Jonathan Stegall
@jonathanstegall.bsky.social
User experience designer. Faith-rooted organizer and abolitionist. Love design, theology, justice, grace. Enjoy coffee, beer, goth, metal. He/him. Live in Minneapolis.
https://jonathanstegall.com is my oft-ignored website.
https://jonathanstegall.com is my oft-ignored website.
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We're in a moment where people are hoping that some form of criminalization of the president will happen and stop the conditions we're enduring, or appealing to the literal cops to serve as a counter to ICE—but a reminder from @dreanyc123.bsky.social: criminalization is not gonna get us out of here.
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We're in a moment where people are hoping that some form of criminalization of the president will happen and stop the conditions we're enduring, or appealing to the literal cops to serve as a counter to ICE—but a reminder from @dreanyc123.bsky.social: criminalization is not gonna get us out of here.
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“No Thanks for Colonialism. No Forgiveness for Genocide” banner hoisted beside the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC happening now.
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“No Thanks for Colonialism. No Forgiveness for Genocide” banner hoisted beside the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC happening now.
Advent is close, at least in the West, and if I could recommend one book to read for folks who like a book practice, it would be Kelley Nikondeha's amazing 2022 book, "The First Advent in Palestine: Reversals, Resistance, and the Ongoing Complexity of Hope." www.broadleafbooks.com/store/produc...
The First Advent in Palestine: Reversals, Resistance, and the Ongoing Complexity of Hope
Bringing us the untold--often hidden--story of Advent, Kelley Nikondeha takes us back to the original landscapes. Then, as now, Palestine was the geographic, socioeconomic, and political backdrop of t...
www.broadleafbooks.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Advent is close, at least in the West, and if I could recommend one book to read for folks who like a book practice, it would be Kelley Nikondeha's amazing 2022 book, "The First Advent in Palestine: Reversals, Resistance, and the Ongoing Complexity of Hope." www.broadleafbooks.com/store/produc...
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This week, I talk to @tamaranopper.bsky.social about abolition in practice — how people learn through engagement with state violence, what gets in the way of developing shared analysis, and why abolitionists need to take recruitment and counter-recruitment seriously.
Fascism at the Door, Neighbors in the Street: Abolition in Practice
“I think a lot of us could level up our skills,” says researcher Tamara Nopper.
truthout.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This week, I talk to @tamaranopper.bsky.social about abolition in practice — how people learn through engagement with state violence, what gets in the way of developing shared analysis, and why abolitionists need to take recruitment and counter-recruitment seriously.
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One of the points Joshua Davis makes in *Police Against the Movement* is that COINTELPRO was started by the police and all the FBI did was federalize it.
And SNCC and CORE did a ton of organizing around police brutality specifically.
#BookSky
And SNCC and CORE did a ton of organizing around police brutality specifically.
#BookSky
Police Against the Movement
A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence—and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century...
press.princeton.edu
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
One of the points Joshua Davis makes in *Police Against the Movement* is that COINTELPRO was started by the police and all the FBI did was federalize it.
And SNCC and CORE did a ton of organizing around police brutality specifically.
#BookSky
And SNCC and CORE did a ton of organizing around police brutality specifically.
#BookSky
I use the cherry stone grit when there's ice on the sidewalk. You can get a 50 lb bag at Ace Hardware for $12 and it lasts (at least for me) like three or four winters. www.acehardware.com/departments/...
November 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I use the cherry stone grit when there's ice on the sidewalk. You can get a 50 lb bag at Ace Hardware for $12 and it lasts (at least for me) like three or four winters. www.acehardware.com/departments/...
I don't write CSS much these days, I'm currently less of a hybrid designer/dev than I have been in a long time, but what a thread.
CSS is so powerful now, it's amazing looking through older CSS and seeing what can be replaced with a one-liner. I'm on the hunt for snippets that used to be multiple lines of CSS that can now be done in one. Show me what you got!
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I don't write CSS much these days, I'm currently less of a hybrid designer/dev than I have been in a long time, but what a thread.
I always listen to Kelly's suggestions on this, and this year there's just one.
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I always listen to Kelly's suggestions on this, and this year there's just one.
The @unidosmn.bsky.social folks worked with Minnesota Women’s Press to make a know your rights guide in Somali. www.womenspress.com/ogow-xuquuqd...
Ogow Xuquuqdaada: Qoyskaaga Ma Ogyahay Waxa La Sameynayo?
The Somali language version of the "Know Your Rights" story we published earlier this year for social sharing.
www.womenspress.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The @unidosmn.bsky.social folks worked with Minnesota Women’s Press to make a know your rights guide in Somali. www.womenspress.com/ogow-xuquuqd...
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They do LOVE playing the shell game with operational culpability. Plus they can mix in HCSO, RCSO, and staties to shake it up when circumstances require! 🤪
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
They do LOVE playing the shell game with operational culpability. Plus they can mix in HCSO, RCSO, and staties to shake it up when circumstances require! 🤪
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Watch the #NationalDayOfMourning livestream here on Nov. 27 at 12 noon EST.
#nothanksnogiving #thankstaking
www.youtube.com/live/6u-jF6p...
#nothanksnogiving #thankstaking
www.youtube.com/live/6u-jF6p...
[LIVE] National Day of Mourning 2025, (27 November 25 @ 12pm ET)
YouTube video by hate5six
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November 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Watch the #NationalDayOfMourning livestream here on Nov. 27 at 12 noon EST.
#nothanksnogiving #thankstaking
www.youtube.com/live/6u-jF6p...
#nothanksnogiving #thankstaking
www.youtube.com/live/6u-jF6p...
One thing I say as a half joke is that the thing about policing in the Twin Cities is not that one city’s dept is better or worse than the other (bc abolitionist) but that the two cities alternate which one’s dept is having a visible PR problem at any given moment.
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
One thing I say as a half joke is that the thing about policing in the Twin Cities is not that one city’s dept is better or worse than the other (bc abolitionist) but that the two cities alternate which one’s dept is having a visible PR problem at any given moment.
“Every encounter is a fault line, a moment of truth where you live out the politics of the future toward which you have set your face. This isn’t a test, but a revealing of what is really happening.”
davidbenjaminblower.substack.com/p/the-face-o...
davidbenjaminblower.substack.com/p/the-face-o...
The Face of the Other
From the Sketches in Messianism series
davidbenjaminblower.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
“Every encounter is a fault line, a moment of truth where you live out the politics of the future toward which you have set your face. This isn’t a test, but a revealing of what is really happening.”
davidbenjaminblower.substack.com/p/the-face-o...
davidbenjaminblower.substack.com/p/the-face-o...
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NEW: Local ‘Participating Agencies’ Expand ICE Links in Minnesota as Counties Profit from Immigrant Detentions
> unicornriot.ninja/2025/local-p...
> unicornriot.ninja/2025/local-p...
November 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM
NEW: Local ‘Participating Agencies’ Expand ICE Links in Minnesota as Counties Profit from Immigrant Detentions
> unicornriot.ninja/2025/local-p...
> unicornriot.ninja/2025/local-p...
The crucial connection for understanding how strong separation ordinances between police and ICE are is the connection between criminalization and ICE. If the cops can argue that they're dealing with a criminal issue, a separation ordinance can, depending on how it's written, lose all of its power.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The crucial connection for understanding how strong separation ordinances between police and ICE are is the connection between criminalization and ICE. If the cops can argue that they're dealing with a criminal issue, a separation ordinance can, depending on how it's written, lose all of its power.
Sometimes it is very affirming to hear from medical folks that they understand how intense a struggle is, but whew if it isn’t frustrating when it takes months for them to get it.
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Sometimes it is very affirming to hear from medical folks that they understand how intense a struggle is, but whew if it isn’t frustrating when it takes months for them to get it.
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management pushing dumb ai policies and tools on you?
twc and friends have launched workersdecide.tech to pool resources, stories and strategies to organize and push back.
don’t let the bubble drag your job down with it!
twc and friends have launched workersdecide.tech to pool resources, stories and strategies to organize and push back.
don’t let the bubble drag your job down with it!
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
management pushing dumb ai policies and tools on you?
twc and friends have launched workersdecide.tech to pool resources, stories and strategies to organize and push back.
don’t let the bubble drag your job down with it!
twc and friends have launched workersdecide.tech to pool resources, stories and strategies to organize and push back.
don’t let the bubble drag your job down with it!
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I usually create a thread of options for people who would like to donate to a Native cause or struggle, but it has gotten HARDER to fundraise on socials over the past couple of years, so I am zeroing in on one ask this year. Pls support Native organizing infrastructure: nativeorganizing.org/donate/
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I usually create a thread of options for people who would like to donate to a Native cause or struggle, but it has gotten HARDER to fundraise on socials over the past couple of years, so I am zeroing in on one ask this year. Pls support Native organizing infrastructure: nativeorganizing.org/donate/
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Reposted by Jonathan Stegall
Minneapolis has a new queer heavy music festival.
At A Queer Ritual, Bonds Are Built on Blood and Benefit Shows - Racket
With a two-day festival, the queer-focused heavy music series broadens the scope of its brutal catharsis.
racketmn.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Minneapolis has a new queer heavy music festival.
Fundraising opportunity for transformative justice efforts in Hennepin county: "The Transformative Justice Alliance is a collective working to build an alternative to incarceration for cases of serious violence in Hennepin County." give.socialgoodfund.org/TJAlliance
Accountability, Repair, and Healing
Please support us by making a contribution!
give.socialgoodfund.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Fundraising opportunity for transformative justice efforts in Hennepin county: "The Transformative Justice Alliance is a collective working to build an alternative to incarceration for cases of serious violence in Hennepin County." give.socialgoodfund.org/TJAlliance
A good read on FB about how the Monarca network sees its own alignment with other organizing. "Its not the time to be a bystander. Find a role, commit to power, organize other people, and focus in what you are building." www.facebook.com/share/p/1N5n...
Redirecting...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
A good read on FB about how the Monarca network sees its own alignment with other organizing. "Its not the time to be a bystander. Find a role, commit to power, organize other people, and focus in what you are building." www.facebook.com/share/p/1N5n...
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From my anecdotal experience, this is absolutely true
Police have access to massive surveillance networks that track the public whether they are suspects or not. That means probably for every 1 officer caught using the system to harass or spy on people they have feuds with, ex's, activists, journalists, there are probably 100 more we don't know about.
Georgia police chief charged with using license plate readers to stalk and harass people
A police chief in suburban Atlanta has been arrested on charges of using the city's license plate cameras to stalk and harass people.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
From my anecdotal experience, this is absolutely true
“I believe that going an inch wide and a mile deep in our actions (i.e., our practice) is actually a good thing to do right now. We need to be in a consistent mode of practicing.“
prisonculture.substack.com/p/we-dont-kn...
prisonculture.substack.com/p/we-dont-kn...
We Don’t Know Where We Will End Up…
A Year Since the 2024 Election
prisonculture.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
“I believe that going an inch wide and a mile deep in our actions (i.e., our practice) is actually a good thing to do right now. We need to be in a consistent mode of practicing.“
prisonculture.substack.com/p/we-dont-kn...
prisonculture.substack.com/p/we-dont-kn...
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We have got to collectively help people understand that of course the local* cops are acting as an arm of the machine. That is their purpose.
People need to grow their minds & grieve what they've been conditioned to believe about cops being there to help/serve/protect.
(*wherever you are)
People need to grow their minds & grieve what they've been conditioned to believe about cops being there to help/serve/protect.
(*wherever you are)
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
We have got to collectively help people understand that of course the local* cops are acting as an arm of the machine. That is their purpose.
People need to grow their minds & grieve what they've been conditioned to believe about cops being there to help/serve/protect.
(*wherever you are)
People need to grow their minds & grieve what they've been conditioned to believe about cops being there to help/serve/protect.
(*wherever you are)