Jonathan Stegall

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Read This When Things Fall Apart,’ edited by Kelly Hayes Makkah Abdur Salaam of Black Garnet Books in St. Paul recommends “Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis,” edited by Kelly Hayes.

Really touched by this recommendation of Read This When Things Fall Apart from Makkah Abdur Salaam at Black Garnet Books in St. Paul. ❤️

I remember when we were 12-18 months out from AI white collar job automation, 12-18 months ago.

Quote card from Ivan & Halima Kilgore's Inquest article "The Reality of Love Behind Bars," taken from the section penned by Ivan: "In prison, we are taught a few relationship rules: Don’t ask questions, and don’t expect much. When I told Halima about these rules, she was furious. She let it be known that she refused a relationship shaped by lack rather than love. That refusal changed me."

This week Inquest kicked off a new series on Carceral AI and shared a reflection on what Valentine's Day means for incarcerated people, penned by a married couple separated by prison bars. Get the full recap: mailchi.mp/inquest.o...

Chuck D speaks to students as the sessions begins. May 4, 2022. Photo by Bad Man's Son

In 2022 Chuck D shifted career from MC to university lecturer. In an exclusive extract from his new book, In The Hour of Chaos, he talks about the cultural politics of hip hop and what it means for the future

Fight The Power: Chuck D on the Politics of Hip Hop

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San Francisco Teachers Win Big, Ending City’s First Educator Strike in Decades The agreement includes fully funded family health care, limits on the use of AI, sanctuary protections, and more.

The agreement includes fully funded family health care, limits on the use of AI, sanctuary protections, and more.

Volunteer — Stand With Minnesota

It only took me a month, but I finally made a volunteer page on Stand With Minnesota. Because we are about to need a lot of freaking volunteers. Help us keep Minnesota housed!

Every two weeks I take my kid and his friend to Stillwater and I really don’t know what to do there so I sit in the car and listen to podcasts.

100%. I don’t think it was realistic anyway, but I knew then I would never vote for him for anything and he was still a councilmember 😂

Flyer: BOND NEEDED. The family that runs a beloved South Minneapolis restaurant needs $5000 to pay for bond and legal fees to return a loved one from ICE detention. Please donate using the cash links below. Fuck ICE. Venmo is @morning-person and Cashapp is $moldyturnip. Add a cupcake emoji to the description.

We’re fundraising for bond to bail a community member out of detention. This family runs a beloved South Minneapolis restaurant that was already targeted by ICE. Now one of them has been abducted.

Thank you for anything you can contribute. I’ll keep y’all updated. 🩵

One of my first memories of Jacob Frey was when the Vikings stadium was either new or under construction and he was excited about somebody on fb suggesting that now Minneapolis could have the Olympics. He is just that type of dude.

In order to abolish ICE and defeat fascism, people in this country need to rethink their relationship to the criminal system and why it determines one's fate.

“We’ve had a lot of ICE activity (since the press conference) in our neighborhood but far fewer observers. They just want the Anglos to think it’s over.” — a message from the inside in Minneapolis

My wife learned recently that her Italian ancestors are from Bari, a city that, among other things, is known for stealing bones they thought belonged to St Nicholas during a crusade.

Nineteen days after destroying the Balrog, Gandalf returns to life. ‘Naked I lay upon the mountain-top…faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.’

MMIR MARCH MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS RELATIVES MARCH HONORING MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN, GIRLS, MEN, BOYS, TWO SPIRIT, AND LGBTQI+ RELATIVES February 14, 2026 11am-2pm Minneapolis American Indian Center 1530 E Franklin Ave Minneapolis, MN For general inquiries, contact April Russell at arussell@miwsac.org CLA NACDI FOR TABLING, PLEASE SCAN THE QR CODE:

today at 11am: MMIR march for missing and murdered indigenous relatives

meet at the minneapolis american indian center at 1530 e franklin ave

if he just asked each of those CEOs to donate $1 million to a rent fund, we would be able keep people housed

but no we will get a concert and merch and more dramatic portraits of jacob

Just turned on the Olympics and wow freestyle skiing is intense.

this feels like a Roger Bannister four minute mile moment for "reactionary centrism". a level of reactionary centrism doctors (of political science) assured us was impossible but that training, dedication, ingenuity, and the Indomitable human spirit were determined to overcome

I think the dude with the doctorate in psychology, whose search results are his own website and social media sites, who makes bad memes about covid and sometimes implies as though now is as bad as early 2020, is not actually a credible epidemiological source.

"the wise loon does not celebrate that the poacher has moved on to another lake"

or some shit

get real

Another quick quote: "This [ICE] exists today because of the prison industrial complex and the long history of warehousing Black, brown, Indigenous communities in the United States... there is no abolishing ICE without looking at [police, jails, sheriffs, etc]" @silkys13.bsky.social

Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border w/ Silky Shah & Harsha Walia (Live) (02/12/26) Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Silky Shah and Harsha Walia discuss the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond, and why resistance calls for the abolition of much more than ICE.

"It's about a bordering regime and a system of control, and it's connected to so many agencies. For me, abolish ICE very much fits within an abolish the border framework." @harshawalia.bsky.social
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I ordered a copy of this zine and it came in today, so that is exciting. www.printedmatter.org/catalog/69978/

This is an essential episode, I hope folks will listen!

I think it would be easier not to fund them to do it then to hand them more money but beg that it all be double checked.

There have been hugely successful campaigns to fight prison and jail construction across the country, especially in rural areas. These bring together hunters, environmentalists, Indigenous people, prison abolitionists, and immigrant advocates as well as people concerned about land use.

Stop a Jail in Your Town If you’re wondering whether your county really needs more jail cells – or if you’re already determined that it doesn’t, we have put together some…

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Here’s a great starter toolkit for those new to this work. We could use an update on tactics specific to the Feds buying warehouses.

right, I was just blaming ICE instead of blaming ice

Definitely going to tell myself that it’s ICE’s fault that 36th street is just a big pothole now.

this is why i am laser-focused on paying rent for people right now.

the second a family is evicted, the costs of everything explode. lives are disrupted, new schools have to be found, people are in physical danger, and then they are so much harder to rehouse with an eviction on their record.