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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BREAKING: Another of DOJ's invasive trans care subpoenas quashed as to patient records. This one was challenged by patients of Children's National Hospital.
Opinion from Judge Julie Rubin (Biden): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Opinion from Judge Julie Rubin (Biden): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 22, 2026 at 1:38 AM
BREAKING: Another of DOJ's invasive trans care subpoenas quashed as to patient records. This one was challenged by patients of Children's National Hospital.
Opinion from Judge Julie Rubin (Biden): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Opinion from Judge Julie Rubin (Biden): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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“Regardless, we need to establish a fundamental value: no grace for fascism, no tolerance for state terror”
January 22, 2026 at 1:56 PM
“Regardless, we need to establish a fundamental value: no grace for fascism, no tolerance for state terror”
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Notably FACE was passed not long after ACT UP's Stop The Church action at St. Patrick's Cathedral which pissed off conservatives to no end
/3 FACE prohibits violent interference with access to clinics AND religious facilities. That was a deal brokered to get FACE passed — to add protection of religious facilities along with clinic facilities. It was widely publicized, as have been recent FACE lawsuits and investigations …
January 21, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Notably FACE was passed not long after ACT UP's Stop The Church action at St. Patrick's Cathedral which pissed off conservatives to no end
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Well somebody said "defund the police" in 2020, the year they won the House, the senate, and the presidency, so you can understand their difficulties
Swing-district Dems will be called "anti-law enforcement" in their campaigns no matter how they vote on ICE funding.
Allowing swing-district Democrats to vote for DHS funding so as not to look "anti-law enforcement" feeds into the false narrative that ICE is enforcing laws rather than breaking them. It is an organized crime syndicate. prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
January 22, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Well somebody said "defund the police" in 2020, the year they won the House, the senate, and the presidency, so you can understand their difficulties
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Most of my friends still live in the Cities and are very active in all this, but I have to say the group chat updates have been pretty dire over the last two days or so
January 22, 2026 at 7:08 AM
Most of my friends still live in the Cities and are very active in all this, but I have to say the group chat updates have been pretty dire over the last two days or so
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Every single decision about prosecuting Trump and holding him accountable has been made not with the objective of maximizing the odds of conviction and consequences, but minimizing the odds someone will say Dems are being political or targeting Trump. Consequently they failed utterly at both.
January 22, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Every single decision about prosecuting Trump and holding him accountable has been made not with the objective of maximizing the odds of conviction and consequences, but minimizing the odds someone will say Dems are being political or targeting Trump. Consequently they failed utterly at both.
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Still need more? That's fine. I expected some people to be unconvinced. Look up Colored Orphans Asylum, House of Reformation and Instruction, Negro Boys Industrial School, Dozier school, & Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children. You're going to notice a multi generational pattern
January 22, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Still need more? That's fine. I expected some people to be unconvinced. Look up Colored Orphans Asylum, House of Reformation and Instruction, Negro Boys Industrial School, Dozier school, & Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children. You're going to notice a multi generational pattern
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I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow
January 22, 2026 at 12:48 PM
I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow
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ICE getting harassed in the public bathroom instead of trans people
January 22, 2026 at 12:43 PM
ICE getting harassed in the public bathroom instead of trans people
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If you have to go around begging and cajoling your supposed customers not to constantly, publicly denigrate your product it’s possible you aren’t actually selling an epoch-forging inevitability
Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
January 22, 2026 at 1:35 PM
If you have to go around begging and cajoling your supposed customers not to constantly, publicly denigrate your product it’s possible you aren’t actually selling an epoch-forging inevitability
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[takes the world's deepest inhale]
Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
January 22, 2026 at 1:34 PM
[takes the world's deepest inhale]
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Nigerian-born scholar, translator and documentarian @kolatubosun.bsky.social moved to Minneapolis with his family in 2022, little imagining the kind of U.S.A. he would be bringing his children into.
Rich, sobering essay about how the world is changing under our feet.
flaminghydra.com/issue-485/
Rich, sobering essay about how the world is changing under our feet.
flaminghydra.com/issue-485/
January 21, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Nigerian-born scholar, translator and documentarian @kolatubosun.bsky.social moved to Minneapolis with his family in 2022, little imagining the kind of U.S.A. he would be bringing his children into.
Rich, sobering essay about how the world is changing under our feet.
flaminghydra.com/issue-485/
Rich, sobering essay about how the world is changing under our feet.
flaminghydra.com/issue-485/
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Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 22, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.
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a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
January 22, 2026 at 3:05 AM
a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
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God my chest fucking hurts. He’s five.
January 22, 2026 at 4:03 AM
God my chest fucking hurts. He’s five.
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I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally
January 22, 2026 at 3:31 AM
I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally
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I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?
If only they had had time for the "don't kidnap 5-year-olds and send them to detention centers 1000 miles away from their families" training module
Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.
January 22, 2026 at 3:24 AM
I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?
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I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.
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It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.
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This is monstrous.
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 12:45 AM
This is monstrous.
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Part of the issue is that those most actively protesting and leading mutual aid are women and gender non-conforming people. Both groups are illegible to many as protesters. This helps explain the invisibilization of current protests and resistance.
January 21, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Part of the issue is that those most actively protesting and leading mutual aid are women and gender non-conforming people. Both groups are illegible to many as protesters. This helps explain the invisibilization of current protests and resistance.
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I’m tired of being talked down to by people like this. They are doing the Elon Musk Mars In 2 Years bit but have tied the entire U.S. economy to a bespoke compliment generator. It’s time to start talking about these AI mutants like delusional babies.
“There will be more than enough jobs for the citizens of your nation, esp. those with vocational training,” said Karp. “I do think these trends really do make it hard to imagine why we should have large-scale immigration unless you have a very specialized skill.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Palantir CEO Says AI to Make Large-Scale Immigration Obsolete
Artificial intelligence will displace so many jobs that it will eliminate the need for mass immigration, according to Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp.
www.bloomberg.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:08 PM
I’m tired of being talked down to by people like this. They are doing the Elon Musk Mars In 2 Years bit but have tied the entire U.S. economy to a bespoke compliment generator. It’s time to start talking about these AI mutants like delusional babies.
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This past weekend, I went back to Broadview for the first time since being federally indicted.
I will put my body on the line no matter how many times it takes.
I will put my body on the line no matter how many times it takes.
January 21, 2026 at 7:08 PM
This past weekend, I went back to Broadview for the first time since being federally indicted.
I will put my body on the line no matter how many times it takes.
I will put my body on the line no matter how many times it takes.
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I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.
January 21, 2026 at 11:09 PM
I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
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They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:39 PM
They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.