James Widman
jameswidman.bsky.social
James Widman
@jameswidman.bsky.social
People are supposed to help each other. It's the only job worth doing, and we could probably do it a lot more efficiently.

he/him or they/them.
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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I am not Black, but I share this concern, and I think it's important that people who are not Black share, and make policy reflecting, this concern. The social contract can't go back to "it's okay as long as you don't do it to nice respectable white people". It can't. We can stop doing that shit.
Some horrors only become apparent when they start happening to people that aren't Black.🤷🏿‍♂️

I want to push forward to a future where this doesn't happen to Black people, and it doesn't happen to immigrants.♥️🕊️

But some of y'all want to go back to a world where this only happens to Black people?

No.
December 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down
December 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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everyone be sure to right-click and "save video as..." on this one
December 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Garry Newman of Garry's Mod is letting me host a mirror to the original video here:
cdn.sbox.game/asset/814e5f...
December 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.

There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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This is the first "complete" upload I've seen (full frame instead of camrip, 15 minutes long, reliable/functioning site) of the censored 60 minutes episode that was briefly made available by globalnews.ca .
December 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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For more subway surfing highlights, please visit:
archive.org/details/3mam...
Inside Cecot (Cam Rip By Jason Paris) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonparis.bsky.social/post/3mam565pyes24
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Fair use.
December 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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And before anyone tries to say that "Some immigrants are Black..."

I was a Black immigrant.🤷🏿‍♂️

And I've introduced innocent people to immigration attorneys and defense attorneys.

I've paid legal fees to help innocent people get out of immigration detention and get out of county jail.
December 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Some horrors only become apparent when they start happening to people that aren't Black.🤷🏿‍♂️

I want to push forward to a future where this doesn't happen to Black people, and it doesn't happen to immigrants.♥️🕊️

But some of y'all want to go back to a world where this only happens to Black people?

No.
December 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Hey, since we're all talking about CECOT again, And how sending innocent people to solitary confinement is a fundamentally evil practice...

Can we talk about solitary confinement in US prisons and jails yet? No?

It's only bad when the GOP does it?

It's okay when it happens to Black people?
Fine. Let's compare CECOT to being in solitary confinement in a US jail.

In both cases we have innocent people.

In both cases we have what international organizations have defined as torture.

In one case we have people in a cell 23.5 hrs a day (CECOT), and in the other 23.26 hrs a day (county).
Solitary Confinement Is Inhumane
YouTube video by Partners for Justice
m.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Honestly no excuse. From a general legal standpoint, as a descriptor of *either* party's stated values (I say being very cynical of both), if you think the constitution *or* the alleged founding principals of the country are real--which again, I don't particularly! Others should agree moreso!
anyone saying that an attempt at impeachment & removal would be ineffective needs to be shouted down.

support for removal needs to be built. It can be built by campaigning.

defeatism only helps trump, and we cannot wait another year.
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social

I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here
December 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.

It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.

www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
Banned 60 Minutes CECOT Segment - Filemail
Get it while it's hot.
www.filemail.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
anyone saying that an attempt at impeachment & removal would be ineffective needs to be shouted down.

support for removal needs to be built. It can be built by campaigning.

defeatism only helps trump, and we cannot wait another year.
December 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.

Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Canadian TV network bravely airs dissidents’ report on U.S. abuses after political commissar orders its suppression
Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app
December 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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As a US national living in Canada, the fact I'm in Canada means I can access news reporting about the crimes my government back in the US is committing. If I were in the US, it would be censored.

This is a straightforwardly factual comment I can make on December 22, 2025.
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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grab and seed now
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December 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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please don't wreck my bills
December 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM