Dr. Joshua Turpin

Getting really tired of telling people, “There just aren’t any jobs in my field” and being told to apply for adjunct positions.

When I say there aren’t any jobs, I didn’t say full time. I said no jobs

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Congrats!

See, if the not were lower case, there would be a few. But there isn’t anything here that I wouldn’t at least try when pushed to it.

For many, Gaza is yesterday’s news.
For us, it is still today’s reality.
Don’t forget us.

I rarely come down here, but am here today. And there are National Guard everywhere in the Metro. They all look so sad and bored. Is this really the best use of these young people’s lives?

All of my group chats are responding to Homan’s announcement by asking everyone to double down because:

1. ICE is still out there and abducting people today. We can’t trust the occupation is over until we actually see it.

2. People are going to be in an economic crisis for a very long time.

may we never be forgiven.

when it was venezuela, it was all about "this is a warning, canada is next" or "what does this mean for canadian oil". when it's cuba, it's "your vacation is ruined". it's never about the people living there, or canada's complicity in modern imperialism

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

I’m furious at AI because it steals our work, consumes vast resources and produces mediocrity, but along the way it also traumatises the people - mainly in the developing world - who are paid a pittance to train it. Theft, abuse, environmental destruction, all to make rich men richer. Burn it all.

This is why Minnesotans are begging folks outside the state to keep talking about us.

Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.

I’ve got friends whom I have talked with recently who are preparing for ICE to enter their places of work.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Such an important initiative.

I once found a podcast that is explicitly Christian libertarian (/anarcho-capitalist).

Get in my replies with good mutual aid fundraisers and I’ll share them.

Fun fact: The NIV got too “liberal” that a group of conservatives decided they’d rather incorrectly translate to the Bible than deal with it. That’s how you got the ESV.
- A Bible Scholar

and, as i predicted days ago, things have only escalated here.

again, listen to people in minnesota about this. it was all non-minnesotans who celebrated bovino, and meanwhile nothing's changed on the ground here.

please dear god just listen instead of rushing to speak. theyre coming for you next.

This reminds me of a research project I did in undergrad. I looked at a conservative denomination’s reaction to JFK being catholic and compared it to their coverage of Watergate. Except there was no coverage of Watergate.

If all the fascist authoritarian alarms aren’t going off right now, what do people even think is happening?

Good GOD.

we mustn't forget _all_ of i.c.e.'s victims

Slavery is Legal in Minnesota. These Groups are Working to Change That. - UNICORN RIOT Minneapolis, MN – Prisoners in Minnesota are earning less than a dollar an hour making products for Disney. That’s according to organizers and former inmates who gathered at a press conference in Dece...

New: Slavery is Legal in Minnesota. These Groups are Working to Change That.

Prisoners in Minnesota are earning less than a dollar an hour making products for Disney. That’s according to organizers and former prisoners working to end prison slavery in MN

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Fuck it, enjoy the video

A cat and a dog cuddled on a bed

A cat with her head resting on a sleeping dog’s back

A cat and a dog playing separately

A cat and a dog cuddling on a couch

Here Jemisin (cat) and Aldous (dog). He’s 8, she’s 2. Every time she cuddles him he grumbles about it, but allows it. I can provide a video of her trying to groom him upon request.

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.