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Stefan Brün

@sgbrun.bsky.social
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theatermaker and out to replace fear with richer story and self-directed agency; co-founder and facilitator/liaison of Prop Thtr, a 501c3 Not-For-Profit Theater company in Chicago, of the National New Play Network and a published translator

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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Professor's speech praising pro-Palestinian students sparks backlash at University of Michigan apnews.com/article/univ...
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Professor's speech praising pro-Palestinian students sparks backlash at University of Michigan
The University of Michigan has apologized after a history professor delivering a commencement speech praised pro-Palestinian student protesters for drawing attention to the war in Gaza.
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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Location Update for the 2026 BIEN Congress | BIEN — Basic Income Earth Network
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
out of blackout’s violent Night a day shall spring Insurgently to grasp at the reins Of the bucking beast to Put our names to what we speak.
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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A Chicken In Every Pot
A cartoon by Nick Anderson
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
We are party to a supremecist, racist, domination-obsessed war against the most impoverished victims of global commerce ever, just because they were the First Nation on earth to ban slavery! And we hardly ever even talk about our deep responsibility there.
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Study Haiti! Your claim to advocate for any political cause, as a western hemisphere resident, is completely bereft of integrity, if reparations that must begin in Haiti are not included.
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Study Haiti! Without significant payment for US crimes there, this colonial imperialist country has absolutely no hope of anything but military rule, supremacy and fear, global authoritarianism and the death of the idea of freedom.
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Study Haiti! As long as US citizens refuse to put their own lives into the commitment to finally stop their war against Haiti, who’s poverty makes up the illicit wealth of these citizens and is the result of US punishing those who refused US criminal slavery.
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This coming Saturday is your last chance to gather at the Labyrinth Club for: bsky.app/profile/sgbr...
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The United Bluff of Gobal Capital pretending to country it has long left behind. As if aggression alone proved national existence.
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
“(and duration is a first-rate value on earth)” nietzsche
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To Belong
#2 in a series upon salient identity, attempting a dialectical method.
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
A shocking win! The Supreme Court blocked Trump from deploying hundreds of National Guard troops to the Chicago area over the objections of Illinois officials.
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Supreme Court keeps block on Trump’s National Guard deployment in the Chicago area, for now
The justices declined the Republican administration’s emergency request to overturn a ruling by U.S. District Judge April Perry that had blocked the deployment of troops. An appeals court also had ref...
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Ok so now I’m going to be socially incoherent in a vaguely truthful manner here. I’m not a bot. That’s about it.
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
3. our history wrought, thinking of each other, and of all beings, whether disagreeable or agreeable, as ultimately and unpredictability tied to our own life and fate. This might be the only cure for toxic abstraction and militaristic servitude.
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
2. It is an idealism that has lost all utility and turned toxic on us. Meanwhile we have each, for far too long, ignored our sacred responsibility, obviously manifest, to participate in steerage of the globalized systems
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
1. The intellectual division of our world into “Countries” or “Nations”, in 2026, only benefits warriors, gangsters, and border-trolls.
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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The Great Migration
‘A national history assumes the ability to forget everything not in accord with it.’ Hans Magnus Enzensberger on migration in Germany in Granta 42: Krauts!
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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moody moments | Herbert Brün
YouTube video by Victor Pons
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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To Pray Marvelously Well
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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Fay|Glassman Performance
Buy tickets – Fay|Glassman Performance
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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PHOTO ESSAY: Chicago's children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns
CHICAGO (AP) — Just before noon on a sunny Friday earlier this month, federal immigration agents threw tear gas canisters onto a busy Chicago street, just outside of an elementary school and a childre...
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
As Toni Morrison said, "the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work." But she also reminded us never to lose our capacity to be shocked. Part of my conversation on @ayman.msnbc.com earlier today.
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
That way we fight each other, instead of fighting the real enemies. It’s no coincidence that the real enemies are the ones in charge of our sources of information."
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
That’s how we are controlled. There are two different realities, that will never come together. Our separate sources of information are designed to keep us separate and uninformed.
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Their reality is completely different. If we saw only what they see, we would think liberals were crazy for believing what they believe. That’s the whole point.
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
From John Lister : "I have a conservative social media alter ego. The reason we think the right wing are crazy for believing what they believe, is because if they saw what we saw, they would have to be crazy to believe what they believe. But the point is, they don’t see what we see.
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
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"Hands Off Chicago" Mayor Brandon Johnson On "No Kings Day" Calls For National General Strike
YouTube video by laborvideo
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
‘No More Trump!’: Protesters Denouncing the President Unite Across the Country www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
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‘No More Trump!’: Protesters Denouncing the President Unite Across the Country
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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
No one is who they are supposed to be.
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The new international melting pot of authoritarianism: Cheer Up, or Else: China Cracks Down on the Haters and Cynics www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...
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Cheer Up, or Else: China Cracks Down on the Haters and Cynics
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
“This is what occupation looks like,” said Stacy Davis Gates, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, in a press statement released October 4. She added, ​“This is what happens when a sitting president wages war on an American city.”
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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A Retrospect: Thirty years of ASC Cybernetics
YouTube video by jude lombardi
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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 13/09/2025
The Israeli Government has made an ad about the Global Sumud Flotilla headed for Gaza, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.
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Honest Government Ad | Global Sumud Flotilla
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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FULL REMARKS: Gov. Pritzker Holds Presser, Slams Trump & Supreme Court ICE Tactics | DRM News | AC1N
YouTube video by DRM News
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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A Rhino Fest Roundtable
YouTube video by micro Chicago
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
5. I do not see much employment and labor justice being led by the wealthy culture institutions, often taking in disproportionate public funding (which all working class people pay for) while they’re circling their wagons and protecting their privilege.
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
4. Chicago working class artists are seeing radically diminishing opportunities, while wealthy hobbyists are replete with high-cost diversions.
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
3. often micro-managed by an absentee volunteer wealthy supervisor, perhaps Zooming in from one of the coasts.
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
2. often run by upper class boards of directors who transform paying artistic jobs into volunteer positions and seek out pliant and easily intimidated artists for low pay alibi functions,
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
1. In the days of liberal arts shutdown in higher education combined with a massive cutoff of arts funding, it has become quite a challenge for any working class artist to break into artistic institutions,
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
…I am less a helpless consumer, than media and those intimidated would have me think. More a participating Spectactor. No, that is no typo.
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
…I do mean that, regardless of our conscious stance now, if democracy means anything at all beyond pretense, we were part of creating - and so now have greater opportunity to intervene in - the political and social and economic spectrum in which all of this occurs…
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I consider myself responsible to a considerably greater degree, than the vast quantity of peoples who have no influence on our society. I do not wish to offend you, nor do I mean that you, or I, chose Trump…
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
“We go in, we will solve Chicago in one week”
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
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The Great Migration
‘A national history assumes the ability to forget everything not in accord with it.’ Hans Magnus Enzensberger on migration in Germany in Granta 42: Krauts!
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Rhinofest.com
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Stefan Brün @sgbrun.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
As what used to belong to all of us, is now regulated by a partisan censoring FCC, what ever happened to public access to public media as a protected right? Anybody know where it went? Oh say, can you see…?
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