Steve Kennedy

@skennedy2504

Parent of four, Organizing & Network Director at People's Parity Project, UU lay preacher, former structural biologist and airborne infantry, fake lawyer. He/him

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Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· 28d

My 12-year-old just finished Let This Radicalize You and made this for me ❤️ @prisonculture.bsky.social

Beaded bracelet that says "Hope is a discipline"

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Jul 23

What if education were something we built in community rather than a product handed down to us? We’re building community around the idea that learning can be a practice of democracy, inclusion, and solidarity. Any support is appreciated as we get off the ground! bankingcrowded.com/collect-hub/...

Clip from the website with the heading "When the conditions are right." Underneath, it says "The quiet glow known as foxfire appears only when the conditions are right. We believe meaningful communities grow the same way. Healthy ecosystems are built through countless relationships, each contributing to something larger than itself. Foxfire strives to cultivate those same conditions for learning, belonging, and community."

Clip from the website reading "Healthy communities don't happen by accident. They're building through commitment shared by the people who care for them. Every family has different gifts, different capacities, and different seasons of life. A cooperative works best when people contribute where they can make the greatest impact. No one is expected to do everything, but everyone plays a part in helping Foxfire grow."

Clip reading "Like any living thing, Foxfire is always evolving because the people who make up our community are always evolving too. As children grow, families discover new interests, and fresh ideas take root, so do new classes, traditions, and opportunities to learn together. The result is a community that's always growing, always learning, and never standing still."

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Jul 15

They never had Hal as a role model

Gif from Malcolm in the Middle of Hal in a sequin jumpsuit doing a cartwheel on rollerblades and dramatically skating away backwards

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Jun 22

Ended up getting the best Father's Day gift the day after when my oldest asked we if we could get up early to watch the sunrise on the beach together ❤️

Picture of my oldest from behind with the sun rising over the waves

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Jun 22

Didn't occur to me what I wore out to the store until someone I don't know wished me happy Fathers Day lol

Me wearing a shirt that says "Best cat dad ever" with a picture of a cat in sunglasses

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Jun 10

You really can't understand what is going on if you don't understand the constant fear that these men live in

Clip from the article: "If hegemonic masculinity is defined by anything, it is anxiety. From that quivering, flabby mass radiates all the other things we’re likelier to associate with it—violence, status games, domination, overt misogyny. For such men, life is a wilderness of insecurities. Men comparing themselves to other men, threatened by women, and needing to prove that they belong here. For these PMC men, class treason means expiating their anxiety by building up and elevating offensive caricatures of manhood as exemplars that we all must follow; through their own forelock-tugging displays of obeisance, they hope to prove that they, too, know what a Real Man is and can therefore be forgiven for knowing how to eat with chopsticks, having opinions about Microsoft Excel, and enjoying the odd microbrew."

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Jun 7

Couldn't help it--look at these babies together 😍

Picture of three of my kids with Pearl (the goose) as a baby

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Jun 6

Never expected to have a therapy animal, and certainly never expected it to be a goose, but life is weird I guess

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· May 19

If you're near Newtown, CT and love fresh tortillas, please give me an excuse to spend more time at the comal by checking out Las Gansas Tontas! Prepared from heirloom corn from local family farms, available every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning www.facebook.com/615898742487...

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Apr 17

Evidence for the claim that "people immediately declared it to be an authoritarian plot" is a single paragraph mentioning Trump's laundry list of potential "conquests." My actual article is just a history of the draft, but I shouldn't expect the Free Press to let reading get in the way of a hot take

Screenshot of Free Press headline reading "No, You Are Not Being Drafted" with subhed "The Trump administration announced a small change to the draft registration rules--and people immediately declared it to be an authoritarian plot."

Screenshot from the article reading "In Slate, for instance, Steve Kennedy wrote about how “Trump Just Automated Draft Entry. It’s Time for the Supreme Court to Step In.” The piece begins, ominously, “Even as the war in Iran has seemed to de-escalate since a ceasefire began last week, we’ve recently witnessed just how out of hand things could possibly still get.” From there, Kennedy unspooled a scenario of U.S. boots on the ground in multiple wars started by Trump, unless the Supreme Court stepped in to rule that a draft was unconstitutional."

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Mar 28

Great turnout at No Kings Newtown!

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Mar 5

Clip of article reading, "More fundamentally, sexual assault by a government employee is not just a private wrong. It is a failure of a public institution vested with extraordinary power over people’s lives. When the state responds by insisting that justice hinges on clerical perfection, it reinforces the imbalance of power that enabled abuse in the first place."

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Mar 4

How many of these Dunkin' feedbags are there going to be at the Boston No Kings this month now? www.masslive.com/entertainmen...

Picture of the new Dunkin' 48 oz coffee, which comes in a bucket with a handle

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Feb 24

Unintentionally put on my @fivefourpod.bsky.social shirt of the overgrown ruin of the Supreme Court for Chichen Itza today. The best part was when my kid wondered if the priests up top were actually doing anything since no one could see them, and when I pointed to the shirt she got it lol

Photo of me and wife outside of the Temple of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza where I am wearing the shirt mentioned in the post

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Jan 10

Yes, legal structure for this acceleration has been there for quite a while. All it took was for someone to take the reins to expand what was already there, and DHS knows it ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Excerpt from linked article in original post: "The Court’s decision to hollow out Bivens doesn’t just fail to protect people from government violence—it encourages more violence. Taken together, these cases mean that the ICE agents who are now storming apartment buildings and Home Depot parking lots are operating in a legal gray area, confident that whatever they do, courts will probably never hold them liable for it. The justices have created the perfect environment for abuse: an unaccountable paramilitary force with sweeping powers and no meaningful legal check on how they use them. You don’t need a law degree to know how that ends."

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Dec 28

Gif from Seinfeld of George saying, "Yes. Yes. Everybody has to like me. I must be liked."

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Nov 19

Such an awesome day at the Lawyers March for Democracy kickoff! So many amazing lawyers, judges, and other legal professionals coming together in defense of the rule of law. But was not just an event, it is the start of a movement. For more information, sign up here: forms.gle/FwJSuBBPrdNe...

Collage of speakers and attendees at the Lawyers March for Democracy kickoff. Signs include "We defend more than clients. We defend democracy. The rule of law matters," "Lawyers march for democracy. The people do not support our not-so-supreme court," Lawyers march for the rule of law and a better Supreme Court," "We took an oath, not a side," "Rule of law is an American value," "Voters rights," "Karma matters," and "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that as a member of the Bar of this Court, I will demean myself uprightly and according to law; and that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America,"

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Oct 29

So excited to finally share the campaign that we have been working on to build a lawyers movement against authoritarianism, with a kickoff event outside of the Supreme Court on 11/15 and building toward nationwide engagement of lawyers and law students peoplesparity.org/event/lawyer...

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Oct 19

Don't have the time to break this into a thread, but thank you so much for calling this out. It's not easy when you're whole life has (shamefully) been about keeping yourself and the people around you from ever experiencing discomfort, but it's also the way out of this

Screenshot of draft post in response: "It feels like such a small, performative thing, but after like thirty years of moving through mostly white spaces as a cishet, white male, and later a veteran to boot, where fascists and collaborators assume I'm one of them and tell me heinous shit, I just traded polos for explicitly leftist, anti-racist, and feminist T-shirts while driving my kids around town or whatever else, and it's led to legitimate conversations around values and organizing. I mean, it's gotten me into some fights too lol, but mostly it's at least a relatively respectful conversation, if not a moral trauma dump from people who would normally never talk about these things."

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Oct 15

In this one lol

Spirit Halloween product listing for an inflatable Stay Puft marshmallow man from Ghostbusters

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Oct 13

Image from Kids in the Hall of a character with a cabbage for a head, holding a cigar and saying, "It's because I have a brassica oleracea for a head, isn't it?"

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Oct 5

Background of a clifftop with a bird flying over it with the Mary Oliver quote, "What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" with "Defend Tom Nichols from randos on social media, obviously" pasted underneath

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Oct 3

To avoid the very thing that Trump is trying to do--using the power of the state to push veneration of a current leader. Make America Turkmenistan Again!

Picture of the golden statue of Turkmenistan dictator Saparmurat Niyazov in Ashkabat

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Oct 2

I don't know the answer, but seriously? Has there been a single justice who has been more rude to his colleagues in the history of the Supreme Court than Scalia?

Screenshot of a tweet from @KrangTNelson saying, "no no no you misunderstood. I said "fuck YOUR feelings". MY feelings are very important and must be handled gently, like a tiny baby hummingbird

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Sep 13

Only proper way for a real man to eat

Image from A Christmas Story of the little brother showing "how the piggies eat" with his faced shoved into his mashed potatoes

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Sep 13

The flag down the road from Sandy Hook flying at half staff for the man who demanded that conservatives defend Alex Jones after survivors' families prevailed in their lawsuit against him 🙃

Large flag in Newtown, CT flying at half staff

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Aug 29

Was feeling old and fat on my 39th birthday, but then a friend caught me saving a kid's friend from my wonderful (to me) and monstrous (to strangers) goose, and it made me feel like maybe I've still kind of got it at least lol

Picture of me chasing my goose, who was chasing a young child and ultimately but him on the butt as he ran away 😅

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Aug 4

Page from Dr. Seuss's Wacky Wednesday with the line "Look! Nine things are wacky right here in your class!"

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Jul 28

Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504· Jul 27

Geese are the best