David Turbert
@dturbert.bsky.social
A stout little fellow with red cheeks and many interests. OK fine, just Tolkien.
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Opinion | I believed Hillary Clinton was a sex trafficker because one of her donors owned a pizza restaurant and "cheese pizza" has the same initials as "child pornography." Here's why I don't think Donald Trump's multi-decade best friendship with a sex trafficker connects him to sex trafficking.
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Opinion | I believed Hillary Clinton was a sex trafficker because one of her donors owned a pizza restaurant and "cheese pizza" has the same initials as "child pornography." Here's why I don't think Donald Trump's multi-decade best friendship with a sex trafficker connects him to sex trafficking.
The crown prince responded “I stood in the middle of Fifth Avenue and dismembered an American journalist, and I didn’t lose my audience at the White House."
‘Things Happen’: Trump Brushes Off the Murder of Khashoggi www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
‘Things Happen’: Trump Brushes Off the Murder of Khashoggi www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
‘Things Happen’: Trump Brushes Off the Murder of Khashoggi
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The crown prince responded “I stood in the middle of Fifth Avenue and dismembered an American journalist, and I didn’t lose my audience at the White House."
‘Things Happen’: Trump Brushes Off the Murder of Khashoggi www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
‘Things Happen’: Trump Brushes Off the Murder of Khashoggi www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
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For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
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Trump Announces Tariff Increase on Canada Over Reagan Ad Spat www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/w...
Such a sad, pathetic, thin-skinned man-child. I’m sure Canada thinks it’s the best 10% they’ve ever spent. Good for them.
Such a sad, pathetic, thin-skinned man-child. I’m sure Canada thinks it’s the best 10% they’ve ever spent. Good for them.
Trump Announces Tariff Increase on Canada Over Reagan Ad Spat
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Trump Announces Tariff Increase on Canada Over Reagan Ad Spat www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/w...
Such a sad, pathetic, thin-skinned man-child. I’m sure Canada thinks it’s the best 10% they’ve ever spent. Good for them.
Such a sad, pathetic, thin-skinned man-child. I’m sure Canada thinks it’s the best 10% they’ve ever spent. Good for them.
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IL Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias is warning federal immigration agents that swapping/altering license plates during Trump's ICE raids is against the law & "will not be tolerated." A Plate Watch Hotline has been implemented for people to report cases of license plate tampering:
(312) 814-1730
(312) 814-1730
October 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
IL Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias is warning federal immigration agents that swapping/altering license plates during Trump's ICE raids is against the law & "will not be tolerated." A Plate Watch Hotline has been implemented for people to report cases of license plate tampering:
(312) 814-1730
(312) 814-1730
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The man who doesn’t read and can’t handle a briefing furloughed the people guarding America’s most dangerous weapons.
October 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
The man who doesn’t read and can’t handle a briefing furloughed the people guarding America’s most dangerous weapons.
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Trump needs to see this great headline.
JB Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, has accused White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller of abusing President Donald Trump and enabling him as the president enforces his ongoing immigration crackdown.
Stephen Miller accused of abusing Trump's 'diminished capacity' to push ICE raid
www.irishstar.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Trump needs to see this great headline.
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After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.
October 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.
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Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email
Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email
Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010
Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein in an email “we are in this together” after a picture of the British royal with his arm around a teenage Virginia Giuffre was first published in 2011.
The email will pile further pressure on Duke of York and the royal family as he previously told the BBC he had ceased contact with the paedophile financier by that point. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email
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October 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that?
MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement
STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement
MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement
STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement
October 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that?
MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement
STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement
MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement
STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement
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generals gathered in their masses/president calls them all fatasses
September 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
generals gathered in their masses/president calls them all fatasses
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A pop up box on Tylenol dot com
September 23, 2025 at 4:11 AM
A pop up box on Tylenol dot com
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Welp...we are now North Korea and only state run media. Wow. This should not stand. It's here...what are we all going to do?
September 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Welp...we are now North Korea and only state run media. Wow. This should not stand. It's here...what are we all going to do?
Damn! Required reading.
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Damn! Required reading.
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There goes the First Amendment.
September 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
There goes the First Amendment.
Killing journalists and canceling late-night hosts for telling truth to power and hurting their thin-skinned feelings? Two points along the same continuum.
Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”
They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”
Israel killed 31 journalists in Yemen strike, press freedom group says
Last week’s attack was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East” ever documented by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Killing journalists and canceling late-night hosts for telling truth to power and hurting their thin-skinned feelings? Two points along the same continuum.