Burnsie
@burnsieann.bsky.social
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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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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Minneapolis residents aren’t just pushing back against Trump’s crackdown—they’re undercutting MAGA’s core philosophy, Adam Serwer argues.
How Minnesotans Faced Down MAGA
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
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“In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it.”
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“In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it.”
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Beautiful poem by Amanda Gorman on the horrific killing of Alex Pretti - this brought tears to my eyes.
January 27, 2026 at 5:47 AM
Beautiful poem by Amanda Gorman on the horrific killing of Alex Pretti - this brought tears to my eyes.
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“Reddit was swamped with information about Minnesota, as anti-ICE posts dominated the main feed, and appeared in discussions of just about any topic. Knitting, biking, comic books, pop music, you name it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/nonpolitical...
Nonpolitical Media Has Been Flooded With Outrage at Alex Pretti's Murder
Anatomy of a turning point.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:03 AM
“Reddit was swamped with information about Minnesota, as anti-ICE posts dominated the main feed, and appeared in discussions of just about any topic. Knitting, biking, comic books, pop music, you name it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/nonpolitical...
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The US has formally left the Paris Agreement - again. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524757...
'A race to the bottom': US formally exits Paris Agreement
A year on from President Trump's executive order instructing the US to quit the international climate accord, today will see the country officially quit the treaty for a second time
www.businessgreen.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:01 AM
The US has formally left the Paris Agreement - again. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524757...
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“In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it.”
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“In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it.”
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Minneapolis residents aren’t just pushing back against Trump’s crackdown—they’re undercutting MAGA’s core philosophy, Adam Serwer argues.
How Minnesotans Faced Down MAGA
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
bit.ly
January 27, 2026 at 11:02 AM
📌
“In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it.”
⤵️
“In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it.”
⤵️
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Minneapolis residents aren’t just pushing back against Trump’s crackdown—they’re undercutting MAGA’s core philosophy, Adam Serwer argues.
How Minnesotans Faced Down MAGA
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
bit.ly
January 27, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Minneapolis residents aren’t just pushing back against Trump’s crackdown—they’re undercutting MAGA’s core philosophy, Adam Serwer argues.
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The danger of abolishing ICE without broader changes, says @jesspish.bsky.social, is that the agency's personnel and functions would just be moved to other parts of the government. The real key, she says, is to stop arresting and detaining so many people as part of immigration policy.
January 26, 2026 at 11:17 PM
The danger of abolishing ICE without broader changes, says @jesspish.bsky.social, is that the agency's personnel and functions would just be moved to other parts of the government. The real key, she says, is to stop arresting and detaining so many people as part of immigration policy.
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BREAKING: A federal judge is weighing Attorney General Pam Bondi’s blackmail letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as evidence that the administration is using the presence of armed federal agents as coercion to achieve policy goals. trib.al/Vm5nYNk
January 26, 2026 at 11:50 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge is weighing Attorney General Pam Bondi’s blackmail letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as evidence that the administration is using the presence of armed federal agents as coercion to achieve policy goals. trib.al/Vm5nYNk
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Mamdani’s Department of Community Safety hinges not on clinicians and volunteers, but paid, trained community care workers embedded in schools, libraries, housing, and transit hubs.
It's an opportunity not just to build better crisis-response systems—but to redefine safety itself. trib.al/PY7srw9
It's an opportunity not just to build better crisis-response systems—but to redefine safety itself. trib.al/PY7srw9
January 27, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Mamdani’s Department of Community Safety hinges not on clinicians and volunteers, but paid, trained community care workers embedded in schools, libraries, housing, and transit hubs.
It's an opportunity not just to build better crisis-response systems—but to redefine safety itself. trib.al/PY7srw9
It's an opportunity not just to build better crisis-response systems—but to redefine safety itself. trib.al/PY7srw9
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“.. ‘Is the executive trying to achieve a goal through force that it can’t achieve through the courts?’ [Judge] Menendez asked DOJ lawyers.”
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January 26, 2026 at 11:53 PM
“.. ‘Is the executive trying to achieve a goal through force that it can’t achieve through the courts?’ [Judge] Menendez asked DOJ lawyers.”
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JUST IN: Judge dismisses Trump administration suit for Oregon voter rolls. Judge Mustafa Kasubhai (Biden) says DOJ request didn't comply with the law. He inquired today about Bondi letter to MN, but all sides said it didn't really impact the OR litigation at this stage
January 26, 2026 at 11:50 PM
JUST IN: Judge dismisses Trump administration suit for Oregon voter rolls. Judge Mustafa Kasubhai (Biden) says DOJ request didn't comply with the law. He inquired today about Bondi letter to MN, but all sides said it didn't really impact the OR litigation at this stage
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Iceberg A-23A first broke off the Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986. NASA EO recently shared what's left, "waterlogged berg on December 26, 2025, extensive pools of blue meltwater were visible on its surface" and still one of the largest in the ocean. More at science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...
January 14, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Iceberg A-23A first broke off the Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986. NASA EO recently shared what's left, "waterlogged berg on December 26, 2025, extensive pools of blue meltwater were visible on its surface" and still one of the largest in the ocean. More at science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...
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Moderna have announced that they won't run new phase three trials now with massive impacts for new vaccine development- why- its because of RFK Jr and his anti-vaccine campaigns and cancelling mRNA vaccine research which affect the sales the company can then make 🧪🧵 #PublicHealth
Moderna Won’t Run Phase III Vaccine Trials as Skepticism Grows in US: Bloomberg
Growing opposition to vaccines in the U.S., driven by recent government policy changes, makes it difficult to see a return on investment in vaccine development, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said this w...
www.biospace.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Moderna have announced that they won't run new phase three trials now with massive impacts for new vaccine development- why- its because of RFK Jr and his anti-vaccine campaigns and cancelling mRNA vaccine research which affect the sales the company can then make 🧪🧵 #PublicHealth
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ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:06 PM
ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
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The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:18 AM
The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.
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🧊 A great new feature piece in @physicstoday.bsky.social by ACEAS CIs Dr Catherine Vreugdenhil and Dr Bishakhdatta Gayen from @unimelb.bsky.social that unravels the mysteries of Antarctic ice‑shelf melting.
Read it now: physicstoday.aip.org/features/unr...
Read it now: physicstoday.aip.org/features/unr...
Unraveling the mysteries of Antarctic ice-shelf melting
Beneath the ice shelves of the frozen continent, a hidden boundary layer of turbulent ocean is determining Antarctica’s fate.
physicstoday.aip.org
January 27, 2026 at 3:24 AM
🧊 A great new feature piece in @physicstoday.bsky.social by ACEAS CIs Dr Catherine Vreugdenhil and Dr Bishakhdatta Gayen from @unimelb.bsky.social that unravels the mysteries of Antarctic ice‑shelf melting.
Read it now: physicstoday.aip.org/features/unr...
Read it now: physicstoday.aip.org/features/unr...
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While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation.
January 27, 2026 at 2:07 AM
While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation.
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Really important to call your senators if you haven’t already and tell them unequivocal no for money to DHS and no on reforms. They haven’t voted yet and already have history of caving. Also tell them no one believes in Schumer, he has led the party to defeat after defeat & his strategies suck ass.
Majority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens heading into shutdown week
Two sources who were on a Democratic caucus strategy call Sunday said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the group the message must be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Really important to call your senators if you haven’t already and tell them unequivocal no for money to DHS and no on reforms. They haven’t voted yet and already have history of caving. Also tell them no one believes in Schumer, he has led the party to defeat after defeat & his strategies suck ass.
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All you lawyers will appreciate that Patel said he would "balance" First Amendment considerations with potential violations of federal law. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
FBI investigating Minnesota Signal groups tracking ICE, Patel says
The statement from FBI Director Kash Patel comes after right-wing media figures said they joined the chats and claimed participants were obstructing law enforcement.
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:13 AM
All you lawyers will appreciate that Patel said he would "balance" First Amendment considerations with potential violations of federal law. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
Walz says Trump pledged to 'do things differently' on ICE surge www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Walz says Trump pledged to 'do things differently' on ICE surge
“Whether it was morality or bad optics and poll numbers, whatever has happened here there’s a definite change of tone” since Saturday’s killing of Alex Pretti by a federal agent in Minneapolis, Walz t...
www.mprnews.org
January 26, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Walz says Trump pledged to 'do things differently' on ICE surge www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Ellison: "The Bondi letter reveals what this is all about. This is not about fraud and it's not even about immigration, and it's certainly not about law enforcement. It's about handing over documents of the state of Minnesota, private information, including voting information, to the federal govt."
January 26, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Ellison: "The Bondi letter reveals what this is all about. This is not about fraud and it's not even about immigration, and it's certainly not about law enforcement. It's about handing over documents of the state of Minnesota, private information, including voting information, to the federal govt."
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Info about the National Nurses’ Strike on January 30th. Reach out to unions and mutual aid networks to join in or find out how to support the strike.
Nurses are pissed.
This is on the front page of the nursing subreddit, along with many discussions about it on several other posts.
This is on the front page of the nursing subreddit, along with many discussions about it on several other posts.
January 25, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Info about the National Nurses’ Strike on January 30th. Reach out to unions and mutual aid networks to join in or find out how to support the strike.
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🚨 SCOOP: Rep. Ro Khanna is headed to Minneapolis to thank protesters for their courage and to rally support for his new 10-point House agenda to unify Democrats: no new ICE funding, prosecute criminal agents, and dismantle ICE as Trump’s private military force.
January 26, 2026 at 5:51 PM
🚨 SCOOP: Rep. Ro Khanna is headed to Minneapolis to thank protesters for their courage and to rally support for his new 10-point House agenda to unify Democrats: no new ICE funding, prosecute criminal agents, and dismantle ICE as Trump’s private military force.
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We need everyone we can get in this fight against a fascist takeover.
If your first instinct to someone being politically mobilized by all this is to give them a sneering "well, what took you so long?" you don't actually care about our winning this; you just want to be able to say you were right.
If your first instinct to someone being politically mobilized by all this is to give them a sneering "well, what took you so long?" you don't actually care about our winning this; you just want to be able to say you were right.
January 26, 2026 at 5:15 PM
We need everyone we can get in this fight against a fascist takeover.
If your first instinct to someone being politically mobilized by all this is to give them a sneering "well, what took you so long?" you don't actually care about our winning this; you just want to be able to say you were right.
If your first instinct to someone being politically mobilized by all this is to give them a sneering "well, what took you so long?" you don't actually care about our winning this; you just want to be able to say you were right.