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tekla 💜✨@tekla.bsky.social |
398 followers 154 following 304 posts
writer, artist, feminist, fancy. dedicated to reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ liberation, and racial justice. professionally trans over at NCTE, but all views shared here = my own.
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Andrea Grimes
@andreagrimes.bsky.social
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we're not talking about leaving it to the states as in "you can drive 90mph on Montana highways but you have to drive slower on the NJ Turnpike" we're talking about some states can and will prosecute abortion as homicide at the first opportunity
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Andrea Grimes
@andreagrimes.bsky.social
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I hesitate to draw one-to-ones here because I don't think it's strictly appropriate or applicable, but the mainstream/beltway/legacy media's wholesale laundering of "leave it to the states" as a "moderate" position demands some kind of historical perspective!
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tekla 💜✨
@tekla.bsky.social
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Respect and ENJOY the peace….or should I say the Pace 👀
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tekla 💜✨
@tekla.bsky.social
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guys Foundation is so so so good. I just watched the penultimate episode of season 2 (finally catching up) and I am BUGGIN. The actress playing Demerzel is incredible!!
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Talia Lavin
@swordsjew.bsky.social
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i feel like your fact checker recommending your book is the highest possible form of praise
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Claire Willett
@clairewillett.bsky.social
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and then somehow for whatever surely unrelated reason she was absolutely pilloried in a million different articles for being mean to poor dear sweet innocent Sarah Huckabee Sanders and forced to apologize even though nothing she said about her was untrue or even THAT harsh
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SpoolandThimble
@tanyaduncan.bsky.social
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IT DID NOT OCCUR TO ME THAT IT WAS ANYTHING OTHER THAN MY CROSS TO BEAR FOR EXISTING IN THIS SPACE is something that is really hard to explain to the younger generations.
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Ward Q. Normal
@wardqnormal.bsky.social
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"Look, we can't help it if this is the prevailing narrative," say the folks working at the country's largest narrative-creation factory.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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I am glad this piece about the Heritage Foundation threatening civil war if the left doesn’t accept a monarchy came out in the WaPo. More like this, please.
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Oregon the DM🕎
@oregonthedm.bsky.social
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french knots on the prowl
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Steve Silberman
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
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The ever-astute Rebecca Solnit on how the pundit class has turned into a mob stampeding America toward a catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Paul Tobin
@paultobin.bsky.social
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Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.
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Roxi Horror 💀🌸
@roxiqt.com
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People who believe nothing you post has impact- have no idea how to use a platform & they may also have an interest in discouraging you from speaking out. Online activism matters. Look at what they did to Twitter. Twitter was previously one of the most important communication tools on the planet.
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bijan
@bijan.bsky.social
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all the culture you liked from decades past was made possible by cheap rent and artists' pay keeping up with what things cost
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The saddest girl to ever hold a martini
@lifeisterrible.bsky.social
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idk everyone, things are looking bleak, send a cutie some $, tell your crush you’re crushing, eat an extra bowl of ice cream, change your hair, call off work to do nothing, find a little extra joy any way you can
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Louisa
@louisathelast.bsky.social
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So glad that instead of watching the Biden interview I was drinking terrible Star Trek wine with my friends
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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
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There's a world on the other side of this with a huge, vibrant, unionized and high-paying industrial base remaking the physical world for the post-fossil fuel age. It's already starting and I think even Trump can't *fully* destroy it, but he can slow it down and make us lag wayyy behind.
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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
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Thanks largely to Biden and the Democratic party there is now a kind of global race to get to the mass, chear carbon-free energy. We're going to hit peak global emissions (fingers crossed) this year or next. We're deploying solar at a level that blowing away every single prediction.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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I for one am pretty fixated on not having to spend even more years of my life wondering if Donald fucking Trump is going to deploy nuclear weapons
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Jeph Jacques
@ass.golf
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Me thinking up Posts
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Kevin Collins
@kwcollins.bsky.social
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The answer to political anxiety is political organizing.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Mitch McConnell offers an object lesson for all the Republicans who think they can tame this tiger -- even if you do everything in your power to advance Trump's agenda and sabotage two different impeachment trials that would remove him, the Felon Messiah King will still demand your head.
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Thomas Zimmer
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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The reactionary majority has gone rogue, occasional tactical restraint notwithstanding. The main reason why this Court has lost its legitimacy is not even how this majority came to be, but the way it has been asserting judicial supremacy in service of an extremist cause. 3/
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Clint Popetz
@cpopetz.bsky.social
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The damage this causes across generations (even if the regime is short lived!) is so hard to grasp if you haven’t lived with it. It touches every aspect of life. It makes trust impossible, and without some level of trust and a belief in the possibility of justice, *nothing in society works.*
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Living under authoritarian regimes is both relatively boring and normal AND incredibly corrosive to the human soul. These things can absolutely co-exist. This is why everyone needs to resist authoritarians, even people who privately assume they’ll be just fine.
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Adam Bonin
@adambonin.bsky.social
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Justice Jackson: the next time a President wants to fire his attorney general, he has options.
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Greg Greene
@greene.haus
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“The Court’s conservative majority has revealed itself to be the most direct threat to American democracy, and any Democrat who is not ready to shelve old fears about ‘court packing’ and get serious about expanding and reforming the Court isn’t made for this moment.” Correct.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Many Americans haven't had to learn "Internet survival under hostile conditions" skills, and it's high time we took notes on what people in a lot of other countries have been contending with for years. (Again, this is also why I'm a big fan in general of federated/non-centralized social media).
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waxmonkey
@waxmonkey.bsky.social
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people sometimes forget we just beat trump and we can damn well beat him again
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executive editor, barbell quarterly
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won
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tekla 💜✨
@tekla.bsky.social
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please i love this SO much
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mattie lubchansky
@lubchansky.bsky.social
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oops | patreon.com/lubchansky
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Caden Mark Gardner
@cadenmgardner.bsky.social
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It’s pub month! Out 7/9!
bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
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Becky Hammer
@beckyhammer.bsky.social
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Opening scotusblog dot com
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andy™
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waiting for the torment box to tell me if i'm ruled by a god emperor
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Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
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at some point they are actually going to have to rule on this stuff lmao www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...
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pseudonym jones
@pseudonymjones.bsky.social
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a quick comic about bein’ trans. happy pride motherfucker!!!
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Ryan Brazell
@ryanbrazell.bsky.social
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146 of 151 breast reductions performed on minors in 2019 were on cisgender boys.
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Artologica
@artologica.net
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Big issue for indie artists: everything (rent, food, supplies, booth fees) costs a lot more than it did 10-15 years ago, but somehow people still expect that things they buy at festivals or markets should cost $25
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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there is no world in which biden drops out and the nominee isn’t kamala harris. and i think it is very interesting that the loudest calls for biden to drop out do not acknowledge this fact.
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tekla 💜✨
@tekla.bsky.social
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That’s what i find so dehumanizing about this anti- trans panic. it’s not some ~madness~ that is being ~spread.~ young people are not stupid. we are just more able to be out and proud now - hence the nightmare backlash we’re facing. with progress, comes….this.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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these numbers are basically vindication of one of my points in the NYT conversation, which is that whoever is the nominee inherits Biden’s position for the simple reason that they will be standard-bearers for the Biden administration.
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Daniel Drezner
@dandrezner.bsky.social
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This is one of those columns that comes about because I am sick of having the same conversation with family and friends for the past 36 hours. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-choice...
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Another bizarre thing is the total abandonment of testing. People *really* don't want to go back to masking and I get that that's simply the reality now. But sending out tests and telling people to take them at the slightest hint of symptoms would go a long way.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Moira Donegan
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
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Going public with an experience like this is life-altering for a woman, so when you read these stories remember both the extraordinary amount of courage involved and also the likelihood that there are many others you’ll never hear.
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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almost the entire “should Biden be replaced on the ticket” conversation is about which choice (him staying or him dropping out for Harris) has the best practical chance to beat Trump in November “how to Not Trump” is the overriding concern
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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it’s been a few days now and that “black jobs” thing is still all over my tiktok
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tekla 💜✨
@tekla.bsky.social
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can’t believe i typoed “trans’s” in this thread…..despite being a professional trans person 🥲
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tekla 💜✨
@tekla.bsky.social
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I need people to think for two seconds about the American healthcare system in general before they start ~opining~ on trans care. like please, just try to get an appt with any specialist in a timely manner. nobody is being rushed into a damn thing.
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