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...
What would our mayor know about being helpful
In the Skyway 20 minutes after an ice abduction, mayor Frey walks through the government center. A lady yells at him "what are you doing to stop this? Fuck you." He responds, "is that helpful?" With a smirk on his face.
February 10, 2026 at 9:29 PM
What would our mayor know about being helpful
Reposted by Chris Stedman
Anyone in Minnesota will tell you that this matches the eye test. They are simply grabbing anyone who's not white. Full stop. There is no other strategy to this at all. It's a racist, heinous federal occupation.
Dismantle the agencies.
Prosecute everyone involved.
Redistribute all the funding.
Dismantle the agencies.
Prosecute everyone involved.
Redistribute all the funding.
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
www.huffpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Anyone in Minnesota will tell you that this matches the eye test. They are simply grabbing anyone who's not white. Full stop. There is no other strategy to this at all. It's a racist, heinous federal occupation.
Dismantle the agencies.
Prosecute everyone involved.
Redistribute all the funding.
Dismantle the agencies.
Prosecute everyone involved.
Redistribute all the funding.
Reposted by Chris Stedman
The ‘abolish ICE’ door is cracked open and every one of us needs to push and keep pushing.
“Liam’s father, Adrian Conejo Arias, said the family was in hiding. He cited a bomb threat at his son’s former elementary school and ICE agents patrolling the Columbia Heights home they no longer live in.”
“Liam’s father, Adrian Conejo Arias, said the family was in hiding. He cited a bomb threat at his son’s former elementary school and ICE agents patrolling the Columbia Heights home they no longer live in.”
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
www.mprnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 2:05 AM
The ‘abolish ICE’ door is cracked open and every one of us needs to push and keep pushing.
“Liam’s father, Adrian Conejo Arias, said the family was in hiding. He cited a bomb threat at his son’s former elementary school and ICE agents patrolling the Columbia Heights home they no longer live in.”
“Liam’s father, Adrian Conejo Arias, said the family was in hiding. He cited a bomb threat at his son’s former elementary school and ICE agents patrolling the Columbia Heights home they no longer live in.”
Reposted by Chris Stedman
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:
Thank you @biketrouble.bsky.social for chatting with me for your @autostraddle.bsky.social story about how queer and trans people are stepping up right now in Minnesota: www.autostraddle.com/how-minnesot...
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 4:37 PM
Thank you @biketrouble.bsky.social for chatting with me for your @autostraddle.bsky.social story about how queer and trans people are stepping up right now in Minnesota: www.autostraddle.com/how-minnesot...
Totally, it’s a central tension for so many of us right now. I’m going to do my best to protect everyone who shares a story. And the podcast series won’t be out for a quite a while - hoping that when it is we’ll all be in a very different place ❤️ I really appreciate your help getting the word out!!
February 9, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Totally, it’s a central tension for so many of us right now. I’m going to do my best to protect everyone who shares a story. And the podcast series won’t be out for a quite a while - hoping that when it is we’ll all be in a very different place ❤️ I really appreciate your help getting the word out!!
There’s more info on the website but here I’ll say: in general folks are welcome to include their name if they wish but definitely aren’t required to. Any information that violates someone else’s privacy or safety will be promptly deleted. Callers should exercise caution + care about what they share
February 9, 2026 at 9:42 PM
There’s more info on the website but here I’ll say: in general folks are welcome to include their name if they wish but definitely aren’t required to. Any information that violates someone else’s privacy or safety will be promptly deleted. Callers should exercise caution + care about what they share
Audio messages will be archived at the U of MN and potentially used in a narrative podcast series. Visit wehelpusmn.com to learn more 🩷
The We Help Us Hotline — Good Judy
wehelpusmn.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Audio messages will be archived at the U of MN and potentially used in a narrative podcast series. Visit wehelpusmn.com to learn more 🩷
I want to hear how you’re taking care of your neighbors right now. What mutual aid are you participating in? What efforts have you seen or been part of? What do you want future generations /people outside our state to know about how Minnesotans showed up for one another during Operation Metro Surge?
February 9, 2026 at 9:40 PM
I want to hear how you’re taking care of your neighbors right now. What mutual aid are you participating in? What efforts have you seen or been part of? What do you want future generations /people outside our state to know about how Minnesotans showed up for one another during Operation Metro Surge?
Minnesotans: I’m trying to help document this moment in our state’s history for an audio project on mutual aid. I’ve been doing some in-person interviews, but we’re all spread so thin right now. The simplest way you can help is by leaving a message with your story of mutual aid at 1-844-WE-HLP-US ☎️
February 9, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Minnesotans: I’m trying to help document this moment in our state’s history for an audio project on mutual aid. I’ve been doing some in-person interviews, but we’re all spread so thin right now. The simplest way you can help is by leaving a message with your story of mutual aid at 1-844-WE-HLP-US ☎️
Need met btw, thank you all so much!!
February 8, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Need met btw, thank you all so much!!
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
Reposted by Chris Stedman
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 💜
Reposted by Chris Stedman
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
Reposted by Chris Stedman
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. 🧵
Reposted by Chris Stedman
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
Reposted by Chris Stedman
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
Reposted by Chris Stedman
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:
Reposted by Chris Stedman
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’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 20, 2026 at 8:26 PM
“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
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
We intend to leave the gofundme open so that we can continue to accept donations. This is an evolving situation with a lot of unknowns. I can promise we will redistribute any excess funds to others in need asap. Thank you thank you thank you
January 15, 2026 at 9:40 PM
We intend to leave the gofundme open so that we can continue to accept donations. This is an evolving situation with a lot of unknowns. I can promise we will redistribute any excess funds to others in need asap. Thank you thank you thank you
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 ❤️
Not strict. If we end up needing more folks I’ll let you know!
January 15, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Not strict. If we end up needing more folks I’ll let you know!