Chelsea Burns
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accordionist, music theorist. Austin, TX. I like to ride my bicycle.
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Gravel Influencer
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I've shared it before, but this is a really good article on the state of things in Massachusetts courthouses with regard to ICE. This is one area where the Massachusetts legislature could absolutely take action to make courthouses safer for immigrants.
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ICE agents are staking out local courthouses. As they've roamed the halls, Mass. court arrests tripled
Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said ICE activity has impacted hundreds of cases prosecuted by his office — noting instances in which defendants got detained during proceedings, as well ...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/12/16/ice-courthouses-arrest-massachusetts
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You mean the country Trump says we're running? This is a brazen approach.
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Jeffrey Vagle
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Don Moynihan
about 10 hours ago
This is just a completely parallel universe
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Jonathan Cohn
about 10 hours ago
Democrats should not be giving smooth-sailing to anything Trump or Congressional Republicans want, but Senate Democrats allowed a spending bill to advance 80-13 today. Voting NO: Bennet Booker Hickenlooper Kim Markey Murphy Padilla Sanders Schiff Warren
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ProPublica
about 10 hours ago
Last January, one plane forced to reroute because of a SpaceX explosion was running low on fuel, prompting the pilot to declare an emergency and fly the jet and its 283 passengers through a designated debris zone to reach an airport.
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“We’re Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk
The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to p...
https://www.propublica.org/article/spacex-faa-launch-airlines-safety-explosions-florida-caribbean?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1768276808&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Joel S.
about 14 hours ago
If this person who burned a synagogue had cited the Quran in defending their antisemitic attack, we'd be reading dozens of news stories about Islamic extremism. Since he cited the Book of Revelation, the media really needs to connect this to extremist forms of white Christianity.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
about 12 hours ago
This video is the perfect encapsulation of the illegal, thuggish, unprovoked, violent conduct of ICE. Rep.
@benniethompson.bsky.social
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Jonathan Cohn
about 10 hours ago
Beyond the blatant physical and verbal violence of ICE agents against everyday people, it's striking how much property damage ICE agents feel empowered to commit. Routinely destroying people's cars and not thinking twice about doing so.
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ICE rams car in south Minneapolis while profiling Latino driver
ICE agents rammed into a man’s car in south Minneapolis Monday afternoon while profiling the Latino driver.
https://sahanjournal.com/public-safety/ice-rams-latino-man-car-south-minneapolis-immigration/
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Jill 💙🌊🌊💙
about 18 hours ago
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
@schumer.senate.gov
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@democrats.senate.gov
Anyone else notice how the D.O.J just stopped releasing Epstein files after Dec 23, even though the legal deadline for everything was Dec 19? 1/
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Are we surprised that this isn't about jobs?
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about 13 hours ago
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Kyle Griffin
about 14 hours ago
Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."
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U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/us-boat-attacks-law.html
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Don Moynihan
about 23 hours ago
Its not that the media is not covering what is happening, but it does feel like the military occupation of an American city should be treated as a national crisis.
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Don Moynihan
about 16 hours ago
One basic pattern here is that DHS officials are engaging in violence simply because they are irritated at citizens protesting them. There is no plausible threat of violence here. He just wants to inflict pain, and believes there will be no penalty for doing so.
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floating in lotus position
about 16 hours ago
This weekend, Wrecktangle Pizza in Lynlake, Minneapolis donated huge amounts of food to volunteers, immigrants, educators, and so on. Today ICE rolled up and fired tear gas outside their door.
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Aaron Rupar
about 16 hours ago
Frey: "Last week a group of our city's Public Works employees were stopped by ICE agents. 3 of the 4 employees were not white. The ICE agents asked to see the IDs of the 3 non-white employees and didn't even bother to ask the white employee for identification."
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 17 hours ago
First of all, good for her for calmly standing her ground and ignoring all the empty threats -- "we're gonna put you in the car and ID you!" -- until these goons give up and slink away. Second, the irony of masked agents of the state with no name plates demanding *other* people identify themselves?
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Andrew Lawrence
about 16 hours ago
things off the top of my head that i can think of that conservatives have called tyranny - health care subsidies - seeing pronouns in an email - being suspended from a social media platform - pride month - baking a cake for a same sex wedding - legal rulings against donald trump - EV benchmarks
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Roxane Gay
about 15 hours ago
This week my imprint is publishing an amazing, odd but unputdownable novel, The Hitch by Sara Levine, and the book, deservedly, received one hell of a review in the NYT!
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/b...
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She’s Mad at Everything, but Not as Mad as the Dog Possessing Her Nephew
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/books/review/the-hitch-sara-levine.html
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Chris Geidner
about 16 hours ago
BREAKING: Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul sue Noem and others over DHS immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, seeking TRO to block the surge and stop unlawful actions detailed in the complaint.
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David S. Bernstein
about 15 hours ago
BTW the speed with which they got this out suggests to me that all of America’s most powerful economic policy makers are on some kind of group chat. Where, I imagine, they mostly make fun of Larry Summers.
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Outspoken™️
about 17 hours ago
ICE is now ramming civilian cars through red lights in Minnesota. — they are tax payer agitators ‼️
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Steve Vladeck
about 15 hours ago
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
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maraleia
about 22 hours ago
This headline is so fucked up. American's are not require to carry citizenship documentation.
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Ryan Broderick
about 18 hours ago
ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis.
www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...
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Raider
7 months ago
"ICE" beating man during arrest in Santa Ana California.
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Street Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸
about 19 hours ago
This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
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Katie Mack
about 18 hours ago
The official explanation they’re apparently going with here is that they aren’t 100% convinced that breathing soot and ozone is actually bad for you.
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emptywheel
1 day ago
I genuinely wonder whether Kamala Harris would be President today if Joe Biden had made NYT feel special. This may be about the 10th story on this interview, probably the 4th or 5th that's largely about "NYT LOOK AT US!!!!"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
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Kevin M. Kruse
2 days ago
The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
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Aaron Rupar
2 days ago
WELKER: Has the president crossed the line of impeachment? CHRIS MURPHY: I have common sense. I know this president has committed 10 times more impeachable offenses in his second term as he did in his first. He's stealing from the American people.
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Aaron Rupar
2 days ago
Auchincloss: "When you have a badge & gun and you are interacting with a citizen who has committed no crime, the onus of responsibility is on you to exercise good judgment. Nobody watching that video will buy the argument that he had no other resort other than to shoot her in the face 3 times."
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JA
1 day ago
This sounds silly to say, but I just got a Chicago Public Library card. 🤓
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Kevin M. Kruse
3 days ago
I have some congresspeople who follow me, so I'll just throw this out there: As a taxpayer, I would actually prefer that you *not* continue to fund the fascist military machine that is being used to kill and kidnap people from our communities.
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Ms. K tweets 🍉
2 days ago
today i tried to get a neighbor abducted by ICE out of Whipple by bringing their paperwork down to get them out of the concentration camp in there, but they had already been moved to Texas. this was less than 48 hrs after their abduction. my neighbor is a legal resident w/ a right to due process.
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Yessssss! You love to see it.
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The New York Times
2 days ago
After a marathon week of public appearances and policy pronouncements, Mayor Zohran Mamdani turned to an issue that has long united New Yorkers: public restrooms. He announced a plan on Saturday to commit $4 million to install at least two dozen modular toilets across the five boroughs.
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Mamdani Announces Plan to Expand Public Bathroom Access in New York
The city has over eight million residents and only around 1,000 public bathrooms. The new mayor said he was committed to creating more, though he did not say when they would be available.
https://nyti.ms/49xQflw
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Mother Jones
3 days ago
The leading cause of death among ICE officers? COVID-19.
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How dangerous is it really to work for ICE?
According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ice-deaths-assaults-administration-masks-covid19-shooting-dhs-trump/
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Johnnie Jae
2 days ago
Dispersal order issued as crowds protest federal immigration activity in downtown Los Angeles
ktla.com/news/local-n...
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Dispersal order issued as crowds protest federal immigration activity in downtown Los Angeles
A dispersal order was issued after hundreds of people gathered in downtown Los Angeles to protest federal immigration enforcement activity Saturday night. The demonstration was centered around the …
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/crowds-protest-federal-immigration-activity-in-downtown-los-angeles/
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EZTempo
2 days ago
WaPo - Several former law enforcement officials who reviewed the footage said [Jonathan Ross] placed himself at needless risk, escalated the situation and went against best law enforcement practices. “It was really an unnecessary shooting,” - Former officer & current professor.
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ICE tactics and training under scrutiny after Minneapolis shooting
Policing experts say officer who fired fatal shots may have placed himself at needless risk by standing in front of Renée Good’s vehicle.
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D.
2 days ago
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ICE Detention Center Says It’s Not Responsible for Staff's Sexual Abuse of Detainees | ACLU
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/ice-detention-center-says-its-not-responsible
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Shot On 35mm
2 days ago
Jan 10: Towards the end of an anti-ICE protest, LAPD officers attempted to arrest
@deeeezyy.bsky.social
-- a legal observer with the National Lawyers Guild who has been monitoring protests in LA for years. She was promptly released after LAPD Sgt Gordon Helper intervened.
@lataco.bsky.social
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Jamie Lynn, fucking bitch
3 days ago
This is a well-reported and heartbreaking story. Give it a read.
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Ashton Pittman
3 days ago
Ex-Mississippi welfare chief John Davis confessed to WWE wrestlers Ted DiBiase Jr. and Brett DiBiase that he "tried to buy your love" as he sent millions in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to The Million Dollar Man's sons. While denying 99% of poor families who applied.
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Welfare Scandal Mastermind Sought to Woo DiBiase Brothers as He Directed Millions to Wrestlers
The odd relationship between the mastermind of the Mississippi welfare scandal and two ex-wrestlers was on display in Ted DiBiase Jr.’s trial.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/dibiase-trial-spotlights-wrestlers-odd-bond-with-mississippi-welfare-scandal-mastermind/
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Austin Kocher, PhD
3 days ago
ICE just reported its fourth in-custody death of 2026. It’s only January 10.
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Eileen Clancy đź§ż
2 days ago
Border Patrol agent walks up to random Black man at gas station, "How do I know you're a U.S. citizen?" Pure unadulterated racism AKA "Kavanaugh stop." Check out Responders' techniques: -Lightning fast -They instantly make a *huge* racket -They get in the face of BP -Totally distract BP agents
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Bruce Little
3 days ago
1) Noem obstructed Congressional oversight & withheld Congressionally appropriated funds. 2) Noem compromised public safety, violated citizzen's due process, & directed unconstitutional actions. 3) Noem abused her office for personal benefit and steered federal dollars to associates.
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Illinois Rep. Robin Kelly filing articles of impeachment for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
Illinois U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly announced she is filing articles of impeachment for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/robin-kelly-impeachment-kristi-noem-ice-shooting/
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Jacqueline Sweet
3 days ago
Jonathan Ross worked for Border Patrol before ICE
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Greg Pak
3 days ago
If you're not willing to arrest the killer, don't arrest the demonstrators.
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I myself act unpresidential every day.
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