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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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)
I could watch this a hundred times. Just put the poor goddamn thing out of its misery.
Joke of the day from Moscow: Russia tried to unveil its first humanoid AI robot, Aidol. Key word: tried. The robot collapsed during its debut, forcing organizers to cut the presentation short. Their rushed attempt to lift the prop only made things worse.
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I could watch this a hundred times. Just put the poor goddamn thing out of its misery.
No one reading this needs to be told this but I can’t help myself: his bullshit is making the country *less safe* (in many ways, this being just the latest)
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
No one reading this needs to be told this but I can’t help myself: his bullshit is making the country *less safe* (in many ways, this being just the latest)
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42 people have already donated $2,200 and we have great news: A donor is matching our first $10,000! Donate today to double the size of your contribution. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
42 people have already donated $2,200 and we have great news: A donor is matching our first $10,000! Donate today to double the size of your contribution. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...
Money’s a bit tight and I have a lot of other places to donate, but $5 -> $99 worth of food for kids is too good a deal to pass up.
Brief pause here to re-up the thread start -- and announce we're now up to +$47 in per-donor matches, plus the extra $1-for-$1 match!
That means a $5 contribution gets us +$99! That's four entire bags of food 💪💪
(Or 546 granola bars if you want an item-based metric!)
bsky.app/profile/greg...
That means a $5 contribution gets us +$99! That's four entire bags of food 💪💪
(Or 546 granola bars if you want an item-based metric!)
bsky.app/profile/greg...
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11th ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FUNDRAISING THREAD
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It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids!
➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua...
➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise...
(Plus other donation options in thread!)
11th ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FUNDRAISING THREAD
***
It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids!
➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua...
➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise...
(Plus other donation options in thread!)
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Money’s a bit tight and I have a lot of other places to donate, but $5 -> $99 worth of food for kids is too good a deal to pass up.
Medusa is enjoying Veterans Day (bc I have the day off) but I have to pee.
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Medusa is enjoying Veterans Day (bc I have the day off) but I have to pee.
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Scarleteen has been providing accurate, inclusive, joyful, sensitive, trans and queer-led sex, health, and relationships education since 1998. We believe health educators should have healthcare and we’re raising $40,000 to do it. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Scarleteen has been providing accurate, inclusive, joyful, sensitive, trans and queer-led sex, health, and relationships education since 1998. We believe health educators should have healthcare and we’re raising $40,000 to do it. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...
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Border Patrol agents led by Greg Bovino have used force far more often relative to assaults they've faced than anywhere else in that agency, according to a new @pogo.org & Amer. Uni. Investigative Reporting Workshop analysis of four ys of federal data
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
Greg Bovino’s Border Patrol Agents Use Disproportionate Force, Data…
Border Patrol agents in the El Centro Sector have reported using force on other people more than three times as many times as they have faced assaults – a ratio higher than anywhere else in the agency...
www.pogo.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Border Patrol agents led by Greg Bovino have used force far more often relative to assaults they've faced than anywhere else in that agency, according to a new @pogo.org & Amer. Uni. Investigative Reporting Workshop analysis of four ys of federal data
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
This is really cool: a reconstruction from seismic recordings of the sound of the end of WWI. Wait til the end.
IWM - WW1 Armistice Interpretation (Sound Installation), by Coda to Coda
1 track album
codatocoda.bandcamp.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This is really cool: a reconstruction from seismic recordings of the sound of the end of WWI. Wait til the end.
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Just a reminder how much Republicans led by Trump hate veterans that they'll do anything and file any motion to cut off food to a million of them on the eve of Veterans' Day. And they'll do it again in January.
Plans to halt food stamps Nov. 1 will impact more than 1 million veterans
Monthly food stamps to low-income veterans will end Nov. 1, as funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is scheduled to run out.
www.stripes.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Just a reminder how much Republicans led by Trump hate veterans that they'll do anything and file any motion to cut off food to a million of them on the eve of Veterans' Day. And they'll do it again in January.
There is no bottom to the corruption.
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
There is no bottom to the corruption.
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@vwwhitmore.bsky.social was so kind to share this link in which you can for free, via the internet, fax your senators. You could probably even just copy paste the 5calls.org script in there
Get em from all sides. Don't let them hide from their constituents
faxzero.com/fax_senate.php
Get em from all sides. Don't let them hide from their constituents
faxzero.com/fax_senate.php
Fax Senators
FaxZero lets you send free faxes to your senators with no subscription or sign-up.
faxzero.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
@vwwhitmore.bsky.social was so kind to share this link in which you can for free, via the internet, fax your senators. You could probably even just copy paste the 5calls.org script in there
Get em from all sides. Don't let them hide from their constituents
faxzero.com/fax_senate.php
Get em from all sides. Don't let them hide from their constituents
faxzero.com/fax_senate.php
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The blazing cowardice of the centre-right:
“Men go through life telling themselves a moment must come when they will show what they're made of. And the moment comes, and they do show. And they spend the rest of their days explaining that was neither the moment nor the true self.”
Shirley Hazzard
“Men go through life telling themselves a moment must come when they will show what they're made of. And the moment comes, and they do show. And they spend the rest of their days explaining that was neither the moment nor the true self.”
Shirley Hazzard
no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The blazing cowardice of the centre-right:
“Men go through life telling themselves a moment must come when they will show what they're made of. And the moment comes, and they do show. And they spend the rest of their days explaining that was neither the moment nor the true self.”
Shirley Hazzard
“Men go through life telling themselves a moment must come when they will show what they're made of. And the moment comes, and they do show. And they spend the rest of their days explaining that was neither the moment nor the true self.”
Shirley Hazzard
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
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And I've been doing politics for long enough to know clearly that the entire Senate Democratic caucus agreed to this decision to fold. Open your eyes. The 8 who "broke" did so with the complete blessing of Schumer and their colleagues. You don't have to play along because this is not a game. The end
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
And I've been doing politics for long enough to know clearly that the entire Senate Democratic caucus agreed to this decision to fold. Open your eyes. The 8 who "broke" did so with the complete blessing of Schumer and their colleagues. You don't have to play along because this is not a game. The end
I really do not understand what happened tonight.
in any case it is wild that voters just sent a huge message and a bunch of senate democrats are all, “it doesn’t look like anything to me”
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I really do not understand what happened tonight.
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
SCRANTON ROAD TRIP
If you need a reason to visit Scranton ⬇️🤩🐦📬
We got a Richard Scarry mini print vending machine for the shop!! 🪱🍎
November 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
SCRANTON ROAD TRIP
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Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
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Oh (italicized)
We can edit the “for” now](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mrl3p6ed5pswq22lv4crnqzl/bafkreiao4t2o2dy4qjvmysqwshudexlp2twycy24xjkl7z55cpscaa7vwi@jpeg)
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DOGE and others in the administration want to build a giant database of records by haphazardly combining info the government collected for one purpose, like paying taxes, and use it for another purpose, like targeting immigrants. We can't let this happen. takebackctrl.org/get-a-warrant
November 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
DOGE and others in the administration want to build a giant database of records by haphazardly combining info the government collected for one purpose, like paying taxes, and use it for another purpose, like targeting immigrants. We can't let this happen. takebackctrl.org/get-a-warrant
Jfc this is my life
ME: [extremely burnt out] I need to take the day off to relax
ALSO ME: I wonder if there is a way that I could relax that would be more productive
ALSO ME: I wonder if there is a way that I could relax that would be more productive
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Jfc this is my life
Local orgs are doing this.
Of course, we run into local lawmakers/cops saying “we can’t make the feds do anything, which is why we have to show up and clear their paths as they kidnap people”
Of course, we run into local lawmakers/cops saying “we can’t make the feds do anything, which is why we have to show up and clear their paths as they kidnap people”
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Local orgs are doing this.
Of course, we run into local lawmakers/cops saying “we can’t make the feds do anything, which is why we have to show up and clear their paths as they kidnap people”
Of course, we run into local lawmakers/cops saying “we can’t make the feds do anything, which is why we have to show up and clear their paths as they kidnap people”