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Philip S Turner
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Blogger @ http://TheGreatGrayBridge.com /editor @ PT Book Productions—http://philipsturner.com/about-ptbp. Live music&urban enthusiast http://HonouraryCanadian.com
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Great news—as literary agent, I’ve sold what will be my adult son M. G. Turner's first full-length commercially published book, "City of Dark Dreams: Tales from Another New York," coming in Jan 2027 from DarkWinter Press. Please see details in the screenshot. @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social #booksky
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Indiana GOP Sen. Bohacek on Trump's use of r-word: "When it seems quite clear we're isolating a population by use of a slur, at some point you have to speak out... it's a word used to denigrate the intellectually disabled community... you can't validate slurs like that... it's a matter of character"
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
For NYers, +and folks around the world, here's a revealing 17 min @businessinsider.com video on how,—despite onerous city laws—Gotham sustains a great variety of street food; also, a fascinating visit to the Bronx bakery that makes donuts for all our food carts. businessinsider.com/inside-the-d...
Inside the factory where NYC's food carts get ingredients
The future of New York City's food cart industry is at a crossroads, facing rising costs and mounting legal battles.
businessinsider.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I emailed my City Council Member @shaunabreu.bsky.social urging him to support Amanda Farías for Speaker. An advocate for fair use of city resources in the five boroughs, she also favors limiting non-essential helicopter flights, which cause noise and air pollution. @stopthechopnynj.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I love this empowering video by musician Richard Dawson, from Newcastle in the UK. H/t Ben Myers youtu.be/UGiQ_-Ktpvc?...
Richard Dawson - Jogging (Official Video)
YouTube video by Richard Dawson
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December 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
In college, I had the privilege of performing in Tom Stafford’s one-act, The Real Inspector Hound. Funnily enough, I played the dead body on the floor through almost the entire performance. Laying there during rehearsals and listening to the whole dialogue unfold I knew every line. I loved it.
“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you’re dead.”

📸 Mark Gerson (June, 1969)
November 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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So far, Trump has pardoned:

Changpeng Zhao (founder, Binance) - pled guilty to money laundering. Facilitated millions in transactions for terrorist organizations such as Hamas.

Ross Ulbricht (founder of the Silk Road) - the dark web Costco of illegal drugs.

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November 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Could Pete Hegseth be charged with murder? Catch up on the latest in today's bulletin: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...
November 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
November 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Great news—as literary agent, I’ve sold what will be my adult son M. G. Turner's first full-length commercially published book, "City of Dark Dreams: Tales from Another New York," coming in Jan 2027 from DarkWinter Press. Please see details in the screenshot. @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social #booksky
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Very proud to announce the publication of my chapbook The Bees, out now from Verge Books. It’s a translation of Book IV of Vergil’s Georgics, full of practical tips for beekeepers, and lovely lyric depictions of hive life.

Purchase, repost, spread the word!

www.vergebooks.com#/joel-calaha...
Verge Books
www.vergebooks.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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We must spend the rest of our lives rebuilding what has been so corrupted. It is our obligation as patriotic Americans, but most likely, even under the best of circumstances, we will never be able to get back to a pre-2016 state of affairs. It’s such a great tragedy. 3/3
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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I hope folks realize that between Trump, Kushner, Hegseth, Witkoff, Noem, RFK, Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, this country is almost entirely undefended.
Q: Have you heard this audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you?

TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Drop whatever you're doing and read this right away. It's delightful and highlarious.
It's almost Thanksgiving, so I decided to do a silly post on food and my adolescent obsession with cereal--not eating it; making it. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Midwestern Adolescents Dream of Pez Crunch
Or, My Dashed Dreams of Cereal Entrepreneurship
substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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So, a senior Justice Department official — along with several members of Congress — used the authority of their offices to boost an obviously dubious conspiracy theory accusing a federal employee of a horrific crime.

And now it’s clear the allegation was baseless.

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 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Zohran, getting down to it.
If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Lovely #tinydesk concert w/ #JimmyCliff RIP from 2010. youtu.be/QYtIT6J7G10 @NPR
Jimmy Cliff: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert From The Archives
YouTube video by NPR Music
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November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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@davidkurtz.bsky.social joined @gregsargent.bsky.social on TNR's The Daily Blast to talk about the James Comey and Letitia James prosecutions getting thrown out, and how President Trump’s own corruption is blowing up in his face

newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Raging Trump Spirals Further as Push to Jail Enemies Backfires Badly
With Trump seething at Dems even as his efforts to prosecute foes hit new setbacks, a sharp legal commentator explains why Trump’s revenge project is running aground—and why he’s at fault for all of i...
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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What a lovely room. I would love to live here. 📚✨
Alexandre Serebriakoff’s 1941 interior of Christian Béraud and Boris Kochno's apartment is a study in how objects lean toward one another. Serebriakoff said of it: 'it felt assembled by intuition rather than someone having taken any interest in interior design.'
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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