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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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.
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.
so many families are in awful positions because ICE’s bullshit has collapsed the already fragile social safety net.
this family is living in their van in minnesota in winter. they’ve applied for help at over a dozen orgs and are still unhoused. with babies.
this family is living in their van in minnesota in winter. they’ve applied for help at over a dozen orgs and are still unhoused. with babies.
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February 13, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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.
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.
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There are no quick fixes for fascism - our charge is to confront and uproot the criminalization that underlies and drives it within and beyond borders.
Democrats are suggesting reforms for ICE, but the reality is: abolition is the way forward, not reform.
Read the latest from our co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie in @thenation.com!
Read the latest from our co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie in @thenation.com!
Abolition Is Still the Only Way Out of This
Forget the useless so-called “reforms” to ICE and policing currently on offer. We need much more fundamental change.
www.thenation.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:48 PM
There are no quick fixes for fascism - our charge is to confront and uproot the criminalization that underlies and drives it within and beyond borders.
If you're like me and are more likely to listen to the podcast than watch the video, you can find it here!
ICYMI tonight’s livestream is now available in our public feed
Death Panel x @haymarketbooks.org present
ABOLISH ICE, ABOLISH THE BORDER
Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social
Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social
Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social
soundcloud.com/deathpanel/a...
Death Panel x @haymarketbooks.org present
ABOLISH ICE, ABOLISH THE BORDER
Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social
Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social
Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social
soundcloud.com/deathpanel/a...
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.
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February 13, 2026 at 7:50 PM
If you're like me and are more likely to listen to the podcast than watch the video, you can find it here!
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I watched last night and these are three of the smartest people on the planet from whom I have learned a lot. If you listen, you'll learn too.
LIVE NOW!
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.
Stream here:
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.
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Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
Join Harsha Walia, Silky Shah, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton of Death Panel for an urgent discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond, and why resistance calls…
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:48 PM
I watched last night and these are three of the smartest people on the planet from whom I have learned a lot. If you listen, you'll learn too.
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If we don't want our data shared with the police, ICE, etc., the most effective safeguard is abolition.
February 13, 2026 at 7:10 PM
If we don't want our data shared with the police, ICE, etc., the most effective safeguard is abolition.
Was thinking about one of my favorite classic @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social articles, "Punk Didn’t Realize Being an Anarchist Would Require so Much Reading and Social Organizing." thehardtimes.net/culture/punk...
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.
thehardtimes.net
February 13, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Was thinking about one of my favorite classic @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social articles, "Punk Didn’t Realize Being an Anarchist Would Require so Much Reading and Social Organizing." thehardtimes.net/culture/punk...
With all these rebel loon designs floating around I have totally lost track of which ones are AI generated.
February 13, 2026 at 7:03 PM
With all these rebel loon designs floating around I have totally lost track of which ones are AI generated.
This article doesn't directly say this (though I think it gestures at it) but one of the more transformative things I've learned from Indigenous people as they talk about the land where Fort Snelling/Whipple bldg sit today is to (paraphrasing) center the space (there) instead of the time (now/then).
Tipis erected near Fort Snelling have become a focal point for Native-led resistance to ICE activity, blending prayer, ceremony and protest on land marked by Dakota history.
Written by Shubhanjana Das
Written by Shubhanjana Das
Minnesota Native activists on front lines of ICE resistance
Tipis erected near Fort Snelling have become a focal point for Native-led resistance to ICE activity, blending prayer, ceremony and protest on land marked by Dakota history.
sahanjournal.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:21 PM
This article doesn't directly say this (though I think it gestures at it) but one of the more transformative things I've learned from Indigenous people as they talk about the land where Fort Snelling/Whipple bldg sit today is to (paraphrasing) center the space (there) instead of the time (now/then).
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Tipis erected near Fort Snelling have become a focal point for Native-led resistance to ICE activity, blending prayer, ceremony and protest on land marked by Dakota history.
Written by Shubhanjana Das
Written by Shubhanjana Das
Minnesota Native activists on front lines of ICE resistance
Tipis erected near Fort Snelling have become a focal point for Native-led resistance to ICE activity, blending prayer, ceremony and protest on land marked by Dakota history.
sahanjournal.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Tipis erected near Fort Snelling have become a focal point for Native-led resistance to ICE activity, blending prayer, ceremony and protest on land marked by Dakota history.
Written by Shubhanjana Das
Written by Shubhanjana Das
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I heard @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social has these stickers!
You can also grab a (free) print copy or two of the MPD150 Enough is Enough report about Minneapolis and abolition while you're there! While it's from 2020, it is as relevant as ever today.
You can also grab a (free) print copy or two of the MPD150 Enough is Enough report about Minneapolis and abolition while you're there! While it's from 2020, it is as relevant as ever today.
From the city that gave you "Make the golf course a public sex forest..."
February 13, 2026 at 3:05 PM
I heard @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social has these stickers!
You can also grab a (free) print copy or two of the MPD150 Enough is Enough report about Minneapolis and abolition while you're there! While it's from 2020, it is as relevant as ever today.
You can also grab a (free) print copy or two of the MPD150 Enough is Enough report about Minneapolis and abolition while you're there! While it's from 2020, it is as relevant as ever today.
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minnesota, land of 10,000 “I’ll believe it when I see it”s
February 13, 2026 at 2:56 PM
minnesota, land of 10,000 “I’ll believe it when I see it”s
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Be careful, folks. ICE is still out there, circling the schools this morning. Even if this withdrawal is happening over the next week, some of the agents want to get their last bit of being shitheads in.
February 13, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Be careful, folks. ICE is still out there, circling the schools this morning. Even if this withdrawal is happening over the next week, some of the agents want to get their last bit of being shitheads in.
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this is one of those cases where I think no, even rhetorically, you don’t go there. you draw a bright red line and when someone talks about denaturalization you laugh in their face and say “what are you taking about, we don’t do that in America” instead of dunking on their side’s immigrants
Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort
cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?
February 13, 2026 at 1:17 PM
this is one of those cases where I think no, even rhetorically, you don’t go there. you draw a bright red line and when someone talks about denaturalization you laugh in their face and say “what are you taking about, we don’t do that in America” instead of dunking on their side’s immigrants
Five years ago @ashoncrawley.bsky.social posted a thing about care that feels really timely again. www.facebook.com/ashon/posts/...
February 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Five years ago @ashoncrawley.bsky.social posted a thing about care that feels really timely again. www.facebook.com/ashon/posts/...
New Converge album today. 🤘🏻
February 13, 2026 at 1:46 PM
New Converge album today. 🤘🏻
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Happy Friday, weeping warriors.
(There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.)
(There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.)
but we will have to make it, we who want an end to suffering
February 13, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Happy Friday, weeping warriors.
(There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.)
(There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.)
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“Mass pseudo-culture…is a device invented by monopoly capital to facilitate dictatorship over a mystified, docile, debased humanity, whose impulse of real violence must be redirected into imaginary channels.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/pseudo-culture
Pseudo-culture
Trust your own eyes.
aworkinglibrary.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:08 PM
“Mass pseudo-culture…is a device invented by monopoly capital to facilitate dictatorship over a mystified, docile, debased humanity, whose impulse of real violence must be redirected into imaginary channels.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/pseudo-culture
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Democrats are suggesting reforms for ICE, but the reality is: abolition is the way forward, not reform.
Read the latest from our co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie in @thenation.com!
Read the latest from our co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie in @thenation.com!
Abolition Is Still the Only Way Out of This
Forget the useless so-called “reforms” to ICE and policing currently on offer. We need much more fundamental change.
www.thenation.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Democrats are suggesting reforms for ICE, but the reality is: abolition is the way forward, not reform.
Read the latest from our co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie in @thenation.com!
Read the latest from our co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie in @thenation.com!
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LIVE NOW!
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.
Stream here:
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.
Stream here:
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
Join Harsha Walia, Silky Shah, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton of Death Panel for an urgent discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond, and why resistance calls…
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:55 PM
LIVE NOW!
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.
Stream here:
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.
Stream here:
A helpful read. Shutting down DHS is a lot less meaningful than it sounds but at least they didn't get more money.
No funding was passed so DHS closes down on Saturday. www.npr.org/2026/02/12/n...
DHS expected to shut down as immigration talks falter
Senate Democrats blocked two Republican-backed measures Thursday to keep the department open, including a short-term funding extension for two weeks as negotiations continue.
www.npr.org
February 12, 2026 at 10:53 PM
A helpful read. Shutting down DHS is a lot less meaningful than it sounds but at least they didn't get more money.
Was there a vote today? Would love to read a thing about what happened?
So proud of Minnesota! Because of all the work you’ve done and the support across the country, the US Senate has ended - for now - funding for ICE!!
We need to keep it up to ensure they stop hurting us and actually leave our communities. Not one more penny for ICE!!
We need to keep it up to ensure they stop hurting us and actually leave our communities. Not one more penny for ICE!!
February 12, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Was there a vote today? Would love to read a thing about what happened?
My family is having some health things on top of *gestures broadly* and on multiple grocery trips I couldn’t find the croissants my kid likes in stock and @colocharachel.bsky.social went to a different store location and brought them by and it was really lovely.
I didn’t even clean their kitchen for real. I did dishes, took out trash and recycling, put dishes away, and dry wiped surfaces.
Even an hour of care work support makes a huge difference for people who are also already doing lots of care work.
Even an hour of care work support makes a huge difference for people who are also already doing lots of care work.
@colocharachel.bsky.social came over and cleaned my kitchen a few weeks ago and I cannot overstate how good it was for my sanity. Care work matters!
February 12, 2026 at 10:04 PM
My family is having some health things on top of *gestures broadly* and on multiple grocery trips I couldn’t find the croissants my kid likes in stock and @colocharachel.bsky.social went to a different store location and brought them by and it was really lovely.
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NEW: Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling and near the Whipple Federal Building -- headquarters of ICE's Operation Metro Surge -- establishing an occupation demanding 'land back' in the form of “returning Fort Snelling” to the Dakota people. [Video]
Indigenous Activists Occupy Land Near Fort Snelling, Plan to Stay Until 'Land Back' - UNICORN RIOT
Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling, establishing an occupation. Organizers demand land back in the form of "returning Fort Snelling" to the Dakota pe...
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February 12, 2026 at 4:42 AM
NEW: Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling and near the Whipple Federal Building -- headquarters of ICE's Operation Metro Surge -- establishing an occupation demanding 'land back' in the form of “returning Fort Snelling” to the Dakota people. [Video]
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I think a significant fraction of the theological rationale for abolition is precisely: Christians cannot accept there are discardable people.
I think on top of the visible trauma and rebuilding, this is a large risk if we are in fact entering into a new phase. Much of ICE’s activity has been jail related for its whole existence and it is built on the idea that there are discardable people nobody has to see.
I’m really worried that this just means no one will care anymore, if ICE is picking up already-criminalized neighbors
February 12, 2026 at 4:19 PM
I think a significant fraction of the theological rationale for abolition is precisely: Christians cannot accept there are discardable people.