Signal Turn
@signalturn.bsky.social
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Floor-to-ceiling curiosity
Wall-to-wall observational powers.
Mostly interested in what’s true, in making things, and in making things better.
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Floor-to-ceiling curiosity
Wall-to-wall observational powers.
Mostly interested in what’s true, in making things, and in making things better.
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Signal Turn
@signalturn.bsky.social
· Jan 23
Oh hello.
Here seeking less noise and more signal, bluer skies, wiser comrades, and the better humors of our nature.
Also here for instructional videos about making bread, aspirational carpentry, and generally remaking the world.
Here seeking less noise and more signal, bluer skies, wiser comrades, and the better humors of our nature.
Also here for instructional videos about making bread, aspirational carpentry, and generally remaking the world.
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
If a political party caves in the forest, does it make a sound?
What if it’s not hidden deep in the forest,
but just caving,
all out in the open, voluntarily, on the
senate voting floor?
Still no sound?
Anyone wanna call ‘Timber!’ ?
What if it’s not hidden deep in the forest,
but just caving,
all out in the open, voluntarily, on the
senate voting floor?
Still no sound?
Anyone wanna call ‘Timber!’ ?
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
If a political party caves in the forest, does it make a sound?
What if it’s not hidden deep in the forest,
but just caving,
all out in the open, voluntarily, on the
senate voting floor?
Still no sound?
Anyone wanna call ‘Timber!’ ?
What if it’s not hidden deep in the forest,
but just caving,
all out in the open, voluntarily, on the
senate voting floor?
Still no sound?
Anyone wanna call ‘Timber!’ ?
In light of the deeply stupid Teen Vogue purge of politics today, re-posting this 2019 profile of Welteroth, the editor who first gave the magazine its reputation for bold political coverage in 2016, greatly boosted its circulation, and was rewarded by them shutting down the print edition in 2017.
Elaine Welteroth, former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue and youngest editor of Condé Nast ever, and the 2nd African American to hold this position, changed Teen Vogue to be more politically conscious.
Traffic to TeenVogue.com: 2.7M to 9.2M visitors a year, print subscriptions jumped 535%
Traffic to TeenVogue.com: 2.7M to 9.2M visitors a year, print subscriptions jumped 535%
Ex-Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth: ‘The headlines implied I was a token black hire’
Welteroth was just 29 when Anna Wintour made her editor-in-chief. Months later, the magazine shut down. What did she do next?
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:01 AM
In light of the deeply stupid Teen Vogue purge of politics today, re-posting this 2019 profile of Welteroth, the editor who first gave the magazine its reputation for bold political coverage in 2016, greatly boosted its circulation, and was rewarded by them shutting down the print edition in 2017.
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Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
October 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
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It’s probably a good time for people to wrap their heads around a near total monopoly of news and media by either overt fascists or fascist-friendly accomplices.
This isn’t doomerism, it’s preparing for how reality will be warped and weaponized and understanding the fight we have in front of us.
This isn’t doomerism, it’s preparing for how reality will be warped and weaponized and understanding the fight we have in front of us.
October 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
It’s probably a good time for people to wrap their heads around a near total monopoly of news and media by either overt fascists or fascist-friendly accomplices.
This isn’t doomerism, it’s preparing for how reality will be warped and weaponized and understanding the fight we have in front of us.
This isn’t doomerism, it’s preparing for how reality will be warped and weaponized and understanding the fight we have in front of us.
Why isn’t this a top headline in major papers?? Not even in Chicago Tribune? This happened overnight in a major American city — this is not normal, for now.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
October 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Why isn’t this a top headline in major papers?? Not even in Chicago Tribune? This happened overnight in a major American city — this is not normal, for now.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin?
TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?
TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?
September 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin?
TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?
TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?
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🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.
July 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.
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This happened this morning in Sacramento in a Home Depot parking lot.
No one should fear for their lives when going to work or just existing in their own community. Violent tactics put everyone at risk, especially when carried out with no regard for constitutional rights, safety or basic dignity.
No one should fear for their lives when going to work or just existing in their own community. Violent tactics put everyone at risk, especially when carried out with no regard for constitutional rights, safety or basic dignity.
July 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This happened this morning in Sacramento in a Home Depot parking lot.
No one should fear for their lives when going to work or just existing in their own community. Violent tactics put everyone at risk, especially when carried out with no regard for constitutional rights, safety or basic dignity.
No one should fear for their lives when going to work or just existing in their own community. Violent tactics put everyone at risk, especially when carried out with no regard for constitutional rights, safety or basic dignity.
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The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for.
UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.
Our full statement below. ⬇️
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UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.
Our full statement below. ⬇️
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July 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for.
UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.
Our full statement below. ⬇️
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UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.
Our full statement below. ⬇️
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You cannot even go to a doctor’s appointment. This happened at a surgical center in Ontario, California, yesterday.
July 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
You cannot even go to a doctor’s appointment. This happened at a surgical center in Ontario, California, yesterday.
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Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
July 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
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Kremlin-aligned accounts have been using free-to-use, AI-powered voice cloning technology to create videos that show public figures saying things they never did, including inciting anti-immigrant riots or support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine
www.wired.com/story/pro-ru...
www.wired.com/story/pro-ru...
A Pro-Russia Disinformation Campaign Is Using Free AI Tools to Fuel a ‘Content Explosion’
Consumer-grade AI tools have supercharged Russian-aligned disinformation as pictures, videos, QR codes, and fake websites have proliferated.
www.wired.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Kremlin-aligned accounts have been using free-to-use, AI-powered voice cloning technology to create videos that show public figures saying things they never did, including inciting anti-immigrant riots or support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine
www.wired.com/story/pro-ru...
www.wired.com/story/pro-ru...
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My God. Please make sure everyone you know knows this.
July 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
My God. Please make sure everyone you know knows this.
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Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
July 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
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Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
June 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
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Successful authoritarianism isn’t just about what the state can do to you — but more importantly, what they can get you to do to each other
Capturing regular people into a self-reporting structure of cruelty, dehumanization, and oppression is how authoritarianism breathes free air
Capturing regular people into a self-reporting structure of cruelty, dehumanization, and oppression is how authoritarianism breathes free air
June 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Successful authoritarianism isn’t just about what the state can do to you — but more importantly, what they can get you to do to each other
Capturing regular people into a self-reporting structure of cruelty, dehumanization, and oppression is how authoritarianism breathes free air
Capturing regular people into a self-reporting structure of cruelty, dehumanization, and oppression is how authoritarianism breathes free air
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Florida Builds ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center for Migrants in Everglades
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Sometimes I need a Bluesky button that is not just to repost, but to “shout obscenities from the rooftops”
LENOIR CITY, TN — pregnant fiancée of an American lost her baby in ICE detention after they denied her prenatal care after pleading for help for days. (@ltgovmcnally & @lowellrussell21’s district)
Unimaginable cruelty. @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty
nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/27/i...
Unimaginable cruelty. @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty
nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/27/i...
June 25, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Sometimes I need a Bluesky button that is not just to repost, but to “shout obscenities from the rooftops”
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One of the hunger strikers, Ash Bohrer, calls American & Israeli attacks on Iran a "patent distraction from the ongoing genocide in Gaza."
It's currently over 90 degrees F in Chicago; Bohrer falls back a little over a minute into their speech. They continue after taking a few seconds to recover.
It's currently over 90 degrees F in Chicago; Bohrer falls back a little over a minute into their speech. They continue after taking a few seconds to recover.
June 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
One of the hunger strikers, Ash Bohrer, calls American & Israeli attacks on Iran a "patent distraction from the ongoing genocide in Gaza."
It's currently over 90 degrees F in Chicago; Bohrer falls back a little over a minute into their speech. They continue after taking a few seconds to recover.
It's currently over 90 degrees F in Chicago; Bohrer falls back a little over a minute into their speech. They continue after taking a few seconds to recover.
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13 women risked their safety and livelihoods to reveal how Andrew Cuomo treated them.
It’s easy to forget just how bad it was—so let their words remind you. And share them with any voter you know who’s still on the fence.
(and, help us run this as a final ad: actblue.com/donate/dream...)
It’s easy to forget just how bad it was—so let their words remind you. And share them with any voter you know who’s still on the fence.
(and, help us run this as a final ad: actblue.com/donate/dream...)
June 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
13 women risked their safety and livelihoods to reveal how Andrew Cuomo treated them.
It’s easy to forget just how bad it was—so let their words remind you. And share them with any voter you know who’s still on the fence.
(and, help us run this as a final ad: actblue.com/donate/dream...)
It’s easy to forget just how bad it was—so let their words remind you. And share them with any voter you know who’s still on the fence.
(and, help us run this as a final ad: actblue.com/donate/dream...)
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WATCH: “This is f*cking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the f*ck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…”
A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...
A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...
June 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
WATCH: “This is f*cking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the f*ck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…”
A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...
A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...
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These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸
June 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸
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Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...