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
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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.
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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.”
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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:
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...
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 ☎️
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 💜
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
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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:
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 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 ❤️
Reposted by Chris Stedman
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.
Reposted by Chris Stedman
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
Reposted by Chris Stedman
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.