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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 9h

a close up of a cat 's face looking at the camera .

Alt: A cats face looking into the camera, its eyes widen as it pulls its head away slowly, looking horrified

media.tenor.com

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 9h

Please do

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 12h

“Around half of the market gains captured by the S&P 500 index have been driven by tech-related stocks, Deutsche Bank warns. A separate report by Torsten Sløk of Apollo Management concurs, noting that equity investors are "dramatically overexposed" to AI investments.” 😬

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13h

The real economy is already in a deep recession. The fake AI economy is a smokescreen. And now I'm afraid that the government will throw any amount of money at it to keep it from popping.

The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns

According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot...

www.techspot.com

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 13h

Where I live now? Los Feliz (which actually the tourist pronunciation is more accurate)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 16h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 19h

A friend who works in finance opened my eyes to the fact that all of capitalism is based on the idea that raw material is free. You may have to pay for machinery to extract or process it, but not the material itself. All the way back to Locke and the “servant” whose labor accrues to the “master”.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 21h

See also this: cops are trained to think of “the public” as a threat or, at best, as unappreciative: opposition/naive. And middle- and umc white ppl think of cops as enforcers we call in against “disorder”: loud music late at night, “those crazy drivers,” vandalism, rare property theft.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 22h

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I understand why people *want* the police to intervene--normies are like, 'I thought cops are supposed to arrest people doing crimes, ICE is right there doing crimes, go do your thing'

but police organizations take nearly every opportunity to be like, 'oh you misunderstood what our thing is'

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 22h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 21h

Or in some cases personal experiences of crime or criminals. I think it’s an inherent problem of mass communication and a complex world, that we necessarily have to use abstractions. But that can be countered by well told stories about specific people, as we know from talking to ppl about abortion

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 22h

This is really good. The bit at the end—“a losing debate about crime”—rang a little bell for me; in the work I’ve been doing, the “criminals” frame is the one his supporters rely on. Bc “crime” and “criminals” are *abstractions* that people fill in with their own images (many based on tv or movies)

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 22h

Goddammit am I going to have to purchase a ridiculous inflatable cartoon animal costume..??

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 23h

They’re just gonna do a little lite slavery.

In addition, the new rule allows farm employers to charge H-2A workers for their housing, which was not allowed before. "It's a way for employers to continue to house workers and also charge them, and bring down effective wages," said Marcos Lopez of the Labor and Community Center at the University of California, Davis.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 22h

Henry Farrell on the Trump admin’s proposed “compact” for universities, arguing that the rollout signals weakness, and that academics need to band together to reject this authoritarian attack on university independence and academic freedom.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 1d

IT'S LIKE SENDING A LINK, BUT MORE WORK

www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

T-Rex: UTAHRAPTOR! I have exciting news!

T-Rex: Utahraptor! Where ARE you?

T-Rex: Have you seen Utahraptor? I have -
Dromiceiomimus: - exciting news, yes, I know. On account of how you've been hollering his name everywhere!
Dromiceiomimus: I think I saw him back the way you came.

T-Rex: UUUUUTAHRAPTOR!
Utahraptor: Yes, T-Rex?
T-Rex: GAH!

T-Rex: Utahraptor, there you are! I have EXCITING news!
Utahraptor: What is it?!
T-Rex: Guess what...!

Narrator: THIS PANEL INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK SO YOU CAN ADD IN A RECENT NEWS HEADLINE OF YOUR CHOOSING, AND THEN SEND IT TO SOMEONE WHO YOU WANT TO BE AWARE OF THAT RECENT NEWS HEADLINE

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 1d

“Consider a simple analogy” in which human beings, who are complex living creatures, are compared to metals, glibly dismissing the entire field of biology 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 16d

What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

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the option of interpreting the Idaho and West Virginia
statutes as motivated by the justified aim of excluding
all males from female sports, it is quite invidious to
interpret them as instead motivated by the unjustified
aim of excluding males who identify as female in par-
ticular.
Consider a simple analogy. Imagine that we are
back in Medieval Europe. Gold is the currency of the
land. Consequently, many merchants prefer to accept
gold and only gold as payment. However, a new move-
ment is afoot, whose members are known as the alche-
mists. The alchemists purport to have found a way of
turning iron pyrite (fool’s gold) into gold. Some people
are convinced by the claims of the alchemists, though
many others are not. This difference in attitudes
starts to lead to time-wasting interactions in which an
alchemist or fellow traveler tries to purchase a good
using iron pyrite from a merchant who, unmoved by
well-publicized insistence on the part of the alche-
mists that only irrational prejudice could lie behind
lingering doubts about the possibility of converting
iron pyrite into gold, continues to insist on only ac-
cepting gold as payment. One such merchant, whose
unofficial working policy has hitherto been to accept
only gold as payment, decides to make his policy offi-
cial by putting up a sign on his store saying, “Only
gold accepted (no iron pyrite!).”

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so sorry. I hope you are breathing easier soon. You are allowed to not doomscroll/pay attention to news while in recovery. Maybe a nice novel?

Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 1d

Of course it’s something inane. But if they want to waste $ and resources on harmless inanities, let them.

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Lalo Alcaraz @laloalcaraz.bsky.social · 1d

My latest for CaloNews.com/donate

Shadow President and man who keeps the mass deportation trains running on time, Stephen Miller, is just fed up with being accurately labeled a fascist and a Nazi. Do not mock his looks, or his height, or the fact that he IS A FASCIST AND A NAZI.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 1d

On the one hand, WTF.

On the other, hey, at least it’s not out arresting field workers and street vendors.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

www.cnn.com

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 2d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 1d

Co-signed.

Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 1d

If you encounter someone who doesn’t think this video is fighting back and worthy of some amount of praise and amplification, there is nothing that the Democrats can say or do to change their mind. They don’t care about democracy they care about destroying it.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 1d

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down: