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I talked with @astra.bsky.social about the apocalyptic politics of Christian Nationalists and tech oligarchs, how AI is capturing and altering us toward fascist ends, and how we can fight "end times fascism." Audio + transcript:
26.06.2025 14:33 — 👍 345 🔁 124 💬 9 📌 12
On this day, June 26, we honor love’s triumph and the Unitarian Universalist commitment to the inherent worth and dignity of every person across identities and orientations.
Marriage equality is not simply law, it's an affirmation of justice, joy, and sacred belonging. 💗
Black text on a beige background, decorated with pale pink at the top and a sliver of pale blue at the bottom: "The attacks on trans youth and gender-affirming care have never been about care for young people. This is about enforcing racialized, gendered, cisheteronormative hierarchies through state-sanctioned and extralegal violence, all part of a white supremacist agenda. —From 'We Must Fight in Solidarity with Trans Youth'"
Re: Skrmetti and the ongoing attacks on trans youth and gender-affirming care, including in media outlets like NYT: This has never been about care or concern for young people.
Re-sharing our resource, We Must Fight In Solidarity With Trans Youth: bit.ly/SolidarityWithTransYouthBrief
The world’s richest 1 percent of people increased their wealth by $33.9 trillion over the past decade, according to anti-poverty group #OxfamInternational ...This system still extracts wealth from the Global South to the superrich 1% in the Global North at a rate of US$30million an hour.
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Join us July 2nd at 7:00 p.m. ET | 4:00 p.m. PT for our final #ImmigrationJustice workshop!
Our friends at @ndlon.bsky.social will lead this workshop with a focus on how to launch an ICE OUT! campaign in your community.
Register here 🔗: stmp.link/immigrationj...
"Conceding ground to attacks on trans people expands
opportunities for increased surveillance, policing, and criminalization across the board, and the
acceleration of white supremacist agendas. This fight belongs to all of us." @interruptcrim.bsky.social
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#Solidarity
"That’s why challenging criminalization rather than participating in it is essential to effective resistance.
In other words: criminalization got us here, criminalization is keeping us here, criminalization is definitely not going to get us out of here." @interruptcrim.bsky.social
#AbolitionNow
🙏🏽 @wola-org.bsky.social for having our LGBTQ+ program coordinator Brigitte Lujano on your podcast! Tune in as she discusses how current immigration policies are creating life-or-death situations for LGBTQ+ migrants + what Al Otro Lado is doing to meet the moment.
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On #WorldRefugeeDay, we honor displaced peoples worldwide. Indigenous refugees face unique struggles—losing not just homes but ancestral lands. Hear their voices in #CulturalSurvival’s June #IndigenousRightsRadio newsletter: mailchi.mp/culturalsurv...
20.06.2025 21:54 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0"Instead, we must expose and dismantle the supposed moral frameworks of the death-makers. We must craft our own narratives and uplift our own frameworks, which implicate the system itself" @prisonculture.bsky.social @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
#LetThisRadicalizeYou
Chapter Six
@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.
13.06.2025 13:49 — 👍 1097 🔁 615 💬 27 📌 73
Hey all! If you are registered for the Online General Assembly, take a look! Here's the schedule for Emerging & Young Adults 💗
13.06.2025 16:20 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
A vertical graphic with a purple background promotes the Unitarian Universalist Association's “Five Practices of Welcome Renewal” for LGBTQ+ / TGQNB* Welcoming Congregations. At the top, a rainbow banner arches across the image with the text “UUA.ORG ” in white in the upper right. Centered below the rainbow is the white UUA chalice logo inside a red square. The main heading reads: LGBTQ+ / TGQNB Welcoming Congregations* Five Practices of Welcome Renewal Below the heading are five vertical columns resembling structural pillars, each labeled with one of the Five Practices: Become a Welcoming Congregation Welcoming Worship Services Welcoming Days of Observance Welcoming Congregation Module Support a Welcoming Project At the bottom, in italicized white text: All of who you are is sacred. All of who you are is welcome. In the lower right corner, a small note reads: *TGQNB – Transgender, Genderqueer, Non-Binary
🌈 Ready to renew your welcome? Many UU congregations haven’t revisited their Welcoming work in years. The Five Practices of Welcome Renewal help us reconnect, recommit, and grow.
💛 Deepen your welcome. Start here: bit.ly/4mShBZj
A promotional graphic for the JUUst Breathe podcast. The background is light with bold text at the top reading “JUUst Breathe Podcast.” The word “Podcast” is in a flowing, handwritten-style orange font. Below that, smaller black text reads “Episode 9 – Love.” Two panelist photos are displayed side by side. On the left is Avery Miller-Fabregas, labeled with a red box that says “Panelist” and beige text box below that reads “Avery Miller-Fabregas.” Avery is a young person with a large afro hairstyle, wearing a dark brown blazer over a green top. They are standing against a neutral gray background and looking slightly toward the camera with a subtle smile. On the right is Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt, also labeled with a red box that says “Panelist” and beige text box that reads “Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt.” She has light brown skin, wears glasses, and is dressed in a black jacket, red turtleneck, and a houndstooth-patterned scarf. Her hair is pulled back. She is standing in front of a softly blurred indoor background with vertical light-colored slats.
💜 New from the JUUst Breathe Podcast💜
What does it mean to center love in UU faith? Hear from Avery Miller-Fabregas and UUA President Rev. Dr. Sofia Betancourt in the season finale.
🎧 Watch now:
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#JUUstBreathe #UUSharedValues #LoveAtTheCenter
"While the expansion of electric vehicles (EVs) is often championed as a critical step toward decarbonization, the environmental cost of nickel extraction, particularly in regions like Halmahera, raises profound questions."
#JustTransitions
#ClimateJustice
Call to Action: "The US must immediately reverse its humanitarian aid cuts and urgently reinstate humanitarian
assistance to the most vulnerable people in Myanmar, including the Rohingya, other internally
displaced populations, and those affected by the earthquake."
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"Our asylum statute, which was first enacted as part of the 1980 Refugee Act, expressly provides that “[a]ny [noncitizen] who is physically present in the United States or who arrives in the United States...irrespective of such [noncitizen’s] status, may apply for asylum” @alotrolado-org.bsky.social
12.06.2025 01:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Event graphic with black text on a white background and color photos of Mariame Kaba and Lewis Raven Wallace, in a colorful graphic frame. “Mariame Kaba in conversation with Lewis Raven Wallace. Thursday, June 12, 2025 | 2:30-4 PM ET. Critical Pedagogy Symposium. Join hundreds of information service providers, scholars, and thought leaders for this Closing Pedagogy Symposium”
Tomorrow at 2:30-4 PM ET, our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social will be in conversation with our Abolition Journalism Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social for the closing keynote address of the 2025 Critical Pedagogy Symposium. Register to join—it’s virtual and free: www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-criti...
12.06.2025 00:47 — 👍 53 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 2If you work with young people, or will be doing so this summer, join us on June 18th online for a deep dive into abolitionist resources that can take your summer youth programming to the next level! We’ll be walking you through our new compilation resource to use for political education with youth ⬇️
12.06.2025 01:15 — 👍 17 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0"... historians say that the deployment of active duty Marines against Americans is unprecedented, and an escalation of anti-protest tactics at a time when Trump is grasping at every opportunity to seize power, suppress dissent and push the U.S. toward martial law." @sharonzhang.bsky.social
11.06.2025 22:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
"We push back against state violence not simply to defeat fascist advances but to build a world of collective liberation." @uusc4all.bsky.social
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"It is about dis-investing in desires for unrestricted autonomy, authority, certainty, control, protagonism, purity, popularity, superiority and validation to create space for acccountabilities, for response-abilities, for exiled capacities and for deeper intimacies" - #GTDF
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The budget bill is anything but beautiful. @stephaniekelton.bsky.social
09.06.2025 16:12 — 👍 399 🔁 142 💬 15 📌 2
A page from Let This Radicalize You by Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes, the chapter called "Violence" in Social Movements, page 111. Under the heading "They Will Call You Violent" the text reads: If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because violence is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as "peaceful" are, in reality, quite violent. Even as people experience the violence of poverty the torture of imprisonment, the brutality of policing, the denial of health care, and many other violent functions of this system, we are told we are experiencing peace, as long as everyone is cooperating. When state actors refer to "peace," they are really talking about order. And when they refer to peaceful protest, they are talking about cooperative protest that obediently stays within the lines drawn by the state. The more uncooperative you are, the more you will be accused of aggression and violence. It is therefore imperative that the state not be the arbiter of what violence means among people seeking justice.
Be careful, friends, when you read accounts of what is happening in LA. We will hear a lot about violence, and it is essential to remember who is defining that term.
"When state actors refer to peace, they are really taking about order..." (@prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social)
"We continue to question traditional hierarchies of knowledge and cultivate an evaluative culture rooted in care, #solidarity, and justice..."
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"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
#SolidarityPractice
#PracticeSolidarity
Be on the side of protesters. Period.
09.06.2025 01:24 — 👍 2547 🔁 487 💬 9 📌 1
A celebratory graphic marking the 75th anniversary of the Liberal Religious Educators Association (LREDA). The background is dark blue with gold text that reads: “Happy 75th Anniversary to the Liberal Religious Educators Association!” Below the text is the LREDA logo, which features a stylized flame and chalice design in purple and green, alongside the organization’s full name in purple text. Large gold numbers “75” are displayed prominently in the bottom half of the image, with a blue and gold striped party hat placed on the top of the “5.” Surrounding the numbers are gold sparkles. At the very bottom, the red and black UUA chalice logo appears on the left, with the web addresses “UUA.ORG ” and “LREDA.ORG ” in gold text centered beneath the image.
🎉 Happy 75th to LREDA! 🎉
For 75 years, LREDA has supported UU religious educators with resources, connection, and a commitment to justice and shared ministry.
If you’re at GA, stop by their booth, in person or online in Whova!
#FaithDevelopment #BelovedCommunity #UUAGA #UU
Building a Community of UU Democracy Leaders
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