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Katie Stairs

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The atoms in your left hand may come from a different star than your right. We’re stardust arguing with itself. Abolitionist St. Paul, MN

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Drikavermelhada @adrianoladrika.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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How to avoid sexual assault - A quick and easy guide
[Illustrated poster]
1- Drawing of a wine glass with pills on the side - Don't put drugs on people's drinks.
2- Drawing of two people on foreground  and a third on the background - Use buddy system. If you might sexually assault someone, bring a friend to stop you.
3- Drawing of a person sleeping in a bed - If someone is drunk, high, or asleep, don't rape them.
4- Drawing of a whistle - Carry a whistle. If you might sexually assault someone, blow it until someone stops you.
5- Drawing of a blindfolded person- Watch what you wear. If someone's clothes are a problem for you, try wearing a blindfold.
6- Drawing of someone walking near a turned on streetlight - When someone is walking alone, leave them alone
7- Drawing of two people, one talking and  some hearts between them- Don't feel entitled to sex. Nobody owes you sex. Flirting is not consent.
8- Drawing of two people on an elevator- If you're alone with someone, dont sexually assault them.

Bottom line: The only person responsible for sexual assault is the person who commits it.
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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🎤 The Indigenous Peoples Day artist lineup is here!! We are excited to celebrate the brilliance and beauty of Indigenous Peoples, from the He Sápa to Palestine. 🇵🇸 We invite all our relatives and comrades in the region to join us for a FREE concert with an incredible lineup.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"I will bite fuck my thumb at them; which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it."
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The Spookysexual Gooner @poobisok.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
goku joining mutual aid signal chats: NEED: your energy please frieza is back
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm so grateful to be a part of this pack with you all. Thank you for thinking of me @helenmaryme.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
Sticker image that has a friendly looking dumpster on fire on it, with the words "We're all in this together" around it.
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babsbeaty @babsbeaty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Great thread about lasting effects of ICE actions in Minnesota. In case anyone thinks it’s all over and we’ve moved on
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Salty @dfedmpls.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Within days of that veto, Jacob Frey bought a brand new mansion near the lakes.
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Gaz @rycbar39.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Great piece here from Aoife on Ed Sheeran choosing the side of billionaires and genocide backers.
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Uffda Geek @annoyednerd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For those who don’t have HBO… youtu.be/h1pXm0GjLho?...
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UnitedHealthcare & UnitedHealth Group: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you are considering working with Jason, know this: He is not selling you anything. He is not building a brand. He is trying to get free and take as many people with him as he can. If you get to be one of them, you will not regret it. Here's to many more years of co-struggling together! 🥂
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He did not push me into work I was not ready for. When I hit a wall with outreach, he adjusted. When I found the work I could actually do right now, he trusted me with it. He sees things in me that I do not see in myself. He called me a wizard a few days ago. I might be starting to believe him.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He will love you until your next step (shoutout to REP for MN!). That is not a slogan to him. It is how he moves through the world. I have PTSD. I have spent years trying to figure out how to be in community again without falling apart. Jason has made it easy.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He will ask how you are and mean it. He will suggest a walk for your first meeting because he wants you to be outside and moving and okay. He will check on you when things go wrong before he checks on the work or his image. He will own his part and not make you own his.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What you see is what you get. He is a tall, bearded Black man from Chicago with a voice that can hold a room and a presence that can captivate a person. People look at him and see what they have been taught to see. What is actually there is a man who cares about you. Not the idea of you. You.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have seen him be right. I have seen him be challenged. I have listened to him own his mistakes and move on without blaming anyone else. I know who he is because I have seen him through his own eyes. Here is what I know: Jason is as he appears. There is no man behind the curtain.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
But the bulk of it over the past few months has been transcription. I turn his weekly Patreon vlogs and his old recordings into writing for him to use. That means I have spent months inside his own words, from years ago, witnessing how he handled things when they went well and when they did not.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I didn't know what that would look like. I just knew he was doing what I wanted to be doing. A year later, I still do. Most of my work with Jason has been in the background and for the Institute of Aspiring Abolitionists. Work that stays between us and the community.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I watched it. There are a couple lines in it that have stayed with me all year: "I needed community, I didn't need a cage." And: "When they build walls, we build underground railroads." I wrote back and told him I wanted to learn how to get into the work he was doing.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I met Jason Sole one year ago today. 🎉 He sent me his TED talk on LinkedIn. I didn't know him. I assumed he was selling something, the way many people are. He was not. He shared his talk, said he was waiting on a pardon decision, and asked for good vibes. That was it. Just a man sharing his work.
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Iruka @iruka-abolition.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We raised the kind of money the state government should have been responsible for. A long time ago, somebody had the idea of billing the government for the volunteer hours worked during the surge. I still think that’s a great idea.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Other ways to connect: jasonsole.com, aspiringabolitionists.com/the-institut..., www.linkedin.com/in/jason-mar...
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Jason Sole|"As an abolitionist, what I care about are two things: relationships and how we address harm" - Mariame Kaba
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Multi-week Pardon Course: Intro to Pardons: What does the state and federal data tell us?: www.eventbrite.com/e/intro-to-p... Patreon: patreon.com/InstituteofA... Substack: substack.com/@jasonmarque... Mailchimp sign-up: jasonsole.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
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Intro to Pardons: What does the state and federal data tell us?
This 7-week course was designed to help community learn strategies to go through the pardon process or someone who plans to apply.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Links: Online Teach-ins and Trainings: Pardon Overview Teach-In: Learn how state and federal pardons work in the US: www.eventbrite.com/e/pardon-tea... 10 Ways to Effectively Use Linkedin: www.eventbrite.com/e/10-effecti... The Art and Science of Storytelling: www.eventbrite.com/e/storytelli...
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Pardon Teach-In: Learn how state and federal pardons work in the US!
This online offering is designed to highlight the pros + cons of the two pardon systems + how to help an applicant gain their rights back.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you've ever wondered what abolition actually looks like in practice, spend 12 minutes with this talk. Then check out his courses on Eventbrite, his vlogs on Patreon, his writing on Substack, and his updates through Mailchimp. Watch. Learn. Support if you can. ❤️‍🔥
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
He's a formerly incarcerated abolitionist, criminal justice educator, co-founder of the Humanize My Hoodie Movement, and author of Prison to PhD. He trains people in transformative justice. He figures out solutions to community crises on the ground with REP. He's been doing this work for many years.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A line that stays with me: "The community repaired me when a system almost broke me. They shared their gifts with me, and that helped me find out what I can do to help others."
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
When I first watched Jason Sole's TEDx Talk, almost a year ago now, it was of the most honest things I'd watched in a long time. He walks through what it means to survive the system, to be branded as inmate 204956, and to find his way back to himself through community.
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The community transformed me when the system almost broke me | Jason Sole | TEDxMinneapolis
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's about a world where saying "Free Palestine" gets you targeted. So I'm sharing his music again. I'm supporting him. I'm asking you to do the same. Follow him. Stream him. Amplify him. And if you're an artist with a platform, please use it. None of us are free until we're all free.
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Macklemore | HIND’S HALL 2 - Listen Now
Official site for Macklemore. "Ben" out Now. HINDS HALL 2 - Listen now.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So watching her amplify a campaign to silence a man speaking out against genocide? It hurts. How can that woman and this one be the same woman? But this isn't really about her. This is about Macklemore. About the artists who risk their platforms to speak truth.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is silencing. Plain and simple. I grew up on P!nk. "Don't Let Me Get Me" saw me at a time when I truly believed no one else could. To my teen-in-the-90s, sheltered, and broken eyes, she looked like she broke the pop girl rules. She seemed like defiance itself.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
He closed with "None of us will be free until we are all free." He did what so few artists are willing to do. For that, there's a petition to get him kicked off Ed Sheeran's tour. P!nk reposted a call for refunds and apologies, and The Israeli-American Council is pressuring to have him removed.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Macklemore stood in front of 80,000 people and said "Free Palestine." He said criticism of Israel is not anti-semitism. He said "Free Lebanon," "Free Cuba," "Free Congo," "Free Sudan," and "Free all people in America living in fear over this terrorist organization ICE."
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MACKLEMORE - HIND'S HALL
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Kaoly Her wasted so much time, money, and good will to get the result that every expert told her would happen, but at least she got to show everyone who is mayor while inflicting needless pain on our neediest neighbors.
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Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I just learned about this store on my feed, but it’s Minneapolis-based, queer-owned, size inclusive, and ethical AND THEY HAVE ADORABLE COTTON SKIRTS so I will be purchasing a lot of clothes here!!
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It's SHAME now. 🤮
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Iruka @iruka-abolition.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hey @mayorher.bsky.social @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social @governorwalz.mn.gov this is what you could’ve done if you gave a shit.
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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I think people not in Minneapolis really do think sentiment has faded here but everyone I know has stayed angry. If every single person protesting JL had been arrested and jailed and there was another shitbag to protest the next day, another hundred of us would have come out.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It's 2 months. Why do I always forget about October? It's one of my favorite months. I'm tired. You get it.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I can't believe we're only a little over a month away from a full year of the current ICE occupation. At least 5,000 mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, sisters, cousins, aunties, uncles, and neighbors, taken from us. Ripped from our neighborhoods without our permission or consent. 💔
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'm glad it's blue, so it can't be Blaine. Blaine is a pain.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I was confused, too. The Luncheon Lawyer's thoughts make sense to me: youtube.com/shorts/PYnNI...
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Luigi Mangione confessed to everything but was it a double jeopardy play? #luigimangione
YouTube video by The Luncheon Lawyer
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
FUCK ICE
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Thank you for the inclusion, @campbellelectric.bsky.social! I'm grateful to resist alongside you all. 💙 go.bsky.app/DLh7TrD
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Door @doornanabread.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
National warm lines that do not call the police: 🚫🚔 Call Blackline: 1-800-604-5841 • Centers BI&POC, LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens Trans Lifeline: 1-877-565-8860 Run by & for Trans people. English & Spanish. Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line: 1-888-407-4515 Trained peer supporters
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Dan Marshall @danmarstp.marshallwords.com · 08/08/2026
🧵 A few thoughts on the geography of #SaintPaul 's shifting homeless encampments. The Fish Hatchery camp that Mayor Her forcibly cleared this week was on some of the most isolated land in the city, over 2 miles from downtown StP, surrounded by RRs, river, highways, & cliffs.
Map of Pig's Eye park.
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I picked out something and sent it. I'm so grateful for good teachers. 💗
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Marje isn’t haunted by ghosts @minn-finn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Abolish ICE (and prosecute the criminal behavior) is the bare minimum.
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Annie loves Mpls @anniekp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I heard not one peep on this today on @npr.org The video is terrifying. It’s already out there- be cautious and thoughtful if you do post it. I will not. Corey Ruiz should be here and truly 🖕🏻 the poIice who did this.
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