Tedra Osell

I just ❤️ how the fantastic US health system now requires me to routine appeal insurance denials on grounds that are contrary to documented fact and then I have to provide said documentation in order to “appeal” their bs decision. Bc I have literally nothing better to do with my time than moar ppwk

Wondering if anyone has ever made music using the insane sounds made by an MRI

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Until adults take accountability, kids will keep responding the way their nervous systems know how to survive. Children aren’t “bad” just to be bad. Research shows much of what gets labeled as bad is the result of neglect at the relational and systemic level.

Jump (feat. Steve Vai & Travis Barker) [Coca-Cola Anthem for the FIFA World Cup 26™]

I was so excited. New amber mark! And then I thought, oh it’s that song. Ok maybe they can do something that makes it at least interesting? And then: no. (Reader I did not initially notice that it was the Coca Cola anthem for the WC. I hope Ms Mark made a shit ton of $$)

When my son was born, at his first peds appointment, I asked the doc about vaccines. Bc yes, becoming a parent is a time of high anxiety and uncertainty.

Doc gently reminded me that the diseases vaccines protect against are much worse than any negative side effects from vaccines.

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood Mural MINNEAPOLIS—Bleeding profusely as he radioed for backup against the uncooperative crowd, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Ken Fischer was reportedly injured Tuesday after making repeated atte...

This made me snort laugh.

As you can see here, right from the very first day he entered our house, Jim found great difficulty in getting settled and making the environment his own.

THREAD.

3 & 1/4 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he'd been living, in rural Cornwall, & decided he wanted to live with us instead.

We decided to call him Jim.

This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st 2022

Tweet from senator Andy Kim wishing constituents a happy Purim. The graphic is New Jersey with lots of Mardi Gras iconography for some reason

oh that’s not—

Once military folks realize this—and I think they’re beginning to—the Rs will lose elections for a generation or longer.

Holy. Shit.

GL: I’ve never trusted Trump on this…. I’m trusting what I understand to be the operation and the people leading it….
IC: You’re trusting the people leading the operation who don’t include the President?…
He’s the Commander-in-Chief, right?
GL: Sure. Yeah. But I can’t [trust him].

😱

Ollie North's mugshot from his arrest related to the Iran-Contra Affair

Ollie North on Fox "news", a few decades after Iran-Contra

The guy on the left was a US Marine Lt. Colonel who was arrested and convicted for selling missiles to Iran.

The guy on the right is a Fox "news" *snicker* "military analyst" who says Iran shouldn't have missiles.

They're the same guy.

Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists?

Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy.

Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists?

Noem: My condolences to their families

Raskin: You lied about them.

This is kind of a perfect summation of imho one of THE most important indicators of ppl’s essential moral characters: do you believe that young ppl are reliable narrators of their own experiences, or not?

That’s so awesome.

I desperately want to put in a wall mounted Chicago faucet for the kitchen because I have a fantasy of a mildew free existence. But the need for a freaking air gap for the dishwasher is putting its finger on the scale that’s already kinda unbalanced by the cost of their faucets…

Ooh Chicago faucet!

I completely agree that lewandowski is garbage but hey, chacun a son gout.

😳

Ooh I love this:

Doctor, Mexican immigrant (no papers)

Farmer, 8th grade education.

Grandmas respectively were a teacher and a school secretary, later doctor’s bookkeeper and farmer’s wife.

He is so fucking stupid I don’t understand how his brain stem continues to function.

🫂

🦄

This is why math literacy is so important.

California Ruling That Bees Are Fish Is Sea Change for Environmental Law | Stanford Law School Sometimes, in the eyes of the law, words take on meanings different from their colloquial use. “Solid waste,” under the federal statute governing

Jumped the gun: full article here.

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TIL. law.stanford.edu/2022/10/28/a...

Nor should there be

You need a puffin today.