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Burnsie

@burnsieann.bsky.social

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Nature, science, our planet, governance, democracy, nat sec, human rights, equity, & justice. Poodle Mum with time to listen. I birdwatch, fly fish, star gaze, watch weather, sing. Happily married 45-yrs! 🏡 Duluth MN 🌊 I Act On Climate💚 & 🌎💙🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏽💦🌻🐝

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Burnsie @burnsieann.bsky.social · 1d

“…the nature of abrupt & irreversible Earth system tipping points mean that they pose a different type of threat to other environmental challenges…Global action must include accelerating emissions reductions…scaling up carbon removal...”
#ClimateCrisis
#Overshoot

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‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point

Widespread mortality of warm-water coral reefs under way, as world reaches first tipping point With global warming set to breach 1.5°C, world dangerously close to further catastrophic tipping points T...

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15d

Monopoly and totalitarianism go hand in hand.

The only way to stop the growing censorship of Trump's critics is to fight the consolidation of media outlets into the hands of a few families that do not care about the best interests of the country.

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 16h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 16h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 11h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 11h

Extraordinary NYT story:

Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted.

They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11h

Big Tech deploys Orwellian doublespeak to mask its democratic corrosion | Peter Lewis

As AI asserts its power to shape social evolution, regulation is decried as ‘state control’ rather than the expression of our collective will

www.theguardian.com

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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: The Trump administration has blocked or slowed almost $28 billion in federal aid since the shutdown began, largely harming Democratic-led cities, congressional districts and states, underscoring how the president has weaponized a fiscal stalemate

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Burnsie @burnsieann.bsky.social · 13h

HRC was absolutely correct.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 14h

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 18h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14h

So like this is funnier and more offensive than anything anyone else said about Kirk that got them fired

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 13h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 14h

or as he put it “Each time a court cites a case that has as its foundation such racist fallacies, it is incumbent on us to call out that racism”

readers shouldn't “doubt that the current court disavows, & condemns, those racist sentiments, beliefs, & statements”
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A Washington State Supreme Court Justice Condemns Federal Indian Law as Racist and Awful

"Each time a court cites a case that has as its foundation such racist fallacies, it is incumbent on us to call out that racism, even if just in a footnote."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 14h

“While we are bound by United States Supreme Court precedent, we are not bound to stay silent as to the underlying racism and prejudices that are woven into the very fabric of those opinions,” said Sal Mungia, a Washington Supreme Court justice

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A Washington State Supreme Court Justice Condemns Federal Indian Law as Racist and Awful

"Each time a court cites a case that has as its foundation such racist fallacies, it is incumbent on us to call out that racism, even if just in a footnote."

ballsandstrikes.org

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

A severe drought has Corpus Christi, Texas, scrambling to meet growing demand from companies like Exxon and Tesla on.wsj.com/439vzhc

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Straight-up racial profiling.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

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Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Burnsie @burnsieann.bsky.social · 1d

Pizza is a tostada.

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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 1d

Batteries are now cheap enough to unleash solar’s full potential, getting as close as 97% of the way to delivering constant electricity supply 24 hours across 365 days cost-effectively.
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Solar electricity every hour of every day is here and it changes everything | Ember

Batteries are now cheap enough to unleash solar energy’s full potential, getting as close as 97% of the way to delivering constant electricity supply 24 hours across 365 days cost-effectively in the s...

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

Home of the Brave launched a $1 million national ad campaign in support of the peaceful No Kings rallies on Oct. 18th.

The ads will run in over 185 local papers and The New York Times, USA Today and The Washington Post calling on Americans to “peacefully protest our false king."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

Sarah Matthews: "This is exactly what I worried about in a second Trump administration—that it'd be staffed by a bunch yes men and women, all sycophants not willing to push back on him. The once independent DOJ just seems like the retribution arm for the Trump administration."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

@michael-feinberg.bsky.social: "I have never seen—in my roughly 17 years with the U.S. government—a Justice Department which operates this way....They are not working on behalf of the country—they are solely functioning as President Trump's personal lawyers and personal investigators."

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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 2d

I just spent the day leading a zine folding. We folded 2000 of @meganpiont.bsky.social 's "We Marched; Now What?" zines to give out at No Kings. Find an event near you, and then pick a next step from the zine.

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"power belongs to the people/join the movement/ Saturday, Oct 18"

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hsi.tv 🎹🎥 @hsi.tv · 1d

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Tribes issue warnings amid reports of ICE confrontations with Native Americans

Navajo Nation officials said at least 15 Indigenous people reported they were questioned or detained by immigration officers.

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Chris Gittins @chrisgbedford.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing says "Land of the free" like "Show me your papers!"

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