Jonathan Stegall

The state of Tennessee tortured and murdered Byron Black yesterday. I’m trying to find words to understand and explain why it happened and what it all means. This is how I'm thinking and feeling my way through it. 🧵

I think we should be honest that the *Greatest Generation* people [who were white] fought fascism ABROAD while they overwhelmingly supported fascism AT HOME. And frankly, those chickens have come home to roost now.

What LLM boosters promise: a future where AI takes care of menial chores, and you can spend more time with loved ones

What the product actually does: talk to your loved ones for you so that you can focus on your menial chores

Oh, man…I can’t wait to hear Yglesias et al blame this on Black people and also tell us it’s a good thing because it polls well.

When the Horizons Close- Wipf and Stock Publishers On its surface the book of Ecclesiastes appears to offer a type of wisdom that bears little reference to social or historical issues. But from her own perspe...

A few years ago I read Elsa Tamez's fascinating commentary on the book of Ecclesiastes, "When the Horizons Close: Rereading Ecclesiastes." It's not the kind of book that I quoted from a lot, but it is one that I think about. wipfandstock.com/978159752855...

Punk Didn’t Realize Being an Anarchist Would Require so Much Reading and Social Organizing Wannabe anarchist Kevin Tomlin was upset to discover being an anarchist would require community involvement and not just make him an agent of chaos.

Also reminds me of this gem. thehardtimes.net/culture/punk...

Organizing the Already Mobilized - Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Craig Gilmore, Judah Schept, & Lydia Pelot-Hobbs - Inquest People involved with labor justice, grassroots community-building, and independent watchdogs make obvious allies for abolitionists—but how do we win them to our cause?

"Part of the work is remembering that alliances that we take for granted now were not a given before they were made."

- @lydiajean.bsky.social
(in a great piece that also features Ruth Wilson Gilmore, @craiggilmore.bsky.social & Judah Schept)
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inquest.org/organizing-t...

Today is this project's one-year anniversary. For any liner notes nerds out there, here's a deep dive into process, influences, references, etc: guante.info/adunf

And here's a live in-studio performance of the opening track, "Whatever You Do, Don't Put the Words 'Climate Crisis' in the Title."

The trains got way worse, but the state media TOLD everyone they were running on time.

We're seeing a lot of this, like with how we're all going to be healthier, somehow, without vaccines, testing for food-borne pathogens, cancer research, Medicare or Medicaid, reproductive healthcare, and so on.

balancing hope Last time we had a story about how we got dogs, who turned out to be a gift from a giant in spirit world to help us out with the monsters we had called forth in a misguided attempt to deal with hunger...

A marginalized man turned out to be a manitou and killed the monster terrorizing a village. But what about the next one?

We’re back with Gramsci, now being the time of monsters, and we need hope because as fast as we take down one, others pop up.

www.thousandworlds.ca/balancing-ho...

Recently I learned that there are people who pronounce CLI (as in, command line interface) as "CLEE" instead of "Sea Ell I."

Organizing the Already Mobilized - Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Craig Gilmore, Judah Schept, & Lydia Pelot-Hobbs - Inquest People involved with labor justice, grassroots community-building, and independent watchdogs make obvious allies for abolitionists—but how do we win them to our cause?

"Part of the [abolitionist] work is remembering that alliances that we take for granted now were not a given before they were made." @lydiajean.bsky.social‬ on how to make those alliances happen. With @craiggilmore.bsky.social‬ Ruth Wilson Gilmore & Judah Schept inquest.org/organizi...

For those saying it will bolster her campaign -- if you support mass deportation, you will vote for the Republican every time. You will never vote for GOP-lite. There is not voter who thinks, I really like what Noem is doing; I think I will vote for the Democrats!

I guess the automotive equivalent was breaking urban planning, but at least there’s an obvious connection between shitty planning and cars.

I know it’s been said before, but tech leadership really broke a lot of people. I wonder if it’s unique? Like in the 50s, was the CEO of General Motors convinced that he knew everything, or is this a new failure of capitalism specific to software businesses?

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

show of hands who else feels like crying or possibly throwing up at the grocery store check-out these days?

Chicago’s Left Experiment Featuring Alex Han, Asha Ransby-Sporn, and Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor on Chicago’s left political experiment. In the wake of Zohran’s remarkable victory in New York, organizers all over the country ar...

Zohran’s victory prompted many to ask: what’s up in Chicago? CTU leader Brandon Johnson mayoral election was product of labor and social struggle. But project confronts challenges. LIVE DIG w @alexhan.bsky.social, @asha-rrs.bsky.social, Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/chic...

I thought about it days in advance and then now, days late, but July 28 would’ve been Anne Braden’s birthday. A touchstone.

1/ Happy Monday! August is here and the #publichealth scene is buzzing. From Covid-19 surges to mosquito season, vaccine concerns, and more—here’s what you need to know right now. Let’s dive in. 👇

Feel Everything to Fight Strategically: Erica Woodland on Emotions, Trauma, and Healing<br/> — The Fascism Barometer | Podcast and Learning Hub hosted by Ejeris Dixon In this profound episode, Ejeris Dixon sits down with healing justice visionary Erica Woodland to explore how fascism is impacting our mental health and our capacity to organize.

How do you cope to stay grounded and resilient?

This week, we chat with Erica Woodland on how fascism is impacting our mental health and our capacity to organize.

Check it out now on our website and all streaming platforms!
www.fascismbarometer.org/podcast-epis...

Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State Abstract. Starting in the late 1970s, a moral panic concerning child kidnapping and exploitation gripped the United States. For many Americans, a series of

You might appreciate this book (both specifically for this and maybe for your research in general!) I heard the author on Millennials are Killing Capitalism. academic.oup.com/book/33592?l...

The book cover for Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, Edited by Kelly Hayes. The book cover features an artistic rendering of a person with long hair wading into a body of water at night in a wilderness.

Hey fam, my new book, Read This When Things Fall Apart, comes out in three months. That means now is the critical window for preorders, which help get books on shelves, in libraries, and into the hands of the people who need them most. www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/vCQt68D...

This really is a perfect analogy for the entire AI experience:

One second in: "Wow, that's gorgeous."

Three seconds in: "Hold on. That doesn't make any sense."

Five seconds in: "IT'S GOING TO KILL US ALL."

Budgets reveal priorities, budgets are manifestos; logistics, organizing and morale make history

The weasely way the headline is phrased - "is said to be" - is eyebrow raising now that we have the backstory about where this sourcing came from bsky.app/profile/jfal...

I didn’t like the last X-Files reboot but would still watch another one.

Jacob Frey $647,331 Omar Fateh $268,796.99 DeWayne Davis $174,512.51 Emily Koski (who’s dropped out) $142,867.98 Jazz Hampton $77,775.06

Minneapolis Campaign Finance Skeeting! First up, mayor’s race: Jacob Frey has raised a massive two-thirds of a million bucks - and this is before his buddy PACs kick in. Rivals are well behind, though Fateh & Davis have broken six figures. It’s not enough! It’s why I’m doing #mayorpalooza!

I think a lot about how even in movement circles (as you know) so much of the work is, today, gendered, and even if the few cis men who end up in those circles have done some work we are still not as likely to notice it until somebody points it out to us.