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Dr. Joshua Turpin
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PhD Hebrew Bible, newly minted
Scholar of race, class and gender
Anarchist
Any pronouns
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gabriellehecht.bsky.social
This is the funniest piece imaginable in the dull world of the otherwise sickly sycophantic tech review.

For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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dropsitenews.com
🚨 27,000 KILLED IN SUDAN’S DARFUR IN 3 DAYS

Darfur governor Minni Arkou Minnawi says 27,000 people were killed in just three days after the RSF captured El-Fasher late last month — a massive jump from earlier estimates of about 2,500 deaths.

In March 2025, Senator Chris Van Hollen introduced...
🚨 27,000 KILLED IN SUDAN’S DARFUR IN 3 DAYS Darfur governor Minni Arkou Minnawi says 27,000 people were killed in just three days after the RSF captured El-Fasher late last month — a massive jump from earlier estimates of about 2,500 deaths. In March 2025, Senator Chris Van Hollen introduced the Stand Up for Sudan Act to halt U.S. weapons transfers to the UAE “until the UAE is no longer providing materiel support to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)” in Sudan. On Thursday, Van Hollen tried to advance the bill on the Senate floor, but Republicans objected, blocking his effort to call it up. We’ll take a closer look this weekend at Trump and his associates’ close ties to the UAE— which the U.S. classifies as a “Major Defense Partner” and is a buyer of high-end American weapons. Stay tuned. Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen The U.S. has the leverage to help stop the RSF's atrocities in Sudan, RIGHT NOW. But to do that we have to use it. Today, Republicans blocked my effort to pass legislation to suspend arms sales to the UAE until we can verify they are no longer arming the genocidal RSF. Shameful.
November 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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turpin.bsky.social
Well, that’s it. Finished a PhD. My friend, @erinjbeall.bsky.social and I started together and we are graduating together.
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
turpin.bsky.social
Well, that’s it. Finished a PhD. My friend, @erinjbeall.bsky.social and I started together and we are graduating together.
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."

I chose Larry Summers.

Better late than never.

Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
turpin.bsky.social
The US never quit forcibly sterilizing women. The Supreme Court decision allowing it was never overturned.
alondra.bsky.social Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10d
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
justinling.ca Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 10d
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
November 15, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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andytobo.bsky.social
Professors are more caught than people realize because nobody but professors has had to internalize the reality of how few jobs there are but the fact that boards of trustees see no risks in making our jobs a nightmare shows how important organizing is.
brookenewman.bsky.social Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 11d
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
A thread by an A&M professor describing how the new rules will impact faculty. Syllabi must be fed into AI to be checked for content not aligned with approved syllabi; students will be encouraged to report faculty for inaccurate content; and young people are now being told they get to decide what a professor should teach.
November 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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turpin.bsky.social
Ever since Israel pretended it agreed to a ceasefire, donations have dropped off. People still need your help. Israel is openly breaking the ceasefire. Keep helping.
rema123.bsky.social Pal.R-E-M-A @rema123.bsky.social · 12d
$350 left !!!
Literally i was not available to post and write anything… my health is not ok at all 😢 I hope people continue supporting me 😞🙏
@allwillbewell.bsky.social @moniquedhooghe.bsky.social @turpin.bsky.social @llarisah.bsky.social @tacoxcore.bsky.social @anntastic.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
turpin.bsky.social
Ever since Israel pretended it agreed to a ceasefire, donations have dropped off. People still need your help. Israel is openly breaking the ceasefire. Keep helping.
rema123.bsky.social Pal.R-E-M-A @rema123.bsky.social · 12d
$350 left !!!
Literally i was not available to post and write anything… my health is not ok at all 😢 I hope people continue supporting me 😞🙏
@allwillbewell.bsky.social @moniquedhooghe.bsky.social @turpin.bsky.social @llarisah.bsky.social @tacoxcore.bsky.social @anntastic.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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nehafge3403.bsky.social
In case anyone's wondering: National Endowment for the Humanities staff, 70% of whom were terminated this summer, are not included in the concessions for reopening the government. Only RIFs that occurred during the shutdown will be reversed.

We're still fired. And it's still wrong. #NEH
markhisted.org Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 15d
The RIF parts are good for federal workers. But they concede a lot.

Thing is, the RIFs all year were lawless. There are complex procedures to follow to use RIFs to fire people. It is clear those procedures were NOT followed. A lower court strongly ruled the RIFs were illegal. And SCOTUS dodged. 1/
ddayen.bsky.social David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 15d
The only exception to that is with respect to reductions in force (RIFs). The bill appears to both roll back RIFs announced during the shutdown and prevent any further RIFs between now and Jan 30.
November 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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rema123.bsky.social
$350 left !!!
Literally i was not available to post and write anything… my health is not ok at all 😢 I hope people continue supporting me 😞🙏
@allwillbewell.bsky.social @moniquedhooghe.bsky.social @turpin.bsky.social @llarisah.bsky.social @tacoxcore.bsky.social @anntastic.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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lukeplunkett.com
i spoke to LOADS of people about this very recently, and the only people using it regularly were the dipshits in charge
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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pghguild.com
BREAKING: We won!

Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.

pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
A yellow bridge in front of a city background with three banners reading "POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN".
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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50501movement.bsky.social
A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanished. He tracked her phone there when the signal died. Police told him to “look up her name online.” He sat in the parking lot, weeping, with no answers.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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thedailyshow.com
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
turpin.bsky.social
“It was a matter of insufficient backbone” is how the Biden admin will be described in history books.
akbarshahidahmed.huffpost.com Akbar Shahid Ahmed @akbarshahidahmed.huffpost.com · 17d
NEW: Inside the Biden administration debates in late 2024 that could have changed the course of the Gaza war

-top intel official sought to cut support for Israel but Brett McGurk pushed back
-talk of "very likely" US liability
-Blinken spoke of "ethnic cleansing"

www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
Biden Discussed Potential Israeli War Crimes In Gaza. He Kicked The Can To Trump.
New intelligence shocked officials in late 2024, spurring heightened fear of U.S. liability, HuffPost has learned. The period saw Secretary of State Antony Blinken ask if Israel’s actions constituted ...
www.huffpost.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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dianabutlerbass.bsky.social
Trump and Musk took away food and medical aid for Africa.

Now they are taking away food and medical aid for Americans.

See the pattern?
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 18d
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
turpin.bsky.social
Oscar Wilde has something to say about this.
As does anyone who knows the history of racism/eugenics/just history actually.
November 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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karanicolas.bsky.social
Just for context, it was an international scandal when YouTube erased documentation of Syrian government war crimes. Now it's just the Intercept and tech outlets who care.

apnews.com/article/d9f1...
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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frankamari.bsky.social
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."

-- Eugene V. Debs, born #OTD 1855
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM