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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 9h

The Romantics are overrated.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 9h

Assuming your math is correct, it’s only a liveable wage if you can keep that pace up for 8 hours a day 5 days a week in that bent-over position, in 90-100 degree heat (summer temps in the CA Central Valley, where most US table grapes and raisins are grown). Which: no, ppl can’t actually do that.

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 20h

Lol, my best friend (also a middle aged white lady) suggested I start this business when I once got her $1500 refund from an airline that fucked up her flight.

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 20h

You’re not. They ignored it.

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 20h

👆🏼thus (esp the younger folks burning themselves both ends, 100%)

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 20h

A very large number of my fellow volunteers with the local rapid response group are, like myself, middle-aged or older white women. Which makes the claims that 🧊 is being threatened fucking hilarious (and lets me make fun of them to their faces).

Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 20h

Oh man fall is the time I really miss the east coast (CA fall is lovely, but y’all easterners have way too much writing about how great your autumn is, darn you guys)

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 21h

New apple review is up: one of my favorite apples, and favorite-NAMED apples -- the ASHMEAD'S KERNEL.

Apple Review #13: Ashmead’s Kernel

This apple sounds like some Clive Barker shit. Like it’s a forbidden relic — an infernal device you use to enter the Labyrinth of Hell. (It continues its horror pedigree by tasting just…

terribleminds.com

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 21h

Columbus Day largely exists to quell anti-Italian sentiment. It got so bad that in 1891, New Orleans saw the largest lynching in American history, where a mob murdered 11 Italian-Americans. People accused Italian migrants of being prone to crime or having Mafia ties.
themobmuseum.org/blog/columbu...

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 21h

Yikes!

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 21h

UFW’s use of social media to show us the labor that goes into our food is brilliant.

United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 21h

"Maria" is rolling up raisins under the hot Madera sun. To earn $70, she has to roll 1,000 sheets! Each row has around 250 sheet. It's hard grueling work walking on the burning sand for hours rolling one sheet after another. #WeFeedYou

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 1d

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 1d

🫣

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 1d

Lol that didn’t even occur to me, duh

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly this

Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 1d

Cops that quit because the mayor is too liberal are the EXACT cops you want out of your force.

(A savvy news person might consider that. Bari is not that person 🙄)

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 1d

Why do they both only have one wing?

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 1d

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

ICE pulled GUNS on 3 people in the Rogers Park area today.

In just a single Chicago neighborhood today, ICE went after
rapid responders, "pulling guns on at least three people and arresting one volunteer."

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

We don't know how many people they took. The last update I got from a source I trust was between three and six, and they weren't even entirely sure about that range. ICE was also far more aggressive with our rapid responders today, pulling guns on at least three people and arresting one volunteer.

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 1d

Yah too much of the halfassed stuff that happens in classrooms happens bc teachers truly don’t have time to plan/learn/prepare properly. If the class is good someone is working unpaid hours, probably a lot of them.

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure in the race to the bottom of the funding barrel it’s true that there are plenty of ppl who think the Socratic method just means asking questions. There is nothing in education that doesn’t get grossly oversimplified to save a lot of money.

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 1d

Ironically, student-led learning and flipped classrooms rely on the teacher knowing their subject area very well indeed. You have to have a holistic understanding to ask the right questions and spot the moments that catalyze the epiphanies.

Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 1d

flipped classrooms & the unquestioned shift toward “student-led learning” were also part of the deprofessionalization->adjunctification->mechanization program whose ultimate goal was a fully administrative university

John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 1d

The over-reliance on standardization as the mechanism for writing instruction really was a pretty unbeatable context to produce de-professionalized teachers okay with using AI to grade

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday!

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Gloria Pan @glopan.bsky.social · 1d

Another heartbreaking mass shooting, this time in Leland, MS. Perhaps it’s barely getting coverage because MS is No. 1 nationally for worst gun violence… something it surely encourages with some of the loosest gun safety policy in the the nation.

#MomSky

Newtown Action Alliance @newtownaction.org · 2d

Barely making the news!

The mass shooting took place in downtown Leland, Mississippi after the local high school's homecoming football game.

According to the Gun Violence Archive there have been more than 330 mass shootings this year.

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

The small town of Leland, Miss., was rocked by the shooting, which took place late Friday. n.pr/46LOd0X

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 1d

To all who enter here: this space is Mine

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