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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 2h

to the predatory exploitation & state sponsored violence against the poor, the immigrant, the unjustly prosecuted, those denied housing, health insurance & medical treatment; against the persecution of trans folk & the intentional starvation of the children of Gaza & not letting them go unremarked…”

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 2h

“Still the prophet’s ‘Woe!’ echoes across time, but joined by far too few voices. Amos is not a miracle working prophet. To follow in his steps and stand in his tradition doesn’t require super powers. It requires opening your mouth and saying ‘Woe!’” www.wilgafney.com/2025/10/11/c...

Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself

Sunday Eucharist, installation weekend of the Very Rev. Winnie Varghese, Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC Proper 21 RCL Amos 8:4-7; Psalm 113; 1 Timothy 2:1-7; Luke 16:1-13 …

www.wilgafney.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2h

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Consider the Birds @considerthebirds.bsky.social · 2h

the Blue Jays were the cause of my first sports heartbreak in 1993. Go Mariners.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 2h

MPD (and presumably every police department but definitely NYPD) of course has always been an explicitly political entity, has always lobbied for its own goals, electoral and otherwise. It is not easy for people to see that work as political and that is part of the political work they do.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h

they are not "trying" to exert influence, they ARE influencing elections already.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 2h

One way we learned this in Minneapolis was when Chief Arradondo campaigned against a ballot amendment in uniform and mostly got treated as if that wasn’t him doing politics.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 3h

Rival birds! What does @considerthebirds.bsky.social say about this, we must know. Although I think he is a hockey fan.

dr. eerie katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 3h

See, it's the RIVAL bird team tho

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 3h

It is very funny that they do not root for the bird team 😂

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 3h

Ok it looks this Blue Jays vs Mariners series will maybe be on non cable channels so I’ll watch if I’m around. Who should I root for though? Learning that the Mariners have a moose mascot makes them hard to beat for me but Toronto does seem like a cool place.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 3h

100%. I also always think about this satire article when I think about the song now. thehardtimes.net/music/conser...

Conservative Dragula Upset Nobody Wants To Dig Through Ditches Anymore

Dragula, the macabre drag racing car immortalized by musician Rob Zombie, believes today’s generation has become “soft.”

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 3h

So much of what this country is... is contained in this story.

Read it, be angry, and donate.

(via @releasemn8.bsky.social over on IG)

Donate to Urgent Support Needed for a Hmong Family in Threat of ICE!, organized by MN8 Team

Calling for support towards a Hmong community leader and his famil… MN8 Team needs your support for Urgent Support Needed for a Hmong Family in Threat of ICE!

www.gofundme.com

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 3h

(And it is indeed wild that the site where Dakota people were detained in a concentration camp at the site of their creation story before being exiled from their homeland today contains a site from which immigrants are sent away by the border regime; many direct actions have pointed to this.)

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 3h

For some time the Minnesota Interfaith Coalition on Immigration has held a weekly vigil there, and sometimes larger direct actions as well. mnicom.org/vigils/

Vigils and Courtwatch – ICOM

mnicom.org

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 3h

Minnesota doesn’t (currently) have a prison used only by ICE to detain people (and neither does Illinois unless my knowledge is out of date, which it might be!) but their field offices are involved in much of their evil work.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 3h

I tend to assume everybody who lives here already knows this, but I realized recently that it’s not necessarily common knowledge that there is an ICE field office near Fort Snelling, a similar distance from Minneapolis to Broadview from Chicago.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

And no one with any power will be locked up... that's not how this country works.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 3h

I just wish that if people were going to spend time wishcasting, they'd focus on uplifting people who are currently being harmed

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 3h

the bad timeline: we spend the rest of our lives trapped in the 2016-era “LOCK HIM UP” / “LOCK HER UP” national political discourse because punishment is all our depraved country knows

prince egregious, heir apparent @sonofahurricane.bsky.social · 3h

Our carceral impulses seem to supersede any care for victims, and that’s a part of how we got here in the first place.

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 4h

I won't use any organizing energy opposing the criminalization of feds, but I really think people should be focusing on restorative initiatives for victims / communities first. We already saw the results of Jan 6 prosecutions---they're already back on the streets.

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Dana Neuhauser @rouxhauser.bsky.social · 3h

I mean, reading Bluesky can be important sermon research.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 4h

I won't use any organizing energy opposing the criminalization of feds, but I really think people should be focusing on restorative initiatives for victims / communities first. We already saw the results of Jan 6 prosecutions---they're already back on the streets.

Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 4h

While I think ICE agents should face criminal charges for their kidnapping of immigrants, they should face long, and perhaps lifetime, prison sentences for anything like this involving kids. An ICE agent willing to do this is not someone who should be out among society even after Dems retake power.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 6h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 3h

(One of the effective ways to reduce police power of course is still to defund them)

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 4h

American politics becomes what it becomes because when people were saying “ Americans don’t protest like the French, Koreans, etc”

Everyone leaves out the context of

How they stopped covering Black protests and no longer mention them

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 4h

This book is one of the ones that’s regularly worth recommending.

Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · Nov 6

I wrote 'Resisting AI' (subtitled 'An Anti-fascist approach to Artificial Intelligence') to help preempt the kind of convergence of far right politics and the tech sector that we are waking up to today. The struggle against fascistic solutionism continues. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai

Resisting AI

Resisting AI - An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t be fixed. Calling for the restructuri...

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 4h

I’m sorry this just did me in.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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