Champ Champenstein 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@champchampenstein.bsky.social
I’m in my Mac era: I’m gay and cutting the sleeves off all my tshirts.
CJ Grad Student. Queer Criminology. Comic book nerd (once again on hold). Board game winner.
they/them
CJ Grad Student. Queer Criminology. Comic book nerd (once again on hold). Board game winner.
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The gay agenda is to have everyone tuck in their shirt and roll up their pants.
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not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
November 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
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"Ian" is harvesting olives in Tulare County. He works from 6 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., earning $6.50 per bucket. "The buckets are big and can weigh up to 35 lbs. My hands get sore after a day’s work from carrying the heavy buckets all day long. But this work feeds my family." #WeFeedYoul
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Ian" is harvesting olives in Tulare County. He works from 6 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., earning $6.50 per bucket. "The buckets are big and can weigh up to 35 lbs. My hands get sore after a day’s work from carrying the heavy buckets all day long. But this work feeds my family." #WeFeedYoul
After a slight hiatus I am back with my last four watched. After a month of horror movies I needed to balance it out with a few documentaries.
November 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
After a slight hiatus I am back with my last four watched. After a month of horror movies I needed to balance it out with a few documentaries.
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Although published almost 15 years ago, Queer (In)Justice by @kwhitlock.bsky.social @jmogul.bsky.social & I has a lot to teach us about the shapes criminalization of trans & queer folks has taken in the past - and the narratives that fuel it - that are relevant to current conditions. Worth a read.
I was talking to my mom today about the narratives being run about the most recent school shooting, some she had observed herself scrolling through her news feed, and introduced to her to this book.
A tough read, but reality past and present.
A tough read, but reality past and present.
October 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Although published almost 15 years ago, Queer (In)Justice by @kwhitlock.bsky.social @jmogul.bsky.social & I has a lot to teach us about the shapes criminalization of trans & queer folks has taken in the past - and the narratives that fuel it - that are relevant to current conditions. Worth a read.
One of the other grad students asked if I was done watching a horror movie everyday and told me she looked forward to my posts. 🥹
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
One of the other grad students asked if I was done watching a horror movie everyday and told me she looked forward to my posts. 🥹
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Reminder to listen to In the Earth Again, our collab album with Hayden Pedigo if you haven't already.
In The Earth Again, by Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo
11 track album
chatpile.bandcamp.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Reminder to listen to In the Earth Again, our collab album with Hayden Pedigo if you haven't already.
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Hello Omaha! The weekly OAA Street Kitchen is moving to a new location. Starting Sunday November 2nd, Kitchen and distro will be at Walnut Hill Park by 38th and Hamilton every Sunday from 2-3. Tomorrow will be a little celebration, and we hope to see some of y'all there!
November 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Hello Omaha! The weekly OAA Street Kitchen is moving to a new location. Starting Sunday November 2nd, Kitchen and distro will be at Walnut Hill Park by 38th and Hamilton every Sunday from 2-3. Tomorrow will be a little celebration, and we hope to see some of y'all there!
We haven’t had any trick or treaters. 😞
November 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
We haven’t had any trick or treaters. 😞
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not sure if it’s obvious by now but i’ve got orders to monitor ICE activity and, as usual, i’d appreciate any help bsky has to offer. if you gotta tip, my signal account is in my bio.
i’m very mechanical. i can track things. data. paperwork. but i could always use help w/ people.
i’m very mechanical. i can track things. data. paperwork. but i could always use help w/ people.
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 31, 2025 at 1:15 AM
not sure if it’s obvious by now but i’ve got orders to monitor ICE activity and, as usual, i’d appreciate any help bsky has to offer. if you gotta tip, my signal account is in my bio.
i’m very mechanical. i can track things. data. paperwork. but i could always use help w/ people.
i’m very mechanical. i can track things. data. paperwork. but i could always use help w/ people.
If you’re gonna write a multiple paragraph review of a movie get a Letterboxd and stop doing that shit in like 10 instagram stories.
October 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
If you’re gonna write a multiple paragraph review of a movie get a Letterboxd and stop doing that shit in like 10 instagram stories.
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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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For those asking how to support, here’s how: www.greenbootsgardens.com/get-involved
The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow
'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'
'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'
As SNAP benefits come under threat, a Detroit farmer is stepping up to help fill the void
The federal shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Urban farmers like Travis Peters are stepping up to ensure their communities can eat.
www.whatimreading.net
October 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
For those asking how to support, here’s how: www.greenbootsgardens.com/get-involved
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Venice Bakery is remembering those that have died in ICE custody this year by adding them to their community altar for Dia de Los Muertos.
By @eltragon.bsky.social
By @eltragon.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Venice Bakery is remembering those that have died in ICE custody this year by adding them to their community altar for Dia de Los Muertos.
By @eltragon.bsky.social
By @eltragon.bsky.social
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Folks, Israel is not letting aid in which means Palestinians continue to have to buy food on the black market from Israel sponsored gangs. If you can donate a little money to the fundraisers we're posting, you can keep someone alive. Palestinians wouldn't beg if they didn't have to.
UNRWA has enough food outside #Gaza to supply people there for 3 months, amid desperate need. Our teams stand ready to deliver it.
But despite the #ceasefire, the Israeli Authorities’ block on UNRWA bringing any supplies into Gaza still continues.
Let us get aid into Gaza at the full scale needed.
But despite the #ceasefire, the Israeli Authorities’ block on UNRWA bringing any supplies into Gaza still continues.
Let us get aid into Gaza at the full scale needed.
October 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Folks, Israel is not letting aid in which means Palestinians continue to have to buy food on the black market from Israel sponsored gangs. If you can donate a little money to the fundraisers we're posting, you can keep someone alive. Palestinians wouldn't beg if they didn't have to.
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Private prison executives casually discussed the "3,000 arrests per day" quota in earnings calls—despite the Department of Justice previously denying any quota exists. This is fueling immigration raids nationwide while companies rake in record profits.
In Earnings Calls, Private Prison Executives Revel in Profiting Off ICE Arrests
“Our business is perfectly aligned with the demands of this moment,” CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger said on the call.
truthout.org
October 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Private prison executives casually discussed the "3,000 arrests per day" quota in earnings calls—despite the Department of Justice previously denying any quota exists. This is fueling immigration raids nationwide while companies rake in record profits.
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Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
After justices warned of prolonged suffocation, Alabama subjected Anthony Boyd to the longest nitrogen execution in U.S. history.
Boyd was the chairman of Project Hope, a death row-led nonprofit. Its members are left reeling in the wake of their leader's suffocation execution.
www.treadbylee.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
One of the professors I’m working with on my thesis keeps calling cisgender people non-trans and I think that’s beautiful.
October 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
One of the professors I’m working with on my thesis keeps calling cisgender people non-trans and I think that’s beautiful.
I think some sports are happening.
October 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I think some sports are happening.
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I wrote a little essay about “designer vaginas” and the celeb-ification of transness
transwrites.world/who-are-the-...
transwrites.world/who-are-the-...
Who are the dolls which must be protected? - Trans Writes
Ari Drennen, journalist and LGBTQ+ director at Media Matters, tweeted the above on 14/10/25. There are three ways I can think of to analyse her comments:
transwrites.world
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I wrote a little essay about “designer vaginas” and the celeb-ification of transness
transwrites.world/who-are-the-...
transwrites.world/who-are-the-...
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RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
Anyone else in the Midwest making chili today? Just checking.
October 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Anyone else in the Midwest making chili today? Just checking.
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The cybertruck is a massive men's rights win. Finally a car that she won't take in the divorce.
October 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The cybertruck is a massive men's rights win. Finally a car that she won't take in the divorce.
I got an A
Making me take a stats test should be illegal.
October 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I got an A
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Kind of crazy that I don’t see anyone talking about the show Task right now because it is so fucking good.
October 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Kind of crazy that I don’t see anyone talking about the show Task right now because it is so fucking good.
Making me take a stats test should be illegal.
October 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Making me take a stats test should be illegal.