Jay Bergen
@jaybergen.bsky.social
Mennonite pastor, abolitionist organizer, Philly vs Everybody.
Consensus in line at the U-Haul is that the American empire is ending but the structure of capitalism will remain.
April 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Consensus in line at the U-Haul is that the American empire is ending but the structure of capitalism will remain.
Do not confuse privilege with freedom.
April 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Do not confuse privilege with freedom.
This is fine right?
Rare devil sunrise appears in multiple countries across earth
April 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This is fine right?
I said "balms away" in a meeting just now and a church member said that was the best thing to happen to them all day.
March 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I said "balms away" in a meeting just now and a church member said that was the best thing to happen to them all day.
First Claritin of the year happy spring!!
March 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
First Claritin of the year happy spring!!
170 people registered for our ICE Watch training this eve! Philly getting organized!
March 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
170 people registered for our ICE Watch training this eve! Philly getting organized!
Just condensed a six-person texting telephone chain (‘I’m talking to someone who’s talking to someone who’s talking to someone… who needs a lawyer’) down to just the two people at the ends. Never felt more accomplished.
March 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Just condensed a six-person texting telephone chain (‘I’m talking to someone who’s talking to someone who’s talking to someone… who needs a lawyer’) down to just the two people at the ends. Never felt more accomplished.
As an non-binary person who gets he/him-ed by people 95% of the time, I feel this article deeply. Everyone is jumping on her in the comments, and they are right that passing is racialized and sexist etc, but I get that desire to not want to live as a lesson. All trans people deserve ease.
So I do what I can. I adjust, refine, move forward. I put my energy where it matters—not into arguing, not into proving myself, but into becoming the person I set out to embody. open.substack.com/pub/aridrenn...
Why I’m No Longer Bothering to Correct People Who Misgender Me
There was a time when I corrected every misstep.
open.substack.com
March 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
As an non-binary person who gets he/him-ed by people 95% of the time, I feel this article deeply. Everyone is jumping on her in the comments, and they are right that passing is racialized and sexist etc, but I get that desire to not want to live as a lesson. All trans people deserve ease.
Why is the guy next to me in the airport waiting area putting on Deep Woods bug spray? What does he know that I don't know?
March 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Why is the guy next to me in the airport waiting area putting on Deep Woods bug spray? What does he know that I don't know?
I do not understand Priority Boarding. Why would I stand in line to spend extra time in the Small Metal Tube? I would pay extra to board very last.
March 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I do not understand Priority Boarding. Why would I stand in line to spend extra time in the Small Metal Tube? I would pay extra to board very last.
Honestly if you had asked me if Jean Chretien was still alive I would have been wrong
March 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Honestly if you had asked me if Jean Chretien was still alive I would have been wrong
Unidentified men arrested a community member at a court appearance today. Presumably ICE. Fascism is very much here.
March 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Unidentified men arrested a community member at a court appearance today. Presumably ICE. Fascism is very much here.
Despite my opposition to fascism I’m praying we DON’T suffer economic collapse, unlike a lot of people on this weird app.
March 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Despite my opposition to fascism I’m praying we DON’T suffer economic collapse, unlike a lot of people on this weird app.
May the blessing of Ash Wednesday connect us with all who continue to live in a world of ashes - in Gaza, in Syria, in California, and in our own communities.
March 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
May the blessing of Ash Wednesday connect us with all who continue to live in a world of ashes - in Gaza, in Syria, in California, and in our own communities.
Trump’s abandonment of Ukraine is bad (fight me, tankies) but it does show once again that Biden could have ended the Israeli genocide any time he wanted to.
March 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Trump’s abandonment of Ukraine is bad (fight me, tankies) but it does show once again that Biden could have ended the Israeli genocide any time he wanted to.
Mom can you come pick me up the planet fitness is playing dolphin sounds
February 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Mom can you come pick me up the planet fitness is playing dolphin sounds
At a fundraiser and someone came around asking for donations and the teen girl beside me said without looking up, ‘I don’t even have money for myself, miss.’ Iconic.
February 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
At a fundraiser and someone came around asking for donations and the teen girl beside me said without looking up, ‘I don’t even have money for myself, miss.’ Iconic.
I would delete all social media if I could receive a daily newspaper with a far flung friend update, a cute animal, and some memes. It’s all I ask.
Just subscribed to the print edition of bluesky. Soon I’ll be receiving all the month’s posts in a handsome leather-bound tome
February 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I would delete all social media if I could receive a daily newspaper with a far flung friend update, a cute animal, and some memes. It’s all I ask.
As a follower of Jesus I’m anti-monarchy, fwiw.
February 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
As a follower of Jesus I’m anti-monarchy, fwiw.
It is not your right to feel powerless.
Better people than you were powerless.
- Carolyn Forche, ‘Return,’ 1980
Better people than you were powerless.
- Carolyn Forche, ‘Return,’ 1980
February 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It is not your right to feel powerless.
Better people than you were powerless.
- Carolyn Forche, ‘Return,’ 1980
Better people than you were powerless.
- Carolyn Forche, ‘Return,’ 1980
WILD homophobia in this Philly courtroom right now. HIV+ defendant being asked if he’s ‘contagious,’ cops being told to use gloves if he has a medical crisis. 80s-level nonsense.
February 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
WILD homophobia in this Philly courtroom right now. HIV+ defendant being asked if he’s ‘contagious,’ cops being told to use gloves if he has a medical crisis. 80s-level nonsense.
Ugh is this the year I finally actually read Sara Ahmed.
February 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Ugh is this the year I finally actually read Sara Ahmed.
You’re texting in traffic I’m doing my nails on the interstate we are not the same
February 17, 2025 at 4:08 AM
You’re texting in traffic I’m doing my nails on the interstate we are not the same
Don’t be afraid to radically shift strategy.
Run game got you to the Super Bowl? That’s fine, now we’re a throwing team.
What brought you victory in the past may not serve you in the present.
Run game got you to the Super Bowl? That’s fine, now we’re a throwing team.
What brought you victory in the past may not serve you in the present.
February 10, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Don’t be afraid to radically shift strategy.
Run game got you to the Super Bowl? That’s fine, now we’re a throwing team.
What brought you victory in the past may not serve you in the present.
Run game got you to the Super Bowl? That’s fine, now we’re a throwing team.
What brought you victory in the past may not serve you in the present.
If your pastor didn’t say go birds today it’s time to find a new church
February 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
If your pastor didn’t say go birds today it’s time to find a new church