Terri Colburn
@terric1951.bsky.social
Episcopal priest, dog-lover
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“While the September 2 strike seems uniquely depraved, every single strike taken against these boats by DoD is a summary execution of criminal suspects, people who even if tried in court would never get the death penalty,” Sarah Harrison told @theintercept.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“While the September 2 strike seems uniquely depraved, every single strike taken against these boats by DoD is a summary execution of criminal suspects, people who even if tried in court would never get the death penalty,” Sarah Harrison told @theintercept.com
It's evil.
can only imagine what this feels like for a Somali-American teen or grade schooler.
President Trump unleashed a xenophobic tirade against Somali immigrants on Tuesday during a publicly broadcast cabinet meeting, calling them “garbage” he does not want in the U.S. as he sought to refocus public attention on his anti-immigration rhetoric.
December 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
It's evil.
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"College students who used AI produced vague, poorly reasoned work and increasingly relied on cutting and pasting from other sources. ... LLM users consistently underperform at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels after four months of exposure."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize
The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.
www.theatlantic.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"College students who used AI produced vague, poorly reasoned work and increasingly relied on cutting and pasting from other sources. ... LLM users consistently underperform at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels after four months of exposure."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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NEW: Another purge of immigration judges just happened, this time in New York City. This latest purge includes one of the smartest people I know, an immigration judge who dutifully served on the bench for 10 years. She was unceremoniously fired in violation of civil service laws.
Trump Administration Fires 8 Immigration Judges in New York
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:52 AM
NEW: Another purge of immigration judges just happened, this time in New York City. This latest purge includes one of the smartest people I know, an immigration judge who dutifully served on the bench for 10 years. She was unceremoniously fired in violation of civil service laws.
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A 39yo Black man Torrence Medley was found hanging from a tree at Brookfield Hills Golf Course on Nov 13. Police ruled it a suicide. His family is demanding proof and transparency. Police have provided neither.
Given this country’s history of lynching Black Americans, transparency is the minimum
Given this country’s history of lynching Black Americans, transparency is the minimum
December 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A 39yo Black man Torrence Medley was found hanging from a tree at Brookfield Hills Golf Course on Nov 13. Police ruled it a suicide. His family is demanding proof and transparency. Police have provided neither.
Given this country’s history of lynching Black Americans, transparency is the minimum
Given this country’s history of lynching Black Americans, transparency is the minimum
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Now that Karoline Leavitt just confirmed that Frank Bradley gave the order for the second strike that killed two people clinging to boat wreckage (per @atrupar.com) this seems doubly relevant:
News --> The commander who oversaw Pete Hegseth's alleged killing of two boat bombing survivors is now likely to come in and face questions from the House Armed Services Committee, ranking Dem Adam Smith tells me.
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Trump Boat Bombings Suddenly on Shakier Ground as Damning Info Emerges
Will Republicans give us a real investigation into Trump’s bombings, now that we just learned horrific new details about them? Or are they seriously going to fall on their swords for Pete Hegseth?
newrepublic.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Now that Karoline Leavitt just confirmed that Frank Bradley gave the order for the second strike that killed two people clinging to boat wreckage (per @atrupar.com) this seems doubly relevant:
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FBI is a 'circus' under Kash Patel, says damning report www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
FBI is a 'circus' under Kash Patel, says damning report
A 115-page report compiled from interviews with dozens of current and former FBI agents found that FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino have turned the agency into a ‘circus,’ with ...
www.dailykos.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
FBI is a 'circus' under Kash Patel, says damning report www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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🔥MUST-WATCH: “People on the right use the term ‘WOKE-ISM’ to deflect and distract from class politics. DOGE was a perfect example.”
@evanjmez.bsky.social takes piers to school on jubilee. Every word of this. Worth the 90 seconds of your time.
@evanjmez.bsky.social takes piers to school on jubilee. Every word of this. Worth the 90 seconds of your time.
December 1, 2025 at 3:06 AM
🔥MUST-WATCH: “People on the right use the term ‘WOKE-ISM’ to deflect and distract from class politics. DOGE was a perfect example.”
@evanjmez.bsky.social takes piers to school on jubilee. Every word of this. Worth the 90 seconds of your time.
@evanjmez.bsky.social takes piers to school on jubilee. Every word of this. Worth the 90 seconds of your time.
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I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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This is infuriating on so many levels, but partly because it ignores Congressional intent to penalize immigrants who followed the rules. And partly because these are people who have done nothing wrong beyond trying to negotiate a broken system.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is infuriating on so many levels, but partly because it ignores Congressional intent to penalize immigrants who followed the rules. And partly because these are people who have done nothing wrong beyond trying to negotiate a broken system.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
This is appalling and also wasteful. How does this make anyone safer????
If you are married to a US spouse, your temporary visa (usually for 3 months) will lapse before your case is processed. The government allowed you could stay in the US while awaiting case processing. Now the Trump admin is saying that is a visa overstay and arresting the spouses.
November 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
This is appalling and also wasteful. How does this make anyone safer????
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This is great, now Team Trump is acknowledging that illegal orders were given to kill survivors of the initial strike, the only question is who gave them? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pete Hegseth denies he gave orders to ‘kill everybody’ on alleged ‘narco-boat’
Defense secretary called reports about his role in strike as ‘fake news’ intended to discredit US military
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This is great, now Team Trump is acknowledging that illegal orders were given to kill survivors of the initial strike, the only question is who gave them? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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✅fact check: DHS is NOT targeting 'criminal illegal aliens.' Just look at what's happened here in Chicago:
"Ninety-seven percent of hundreds of undocumented immigrants swept up in Chicago's recent immigration raids had no criminal record at the time of their arrest"
"Ninety-seven percent of hundreds of undocumented immigrants swept up in Chicago's recent immigration raids had no criminal record at the time of their arrest"
Kristi Noem refuses to directly answer a question about what Trump means by "remigration" -- a word that, as Kristen Welker notes, is often invoked by white nationalists in Europe
November 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
✅fact check: DHS is NOT targeting 'criminal illegal aliens.' Just look at what's happened here in Chicago:
"Ninety-seven percent of hundreds of undocumented immigrants swept up in Chicago's recent immigration raids had no criminal record at the time of their arrest"
"Ninety-seven percent of hundreds of undocumented immigrants swept up in Chicago's recent immigration raids had no criminal record at the time of their arrest"
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Hard to disagree with this point
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Hard to disagree with this point
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The GOP have heard that Hegseth & trump gave illegal orders to military to, KILL & MURDER two fisherman clinging to a bombed fishing boat, nobody is saying a word about this trump & Hegseth are MURDERERS, why is the world not speaking up GOP, you spineless cowards your all complicit of these MURDERS
November 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The GOP have heard that Hegseth & trump gave illegal orders to military to, KILL & MURDER two fisherman clinging to a bombed fishing boat, nobody is saying a word about this trump & Hegseth are MURDERERS, why is the world not speaking up GOP, you spineless cowards your all complicit of these MURDERS
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Closing the airspace over a foreign country asserts control over another sovereign state’s territory & that usually accompanies or signals imminent military action from either side.
November 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Closing the airspace over a foreign country asserts control over another sovereign state’s territory & that usually accompanies or signals imminent military action from either side.
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🧵A legal scholar finds the killing by special forces of survivors in the Navy attack on an alleged drug boat to be a war crime and murder.
"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
🧵A legal scholar finds the killing by special forces of survivors in the Navy attack on an alleged drug boat to be a war crime and murder.
"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
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“What happened in D.C. was horrible. But let’s not punish an entire faith for the actions of 1 person. @SenTuberville’s bill is Islamophobic. Let’s stop this.”
NASHVILLE councilwoman Zulfat Suara says questioning the loyalty of 🇺🇸 Muslims is wrong.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DRnyswp...
NASHVILLE councilwoman Zulfat Suara says questioning the loyalty of 🇺🇸 Muslims is wrong.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DRnyswp...
November 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
“What happened in D.C. was horrible. But let’s not punish an entire faith for the actions of 1 person. @SenTuberville’s bill is Islamophobic. Let’s stop this.”
NASHVILLE councilwoman Zulfat Suara says questioning the loyalty of 🇺🇸 Muslims is wrong.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DRnyswp...
NASHVILLE councilwoman Zulfat Suara says questioning the loyalty of 🇺🇸 Muslims is wrong.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DRnyswp...
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“The @aoc.bsky.social of Tennessee”
There goes Fox threatening us with a good time again as they ask Van Epps 🤖 why Rep. @aftynbehn.bsky.social may shock the world and end his political career before it starts
There goes Fox threatening us with a good time again as they ask Van Epps 🤖 why Rep. @aftynbehn.bsky.social may shock the world and end his political career before it starts
November 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
“The @aoc.bsky.social of Tennessee”
There goes Fox threatening us with a good time again as they ask Van Epps 🤖 why Rep. @aftynbehn.bsky.social may shock the world and end his political career before it starts
There goes Fox threatening us with a good time again as they ask Van Epps 🤖 why Rep. @aftynbehn.bsky.social may shock the world and end his political career before it starts
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“Juan Orlando Hernández helped to facilitate the importation of an almost unfathomable 400 tons of cocaine to this country: billions of individual doses sent to the United States with the protection and support of the former president of Honduras.” — US DOJ
November 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
“Juan Orlando Hernández helped to facilitate the importation of an almost unfathomable 400 tons of cocaine to this country: billions of individual doses sent to the United States with the protection and support of the former president of Honduras.” — US DOJ
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Stephen Miller’s wife Katie Miller: “We are removing every single illegal alien… a majority of those removed have had serious violent crimes.” 🤥
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “That’s FALSE.”
Abby Phillip: “Based on DHS’s own data, a majority have NOT had violent criminal records.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “That’s FALSE.”
Abby Phillip: “Based on DHS’s own data, a majority have NOT had violent criminal records.”
November 29, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Stephen Miller’s wife Katie Miller: “We are removing every single illegal alien… a majority of those removed have had serious violent crimes.” 🤥
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “That’s FALSE.”
Abby Phillip: “Based on DHS’s own data, a majority have NOT had violent criminal records.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “That’s FALSE.”
Abby Phillip: “Based on DHS’s own data, a majority have NOT had violent criminal records.”
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Officials Criticize Biden Vetting, But Afghan Shooting Suspect Was Granted Asylum Under Trump
www.huffpost.com/entry/dc-afg...
www.huffpost.com/entry/dc-afg...
Officials Criticize Biden Vetting, But Afghan Shooting Suspect Was Granted Asylum Under Trump
The alleged gunman was granted asylum this year under Trump, according to a U.S. government file seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Officials Criticize Biden Vetting, But Afghan Shooting Suspect Was Granted Asylum Under Trump
www.huffpost.com/entry/dc-afg...
www.huffpost.com/entry/dc-afg...
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