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Chris Stedman

@chrisdstedman.bsky.social
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Religionless religion professor and writer. Working on my second narrative podcast series and third book. @goodjudypods.bsky.social founder. Queer Minneapolitan ❤️ chrisstedmanwriter.com

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 20h
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Good Judy Productions @goodjudypods.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Congrats @qminnesota.bsky.social on today’s launch! We’re so glad you’re here, and honored to be featured on your first day. Thank you for running this piece about our project and final two story collection events happening this month! @chrisdstedman.bsky.social qminnesota.com/community/we...
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Two Final Chances to Share Your Story of Queer Mutual Aid in Minnesota
Chris Stedman's We Help Us project has 100-plus stories of queer and trans mutual aid in Minnesota. Add yours Oct. 7 in Winona or Oct. 17 in Minneapolis.
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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New Meghan O’Gieblyn out next week!! Can’t wait to ask her all about it at our fourth book event (three of hers, one of mine; I’m slow) - stay tuned for details
A copy of Will and Attention by Meghan O’Gieblyn
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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Last night at Kacey Musgraves 🤠
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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s been an amazing experience, but we will soon be winding down the We Help Us queer and trans mutual aid story collection effort. Before then, however, we have two final events next month, and we’d really love to see you at one ❤️ chrisdstedman.substack.com/p/wrapping-u...
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Wrapping up We Help Us with two final events
A project update, plus: join us in Winona and Minneapolis next month!
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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 17/09/2026
this is probably the worst language i've seen a democrat use. saying "transgender ideology" is straight out of the right wing playbook. this is looking more and more like Labour, so I don't want to hear any more shit about how even the transphobic democrats broadly support our rights.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/09/2026
The family of Tierra Walker is suing Texas AG Ken Paxton and others over her death, alleging the state’s abortion ban is to blame. (Paxton has not commented.) Read ProPublica’s original investigation on Walker’s struggle to end her high-risk pregnancy:
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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Cut my hair short for a Halloween costume a month early to make sure I liked it first lol
Wearing a pink long sleeve tee for Quatrefoil Library with a big pink triangle on it. Also shorter hair than before.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I asked AT&T Stadium about the Rolling Stone report about how they objected to Macklemore coming to Arlington next month. They didn't comment, but as I've noted they're still hosting Kanye West in November: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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AT&T Stadium, which will host Ye this fall, objected to Macklemore
The Seattle rapper was dropped from Ed Sheeran's stadium tour bill.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yikes, if this is accurate, its basically the owner class using their power to shut down dissent. The Patriots Robert Kraft told Sheerhan his concert would be cancelled if Mackelmore stayed on the your, and that other stadium owners would follow suit.
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 14/09/2026
The four-day strike is believed to be the first walkout by private-sector hospital doctors in U.S. history. minnesotareformer.com/2026/09/14/n...
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Nearly 150 Allina hospital doctors walk off the job in historic 4-day strike in Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer
Nearly 150 unionized doctors at two Twin Cities area hospitals began a four-day strike on Monday in what’s believed to be the first walkout by private-sector hospital doctors in U.S. history. Doctors ...
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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Final We Help Us event is October 17! If you've been waiting, this is your last chance to record a story for the project in person ❤️‍🔥
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Jordan Falk @jordanfalk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Um what the actual fuck are we doing here?
A.I. safety experts were even more alarmed.
They saw in the Hugging Face incident the first real-world example of an A.I. system's successfully escaping human control, commandeering resources and scheming to cover its own tracks. Ajeya Cotra, one of the independent investigators of the Hugging Face incident, minced no words about the danger she saw, writing that it felt to her "like it's more than 50 percent of the way to full-blown A.I. takeover."
This is not insular A.I. safety jargon — by "full-blown A.I. takeover," she means a scenario in which an A.I. system literally takes over the world, shutting humans out of critical systems and seizing political, economic and military power.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 04/09/2026
The Hugging Face incident may turn out to be one of the most important milestones/warnings in technological revolution now underway. History may look back at this moment/point to it. Everyone should be reading ab it and thinking about it. Here are a few good pieces: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/t...
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Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. (Gift Article)
The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller Monday, September 07,1953
P1- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE WALKING DOWNTOWN 
SLUGGO: I HAVE AN IDEA, NANCY 
P2- THEY WALK BEHIND A WOODEN FENCE 
SLUGGO: LET’S STAND BEHIND THIS FENCE 
NANCY: WHY?
P3- SLUGGO: THIS IS LABOR DAY ---
LET'S GIVE THE BOSS AN EASY STRIP TO DRAW
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Tried on some stuff for Halloween yesterday. This year’s costume is gonna be a good one 👀
Dual dressing room mirror selfie
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is honestly one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time. It’s like if the contents of the Table of Contents was just the word “Contents”
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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Furious was the best thing I’ve seen in a while. They better finally give Emmy an Emmy
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
you truly do love to see it
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 02/09/2026
Incredibly informative piece about the actual labor involved in operating Waymo in SF, and the extent to which these vehicles are "autonomous" bayareacurrent.com/theres-a-lot...
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Cleaning Up Poop: The Human Labor Behind Waymo
Human feces isn’t even the nastiest thing they’ve found in the backseat.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Someday soon hes going to be over and trans folk will continue to exist and, hopefully, thrive, for as long as there are humans on this planet.
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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I keep getting scam emails inviting me to do things – readings, interviews, etc – for my last book. They’re often pretty convincing, and I can easily see how people would fall for them. It’s gotten to the point where I might miss a real opportunity because my new default is any invite is a scam 😭
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"For the next two minutes, Cloud detailed three issues impacting women that she believes deserve more attention than Freedom: domestic violence, sexual assault and food insecurity." www.nytimes.com/athletic/754...
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Natasha Cloud calls Enes Kanter Freedom ‘irrelevant,’ urges WNBA to ban him league-wide (Gift Article)
“I will talk about real issues that face women, and it’s not our trans human beings,” Cloud said.
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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Congratulations @racketmn.com! Here’s to the next five years 🥳
A sheet cake that says “RACKET - The First Five Years: 2021-2026”
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I just checked ICE custody records and this is correct www.tmz.com/2026/08/28/m...
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Kanye Exec Milo Yiannopoulos Detained by ICE in Louisiana
Milo Yiannopoulos has been apprehended by ICE in Louisiana ... TMZ has learned.
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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Sending off 9 books today! Lemme know if you want one, too, before I make a post office run this afternoon 🤗
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A couple weeks ago you all bought me out of my personal stock of IRL 🥹 I just got more in, so if you wanted one but didn't get it - and you want to help fund my next podcast series - just venmo me at least $15 (plus a little for shipping) @Christopher-Stedman and I'll send you a signed copy!
Copies of IRL in a box with bubble wrap
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Futurism @futurism.com · 27/08/2026
This is insane.
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Police Are Putting Up Fake 3D-Printed Flock Cameras and Swooping In to Arrest People Who Vandalize Them
a man was charged with three felonies after he cut down a 3D-printed "decoy" Flock camera, which was set up by police.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/08/2026
Jesus Christ. All green card interviews worldwide are paused indefinitely
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indianaarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentuckyarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouriiarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/08/2026
I'm so tired of being right.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t
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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.
Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 25/08/2026
If you missed it the first time around, I highly recommend listening Jad Abumrad's podcast series "Dolly Parton's America." www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...
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Dolly Parton's America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts
The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.
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Good Judy Productions @goodjudypods.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
LGBTQIA mutual aid happens all across MN, not just in the Twin Cities, which is why we’re so excited to share that we’re coming to Winona! Our next LGBTQIA mutual aid story sharing and recording session will be on 10/7. We hope to see you there for an afternoon of food, documentation, and community!
WE HELP US
Comes to
WINONA

Hear stories of LGBTQIA mutual aid and share yours for the We Help Us archives
Panel discussion, story recording, and food

Wednesday, October 7th 4-6pm

For location details, please contact Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Director, Dr. Mary Jo Klinker: mklinker@winona.edu

WWW.WEHELPUSMN.COM

This work is funded in part by the Minnesota Humanities Center with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008
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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hello down there. You are all like ants to me. Precious, beautiful ants ❤️
Me looking down from on high and making a peace sign
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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
How many people are gonna vote for the wrong Dan Sullivan
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Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
@nicemangos.bsky.social @sarahjones.bsky.social spotted at the indie bookstore at the airport 😵‍💫
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/08/2026
This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state
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Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state
“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In possibly the fastest shift in public opinion I've ever seen, local data center approval went from -5 to -65 in less than a year heatmap.news/daily/data-c...
a graph of data center support rapidly falling
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20/08/2026
"Today, 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life – up from 37% in 2021. " Now THAT'S the power of an actively-hostile marketing approach, baby!
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Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs
About half of Americans say they're more concerned than excited about AI, and young adults' concern is rising.
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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Everyone read IRL by @chrisdstedman.bsky.social Real life and online are not really that different!
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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
They do NOT make prayer books like they used to
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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Finally got a chance to sit down with this sweeping, passionate, and illuminating essay from @chrisdstedman.bsky.social, a brilliant defense of the humanities (and religious studies in particular) against corporatization and slopification chrisdstedman.substack.com/p/humanities...
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Humanities in crisis in the age of crisis
On the value of considering what it means to be human
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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Teachers rushing to make everything digital in 2020 and now rushing to make everything analog again 🤪
Stock image of a late 1950s crowd enthusiastically running first in one direction and then back again
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: read Huda Skaik on one of the under-discussed elements of the humanitarian collapse in Gaza—the rats, weasels, and other vermin that are now terrorizing the entire population. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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The Rats Terrorizing Everyone in Gaza
This is what humanitarian collapse looks like: vermin moving freely through garbage, ruined buildings, and tents—and attacking people wherever they go.
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