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Grant W. Turner
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Aspiring interdisciplinary international affairs scholar-practitioner
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Analyst Jamestown Foundation

Bylines include RUSI, The Diplomat, Eurasia Daily Monitor

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · Mar 22
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#irsky #polisky think tank, policy, journal, department, news, journalism

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Batumelebi&Netgazeti @netgazeti.org · 2h
🟥 Two political prisoners, known for carrying EU flags, have been on hunger strike in prison for over 40 and 50 days, protesting Georgia’s anti-European turn.

🟥 Meanwhile, #Tbilisi glitters with holiday lights under the slogan “A City Full of Kindness.”

#GeorgiaProtests
#RepressionInGeorgia
Political Prisoners Starve in Protest Against Georgia’s Anti-European Turn as Tbilisi Celebrates the Holidays - Batumelebi
Georgia Protests • Repression In Georgia •
batumelebi.netgazeti.ge

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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 2h
Apps and websites are full of prying third parties who want to know more about you 👀. It’s time for you to know more about them and learn how to fight back
The companies in control of our secret identities
Now more than ever with a global pandemic happening, our lives are being shaped by our interaction with the digital world.
privacyinternational.org

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 2h
🇺🇦 December 2018. On the main square of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, 2,888 Ukrainians simultaneously sang "Shchedryk", setting a national record.

💔 December 2025. The city in which the world-famous melody was written was turned into ruins.

📹 Video - Donbas.Realii

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 13h
Always a nice family watch :)
@ricksteves.bsky.social @ricksteveseurope.bsky.social
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Rick Steves' European Christmas
YouTube video by Rick Steves' Europe
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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 1d
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cengizyar.com Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 3d
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.

You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
www.propublica.org

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d
An oppressive, tenuous peace would not be the product of clever diplomacy and well-crafted “guarantees.” It would instead be a product of Ukrainian desperation and Western betrayal: one for which we will pay down the road.
Security Guarantees for Ukraine Are Useless Without Action to Back Them Up
Non-credible promises could make things worse for everyone.
lnk.thebulwark.com

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 2d
"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 2d
Hitler/theocracy shit. Trump administration declared that trans people and anything the admin believes "goes against God and nature" is destroying the nation from within, and that the "root of all the evils" the US faces is hatred for what they say their God dictates is the one true way.
#polisky
lydzrose.bsky.social Lydia Rose @lydzrose.bsky.social · 2d
Last year Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire got on stage at CPAC and said we need to be eradicated from public life.

The DOJ is weighing putting out bounties on trans “extremists” ( trans people and allies)

In an HHS press conference last week we were called the root of all evil in this country.
vanaduuri.bsky.social emma @vanaduuri.bsky.social · 2d
"there is no such thing as trans genocide"

Tell that to the commenters under any article that talks even neutrally about trans people who are actively calling to erase us.

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Lydia Rose @lydzrose.bsky.social · 2d
Last year Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire got on stage at CPAC and said we need to be eradicated from public life.

The DOJ is weighing putting out bounties on trans “extremists” ( trans people and allies)

In an HHS press conference last week we were called the root of all evil in this country.
vanaduuri.bsky.social emma @vanaduuri.bsky.social · 2d
"there is no such thing as trans genocide"

Tell that to the commenters under any article that talks even neutrally about trans people who are actively calling to erase us.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 3d
All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.

This is where America is now

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 3d
Take it from conservatives.
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d
Weiss herself is now enjoying the fruits of one such assault, assuming a leadership role at a television network bullied and extorted into adjusting its political orientation to the president’s liking because of a frivolous lawsuit.
Bari Weiss, CBS News, and the Triumph of Faux Balance
The record of the Free Press shows her journey from independent to MAGA fellow traveler.
lnk.thebulwark.com

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 3d
"This isn’t a moment. It’s not a wave. It’s not another corporate reckoning destined to fade. It’s an epoch — a new media world taking shape exactly where legacy media refused to look. And if history has taught us anything, it’s this: Either we learn the lesson now — or admit we never intended to."

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 3d
"Fear is not a strategy. If institutions won’t build what communities need, communities will — like they always have. Maybe that’s the point."

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 3d
Excellent read.
The reality is stark: If the advertising market, venture capital, and legacy institutions won’t invest in truth-tellers, then communities must invest in — and support — one another.

#polisky
niemanlab.org Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 3d
The year we stop pretending the industry has changed, by Delano Massey

www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...

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The Sociological Quarterly @socquarterly.bsky.social · 3d
ONLINE FIRST

In this new TSQ article, Darci Schmidgall, Popy Begum, and Christopher Seto (@criminovelist.bsky.social) show how the convergence of religious and political conservatism through Christian nationalism shapes abortion attitudes among the American public.

Read more at bit.ly/4jarZKo

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Education Week @edweek.org · 3d
Trump's Education Policies Spurred 70 Lawsuits in 2025. How Many Is He Winning?: The legal challenges show which policies have had a big impact and how 2026 could go.
Trump's Education Policies Spurred 70 Lawsuits in 2025. How Many Is He Winning?
The legal challenges show which policies have had a big impact and how 2026 could go.
www.edweek.org

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The Latino Newsletter @thelatinonewsletter.org · 3d
“If you’re doing immigration law, you’re protecting the livelihood of individual people — but you’re also working inside a very broken system.”

@andreaflores.bsky.social reflects on helping create #DACA and how she holds lawmakers accountable.

New podcast episode —> www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXe5...

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niemanlab.org
Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 3d
The year we stop pretending the industry has changed, by Delano Massey

www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 3d
In the 60 Minutes controversy, Weiss is likely doing what she always does: producing a line of propaganda masquerading as news coverage that serves the interest of her patrons–in this case, David Ellison, whose interests are served by protecting Donald Trump.
https://bit.ly/45bGW9m
Bari Weiss's Counter-Journalistic Crusade Targets “60 Minutes”
The new editor in chief at CBS News has shown she's not merely stupendously unqualified--she's ideologically opposed to the practice of good journalism.
bit.ly

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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 3d
As Congress takes their holiday break, Americans will spend their week watching their premiums skyrocket due to the deadlock.
Congress Went on Recess. Americans Got Higher Healthcare Bills.
Is Trump's attack on transgender young people an attempt to divert attention from the ACA tax credit healthcare crisis hitting families?
msmagazine.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d
Weiss herself is now enjoying the fruits of one such assault, assuming a leadership role at a television network bullied and extorted into adjusting its political orientation to the president’s liking because of a frivolous lawsuit.
Bari Weiss, CBS News, and the Triumph of Faux Balance
The record of the Free Press shows her journey from independent to MAGA fellow traveler.
lnk.thebulwark.com

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 3d
Well, well, well...
Image shows a screenshot of a tweet from the user "Kait" responding to another tweet by "TheHirsty." Kait's tweet critiques the comparison of negative experiences faced by straight and LGBTQ+ individuals, made by TheHirsty, who tweeted, "Being a straight heterosexual in America in 2018 is harder than it was being openly homosexual in the 1960s." The image includes the PinkNews logo.

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 3d
At the same time, Trump has gutted the agency, reducing its workforce by 1/3 and having many of the remaining staff work immigration. Morale is super low.

“We’re a sinking ship. We’re like the Titanic.”
Via @politico.com @jsaks.bsky.social

#cybersky #irsky #polisky

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 3d
Trump's acting head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency was trying access to the agency’s most sensitive, need-to-know information for no good reason. He was denied access initially. He then took a polygraph as is typically required and failed.

www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.
www.politico.com

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 3d
For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.

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404 Media @404media.co · 3d
Unlike many of Flock’s cameras, Flock’s Condor cameras track people, not vehicles.

The exposure highlights the fact that Flock is not just surveilling cars—it is surveilling people, and in some cases it is doing so in an insecure way.

LINK: www.404media.co/flock-expose...

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404 Media @404media.co · 3d
And unlike other cameras, Flock's Condor PTZ cameras track people. 404 Media saw:

- A woman walking her dog on a bike path
- A man walking through a Macy’s parking lot
- Children at a playground
- A man rollerblading, and a zoom into exactly what he was looking at on his phone
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
www.404media.co

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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 3d
"It's not just Gaza." As Israeli settler violence ramps up in the West Bank, Bernie Sanders says "no more military aid for Netanyahu."
‘No More Military Aid for Netanyahu,’ Says Sanders as Israel Ramps Up West Bank Takeover
"It's not just Gaza." As Israeli settler violence ramps up in the West Bank, Bernie Sanders says "no more military aid for Netanyahu."
www.commondreams.org

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Bloomberg Law @bloomberglaw.com · 3d
Opinion: The Securities and Exchange Commission's hands-off approach to Rule 14a-8 enforcement for the upcoming proxy season reverses the traditional notion that management is accountable to shareholders.
SEC Suspicion of Shareholder Proposals Hurts Corporate Democracy
Opinion: The Securities and Exchange Commission's hands-off approach to Rule 14a-8 enforcement for the upcoming proxy season reverses the traditional notion that management is accountable to shareholders.
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404 Media @404media.co · 3d
This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required.

www.404media.co/flock-expose...