly/PiOcYGo
#aleksandrsolzhenitsyn #takepart #lie #courageous
Explore more quotes:
https://loom.ly/PiOcYGo
#aleksandrsolzhenitsyn #takepart #lie #courageous
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