Wes Termin
@historyell.bsky.social
Former History and Government teacher
Current WENA expert commentator from abroad.
He/him/his
Current WENA expert commentator from abroad.
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Wes Termin
@historyell.bsky.social
· Jun 5
Why yes, I am thinking about Andrew Jackson and his Vp's John C. Calhoun's argument during his first year in office that led to their estrangement, Jackson firing his whole cabinet, and picking a new VP for his 2nd term.
Why do you ask?
Why do you ask?
Couldn't happen to worse people. Wish them all the worst
When the 🧵 hits so well, and then the alttext hits harder 😘👌
It's Tuesday. It's November. And it's been awhile. So lets tell the story about the eel, the scheming wife who ate it, and the talking magpie that ratted her out!
That's right! It's time for the eel tale from the 1370s blockbuster hit, "The Book of the Knight of the Tower." 1/5
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That's right! It's time for the eel tale from the 1370s blockbuster hit, "The Book of the Knight of the Tower." 1/5
🗃️🧪
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
When the 🧵 hits so well, and then the alttext hits harder 😘👌
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Hi.
I’ve been editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue for the last 4.5 years — a dream job, one I never thought a Brown girl from small town Louisiana might hold.
I am so incredibly proud of the work we’ve done and what we accomplished. Our journalism has won major awards. (cont’d)
I’ve been editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue for the last 4.5 years — a dream job, one I never thought a Brown girl from small town Louisiana might hold.
I am so incredibly proud of the work we’ve done and what we accomplished. Our journalism has won major awards. (cont’d)
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Hi.
I’ve been editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue for the last 4.5 years — a dream job, one I never thought a Brown girl from small town Louisiana might hold.
I am so incredibly proud of the work we’ve done and what we accomplished. Our journalism has won major awards. (cont’d)
I’ve been editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue for the last 4.5 years — a dream job, one I never thought a Brown girl from small town Louisiana might hold.
I am so incredibly proud of the work we’ve done and what we accomplished. Our journalism has won major awards. (cont’d)
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Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
There was an old man you could gaze
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says
My name is Pagliacci, Clown of Clowns. Look on my works, ye doctors; I despair.
October 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
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Again, not the most important here, but I'm begging for a journalist to figure out how/why NPS put up a Confederate statue DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. How is this "essential" when food stamps are not?
Feels symbolic that a Confederate statue first installed in 1901, at the peak of the consolidation of the Jim Crow system—when the states of the former Confederacy were in the midst of revising their constitutions to disfranchise Black citizens—has been reinstalled.
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
A Confederate statue toppled in Washington, D.C., in 2020 has been reinstalled
A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, which had been pulled down during the Black Lives Matter movement, has been put back up in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square.
www.npr.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Again, not the most important here, but I'm begging for a journalist to figure out how/why NPS put up a Confederate statue DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. How is this "essential" when food stamps are not?
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I don’t know how many times I have to say this but if you didn’t know any geek girls in high school or you don’t know any now it’s because they didn’t trust you and you’re *NOT A SAFE PERSON* for women to be themselves around.
October 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I don’t know how many times I have to say this but if you didn’t know any geek girls in high school or you don’t know any now it’s because they didn’t trust you and you’re *NOT A SAFE PERSON* for women to be themselves around.
Paris: Boys will be boys. You can't blame him for thinking Helen was beautiful and she was asking to be stolen away
Describe a character in Greek mythology the way someone trying to defend a politician would. I’ll start.
Oedipus: Like you’ve never had sex with someone and regretted it later
Oedipus: Like you’ve never had sex with someone and regretted it later
October 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Paris: Boys will be boys. You can't blame him for thinking Helen was beautiful and she was asking to be stolen away
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Describe a character in Greek mythology the way someone trying to defend a politician would. I’ll start.
Oedipus: Like you’ve never had sex with someone and regretted it later
Oedipus: Like you’ve never had sex with someone and regretted it later
October 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Describe a character in Greek mythology the way someone trying to defend a politician would. I’ll start.
Oedipus: Like you’ve never had sex with someone and regretted it later
Oedipus: Like you’ve never had sex with someone and regretted it later
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ACLU-DC’s Michael Perloff: “[G]overnment officials can't punish you for making them the punchline. That's really the whole point of the First Amendment.”
October 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
ACLU-DC’s Michael Perloff: “[G]overnment officials can't punish you for making them the punchline. That's really the whole point of the First Amendment.”
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Ad: This clip, then cutting to people waiting in food lines, then to Johnson saying he isn't familiar with X, Y, or Z, then cutting to U.S. citizens being arrested by masked goons, then a quote from Roberts and the immunity decision.
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
October 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Ad: This clip, then cutting to people waiting in food lines, then to Johnson saying he isn't familiar with X, Y, or Z, then cutting to U.S. citizens being arrested by masked goons, then a quote from Roberts and the immunity decision.
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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The idea that political dissent can only be the product of “paid protesters” or “outside agitators” has a long history. Here is the Mississippi columnist Tom Ethridge in June 1963 concerned that attendees at the upcoming March on Washington might be “whipped into a frenzy by skilled agitators.”
October 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The idea that political dissent can only be the product of “paid protesters” or “outside agitators” has a long history. Here is the Mississippi columnist Tom Ethridge in June 1963 concerned that attendees at the upcoming March on Washington might be “whipped into a frenzy by skilled agitators.”
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The spirit of Dollree Mapp has joined the battle
Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.
The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”
The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”
Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance
Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.
www.10news.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:56 AM
The spirit of Dollree Mapp has joined the battle
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it’s such a privilege to be able to teach from the heart
October 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
it’s such a privilege to be able to teach from the heart
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Making the Democrats sound 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases cooler than they are.
Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "
October 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Making the Democrats sound 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases cooler than they are.
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October 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Why I cancelled my subscription
behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol
October 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Why I cancelled my subscription
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Teachers should also get more time to be pleasurably bored! It’s a solution for many things!
October 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Teachers should also get more time to be pleasurably bored! It’s a solution for many things!
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America today is a puzzle of contradictions: it proclaims freedom yet fears its own police, it venerates strength yet trembles before old age, it boasts of prosperity yet cannot afford its own steak. At the center sits its weary ruler, a man older than his republic can bear.
September 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
America today is a puzzle of contradictions: it proclaims freedom yet fears its own police, it venerates strength yet trembles before old age, it boasts of prosperity yet cannot afford its own steak. At the center sits its weary ruler, a man older than his republic can bear.
Trying to imagine what a historian of this moment will look for in sources. A visiting foreign journalist's account of the collapse of the Republic, perhaps?
Dispatch from Washington, D.C.
I arrive in Dulles Airport, just as the capital is preparing for its recurring October 1st ritual: the potential and probable Federal government shutdown. For the outsider, this strange rite may appear chaotic, but for Americans it is as old as their democracy.
I arrive in Dulles Airport, just as the capital is preparing for its recurring October 1st ritual: the potential and probable Federal government shutdown. For the outsider, this strange rite may appear chaotic, but for Americans it is as old as their democracy.
September 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Trying to imagine what a historian of this moment will look for in sources. A visiting foreign journalist's account of the collapse of the Republic, perhaps?
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the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
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The press, once celebrated as a pillar of freedom, now cowers under the thumbs of billionaires. Once-brave journalists have become court stenographers, transcribing lies and calling them news. The Washington Post, no longer a watchdog, but a leashed poodle, tugged by the whims of Jeff Bezos.
September 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The press, once celebrated as a pillar of freedom, now cowers under the thumbs of billionaires. Once-brave journalists have become court stenographers, transcribing lies and calling them news. The Washington Post, no longer a watchdog, but a leashed poodle, tugged by the whims of Jeff Bezos.
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The capital trembles, & at its center is the 79-year-old ruler, Donald Trump, so aged that his own government seems to wither around him. His reign illustrates America’s gerontocratic culture: the elderly cling to power and youth is seen only as a source of campaign rallies and military recruits.
September 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The capital trembles, & at its center is the 79-year-old ruler, Donald Trump, so aged that his own government seems to wither around him. His reign illustrates America’s gerontocratic culture: the elderly cling to power and youth is seen only as a source of campaign rallies and military recruits.
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Dispatch from Washington, D.C.
I arrive in Dulles Airport, just as the capital is preparing for its recurring October 1st ritual: the potential and probable Federal government shutdown. For the outsider, this strange rite may appear chaotic, but for Americans it is as old as their democracy.
I arrive in Dulles Airport, just as the capital is preparing for its recurring October 1st ritual: the potential and probable Federal government shutdown. For the outsider, this strange rite may appear chaotic, but for Americans it is as old as their democracy.
September 30, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Dispatch from Washington, D.C.
I arrive in Dulles Airport, just as the capital is preparing for its recurring October 1st ritual: the potential and probable Federal government shutdown. For the outsider, this strange rite may appear chaotic, but for Americans it is as old as their democracy.
I arrive in Dulles Airport, just as the capital is preparing for its recurring October 1st ritual: the potential and probable Federal government shutdown. For the outsider, this strange rite may appear chaotic, but for Americans it is as old as their democracy.