English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 21hLike the good doctor said, this is well worth your time. 000
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I couldn’t have said it better. 50 men on the Cornell 7 group chat and nobody intervened in 7 hours to stop this woman’s rape. 020
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I don’t watch much TV, so I just saw my first trump promo video. I’m surprised by how bad it was. It couldn’t sound less natural if it had been computer generated. 000
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I don't know this Douglas Frank person, but I do know that Oregon has reliable & safe voting. I think the real reason republicans hate vote by mail is because Oregon was a purple state until vote by mail and now we're blue. More voters= more democrats www.truthaboutdouglasfrank.com?emci=3289bde...truthaboutdouglasfrank.comThe Truth About Douglas FrankAn election denier is touring Oregon, spreading lies about our safe and secure elections. We have the power to push back. 000
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This is worth highlighting. Americans on an individual level are warm and caring. This time when so many stepped up to help. It was before the politics and racism and xenophobia got in the way. 010
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English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Educators across the country can't take any more cuts. We can't take cuts to staff & we can't take cuts to pay. Educators already lost buying power as inflation has increased. There is nothing left to cut. A colleague told me their middle school class will be 45. Kids can't learn like that. 020
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Dolly Parton was one of the few things the left and right had in common. I hope she can be that still. 020
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This thread hit me hard today. I have an all region DVD player because I like to watch movies and Tv from 5-6 different countries and I own physical things to prevent companies from renting to me things I want to watch. But we have all been trapped because companies have been allowed to lock up tech 010
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 14/08/2026You know how video games often let you watch advertisements for extra money, lives, whatever? The last couple of days I’ve been seeing anti Iranian advertisements. It really disturbs me to get propaganda like that. 010
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I really think pointing out that trump used journalists and his own administration workers as human shields hasn't gotten enough oxygen. I hope everyone who works for him knows exactly how much he values them, or doesn't. It's just such a great mental image that he was hiding in a catering truck. 080
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 02/08/2026It is time for us to remove the last legal slavery in America. 2027! This, I hope, can start to curb the school to prison pipeline and end private prisons. Nothing in this is good. I hope we can all learn how to support this strike. 100
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Services we rely on should not be for profit. Healthcare should not be for profit, the post office should not be for profit, utilities like heat, water, and internet should not be for profit. This is what happens. It’s a disgrace. 130
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I think with the drop in union membership over the last 40 years we, as Americans, forgot how to organize. We forgot how to find issues everybody cares about and take action to make change. What I’m seeing now is ordinary citizens rediscovering what it means to live in a participatory democracy 000
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Wait, Venezuela WAR? Didn't 47 just cruise in and kidnap the leader? 000
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This is a bill to reduce the number of folks voting, but mostly women. Also, isn't it about time women stopped changing their names with marriage? Women aren't property, why do their names have to "match" men? Are they afraid women will forget who they got married to? 231
Reposted by English TeacherSam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 16/07/2026I think one reason data center outrage is so pronounced is people spent decades recycling and composting and otherwise scrimping to offset energy use and protect clean water, and the second we hit an inflection point for cheap electricity the banking industry said we’re taking all of it, fuck you 31155684218
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I heard someone here mention letting car companies sell directly to consumers as a way to both cut off some trump support and lower prices because dealerships don’t add anything except another layer of cost. Is there a downside? 000
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 25/06/20266.6 billion to end world hunger today. How much do those bombs we used in Iranian schoolgirls cost again? 121
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 19/06/2026spouse & I were discussing why folks hate police. Today I learned that police kill 25-30 dogs a day usually in black & brown nbrhoods. Police immunity destroyed any trust built. They are the only one like that. I laughed out loud when spouse says, "Notice how we never say F the fire department." 021
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I love this and we should always remember these rules. 021
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Tonight I am reading shifting shadows by Patricia Briggs. Ben’s story stuck with me. Dominance isn’t only about who you can or can’t take down, but more about who in your life you are willing to protect. We need more leadership like that! We need leaders who pride themselves on who they protect. 111
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I’m not a fan of this building. I just want to be part of both raising the profile of the Obama center and of course troll the now neon green reflecting pool. 000
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Society constrains us & makes civilization & art possible. When men get enough money, they can buy anything & anyone they want. This is the epstein class. Men so rich and powerful they knew they could rape & torture girls & women and never be held accountable. They did it because they could. 111
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Yes yes yes! This is the entire AI industry in one photo! 021
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 23/05/2026I agree with everything she says, but when I got to the part about water, what?? nestle doesn’t think water is a human right? Ok he didn’t say that. he did say that the idea water is a human right is extreme. We only die inside a week if we don’t have it. Seems pretty extreme to me! Capitalism sucks 031
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 10/05/2026I can wholeheartedly recommend The Sheep Detectives. I haven’t seen many movies in recent years but this one is worth the watch. 030
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 08/05/2026If anything is going to scare me away from a cruise ship- this is it. Terrifying read top to bottom. 031
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Snoopy sums up what I want and don’t want quite nicely. 051
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 03/05/2026trying to think of the last time someone asked for my ID & that would probably be months ago when I went to the doctor’s office because medical insurance fraud is a thing since healthcare costs are beyond so many people. But I go to restaurants all the time and never try asked for ID. This is a lie. 111
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I'm sorry what? I know we're there, but I'm constantly surprised that someone can get arrested and maybe die on the say-so of Laura Loomer who has zero status in the government except for maybe being the president's special friend. 023
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 20/04/2026This. No real wage increase in 40 years. The first time we got “real-meaning adjusted” wage increases it caused inflation and people panicked and blamed Biden. Biden is the only president to make progress on this issue in my lifetime 023
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Unions made and make America fair and equitable for all. Join your union today! Don’t have one? Start one! 011
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 08/04/2026This is the only thing that comes close to explaining the existential dread I am feeling about the unchecked person in the White House. To declare the authority to wipe out one of the oldest civilizations on earth on a whim… I just… credit to @michaelfdubois.bsky.social 121
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 29/03/2026I really like this video explanation of immigration. I also want to point out that before this ICE crap, 84% of new small businesses were started by immigrants, who made new jobs that everyone could take advantage of. 032
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Reading Dan McClellan’s book the Bible says so. The most shocking, and yet not, thing I’ve read so far is that Gerry Falwell and others tried to use legal abortion as a way to leverage evangelical power to stop the govt from requiring Christian colleges to admit black people. Racism yet again. 022
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Yes! Previous attempts to kill the postal service include requiring them to pre-pay pension benefits. That’s what is nearly bankrupting them, not lack of business, not lack of customers. This drives up postal rates for all of us. 142
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Whenever we start talking about Iran, I remember that Reagan paid Iran to keep the hostages a lot longer so Carter couldn’t take credit for getting them released. This is the republicans party ladies and gentlemen. Keeping Americans hostages of a hostile government to get elected. 142
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Really great piece of writing about the importance of history on today’s politics and tomorrow’s realities. 231
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I’m listening to Amanda Montell’s book cultish. It makes me realize we all have to stop using 47’s verbiage like “fake news.” I’ve watched the right wing control vocabulary since I was a kid and when you control the vocabulary, you control the debate. 012
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I don’t mind paying taxes to get services. This is a list of the services I want! 142
English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I can't say it better than this. Warning: I didn't listen to the audio because I was supposed to be grading, but the visuals are really good. My only criticism-dancers make ice agents look smother than they do in real life. 010
