Robin L Turner
@robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app
Mostly a reskeeter. tradition, gender, land tenure, and resource politics in Southern Africa. I block would be followers without profiles.
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Has anyone done any reporting on what happens to can and renters insurance rates in a city or community after an ICE occupation, given how much property destruction they perpetrate?
Is there a rise in claims? Are insurance companies paying them out? Are executives making unhappy noises about it?
Is there a rise in claims? Are insurance companies paying them out? Are executives making unhappy noises about it?
January 14, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Has anyone done any reporting on what happens to can and renters insurance rates in a city or community after an ICE occupation, given how much property destruction they perpetrate?
Is there a rise in claims? Are insurance companies paying them out? Are executives making unhappy noises about it?
Is there a rise in claims? Are insurance companies paying them out? Are executives making unhappy noises about it?
“…none of us may ever appear human to them, or be compliant enough.
But you cannot comply enough with those who’ve decided it’s OK to kill you”👇🏽
But you cannot comply enough with those who’ve decided it’s OK to kill you”👇🏽
Renee Nicole Good’s killing by an ICE agent underscores how policing, borders and cages are “death‑making institutions,” and her legacy calls on people who see themselves in her to deepen solidarity with all communities targeted by state violence.
We Can Honor Renee Nicole Good’s Life by Abolishing Death-Making Institutions
Those of us who see ourselves in Renee Good can take this moment to deepen our solidarities with all who are policed.
truthout.org
January 14, 2026 at 2:50 PM
“…none of us may ever appear human to them, or be compliant enough.
But you cannot comply enough with those who’ve decided it’s OK to kill you”👇🏽
But you cannot comply enough with those who’ve decided it’s OK to kill you”👇🏽
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MAIHT3k newsletter:
The narrative of the denialism frame is that those opposing "AI" are afraid, under-informed and/or engaging in wishful thinking. None of that is true: The people who oppose the "AI" project are actively fighting and refusing to accept the premise of tech bros and AI boosters.
The narrative of the denialism frame is that those opposing "AI" are afraid, under-informed and/or engaging in wishful thinking. None of that is true: The people who oppose the "AI" project are actively fighting and refusing to accept the premise of tech bros and AI boosters.
Resistance Isn't Denialism
By Emily I've recently noticed a new tactic on the part of AI boosters to attempt to erase the work of people who are resisting the project of "AI" and...
buttondown.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:20 PM
MAIHT3k newsletter:
The narrative of the denialism frame is that those opposing "AI" are afraid, under-informed and/or engaging in wishful thinking. None of that is true: The people who oppose the "AI" project are actively fighting and refusing to accept the premise of tech bros and AI boosters.
The narrative of the denialism frame is that those opposing "AI" are afraid, under-informed and/or engaging in wishful thinking. None of that is true: The people who oppose the "AI" project are actively fighting and refusing to accept the premise of tech bros and AI boosters.
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“Black women lost 319,000 jobs in both the private and public sectors, driven largely by mass layoffs in education, healthcare, and housing. During that same period, white women gained 142,000 jobs, Hispanic women 176,000 jobs, and white men—wait for it!—picked up 365,000 jobs.”
Trump’s Slash-and-Burn Economy Is Devastating Black Women
His administration is hitting them with “discriminate harm.”
www.thenation.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:30 PM
“Black women lost 319,000 jobs in both the private and public sectors, driven largely by mass layoffs in education, healthcare, and housing. During that same period, white women gained 142,000 jobs, Hispanic women 176,000 jobs, and white men—wait for it!—picked up 365,000 jobs.”
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As one of the top sources of AI training data, the rich and powerful are eager for Wiki pages to cast them in the best light
Volunteer editors are great at disrupting this – but demand for 'Wikilaundering' has never been higher
And one British PR firm turned it into an exclusive service👇
Volunteer editors are great at disrupting this – but demand for 'Wikilaundering' has never been higher
And one British PR firm turned it into an exclusive service👇
London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires
Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books service
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:17 PM
As one of the top sources of AI training data, the rich and powerful are eager for Wiki pages to cast them in the best light
Volunteer editors are great at disrupting this – but demand for 'Wikilaundering' has never been higher
And one British PR firm turned it into an exclusive service👇
Volunteer editors are great at disrupting this – but demand for 'Wikilaundering' has never been higher
And one British PR firm turned it into an exclusive service👇
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today CA SB-381, the bill that grants CA adoptees unrestricted access to their own birth records, goes to the Health Committee, having sailed through the Judiciary Committee with a unanimous vote yesterday. This will likely be a harder fight. Please send good vibes (or call your reps if you can)! 🥚
January 14, 2026 at 1:45 PM
today CA SB-381, the bill that grants CA adoptees unrestricted access to their own birth records, goes to the Health Committee, having sailed through the Judiciary Committee with a unanimous vote yesterday. This will likely be a harder fight. Please send good vibes (or call your reps if you can)! 🥚
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I think you need to do as much complexity as you can handle, but understand it's OK to revert to stuff you can manage. Complex solutions to complex problems are hard to convey, but provided you take others with you they'll get it, and we're all better off.
January 14, 2026 at 2:24 PM
I think you need to do as much complexity as you can handle, but understand it's OK to revert to stuff you can manage. Complex solutions to complex problems are hard to convey, but provided you take others with you they'll get it, and we're all better off.
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Part of why we are here is that there WERE in fact millions of white people who took to the streets in 2020 after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and others were killed by the cops. So no it's not the case that white people are just out in the streets now. Fascist white people were ENRAGED by this.
January 13, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Part of why we are here is that there WERE in fact millions of white people who took to the streets in 2020 after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and others were killed by the cops. So no it's not the case that white people are just out in the streets now. Fascist white people were ENRAGED by this.
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Nearly 350,000 people with legal status are about to lose protection in the coming months
Country #TPS End Date Estimated TPS Holders
Burma Jan 26, 2026 4,000
Haiti Feb 3, 2026 340,000
Ethiopia Feb 13, 2026 4,540
Somalia Mar 17, 2026 1500
Country #TPS End Date Estimated TPS Holders
Burma Jan 26, 2026 4,000
Haiti Feb 3, 2026 340,000
Ethiopia Feb 13, 2026 4,540
Somalia Mar 17, 2026 1500
January 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Nearly 350,000 people with legal status are about to lose protection in the coming months
Country #TPS End Date Estimated TPS Holders
Burma Jan 26, 2026 4,000
Haiti Feb 3, 2026 340,000
Ethiopia Feb 13, 2026 4,540
Somalia Mar 17, 2026 1500
Country #TPS End Date Estimated TPS Holders
Burma Jan 26, 2026 4,000
Haiti Feb 3, 2026 340,000
Ethiopia Feb 13, 2026 4,540
Somalia Mar 17, 2026 1500
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Authoritarian regimes use their power to kill all sources of accountability. Here, they are targeting both public employees sharing information that Trump appointees won't about the dismantling of your government, as well as reporters who amplify that information.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Authoritarian regimes use their power to kill all sources of accountability. Here, they are targeting both public employees sharing information that Trump appointees won't about the dismantling of your government, as well as reporters who amplify that information.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
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I'm sure Bouie has read this, but for those interested in the kinds of details this testimony revealed, I strongly recommend:
Kidada E. Williams, I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023).
Kidada E. Williams, I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023).
January 14, 2026 at 2:09 AM
I'm sure Bouie has read this, but for those interested in the kinds of details this testimony revealed, I strongly recommend:
Kidada E. Williams, I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023).
Kidada E. Williams, I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023).
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Which is to say that what we're seeing right now is simply an expression of the systems of state violence that proceeded it as well as the culmination of already-existing white conservative ideologies & lawlessness. Makes it difficult for many of us to recognize a problem that frankly implicates us.
January 14, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Which is to say that what we're seeing right now is simply an expression of the systems of state violence that proceeded it as well as the culmination of already-existing white conservative ideologies & lawlessness. Makes it difficult for many of us to recognize a problem that frankly implicates us.
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To that second point, for ex, it probably isn't good that the U.S. already operated a massive police state that fascists could simply capture & use to accelerate & expand existing policies/tactics of repression.
January 14, 2026 at 2:29 PM
To that second point, for ex, it probably isn't good that the U.S. already operated a massive police state that fascists could simply capture & use to accelerate & expand existing policies/tactics of repression.
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🚨New details on “Operation PARRIS” are emerging. Groups on the ground estimate that at least 100 people with full refugee status have now been arrested and sent to Texas to be detained for interrogation about their status and possible removal proceedings.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
January 14, 2026 at 12:23 PM
🚨New details on “Operation PARRIS” are emerging. Groups on the ground estimate that at least 100 people with full refugee status have now been arrested and sent to Texas to be detained for interrogation about their status and possible removal proceedings.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
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"Colvin, who died on Jan. 13 at the age of 86, was for decades an unsung hero...she became one of the plaintiffs in Browder v Gayle, the landmark 1956 U.S. Supreme Court case that declared segregation on public transportation unconstitutional" @capitalb.bsky.social
capitalbnews.org/claudette-co...
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Claudette Colvin, Whose Defiance Helped End Bus Segregation, Dies at 86
For decades, Colvin was an unsung hero despite refusing to surrender her seat nearly 10 months before Rosa Parks’s famous act of defiance
capitalbnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 1:28 AM
"Colvin, who died on Jan. 13 at the age of 86, was for decades an unsung hero...she became one of the plaintiffs in Browder v Gayle, the landmark 1956 U.S. Supreme Court case that declared segregation on public transportation unconstitutional" @capitalb.bsky.social
capitalbnews.org/claudette-co...
capitalbnews.org/claudette-co...
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over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
January 14, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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"I'm more than just a rhymer, you still a small-timer
Hopin that the game'll treat that ass a little kinder
Every step tango'd, your beat don't concern me
I'm eating mangoes in Trinidad with attorneys"
may he rest in power and eternal mangoes
Hopin that the game'll treat that ass a little kinder
Every step tango'd, your beat don't concern me
I'm eating mangoes in Trinidad with attorneys"
may he rest in power and eternal mangoes
this one hurts. honestly one of the most slept on rappers and producers from the 90s - the years he was locked up messed with the timing of his rise career wise. still a big part of some of the most iconic music of his eras. RIP
January 14, 2026 at 2:33 AM
"I'm more than just a rhymer, you still a small-timer
Hopin that the game'll treat that ass a little kinder
Every step tango'd, your beat don't concern me
I'm eating mangoes in Trinidad with attorneys"
may he rest in power and eternal mangoes
Hopin that the game'll treat that ass a little kinder
Every step tango'd, your beat don't concern me
I'm eating mangoes in Trinidad with attorneys"
may he rest in power and eternal mangoes
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Bandcamp tells AI music to just fuck off
blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/k...
i expect they had rather a lot of spam and only so many petabytes of disk
blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/k...
i expect they had rather a lot of spam and only so many petabytes of disk
Bandcamp’s Mission and Our Approach to Generative AI
We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.
blog.bandcamp.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Bandcamp tells AI music to just fuck off
blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/k...
i expect they had rather a lot of spam and only so many petabytes of disk
blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/k...
i expect they had rather a lot of spam and only so many petabytes of disk
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"Most of the dead are Black men, 'imported from other states to take the place of striking white union miners.'"
Capitalists & managers have long understood that white supremacy & racism essential elements of class domination in America. Divide & conquer.
Capitalists & managers have long understood that white supremacy & racism essential elements of class domination in America. Divide & conquer.
Jan. 13, 1926: An explosion in an Oklahoma coal mine kills 91 miners. The blast at the Degnan-McConnell Co. Mine No. 21 near Wilburton is so powerful that it send a pillar of flame 50 feet high and destroys the tipple, or loading mechanism, aboveground. Ten men survive. 1/3
January 14, 2026 at 4:28 AM
"Most of the dead are Black men, 'imported from other states to take the place of striking white union miners.'"
Capitalists & managers have long understood that white supremacy & racism essential elements of class domination in America. Divide & conquer.
Capitalists & managers have long understood that white supremacy & racism essential elements of class domination in America. Divide & conquer.
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I mean. I am not an expert. But when the government is like “Hey, give me a list of Jews. For uh protection reasons” it would seem like A BAD THING. apple.news/A-AXrNRgkRhm...
UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’ — Guardian US
Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights
apple.news
January 13, 2026 at 11:28 PM
I mean. I am not an expert. But when the government is like “Hey, give me a list of Jews. For uh protection reasons” it would seem like A BAD THING. apple.news/A-AXrNRgkRhm...
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Who wants to move to NYC for a tenure track job teaching Caribbean and/or Latino/a literature?
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
Jobs | City University of New York
cuny.jobs
January 14, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Who wants to move to NYC for a tenure track job teaching Caribbean and/or Latino/a literature?
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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As the US celebrates its 250th year, you’re going to see a lot about George Washington, whose importance is undeniable. Also remember Oney Judge, a woman who secured her own freedom, & her children’s freedom from the enslavement by George & Martha Washington. #goldstandardhistory #USA250
January 14, 2026 at 2:05 PM
As the US celebrates its 250th year, you’re going to see a lot about George Washington, whose importance is undeniable. Also remember Oney Judge, a woman who secured her own freedom, & her children’s freedom from the enslavement by George & Martha Washington. #goldstandardhistory #USA250
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Thank you so much for everyone on #BlackSky for sharing Hailey's picture; I appreciate it so much. She's still missing. They think she met someone online. She deactivated her socials, and her phone has been off since last Monday. The right pic is the most recent. She was carrying a pink duffle bag.
January 14, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Thank you so much for everyone on #BlackSky for sharing Hailey's picture; I appreciate it so much. She's still missing. They think she met someone online. She deactivated her socials, and her phone has been off since last Monday. The right pic is the most recent. She was carrying a pink duffle bag.
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Scott Adams wrote a book titled, "How to fail at everything and still win big" about how to be a lazy, bad employee, and still get ahead.
Which is silly, because... it didn't work?
His bosses at the bank saw through it, fired him, and promoted the Black guy who worked hard and was good at the job🤷🏿♂️
Which is silly, because... it didn't work?
His bosses at the bank saw through it, fired him, and promoted the Black guy who worked hard and was good at the job🤷🏿♂️
January 13, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Scott Adams wrote a book titled, "How to fail at everything and still win big" about how to be a lazy, bad employee, and still get ahead.
Which is silly, because... it didn't work?
His bosses at the bank saw through it, fired him, and promoted the Black guy who worked hard and was good at the job🤷🏿♂️
Which is silly, because... it didn't work?
His bosses at the bank saw through it, fired him, and promoted the Black guy who worked hard and was good at the job🤷🏿♂️