Jonathan Stegall

Minnesota was promised to us Somalis have answered Trump’s latest racist tirade not with outrage but with a tidal wave of trolling.

Somalis have answered Trump’s latest racist tirade not with outrage but with a tidal wave of trolling. africasacountry.com/2025/12/minn...

I figure this'll be an essential one for everybody trying to respond in Minneapolis right now.

How We’ve Resisted ICE: Street Lessons From Chicago “I cannot imagine doing anything else in this moment,” says community defense organizer Gabe Gonzalez.

Our last episode of the year is a conversation about what resisting ICE has looked like in Chicago, what we've learned, what it's cost, and where we go from here. I'm so grateful to Gabe Gonzalez, Rey Wences, and Jocelyn Walsh for this convo. This one is special to me. Audio + transcript:

2026 Robin budget priorities. Support development for a grocery store where residents are most impacted by food insecurity. Undo Frey ’s cuts to Emergency Housing Vouchers to provide housing and wraparound social services for our unhoused neighbors. Launch a Non-Fatal Shooting Task Force to reduce gun violence, modeled after St. Paul’s success. Support our child care workforce to keep child care costs down for families. Continue investments in traffic calming to reduce the traffic calming project backlog and ensure our streets are safe for all.

On Tuesday night, our City Council unanimously passed the 2026 budget! The budget now heads to Mayor Frey to sign.

All 12 of my budget amendments passed successfully.

This is one of the funniest tech things I've ever done because now whenever she gets within range of the house I hear the fan come on, so she always has an announcement of her arrival.

YouTube video by Ben Caplan Ben Caplan - O Holy Night (Official Video)

If you like such things, Ben Caplan has a dark, haunting and hauntingly beautiful version of O Holy Night that I really love hearing each year. youtu.be/7PdZGY_JDnQ

“Discourse” + a call for more anti-ICE art A new poem plus more resources.

"When the discourse of the powerful is evil on one side and indifference on the other, let your heart be a whistle."

New poem: "Discourse." Full text at the link below or the IG version here: instagram.com/p/DSGVKL-Du-9

This was a good event, I learned a lot! I signed up to donate.

It's rough out there, y'all. It can feel hard to find things that feel hopeful. But TJA's work gives me hope.

Join us tonight! Be in community with people who share your values. We need each other now more than ever.

rescinding the switch to Calibri (to make documents more readable readable people with visual disabilities) is yet another clear example of vice signaling as policy

Some folks are saying—presumably accurately—that Stevens is only doing this to help her in the Senate primary.

I don't see why that's a problem.

cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight

Playing the Game: Embodied Brilliance Beyond the Moral Limits of Race in Sport Playing the Game brings attention to the insidious role of racial politics that operates on the bodies of Black athletes in the context of sport. It reads the neurophysiology of Black athleticism theo...

@edgeofsports.bsky.social someone gave me a copy of this book recently (it's from a Twin Cities-based scholar). Thought it might have some overlap with your interests. www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...

some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think

We’ve reached the point in this crisis where comrades from out of state are shipping us packages of thousands of whistles to distribute.

Know that when we win here- we’ll return that favor for the next city. Just as Chicago has taught us.

We are all in this together.

People today get mired in 'the right action.' Many criticize current actions as being disruptive or improbable. But the biggest lesson of the boycott is that wewill not know what will work—you have to take step after step, it will be lonely, people will call it disruptive, but you must do it anyway.

What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work

Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This week we are averaging 750-1000 whistles distributed per day- and those are just the ones our volunteers are providing and coordinating.

Be safe, form a crowd, and BLOW THOSE WHISTLES.

I get to have a beer, kid and his friend get to play with dogs that we don’t have to bring home because of allergies. Win for all of us really.

Spouse and kid made some of those blankets foster dogs and cats get when they get adopted, and then they just got carried around in the car for like a year. Today we found out we could bring them to an event at Insight Brewing. Handed them over and kid was like can you go somewhere else please? 🍺

Truly wild what people will expect from cops with no evidence to back it up.

I have some lovely oceanfront property in Iowa that I’d love to sell to Kat and the 10,000 people who liked her post.

Nice to combine all of that at a restaurant where the general manager sent ICE packing the other day.

Today is our 22nd anniversary and it has been a very hard year. We didn’t know what to do to celebrate and I learned that Hola Arepa serves brunch on Saturday, and on top of that they have a whole list of holiday themed cocktails. It was really lovely.

We restored the zip ties on baby Jesus. The #Christmas story is literally about an authoritarian ruler using violence, causing fear, and eventually driving the holy family to become refugees in Egypt. The parallels couldn't be more clear between scripture and our nativity. We're not going anywhere.

Hello, I live here. If you don’t, please remember that the Minneapolis Police Department killed George Floyd not that long ago, and a lot of others since! These people are not our friends!

Let's not give him too much credit, I don't think O'Hara is saying they will intervene in detentions.

"Unlawful force" is a high bar, would he say anything ICE has done in mpls so far has warranted intervention if MPD could've?

Today (Saturday 12/6) 1-3:30. Dm for location.

ICE Targets Somali Community in Minneapolis - UNICORN RIOT ICE agents have descended on Minneapolis for Operation Metro Surge, a new phase of the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants, this time targeting the city’s Somali population.

NEW: About 100 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have descended on Minneapolis for Operation Metro Surge, a new phase of the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants, this time targeting the city’s Somali population.

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