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Joshua Turpin
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PhD Candidate for Hebrew Bible Scholar of race, class and gender Anarchist Any pronouns
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 9h
And now I just lost spelling correction on Gmail because I figured out how to turn off Gemini from its default opt-in setting.
A sign of these tools’ popularity and greatness is how they hold other basic functionalities over our heads as ransom to obtain our consent.
louiseseamster.bsky.social Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 6d
I can’t even access speech-to-text any more on my phone because I won’t turn on Apple Intelligence, when I really need to be able to dictate so I don’t hurt myself typing.
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Joshua Turpin @turpin.bsky.social · 11h
I’m over here like “It’s still hitting the 80s in Texas.”
But I’m jealous a bit.
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Pal.R-E-M-A @rema123.bsky.social · 14h
Only $450 left 😢😢😢 Don’t forget to support 🙏 @moniquedhooghe.bsky.social @toca325.bsky.social @toshiakima.bsky.social @turpin.bsky.social @tacoxcore.bsky.social @llarisah.bsky.social @anntastic.bsky.social @marloes81.bsky.social @languagenerd24601.bsky.social @bluwhalien.bsky.social
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Truthout @truthout.org · 1d
If convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face “decades of prison time,” the National Lawyers Guild says.
These Dallas Residents Are on the Front Lines of Trump’s War Against “Antifa”
If convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face “decades of prison time,” the National Lawyers Guild says.
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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 1d
This is on my spring syllabus, so download (free) before Friday or better yet, go order a print copy.
backwardsttrpg.bsky.social Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 1d
SPINE is now available in print (🔗 👇 ). Spread the word! 📣

The digital copy remains *Free* through the end of this month.

My month of shameless self promotion is coming to an end. I want to thank you (everyone) for your patience, sincerely, and for helping me share this project. It means a lot ❤️
backwardsttrpg.bsky.social Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 27d
NEW (FREE) GAME FORTHCOMING:

SPINE is a dark solo ttrpg about losing yourself in a book.

In SPINE, you are a researcher who has inherited a strange book from an estranged relative…
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Pal.R-E-M-A @rema123.bsky.social · 1d
Only $450 left 😢😢😢 Don’t forget to support 🙏 @moniquedhooghe.bsky.social @toca325.bsky.social @toshiakima.bsky.social @turpin.bsky.social @tacoxcore.bsky.social @llarisah.bsky.social @anntastic.bsky.social @marloes81.bsky.social @languagenerd24601.bsky.social @bluwhalien.bsky.social
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Joshua Turpin @turpin.bsky.social · 1d
Fantastic. I’m excited to read it
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d
Praying for the Jamaican people tonight.

www.nbcnews.com/weather/stor...
Hurricane Melissa could be Jamaica's most powerful storm in history
“There is nowhere that will escape the wrath of this storm,” said Evan Thompson of Jamaica’s Meteorological Service. Melissa is already blamed for four deaths.
www.nbcnews.com
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 2d
How can the world let this happen? How can our lawmakers ignore us?

How can columnists obfuscate this?

If it was your child you found in the rubble, your colleague bombed despite their medical vest, your premature baby fighting for breath in a shared oxygen mask…inaction wouldn’t be an option.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 3d
The United States chose a racist system of local property tax funding for public education and now we get this...
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d
Trump is pissed about an ad that Canada recently ran in the U.S. showing Ronald Reagan talking about tariffs in 1987.

“Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.”
Trump: The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs. The ad was for $75,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts. TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT 1 ReTruth 3 Likes 10/23/25, 7:39 PM
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 4d
What this means, practically speaking, is it's very likely you and your friends can both outsmart and outrun the average ICE agent.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d
NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting
The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...
www.nbcnews.com
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Joshua Turpin @turpin.bsky.social · 4d
Rema has nerve problems in her hand due to a bacterial infection. She needs injections, and maybe surgery, to get it fixed. It would be great if we could get her this $500 for the injections.
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 5d
i hope people are noting the dates in this.
sevier.io isaac @sevier.io · 7d
This article is a reminder that "abolish ICE" isn't just about the agents now in our streets, but is about a sprawling carceral system that must be dismantled completely. There must be consequences for politicians who try to spend a single dollar more on this.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Queer and trans immigrants allege forced labor and sexual assault in Ice facility: ‘I was treated worse than an animal’
At the South Louisiana Ice Processing Center in Basile, detainees say they were forced into hard labor – and sexually assaulted and stalked by an assistant warden
www.theguardian.com
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Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 5d
The Department of Religion at Dartmouth College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor of the Hebrew Bible in its Ancient Context.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6d
What's more 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants, saying, "What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral." religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
After clergy arrests, religious pushback to ICE expands in Chicago
(RNS) — More than 210 mostly Chicago-area clergy, representing a range of liberal and conservative traditions, have signed a letter criticizing ICE titled ‘Jesus is Being Tear Gassed at Broadview.’
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6d
NEW: Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, has issued a new statement declaring that Chicago "communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants."
Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, on Standing with Immigrants Oct. 21, 2025 My dear brothers and sisters, today I speak to you as your shepherd, but also as a fellow pilgrim who shares the pain of many of our immigrant communities. Families are being torn apart. Children are left in fear, and communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants. We stand with a mother who crosses borders to feed her children. We stand with the father who labors in silence to build a better future. We stand with the young person who dreams of safety and a better future. Our parishes and schools will not turn away those who seek comfort, and we will not be silent when dignity is denied in the enforcement of the law, it is essential that we respect the dignity of every human being. Now I want to say something directly to those immigrants without documents. Most of you have been here for years. You have worked hard. You have raised families. You have contributed to this nation. You have earned our respect. As the Archbishop of Chicago, I will insist that you be treated with dignity. Americans should not forget that we all come from immigrant families. You are our brothers and sisters. We stand with you. God bless you all.
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dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 6d
Humanities and social sciences were a canary in the coal mine; no discipline is safe when the university is viewed primarily as a money-making venture.
jbenmenachem.com jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 6d
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 6d
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
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Joshua Turpin @turpin.bsky.social · 6d
Those of us who showed up just a few minutes later are grateful for the warnings.
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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 6d
The organizer of his campaign stole the money meant for his family.
He would be grateful even if you could help him recover half of the amount he begged people for.
mommunism.bsky.social Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 6d
Mohamed is friends with @itsmeio.bsky.social and I have shared him before but he lost the funds from that account and has been trying to raise for his family on a new one but Bluesky keeps deleting any accounts he makes. If you want to help ❤️
Home Again: Rebuilding Hope for a Gazan Family
My name is Casey York and I live in the U.S.. I have created this fundraiser on behalf of my dear friend, Mohammed, as he is in Gaza and unable to create one for himself due to geographical and logist...
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Joshua Turpin @turpin.bsky.social · 7d
Destruction of the White House, brought to you by the same people who want to maintain the statues of Confederate soldiers.
shakespeherian.bsky.social tim coe @shakespeherian.bsky.social · 7d
It’d be so funny if he dies and the white house just looks like this from now on
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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 7d
archaeologists: this structure replicates and elaborates an architecture of power and domination linking it to earlier imperial expansions and creating a symbolic genealogy typing it to ancient European cultures, and thus to a very 19th c idea of inherited white Christian power 1/2
binomicalabs.org naturepoker @binomicalabs.org · 7d
Ah @theonion.com , never change.
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Joshua Turpin @turpin.bsky.social · 7d
Holy shit
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7d
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
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Joshua Turpin @turpin.bsky.social · 7d
White conservative I mean.