Joel E. Turner
@joeleturner.bsky.social
Writer, ex-banking data guy, R&B nut
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Watch these. And then go over to the White House web site to see the revisionist propaganda. It's a shocker.
That America then put Trump back in the WH and he pardoned all those people may have been death blow for our democracy and we are still laboring under the illusion that it still exists.
That America then put Trump back in the WH and he pardoned all those people may have been death blow for our democracy and we are still laboring under the illusion that it still exists.
I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day.
Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
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Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
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January 6, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Watch these. And then go over to the White House web site to see the revisionist propaganda. It's a shocker.
That America then put Trump back in the WH and he pardoned all those people may have been death blow for our democracy and we are still laboring under the illusion that it still exists.
That America then put Trump back in the WH and he pardoned all those people may have been death blow for our democracy and we are still laboring under the illusion that it still exists.
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1/6/21, 2:45 pm ET: Pro-Trump rioters invade the Senate Floor and break into Speaker Pelosi’s office.
January 6, 2026 at 7:54 PM
1/6/21, 2:45 pm ET: Pro-Trump rioters invade the Senate Floor and break into Speaker Pelosi’s office.
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I believe the original sin Democrats, and especially the Biden administration, made after January 6th was viewing January 6th as the *end* of something, rather than the *beginning* of something. My post on how to remember this somber anniversary for democracy: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-ways-...
Five Ways To Remember January 6th
Too many people saw January 6th as the final aggrieved death throes of Trumpism. We can now understand it was the start of something much darker.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
January 6, 2026 at 4:57 PM
I believe the original sin Democrats, and especially the Biden administration, made after January 6th was viewing January 6th as the *end* of something, rather than the *beginning* of something. My post on how to remember this somber anniversary for democracy: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-ways-...
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"Even when weighed against this stunning record of degeneracy, the pardoning by Trump of his cop-beating foot soldiers represents the lowest moment of this presidency so far, because it was an act not only of naked despotism but also of outlandish hypocrisy."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
MAGA’s Foundational Lie
The movement claims to stand with the police. Trump’s decision to pardon the cop-beaters of January 6 exposed his movement for what it is.
www.theatlantic.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:45 PM
"Even when weighed against this stunning record of degeneracy, the pardoning by Trump of his cop-beating foot soldiers represents the lowest moment of this presidency so far, because it was an act not only of naked despotism but also of outlandish hypocrisy."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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We failed to hold the right-wing oligarchs accountable for the coup on January 6th, Russian interference, the subprime housing crisis, the WMD lie, Iran Contra, Watergate, and the confederacy. Elect people who will.
FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history.
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
January 6, 2026 at 5:12 PM
We failed to hold the right-wing oligarchs accountable for the coup on January 6th, Russian interference, the subprime housing crisis, the WMD lie, Iran Contra, Watergate, and the confederacy. Elect people who will.
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Pardoned by Trump after convicted of 12 counts of bank fraud and tax evasion. Don’t have to pay back $17.8 million in restitution or serve 12 year sentence. Not Somalis.
December 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Pardoned by Trump after convicted of 12 counts of bank fraud and tax evasion. Don’t have to pay back $17.8 million in restitution or serve 12 year sentence. Not Somalis.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
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Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; She was one of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who faced white mobs when desegregating a Tennessee high school in 1956 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; Braved Mobs in Integrating a School
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; She was one of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who faced white mobs when desegregating a Tennessee high school in 1956 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
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if you don't play or follow golf (or just don't get why so many people love it) this probably isn't on your radar but it should be understood as both a naked land grab and an attack on a part of DC's black history
December 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
if you don't play or follow golf (or just don't get why so many people love it) this probably isn't on your radar but it should be understood as both a naked land grab and an attack on a part of DC's black history
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People who care about journalism should read "60 Minutes" correspondent Sharyn Alfonso's full email about CBS News boss Bari Weiss spiking her report.
Alfonso makes key points about not letting the government veto your story and not betraying sources.
Weiss could use ethics lessons from Alfonso.
Alfonso makes key points about not letting the government veto your story and not betraying sources.
Weiss could use ethics lessons from Alfonso.
Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
December 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
People who care about journalism should read "60 Minutes" correspondent Sharyn Alfonso's full email about CBS News boss Bari Weiss spiking her report.
Alfonso makes key points about not letting the government veto your story and not betraying sources.
Weiss could use ethics lessons from Alfonso.
Alfonso makes key points about not letting the government veto your story and not betraying sources.
Weiss could use ethics lessons from Alfonso.
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Donald Trump had reasonable concerns about how Joe Biden’s relatives enriched themselves through his service. Yet his own family is making the “Biden crime family” look small-time
How Donald Trump is turning into Joe Biden
It’s about more than denying inflation
econ.st
December 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Donald Trump had reasonable concerns about how Joe Biden’s relatives enriched themselves through his service. Yet his own family is making the “Biden crime family” look small-time
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Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
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Read the story by @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy with photos by Peter DeCampo.
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Read the story by @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy with photos by Peter DeCampo.
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Trump, who has said U.S. cities should be used as "military training grounds" to target "the enemy within" will be attending the Army-Navy game today.
This is NOT THE MISSION.
We put these up around the stadium & toward people who know and love our military to send the message.
NottheMission.org
This is NOT THE MISSION.
We put these up around the stadium & toward people who know and love our military to send the message.
NottheMission.org
December 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Trump, who has said U.S. cities should be used as "military training grounds" to target "the enemy within" will be attending the Army-Navy game today.
This is NOT THE MISSION.
We put these up around the stadium & toward people who know and love our military to send the message.
NottheMission.org
This is NOT THE MISSION.
We put these up around the stadium & toward people who know and love our military to send the message.
NottheMission.org
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Very interesting profile of CBP’s Greg Bovino. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Very interesting profile of CBP’s Greg Bovino. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
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I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
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If you are near Philadelphia, have 123 dollars, and roughly 28 cubic feet of space to store 1,600 VHS tapes in reasonably climate controlled conditions until I can get up there, I will retrieve this collection of almost guaranteed vital archival value and digitize its entirety.
December 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
If you are near Philadelphia, have 123 dollars, and roughly 28 cubic feet of space to store 1,600 VHS tapes in reasonably climate controlled conditions until I can get up there, I will retrieve this collection of almost guaranteed vital archival value and digitize its entirety.
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To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.
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“It’s a moral crusade so new, and so daring, that it doesn’t have a name, not yet. But the almost spontaneous spark of grassroots resistance to the Trump regime’s roving immigration raids targeting their brown-skinned neighbors is starting to sound historic echoes.”
Here’s hoping.
Here’s hoping.
There was revolution in the air in New Orleans when the Border Patrol invaded their city - as brave citizens blew whistles, chased convoys, and confronted masked agents of a tyrannical government
From Minneapolis to Manhattan, an uprising has begun. A special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...
From Minneapolis to Manhattan, an uprising has begun. A special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...
In New Orleans and across U.S., anger over ICE raids sparks a 2nd American Revolution | Will Bunch
Everyday folks are rising up to resist immigration raids with whistles, car chases, and noisy protests. Revolution is in the air.
www.inquirer.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
“It’s a moral crusade so new, and so daring, that it doesn’t have a name, not yet. But the almost spontaneous spark of grassroots resistance to the Trump regime’s roving immigration raids targeting their brown-skinned neighbors is starting to sound historic echoes.”
Here’s hoping.
Here’s hoping.
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The National Security Strategy says that America should curb the sense in Europe that Russia is a threat and warns that NATO cannot be “a perpetually expanding alliance”.
Alarmingly, it has nothing to say about the repeated aggression of Vladimir Putin
Alarmingly, it has nothing to say about the repeated aggression of Vladimir Putin
Donald Trump’s bleak, incoherent foreign-policy strategy
Allies may panic; despots will cheer
econ.st
December 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The National Security Strategy says that America should curb the sense in Europe that Russia is a threat and warns that NATO cannot be “a perpetually expanding alliance”.
Alarmingly, it has nothing to say about the repeated aggression of Vladimir Putin
Alarmingly, it has nothing to say about the repeated aggression of Vladimir Putin
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I've been saying this for a year now: the Democrats have missed a gigantic political opportunity--and, at this point, have failed in an ethical obligation--to create a shadow-government health department that dispenses medically accurate information, guidance, and advice.
WATCH: A CDC panel voted to end the recommendation that newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, despite a 99% drop in cases since in the 30 years since it was implemented. Chris Hayes and Brandy Zadrozny react. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6REM...
CDC Panel ends recommendation for newborn hepatitis B shot
YouTube video by MS NOW
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December 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I've been saying this for a year now: the Democrats have missed a gigantic political opportunity--and, at this point, have failed in an ethical obligation--to create a shadow-government health department that dispenses medically accurate information, guidance, and advice.
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A heroin addict who writes bad porn poetry says eliminating the Hepatitis B vaccine will make kids healthier. Medical experts say it will kill thousands of innocent children. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to believe.
December 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
A heroin addict who writes bad porn poetry says eliminating the Hepatitis B vaccine will make kids healthier. Medical experts say it will kill thousands of innocent children. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to believe.
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I have been given the shiny and very real War Stopper Award by
USA Pickleball because I have stopped so many dozens of wars and whatnot. I am honored that my war stopping has been noticed by the foremost pickleball organization in the world.
USA Pickleball because I have stopped so many dozens of wars and whatnot. I am honored that my war stopping has been noticed by the foremost pickleball organization in the world.
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I have been given the shiny and very real War Stopper Award by
USA Pickleball because I have stopped so many dozens of wars and whatnot. I am honored that my war stopping has been noticed by the foremost pickleball organization in the world.
USA Pickleball because I have stopped so many dozens of wars and whatnot. I am honored that my war stopping has been noticed by the foremost pickleball organization in the world.
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“You’ve got nothing to fear if you’re an American citizen. If you’re not an American citizen, then look out,” Greg Bovino tells reporters while patrolling a neighborhood in Kenner today.
December 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
“You’ve got nothing to fear if you’re an American citizen. If you’re not an American citizen, then look out,” Greg Bovino tells reporters while patrolling a neighborhood in Kenner today.