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
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Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.
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This is even worse than I expected, and I was expecting the worst.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This is even worse than I expected, and I was expecting the worst.
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This weekend was dark and full of horrors. May we all summon our better angels...
December 15, 2025 at 7:28 AM
This weekend was dark and full of horrors. May we all summon our better angels...
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Sad to hear of Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle's passing
Such a great director of so many wonderful films and p'raps even more importantly, a staunch critic of the Trump administration and all their cruel backward thinking policies RS
Such a great director of so many wonderful films and p'raps even more importantly, a staunch critic of the Trump administration and all their cruel backward thinking policies RS
December 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Sad to hear of Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle's passing
Such a great director of so many wonderful films and p'raps even more importantly, a staunch critic of the Trump administration and all their cruel backward thinking policies RS
Such a great director of so many wonderful films and p'raps even more importantly, a staunch critic of the Trump administration and all their cruel backward thinking policies RS
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Shocked by the awful death of Rob Reiner. I spoke with him for over an hour last night. We talked about his work and his plans for the future. I always enjoyed his company. We met at his Dad's in 1975. Last thing he said to me was "See you next year.." Such a terrible end. Such a sweet man.
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Shocked by the awful death of Rob Reiner. I spoke with him for over an hour last night. We talked about his work and his plans for the future. I always enjoyed his company. We met at his Dad's in 1975. Last thing he said to me was "See you next year.." Such a terrible end. Such a sweet man.
Dear old W. C. Fields, so good as Micawber in “David Copperfield.” #ChristmasMovies #CharlesDickens
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Dear old W. C. Fields, so good as Micawber in “David Copperfield.” #ChristmasMovies #CharlesDickens
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7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
December 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
Longer version of the brave act in Australia, with audio.
The hero of Bondi: Ahmed el Ahmed, a 43 year old fruit shop owner from Sutherland. He grabbed the gun off one of the terrorists shooting at Jews during a Hanukkah celebration.
Ahmed was then shot in the leg and shoulder by another terrorist. He’s being treated in the hospital and expected to be OK.
Ahmed was then shot in the leg and shoulder by another terrorist. He’s being treated in the hospital and expected to be OK.
December 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Longer version of the brave act in Australia, with audio.
Wow. Amid horrific news of a shooting at Bondi Beach, this looks like a truly astonishing act of courage.
Video, I believe recorded off of local TV, of a bystander disarming one of the two killers.
December 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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ICE snatched a human rights hero.
Guan Heng risked his life to capture video of Uyghur concentration camps. After escaping to the U.S., Guan was in hiding for years, not knowing his work had been crucial to substantiating China's mass detention practices.
On Monday, he has an asylum hearing in NY.
Guan Heng risked his life to capture video of Uyghur concentration camps. After escaping to the U.S., Guan was in hiding for years, not knowing his work had been crucial to substantiating China's mass detention practices.
On Monday, he has an asylum hearing in NY.
Our ex-BuzzFeed team has provided a testimonial to the immigration court about the value of Guan's work and his incredible bravery. I hope that this man - who I am in absolute awe of - is granted the asylum he needs and deserves. You can read more here: hrichina.substack.com/p/man-who-fi...
Man who filmed Uyghur concentration camps now fights for his own freedom in the United States
In 2020, Guan Heng embarked on a risky mission to prove the existence of concentration camp facilities used to imprison Uyghurs. Now, he faces the threat of deportation back to China, where he would f...
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December 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
ICE snatched a human rights hero.
Guan Heng risked his life to capture video of Uyghur concentration camps. After escaping to the U.S., Guan was in hiding for years, not knowing his work had been crucial to substantiating China's mass detention practices.
On Monday, he has an asylum hearing in NY.
Guan Heng risked his life to capture video of Uyghur concentration camps. After escaping to the U.S., Guan was in hiding for years, not knowing his work had been crucial to substantiating China's mass detention practices.
On Monday, he has an asylum hearing in NY.
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Vincent van Gogh, Worn Out, 1882 www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collectio...
November 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Vincent van Gogh, Worn Out, 1882 www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collectio...
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rare post that gets better with every single word
Currently at the New York Young Republican’s annual gala, where the MC is 18-year-old streamer Matan Even.
Introduced as a “landlord activist,” he is singing the SpongeBob theme and bombing, to boos
Introduced as a “landlord activist,” he is singing the SpongeBob theme and bombing, to boos
December 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
rare post that gets better with every single word
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: As it's Dick Van Dyke's 100th birthday, here's Coldplay's "All My Love"—the music video version that celebrated Van Dyke's 99th birthday last year, with the old guy dancing, chatting, and hanging out with his family. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSea...
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Coldplay - ALL MY LOVE (Official Video)
YouTube video by Coldplay
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December 14, 2025 at 4:59 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: As it's Dick Van Dyke's 100th birthday, here's Coldplay's "All My Love"—the music video version that celebrated Van Dyke's 99th birthday last year, with the old guy dancing, chatting, and hanging out with his family. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSea...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSea...
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UPDATE: I've heard from Jose's family. He's apparently been transferred to an ICE detention center in TX, but it's been days since they've been able to speak with him.
He needs medical care and to be able to speak with his family and lawyer. This obscene cruelty helps no one.
He needs medical care and to be able to speak with his family and lawyer. This obscene cruelty helps no one.
You can hear Jose scream in excruciating pain as an ICE vehicle runs over his foot while he's being detained.
His family says Jose is a good man, with no criminal record, who works in roofing.
He needs to be released from detention to receive appropriate medical care.
His family says Jose is a good man, with no criminal record, who works in roofing.
He needs to be released from detention to receive appropriate medical care.
December 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
UPDATE: I've heard from Jose's family. He's apparently been transferred to an ICE detention center in TX, but it's been days since they've been able to speak with him.
He needs medical care and to be able to speak with his family and lawyer. This obscene cruelty helps no one.
He needs medical care and to be able to speak with his family and lawyer. This obscene cruelty helps no one.
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Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Abrego Garcia Case
Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.
newrepublic.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Sam Cooke was only 33 when he was killed on December 11, 1964. Imagine how much more beautiful music he would have made in the decades he was deprived of. Here he is in 1960 singing his own song "I'll Come Running Back to You." See you around.
I'll Come Running Back To You
YouTube video by Sam Cooke - Topic
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December 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Sam Cooke was only 33 when he was killed on December 11, 1964. Imagine how much more beautiful music he would have made in the decades he was deprived of. Here he is in 1960 singing his own song "I'll Come Running Back to You." See you around.
Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social—please, sir, I beg you, you must work to improve traffic safety, including using "daylighting" at intersections to save lives. May Wenne Alton Davis be the last to lose her life due to careless driving. @nyc.streetsblog.org people.com/the-marvelou...
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Actress Wenne Alton Davis Dies After Being Hit By a Car While Crossing the Street in N.Y.C.
Wenne Alton Davis died on Monday, Dec. 8 after a car stuck her while she was crossing the street in Midtown Manhattan, leaving her with "severe trauma to the head and body." She was known for her appe...
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December 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social—please, sir, I beg you, you must work to improve traffic safety, including using "daylighting" at intersections to save lives. May Wenne Alton Davis be the last to lose her life due to careless driving. @nyc.streetsblog.org people.com/the-marvelou...
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ICE goon brutally assaulted a woman in Washington, D.C., for filming an abduction incident on December 9, 2025.
December 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
ICE goon brutally assaulted a woman in Washington, D.C., for filming an abduction incident on December 9, 2025.
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NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
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The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
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EVERYONE should watch this jaw-dropping exchange. Bennie Thompson asks simple questions and receives stammering answers, highlighting the political BS like nothing I’ve ever seen. Astonishing.
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
EVERYONE should watch this jaw-dropping exchange. Bennie Thompson asks simple questions and receives stammering answers, highlighting the political BS like nothing I’ve ever seen. Astonishing.
Watch this. Then remember that the president doesn’t care. He cares that his old ass gets richer in the hand full of years he may have left.
And his sick rich friends. The most corrupt evil man to ever serve as president is ignoring real evil
And his sick rich friends. The most corrupt evil man to ever serve as president is ignoring real evil
💔 A European Parliament interpreter could not hold back tears during the speech of 11-year-old Roman Oleksiv from Lviv.
The boy survived a missile strike on Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022, which killed his mother - it was the last time he saw her alive.
The boy survived a missile strike on Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022, which killed his mother - it was the last time he saw her alive.
December 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#JimHarrison Born OTD. 👇 #BookSky
“The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.”
Jim Harrison, born on this day in 1937
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Jim Harrison, born on this day in 1937
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Devouring Time
Devouring Time is the definitive biography of Jim Harrison-one of America's most beloved writers-and a penetrating deep dive into the life of the talent behind Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and True Nor...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
#JimHarrison Born OTD. 👇 #BookSky
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New in PN: A band-aid on a festering hand wound
"The Epstein files and illegal boat strikes aren’t the only coverups taking place right now in the White House. There’s also something clearly wrong with the president’s health that the administration is trying to conceal from the public."
"The Epstein files and illegal boat strikes aren’t the only coverups taking place right now in the White House. There’s also something clearly wrong with the president’s health that the administration is trying to conceal from the public."
A band-aid on a festering hand wound
Something's up with Trump's health and we should really find out what it is.
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December 11, 2025 at 12:58 PM
New in PN: A band-aid on a festering hand wound
"The Epstein files and illegal boat strikes aren’t the only coverups taking place right now in the White House. There’s also something clearly wrong with the president’s health that the administration is trying to conceal from the public."
"The Epstein files and illegal boat strikes aren’t the only coverups taking place right now in the White House. There’s also something clearly wrong with the president’s health that the administration is trying to conceal from the public."