Chris Stedman
@chrisdstedman.bsky.social
Professor, author, and narrative podcaster. Currently writing book three and podcast series two. Founder @goodjudypods.bsky.social. Board member, PFund Foundation.
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Chris Stedman
@chrisdstedman.bsky.social
· Dec 11
Here it is, the thing I’ve been working on for most of this year: I’m launching a podcast studio, @goodjudypods.bsky.social! AND we have a series in development! I’ve written a piece explaining why I’m doing this and why I need your help. I hope you’ll check it out: open.substack.com/pub/chrisdst...
Urgent mutual aid need:
$620 for rent to keep a family in their home, including kids of parents who were taken by 🧊
If you can help please DM me and I'll send you my Venmo, PayPal, Apple Pay, whatever
$620 for rent to keep a family in their home, including kids of parents who were taken by 🧊
If you can help please DM me and I'll send you my Venmo, PayPal, Apple Pay, whatever
February 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Urgent mutual aid need:
$620 for rent to keep a family in their home, including kids of parents who were taken by 🧊
If you can help please DM me and I'll send you my Venmo, PayPal, Apple Pay, whatever
$620 for rent to keep a family in their home, including kids of parents who were taken by 🧊
If you can help please DM me and I'll send you my Venmo, PayPal, Apple Pay, whatever
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In response to a great deal of ICE activity in our Minneapolis neighborhood of Longfellow, we are standing up for our neighbors who need immediate relief – and we’re asking for your help. Please help keep families in their homes this winter. Visit neighborrelieffund.org to learn more and donate 💜
February 3, 2026 at 5:14 PM
In response to a great deal of ICE activity in our Minneapolis neighborhood of Longfellow, we are standing up for our neighbors who need immediate relief – and we’re asking for your help. Please help keep families in their homes this winter. Visit neighborrelieffund.org to learn more and donate 💜
In response to a great deal of ICE activity in our Minneapolis neighborhood of Longfellow, we are standing up for our neighbors who need immediate relief – and we’re asking for your help. Please help keep families in their homes this winter. Visit neighborrelieffund.org to learn more and donate 💜
February 3, 2026 at 5:14 PM
In response to a great deal of ICE activity in our Minneapolis neighborhood of Longfellow, we are standing up for our neighbors who need immediate relief – and we’re asking for your help. Please help keep families in their homes this winter. Visit neighborrelieffund.org to learn more and donate 💜
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The incredible outpouring of mutual aid and community care during Operation Metro Surge got us thinking: we don’t want these stories and lessons to be forgotten. So we’re reopening the WE HELP US hotline to help document this moment in Minnesota. Call 1-844-934-5787 to share your story of mutual aid
January 30, 2026 at 7:34 PM
The incredible outpouring of mutual aid and community care during Operation Metro Surge got us thinking: we don’t want these stories and lessons to be forgotten. So we’re reopening the WE HELP US hotline to help document this moment in Minnesota. Call 1-844-934-5787 to share your story of mutual aid
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A major coalition is launching a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow, aimed at pushing out ICE.
It includes:
-Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005
-The MN AFL-CIO
-SEIU Local 26
-UNITE HERE Local 17
-CWA Local 7250
-Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators
-Faith leaders
And more. 🧵
It includes:
-Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005
-The MN AFL-CIO
-SEIU Local 26
-UNITE HERE Local 17
-CWA Local 7250
-Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators
-Faith leaders
And more. 🧵
January 22, 2026 at 2:30 PM
A major coalition is launching a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow, aimed at pushing out ICE.
It includes:
-Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005
-The MN AFL-CIO
-SEIU Local 26
-UNITE HERE Local 17
-CWA Local 7250
-Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators
-Faith leaders
And more. 🧵
It includes:
-Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005
-The MN AFL-CIO
-SEIU Local 26
-UNITE HERE Local 17
-CWA Local 7250
-Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators
-Faith leaders
And more. 🧵
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BREAKING: The House passed H.J. Res. 140—stripping protections from the Boundary Waters and handing 225,000 acres to a Chilean mining corp. The Senate is our last chance. 📞 Call: (202) 224-3121, say "Vote NO on H.J. Res. 140." Final stand.
friends-bwca.org/get-involved/take-legislative-action
friends-bwca.org/get-involved/take-legislative-action
January 21, 2026 at 10:10 PM
BREAKING: The House passed H.J. Res. 140—stripping protections from the Boundary Waters and handing 225,000 acres to a Chilean mining corp. The Senate is our last chance. 📞 Call: (202) 224-3121, say "Vote NO on H.J. Res. 140." Final stand.
friends-bwca.org/get-involved/take-legislative-action
friends-bwca.org/get-involved/take-legislative-action
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and will forever
“I’d come to see Chris, my close friend of many years, a six-foot-something, heavily tattooed, consummate Midwesterner of Scandinavian descent who’d say ‘bahg’ out loud whensoever I asked.” It’s true, he is always asking me to say that word
January 21, 2026 at 5:46 PM
and will forever
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Thanks so much to everyone who has checked in about what it’s like in Minneapolis right now. This should answer most of your questions:
It’s worse than it looks in Minneapolis
But locals are organizing to keep each other safe from ICE agents.
www.theverge.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Thanks so much to everyone who has checked in about what it’s like in Minneapolis right now. This should answer most of your questions:
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The difference between Friday being another day of protests and being a trial run of a general strike is what you and me and the Twin Cities working class do between today and Friday.
Make your own plan.
Talk with your coworkers.
Ask businesses and bosses to close and observe the demands.
Make your own plan.
Talk with your coworkers.
Ask businesses and bosses to close and observe the demands.
January 20, 2026 at 9:37 PM
The difference between Friday being another day of protests and being a trial run of a general strike is what you and me and the Twin Cities working class do between today and Friday.
Make your own plan.
Talk with your coworkers.
Ask businesses and bosses to close and observe the demands.
Make your own plan.
Talk with your coworkers.
Ask businesses and bosses to close and observe the demands.
I may be biased because I’m in it, but I really really love this essay on wildness in a “civilized” world
January 20, 2026 at 8:25 PM
I may be biased because I’m in it, but I really really love this essay on wildness in a “civilized” world
Y’all gave $50K in a couple days. I don’t have words, just tears of gratitude. Thank you for supporting our neighbors during this dark time ❤️
We are a small group of neighbors in the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis, and we have created this fund to administer individual support to meet the urgent needs of families in crisis in our neighborhood. Please give/share if you can! tinyurl.com/helpinglongfellow
January 15, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Y’all gave $50K in a couple days. I don’t have words, just tears of gratitude. Thank you for supporting our neighbors during this dark time ❤️
We are all *exhausted* but boy do I have amazing neighbors ❤️
January 15, 2026 at 4:15 PM
We are all *exhausted* but boy do I have amazing neighbors ❤️
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This is also a good way to help
We are a small group of neighbors in the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis, and we have created this fund to administer individual support to meet the urgent needs of families in crisis in our neighborhood. Please give/share if you can! tinyurl.com/helpinglongfellow
January 13, 2026 at 3:28 AM
This is also a good way to help
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another good place to send money if you have it
We are a small group of neighbors in the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis, and we have created this fund to administer individual support to meet the urgent needs of families in crisis in our neighborhood. Please give/share if you can! tinyurl.com/helpinglongfellow
January 12, 2026 at 9:40 PM
another good place to send money if you have it
We are a small group of neighbors in the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis, and we have created this fund to administer individual support to meet the urgent needs of families in crisis in our neighborhood. Please give/share if you can! tinyurl.com/helpinglongfellow
January 12, 2026 at 8:30 PM
We are a small group of neighbors in the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis, and we have created this fund to administer individual support to meet the urgent needs of families in crisis in our neighborhood. Please give/share if you can! tinyurl.com/helpinglongfellow
Me and mom at my stepdad’s funeral on Wednesday. I’ll have more to say about it soon, but for now I’m just very grateful for all the love and support my family has received in recent weeks ❤️
January 9, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Me and mom at my stepdad’s funeral on Wednesday. I’ll have more to say about it soon, but for now I’m just very grateful for all the love and support my family has received in recent weeks ❤️
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The Timberwolves held a moment of silence for Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.
January 9, 2026 at 1:20 AM
The Timberwolves held a moment of silence for Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.
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30 families in Ward 9 need help. If you have capacity please donate so we can get families food.
- Email Costco gift cards to naomialexandra@gmail.com
- Venmo at @ Kevin-nye-3
- Cash App at $revkev
- Email Costco gift cards to naomialexandra@gmail.com
- Venmo at @ Kevin-nye-3
- Cash App at $revkev
Hey all,
I have abt 30 families in South Minneapolis who need grocery support. I’m hoping to raise $3000 to do a big Costco run, but I don’t have Venmo & I don’t have the ability to float it on my credit card. You can verify this need w/ @jchavezmpls.bsky.social. Please let me know if you have ideas
I have abt 30 families in South Minneapolis who need grocery support. I’m hoping to raise $3000 to do a big Costco run, but I don’t have Venmo & I don’t have the ability to float it on my credit card. You can verify this need w/ @jchavezmpls.bsky.social. Please let me know if you have ideas
January 9, 2026 at 2:58 AM
30 families in Ward 9 need help. If you have capacity please donate so we can get families food.
- Email Costco gift cards to naomialexandra@gmail.com
- Venmo at @ Kevin-nye-3
- Cash App at $revkev
- Email Costco gift cards to naomialexandra@gmail.com
- Venmo at @ Kevin-nye-3
- Cash App at $revkev
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The irony shouldn't be lost on anyone that during the George Floyd uprising there were 104 instances where cars were driven through protests - leading to 2 deaths - and how ICE has weaponized anxieties around an explicitly right wing tactic to justify every agent firing a gun in the last few months.
interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car
January 8, 2026 at 8:11 PM
The irony shouldn't be lost on anyone that during the George Floyd uprising there were 104 instances where cars were driven through protests - leading to 2 deaths - and how ICE has weaponized anxieties around an explicitly right wing tactic to justify every agent firing a gun in the last few months.
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interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car
January 8, 2026 at 7:41 PM
interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car
Wrote something short about living in Minneapolis and about what it means to be a neighbor. Sending so much love to everyone in my city. Show up for your neighbors! open.substack.com/pub/chrisdst...
It's time to be a neighbor
“We have literally no time to sit down and ask ourselves whether so-and-so is our neighbor or not. We must get into action.”
open.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Wrote something short about living in Minneapolis and about what it means to be a neighbor. Sending so much love to everyone in my city. Show up for your neighbors! open.substack.com/pub/chrisdst...
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"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
‘She was an amazing human being:’ Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent
Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in the Twin Cities with her partner.
www.startribune.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:57 PM
"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
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a video taken by the eyewitness, Emily Heller, shows agents denying a self-identified physician access to the victim and telling bystanders to “just relax.”
“How can I relax? You just killed my fucking neighbor,” Heller responded. “How the fuck do you show up to work every day?”
“How can I relax? You just killed my fucking neighbor,” Heller responded. “How the fuck do you show up to work every day?”
January 7, 2026 at 9:37 PM
a video taken by the eyewitness, Emily Heller, shows agents denying a self-identified physician access to the victim and telling bystanders to “just relax.”
“How can I relax? You just killed my fucking neighbor,” Heller responded. “How the fuck do you show up to work every day?”
“How can I relax? You just killed my fucking neighbor,” Heller responded. “How the fuck do you show up to work every day?”
Got out of my stepdad’s funeral to the horrific news of ICE shooting and killing a legal observer and member of our community. When will the terror end? My heart breaks for this city and everything we have been through in recent years 💔
January 7, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Got out of my stepdad’s funeral to the horrific news of ICE shooting and killing a legal observer and member of our community. When will the terror end? My heart breaks for this city and everything we have been through in recent years 💔
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Always read @chrisdstedman.bsky.social
If you love the work, take your time. You mind and soul will thank you.
If you love the work, take your time. You mind and soul will thank you.
I started writing about this year and ended up going very, very long on inefficiency. Put down your to-do list and check it out: open.substack.com/pub/chrisdst...
In praise of inefficiency
On going slowly in a fast world, or why I'm letting my next book and podcast take forever
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Always read @chrisdstedman.bsky.social
If you love the work, take your time. You mind and soul will thank you.
If you love the work, take your time. You mind and soul will thank you.