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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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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 1d
If only this was the norm
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d
Prosecutors broke with tradition and didn’t fight to uphold the conviction.

In fact, the DA urged the court to overturn it: “Every single medical expert, using current science, confirms that Russell and Kaye Maze are actually innocent."

By @pamelacolloff.bsky.social
Appeals Court Upholds Shaken Baby Conviction Despite Medical Examiner Recanting Testimony
Dissenting from the court’s majority, one judge sounded the alarm about ignoring recanted forensic testimony, saying the medical examiner’s reversal “calls into doubt the foundation of the trial.”
www.propublica.org

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WIRED @wired.com · 1d
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 1d
From burning swastikas to online hate networks, the Christian Identity movement continues to shape America’s extremist landscape. Its blend of racism, antisemitism, and apocalyptic ideology still drives violence decades after The Order.

Read more:
The History and Influence of Christian Identity on America’s Most Violent Antisemitic Movements
Christian Identity (CI), a white supremacist theology rooted in 19th-century British Israelism, redefined itself in the U.S. as a violently racist and antisemitic ideology that became central to group...
globalextremism.org

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 1d
Trump may strike Venezuela. His team makes that very risky -

@profsaunders.bsky.social references her @iojournal.bsky.social article in her @goodauth.bsky.social piece on presidential advisers -

https://cup.org/43oHMim
Trump may strike Venezuela. His team makes that very risky.
Take a close look at who is advising the president on U.S. policy.
goodauthority.org

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Politico @politico.com · 1d
How California just rewrote the national tech playbook
How California just rewrote the national tech playbook
After years of arguments with their home state, tech lobbyists now want the rest of the country to follow California’s lead.
dlvr.it

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 1d
State criminal prosecutions of immigration enforcement officials may end removed to federal courts, but any conviction would be beyond the president’s pardon power, write Aaron Zelinsky, John Connolly and David Reiser.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/stat...
State Prosecutions of Federal Agents and the Presidential Pardon Power
State prosecutions of ICE agents may end up in federal courts, but any conviction would be beyond the president’s pardon power.
www.lawfaremedia.org

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d
Ben Shapiro recently attacked Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes. Not surprising. But he had another target that would have seemed baffling just a couple of weeks ago: the Heritage Foundation. ICYMI @willsommer.bsky.social on Groyper War: www.thebulwark.com/p/groyper-wa...
Groyper War Consumes the Biggest Right-Wing Think Tank
Plus: Another round of nutty Trump pardons?
www.thebulwark.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d
Prosecutors broke with tradition and didn’t fight to uphold the conviction.

In fact, the DA urged the court to overturn it: “Every single medical expert, using current science, confirms that Russell and Kaye Maze are actually innocent."

By @pamelacolloff.bsky.social
Appeals Court Upholds Shaken Baby Conviction Despite Medical Examiner Recanting Testimony
Dissenting from the court’s majority, one judge sounded the alarm about ignoring recanted forensic testimony, saying the medical examiner’s reversal “calls into doubt the foundation of the trial.”
www.propublica.org

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 1d
OpenAI keeps promising that real generative AI is just around the corner. In the meantime, they’re asking taxpayers to bail them out. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/P8rZ2Re
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam.
trib.al

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 2d
@radiofreetom.bsky.social

"This is not Michelle Obama’s 'When they go low, we go high'...[those] who wish to replace this current government must present themselves as stable, responsible, and adult alternatives to a claque of trolls and incompetents"

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Confederacy of Toddlers
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
www.theatlantic.com

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 2d
Gift Link:

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

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The Diplomat @thediplomat.com · 2d
Most news reports of undersea threats focus on the fragile strands of fiber-optic cable that carry almost all of the world’s digital traffic.

But communications cables are only part of the story. A far broader array of systems now covers the ocean floor:
Beyond Fiber-Optic Cables: Securing Seabed Before the Next Crisis
Communications cables are only part of the story. A far broader array of systems now covers the ocean floor – and must be protected.
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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 3d
Islamist violence in the Sahel is not uniform—there are simultaneously areas of expansion, plateau, and modest reduction.

We examine these divergent trends to better understand the focal points, actors, and objectives of the different groups driving the violence.
The Shifting Front of Militant Islamist Violence in the Sahel – Africa Center
Islamist violence in the Sahel continues to shift south and west, pressuring population centers in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and the coast.
africacenter.org

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d
Of course a plain reading of the Constitution and precedent says Trump can't use the military as domestic law enforcement. But the right isn't into plain readings of the Constitution these days. www.thebulwark.com/p/founders-t...
The Founders Would Abhor Trump’s Domestic Deployments
And the notion that courts can’t review his National Guard decisions is baseless.
www.thebulwark.com

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The Diplomat @thediplomat.com · 3d
The summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at APEC in Gyeongju produced no grand bargain but one valuable by-product: time.
India’s Rare Earth Opportunity After the Trump-Xi Summit
The summit bought a year of time to combat China’s rare earth dominance. India is best positioned to take advantage.
buff.ly

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 3d
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#edusky
Noam Chomsky: The Corporatization of the University
YouTube video by Isaac Epstein
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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 3d
@harvardeducation.bsky.social

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Noam Chomsky, Howard Gardner, and Bruno della Chiesa Askwith Forum
YouTube video by Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 3d
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#edusky
Noam Chomsky - The Educational System
YouTube video by Chomsky's Philosophy
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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 3d
See also: How student debt was an intentional policy designed to ensure student protests and related social change never got out of hand again
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
@theguardian.com
#edusky

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A despot in disguise: one man’s mission to rip up democracy | George Monbiot
James McGill Buchanan’s vision of totalitarian capitalism has infected public policy in the US. Now it’s being exported • George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist
www.theguardian.com

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 3d
Here is another paradox: How could the least expensive division in the university, one of its most prestigious, be sacrificed on the altar of fiscal mismanagement? Why destroy something that not only comes cheap but brings immeasurable honor to the university? ..."

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 3d
"Ponder then this paradox: 44 Nobel economists in the house, and a household economy in utter shambles. Either the University of Chicago must believe that economists know nothing about the real world, or they are squandering an extraordinary resource..."

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 3d
"In short, American universities have gradually come to be ruled by the very top of their imperial executive branches, the president and the board."

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 3d
Higher education in the US has never been "controlled by the left."

This piece about the University of Chicago and the broader reality and trends it reflects is a great example of that fact and its implications.
@chronicle.com

www.chronicle.com/article/rese...
#econsky #philsky #polisky #edusky
Research Is the U. of Chicago’s Lifeblood. Its Board Is Killing It.
A great university could be reduced to a shell of its former self.
www.chronicle.com

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 4d
November 6, 2025
November 6, 2025
“None of this is complicated,” political data specialist Tom Bonier wrote yesterday about Tuesday’s dramatic Democratic victories around the country.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 4d
There is nothing stopping the wealthiest people from attempting to alter the world's atmosphere – this must not be allowed to happen
Billionaires must not be allowed to geoengineer the planet
There is nothing stopping the wealthiest people from attempting to alter the world's atmosphere – this must not be allowed to happen
www.newscientist.com

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 4d
@washingtonpost.com

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now rewriting MAGA’s future
Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory: An “aristocracy” is needed to move the country forward.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 4d
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Secret GOP Cabal With Vance and Thiel Plots Eternal MAGA Rule
JD Vance and Peter Thiel convened a secret cabal of GOP-friendly businesspeople and influencers to a small Ohio town to brainstorm on building a MAGA movement that outlasts Trump. A Washington Post re...
www.yahoo.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d
This is amazing and a total game changer for our tanking economy but release the Epstein files.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d
SCOTUS gave Trump immunity from prosecution.

Congress wouldn’t impeach him no matter what he does.

He ignores court orders.

Ignores Congress.

His cabinet does anything he tells them to even if it’s illegal.

DOJ does too.

And the military.

That’s how autocracies are born.

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Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social · 5d
Weird that he's threatening two countries with massive petroleum reserves right as data centers for AI are driving up energy prices. Must be a total coincidence...
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d
Trump says we are preparing to invade Nigeria. Apparently that’s what voters said they wanted in the exit polls. Trump: “We’re going to do things to Nigeria that Nigeria’s not gonna be happy about. Guns-a-blazin!”