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A Turnau Life

@tedturnau.bsky.social
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Christ-follower trying not to be tribal. Loves kaiju, NFL, F1, jazz/blues/folk/funk/edm/good pop, film, must-see TV, and PC gaming (Bethesda Boy). Writing a book on fandom. I've written others: www.tedturnau.com.

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That catgirl with The Posts @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 16h
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/10/2026
nationalize everything Elon Musk owns.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hurricane Isaias has been upgraded to a powerful category 3.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Academic institutions are terrible at valuing their people. I asked Columbia for a raise and was told I would need an offer from another institution. I got one from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and Columbia responded with a 40% raise and a bunch of other things. I left for Hawaiʻi anyway.
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 09/10/2026
She wrote this op-ed last year.
Screenshot of a New York Times opinion guest essay.

“OPINION
GUEST ESSAY

My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide

Sept. 16, 2025”

Below the headline is a large Reuters photograph showing a grieving person dressed in purple, hunched forward with their face buried in their hands. Several people surround and comfort them, resting their hands on their shoulders, arms, and head. Another person wearing a light purple headscarf leans in from the left.

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By Navi Pillay

“Ms. Pillay is the chair of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.”
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/10/2026
An ICE agent on the scene of a shooting in upper Manhattan on Thursday has repeatedly been accused in federal court of unlawful arrests and using force during arrests in New York and Minneapolis, a WIRED investigation finds.
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 09/10/2026
Yesterday, JD Vance, a Yale Law grad, couldn't define what "socialism" means. Instead of defining it, Vance talked about boys in girls sports. This admin has devalued its words, and would be admitting to supporting the same policies they attack others for if they told the truth. Link below ⬇️
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Anaideia @anaideia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Unstated was that we will witness yet more silence from the Whitehouse and limitless deep concern from the EU. “
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 09/10/2026
Times Square at Dusk Samuel H. Gottscho, 1932
 Times Square, New York City (looking down Broadway/Seventh Avenue towards the Times Building).
 The glowing signs advertise the films Hell Divers and Arrowsmith 
Wet, rainy pavement reflecting the neon lights during the early evening
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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angry-goddess.bsky.social @angry-goddess.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So he's fine with children seeing this? #sick
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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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princess zandra but kinda chinese @spacehunterm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ah, yes, the late '80s-early 1990s, when you could find New World and AE/CST Godzilla footage strung together willy nilly.
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is white nationalist agenda stuff. Elevating tiny problems into headline scare tactics about foreign nationals in the US and diverting money from existing programs to pursue people for their otherness is not the kind of policy you get from a functioning democratic regime.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is why, when Republicans use the word socialism to tag Democrats, it has no relationship with the actual definition of the word. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 08/10/2026
Meanwhile, drone technology is giving weaker powers an asymmetrical advantage. America doesn’t need a $1.5 trillion military, it needs one it’s willing to break, and can afford to replace.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 08/10/2026
Interest payments on the debt — the fastest growing part of the federal budget — exceed defense spending. As former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen said in 2010, the debt is the “most significant threat to national security.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hours later, Trump posts that the US has just had “productive talks” with Iran and announced the US will not attack Iran before the midterms.
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Matt 🎙️🏀💙🧡 @mattraytalk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Sure Klan Meme Reaction
ALT: Sure Klan Meme Reaction
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A Turnau Life @tedturnau.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I especially like how "white American men" equates to "American." You know, the only *true* Americans...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Trump: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
Trump: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What a legend. That image of her with the pile of books is often what I think of when I think of the Moon landings. RIP.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Book Cover of the Day:
The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe, olive brown cover, title in gold lettering and repetition of ‘Nevermore’. And a separate square panel with a white raven perched atop a gold and grey bust labeled PALLAS.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Tim Amor @timamor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We prefer imagining a Jesus who loves the same people that we love, & who hates the same people that we hate. So we use the Bible to hide from the Jesus way—because otherwise we’d have to love our enemies, repent of our biases, deny ourselves, take up our crosses, & follow Him.
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Dave Dustin @dustin.nz · 07/10/2026
"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Laura Makabresku The Anatomy of Melancholy
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump yet again blames Ukraine for defending itself instead of blaming Russia for invading our country. 🤦‍♀️
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Sorry about your dead kid. Hey, you want to see my fancy party room? Look at that gold! Lotta gold. I got a new helicopter, too! Do you feel better now about sacrificing your child on my altar? Worth it, right? Look at that gold."
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Pat Gallen, CBS Sports Philadelphia @patgallen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lane Johnson announces his retirement. Says right now it’s critical that he focus on his mental health Obviously wish Lane nothing but the best.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. Far too many people will just shrug this off or find some way to justify it. But Trump is unwell, incoherent, and a danger to us all.
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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 05/10/2026
Yang wen-li, a character from Legend of the Galactic Heroes, saying in two panels "I believe that being ruled by the worst democracy is preferable to being ruled by the best autocracy"
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There's a takeover of the American news industry going on, pushed by Elon Musk, the Ellisons, the Saudis and others. Democracy is impossible if the truth is buried under right-wing propaganda, so we've got to push back against this "media capture." My Stop the Presses newsletter.
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American oligarchs and foreign fatcats are attempting ‘media capture’
Your access to real news is threatened by Elon Musk, the Ellisons, the Saudis, and others
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
“THIS IS THE TEXTBOOK DEFINITION ON LOANSHARKING,” wrote one consumer about a tribal loan company. A federal database used to publicly display such complaints, and they’ve helped inform several ProPublica stories. Now the narratives aren’t public.
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The Federal Agency That’s Supposed to Protect Consumers Just Made Another Business-Friendly Move
Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped pu...
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At OSCE Human Dimension Conference in Warsaw, Georgian human rights defender Baia Pataraia stood silently behind the Georgian delegation with the "Free all Georgian political prisoners!" banner just as the delegation representative was having a word. 📷 Baia Pataraia Facebook
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/10/2026
Almost 200 people are under medical observation in Russia’s Siberia region after the death of a 28-year-old lab worker who may have been exposed to pneumonic plague, according to local media reports.
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Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague as 200 enter medical observation
The pneumonic plague is caused by the same bacteria as the bubonic plague, and can spread from person to person through airborne respiratory droplets.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
From a historical perspective it's a genuinely strange state of affairs that the Church of England turns out to be too woke for much of the modern right. But really it just feels like: having a consistent moral code that demands taking Lessers and Outgroup seriously is impossible for populist right.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For the millionth time, it’s so obvious that these should be banned. Like, overwhelmingly so. I think the tech giants have also realised the way the wind’s blowing - Meta seem to have pivoted hard to their necklace thing (which does exactly the same stuff but is less useful.)
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The further Putinisation of America. Strategic assets used to project power must be withdrawn due to strategic incompetence in an unnecessary war of choice. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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US withdraws all bomber aircraft from UK airbase
The United States confirmed on Sunday that it has withdrawn all B-1 bombers from the British airbase of RAF Fairford, with officials telling US media that the move was linked to "new threats."A statem...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/10/2026
A small clinical trial for people with Type 1 diabetes combined a transplant with an experimental antirejection drug, allowing some patients to stop taking insulin. More research is needed, but experts are cautiously optimistic about the results.
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In early clinical trial, people with Type 1 diabetes are able to go off insulin
More research is needed, but experts are cautiously optimistic about the results. Patients in the trial got an experimental drug to prevent transplant rejection with fewer side effects.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
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King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?
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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mike Peters on the Gun Lobby, February 1981. This was just two months after John Lennon was murdered.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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BluesMusic @bluesmusic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy Birthday Stevie Ray Vaughan w/ Double Trouble '82. 🎶'Collins' Shuffle' #bluesmusic
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reverse Lib Dem barcharterry
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Owl of the Day: Tawny Owl 📷 Ivan Sjögren
Owl perched in tree hollow, description from ebird: ‘A medium-sized owl with deep black eyes, strictly nocturnal and infrequently seen. Gray to brown overall with a big rounded head. Found at a broad range of elevations from sea level to high mountains, in woodland, forest, parkland, rocky areas, and sometimes towns and villages. Tends to roost well hidden in foliage during the day, when may be detected by tracking down the excited sound of small birds mobbing the owl. Comes out at night to hunt in clearings and more open areas. Most often detected by its quavering hoots and "kee-wik!" shrieks, given at night. Includes Maghreb Owl, formerly considered a separate species.’
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is almost certainly true, and the UK fails women refugees in multiple ways, including by refusing safe routes to come here, wrongly rejecting asylum claims, barring family reunion & not recognising trafficking victims promptly or at all. If only Mahmood had the power to do something about this
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Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood
Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
70 Candles 🎂 today for the Oscar winning CHRISTOPH WALTZ
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