Old Tehanu

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.

7,971 Followers 2,575 Following 10,670 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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We could be preparing for the next global pandemic or solving hunger.

Instead, we are spending billions 9n another pointless never ending war
So Bibi can have his own little faux Riviera.

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Trump Associate Boasted That Moscow Business Deal ‘Will Get Donald Elected’ (Published 2017)

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I’m reading They Knew by Sarah Kendzior. Every podcaster should interview her. She lays out an enormous amount of suspicious events that should have been investigated but weren’t. All her claims are backed up with receipts. This article was referenced so thought I’d share:

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Rewatching Stowaway tonight.

Love Toni Collete so much.

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Bad take.

Coming from a country that controls housing to legally discriminate against Muslims.

In spite of the fact, those Muslims ancestors are their own.

Being against Bibi and Xionist Supremacy is not a crime.

Nor is a dinner with a mayor, by a victim of prosecution and harassment.

SHAME.

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Who Speaks for Us? | Marilynne Robinson The representatives of our two-party system have made it into a weapon that works against the people.

“Then came Gingrich..Republicans discovered power that came with sticking to the party line, however this tactic disempowered individual lawmakers & their constituencies..Then came the next inspiration. They could change constitutional order by simply playing dead”
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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Nearly 700,000 Displaced by War in Lebanon, U.N. Says

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/w...

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Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job.

Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach.

(Free gift article)

wapo.st/4bAFCQZ

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They are all paranoid thinking that we would do to them the awful things they do to us.

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2 days ago

A poem takes words
And makes them
Not words

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2 days ago

Thank you. I appreciate the listeners as m8ch as speakers.

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Poem. No alt text due to AI.

It's a poem and if u can't see it but want to, DM me. It might be a minute, but I will send.

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Believe women. I know. It's hard. Do it anyway.

False reports are less than 2%.

We have no upside to lying.

We are stigmatized till death if we speak.

The least you can do is listen.

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Grifters gotta grift

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At every USL game this weekend, USL players paused play for 60 seconds in a powerful show of solidarity.

They’re united and ready to fight for the fair contract they deserve.

As the players stand still, America’s unions stand with them.
#StandUpForStandards

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Not trying to be hyperbolic, I fear we are on the cusp of a 9/11 type catastrophe that this regime is unwilling and unable to protect us from.

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Trump Org Files Trademarks to Put the President’s Name Front and Center at America’s 250th In one filing submitted on Friday, a “Trump 250” image was trademarked to be used on a variety of merchandise.

From meme coins to our nation’s 250th Anniversary, Trump continues to enrich himself off the backs of working Americans.

www.notus.org/donald-trump...

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Changes in paracetamol and leucovorin use after a White House briefing Changes in federal prescribing recommendations follow deliberate and transparent processes involving US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientists, which normally include input from stakeholders an...

After Yam Tits said Tylenol may cause Autism if taken during pregnancy, a new Lancet study found pregnant patients’ use of the drug in the ER dropped by ~10%, even though scientists have said repeatedly there’s no clear evidence of a causal link.

Words matter, even if from an untrustworthy Buffon🍊🤡

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I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But...

...maybe there wasn't much planning?

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Julie is going down in the history books yall. Hero.

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Amazing how much damage one malignant narcissist can cause.

www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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March 8
International Women's Day

Women's rights have been fought long and hard for ...

THEN PEDOrump, HIS EPSTEIN ADMINISTRATION AND HIS REPUBLIKKKLAN PEDOPHILE PROTECTORS TOOK OUR RIGHTS AWAY ... OUR RIGHT TO CHOOSE!!!

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3 days ago

Wow! That's great!

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3 days ago

Israel has universal healthcare
Ukraine is at war and has universal healthcare
Russia is at war and has universal healthcare
Iran is at war and was working towards universal healthcare
USA has funds for war but not universal healthcare

Which country is being mismanaged?

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3 days ago

The truth is, food shortages and hunger are largely policy and distribution problems.

People don't need to eat insects generally, and they know they just need acces or money.

Ppl work towards access, not resign themselves to crickets and maggots.

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And now I read oodles. I read so much. I library the heck of of life. I happily buy authors I want to support. I am realizing how much fiction has changed since I last knew her.

She's aged well (mostly).

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So sorry but don't despair! It's the parenthood, FYI.

I parented during the hopeful pre Trump era, and stopped reading except to and with them for years. Parenting, working, and managing the extra lives and calendars just leaves no stretches of reading time (or energy or retention)

They are gone,

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He’s also sending Witkoff and Kushner to Israel on Tuesday.

Probably nothing to do with global markets cratering and oil going parabolic

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Shit, with this regime, it may not be there

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Citizens Bank Funding ICE Detention Centers Boycott Citizens Bank, Move your accounts out of Citizens Bank

Financing Major Prison Companies: Protesters allege that Citizens Bank is a major lender to CoreCivic and The GEO Group, the two largest private prison operators in the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/cheechpr...

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Please, stop signing bills.

After 10 days they become law by default.

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