Chris Turnbow
@cturnbow.bsky.social
Software developer, believer in the idea that all persons are created equal. Quirky sense of humor.
Best of all, married 36+ yrs ♥
Best of all, married 36+ yrs ♥
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
Republicans just had a press conference showing photos of ICE arrests of "pedophiles, drug traffickers, murderers," and Democrats should do the same thing but with pictures of ICE agents who committed the same crimes.
This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
February 11, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Republicans just had a press conference showing photos of ICE arrests of "pedophiles, drug traffickers, murderers," and Democrats should do the same thing but with pictures of ICE agents who committed the same crimes.
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
not training or managing them is a tactic.
this agency cannot be allowed to detain people without any recourse and then claim it is unable to manage the inevitable court cases to released them.
damage is being done to people. incompetence is not an excuse when the agency chose to detain them!
this agency cannot be allowed to detain people without any recourse and then claim it is unable to manage the inevitable court cases to released them.
damage is being done to people. incompetence is not an excuse when the agency chose to detain them!
After Voss says that it's ICE's lawyer's who are responsible for for executing orders for release. Judge Blackwell then says "Well, should I call ICE's in-house counsel down here to answer for everything?" Voss then says, para., "I don't think this is a tactic, they're just not trained or managed."
February 4, 2026 at 10:47 PM
not training or managing them is a tactic.
this agency cannot be allowed to detain people without any recourse and then claim it is unable to manage the inevitable court cases to released them.
damage is being done to people. incompetence is not an excuse when the agency chose to detain them!
this agency cannot be allowed to detain people without any recourse and then claim it is unable to manage the inevitable court cases to released them.
damage is being done to people. incompetence is not an excuse when the agency chose to detain them!
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
If you’re looking for something to watch this weekend, make sure you go to support WONDER MAN cause it seems like Marvel didn’t care to promote the fact that it is now out #wonderman
January 30, 2026 at 3:46 AM
If you’re looking for something to watch this weekend, make sure you go to support WONDER MAN cause it seems like Marvel didn’t care to promote the fact that it is now out #wonderman
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
When the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 2:07 PM
When the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
Stop calling it "immigration enforcement" @bostonglobe.com That's not what they're doing.
Maine Senator Susan Collins said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem informed her that ICE will end the immigration enforcement surge in the state.
ICE ending Maine surge, Senator Collins says - The Boston Globe
Collins said in a statement that she had pushed Noem and other Trump administration officials to have ICE “reconsider its approach to immigration enforcement in the state.”
trib.al
January 29, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Stop calling it "immigration enforcement" @bostonglobe.com That's not what they're doing.
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
There is nothing correct about deportations.
Immigration is good, and even if you disagree with that, the way to stop undocumented immigration is by penalize EMPLOYERS who profit by exploiting precarious people. Deportations are not only inhumane, ineffective and wrong.
Immigration is good, and even if you disagree with that, the way to stop undocumented immigration is by penalize EMPLOYERS who profit by exploiting precarious people. Deportations are not only inhumane, ineffective and wrong.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“The Trump administration was entirely correct to prioritize deportations after the collapse of immigration enforcement under his predecessors,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes, but “misplaced priorities and excessive brutality have created a debacle.”
“The Trump administration was entirely correct to prioritize deportations after the collapse of immigration enforcement under his predecessors,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes, but “misplaced priorities and excessive brutality have created a debacle.”
Opinion | Immigration Enforcement Is Unavoidably Upsetting. But This Is Something Else.
Is this really the only way to enforce the law?
nyti.ms
January 28, 2026 at 12:00 PM
There is nothing correct about deportations.
Immigration is good, and even if you disagree with that, the way to stop undocumented immigration is by penalize EMPLOYERS who profit by exploiting precarious people. Deportations are not only inhumane, ineffective and wrong.
Immigration is good, and even if you disagree with that, the way to stop undocumented immigration is by penalize EMPLOYERS who profit by exploiting precarious people. Deportations are not only inhumane, ineffective and wrong.
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
Statement from Matt Moberg, Chaplain of the Minnesota Timberwolves:
"If you're a church posting prayers for peace and unity today while my city bleeds in the street, miss me with that softness you only wear when it costs you nothing.
"If you're a church posting prayers for peace and unity today while my city bleeds in the street, miss me with that softness you only wear when it costs you nothing.
January 25, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Statement from Matt Moberg, Chaplain of the Minnesota Timberwolves:
"If you're a church posting prayers for peace and unity today while my city bleeds in the street, miss me with that softness you only wear when it costs you nothing.
"If you're a church posting prayers for peace and unity today while my city bleeds in the street, miss me with that softness you only wear when it costs you nothing.
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
Another pet peeve: Under Trump, the term "diplomat' has come to mean unqualified, ignorant hack.
It is like the way "patriot" has come to mean anti-American, pro-fascist bigot.
Orwellian double-speak is the official language of the Trump Administration.
It is like the way "patriot" has come to mean anti-American, pro-fascist bigot.
Orwellian double-speak is the official language of the Trump Administration.
January 26, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Another pet peeve: Under Trump, the term "diplomat' has come to mean unqualified, ignorant hack.
It is like the way "patriot" has come to mean anti-American, pro-fascist bigot.
Orwellian double-speak is the official language of the Trump Administration.
It is like the way "patriot" has come to mean anti-American, pro-fascist bigot.
Orwellian double-speak is the official language of the Trump Administration.
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
Remember the Bundy insanity during the Obama years? Armed guys occupied a federal office and one of their buddies took position with a sniper rifle aimed at federal agents?
Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?
Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?
January 25, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Remember the Bundy insanity during the Obama years? Armed guys occupied a federal office and one of their buddies took position with a sniper rifle aimed at federal agents?
Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?
Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
Saying the officer who committed murder is a murderer is dangerous, but it's OK to claim that his victim was a domestic terrorist who literally ran him over.
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
January 11, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Saying the officer who committed murder is a murderer is dangerous, but it's OK to claim that his victim was a domestic terrorist who literally ran him over.
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
Vance's stance is, almost literally, "Well, she shouldn't have mouthed off like that. She asked for it."
When Vance insists, contra the videos, that Good threatened the ICE agent and "had it coming", what he means is that he, like Ross, feels threatened by any woman who has the audacity to use her voice in the public sphere.
This deeply misogynist worldview is core to MAGA.
This deeply misogynist worldview is core to MAGA.
January 9, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Vance's stance is, almost literally, "Well, she shouldn't have mouthed off like that. She asked for it."
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
According to MAGA, Renee Good, just sitting in her car, is a domestic terrorist, but Kyle Rittenhouse, shooting strangers in the street with an assault weapon, is not.
These people are such shameless, twisted liars.
These people are such shameless, twisted liars.
January 8, 2026 at 12:47 AM
According to MAGA, Renee Good, just sitting in her car, is a domestic terrorist, but Kyle Rittenhouse, shooting strangers in the street with an assault weapon, is not.
These people are such shameless, twisted liars.
These people are such shameless, twisted liars.
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
January 7, 2026 at 6:25 PM
losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
The fact that nothing is being done about this — and that people keep blithely hanging out on that site as though its owner and a key part of its official architecture aren’t actively enabling disgusting criminal abuse at scale — is making me lose my mind
Every piece of reporting I've seen on this is drastically understating the scale. These are from Grok's replies within a single minute. Time-to-reply is degrading because it has such a backlog of NCII/CSAM requests to fulfill. Conservatively I estimate it is producing more than 5000 of these per day
January 6, 2026 at 9:58 PM
The fact that nothing is being done about this — and that people keep blithely hanging out on that site as though its owner and a key part of its official architecture aren’t actively enabling disgusting criminal abuse at scale — is making me lose my mind
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history.
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
January 6, 2026 at 4:37 PM
FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history.
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
Once he's gone and they try to backpedal their part in all of this, every single one of his enablers in Congress, the media, and corporate America needs to get their face rubbed in that stink every time they open their mouths in public.
January 2, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Once he's gone and they try to backpedal their part in all of this, every single one of his enablers in Congress, the media, and corporate America needs to get their face rubbed in that stink every time they open their mouths in public.
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
as is tradition, I post a countdown of my top 100 posts from the year, starting today with No. 100-81. hit the link! www.artbutmakeitsports.com/p/the-best-o...
The Best of 2025, No. 100-81
The ABMIS advent calendar begins
www.artbutmakeitsports.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
as is tradition, I post a countdown of my top 100 posts from the year, starting today with No. 100-81. hit the link! www.artbutmakeitsports.com/p/the-best-o...
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
WHO GIVES A DAMN?
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
WHO GIVES A DAMN?
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
the intent is pretty clear, for sure
“Like prime, but with human beings”
December 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
the intent is pretty clear, for sure
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
“Like prime, but with human beings”
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“Like prime, but with human beings”
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
“Clinton is in the Epstein files!”
Great. Next time I come across a Clinton rally, someone wearing a Clinton hat, or flying a Clinton flag on their truck, I’ll be sure to let them know.
The rest of us want them ALL held accountable because we aren’t in a cult. Hope that helps.
Great. Next time I come across a Clinton rally, someone wearing a Clinton hat, or flying a Clinton flag on their truck, I’ll be sure to let them know.
The rest of us want them ALL held accountable because we aren’t in a cult. Hope that helps.
December 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“Clinton is in the Epstein files!”
Great. Next time I come across a Clinton rally, someone wearing a Clinton hat, or flying a Clinton flag on their truck, I’ll be sure to let them know.
The rest of us want them ALL held accountable because we aren’t in a cult. Hope that helps.
Great. Next time I come across a Clinton rally, someone wearing a Clinton hat, or flying a Clinton flag on their truck, I’ll be sure to let them know.
The rest of us want them ALL held accountable because we aren’t in a cult. Hope that helps.
Reposted by Chris Turnbow
Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.