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Chelsea Burns

@burnschelsea.bsky.social

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accordionist, music theorist. Austin, TX. I like to ride my bicycle.

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Chelsea Burns @burnschelsea.bsky.social · 7d

I'm so pleased to finally have this book in my hot little hands! You, too, can have this feeling—for 30% off!—with code AUFLY30 at global.oup.com/academic. Want to try before you buy? You can read the Intro for free at this link (available until October 30): academic.oup.com/book/60725/c...

A photo of me holding my new book, The Exotic Self: Mexican and Brazilian Modernists Abroad and at Home.

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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 12h

Mother fucker! The House has been in session only 15 days since July.

Its October!

GOP are loser slackers! Imagine if you only showed up to your job 15 days in 4 months.
They get 175k a year in salary.

#GOPShutdown

House Recess Extended to Oct. 19 As Government Shutdown Continues

The House clerk reads a communication from Speaker Mike Johnson designating October 14 to 19 a district work period for members, meaning that the House will be in recess except for pro forma sessions ...

www.c-span.org

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nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 1d

Neil Young Pulling Music from Amazon, Calls for Boycott: “Support Your Community”

“BEZOS SUPPORTS THIS GOVERNMENT. IT DOES NOT SUPPORT YOU OR ME.”

consequence.net/2025/10/neil...

Neil Young Pulling Music from Amazon, Calls for Boycott: "Support Your Community"

Neil Young has announced the impending removal of his music from Amazon, and is calling for a boycott of the massive online retailer.

consequence.net

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10h

Ducks, welcome to the war on cars.

Family of ducks crossing Perth freeway cause peak-hour pile up

Six cars are caught in a pile-up as a family of ducks attempts to cross busy Kwinana Freeway during the morning peak hour in Perth.

www.abc.net.au

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 8h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Shannon (she/her) @ravenlenore.bsky.social · 18h

He’s doing everything but outright pleading with these Central American countries to go to war with us.

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/us-s...

US strike in Caribbean may have killed Colombian citizens, says Petro

COLOMBIA’S President Gustavo Petro said on Wednesday there were “signs” that Colombian citizens were killed in the last small boat attacked by the United States military off the coast of Venezuela.“A ...

morningstaronline.co.uk

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

Three @wsj.com headlines from the past three days. 👀

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15h

It’s very much Not Great to have GOP leadership describe a planned non violent march as being in service a the “terrorist wing”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 12h

"If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter." -- Justice Kavanaugh

Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 13h

So this IL Hospital Association memo describes an incident where ICE detained a US citizen, gave them HEART PROBLEMS, took them to a hospital where the fought with medical personnel, then left when they realized they detained a CITIZEN.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12h

“we are telling you right now that we do not intend to honor anything we agree to” is certainly a negotiating position one can take

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 13h

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 12h

Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 12h

Burger King Halloween Whopper (2015-2015): A classic Whopper burger, with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, mayo, and A1 Thick n Hearty sauce, served on a "spooky" dyed-black bun-with more A1 sauce baked into it. It became infamous for complaints of the dye turning stool green.

A cheeseburger with pickles, lettuce, tomato, onion, and mayo on a black bun with sesame seeds, sitting on a stump and a slab of rock, next to an overturn A1 steak sauce bottle

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 20h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Chelsea Burns @burnschelsea.bsky.social · 16h

This is hilarious because the footage of him talking is literally him walking around Chicago.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

DHS Fascism Barbie Tricia McLaughlin in response to a video of Pritzker literally walking the streets of Chicago: "Get out of your mansion. Go walk around Chicago. Go see the rampant crime."

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17h

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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Sahara Stevens ❤️🇺🇸 @sahara-stevens.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder, there is no rule that prevents Mike Johnson from swearing Adelita Grijalva into congress, even during a government shutdown.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Federal judge issues TRO following a second day of hearings, blocking the Trump administration from “ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois” from now through Oct. 23. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
STATE OF ILLINOIS, a sovereign state; and the CITY OF CHICAGO, an Illinois municipal corporation,
Plaintiffs,
Case No. 25-cv-12174
Judge April M. Perry
V.
DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States; DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; KRISTI NOEM, in her official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security;
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; PETER B.
HEGSETH, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Defense; UNITED STATES ARMY; DANIEL P. DRISCOLL, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Army,
Defendants.
TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
This Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order, Doc. 3, and
ORDERS as follows:
1. Defendants,' their officers, agents, assigns entered, and all persons acting in concert with them, are temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the
National Guard of the United States within Illinois.
2. This Temporary Restraining Order is at 5:55 P.M. central time on this 9th day of October
2025 and expires on October 23, 2025 at 11:59 P.M.
'President Trump, one of the name Defendants, is not enjoined by this Order.

3. Within two (2) calendar days of entry of this Temporary Restraining Order, Plaintiffs
shall post a nominal bond of $100. The bond shall be filed in the Clerk's Office and be
deposited into the registry of the Court.
4. Defendants' Request to Stay or Administratively Stay the Temporary Restraining Order,
Doc. 62 at 58, is DENIED.
5. A telephone hearing will be held on October 22, 2025, at 9:00 A.M. to address whether
this Temporary Restraining Order should be extended for an additional fourteen (14)
calendar days.
Dated: October 9, 2025
Coul MPeray.
APRIL M. PERRY
United States District Judge
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

A man was just abducted by ICE on Clark and Lunt, feet away from our campaign office.

Now our community is showing up and patrolling for ICE. Join us by getting involved in Protect RP: www.facebook.com/share/1DQqPQ...

Redirecting...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 1d

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. He acknowledged he was speculating, he said, but ‘it’s legitimate speculation. Because if you look across the board, there is a pattern.’”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 1d

Five years after New York passed its landmark 2020 climate law, the state Department of Transportation is quietly undermining it as it expands highways, sidestep emissions reviews, and ignores the law’s equity mandate.

State DOT’s Highway Habit Ignores Emissions Mandate: Report - Streetsblog New York City

The state's highway-centric transportation agency is still flouting the 2020 state climate law, and is doing little to change course, according to a lawyers' group.

buff.ly

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