Live for Love's Sake
@liveforlovessake.bsky.social
The atoms in your left hand may come from a different star than your right.
We’re stardust arguing with itself.
Anti-supremacy, anti-misogyny, anti-genocide.
Buy me a coffee 💚: https://buymeacoffee.com/katiestairs
We’re stardust arguing with itself.
Anti-supremacy, anti-misogyny, anti-genocide.
Buy me a coffee 💚: https://buymeacoffee.com/katiestairs
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Good intentions are not enough. Organizers need tangible tools.
I'm creating virtual workshops to bring resilience and replenishment to the people who hold our local communities together: employees, volunteers, helpers, and caregivers in mutual aid groups, nonprofits, and grassroots collectives.
I'm creating virtual workshops to bring resilience and replenishment to the people who hold our local communities together: employees, volunteers, helpers, and caregivers in mutual aid groups, nonprofits, and grassroots collectives.
Tonight's the night! 🥂
Damon & Daniel ask questions that linger for days. They have a gift for making deep work feel both accessible and possible.
This is a rare space where brilliance meets humility, and real solutions feel tangible.
Where we hope and dream together.
I hope you can make it! 💚
Damon & Daniel ask questions that linger for days. They have a gift for making deep work feel both accessible and possible.
This is a rare space where brilliance meets humility, and real solutions feel tangible.
Where we hope and dream together.
I hope you can make it! 💚
In Detroit we honor our radical roots. Come join us virtually to watch the premiere of the episode on Dec 18th at 7pm CT.
In the Field travels all across this land to explore experiments in prison and police abolition.
Register to watch here: bit.ly/watchinthefield
In the Field travels all across this land to explore experiments in prison and police abolition.
Register to watch here: bit.ly/watchinthefield
December 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Tonight's the night! 🥂
Damon & Daniel ask questions that linger for days. They have a gift for making deep work feel both accessible and possible.
This is a rare space where brilliance meets humility, and real solutions feel tangible.
Where we hope and dream together.
I hope you can make it! 💚
Damon & Daniel ask questions that linger for days. They have a gift for making deep work feel both accessible and possible.
This is a rare space where brilliance meets humility, and real solutions feel tangible.
Where we hope and dream together.
I hope you can make it! 💚
Today, a friend named Jason Sole stands before the Minnesota Board of Pardons.
This hearing represents a formal request to acknowledge that a person is more than their worst moment.
That a life dedicated to teaching, mentorship, and community building is the meaning of redemption.
This hearing represents a formal request to acknowledge that a person is more than their worst moment.
That a life dedicated to teaching, mentorship, and community building is the meaning of redemption.
December 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Today, a friend named Jason Sole stands before the Minnesota Board of Pardons.
This hearing represents a formal request to acknowledge that a person is more than their worst moment.
That a life dedicated to teaching, mentorship, and community building is the meaning of redemption.
This hearing represents a formal request to acknowledge that a person is more than their worst moment.
That a life dedicated to teaching, mentorship, and community building is the meaning of redemption.
Tomorrow marks the final watch party for One Million Experiments: In the Field, an incredible abolitionist travel show exploring community-based safety beyond police and prisons.
It's been amazing to attend these past few weeks with @respairmedia.bsky.social, but I can't make the last one! Can you?
It's been amazing to attend these past few weeks with @respairmedia.bsky.social, but I can't make the last one! Can you?
Respair Production & Media
Respair Production & Media is a movement journalism and media hub reshaping culture toward liberation.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Tomorrow marks the final watch party for One Million Experiments: In the Field, an incredible abolitionist travel show exploring community-based safety beyond police and prisons.
It's been amazing to attend these past few weeks with @respairmedia.bsky.social, but I can't make the last one! Can you?
It's been amazing to attend these past few weeks with @respairmedia.bsky.social, but I can't make the last one! Can you?
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This tracks with my experience. DHS made up stories like this in Chicago, too. Every story ICE told about being attacked by community members was debunked in court. To assume anything they say is even potentially credible is irresponsible and out of touch with reality.
Re: the ICE actions in south Minneapolis Monday. DHS said "rioters" attacked officers with rocks and pepper spray. Note: I received lots of evidence and didn't see any rocks, the only pepper spray I saw was ICE agents sometimes spraying each other. I did see snow and possibly ice being thrown. (1)
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This tracks with my experience. DHS made up stories like this in Chicago, too. Every story ICE told about being attacked by community members was debunked in court. To assume anything they say is even potentially credible is irresponsible and out of touch with reality.
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Minneapolis residents are outraged as an ICE goon kneels on a pregnant woman and drags her into the street, despite being informed of her pregnancy.
December 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Minneapolis residents are outraged as an ICE goon kneels on a pregnant woman and drags her into the street, despite being informed of her pregnancy.
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It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
The pardon system has a cruel flaw: for many, like Jason Sole, the hearing tomorrow is their only chance. If denied, they can't ask again, w/o special conditions.
Jason recently launched a Substack to share his experiences and work directly.
"Because none of us are free until all of us are free."
Jason recently launched a Substack to share his experiences and work directly.
"Because none of us are free until all of us are free."
Jason Marque Sole (@jasonmarquesole)
I’m Jason Marque Sole (he/they) — abolitionist, transformative justice educator, co-founder of Humanize My Hoodie, and someone who’s dedicated their life to dreaming a future where we are all truly fr...
substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The pardon system has a cruel flaw: for many, like Jason Sole, the hearing tomorrow is their only chance. If denied, they can't ask again, w/o special conditions.
Jason recently launched a Substack to share his experiences and work directly.
"Because none of us are free until all of us are free."
Jason recently launched a Substack to share his experiences and work directly.
"Because none of us are free until all of us are free."
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Go find a *snow removal org*near you
We have a basket of whistles from @mspwhistles.bsky.social . Feel free to grab one and an info zine. Our community is under siege, but we can stand together. Please don’t just doomscroll, get involved.
December 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Go find a *snow removal org*near you
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Scroll down in the replies to watch this video if you don’t do TikTok.
(Keep reading the replies for Minnesotans trying to translate the level of anger in this video to people from other places).
(Keep reading the replies for Minnesotans trying to translate the level of anger in this video to people from other places).
I genuinely don't know if this is a "Minnesotan" thing or an "old guy of a certain age" thing but in case it's Minnesotan and people need an anger translator: this guy is so angry he could just about set something on fire with his mind.
This one isn’t downloadable but if you have TikTok go watch it. Well worth your time www.tiktok.com/t/ZTr4gRL7v/
December 14, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Scroll down in the replies to watch this video if you don’t do TikTok.
(Keep reading the replies for Minnesotans trying to translate the level of anger in this video to people from other places).
(Keep reading the replies for Minnesotans trying to translate the level of anger in this video to people from other places).
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It's Day 13 of the ICE occupation of MSP.
All across our metro area, neighbors are joining together in resistance.
In less that two weeks, the community has built out a multi-layered, autonomous network of patrols, mutual aid, alert systems, and more.
All across our metro area, neighbors are joining together in resistance.
In less that two weeks, the community has built out a multi-layered, autonomous network of patrols, mutual aid, alert systems, and more.
December 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
It's Day 13 of the ICE occupation of MSP.
All across our metro area, neighbors are joining together in resistance.
In less that two weeks, the community has built out a multi-layered, autonomous network of patrols, mutual aid, alert systems, and more.
All across our metro area, neighbors are joining together in resistance.
In less that two weeks, the community has built out a multi-layered, autonomous network of patrols, mutual aid, alert systems, and more.
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ROB REINER: “This is just the beginning, and people have to understand our democracy is being taken away from us. We have a year before this country becomes a full on autocracy…
December 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM
ROB REINER: “This is just the beginning, and people have to understand our democracy is being taken away from us. We have a year before this country becomes a full on autocracy…
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This activity is not reasonably within the scope of federal employment & is criminal in nature. The Hennepin County Attorney is Democrat Mary Moriarty. Will she protect the public from violent crime or follow the "lead" of Cook Cty State's Atty Eileen O'Neill Burke and let the public be victimized?
December 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This activity is not reasonably within the scope of federal employment & is criminal in nature. The Hennepin County Attorney is Democrat Mary Moriarty. Will she protect the public from violent crime or follow the "lead" of Cook Cty State's Atty Eileen O'Neill Burke and let the public be victimized?
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The DOJ is issuing marching orders for a witch hunt on US citizens, and virtually no corporate media outlets have covered this catastrophic memo.
Those who did report on it masked it over and whitewashed it.
Those who did report on it masked it over and whitewashed it.
Trump’s Enemies List Meets Media Blackout
Why the NSPM-7 fueled FBI blacklist isn’t considered news
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The DOJ is issuing marching orders for a witch hunt on US citizens, and virtually no corporate media outlets have covered this catastrophic memo.
Those who did report on it masked it over and whitewashed it.
Those who did report on it masked it over and whitewashed it.
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🧵A leaked DOJ memo shows the Trump FBI is drawing up an enemies list that could encompass well over half the US public.
If you align with any of the following, congrats.
You may be headed for Bondi's list.
Also set up a cash reward system for people who turn in anyone who promotes these thoughts.
If you align with any of the following, congrats.
You may be headed for Bondi's list.
Also set up a cash reward system for people who turn in anyone who promotes these thoughts.
Trump just took this giant step towards authoritarian rule — and the media ignored it
The Trump FBI is drawing up an enemies list that could encompass well over half the US public: Do you “advance … opposition to law and immigration enforcement”? Do you have “extreme views in favor of ...
www.rawstory.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🧵A leaked DOJ memo shows the Trump FBI is drawing up an enemies list that could encompass well over half the US public.
If you align with any of the following, congrats.
You may be headed for Bondi's list.
Also set up a cash reward system for people who turn in anyone who promotes these thoughts.
If you align with any of the following, congrats.
You may be headed for Bondi's list.
Also set up a cash reward system for people who turn in anyone who promotes these thoughts.
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Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Abrego Garcia Case
Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.
newrepublic.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
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I’m never going to forget her story for as long as I live. It actually fucked me up. (Excuse my French!)
Anyway, Gisele Pelicot should’ve been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize among many other honors. But, as I’m learning, rape culture is far more resilient than I previously understood.
December 11, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I’m never going to forget her story for as long as I live. It actually fucked me up. (Excuse my French!)
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You know, I'm 70 years old, and I've been thru hell, climbed close to heaven, and touched back down here on Earth, which had everything necessary for humans to thrive. Greed has destroyed much. Maybe it's too late to save it. But we need to try.
December 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
You know, I'm 70 years old, and I've been thru hell, climbed close to heaven, and touched back down here on Earth, which had everything necessary for humans to thrive. Greed has destroyed much. Maybe it's too late to save it. But we need to try.
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A retired couple in Minnesota was called to see if ICE was sneaking around the Assumption Catholic Church on Sunday during mass! They drove there & were immediately surrounded by ICE & had guns pointed at them while being threatened! They said these agents acted like Terrorists!
December 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
A retired couple in Minnesota was called to see if ICE was sneaking around the Assumption Catholic Church on Sunday during mass! They drove there & were immediately surrounded by ICE & had guns pointed at them while being threatened! They said these agents acted like Terrorists!
I love my Somali Minnesotan neighbors.
Thank you for enduring the cold to bring such an abundance of love, light, laughter, and strength to our communities, and to the state we call home. 💚
Thank you for enduring the cold to bring such an abundance of love, light, laughter, and strength to our communities, and to the state we call home. 💚
December 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I love my Somali Minnesotan neighbors.
Thank you for enduring the cold to bring such an abundance of love, light, laughter, and strength to our communities, and to the state we call home. 💚
Thank you for enduring the cold to bring such an abundance of love, light, laughter, and strength to our communities, and to the state we call home. 💚
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Everyone in Chicago needs to read this AND TAKE ACTION. Everyone else should read this and ask what's happening where you are with your public library systems.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Everyone in Chicago needs to read this AND TAKE ACTION. Everyone else should read this and ask what's happening where you are with your public library systems.
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“Becoming More” ✨💫
*Message: Growth, healing, and transformation*
I am not who I once was—
and that is the blessing, not the fear.
I outgrew versions of myself
that could not survive another year.
👇🏾
*Message: Growth, healing, and transformation*
I am not who I once was—
and that is the blessing, not the fear.
I outgrew versions of myself
that could not survive another year.
👇🏾
December 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
“Becoming More” ✨💫
*Message: Growth, healing, and transformation*
I am not who I once was—
and that is the blessing, not the fear.
I outgrew versions of myself
that could not survive another year.
👇🏾
*Message: Growth, healing, and transformation*
I am not who I once was—
and that is the blessing, not the fear.
I outgrew versions of myself
that could not survive another year.
👇🏾
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