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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existential cookie message from the olympics website
February 10, 2026 at 4:09 PM
existential cookie message from the olympics website
I tell people often that it is disproportionately women and queer folks who do the work of running into danger and taking care of people. Men will generally get the disproportionate attention bc patriarchy but there is no reason we can't consistently point it where it needs to be.
for @autostraddle.bsky.social, i wrote about how minnesota's queer-owned businesses (and queer folks in general) are standing up to ICE and defending their communities:
How Minnesota’s Queer-Owned Businesses Are Leading the Fight Against ICE
As the federal occupation continues, community members are committing themselves to standing up to the feds while supporting the state’s immigrant communities in any way possible.
www.autostraddle.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:10 PM
I tell people often that it is disproportionately women and queer folks who do the work of running into danger and taking care of people. Men will generally get the disproportionate attention bc patriarchy but there is no reason we can't consistently point it where it needs to be.
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for @autostraddle.bsky.social, i wrote about how minnesota's queer-owned businesses (and queer folks in general) are standing up to ICE and defending their communities:
How Minnesota’s Queer-Owned Businesses Are Leading the Fight Against ICE
As the federal occupation continues, community members are committing themselves to standing up to the feds while supporting the state’s immigrant communities in any way possible.
www.autostraddle.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:35 PM
for @autostraddle.bsky.social, i wrote about how minnesota's queer-owned businesses (and queer folks in general) are standing up to ICE and defending their communities:
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So proud of this @thenation.com edge of sports podcast. For folk who think they ahave a base of knowledge about Paul Robeson & Jackie Robinson, because Howard Bryant and I dive into the deep end of the pool. Have a listen please if you find yourself with the time.
www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...
www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...
The Collision Between Paul Robeson and Jackie Robinson
Howard Bryant joins Edge of Sports to talk about his new book, Kings and Pawns
www.thenation.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:38 PM
So proud of this @thenation.com edge of sports podcast. For folk who think they ahave a base of knowledge about Paul Robeson & Jackie Robinson, because Howard Bryant and I dive into the deep end of the pool. Have a listen please if you find yourself with the time.
www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...
www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...
100%. I just figure we can't control either of those things, any more than LA or Chicago or any other place could control them before it was us, or than those other places can while it's us. We can try to respond to them in a good way of course, but I don't think we can control them.
February 10, 2026 at 3:38 PM
100%. I just figure we can't control either of those things, any more than LA or Chicago or any other place could control them before it was us, or than those other places can while it's us. We can try to respond to them in a good way of course, but I don't think we can control them.
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Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the Powderhorn Rent Fund. Unfortunately, Governor Walz has refused to enact an eviction moratorium, so we need the help of our community.
gofund.me/335f2d840
gofund.me/335f2d840
Donate to Support Powderhorn Families with Urgent Rent Relief, organized by Powderhorn Neighbors
2.5.26 Update:
Saying “Your rent is covered,” has mattered … Powderhorn Neighbors needs your support for Support Powderhorn Families with Urgent Rent Relief
gofund.me
February 10, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the Powderhorn Rent Fund. Unfortunately, Governor Walz has refused to enact an eviction moratorium, so we need the help of our community.
gofund.me/335f2d840
gofund.me/335f2d840
They certainly know this, and instead their leaders choose to focus on the most frivolous things possible. That should reinforce our knowledge of what they actually think about ICE's activities, and give us focus on what it means and what it takes to push them to defund these entities instead.
February 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM
They certainly know this, and instead their leaders choose to focus on the most frivolous things possible. That should reinforce our knowledge of what they actually think about ICE's activities, and give us focus on what it means and what it takes to push them to defund these entities instead.
I think if Democrats said the only thing they were willing to do about ICE/DHS was cut their budget, they'd certainly still have a struggle on their hands, but at least they wouldn't be struggling for entirely frivolous things.
February 10, 2026 at 2:53 PM
I think if Democrats said the only thing they were willing to do about ICE/DHS was cut their budget, they'd certainly still have a struggle on their hands, but at least they wouldn't be struggling for entirely frivolous things.
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From a visceral return to roots from Converge to Cryptic Shift’s epic new death metal space opera, Kez Whelan reviews his first batch of great new metal for 2026
Columnus Metallicus: #HeavyMetal for February
buff.ly/fNq3tjr
Columnus Metallicus: #HeavyMetal for February
buff.ly/fNq3tjr
February 10, 2026 at 2:00 PM
From a visceral return to roots from Converge to Cryptic Shift’s epic new death metal space opera, Kez Whelan reviews his first batch of great new metal for 2026
Columnus Metallicus: #HeavyMetal for February
buff.ly/fNq3tjr
Columnus Metallicus: #HeavyMetal for February
buff.ly/fNq3tjr
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🧵The Dakota and Lakota are now occupying space outside the ICE detention center at the whipple building at ft snelling. ft snelling previously held over 1,700 Dakota prisoners of war, including Elders, women, and children,
February 10, 2026 at 2:21 PM
🧵The Dakota and Lakota are now occupying space outside the ICE detention center at the whipple building at ft snelling. ft snelling previously held over 1,700 Dakota prisoners of war, including Elders, women, and children,
Ha well, apparently I posted the second image twice. Here is the one that was supposed to go first.
February 10, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Ha well, apparently I posted the second image twice. Here is the one that was supposed to go first.
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It takes 3-5 business days and the soul of your first born child to cancel your cable subscription but the Epstein Class can pay the equivalent of less than a minute’s wages for the privilege of permanently poisoning us all.
I woke up at 4:18 am and said, “we took all the friction out of the systems that poor people use to survive and gave rich people all the luxury of their frictionlessness.”
I will make it make sense later.
I will make it make sense later.
February 10, 2026 at 1:33 PM
It takes 3-5 business days and the soul of your first born child to cancel your cable subscription but the Epstein Class can pay the equivalent of less than a minute’s wages for the privilege of permanently poisoning us all.
On FB, @susanraffo.bsky.social wrote a brilliant reflection the other day about the Bovino vs Homan flavors of bullying and what they say about whiteness. www.facebook.com/share/p/17pF...
February 10, 2026 at 1:32 PM
On FB, @susanraffo.bsky.social wrote a brilliant reflection the other day about the Bovino vs Homan flavors of bullying and what they say about whiteness. www.facebook.com/share/p/17pF...
TLDR but joke’s on you I guess you better keep reading 😂
February 10, 2026 at 1:23 PM
TLDR but joke’s on you I guess you better keep reading 😂
I sent somebody a long message and tried to give them a TLDR at the beginning and instead of actually summarizing the answer to their question I summarized one of the underlying ideas that leads to the answer and totally forgot to name the answer. I was definitely a TLDR failure in that case.
February 10, 2026 at 1:19 PM
I sent somebody a long message and tried to give them a TLDR at the beginning and instead of actually summarizing the answer to their question I summarized one of the underlying ideas that leads to the answer and totally forgot to name the answer. I was definitely a TLDR failure in that case.
I think there can be a temptation to think, no they have to keep paying attention, so many very bad and very good things are happening, and it’s very true they are. But people’s attention, especially media or influencers or whatever, is one of the things we have the least control over, I imagine.
February 10, 2026 at 12:59 PM
I think there can be a temptation to think, no they have to keep paying attention, so many very bad and very good things are happening, and it’s very true they are. But people’s attention, especially media or influencers or whatever, is one of the things we have the least control over, I imagine.
What the possibilities are, what materials and contexts and conditions are there that weren’t there before, is crucial, I think, when we don’t have as many cameras watching us, or people doing bullshit like staking out organizer houses to see what ICE might do.
February 10, 2026 at 12:42 PM
What the possibilities are, what materials and contexts and conditions are there that weren’t there before, is crucial, I think, when we don’t have as many cameras watching us, or people doing bullshit like staking out organizer houses to see what ICE might do.
I generally think whirlwind organizing is not meant to be long term organizing, but that what people do in the whirlwind creates possibilities for what they will do when it lessens. For Minneapolis, I think it’s very important that we realize that when we think people have stopped paying attention.
February 10, 2026 at 12:39 PM
I generally think whirlwind organizing is not meant to be long term organizing, but that what people do in the whirlwind creates possibilities for what they will do when it lessens. For Minneapolis, I think it’s very important that we realize that when we think people have stopped paying attention.
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When Aaron Henry & others from NAACP organized a Christmas shopping boycott in Clarksdale, Miss, because the white store owners refused to hire African Americans for anything but menial work, they were arrested & convicted for “Conspiring to withhold trade.”
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ch...
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ch...
Dec. 1961: Christmas Shopping Boycott
Aaron Henry (Mississippi state NAACP president, pharmacist, drugstore owner) and the Coahoma County NAACP organized an effective Christmas shopping boycott in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
www.zinnedproject.org
February 10, 2026 at 4:30 AM
When Aaron Henry & others from NAACP organized a Christmas shopping boycott in Clarksdale, Miss, because the white store owners refused to hire African Americans for anything but menial work, they were arrested & convicted for “Conspiring to withhold trade.”
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ch...
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ch...
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Yes, a must read on Dr. King with a lot also on Coretta Scott King.
King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South by Jeanne Theoharis.
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www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ki...
King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South by Jeanne Theoharis.
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www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ki...
King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South
Book — Non-fiction. 2025. By Jeanne Theoharis. 400 pages. Illustrates how King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago — outside Dixie — was at the heart of his campaign for racial justic...
www.zinnedproject.org
February 10, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Yes, a must read on Dr. King with a lot also on Coretta Scott King.
King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South by Jeanne Theoharis.
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www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ki...
King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South by Jeanne Theoharis.
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www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ki...
Might as well be a NYT Pitchbot post. Strike against Santa Claus. Whew.
February 10, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Might as well be a NYT Pitchbot post. Strike against Santa Claus. Whew.
(From her excellent book “King of the North,” in this chapter about King’s efforts for many years in NYC)
February 10, 2026 at 2:32 AM
(From her excellent book “King of the North,” in this chapter about King’s efforts for many years in NYC)
In 1963 MLK supported a nationwide boycott of Xmas shopping. @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social notes that the NYT editorial board wrote a piece slamming the effort called “Strike Against Santa Claus” which they said would “put civil rights activists on the same level as those who did the church bombing.”
February 10, 2026 at 2:31 AM
In 1963 MLK supported a nationwide boycott of Xmas shopping. @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social notes that the NYT editorial board wrote a piece slamming the effort called “Strike Against Santa Claus” which they said would “put civil rights activists on the same level as those who did the church bombing.”
A number of Native orgs host a missing and murdered indigenous relatives march each February 14. This year’s is a Saturday, and the march runs from 11am-2pm, starting at the Minneapolis American Indian Center.
February 10, 2026 at 2:22 AM
A number of Native orgs host a missing and murdered indigenous relatives march each February 14. This year’s is a Saturday, and the march runs from 11am-2pm, starting at the Minneapolis American Indian Center.