Colleen O'Connell (she/her)
@msocfored.bsky.social
Educator 👩🏼🏫 Public Education Advocate 📢 Unionist & NEASO/NSO Member ✊🏻 Cat Whisperer 🐈
I’m just a girl
living in Ohio
asking her legislature
to do literally anything real for working people.
(Hint: You’re getting colder, my dudes.)
living in Ohio
asking her legislature
to do literally anything real for working people.
(Hint: You’re getting colder, my dudes.)
Ohioans will need to submit their photo ID to watch pornography beginning this fall, with explicit content giant PornHub likely to consider pulling out of providing content to the state. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/16/o...
Ohio Republicans pass pornography age verification ID law as part of state budget • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohioans will need to submit their photo ID to watch pornography beginning this fall, with explicit content giant PornHub likely to consider pulling out of providing content to the state.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
July 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I’m just a girl
living in Ohio
asking her legislature
to do literally anything real for working people.
(Hint: You’re getting colder, my dudes.)
living in Ohio
asking her legislature
to do literally anything real for working people.
(Hint: You’re getting colder, my dudes.)
“I’m looking out the window on the plane,” Thomas told the Chronicle, “and I’m hoping the plane crashes and I die.”
The shit this man has been through, all done in our name… The shit so many have been and are enduring (or not surviving) in our name…
What the actual fuck are we doing?
The shit this man has been through, all done in our name… The shit so many have been and are enduring (or not surviving) in our name…
What the actual fuck are we doing?
Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base.
This man has no citizenship now.
This man has no citizenship now.
Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported
He has no citizenship to any country, despite SCOTUS case
www.austinchronicle.com
June 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
“I’m looking out the window on the plane,” Thomas told the Chronicle, “and I’m hoping the plane crashes and I die.”
The shit this man has been through, all done in our name… The shit so many have been and are enduring (or not surviving) in our name…
What the actual fuck are we doing?
The shit this man has been through, all done in our name… The shit so many have been and are enduring (or not surviving) in our name…
What the actual fuck are we doing?
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Ohio House Republicans are trying to ban diversity & inclusion in K-12 schools w/House Bill 155 & companion bill Senate Bill 113.
This comes as 2 federal lawsuits by @ACLU & @NEAToday are challenging Trump admin’s attempt to ban DEI programs in K-12 schools.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/05/08/o...
This comes as 2 federal lawsuits by @ACLU & @NEAToday are challenging Trump admin’s attempt to ban DEI programs in K-12 schools.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/05/08/o...
Ohio House lawmakers introduce companion bill that would ban DEI in K-12 schools • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio House Republicans are trying to ban diversity and inclusion in K-12 schools.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
May 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Ohio House Republicans are trying to ban diversity & inclusion in K-12 schools w/House Bill 155 & companion bill Senate Bill 113.
This comes as 2 federal lawsuits by @ACLU & @NEAToday are challenging Trump admin’s attempt to ban DEI programs in K-12 schools.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/05/08/o...
This comes as 2 federal lawsuits by @ACLU & @NEAToday are challenging Trump admin’s attempt to ban DEI programs in K-12 schools.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/05/08/o...
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College professors take first step toward repealing anti-DEI higher education law
A group that includes faculty from Youngstown State University submitted voter signatures and paperwork in hopes of getting referendum on Ohio Senate Bill 1 before voters in November
signalcleveland.org/college-prof...
A group that includes faculty from Youngstown State University submitted voter signatures and paperwork in hopes of getting referendum on Ohio Senate Bill 1 before voters in November
signalcleveland.org/college-prof...
College professors take first step toward repealing anti-DEI higher education law - Signal Cleveland
A group submitted voter signatures and paperwork in the hopes of getting a referendum on Ohio Senate Bill 1 before voters in November.
signalcleveland.org
April 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
College professors take first step toward repealing anti-DEI higher education law
A group that includes faculty from Youngstown State University submitted voter signatures and paperwork in hopes of getting referendum on Ohio Senate Bill 1 before voters in November
signalcleveland.org/college-prof...
A group that includes faculty from Youngstown State University submitted voter signatures and paperwork in hopes of getting referendum on Ohio Senate Bill 1 before voters in November
signalcleveland.org/college-prof...
There’s something about Karoline Leavitt that vaguely reminds me of Ann Veal (aka Bland, Egg, Plant, Ann Hog, Yam, etc). Like a fascist remix of her.
April 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
There’s something about Karoline Leavitt that vaguely reminds me of Ann Veal (aka Bland, Egg, Plant, Ann Hog, Yam, etc). Like a fascist remix of her.
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Anyway. The scriptwriters for this season of "Life on Earth" getting a little heavy-handed with the plot points again
April 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Anyway. The scriptwriters for this season of "Life on Earth" getting a little heavy-handed with the plot points again
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Outside of outright theft, the accumulation of great wealth is a function of opportunities created by American society. The wealthy in America have used their wealth to aid in the destruction of the economic engine that made them wealthy.
April 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Outside of outright theft, the accumulation of great wealth is a function of opportunities created by American society. The wealthy in America have used their wealth to aid in the destruction of the economic engine that made them wealthy.
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This is where your Harry Potter money goes
jk rowling funded a case going before the supreme court that argues it should be legal to discriminate against and persecute trans ppl.
yet still we have to listen to ‘centrists’ claiming she isn’t bigoted she just has ‘a difference of opinion’.
no trans ppl have a voice in these proceedings.
yet still we have to listen to ‘centrists’ claiming she isn’t bigoted she just has ‘a difference of opinion’.
no trans ppl have a voice in these proceedings.
April 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
This is where your Harry Potter money goes
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BREAKING: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is firing 1,500 workers, and will soon have only about 200 remaining.
That means the CFPB will be largely unable to carry out its mission of overseeing financial institutions and regulating companies that scam consumers.
That means the CFPB will be largely unable to carry out its mission of overseeing financial institutions and regulating companies that scam consumers.
April 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
BREAKING: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is firing 1,500 workers, and will soon have only about 200 remaining.
That means the CFPB will be largely unable to carry out its mission of overseeing financial institutions and regulating companies that scam consumers.
That means the CFPB will be largely unable to carry out its mission of overseeing financial institutions and regulating companies that scam consumers.
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RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is
April 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a father, a husband, and a union worker.
The Trump administration kidnapped him in an IKEA parking lot while his 5-year-old son watched in the backseat of the car.
But he should have never been taken.
The Trump administration kidnapped him in an IKEA parking lot while his 5-year-old son watched in the backseat of the car.
But he should have never been taken.
Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
April 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a father, a husband, and a union worker.
The Trump administration kidnapped him in an IKEA parking lot while his 5-year-old son watched in the backseat of the car.
But he should have never been taken.
The Trump administration kidnapped him in an IKEA parking lot while his 5-year-old son watched in the backseat of the car.
But he should have never been taken.
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@rollingstone.com showing us how to write a headline that is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
April 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
@rollingstone.com showing us how to write a headline that is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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it causes me such pain to see snooty liberals respond to a story about a horrific, incurable, fatal occupational disease like black lung with “but how did they vote????” as if that fucking matters
April 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
it causes me such pain to see snooty liberals respond to a story about a horrific, incurable, fatal occupational disease like black lung with “but how did they vote????” as if that fucking matters
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He came wearing a mask. Knowing full well the trauma he was about to inflict. Feeling too ashamed to show his face. And yet willing to do this anyway.
“Mommy, no. Mommy.”
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
He came wearing a mask. Knowing full well the trauma he was about to inflict. Feeling too ashamed to show his face. And yet willing to do this anyway.
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Don't make me tap the sign again. Oh wait, they made me tap the sign again.
I'll say it again: Being able to predictably move the markets is a hell of a way to cheat.
I'll say it again: Being able to predictably move the markets is a hell of a way to cheat.
Wonder how many people near trump shorted the market on Friday and then closed their short today before the tarriff "pause" announced.
I wonder, in particular, if Musk did.
Being able to predictably move the markets is a hell of a way to cheat.
I suspect we'll see similar every few months.
I wonder, in particular, if Musk did.
Being able to predictably move the markets is a hell of a way to cheat.
I suspect we'll see similar every few months.
April 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Don't make me tap the sign again. Oh wait, they made me tap the sign again.
I'll say it again: Being able to predictably move the markets is a hell of a way to cheat.
I'll say it again: Being able to predictably move the markets is a hell of a way to cheat.
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Meanwhile, a black lung epidemic is tearing through Appalachia, killing men as young as their 30s. And the Trump admin just defunded NIOSH, the worker health agency that’s been tracking it. inthesetimes.com/article/coal...
April 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Meanwhile, a black lung epidemic is tearing through Appalachia, killing men as young as their 30s. And the Trump admin just defunded NIOSH, the worker health agency that’s been tracking it. inthesetimes.com/article/coal...
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An international minimum wage is a policy that would improve "free trade" in the pro-worker way people claim to want. Instead we are talking about tariffs in a conversation that is often insincere/ insane.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-interna...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-interna...
An International Minimum Wage
Tariffs? Why? Hello? Hello?
www.hamiltonnolan.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
An international minimum wage is a policy that would improve "free trade" in the pro-worker way people claim to want. Instead we are talking about tariffs in a conversation that is often insincere/ insane.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-interna...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-interna...
Folks who cosplay labor to line their pockets are… 🥁 *drumroll* 🥁 scabs.
While your rights as a worker are gutted and your advocates in DOL are cut, this scab literally ate cake. And blew money. In honor of herself. 🤮Gross.
While your rights as a worker are gutted and your advocates in DOL are cut, this scab literally ate cake. And blew money. In honor of herself. 🤮Gross.
Today DOL social channels were full of HBD messages for Sec. Chavez-DeRemer. She's having a party at headquarters, complete with booze, flower arrangements and photos of her & her hubby on large screens.
Does it get any more "let them eat cake" than golf tournaments and birthday soirees?
Does it get any more "let them eat cake" than golf tournaments and birthday soirees?
April 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Folks who cosplay labor to line their pockets are… 🥁 *drumroll* 🥁 scabs.
While your rights as a worker are gutted and your advocates in DOL are cut, this scab literally ate cake. And blew money. In honor of herself. 🤮Gross.
While your rights as a worker are gutted and your advocates in DOL are cut, this scab literally ate cake. And blew money. In honor of herself. 🤮Gross.
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🚨 Ohio lawmakers are threatening to defund our beloved public libraries, and we need you to take action! We’ve created a factsheet that can be used as a script to make it easier for you to contact legislators.Let’s come together to protect our libraries, a pillar of our communities: lnkd.in/gnuRkWaQ
April 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
🚨 Ohio lawmakers are threatening to defund our beloved public libraries, and we need you to take action! We’ve created a factsheet that can be used as a script to make it easier for you to contact legislators.Let’s come together to protect our libraries, a pillar of our communities: lnkd.in/gnuRkWaQ
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#Ohio House's proposed state budget would cut $100 million in funding for public libraries
"...more than $100 million loss for public libraries and abolishes the Public Library Fund completely"
www.wosu.org/2025-04-03/o...
"...more than $100 million loss for public libraries and abolishes the Public Library Fund completely"
www.wosu.org/2025-04-03/o...
Ohio House proposed state budget cuts $100 million in funding for public libraries
The Ohio House version of the two-year budget changes the way public libraries are funded by eliminating the Public Library Fund and instead earmarking a flat line item amount for each year.
www.wosu.org
April 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
#Ohio House's proposed state budget would cut $100 million in funding for public libraries
"...more than $100 million loss for public libraries and abolishes the Public Library Fund completely"
www.wosu.org/2025-04-03/o...
"...more than $100 million loss for public libraries and abolishes the Public Library Fund completely"
www.wosu.org/2025-04-03/o...
TIL that not only can *you* subscribe to @kimkelly.bsky.social’s bad ass patreon, you can also gift a patreon membership to someone cool!
AND you can choose to pay all up front if you can afford it (which seems helpful if you can). www.patreon.com/kimkelly
AND you can choose to pay all up front if you can afford it (which seems helpful if you can). www.patreon.com/kimkelly
April 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
TIL that not only can *you* subscribe to @kimkelly.bsky.social’s bad ass patreon, you can also gift a patreon membership to someone cool!
AND you can choose to pay all up front if you can afford it (which seems helpful if you can). www.patreon.com/kimkelly
AND you can choose to pay all up front if you can afford it (which seems helpful if you can). www.patreon.com/kimkelly
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Happy Monday. We are not victims. We are the workers who have built this world—and it’s time we take back what’s ours.
April 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Happy Monday. We are not victims. We are the workers who have built this world—and it’s time we take back what’s ours.
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🧵 We're extremely concerned DOGE has gained access to data that would help them target farmworkers & organizations serving them.
Please help us spread the word in your communities. 🚨
Here's what we know.
Please help us spread the word in your communities. 🚨
Here's what we know.
April 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
🧵 We're extremely concerned DOGE has gained access to data that would help them target farmworkers & organizations serving them.
Please help us spread the word in your communities. 🚨
Here's what we know.
Please help us spread the word in your communities. 🚨
Here's what we know.
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We can't tell you how much it meant to see all these signs. To see so many people stand against tyranny and greed. To know how many people are willing to fight back against the destruction of our institutions. Thank you, thank you, thank you. ♥️🤍💙
📸: @katiecouric.bsky.social via Instagram
📸: @katiecouric.bsky.social via Instagram
April 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
We can't tell you how much it meant to see all these signs. To see so many people stand against tyranny and greed. To know how many people are willing to fight back against the destruction of our institutions. Thank you, thank you, thank you. ♥️🤍💙
📸: @katiecouric.bsky.social via Instagram
📸: @katiecouric.bsky.social via Instagram