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Grant W. Turner

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Aspiring interdisciplinary international affairs scholar-practitioner
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Analyst Jamestown Foundation

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · Mar 22

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 14h

ICE and local police are using school security cameras to spy on kids. Smart money is they're using the laptops they take home too.
@theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
#polisky #legalsky

Local police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump’s immigration crackdown

Local police assisted federal immigration agents by repeatedly searching school cameras that record license plate numbers, data show

www.theguardian.com

Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 18h

@gallup.com says it will stop tracking presidential approval ratings after 88 years of doing so. According to @thehill.com they claim it wasn't due to pressure from Trump, and is part of a move away from tracking approval of individual figures...

thehill.com/homenews/med...
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 18h

🗓️Tomorrow, Feb. 12 at 6:30-8 PM ET: If you're practicing or curious about transformative justice, survivor support and community-based responses to harm, join us for this webinar with organizer and TJ facilitator Camila Pelsinger Villalba.

ASL and live captioning provided. Learn more and register:

Accountability Beyond Punishment Workbook — Interrupting Criminalization

Join Interrupting Criminalization for a virtual session on transformative justice with organizer and transformative justice facilitator Camila Pelsinger Villalba. This session is for people who are pr...

www.interruptingcriminalization.com

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 18h

Trump has moved to reopen the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to commercial fishing, saying it will aid the industry without harming marine life.

Conservationists warn the protected area is a vital sanctuary — and fear broader marine monument rollbacks.

Trump opens only US marine national monument in Atlantic to fishing — again

U.S. President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Feb. 6 to open a marine protected area off the northeastern U.S. to commercial fishing, in his latest move to deregulate the country’s waters and…

news.mongabay.com

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Miles Klee 🦉 @milesklee.bsky.social · 18h

In 2018, after Musk infamously claimed that he had the funding to take Tesla private, his PR consultant went to Jeffrey Epstein for help convincing the Saudis to put up the cash he didn't actually have. Epstein also strategized on press coverage of Musk and recommended names for Tesla's board.

Jeffrey Epstein Advised an Elon Musk Associate on Taking Tesla Private

The financier recommended adding Margaret Thatcher to Tesla’s board, even though she had been dead for five years.

www.wired.com

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WIRED @wired.com · 19h

Since ICE’s Operation Metro Surge began in Minnesota in December, federal immigration agents have arrested some 4,000 people, according to the DHS. The result is an avalanche of cases filed on behalf of people challenging their imprisonment—and it’s pushing the US court system to a breaking point.

ICE Is Crashing the US Court System in Minnesota

Petitions demanding people get the chance to be released from ICE custody have overwhelmed courts throughout the US.

www.wired.com

Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 19h

Trump orders the intelligence community to give information to one of his 2021 coup plotters. This is in addition to all the coup plotters he's installed and orders he's given to gov workers to enable his coup 2.0 efforts

www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Trump instructs spy agencies to provide intelligence to his 'Stop the Steal' lawyer

Trump has appointed Kurt Olsen, who backed unsuccessful efforts to overturn the 2020 election, to investigate that year’s election.

www.nbcnews.com

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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 21h

"Knowing where ICE will go next is not the same as stopping the agency’s campaign of cruelty and violence. But it gives communities time to prepare for a surge of immigration enforcement in their streets."

read @brbarrett.bsky.social on our story about ICE's expansion across the US:

The ICE Expansion Won't Happen in the Dark

People have a right to know who their neighbors are, especially when it's ICE.

www.wired.com

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Border Patrol intelligence is getting access to Clearview AI, according to CBP procurement records reviewed by @wired.com. @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/cbp-si...

CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’

US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet.

www.wired.com

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 1d

Salesforce employees are circulating an open letter demanding that CEO Marc Benioff denounce ICE -- hours after he joked at a company event that ICE agents were monitoring international employees:

Salesforce Workers Circulate Open Letter Urging CEO Marc Benioff to Denounce ICE

The letter comes after Benioff joked at a company event on Monday that ICE was monitoring international employees in attendance, sparking immediate backlash.

www.wired.com

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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 1d

I checked out realfood.gov, the new government website from Mike Tyson's Super Bowl ad.

It encourages people to use Grok to "get real answers about real food," yet Grok's advice conflicts with the administration's own nutrition messaging.

My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

RFK Jr. Says Americans Need More Protein. His Grok-Powered Food Website Disagrees

The site Realfood.gov uses Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot to dispense nutrition information—some of which contradicts the government’s new guidelines.

www.wired.com

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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 1d

If you work for Palantir and have concerns about its role in US federal immigration enforcement, please reach out. You can remain anonymous.

Signal: makenakelly.32

www.wired.com/story/palant...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees

In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company's products. Instead, workers were told they can sign NDAs if they want detailed information.

www.wired.com

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 1d

In a couple of months, the people in charge are going to ask you to praise and celebrate them because you got a couple hundred bucks back on your tax return.

They don't want you to remember that tariffs cost you $1,000 last year—or that they gave billionaires the real money.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 1d

Ring has always been a surveillance tool, but adding AI analysis and networking the devices together — like with its "Search Party" feature — turns discrete pieces of tech into massive, automated surveillance dragnets, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social writes. www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet

Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

www.404media.co

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Peterson Institute for International Economics @piie.com · 1d

@chadpbown.com 's trade war timeline 2.0 has been updated! New updates include the US-India deal, the US-Bangladesh deal, details on the US-Argentina deal, and more: https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2025/trumps-trade-war-timeline-20-date-guide

Trump's trade war timeline 2.0: An up-to-date guide

President Donald Trump started his second term in office with momentous plans to change US trade policy to achieve various economic and nontrade related aims. This timeline tracks the development of t...

www.piie.com

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Semafor @semafor.com · 1d

US opposes Israel's moves to annex parts of West Bank

US opposes Israel’s moves to annex parts of West Bank

The remarks came after Israeli authorities approved new laws to allow for more settlements in the territory.

www.semafor.com

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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 1d

"Congress must not accept this unjustifiable, $10.3 billion giveaway."

Resolution Aims to Undo ‘Hidden’ $10 Billion Trump Tax Giveaway to Massive Corporations

"Congress must not accept this unjustifiable, $10.3 billion giveaway," said the office of Sen. Ron Wyden, who is leading the repeal effort.

www.commondreams.org

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 1d

🇫🇷 Macron Wants to Resume Dialogue With Putin: Confidential Talks in Moscow

Macron said he had received confirmation from Russia that it does not want peace. Negotiation channels with Russia have now been reopened at a technical level.

Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/macron-wants...

Macron Wants to Resume Dialogue With Putin: Confidential Talks in Moscow

theukrainianreview.info

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Yes, the American people put Trump in office. But the people are turning on him fast, while the elites twiddle their thumbs. In a certain way, ironically, maybe Trumpism was right about the elites.

Department of Government Embezzlement

Trump opposes government charity . . . unless it’s for him.

lnk.thebulwark.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Q: "Lutnick…said that he had visited Epstein's island in 2012…That's after he said he cut ties with Epstein…DOJ documents show that he was in contact with Epstein through 2018…Does the White House stand behind Lutnick?"

Leavitt: "The president fully supports the secretary."

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a very specific person intent on colonizing Mars in this lifetime. Despite the title, the author of “Becoming Martian" is not with that guy:

Expert reveals gruesome reality of Elon Musk's Mars dream

Elon Musk believes Mars can be settled by 2050, but a Rice University professor's new book reveals the many biological challenges humans would face trying to colonize the Red Planet.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 3d

Guy who remembers when "Trump Accounts" investment funds for children was a progressive Roosevelt Institute project called "baby bonds" www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

A Once Radical Idea to Close the Wealth Gap Is Actually Happening

How economist Darrick Hamilton brought baby bonds from Bed-Stuy to U.S. statehouses.

www.bloomberg.com

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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 3d

“They were very racist people,” Alberto Castañeda Mondragón said of his ICE attackers. “No one insulted them... It was their character, their racism toward us, for being immigrants.”

Man Beaten Nearly to Death by ICE Refutes Agency's Self-Harm Claim

“They were very racist people,” Alberto Castañeda Mondragón said of his attackers. “No one insulted them... It was their character, their racism toward us, for being immigrants.”

www.commondreams.org

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LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 3d

Russian journal banned from writing on same-sex animal behavior without expressing disgust for it - buff.ly/NdoegQR

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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 3d

As investigators increasingly use the label “nihilistic violent extremism” to explain a wave of attacks, experts warn it risks obscuring real motives. As @wendyvia.bsky.social warns: “If we want to solve the problem, identifying the motivation correctly is important.”

By @peterwhoriskey.bsky.social

Killers without a cause: The rise in nihilistic violent extremism

Amid a burst of high-profile targeted violence, authorities have identified a new source of terror.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Euronews @euronews.com · 3d

One year after the adoption of the updated European Directive on Environmental Crime, Euronews takes stock with Lieutenant Colonel Ondrej Koporec, Slovakian environmental investigator and Chair of the European EnviCrimeNet network. #TheRoadToGreen

European enforcers ramp up the fight against environmental criminals

l.euronews.com

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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 3d

Crypto investors are buying up beachfront property.

Bukele's family is purchasing buildings in historic San Salvador.

Street vendors are being displaced and threatened.

75% of Salvadorans earn less than $500/month.

This is the Bitcoin miracle.

El Salvador: Bitcoin Country

In El Salvador, a government-backed economic elite is consolidating power and forging their own crypto paradise while workers struggle.

www.truthdig.com

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RNS @rns.org · 3d

OPINION: In the United States today, the overwhelming threat to the church and Christian community is not protest of ICE, but ICE itself.
religionnews.com/2026/01/29/i...

Which threatens American Christianity more: ICE or Cities Church protesters?

(RNS) — American Christians need a more robust sense of sacred connection to one another.

religionnews.com

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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 3d

Europe has realized that engaging Tehran without leverage, interlocutors or credible pathways to change is unsustainable — it must not abandon everyday Iranians.