Terwilliger James
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Terwilliger James
@terwilligerjames.bsky.social
Sadly, fascism is in, baby. 🏳️‍🌈
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abolish ice. theres no middle road on this and democrats will have to be held to it.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.

Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.

"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.

"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.

Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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The Netflix and Amazon broadcasts are a great reminder that live sports is a deeply, deeply difficult type of TV that requires huge crews of profoundly skilled and experienced people who have worked together for a long time to look natural
December 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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If you want to get me a gift, subscribe to my new YouTube channel! One more to 1k subs!

Latest video here: youtu.be/GvCmeuJyT9g?...
That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad | An Editor’s Note
YouTube video by Ana Marie Cox
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Breaking | Trump orders airstrikes to aid Nigerian Christians despite Stephen Miller's frantic cries that Nigerian Christians are Black.
December 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
December 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions
December 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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I’m a video essayist now!
Video essay: That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad

I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed.

Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose.

(Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...
That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad | An Editor’s Note
YouTube video by Ana Marie Cox
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Yep. I’m sure that was the right news call and not at all something embarrassing and weird
December 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Kennedy Center.
December 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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On the most recent Serious Trouble I remarked that asking whether someone has standing is increasingly like asking whether an elf can wield an axe in Dungeons & Dragons: it’s an arbitrary fantasy-based question determined by the 6-3 DM, who does whatever amuses him.
Let's figure out who has standing.
December 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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I can't afford steak and my kids have been home all week after they closed the school because of a measles outbreak. But at least now there's nobody kneeling at the beginning of the football games that I don't watch.
December 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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The RFK, jr effect.
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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[guy who voted for this] i didn’t vote for this
December 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Far more depressing how stupid everyone actually is.
Its kind of insulting just how stupid they think everyone is
December 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Please kill me
December 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Sometimes I think white peoples obsession with rewhitening media is a form of self-soothing, like sucking your thumb. if all the lantern jawed manly white men and submissive blonde thin women return, things will be okay again and the world won’t be so scary again.
Sometimes it’s just racism.
Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics”

Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!

(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
December 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I’m thinking we can solve this with vibe-shaming…
A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud
December 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms.

The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent.

I'll post the ruling shortly.
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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1157 days.
November 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Gotta lean heavily into this, which i think they will. Trumps weak and getting weaker. He’s supporting criminal conduct. Time is against him. rollcall.com/2025/11/20/d...
Democratic hawks defiant after Trump accuses them of 'seditious' act - Roll Call
Democrats stood by their call for troops to disobey unlawful orders after Trump suggested they could be executed for "seditious behavior."
rollcall.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM