tekla 💜✨
@tekla.bsky.social
writer, artist, feminist, fancy. dedicated to reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ liberation, and racial justice. professionally trans over at A4TE, but all views shared here = my own.
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This is what guys like Yglesias, and everybody else making hay about Kamala supporting transition care in prisons, want to happen everywhere.
EXCLUSIVE: A forced detransition policy had disastrous effects in one Georgia prison, according to the manager of the medical unit there.
The policy is on hold due to a court order requiring prisons to re-start hormone treatments for incarcerated people in GA.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
The policy is on hold due to a court order requiring prisons to re-start hormone treatments for incarcerated people in GA.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
EXCLUSIVE: Forced Detransitions ‘Nearly Toppled’ Medical Unit in Georgia Prison During Care Ban — Assigned
In the midst of a lawsuit, a Georgia prison resumes gender affirming care for trans inmates.
www.assignedmedia.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This is what guys like Yglesias, and everybody else making hay about Kamala supporting transition care in prisons, want to happen everywhere.
this administration is violently pro-misogynist in a way that makes me want to move to alpha centauri
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
this administration is violently pro-misogynist in a way that makes me want to move to alpha centauri
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”
@wsj.com
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@wsj.com
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November 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures
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Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.
Revenge/physical combat was how people settled things for literally millions of years, it's normal human behavior, we're wolves not sheep, the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.
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Stuck on "I can't believe Larry Summers, the man who has been making headlines for sexist commentary for the past 20 years, also sexually harasses women." The entire history of sexism is just telling reasonable observers that it's insane and hysterical to infer that 2 + 2 equals 4.
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Stuck on "I can't believe Larry Summers, the man who has been making headlines for sexist commentary for the past 20 years, also sexually harasses women." The entire history of sexism is just telling reasonable observers that it's insane and hysterical to infer that 2 + 2 equals 4.
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I hope men understand that it is very very rare for anyone who is not a woman’s lover, close friend, or relative to stand up for her when another man insults her in a room of other men. It is incredibly unusual. They may not join in the bullying, but they’re unwilling to step in to stop it.
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I hope men understand that it is very very rare for anyone who is not a woman’s lover, close friend, or relative to stand up for her when another man insults her in a room of other men. It is incredibly unusual. They may not join in the bullying, but they’re unwilling to step in to stop it.
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test the plausibility of this for yourself: ask "what sort of efforts would fully counteract the sociological effects of a system where people routinely sold their own children into labor camps?" and see how different your answer is from "years of open terrorism in defense of retrenching apartheid"
The south was a chattel slave empire until the 1860s and a de facto ethnic authoritarian state for the following century, which is well in living memory. I don't think we need to pretend that that hasn't left a distinctive cultural mark.
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
test the plausibility of this for yourself: ask "what sort of efforts would fully counteract the sociological effects of a system where people routinely sold their own children into labor camps?" and see how different your answer is from "years of open terrorism in defense of retrenching apartheid"
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I think it's a misunderstanding of where we are. There is far too much focus on European and Asian authoritarian structures that require massive, expanded state apparatuses.
We are in some dumb form of Peronism and small state-ism combined with not actually knowing who to help.
We are in some dumb form of Peronism and small state-ism combined with not actually knowing who to help.
I sometimes wonder why people ignore that requirement (personally I think it's because they like Trump and want hum to win).
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I think it's a misunderstanding of where we are. There is far too much focus on European and Asian authoritarian structures that require massive, expanded state apparatuses.
We are in some dumb form of Peronism and small state-ism combined with not actually knowing who to help.
We are in some dumb form of Peronism and small state-ism combined with not actually knowing who to help.
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this tawdry Olivia Nuzzi stuff highlights why I’m turning into a small-c conservative with regards to “it is unseemly and shameful for people in positions of power and influence to subject the public to their messy-ass sex nonsense on a constant basis”
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
this tawdry Olivia Nuzzi stuff highlights why I’m turning into a small-c conservative with regards to “it is unseemly and shameful for people in positions of power and influence to subject the public to their messy-ass sex nonsense on a constant basis”
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stop reading memoirs and the new york times and start reading a goddamn novel in a field under the open sky you cretins
November 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
stop reading memoirs and the new york times and start reading a goddamn novel in a field under the open sky you cretins
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This is an extraordinary slur on the USDA. Infected cattle are just… walking across the border? Unnoticed? Uninspected? 2,000-lb animals don’t exactly fit in a backpack.
Copied from the bad place, sorry.
Copied from the bad place, sorry.
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This is an extraordinary slur on the USDA. Infected cattle are just… walking across the border? Unnoticed? Uninspected? 2,000-lb animals don’t exactly fit in a backpack.
Copied from the bad place, sorry.
Copied from the bad place, sorry.
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Willfully ignoring science - especially in vital areas like health, safety, defense, education, climate, and the economy - is a recipe for disaster. We are crippling our nation by dumbing down our children, just to coddle those who are fearfully insecure in their religious faith.
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Willfully ignoring science - especially in vital areas like health, safety, defense, education, climate, and the economy - is a recipe for disaster. We are crippling our nation by dumbing down our children, just to coddle those who are fearfully insecure in their religious faith.
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(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
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I keep telling this story: Last year a guy behind me at a hockey game went on at length about all the things he wanted the country to do to "fix" immigration. Most of the things he mentioned are either already part of the process, or were MORE LENIENT than the existing process.
This is correct! Researchers find that a) most people underestimate the administrative burdens of immigration, and b) when informed about these burdens become more supportive of immigration.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I keep telling this story: Last year a guy behind me at a hockey game went on at length about all the things he wanted the country to do to "fix" immigration. Most of the things he mentioned are either already part of the process, or were MORE LENIENT than the existing process.
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i think the synthesis so far of the LA/DC/Chicago experiences is:
1) vulnerable people should hide and wait it out to whatever extent they can
2) other people should help them do that, financially and otherwise
3) other people should also get loud
4) not violent though
1) vulnerable people should hide and wait it out to whatever extent they can
2) other people should help them do that, financially and otherwise
3) other people should also get loud
4) not violent though
Greg Bovino is leading a rebel cavalry terrorizing America—and it's important to recognize that it's in retreat. While the trauma and terror Bovino’s raiders instill is real and damaging, it’s remarkable to note how ineffective the force has turned out to be. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...
Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago
Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
i think the synthesis so far of the LA/DC/Chicago experiences is:
1) vulnerable people should hide and wait it out to whatever extent they can
2) other people should help them do that, financially and otherwise
3) other people should also get loud
4) not violent though
1) vulnerable people should hide and wait it out to whatever extent they can
2) other people should help them do that, financially and otherwise
3) other people should also get loud
4) not violent though
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This person is now very sad and saying they regret their vote now that half the Hispanic students at our school didn't show up today.
Had a pretty liberal English teacher colleague become a Trump supporter after RFK Jr. endorsed. I think that was a bigger deal than many suspected at the time.
November 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This person is now very sad and saying they regret their vote now that half the Hispanic students at our school didn't show up today.
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I get why it happens but goddamn do I wish anything could hit as hard on the timeline as something that sucks that everyone hates written by or about the worst person you know. I wish something good or interesting was able to get anywhere near the traction some shit that sucks does.
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I get why it happens but goddamn do I wish anything could hit as hard on the timeline as something that sucks that everyone hates written by or about the worst person you know. I wish something good or interesting was able to get anywhere near the traction some shit that sucks does.
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"Gender ideology?" Oh, you mean bodily autonomy and not treating half the population like automatic servants and objects?
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"Gender ideology?" Oh, you mean bodily autonomy and not treating half the population like automatic servants and objects?
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It rocks that all 20 people who genuinely think the Olivia Nuzzi stuff is interesting have editorial discretion at major media outlets. Just publish your group chats
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It rocks that all 20 people who genuinely think the Olivia Nuzzi stuff is interesting have editorial discretion at major media outlets. Just publish your group chats
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Why are my posts so expensive?
1) maintaining a studio for draping (flou) & a studio for tailoring (tailleur)
2) all emeralds ethically sourced
3) trips to the Bodleian
4) hand-stitching on bias cut point d’esprit
5) the exorbitant cost of eel
6) knife skills/braising
Hope that helps.
1) maintaining a studio for draping (flou) & a studio for tailoring (tailleur)
2) all emeralds ethically sourced
3) trips to the Bodleian
4) hand-stitching on bias cut point d’esprit
5) the exorbitant cost of eel
6) knife skills/braising
Hope that helps.
November 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Why are my posts so expensive?
1) maintaining a studio for draping (flou) & a studio for tailoring (tailleur)
2) all emeralds ethically sourced
3) trips to the Bodleian
4) hand-stitching on bias cut point d’esprit
5) the exorbitant cost of eel
6) knife skills/braising
Hope that helps.
1) maintaining a studio for draping (flou) & a studio for tailoring (tailleur)
2) all emeralds ethically sourced
3) trips to the Bodleian
4) hand-stitching on bias cut point d’esprit
5) the exorbitant cost of eel
6) knife skills/braising
Hope that helps.
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For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.
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For years we've been saying every accusation is a confession, and now all these guys who've spent that same time screaming about trans people are just openly confessing to felonies in order to protect their big wet pedophile from consequences
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
For years we've been saying every accusation is a confession, and now all these guys who've spent that same time screaming about trans people are just openly confessing to felonies in order to protect their big wet pedophile from consequences
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I feel like the pope being an American cinephile is God finally rewarding Scorsese for a lifetime of devotion
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I feel like the pope being an American cinephile is God finally rewarding Scorsese for a lifetime of devotion
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This use of professional leverage to demand sex is, with some variations, what was alleged against Harvey Weinstein and what Stormy Daniels alleged against Trump
November 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
This use of professional leverage to demand sex is, with some variations, what was alleged against Harvey Weinstein and what Stormy Daniels alleged against Trump