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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 3h

Resist fascism, make friends. Build community, check on each other. Party, cook, build ties, and never let them make you too scared to love one another.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h

I am happy that more people see that the police state is a BIPARTISAN project.

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nicholatorbett.bsky.social @nicholatorbett.bsky.social · 6h

This is liturgy right here.

Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 8h

The priest on the right is holding a monstrance. It’s used to display a piece of communion bread — which Catholics believe becomes the literal body of Christ when it’s consecrated — for worship.

A monstrance is normally only used in *very* solemn ceremonies.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 11h

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 6h

“showing how the desire for power and money--what some call ‘racial capitalism’--drives violence and exploitation across American history.”

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 6h

I went ahead and ordered it after listening to this Homebrewed Christianity interview about it today. www.homebrewedchristianty.com/2025/10/06/y...

You Can’t Serve God and Mammon: Malcolm Foley on Greed, Racism, and the Gospel

www.homebrewedchristianty.com

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 6h

Really nice 30% off plus free shipping sale right now on @malcolmbfoley.bsky.social’s book, “The Anti-Greed Gospel: Why the Love of Money Is the Root of Racism and How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward”

bakerbookhouse.com/products/978...

The Anti-Greed Gospel

"A forceful call to recognize the roots of American inequality and a solid starting point for Christians who want to help fix them."--Publishers WeeklyRacism is not about hate and ignorance. It's abou...

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 6h

My hope (maybe unrealistic) is that they’re just paying folks and sometimes those folks just want the paycheck.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 7h

Square One is the childhood show I can never remember the name of. I remember watching that with my older sister though.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 9h

“I had a dream for my life.
It bloomed and withered
and left me laden with—
regrets, I thought, and fears.

For years the load I carried!
Until one day I found it
growing lighter on my shoulders,
and behind me a trail of seeds.”

jamesapearson.com/the-trail-of...

The Trail of Seeds - a poem by James A. Pearson

After one dream for your life falls away, what are you left with? This poem meets you in that tender season with a gentle faith for what's to come.

jamesapearson.com

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 10h

The US president has always had the power to end the genocide whenever he wants. Trump didn't "negotiate a deal," he finally called off the war, which was within US's power.

The reason he shouldn't be praised is that there is nothing praiseworthy about ending your own genocide.

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Tom Emanuel @realtomemanuel.bsky.social · 10h

Are there any good resources *from within the autistic community* about parenting children on the spectrum? Asking for someone on the spectrum (me) who's raising two beautiful humans who are also on the spectrum. I'm finding some things challenging lately and would love additional support.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 10h

Cool to see that @policingblack.bsky.social will be making a quarterly newsletter for @interruptcrim.bsky.social Canada. Sign up here: form.jotform.com/252826314847...

Interrupting Criminalization Canada Newsletter Registration

Please click the link to complete this form.

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Inquest @inquest.bsky.social · 2d

"When feminist struggles enter phases of rapprochement with the state, they throw Indigenous, 'deviant,' Black, sexualized, sex-working women and other gender minorities under the bus." @reproutopia.bsky.social talks with Aya Gruber about truly abolitionist feminism.

Leaning In to State Violence - Sophie Lewis interviewed by Aya Gruber - Inquest

In ‘Enemy Feminisms,’ philosopher Sophie Lewis engages with the feminism of racists, colonizers, fascists, cops, and jailers to better understand what a truly liberatory politics needs to look like.

inquest.org

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 11h

I always really value Greg Grandin's work on anything in Latin America, and he did a good interview with @democracynow.org about the peace prize. www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10/n...

2025 Nobel Peace Prize for Anti-Maduro Leader María Corina Machado “Opposite of Peace”: Greg Grandin

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure. Machado was set to run for president last year, but she was disqua...

www.democracynow.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 14h

I'm hoping to attend a version of this workshop on the Southside soon. I've been thinking about how much I'd like to see many neighborhoods have versions of this tool.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 14h

And then either they get stolen or broken and I can't find them. It's not like they are expensive to replace (they're like $3 a piece), but it is annoying that I can't just put two reflectors in the ground so I know where to clear the snow and have them stay there.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 14h

An annoying thing about my sidewalk is that it sits directly in front of a large tree, so the boulevard sidewalk is off to the side several feet. This is fine, except when that boulevard sidewalk is covered in snow. I buy those reflector things, but every time I buy them they get knocked over.

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Inquest @inquest.bsky.social · 14h

This week Inquest interviewed philosopher Sophie Lewis about carceral feminism and shared a medical doctor's argument for making hospitals less like jails. Get the full recap: mailchi.mp/inquest.o...

Card with quote from Sophie Lewis from her Inquest interview with Aya Gruber: "“Ultimately, this is what feminism means to me: a critique big enough to encompass work, race, sexuality, ecology. Feminism, as a label, is one I refuse to give up on. I don’t want to be evicted from feminism by the securitizers and the femonationalists and the pornophobes."

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 14h

See some of Melanie's work here: goodgraces.store

I think it's really lovely that a thing like this, making designs we can hold in our hands, has existed for a year now.

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Melanie Walby @melaniewalby.bsky.social · 17d

Join Good Graces in celebrating one year since our launch party last fall! Sunday, October 26th from 1pm—7pm I'm doing a one-day-only exhibition and pop-up art sale.

RSVP: events.humanitix.com/basementsale

Celebrating One Year of Good Graces

Pop-up exhibition and art sale.

events.humanitix.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Aug 27

yup, we rise up to the level of our training, not to the level of our imagined selves.

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 14h

Can repeat enough: Chicago is the rehearsal for what's ahead (and yes, is also already underway) in other cities — AND for the campaign of noncooperation & opposition that must be unleashed. We must study & practice & prepare.

I repeat: we love you, Chicago.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15h

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15h

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15h

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

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