Chris Stedman

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

The Times understands that the guidance is still being finalised and it will not decree that services have to provide single-sex spaces, but that if they do - for example if a lavatory is intended for women - transgender women would be excluded from using it. To allow someone of the opposite sex to use the facilities would be very likely to amount to unlawful discrimination. It will also make clear that it will not be deemed as discrimination to exclude trans people from those facilities and that services will be allowed to request birth certificates to ensure single-sex services are protected.

It read: "A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from a separate or single-sex service for their own biological sex might be to prevent alarm or distress for other service users. "A trans man might be excluded from the women-only service if the service provider decides that, because he presents as a man, other service users could reasonably object to his presence, and it is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim to exclude him".

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.”
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RFK Jr’s health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research Agency to end 22 federal contracts, questioning safety of technology credited with helping end Covid pandemic

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.
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Yeah, I initially wanted to watch it in order to understand how bad things have gotten, but within a couple seconds I couldn’t bear to keep going

Jim Acosta Interviews AI Version of Teenager Killed in Parkland Shooting: ‘It’s Just a Beautiful Thing’ Journalist Jim Acosta conducted an interview with an AI version of Joaquin Oliver, a teenager killed in the Parkland school shooting in 2018.

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...

THE WE HELP US HOTLINE ALL ARE WELCOME SHARE YOUR STORY OF QUEER AND TRANS MUTUAL AID FOR AN AUDIO ORAL HISTORY PROJECT AND THE TRETTER COLLECTION ARCHIVES SAT. AUGUST 9TH 3PM - 5PM QUATREFOIL LIBRARY 1220 E. LAKE ST MINNEAPOLIS MN

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!

Not fleeing: New report shows more wealthy residents in Mass., 2 years into 'millionaire's tax' Despite previous concerns, Massachusetts' "millionaire's tax" hasn't seemed to deter high-earners from continuing to live here, according to a new study from the Institute for Policy Studies.

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%.
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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."

she posts videos of them trying to get away from her on tiktok that are sped up yakety sax style and scored by norteno music, theyre hilarious

I know I love it!

Screenshot from a story in the Advocate: "I think most reasonable people would recognize that there are serious fairness issues if you just treat this as not mattering when a trans athlete wants to compete in women's sports," Buttigieg told NPR.

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

The AI explosion means millions are paying more for electricity Across much of the eastern U.S., electricity bills have jumped. The reason? Data centers required for AI and other tech wonders are driving up electricity demand.

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.

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The only thing that rocks more than your live show 🤘

Ben and Chris sit on a picnic table outside of Modern Times

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 🙌

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

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.”

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Gazans Are Dying of Starvation

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...

lmao

How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.

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 ❤️

THE WE HELP US HOTLINE Sharing Stories of LGBTQIA Mutual Aid Join us for an afternoon of story exchange, where attendees will share experiences of queer mutual aid (receiving it, offering it, or both). These stories of community care will be audio recorded for potential use in a narrative art project. Most will also be archived at the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies at the University of Minnesota, which is the biggest LGBTQIA archive in the upper Midwest and one of the largest in the country. Hosted by Good Judy Productions, a new narrative podcast studio in Minneapolis, and Quatrefoil Library, the second oldest circulating LGBTQIA library in the United States. SAT. AUGUST 9TH, 3 P.M.-5 P.M. QUATREFOIL LIBRARY 1120 E. LAKE ST. MINNEAPOLIS, MN visit wehelpusmn.com for more info This project is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board and a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, both thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

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

Exactly