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Dr. Joshua Turpin
@turpin.bsky.social
1.2K followers 390 following 440 posts
PhD Hebrew Bible, newly minted
Scholar of race, class and gender
Anarchist
Any pronouns
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rema123.bsky.social
Only $250 left to reach my goal to got the amount of treatment 🥺🥺
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December 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
turpin.bsky.social
It’s the circle of life
billbarnwell.com Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell.com · 14h
I'm at the combination
a combination urgent care and taco bell
December 4, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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jacobinmag.bsky.social
Radical abolitionist John Brown was executed on this day in 1859 for trying to spark a revolution to free millions held in bondage.

“I have only a short time to live, only one death to die, and I will die fighting for this cause.”
December 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
chart of child mortality in history, roughly 48% for all societies across the globe…until the 20th century, where it plummets to 4%
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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acbm.bsky.social
A chance for grad students to win $500 of books from Gorgias Press.

I got this back in 2009. One of the books I got was George's Comparative Ed. of the Syriac Gospels (4 vols.), which I still regularly use.
gorgiaspress.bsky.social Gorgias Press @gorgiaspress.bsky.social · 2d
Calling all #MastersDegree and #PhD students in subjects related to our press. Remember to submit your applications for our annual book grant before the end of the year. You could win $500-worth of our titles to help your studies. Full details here. www.gorgiaspress.com/gorgias-book... #grants
a cartoon of a boy reading a book surrounded by books .
ALT: a cartoon of a boy reading a book surrounded by books .
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December 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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cypheroftyr.bsky.social
Want to run the adventure yourself after watching us? Go on over to @greenroninpub.bsky.social and grab the free PDF! Also go read the Broken Earth Trilogy from @nkjemisin.bsky.social that the TTRPG is based on!

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The Fifth Season RPG Quickstart (Free PDF)
The Fifth Season RPG Quickstart gives you everything you need to try the game, set in the world of N.K. Jemisin’s multiple Hugo Award-winning Broken Earth trilogy. This free standalone PDF uses Green ...
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November 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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rema123.bsky.social
Only $250 left to reach my goal to got the amount of treatment 🥺 @moniquedhooghe.bsky.social @anntastic.bsky.social @marloes81.bsky.social @turpin.bsky.social @tacoxcore.bsky.social @llarisah.bsky.social @bluwhalien.bsky.social @languagenerd24601.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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#gaza #genocide #palestine
Tweet: Today, the world's leading human rights org said the genocide is not over. Naturally, Western media has completely ignored it, because why would this be newsworthy? Article headline: Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues unabated despite ceasefire
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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jacobinmag.bsky.social
Henry Kissinger, one of the 20th century’s most prolific butchers, died on this day two years ago.

He died as he lived — beloved by the rich and powerful, regardless of their partisan affiliation.
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Starbucks employees escalated their strike on Black Friday, expanding to 120 stores and 85 cities.

Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers.

Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees.

Support local independent coffee shops:
Starbucks workers' union escalates strike on Black Friday
() -The Starbucks workers' union said on Friday it is escalating an indefinite strike to more than 120 stores and 85 cities, ​demanding higher pay and staffing levels at the coffee chain. The walkout,...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Even worse: Miller's ancestors, like most US Jews, immigrated prior to the 1924 Immigration and Nationality Act; had they been two decades later they (like most Jews attempting to flee the Holocaust) probably also would not have been allowed in.
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5d
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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rema123.bsky.social
Don’t forget to support my friend to continue my treatment 😢
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November 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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rema123.bsky.social
$300 left to continue my treatment 🥺🙏😢
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November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Two weeks after The Blaze made the explosive claim that a former Capitol police officer was responsible for planting bombs on Jan. 6—identifying her by name and in photos—CBS News reports the FBI ruled the woman out because she has an alibi www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
How an innocent woman's name was tied to the Jan. 6 pipe bombs
The FBI has ruled the woman out as a suspect in the 2021 plot, sources said, but only after her name circulated on social platforms and a conservative news site.
www.cbsnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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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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🚨 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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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 · 19d
“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 · 19d
"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 · 20d
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 · 21d
$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 😞🙏
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November 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM