Always read @chrisdstedman.bsky.social If you love the work, take your time. You mind and soul will thank you.

Got an extremely funny response to this piece on instagram

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

I started writing about this year and ended up going very, very long on inefficiency. Put down your to-do list and check it out: open.substack.com/pub/chrisdst...

consider that the psychotic loop of chatgpt mostly seems to be 'the chatbot repeating your own ideas back to you and telling you they're brilliant' and then consider billionaires and the people around them

Thank you @keysweekly.bsky.social ❤️

Yesterday, a violent homophobic threat was spray-painted on a building at Augsburg, the university where I teach and serve as a research fellow. I wrote some words that are a little too long for this website, but you can find them here: www.instagram.com/p/DPEy-weDdF...

Starting today we’ll be sharing a few voicemails we’ve received on the We Help Us story hotline, as examples of the kinds of stories you can share when calling in. Call 1-844-WE-HLP-US to share your own story of queer and trans mutual aid or community care! wehelpusmn.com

Jesus Christ

Does anyone happen to have a copy of the book “Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota” by Stewart Van Cleve? It’s out of print as a physical book and I hate reading ebooks. I need it for a project and would be so grateful to find a used copy that isn’t hundreds of dollars

Hodag mentioned!!

Just passed a billboard that said “get us out of the United Nations” 😵‍💫

Oh my God it's true stanfordreview.org/uchicago-los...

Fully entered a state of madness by the time I finished this essay, on the remarkable intellectual (and political) failures of New Atheism, and a new anthology edited by Lawrence Krauss nymag.com/intelligence...

Thank you to everyone who came out to today’s story sharing and recording session at Quatrefoil Library today! We had such a great time learning from and about your experiences of queer and trans mutual aid, and documenting them for our project.

This is tomorrow! I’d love to see you there

EHRC now saying that not only should trans people be excluded from sex segregated spaces, but ALSO those matching birth sex: “A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from … service for their own biological sex …to prevent alarm or distress for other service users.” archive.ph/2025.08.07-2...

Hey, so, TOTALLY not suggesting that RFK Jr. BACKS DOWN when we PUSH BACK, BUT if you’d like to call… HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775 HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000 PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well. NONE of this is okay. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I don’t have the words for how fucked up this is. I had to shut the “interview” off almost immediately variety.com/2025/tv/news...

NEW: Ayman Soliman is locally renowned for helping the families of dying kids. Now, friends say he’s been "tortured" in isolation as the Trump administration tries to deport him. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Minnesotans: Please join us this Saturday at Quatrefoil Library to share your story of queer and trans mutual aid for the Tretter Collection archives and potential use in our audio project! 3-5 pm at 1220 E Lake St in Minneapolis. Poster by Ted Martin 💚

All still banned in my classes. We've had extensive discussions in the past year amongst my close colleagues about AI use in the classroom, and some people take different approaches. But all of these uses prevent students from learning what I am teaching them, here specifically information literacy

Minnesotans: Please join us this Saturday to share your story of queer and trans mutual aid for the archives!

MA put in a 4% millionaires tax 2 years ago, & the GOP said we'd miss revenue targets & millionaires would flee. MA collected TWICE the projected revenues, & the number of millionaires went UP 40%. www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

Really couldn’t have asked for a better weekend at Hinterland music festival in Iowa. Grateful for my beautiful friends and some very special memories ❤️

The Republican governor of Texas has directed state police to arrest his Democratic opponents

Texas House Democrats offer a brief response to Gov. Greg Abbott's threat of arrest and expulsion: "Come and take it."

YIKES @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Atrocious and an absolute betrayal

In summary: 1. Something that is effectively eliminating jobs (AI) and causing more climate change problems, 2. Is putting more of a burden on the average consumer, especially those who are in lower income brackets, 3. Who have to suffer environmentally as a result. wapo.st/4kY7C2k

So good to see my pal @benseretan.bsky.social (who also contributed music to my podcast series Unread) in Minneapolis! Be sure to catch him on tour if he’s coming through your city 🙌

NEW: Many of the world’s vital sources of underground fresh water took millions of years to form and could require thousands of years to refill, as water mined from them largely ends up in the rising oceans. Researchers warn: This drying is now nearly impossible to reverse “on human timescales.”

My overwhelming memory from Hebrew school is being young and seeing images of ancestors starving in the camps. “Never again” was our religion. Here is the paper of record today. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

How did 3M’s “forever chemicals” end up in all of us? Sharon Lerner reports the inside story of the corporate scientists who discovered—then helped to conceal—the dangers of its chemicals.

We’ll be chatting about queer and trans mutual aid, with equipment on hand to record your story. These recordings will be archived by the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies at the University of Minnesota, and potentially used in a future narrative audio series ❤️

While our story hotline is taking calls any time, you can also come to an IN-PERSON story sharing and recording session we’re hosting at Quatrefoil Library on Saturday, August 9 from 3-5 pm.

this is something i’ve wanted to do for a few years and i am SO excited to be working on it at last. edited by @jpb.bsky.social and i, submit by August 31st, expected publication October 2025!

There’s a change happening in the Democratic Party, not just in New York, but also in Minneapolis. Let’s get it!

LETS GO

Read this!

Chicago! I swung by @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social the other day and signed a bunch of copies of IRL. Stop in to grab one and support an amazing worker-owned bookstore 🤗

"Train is the new private jet." Dua Lipa continues to promote taking the train over flying, boarding a Eurostar to London at Gare du Nord. This is climate-conscious messaging done right. Posted by lejeuneengage on IG.

Clipse and Kendrick is everything you need it to be. youtu.be/qyrr02a4vwY?...

Went on a joyride in all pink last night. Shirt via Uptown Girls Street Corps @twincitiesdsa.org, hat from Perpetual Books, vibes from the Kesha concert 💖

Truly awesome research day yesterday at the Minnesota History Center for @goodjudypods.bsky.social

Thank you @doctorjonpaul.blue for coming all the way to Minneapolis for your 20th (and final!) BLACK. FAT. FEMME. book tour stop, and thank you to everyone who came and made it such a wonderful evening ❤️

Not sure if most people realize that there are no release dates at CECOT. All detentions are indefinite

Thank you to the Aliveness Project for letting us put up this giant poster display for the WE HELP US story hotline!! Check out the fruits of our labor on their south facing wall next time you’re in Kingfield, and call the line to leave a story of LGBTQIA mutual aid in Minnesota ❤️

We had the best time putting up WE HELP US flyers at the Aliveness Project today! Call 1-844-WE-HLP-US to share your story of queer and trans mutual aid in Minnesota ❤️