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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When you read the other lyrics, you realize, "oh, this is the song you sing to amp yourself up to unload your musket on some Dixie traitors."
people often change it to “let us live to make men free” in modern performances and I say that’s coward shit
"As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free," goes harder than any Civil War song has any right to go.
December 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
When you read the other lyrics, you realize, "oh, this is the song you sing to amp yourself up to unload your musket on some Dixie traitors."
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“The attempted patriarchal mass murder of this woman’s career” is an interesting way to describe a bunch of underpaid/out-of-work, mostly women journalists expressing disgust with the unprofessional behavior of every person in the whole awful affair, who have been and continue to be rewarded for it
Possibly the only thing more freakish than Nuzzi's prose is the contortions her defenders twist themselves into. "She's not just hot, but she definitely is hot, while also being a vulnerable smol child. Also, criticizing her is sexist."
December 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
“The attempted patriarchal mass murder of this woman’s career” is an interesting way to describe a bunch of underpaid/out-of-work, mostly women journalists expressing disgust with the unprofessional behavior of every person in the whole awful affair, who have been and continue to be rewarded for it
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Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking
December 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking
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I can hold two truths in my soul at once: every man in her story is a creepy-ass predator who should be marooned at sea, and also she's an ethics black hole who may have brought upon a new age of victorian era infant mortality.
people who can't hate them all need more spite in their hearts, I guess
people who can't hate them all need more spite in their hearts, I guess
Possibly the only thing more freakish than Nuzzi's prose is the contortions her defenders twist themselves into. "She's not just hot, but she definitely is hot, while also being a vulnerable smol child. Also, criticizing her is sexist."
December 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I can hold two truths in my soul at once: every man in her story is a creepy-ass predator who should be marooned at sea, and also she's an ethics black hole who may have brought upon a new age of victorian era infant mortality.
people who can't hate them all need more spite in their hearts, I guess
people who can't hate them all need more spite in their hearts, I guess
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
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If men need a "place," why is that place always "in control of women?"
My essay does, however, dismiss this “message” because it’s hogwash. Nobody is telling men they are unwanted at home—quite the opposite—but reifying this “message” does make it easier to vilify single moms (and stereotypical nagging wives).
December 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
If men need a "place," why is that place always "in control of women?"
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Same goes for "analog" or more old-school materials.
I have a button that says "The CIA can't see what's in your VCR".
I have a button that says "The CIA can't see what's in your VCR".
This is awesome. Print is such a good way to get around a bunch of distribution (and surveillance!) mechanisms that seem otherwise mandatory in this very gross economy. It is really nice to see it spelled out like this.
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
December 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Same goes for "analog" or more old-school materials.
I have a button that says "The CIA can't see what's in your VCR".
I have a button that says "The CIA can't see what's in your VCR".
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Because the vaccine prevents chronic hepatitis B for which there is no cure and the lifelong treatment costs more than a single birth dose of the vaccine. Insurance companies recognize this is a no brainer.
Brought to you by prevention beats treatment any day.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/h...
Brought to you by prevention beats treatment any day.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/h...
Insurance coverage of hepatitis B vaccine won’t change, industry and officials say | CNN
Parents will still be able to get the hepatitis B vaccine for their children at no cost even though the US Centers for Disease and Control Prevention’s vaccine advisers recommended a major change to t...
www.cnn.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Because the vaccine prevents chronic hepatitis B for which there is no cure and the lifelong treatment costs more than a single birth dose of the vaccine. Insurance companies recognize this is a no brainer.
Brought to you by prevention beats treatment any day.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/h...
Brought to you by prevention beats treatment any day.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/h...
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
my wife and I are both sick, I have a ton of work stuff going on this week, and baby is solidly in a 4-month sleep regression where she wakes up every 3-4 hours
a picture of a room with the words " hey girl im suffering " on it
ALT: a picture of a room with the words " hey girl im suffering " on it
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
my wife and I are both sick, I have a ton of work stuff going on this week, and baby is solidly in a 4-month sleep regression where she wakes up every 3-4 hours
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this sounds like a joke but it's really not.
'gender critical' is a tiny movement but the ppl involved are all in powerful positions and have megaphones.
'gender critical' is a tiny movement but the ppl involved are all in powerful positions and have megaphones.
There are only about 30 TERFs in Britain, but most of them have newspaper columns.
December 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
this sounds like a joke but it's really not.
'gender critical' is a tiny movement but the ppl involved are all in powerful positions and have megaphones.
'gender critical' is a tiny movement but the ppl involved are all in powerful positions and have megaphones.
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truth is a lot of the invisible labor in our country, not just in politics, is done by women over 50. Anyone who mocks or belittles them should contemplate what might happen if they all just quit doing their unpaid and largely unthanked work
like, we would not be able to have elections here
like, we would not be able to have elections here
December 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
truth is a lot of the invisible labor in our country, not just in politics, is done by women over 50. Anyone who mocks or belittles them should contemplate what might happen if they all just quit doing their unpaid and largely unthanked work
like, we would not be able to have elections here
like, we would not be able to have elections here
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There is a lot of suffering in a country, but the bottom can actually fall apart. Our (very) flawed status quo is not the resting state of politics, and the very elites needed to guard that status quo are so convince that "worse things aren't possible" that they've opened the door to calamity
December 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
There is a lot of suffering in a country, but the bottom can actually fall apart. Our (very) flawed status quo is not the resting state of politics, and the very elites needed to guard that status quo are so convince that "worse things aren't possible" that they've opened the door to calamity
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During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
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from a state party director
December 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
from a state party director
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Puberty blockers have only ever been recommended to be taken for 2-3 years. For a young person who started taking them at 12, the NHS is forcing trans kids to stay on them for over SIX YEARS!!! 😖
This is MEDICALLY NEGLIGENT and will absolutely have negative physical & mental side effects! 😣😤
This is MEDICALLY NEGLIGENT and will absolutely have negative physical & mental side effects! 😣😤
We are hearing that those few who were on NHS GIDS prescribed puberty blockers before GIDS closed, who were transferred to a small legacy clinic at Nottingham, are now being told all referrals for MDT panel approval to start hormones have been stopped. 1/2
December 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Puberty blockers have only ever been recommended to be taken for 2-3 years. For a young person who started taking them at 12, the NHS is forcing trans kids to stay on them for over SIX YEARS!!! 😖
This is MEDICALLY NEGLIGENT and will absolutely have negative physical & mental side effects! 😣😤
This is MEDICALLY NEGLIGENT and will absolutely have negative physical & mental side effects! 😣😤
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My thing about birthright citizenship and “originalism” is like… the jurists of Wong Kim Ark in 1898 WERE ADULTS DURING THE RATIFICATION OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT. SO THEY KNEW THE ORIGINAL PUBLIC MEANING AND TOLD YOU WHAT IT WAS IN WONG KIM ARK!!!
December 8, 2025 at 3:32 AM
My thing about birthright citizenship and “originalism” is like… the jurists of Wong Kim Ark in 1898 WERE ADULTS DURING THE RATIFICATION OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT. SO THEY KNEW THE ORIGINAL PUBLIC MEANING AND TOLD YOU WHAT IT WAS IN WONG KIM ARK!!!
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I was thinking about the amazing undergrad science being done at Winona. They have a dinosaur in a rock maybe still with skin! A public branch university creating opportunities for students.
The news from Oklahoma and Nebraska is so depressing. The US public university system is one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century, created to democratize liberal arts education, and it's being destroyed by greedy people who think only the rich are deserving of such learning.
December 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I was thinking about the amazing undergrad science being done at Winona. They have a dinosaur in a rock maybe still with skin! A public branch university creating opportunities for students.
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Yes, I recommend that people read Dr. Olsavsky's book: lsupress.org/978080717730... - I learned so much from it.
December 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Yes, I recommend that people read Dr. Olsavsky's book: lsupress.org/978080717730... - I learned so much from it.
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Tolerating these bad faith parlor games, devoid of an attachment to actual history or the plain meaning of words, as paths to elite success in legal academia & the federal judiciary was a grave mistake. We need to stop doing that & never do it again.
During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Tolerating these bad faith parlor games, devoid of an attachment to actual history or the plain meaning of words, as paths to elite success in legal academia & the federal judiciary was a grave mistake. We need to stop doing that & never do it again.
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The facts are clear: This was a highly orchestrated attack on a trans instructor by Turning Point USA to advance their broader political aims. They’re celebrating their success all over social media.
Where is FIRE, which claims to be an independent defender of academic freedom?
Where is FIRE, which claims to be an independent defender of academic freedom?
I finally read that Oklahoma state essay rightwingers have embraced as a cause. I'm an English prof. I, too, would have failed it. If I was a conservative Christian, I think I'd be even more offended by this student trying to use faith as a cover for not doing the work.
December 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The facts are clear: This was a highly orchestrated attack on a trans instructor by Turning Point USA to advance their broader political aims. They’re celebrating their success all over social media.
Where is FIRE, which claims to be an independent defender of academic freedom?
Where is FIRE, which claims to be an independent defender of academic freedom?
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There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
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see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.
December 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.
this is a lot of what’s going on.
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 7, 2025 at 2:56 AM
this is a lot of what’s going on.
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> they were “identified terrorist targets”
>> neat, you don’t have an AUMF
>> even if there were one, they were SHIPWRECKED and hors de combat
> we were actually targeting *the cocaine*
>> by your own admission IT WAS NOT HEADED TO THE UNITED STATES
>> neat, you don’t have an AUMF
>> even if there were one, they were SHIPWRECKED and hors de combat
> we were actually targeting *the cocaine*
>> by your own admission IT WAS NOT HEADED TO THE UNITED STATES
So “the shipments directly threaten Americans” huh? The shipments were headed to the U.S. then?
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Oh. Okay.
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Oh. Okay.
December 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
> they were “identified terrorist targets”
>> neat, you don’t have an AUMF
>> even if there were one, they were SHIPWRECKED and hors de combat
> we were actually targeting *the cocaine*
>> by your own admission IT WAS NOT HEADED TO THE UNITED STATES
>> neat, you don’t have an AUMF
>> even if there were one, they were SHIPWRECKED and hors de combat
> we were actually targeting *the cocaine*
>> by your own admission IT WAS NOT HEADED TO THE UNITED STATES