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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Philip S Turner
@pstnyc.bsky.social
· Feb 9
I was on a panel last year evaluating book proposals/grant applications in the American history segment of the NEH's public scholar program. I read and recommended support of some superb book ideas. Worried the program will be ended by Tr*mp+M*sk. #PublishingIn2025 #NonFiction #Grants #Reading
Good review of The Insider: Malcolm Cowley & the Triumph of American Literature by Gerald Howard. "Howard is interested in Cowley as a literary middleman, in how he worked the levers of power not only as an editor and publisher." #publishing @penguinpress.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
American Literature Owes a Great Debt to This 20th-Century ‘Insider’
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Good review of The Insider: Malcolm Cowley & the Triumph of American Literature by Gerald Howard. "Howard is interested in Cowley as a literary middleman, in how he worked the levers of power not only as an editor and publisher." #publishing @penguinpress.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
“Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hide the salami with the taxpayer,” said Charles Tiefer, a leading authority on federal contract law.
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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LOL: Eric Adams. ERIC ADAMS sent an email out today reminding state employees they can't accept gifts this holiday season. BAHAHAHAHA
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Cogent points from @lkrozen.bsky.social —with pithy commentary about Tr*mp now being a lame duck. It's the latest post on the widely read @politicalwire site. #TrumpsGoingDown
November 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Cogent points from @lkrozen.bsky.social —with pithy commentary about Tr*mp now being a lame duck. It's the latest post on the widely read @politicalwire site. #TrumpsGoingDown
Today's headlines lead with the bipartisan support for daylighting. Plus other news:
Thursday's Headlines: Seeing Daylighting Clearly Edition - Streetsblog New York City
Hats off to Frank Morano, a Republican from car-dominated Staten Island, who can see the basic logic behind the Council's effort to require daylighting at every intersection in the city. Plus other…
buff.ly
November 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This nails it. Ruefully accurate. 👇👀👏
Impunity is the word.
It is the same impunity that got us Trump. Like Epstein, Trump built a career on a transactional chumminess, mutual self-indulgence, and an alarmingly high tolerance level for misbehavior by the layers of political, business, media, and cultural elites surrounding him.
It is the same impunity that got us Trump. Like Epstein, Trump built a career on a transactional chumminess, mutual self-indulgence, and an alarmingly high tolerance level for misbehavior by the layers of political, business, media, and cultural elites surrounding him.
November 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This nails it. Ruefully accurate. 👇👀👏
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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
Good YA novel about youth sports here by Harvey Araton. 👇👏#YAFiction
Thrilled to appear on R. Bradley Snyder's important podcast, Talking About Kids, to chat about the pleasures and perils of youth sports and my new middle-grade readers novel, "The Goal of the Game." open.spotify.com/episode/5Wlm...
How organized sports should benefit kids with Harvey Araton
open.spotify.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Good YA novel about youth sports here by Harvey Araton. 👇👏#YAFiction
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It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.
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Why is Trump going after America's air traffic controllers, today of all days?
It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."
It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Why is Trump going after America's air traffic controllers, today of all days?
It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."
It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Pipe dreams: in tones ranging from the gleefully speculative to the casually defamatory, right-wing influencers and lawmakers jumped to promote the notion that a particular named federal employee planted the unsolved Jan. 6 pipe bombs. Things have now begun to deflate. [Will Sommer, @thebulwark.com]
NEW: How the Blaze's supposed scoop about the identity of the January 6th pipe bomb–planter apparently went awry.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-blaze-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-blaze-...
The Blaze’s Pipe-Bomb Bombshell Appears to Bomb
The right-wing outlet claimed to solve the Jan. 6th pipe-bomb mystery. Things quickly looked less certain.
www.thebulwark.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Pipe dreams: in tones ranging from the gleefully speculative to the casually defamatory, right-wing influencers and lawmakers jumped to promote the notion that a particular named federal employee planted the unsolved Jan. 6 pipe bombs. Things have now begun to deflate. [Will Sommer, @thebulwark.com]
Monstrous, evil behavior by the Tr*mp admin.
Any food which has gotten to poor families the states must send agents to reclaim the food before it is eaten or face new federal penalties
“.. The Agriculture Department issued the command in a late-night Saturday memo .. That guidance threatened to impose financial penalties on states that did not “comply” quickly with the government’s new orders.”
@tonyromm.bsky.social #SNAP
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
@tonyromm.bsky.social #SNAP
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
November 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Monstrous, evil behavior by the Tr*mp admin.
This book is gonna be fun. #Basketball
Probably impossible to read on here, but the jacket for "Moses and the Doctor" is now finished.
November 9, 2025 at 3:59 AM
This book is gonna be fun. #Basketball
I won't link to it, but wanted to put on the record that the @washingtonpost.com has published an editorial screed against NYC's new Mayor-Elect Mamdani that might as well have been written for the NY Post or Daily Caller. 100s of people are commenting critically about it on their site. Here's mine
November 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I won't link to it, but wanted to put on the record that the @washingtonpost.com has published an editorial screed against NYC's new Mayor-Elect Mamdani that might as well have been written for the NY Post or Daily Caller. 100s of people are commenting critically about it on their site. Here's mine
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photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
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For almost a decade, the Zuckerbergs’ neighbors have been complaining to the city about noisy construction work, the intrusive presence of private security, and the hordes of staffers and business associates causing traffic and taking up street parking.
Mark Zuckerberg’s illegal school drove his neighbors crazy
Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic.
arstechnica.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
For almost a decade, the Zuckerbergs’ neighbors have been complaining to the city about noisy construction work, the intrusive presence of private security, and the hordes of staffers and business associates causing traffic and taking up street parking.
My alma mater,caving in.High above Cayuga's waters cowardice reigns, and Thomas Pynchon, E. B. White, Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Farina are weeping. In the future all appeals for money will go into the waste basket or be deleted. What a stain on a once great school.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Hi @sarahviren.bsky.social—chuffed to see you saw my appreciative post sharing your essay on In Our Time and Melvyn Bragg. I first encountered Bragg in his amazing, empathetic interviews w/a terminally ill Dennis Potter. Do you know them, too? youtu.be/OjTnojZQ--0. I’m gonna check out your books.
November 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Hi @sarahviren.bsky.social—chuffed to see you saw my appreciative post sharing your essay on In Our Time and Melvyn Bragg. I first encountered Bragg in his amazing, empathetic interviews w/a terminally ill Dennis Potter. Do you know them, too? youtu.be/OjTnojZQ--0. I’m gonna check out your books.
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Eventually, ICE will come for me and you. 1/2
November 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Eventually, ICE will come for me and you. 1/2
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Almost forgot to post about it today, but I am once again asking the media to talk about the president admitting on 60 Minutes that he had no idea who the hell he was pardoning. I know there’s a lot going on, but this really should be the biggest story in America.
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Almost forgot to post about it today, but I am once again asking the media to talk about the president admitting on 60 Minutes that he had no idea who the hell he was pardoning. I know there’s a lot going on, but this really should be the biggest story in America.
Enjoying a live podcast taping w/Josh Marshall and Kate Riga at the 25th anniversary gathering for @talkingpointsmemo.com in lower Manhattan at the Metrograph Theater.
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Enjoying a live podcast taping w/Josh Marshall and Kate Riga at the 25th anniversary gathering for @talkingpointsmemo.com in lower Manhattan at the Metrograph Theater.
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BREAKING: Federal Judge McConnell orders the Trump administration to provide full SNAP payments to states for November, finding that the administration did not comply with his order. Judge raises Trump's Truth social post as evidence that he intended to defy the order.
November 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
BREAKING: Federal Judge McConnell orders the Trump administration to provide full SNAP payments to states for November, finding that the administration did not comply with his order. Judge raises Trump's Truth social post as evidence that he intended to defy the order.
Outrageous bullying tactics by Tr*mp officials to kill global deal on reducing climate change impacts of world shipping that was about to be approved by many nations. This administration is just a bunch of thugs. #ClimateChange www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...
Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Outrageous bullying tactics by Tr*mp officials to kill global deal on reducing climate change impacts of world shipping that was about to be approved by many nations. This administration is just a bunch of thugs. #ClimateChange www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...