Philip S Turner
@pstnyc.bsky.social
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
A true feel-good story about a good-hearted NYer who carries dogs in a backpack he's designed for himself with a label that reads "Adopt Me." Ten of eleven dogs he's toted around have been adopted. The shelter folks love him. #dogs #KindnessMatters wapo.st/48qlLmg
He carries shelter dogs around the city in a backpack to help get them adopted
Bryan Reisberg has taken out 11 dogs on city adventures. Ten of them were adopted after his videos published.
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December 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
A true feel-good story about a good-hearted NYer who carries dogs in a backpack he's designed for himself with a label that reads "Adopt Me." Ten of eleven dogs he's toted around have been adopted. The shelter folks love him. #dogs #KindnessMatters wapo.st/48qlLmg
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Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders— By Ana Claudia Chacin and David Goodhue
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Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders
“This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”
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December 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders— By Ana Claudia Chacin and David Goodhue
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41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.
Monstrous by ICE.
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Monstrous by ICE.
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
Thanks, Joe Biden.
Biden: So, folks, that's my message to all of us today, to all who love our country, to all of us are dismayed by the present state of the union: it's time to get up, get up and fight back. Get up. Continue to fight. What's the fight all about? Protecting the constitution.
December 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Thanks, Joe Biden.
Monstrous.
5/ source (Gift Link):
Video of Boat Strike Shows Survivors Waving Before Fatal Follow-Up Attack
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Video of Boat Strike Shows Survivors Waving Before Fatal Follow-Up Attack
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Video of Boat Strike Shows Survivors Waving Before Fatal Follow-Up Attack
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December 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Monstrous.
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This 👇🏻! I’d love to see *major* protests organized at and around the Supreme Court building.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
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Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This 👇🏻! I’d love to see *major* protests organized at and around the Supreme Court building.
A good deal here. #Booksky
December 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A good deal here. #Booksky
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Jesse Welles doesn't miss.
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The Department of War
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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December 5, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Jesse Welles doesn't miss.
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Sad news about Steve Cropper. What a great legacy he leaves behind.
Memphis Soul. There's nothing like it.
(The Black & white southern soul scene seemed to be part of a new world that was being born. I guess that as a nation we're still in labor.)
Memphis Soul. There's nothing like it.
(The Black & white southern soul scene seemed to be part of a new world that was being born. I guess that as a nation we're still in labor.)
RIP Steve Cropper, here he is tearing it up with Booker T and the MGs in 1970 while Creedence Clearwater Revival watch ecstatically from backstage www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbBc...
Booker T. & The MG's - Time Is Tight (Live, 1970)
YouTube video by 60s70sVintageRock
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December 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Sad news about Steve Cropper. What a great legacy he leaves behind.
Memphis Soul. There's nothing like it.
(The Black & white southern soul scene seemed to be part of a new world that was being born. I guess that as a nation we're still in labor.)
Memphis Soul. There's nothing like it.
(The Black & white southern soul scene seemed to be part of a new world that was being born. I guess that as a nation we're still in labor.)
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JUST IN: Statement from Abbe Lowell, defense counsel for Letitia James, on Virginia grand jury’s refusal to re-indict the NY Attorney General on mortgage fraud charges:
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
JUST IN: Statement from Abbe Lowell, defense counsel for Letitia James, on Virginia grand jury’s refusal to re-indict the NY Attorney General on mortgage fraud charges:
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Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
It’s gonna be hard to trust the truthfulness of charges in the apparent arrest of the supposed attempted pipe-bomber from an FBI led by Patel and Bongino. www.ms.now/news/fbi-arr...
FBI arrests suspect in Jan. 2021 pipe-bombing case
Authorities say the suspect placed viable explosive devices outside RNC and DNC offices the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
It’s gonna be hard to trust the truthfulness of charges in the apparent arrest of the supposed attempted pipe-bomber from an FBI led by Patel and Bongino. www.ms.now/news/fbi-arr...
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We’re in a hell of a lot of trouble.
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We’re in a hell of a lot of trouble.
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So much corruption, so little time. Devastating piece about Kushner’s foreign policy goals by @juddlegum.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/populari...
Kushner’s Moscow mission wasn’t just corrupt. It was unconstitutional.
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, has been traveling the world to participate in high-stakes foreign policy negotiations on behalf of the president.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
So much corruption, so little time. Devastating piece about Kushner’s foreign policy goals by @juddlegum.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/populari...
Things that will interest Bluesky; Misha Glenny, author of McMafia, replaces Melvyn Bragg as host of In Our Time.
December 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.”
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.”
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
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Wow.
"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.”
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Wow.
"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
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O'Hara: "There's folks that are masked, they may be kidnapping people. We have had those reports. The community should know that if you see something like that, you should call 911. Let's not forget -- we very recently had tragedy in this state by someone who was purporting to be law enforcement."
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
O'Hara: "There's folks that are masked, they may be kidnapping people. We have had those reports. The community should know that if you see something like that, you should call 911. Let's not forget -- we very recently had tragedy in this state by someone who was purporting to be law enforcement."
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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
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"
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.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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...
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
NYC Council Member Julie Menin claims she has the votes to be the next Speaker, but Bronx Council Member Amanda Farías has shown a lot more interest in livable streets issues.
Not So Fast! We Rode NYC Ferry with Would-Be Council Speaker Amanda Farías - Streetsblog New York City
Council Member Julie Menin claims she has the votes to be the next Speaker, but Bronx Council Member Amanda Farías has shown a lot more interest in livable streets issues.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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
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
I love this empowering video by musician Richard Dawson, from Newcastle in the UK. H/t Ben Myers youtu.be/UGiQ_-Ktpvc?...
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)
📸 Mark Gerson (June, 1969)
November 30, 2025 at 6:52 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.