Terry Filicko
@terryfilicko.bsky.social
Prof, Clark State College; Media PA->Durham->CLE->CBus; O'Hara '82, Villanova '86; Duke for grad school. Baby A. She/Her. Dogs & cats, jazz & cocktails, rowing & yoga... ILOF & #leguminati (not an auto follow back, but likely for ILOF & MSW).
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"'Twas the Night Before Christmas" turned 200 last year: It was first published in the Troy (N.Y.) 'Sentinel' on December 23, 1823.
Since my family has an unusually large collection of copies, here is a 🧵 of the poem—with some of the best work of illustrators from the last two centuries.
Since my family has an unusually large collection of copies, here is a 🧵 of the poem—with some of the best work of illustrators from the last two centuries.
December 15, 2024 at 2:24 AM
"'Twas the Night Before Christmas" turned 200 last year: It was first published in the Troy (N.Y.) 'Sentinel' on December 23, 1823.
Since my family has an unusually large collection of copies, here is a 🧵 of the poem—with some of the best work of illustrators from the last two centuries.
Since my family has an unusually large collection of copies, here is a 🧵 of the poem—with some of the best work of illustrators from the last two centuries.
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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How bad has 2025 been? We broke time.
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
How bad has 2025 been? We broke time.
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ICE has ramped up Columbus activity. CPD and the city are not cooperating, but they don’t know what ICE is doing and haven’t been able to find out.
“We have not asked for and do not need this unwelcome intervention.”
www.axios.com/local/columb...
“We have not asked for and do not need this unwelcome intervention.”
www.axios.com/local/columb...
Columbus leaders warn of "unwelcome" ICE presence
One council member says: "If you don't feel safe, you should not leave your home."
www.axios.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
ICE has ramped up Columbus activity. CPD and the city are not cooperating, but they don’t know what ICE is doing and haven’t been able to find out.
“We have not asked for and do not need this unwelcome intervention.”
www.axios.com/local/columb...
“We have not asked for and do not need this unwelcome intervention.”
www.axios.com/local/columb...
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Sarah McBride rarely centers her identity as a trans woman. Republicans do that for her. So when she steps to the microphone and talks about "21 years of unwavering homesickness," it means something. @mcbride.house.gov www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...
Watch Rep. Sarah McBride's Powerful Statement on Republicans' Anti-Trans Obsession
The first openly trans member of Congress made a rare, personal appeal as the GOP wages an all-out assault on trans youth.
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December 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Sarah McBride rarely centers her identity as a trans woman. Republicans do that for her. So when she steps to the microphone and talks about "21 years of unwavering homesickness," it means something. @mcbride.house.gov www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...
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I don't know why but I feel like we all could use this tonight.
You know the rules. See it, repost it.
Tagging @angryblacklady.blacksky.app cause it makes her smile
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brq-...
You know the rules. See it, repost it.
Tagging @angryblacklady.blacksky.app cause it makes her smile
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brq-...
Tom Holland's "Umbrella" | Lip Sync Battle
YouTube video by Comedy Central Asia
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December 18, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I don't know why but I feel like we all could use this tonight.
You know the rules. See it, repost it.
Tagging @angryblacklady.blacksky.app cause it makes her smile
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brq-...
You know the rules. See it, repost it.
Tagging @angryblacklady.blacksky.app cause it makes her smile
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brq-...
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"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law"
Article 1, Section 9.
Article 1, Section 9.
December 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law"
Article 1, Section 9.
Article 1, Section 9.
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By now the broad story of USAID’s ruin has been widely told: The decree handed down by President Donald Trump; Elon Musk and Russell Vought to scuttle the agency and undo decades of humanitarian work in the name of austerity. 1/x
December 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
By now the broad story of USAID’s ruin has been widely told: The decree handed down by President Donald Trump; Elon Musk and Russell Vought to scuttle the agency and undo decades of humanitarian work in the name of austerity. 1/x
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It’s a special day in Casa Lawson, which calls for a special #RecipeOfTheDay here: my Lasagne of Love! www.nigella.com/recipes/lasa...
Lasagne of Love
This is what I make for my children’s birthday celebrations, for farewell suppers to send them off before they go away, and for the dinners to welcome them back when they come home again. It’s our fam...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
It’s a special day in Casa Lawson, which calls for a special #RecipeOfTheDay here: my Lasagne of Love! www.nigella.com/recipes/lasa...
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December 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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If you're feeling down because you were wrong about something, just remember that, no matter how embarrassing it was, at least you didn't sign the Harper's "Letter on Justice and Open Debate" declaring that the greatest threat to free speech was "censoriousness" among liberal academics. 🫶
“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
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Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
If you're feeling down because you were wrong about something, just remember that, no matter how embarrassing it was, at least you didn't sign the Harper's "Letter on Justice and Open Debate" declaring that the greatest threat to free speech was "censoriousness" among liberal academics. 🫶
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Are you a constitutional law professor, appellate clinician, or legal writing teacher looking for tools to help your students learn how to lawyer effectively now that the Supreme Court's gone originalist?
Our new guide, Countering Originalism, can help!
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Our new guide, Countering Originalism, can help!
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Countering Originalism
This guide offers lawyers strategies, arguments, and citations to address originalist claims they encounter in litigation.
www.brennancenter.org
December 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Are you a constitutional law professor, appellate clinician, or legal writing teacher looking for tools to help your students learn how to lawyer effectively now that the Supreme Court's gone originalist?
Our new guide, Countering Originalism, can help!
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Our new guide, Countering Originalism, can help!
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Birthright citizenship under the common law, a thread:
I have done this many times on social media, in print, and in media interviews, but not to be accused of taking others’ not seriously enough, by plainly stating the law and history of birthright citizenship, I’m taking the time here:
I have done this many times on social media, in print, and in media interviews, but not to be accused of taking others’ not seriously enough, by plainly stating the law and history of birthright citizenship, I’m taking the time here:
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Birthright citizenship under the common law, a thread:
I have done this many times on social media, in print, and in media interviews, but not to be accused of taking others’ not seriously enough, by plainly stating the law and history of birthright citizenship, I’m taking the time here:
I have done this many times on social media, in print, and in media interviews, but not to be accused of taking others’ not seriously enough, by plainly stating the law and history of birthright citizenship, I’m taking the time here:
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Someone just tagged this post from November 2024. Maybe I should do a signed paperback giveaway? I'll pick one at 5 pm CST tomorrow at random from the likes. You don't even have to follow or repost ... but it would be nice if you did!
December 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Someone just tagged this post from November 2024. Maybe I should do a signed paperback giveaway? I'll pick one at 5 pm CST tomorrow at random from the likes. You don't even have to follow or repost ... but it would be nice if you did!
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Joy! Please Senate do the right thing.
BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc
December 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Joy! Please Senate do the right thing.
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just going to reiterate this.
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
If Immigrants Don’t Have Due Process, No One Has Due Process
How do you prove you’re a citizen?
www.everythingishorrible.net
December 11, 2025 at 4:43 AM
just going to reiterate this.
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
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local punk band dropped a crowd-surfing utility worker into its amazing cover. clean water is officially punk rock.
art by @shinercomics.bsky.social
art by @shinercomics.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
local punk band dropped a crowd-surfing utility worker into its amazing cover. clean water is officially punk rock.
art by @shinercomics.bsky.social
art by @shinercomics.bsky.social
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CNN’s Jake Tapper debunks Trump’s false claim that he settled “eight wars.”
December 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
CNN’s Jake Tapper debunks Trump’s false claim that he settled “eight wars.”
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Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
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Anyone who knows this history should know there’s no contested issue.
December 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Anyone who knows this history should know there’s no contested issue.
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Let’s be real, the only thing “abstruse” about the debate is how Randy Barnett and others can dress up their bigotry
Anyone who knows this history should know there’s no contested issue.
December 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Let’s be real, the only thing “abstruse” about the debate is how Randy Barnett and others can dress up their bigotry
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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
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December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
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If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
December 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!