Old Tehanu
@oldtehanu.bsky.social
Writer. Science fan. Maps matter. Biology is queer af. Worked at MS, Public Schools, & public transit. Gadfly. Old dragons don't die. Eunoia.
Just Say NO.
What power you have, use it against oligarchs & Nazls.
Banner: 1982, young me.
Sry 4 typos.
Just Say NO.
What power you have, use it against oligarchs & Nazls.
Banner: 1982, young me.
Sry 4 typos.
This is a kindness. Thank you. CR is almost certainly a better place ti live right now, and to fight the US from.
SCOOP: Costa Rica says it will still accept Kilmar Abrego García, contradicting Trump’s DOJ
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Costa Rica says it would accept Kilmar Abrego García, contradicting U.S.
The statement from a Costa Rican official conflicts with what the Trump administration told a federal judge about its attempts to deport the undocumented immigrant
wapo.st
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This is a kindness. Thank you. CR is almost certainly a better place ti live right now, and to fight the US from.
Within the past 5 to 7 years of a person's life, they have what used to be called terminal drop.
Everything goes fast, cascading, and very visible.
Everything goes fast, cascading, and very visible.
The President Is Losing Control of Himself
Donald Trump’s outbursts on social media this week were different than usual.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Donald Trump’s outbursts on social media this week were different than usual.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The President Is Losing Control of Himself
Donald Trump’s outbursts on social media this week were different than usual.
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Within the past 5 to 7 years of a person's life, they have what used to be called terminal drop.
Everything goes fast, cascading, and very visible.
Everything goes fast, cascading, and very visible.
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This is the worst draft agreement I've ever seen
Annotated: the full text of Donald Trump’s 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan
www.ft.com/content/44d1...
Annotated: the full text of Donald Trump’s 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan
www.ft.com/content/44d1...
www.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is the worst draft agreement I've ever seen
Annotated: the full text of Donald Trump’s 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan
www.ft.com/content/44d1...
Annotated: the full text of Donald Trump’s 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan
www.ft.com/content/44d1...
Whatever. He cannot even get anyone to bid for Alaska or the Gulf.
Oil is gutted. He should be using his bromance with MBS to do something about that, maybe?
Oil is gutted. He should be using his bromance with MBS to do something about that, maybe?
November 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Whatever. He cannot even get anyone to bid for Alaska or the Gulf.
Oil is gutted. He should be using his bromance with MBS to do something about that, maybe?
Oil is gutted. He should be using his bromance with MBS to do something about that, maybe?
So he is thinking a war with Venezuala will allow him to cancel 2028 elections?
Wow. I guess that was his only take away from his 'peace talks' with Ukraine.
Problem is, Ukraine is not the US. But he failed Seseme Street and doesn't know these things are not like each other.
Wow. I guess that was his only take away from his 'peace talks' with Ukraine.
Problem is, Ukraine is not the US. But he failed Seseme Street and doesn't know these things are not like each other.
New York Times – Visual Investigation
How the U.S. Navy is deployed near Venezuela
[GIFT ARTICLE]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
While someone has told TACO there are no presidential elections when the country is at war, the United States has managed to hold them.
legalclarity.org/can-there-be...
How the U.S. Navy is deployed near Venezuela
[GIFT ARTICLE]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
While someone has told TACO there are no presidential elections when the country is at war, the United States has managed to hold them.
legalclarity.org/can-there-be...
Satellite Data Reveals How the U.S. Navy Is Deployed Near Venezuela
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
So he is thinking a war with Venezuala will allow him to cancel 2028 elections?
Wow. I guess that was his only take away from his 'peace talks' with Ukraine.
Problem is, Ukraine is not the US. But he failed Seseme Street and doesn't know these things are not like each other.
Wow. I guess that was his only take away from his 'peace talks' with Ukraine.
Problem is, Ukraine is not the US. But he failed Seseme Street and doesn't know these things are not like each other.
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GIFT ARTICLE:
Money isn’t speech. Saying it is, while removing all guardrails against corruption, has made our nation an oligarchy. The Roberts Court has enthusiastically embraced this policy objective.
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Money isn’t speech. Saying it is, while removing all guardrails against corruption, has made our nation an oligarchy. The Roberts Court has enthusiastically embraced this policy objective.
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How billionaires took over American politics
The current concentration of wealth is unlike anything in history. So is billionaires’ involvement in politics.
wapo.st
November 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
GIFT ARTICLE:
Money isn’t speech. Saying it is, while removing all guardrails against corruption, has made our nation an oligarchy. The Roberts Court has enthusiastically embraced this policy objective.
wapo.st/48nkqMN
Money isn’t speech. Saying it is, while removing all guardrails against corruption, has made our nation an oligarchy. The Roberts Court has enthusiastically embraced this policy objective.
wapo.st/48nkqMN
I do not believe that # at all.
Just look at the graph - employment growth in the #US: Massive contraction since Trump took over. And unemployment hits 4-year high…
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US adds 119,000 jobs in September but unemployment hits four-year peak
Figures complicate Fed decision on rates next month
on.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I do not believe that # at all.
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"Women are ruining the workplace. Before women, of course, the workplace was perfect. It was full of trees. There was no need to labor with your hands. You didn’t have to wear pants, or any form of clothes. Every kind of animal was there."
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Women Keep Ruining the Workplace!!
They keep feeding us fruit, and now we have to wear clothes.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
"Women are ruining the workplace. Before women, of course, the workplace was perfect. It was full of trees. There was no need to labor with your hands. You didn’t have to wear pants, or any form of clothes. Every kind of animal was there."
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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“Nazis are bad,” he said anonymously.
For fear of reprisal.
For fear of reprisal.
November 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“Nazis are bad,” he said anonymously.
For fear of reprisal.
For fear of reprisal.
Sedition is indeed punishable by death, and is defined as usurping the Constitution and laws of the USA.
Who is doing sedition here?
Who is doing sedition here?
The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Sedition is indeed punishable by death, and is defined as usurping the Constitution and laws of the USA.
Who is doing sedition here?
Who is doing sedition here?
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As I thought. Trump crony Steve Witkoff has been attempting to negotiate a Ukrainian surrender with the Kremlin — without the Ukrainians, without the Europeans, and (evidently) without much of the Trump administration. A betrayal of Ukraine by Washington, if it stands. [gift link]
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Ukraine and Europeans rebuke U.S. plan as ‘capitulation’ to Russia
Kyiv’s European partners said they should be involved in proposals for the security of Ukraine and Europe, indicating they hadn’t even been briefed on the plan.
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
As I thought. Trump crony Steve Witkoff has been attempting to negotiate a Ukrainian surrender with the Kremlin — without the Ukrainians, without the Europeans, and (evidently) without much of the Trump administration. A betrayal of Ukraine by Washington, if it stands. [gift link]
wapo.st/4ob1mWS
wapo.st/4ob1mWS
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Trump and Miller just put a target on the backs of the Democrats who put out an advertisement advising military members to follow the law. They are demanding that they be arrested and hung.
Democratic Lawmakers Tell Military to Refuse Illegal Orders
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Trump and Miller just put a target on the backs of the Democrats who put out an advertisement advising military members to follow the law. They are demanding that they be arrested and hung.
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My love for science origin story is that my dad was an engineer on the primary mirror project for the Hubble Space Telescope.
So I was super interested in this feature from @natastron.nature.com about the next space telescope! It'll be to hunt for life on other worlds.
So I was super interested in this feature from @natastron.nature.com about the next space telescope! It'll be to hunt for life on other worlds.
NASA’s bold new telescope will do more than just hunt for life
Nature Astronomy - The Habitable Worlds Observatory will look for inhabited worlds beyond our Solar System in the 2040s and scientists are dreaming of what else it might do.
rdcu.be
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
My love for science origin story is that my dad was an engineer on the primary mirror project for the Hubble Space Telescope.
So I was super interested in this feature from @natastron.nature.com about the next space telescope! It'll be to hunt for life on other worlds.
So I was super interested in this feature from @natastron.nature.com about the next space telescope! It'll be to hunt for life on other worlds.
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Really glad to share this reporting from @greezbock.bsky.social out of Alabama for @al.com. It was fun to edit. www.al.com/educationlab...
In Alabama, public money buys textbooks that downplay slavery, call rock music ‘rebellion’
The new school choice program does little to ensure the quality of private schools.
www.al.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Really glad to share this reporting from @greezbock.bsky.social out of Alabama for @al.com. It was fun to edit. www.al.com/educationlab...
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[for context] www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/m... [gift link]
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
[for context] www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/m... [gift link]
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...
When People in Distress Deny Being Suicidal, Should They Be Believed?
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...
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🧵 plus gift link. This is not “just a sex scandal,” but a glimpse of immense, widespread corruption that continues to impact us all. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🧵 plus gift link. This is not “just a sex scandal,” but a glimpse of immense, widespread corruption that continues to impact us all. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
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And, as it turns out, he no longer uses heroine. He uses psychosis inducing drugs that are used for anesthetics and... nothing else.
RFK, Jr., not a doctor and apparently unable to understand research and the experts, needs to step down. wapo.st/4idz3Wn
CDC in turmoil after agency backpedals on debunking vaccines-autism link
The CDC’s website now says health authorities ignored evidence of a potential connection between vaccines and autism, despite dozens of studies showing no link.
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
And, as it turns out, he no longer uses heroine. He uses psychosis inducing drugs that are used for anesthetics and... nothing else.
Eee-eeew, ick, gross.
November 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Eee-eeew, ick, gross.
20 to 30 % of human men have a problem, a sickness. It keeps them quarantined from ordinary society. It lands them injail. It makes them kill those they deem weak or threatening.
This is a public health problem. Our hormones and dopamine have not evolved in line with our sensibilities.
This is a public health problem. Our hormones and dopamine have not evolved in line with our sensibilities.
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
20 to 30 % of human men have a problem, a sickness. It keeps them quarantined from ordinary society. It lands them injail. It makes them kill those they deem weak or threatening.
This is a public health problem. Our hormones and dopamine have not evolved in line with our sensibilities.
This is a public health problem. Our hormones and dopamine have not evolved in line with our sensibilities.
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Internal Memo shows 10% of Meta's revenue comes from scams: www.ft.com/content/4560...
We have to be able to hold tech platforms accountable for fraud
Algorithms ensure that people who click on scams are likely to see more of them
www.ft.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Internal Memo shows 10% of Meta's revenue comes from scams: www.ft.com/content/4560...
His 0ubl8c outbursts and tantrums are getting worse as he is feeling the pressure of people who call out his bs or who say NO.
He is not getting what he wants. And it feels nice to see his desperation boiling over.
He is not getting what he wants. And it feels nice to see his desperation boiling over.
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
His 0ubl8c outbursts and tantrums are getting worse as he is feeling the pressure of people who call out his bs or who say NO.
He is not getting what he wants. And it feels nice to see his desperation boiling over.
He is not getting what he wants. And it feels nice to see his desperation boiling over.
Teachers, does playing the chorus from Tommy Tutone's hit every time a student says 6-7
encourage them to stop?
Kimmel did a version that silences #s after "867" and it's funny and probably would cringe the kids hard.
youtu.be/6WTdTwcmxyo?...
encourage them to stop?
Kimmel did a version that silences #s after "867" and it's funny and probably would cringe the kids hard.
youtu.be/6WTdTwcmxyo?...
Tommy Tutone - 867-5309/Jenny (Official Video)
YouTube video by TommyTutoneVEVO
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November 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Teachers, does playing the chorus from Tommy Tutone's hit every time a student says 6-7
encourage them to stop?
Kimmel did a version that silences #s after "867" and it's funny and probably would cringe the kids hard.
youtu.be/6WTdTwcmxyo?...
encourage them to stop?
Kimmel did a version that silences #s after "867" and it's funny and probably would cringe the kids hard.
youtu.be/6WTdTwcmxyo?...
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JOB OPPORTUNITY- open to candidates remote within the US: @techpolicypress.bsky.social seeks an Assistant Editor to manage audience and contributor engagement! More details here: jobs.gusto.com/postings/tec...
November 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
JOB OPPORTUNITY- open to candidates remote within the US: @techpolicypress.bsky.social seeks an Assistant Editor to manage audience and contributor engagement! More details here: jobs.gusto.com/postings/tec...