David Turner
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David Turner
@die-no.bsky.social
Amateur Punner
Worst Photographer
Canadian in Seattle

"The craziest thing about David is that, as wild as it sounds, he's somehow right at least 50% of the time" -Marc B
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Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.
Insight: Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.
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February 14, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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political malpractice that this chart hasnt been seared into the brains of every single american through advertising and social media
We now have data from Trump's first full year in office. Let's review the performance of Trump and the two parties since 1989 and a new age of globalization began.

However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/
February 11, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Dakotas with child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
RFK Jr.’s Bizarre Trip With Epstein and Ghislaine Exposed in Files
The trip took place on a Native reservation where collecting fossils without explicit tribal permission is considered looting.
trib.al
February 7, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational
February 4, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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the promotion of this Nazi dumb-dumb as some sort of dissident intellectual by a swathe of centre to right figures in the last two years has been deeply fucking embarassing
I think Hanania must just be an idiot? The climax of American Beauty is Lester realizing how bad it would be to act out his fantasies about his daughter's best friend. The movie is not about how cool it is for dads to bag high school girls. Also Kevin Spacey is a personally notorious kid toucher
February 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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CHRÉTIEN: We burned the White House, but we would not repeat it.

HARPER: Part of it's been torn down by the current incumbent.
February 2, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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An entire political movement founded on uncovering hidden messages in documents to discover the powerful secret pedophiles and meanwhile the powerful pedophiles out here sending gmails saying "Hi fellow pedophile when are we meeting to do pedophilia again"
Disgusting.

In an email on Sept. 11, 2013, Mr. Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, wrote to Mr. Epstein, “It was really nice seeing you yesterday.” He added: “Any time you’re in the area would love to see you. As long as you bring your harem!”

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Millions of Pages of Epstein Documents Released
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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Canadian Conservative Convention Night 2 Summary:
January 31, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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Warsh is absolutely not who I would pick to run the FOMC but I cannot stress enough that he is a massive bullet dodged and there is little evidence he will serve as a weapon to dismantle Fed independence. That would not have been true of other potential nominees.
January 30, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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honestly, what the fuck
January 30, 2026 at 4:33 AM
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Republicans all seem to be trying to strip the walls of copper wire before the place is demolished
NO SENATE VOTE TONIGHT

Couldn’t get all senators to allow a speedy vote. Schumer tells reporters Lindsey Graham is blocking it. “That’s the holdup,” Schumer tells reporters. Graham wants to keep a provision letting him sue to pocket $500,000 over J6 phone records seized.
January 30, 2026 at 4:35 AM
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Good lord Putin doesnt even rig it this big
January 28, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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It's actually important to attack the enemy where they are strong when you have the time so they don't have any strengths when it enters the final stretch before an election when you can concentrate on where they are weakest
One of the dumbest posts, if not the dumbest, of 2025 — and also one of the most damaging, in terms of curbing Dem willingness to lead public opinion on immigration. Look at where that graph is now! Complete failure to imagine how opinion could change in the near future www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
January 26, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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Literally EVERYTHING else aside:

Officers involved in shootings - even shootings that everybody agrees were justified - always take time off to emotionally process their experience, go to therapy, process it.

Sending somebody right back out says "this is an everyday part of your job, expect it."
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.

This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
January 25, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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genuinely hilarious how the Canadian Liberal response to Pierre's neo-populism was to appoint a literal Davos Man

and it worked
January 21, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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I know - I know! - that the nobel peace prize plays into this, that he's literally been demanding the Norwegian government force the nobel committee to give it to him

but I still can't actually believe that we're ending the post-WW2 Atlantic order because of that and the mercator projection
mad king moment

from the PBS Newshour correspondent
January 19, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
January 19, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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He's insane.
mad king moment

from the PBS Newshour correspondent
January 19, 2026 at 5:34 AM
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Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military
January 17, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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/2 I assumed ”ICE took his phone and sold it” was a typo or something.

Nah bro. Thug THIEF scum.
January 13, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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A few months ago, ICE hired me

I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable

And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"

My latest for Slate
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
slate.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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Literally doing the meme lol
January 13, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.
one of the most effective weapons we have against fascism is mockery, especially when its really funny
It occurs to me all the yelling at ICE in MPLS isn't merely funny. Getting made fun of like this is awful for morale. ICE is losing field officers faster than it can wave them through training, and a big part of it is how little of this these little weasels can take.
January 12, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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Europe is finally waking the F up to the fact that they have leverage too.
January 11, 2026 at 3:08 AM