Tedra Osell
@tedos.bsky.social
Educator, learner, parent, caretaker of living things, friend. I teach and learn from brilliant neurodivergent teenagers. The older I get the happier I am. Solar powered.
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Tedra Osell
@tedos.bsky.social
· Oct 27
Take all posts for what they are: something I threw together while eating rice and beans and scrolling on my phone.
(Quote shamelessly plagiarized from J Bouie)
(Quote shamelessly plagiarized from J Bouie)
We are social animals. Not forgetting that is important.
turns out that parasocial relationships trump credentials every time, and we don't really have a good counter for it other than "hope we can get some people who are good at attracting a parasocial following who also know what they're talking about"
December 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We are social animals. Not forgetting that is important.
They have been working up to this since day one. This is their excuse for why they cover their faces, why following them and keeping track of license plates (which they illegally swap) is “doxxing” (it isn’t), why they have repeatedly arrested activists.
Fuck them.
Fuck them.
Justice Department says filming immigration raids is 'domestic terrorism'
A leaked Justice Department memo directs federal prosecutors to press “domestic terrorism” charges against individuals who record immigration operations.
reason.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
They have been working up to this since day one. This is their excuse for why they cover their faces, why following them and keeping track of license plates (which they illegally swap) is “doxxing” (it isn’t), why they have repeatedly arrested activists.
Fuck them.
Fuck them.
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Also why it is really annoying when people talk about the old days of conservative intellectuals. Watch that debate, then tell me you still think Buckley was an intellectual 🙄
Also why it is really annoying when people talk about the old days of conservative intellectuals. Watch that debate, then tell me you still think Buckley was an intellectual 🙄
An interesting aspect of this is that in the lead up to the debate Buckley himself was dismissive of Baldwin and other Black theorists and thinkers at the time. It’s why he looked the fool, he was sure Baldwin was simply a bitter guy with hate for white people.
One of the lasting impacts of William Buckley getting dog walked by James Baldwin in the Cambridge debate in 1965 was that racial conservatism decided it was easier to dismiss Black ideas because they couldn't win the argument.
December 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Also why it is really annoying when people talk about the old days of conservative intellectuals. Watch that debate, then tell me you still think Buckley was an intellectual 🙄
Also why it is really annoying when people talk about the old days of conservative intellectuals. Watch that debate, then tell me you still think Buckley was an intellectual 🙄
Breathing a sigh of relief and otherwise changing nothing
how are you celebrating California Has Filled Up Its Water Reservoir Day today, citizen comrade
December 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Breathing a sigh of relief and otherwise changing nothing
Reposted by Tedra Osell
All gifts to CalMatters now have 4x the impact until Dec. 31st thanks to now three matching funds. bit.ly/4pyQvHg
December 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
All gifts to CalMatters now have 4x the impact until Dec. 31st thanks to now three matching funds. bit.ly/4pyQvHg
This is unconscionable. America hates children.
I don't want to give this clicks, but there is a big push from the right to heighten policing and punishment in K-12 schools at the same time as they impose censorship and push RW indoctrination there and as they heighten surveillance and militarize local policing.
December 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is unconscionable. America hates children.
We keep alive my husband’s family tradition of yes those are real candles on the Xmas tree.
December 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
We keep alive my husband’s family tradition of yes those are real candles on the Xmas tree.
Yay for Xmas our internet came back on! (It was out all day yesterday and all morning today bc storm. But we were lucky and never lost power)
December 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Yay for Xmas our internet came back on! (It was out all day yesterday and all morning today bc storm. But we were lucky and never lost power)
Dagnabit, I wish I’d been this clever
merry christmas, my gf got us a print sub to @theonion.com and gave it to me like this
December 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Dagnabit, I wish I’d been this clever
This is a nice thread and yes, agreed.
I am not a Christian of course but like all Americans I have spent my life marinating in Christian mythography, and so around this time of year I have a lot of thoughts about the Nativity and the part where the innkeeper says there's no room in the inn.
December 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This is a nice thread and yes, agreed.
Medusa is having a cozy Xmas morning
December 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Medusa is having a cozy Xmas morning
The annual tradition
What did we get stuck in our rectums last year? defector.com/what-did-we-...
What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year? | Defector
This is the time of year to be grateful for not having things stuck in our asses, and to think of those less fortunate than us. So spare a thought for those Americans who misjudged the capacity of the...
defector.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The annual tradition
I would absolutely read this paper (part of a thread of entertaining headlines)
December 25, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I would absolutely read this paper (part of a thread of entertaining headlines)
Reposted by Tedra Osell
James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
Weird things I am unable to find in grocery stores this year: blood oranges and red cabbage. ?!?
December 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Weird things I am unable to find in grocery stores this year: blood oranges and red cabbage. ?!?
Reposted by Tedra Osell
It's a busy day in Bethlehem and nobody really notices the couple who have come to be counted. As imagined by the great Pieter Bruegel.
December 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It's a busy day in Bethlehem and nobody really notices the couple who have come to be counted. As imagined by the great Pieter Bruegel.
Merry Christmas From a Cat Who Has Been Thwarted In Her Desire to Drink the Preservative-Containing Tree Water Which is Probably Bad for Her Kidneys.
December 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Merry Christmas From a Cat Who Has Been Thwarted In Her Desire to Drink the Preservative-Containing Tree Water Which is Probably Bad for Her Kidneys.
Excellent!
December 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Excellent!
Dads taking their daughters’ feelings seriously. ❤️
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
December 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Dads taking their daughters’ feelings seriously. ❤️
Jfc the details in this article.
The FDA Often Doesn’t Test Generic Drugs for Quality Concerns, So ProPublica Did
Billions of prescriptions for generic drugs are filled in the U.S. annually. The FDA tests only a few dozen of them every year, its own records show, and it has largely dismissed warnings about contam...
www.propublica.org
December 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Jfc the details in this article.
From the rooftops pls
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
From the rooftops pls
Since the beginning of this year, the org I volunteer with has spent $45,910.34 solely on sending alerts to let ppl know where 🧊 is operating. In Dec we’ve already spent $5,779.00.
We’re truly a tiny grassroots org and we serve THREE counties. Please help us keep our neighbors safe next year.
We’re truly a tiny grassroots org and we serve THREE counties. Please help us keep our neighbors safe next year.
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December 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Since the beginning of this year, the org I volunteer with has spent $45,910.34 solely on sending alerts to let ppl know where 🧊 is operating. In Dec we’ve already spent $5,779.00.
We’re truly a tiny grassroots org and we serve THREE counties. Please help us keep our neighbors safe next year.
We’re truly a tiny grassroots org and we serve THREE counties. Please help us keep our neighbors safe next year.
I had a boss who did something like this once. I was very direct with him in an open all company meeting about it and got scolded afterwards, but by then I already knew I was going to be quitting soon.
NYT shows how Bari Weiss really screwed this up.
She didn't attend any of the 5 screenings of the story, which began on Dec. 12.
She only first weighed in on Thursday, and the show incorporated her suggestions.
She then waited until weekend to ask for more edits.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...
She didn't attend any of the 5 screenings of the story, which began on Dec. 12.
She only first weighed in on Thursday, and the show incorporated her suggestions.
She then waited until weekend to ask for more edits.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...
Turmoil at CBS News After Bari Weiss Pulls a ‘60 Minutes’ Segment
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I had a boss who did something like this once. I was very direct with him in an open all company meeting about it and got scolded afterwards, but by then I already knew I was going to be quitting soon.
I hope everyone gets some time off this week from work and, if necessary, exhausting relatives. And exhausting news. Bake yourself something yummy, take a free candy cane at the counter, watch the birds outside, pet a cat. ❤️🎄
December 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I hope everyone gets some time off this week from work and, if necessary, exhausting relatives. And exhausting news. Bake yourself something yummy, take a free candy cane at the counter, watch the birds outside, pet a cat. ❤️🎄
Reposted by Tedra Osell
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.