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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you! I hope they fit.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1h

THANK YOU ALL I WANTED WAS A LITTLE VALIDATION

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1h

I mean, they'll definitely work with jeans.

Four shots of the same pair of shoes, a sneaker-loafer hybrid made by New Balance for Ganni, that are silver, shiny black, and snakeskin. Are they ugly? Yes but also no.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1h

yeah, those

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1h

I regret to inform that I dithered over a pair of sneafers, loakers, snoafers, whatever you call that unholy hybrid of sneakers and loafers so long that I finally decided they were attractive and bought them.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1h

Or how Charles James lived at the Chelsea at the same time as Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 2h

I got an agent, who got my debut novel published, and it became a bestseller. So yeah.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 13h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 2h

omg

gretelny.com/philadelphia...

From the branding company's description of the project: "Along the way, the museum’s name shifted to what much of the city had already called it: Philadelphia Art Museum. It’s simple, casual and approachable. In short: PhAM."

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 3h

You are not alone. My heart hurts.

chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 3h

It's the most stop-hitting-yourself-stop-hitting-yourself regime.

a stick figure with the words stop hitting yourself written below it

Alt: a stick figure with the words stop hitting yourself written below it

media.tenor.com

chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 3h

Police unions are unions like AI is intelligence.

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 4h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h

Pritzker is offering the following at the moment:

1. Trust the courts. [not a viable strategy]
2. "Film the cops"
3. Vote in 2026
4. Protest [peacefully]

And he knows this is not sufficient. Everyone does.

He will not address the local cops angle because he might be deposed...

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 6h

As part of @everylibrary.bsky.social's roster of events for Banned Book Week (buy a banned book @bookshop.org), Jessica Stoya and I talked about Fanny Hill, criminal and civil book bans, and the US Supreme Court:

Why Fanny Hill Still Turns Heads with Chelsea G. Summers and Jessica Stoya

YouTube video by EveryLibrary

www.youtube.com

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 7h

reposting with alt-text because yes, this needs to be shared as fully as possible

Masked and armored ICE agents shooting chemical weapons point-blank at Presbyterian minister David Black, an unarmed white man with brown hair wearing black clothing and a clerical collar. He is flung backwards with the force of the assault. Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times

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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 22h

There has been continued sabotage against telecoms infrastructure along roads of southeast Sweden. These are the roads, ports and railways necessary for moving troops to Gotland

Yesterday it was revealed that a fiber optic cable undergoing maintenance has been cut on several spots along highway E22

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

It's just too good.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

You can get my column emailed to you directly (no paywall!) by signing up here www.newyorker.com/newsletter/f...

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

way ahead of you.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe twice.

New York Post cover from 1983 with the classic banner headline HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR. There's also a subhead: Gunman forces woman to decapitate tavern owner, and a grainy photo of some mustached guy doing a high-kicking perp walk, guided by a pair of cops.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about hundreds of people being stranded on Mount Everest is that there are even more Sherpa guides and high-altitude porters whose livelihoods depend on getting those people to safety. Have sympathy for them.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 1d

Libraries all over the world trade books and other items in their collections for study and intellectual exchange. Tariffs are about to isolate US libraries, some of whom have books out that they can't get back now.

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs

Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

www.404media.co

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

It's Banned Book week, an excellent time to sign @everylibrary.bsky.social's pledge to protect our rights to read every book, no matter how much it alarms Chaya Raichik.

Pledge to Protect the Freedom to Read

This Banned Books Week (October 5–11, 2025), join EveryLibrary and We Believe in standing up for every reader’s right to read and access every story.

action.everylibrary.org

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

During these days of Amazon Prime, let me remind you that you may think you need it, but you probably don't, and if it's a book, you can buy it on Bookshop.org.

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Bookshop.org

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