Tessa
@tgibees.bsky.social
community resilience organizer, breakfast food aficionado, and pacific northwesterner turned new englander.
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This week at an event for THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, a reader asked in a gracious and cheeky way what I would hope white readers in particular would get out of the book. Or more directly, what I would TELL white readers. And this was basically my answer:
African-Americans are experts on America.
African-Americans are experts on America.
America should listen to Black people
October 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This week at an event for THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, a reader asked in a gracious and cheeky way what I would hope white readers in particular would get out of the book. Or more directly, what I would TELL white readers. And this was basically my answer:
African-Americans are experts on America.
African-Americans are experts on America.
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i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
September 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
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The ‘doomsday’ seed vault in Svalbard just added thousands of climate-hardy crops.
Safeguarding crop diversity in a time of climate change remains a priority for much of the world — even if that's not the case for Trump.
grist.org/food-and-agr...
#Seeds #Crops #Doomsday #Food #Agriculture
Safeguarding crop diversity in a time of climate change remains a priority for much of the world — even if that's not the case for Trump.
grist.org/food-and-agr...
#Seeds #Crops #Doomsday #Food #Agriculture
The 'doomsday' seed vault in Svalbard just added thousands of climate-hardy crops
Safeguarding crop diversity in a time of climate change remains a priority for much of the world — even if that's not the case for Trump.
grist.org
July 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The ‘doomsday’ seed vault in Svalbard just added thousands of climate-hardy crops.
Safeguarding crop diversity in a time of climate change remains a priority for much of the world — even if that's not the case for Trump.
grist.org/food-and-agr...
#Seeds #Crops #Doomsday #Food #Agriculture
Safeguarding crop diversity in a time of climate change remains a priority for much of the world — even if that's not the case for Trump.
grist.org/food-and-agr...
#Seeds #Crops #Doomsday #Food #Agriculture
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so when you…
• force this tech on most everyone
• block it from acknowledging trans people even exist
• remove lgbtq people from human rights reporting & allow ICE to conceal info on trans people in custody
…it seems like a good time for cis folks to stop considering political “compromises.”
• force this tech on most everyone
• block it from acknowledging trans people even exist
• remove lgbtq people from human rights reporting & allow ICE to conceal info on trans people in custody
…it seems like a good time for cis folks to stop considering political “compromises.”
Trump's new executive order about AI states that companies' models must not incorporate the idea that trans people exist as a concept. Seems bad.
July 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
so when you…
• force this tech on most everyone
• block it from acknowledging trans people even exist
• remove lgbtq people from human rights reporting & allow ICE to conceal info on trans people in custody
…it seems like a good time for cis folks to stop considering political “compromises.”
• force this tech on most everyone
• block it from acknowledging trans people even exist
• remove lgbtq people from human rights reporting & allow ICE to conceal info on trans people in custody
…it seems like a good time for cis folks to stop considering political “compromises.”
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do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists
July 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists
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You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳
July 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳
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people come up with all kinds of fanciful math to justify billionaires' wealth but imo present political moment demonstrates conclusively that we need to tax billionaires at whatever rate will keep them focused on their own fucking business rather than our Medicaid and pediatric cancer research
July 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
people come up with all kinds of fanciful math to justify billionaires' wealth but imo present political moment demonstrates conclusively that we need to tax billionaires at whatever rate will keep them focused on their own fucking business rather than our Medicaid and pediatric cancer research
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"The minutiae of the Medicaid policy" - 16-17 million people will lose health insurance in a country where health care costs are ruinous. Many of these are exactly the people Vance claims to represent. But erecting a police state to deport foreigners is more important, I guess.
I’ve warned about the nativist mind virus for many years. They’d destroy the economy, bankrupt the government, shred the Constitution, trample our freedoms, and imprison their own people to get what they want: not just mass deportation, but something more like ethnic cleansing
July 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"The minutiae of the Medicaid policy" - 16-17 million people will lose health insurance in a country where health care costs are ruinous. Many of these are exactly the people Vance claims to represent. But erecting a police state to deport foreigners is more important, I guess.
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How many times did we fucking tell you. You gave up on wearing masks. You let them demonize masks. So they got to write the rules. And the rules are cops “discretion” is that disabled people should be arrested. Because when ableds get to decide who is actually disabled, we lose. Every time.
June 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
How many times did we fucking tell you. You gave up on wearing masks. You let them demonize masks. So they got to write the rules. And the rules are cops “discretion” is that disabled people should be arrested. Because when ableds get to decide who is actually disabled, we lose. Every time.
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a haitian woman died in ICE custody
her name was marie ange blaise
her name was marie ange blaise
fuck your peace
they are snatching our ppl off the streets
they are snatching our ppl off the streets
why are you not already angry?
June 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
a haitian woman died in ICE custody
her name was marie ange blaise
her name was marie ange blaise
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The countries largest gender clinic with 3000 patients is complying in advance and shutting down. They treat up to age 25 so trans adults will lose access as well.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Children's Hospital Los Angeles halts transgender care under pressure from Trump
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles will stop offering services related to transgender care, according to a message reviewed by The Times.
www.latimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The countries largest gender clinic with 3000 patients is complying in advance and shutting down. They treat up to age 25 so trans adults will lose access as well.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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The crew of the Madleen deserves all of our love and solidarity. They knew they were on a dangerous path, but also understood the necessity of trying. The siege of Gaza must end, aid must be delivered, and the crew of the Madleen must be freed.
June 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The crew of the Madleen deserves all of our love and solidarity. They knew they were on a dangerous path, but also understood the necessity of trying. The siege of Gaza must end, aid must be delivered, and the crew of the Madleen must be freed.
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J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
May 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
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It’s really comforting that as food skyrockets in price, your neighbors are disappeared by masked goons, and people die en masse of preventable illness, Republicans and Democrats can come together and say: fuck this one trans teenager in particular for trying to run track with her friends
May 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
It’s really comforting that as food skyrockets in price, your neighbors are disappeared by masked goons, and people die en masse of preventable illness, Republicans and Democrats can come together and say: fuck this one trans teenager in particular for trying to run track with her friends
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So when you're a cishet white American talking about homophobia and transphobia in other countries, I'd just like to remind you that until 2014, it was a full legal defense or partial justification to murder *IN EVERY STATE IN THE US* that your victim being gay or trans caused you to kill them.
May 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
So when you're a cishet white American talking about homophobia and transphobia in other countries, I'd just like to remind you that until 2014, it was a full legal defense or partial justification to murder *IN EVERY STATE IN THE US* that your victim being gay or trans caused you to kill them.
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Cop City is officially opening today, made possible only through extreme state violence –– including the murder of Tortuguita, clearcutting of forest land, and mass criminalization of protestors.
But the fight does go on. And support for those facing charges is still critical.
But the fight does go on. And support for those facing charges is still critical.
April 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Cop City is officially opening today, made possible only through extreme state violence –– including the murder of Tortuguita, clearcutting of forest land, and mass criminalization of protestors.
But the fight does go on. And support for those facing charges is still critical.
But the fight does go on. And support for those facing charges is still critical.
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I actually think the colossally wasteful space tourism hen do as an act of gender equality has broken me, I can’t move past it
April 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I actually think the colossally wasteful space tourism hen do as an act of gender equality has broken me, I can’t move past it
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the four democrats who voted yes on the SAVE Act:
Jared Golden
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Henry Cuellar
Ed Case
Jared Golden
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Henry Cuellar
Ed Case
April 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
the four democrats who voted yes on the SAVE Act:
Jared Golden
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Henry Cuellar
Ed Case
Jared Golden
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Henry Cuellar
Ed Case
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CEOs upset about Trump’s tariffs sound like mob bosses shouting “I thought we had a deal!” at the Joker.
April 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
CEOs upset about Trump’s tariffs sound like mob bosses shouting “I thought we had a deal!” at the Joker.
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Let this be a call to action: our elders are going to need our help.
Here's what they're facing:
- agism in the workforce
- massive public sector layoffs
- gutting of social security
- increasingly sophisticated scams (thanks AI)
- an economic crash that they might not recover from before retiring
Here's what they're facing:
- agism in the workforce
- massive public sector layoffs
- gutting of social security
- increasingly sophisticated scams (thanks AI)
- an economic crash that they might not recover from before retiring
Even in "good" economies, people 50 and over who lose their jobs rarely get work in their field again. It's going to be so much worse now.
April 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Let this be a call to action: our elders are going to need our help.
Here's what they're facing:
- agism in the workforce
- massive public sector layoffs
- gutting of social security
- increasingly sophisticated scams (thanks AI)
- an economic crash that they might not recover from before retiring
Here's what they're facing:
- agism in the workforce
- massive public sector layoffs
- gutting of social security
- increasingly sophisticated scams (thanks AI)
- an economic crash that they might not recover from before retiring
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
March 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
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Hundreds were at #TeslaTakedown at Seattle’s U Village shopping center today despite cold, rain, wind. Earlier, we heard so, so many supportive honks from people who drove by when we were lining both sides of the street outside the mall (25th near QFC). Thank you organizers.
March 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hundreds were at #TeslaTakedown at Seattle’s U Village shopping center today despite cold, rain, wind. Earlier, we heard so, so many supportive honks from people who drove by when we were lining both sides of the street outside the mall (25th near QFC). Thank you organizers.