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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:

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. 💗

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.

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. www.wola.org/multimedia/l...

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...

"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.

Hey all! If you are registered for the Online General Assembly, take a look! Here's the schedule for Emerging & Young Adults 💗

🌈 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

💜 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: youtu.be/YYnvaK4vkEo?... #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." brouk.org.uk/wp-content/u...

"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

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...

If 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 ⬇️

"... 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

"We push back against state violence not simply to defeat fascist advances but to build a world of collective liberation." @uusc4all.bsky.social www.uusc.org/press/defend...

"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 decolonialfutures.net

The budget bill is anything but beautiful. @stephaniekelton.bsky.social

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..." www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/cross-p...

"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.

🎉 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 Hosted by UUSJ Thursday, June 19 1:00 p.m. ET • Noon CT • 11:00 a.m. MT • 10:00 a.m. PT RSVP: uusj.salsalabs.org/ga2025_commu... 2/2

Religious Americans who support LGBTQ+ equality are the majority explains our President & CEO Rev. @raushenbush.bsky.social. Nearly 3,000 of you have signed on to the pledge to #RecommitToPride. Join us! Add your name here: www.interfaithalliance.org/recommittopr... #WorldPride #WorldPrideDC

Abolition IS a project of becoming. #LearningFromTheAncestors #BecomingAbolition @clfuu.bsky.social

Wednesday, June 18 at 4-5:30 PM ET: ☀️ Are you working with young people this summer? Join us for a session where we will share a new resource that compiles abolitionist activities and tools to use with young people! Learn more and register to join here: bit.ly/ICNews45

"Genocide is a process, not a single act," Albanese added. "A collective act. A criminal venture. To end it, we must first be willing to see it."

"thirteen principles for supporting people’s agency, self-determination, dignity of risk, and general well-being." #ResistCriminalization #AbolitionNow

"After hundreds of people had entered, soldiers opened fire on the crowd, killing 31 people and wounding 200 others with live ammunition, Gaza’s Ministry of Health said in a statement on Sunday." #WarCrimes #CollectivePunishment #FreePalestine

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQIA+ people are powerful, cherished, and vital to our UU community. This month—and every month—we celebrate your brilliance and recommit to building a world where all people are safe, free, and loved. #PrideMonth #UU #BelovedCommunity

"Some 70 days after the Israeli military halted the entry of food, water, medicine and all other life-saving supplies into Gaza, the report said “goods indispensable for people’s survival are either depleted or expected to run out in the coming weeks”. #FreePalestine #ThisIsGenocide

In addition to my excitement about Kelly's forthcoming book, I am so happy that my friend and comrade @ollycostello.bsky.social created the book cover. It's beautiful. You can pre-order the book here: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

We've reached the middle of the week! What's in your heart? This time, we share a prayer inspired by Saint Francis and UU Values.

"We loved to joke that when you bring a UU and a Fran- ciscan together you get a Fool." -Carmen Barsody www.faithfulfools.org/fools-fables #FaithfulFools #FaithFormation #CollectiveDignity

At the same time, I want to share a deep longing from my heart: I want to look around those hearing rooms and see just as many white folks as BIPOC folks. Just as many cis folks as trans folks and their families. -Michelle Venegas-Matula (she/Ella) #DRUUMM drive.google.com/file/d/1Ybar...

From #SideWithLove: "Friends, now is the time. Please take a few minutes right now to sign the pledge, make a call to Congress, put a note in your congregational newsletter, and call or text 3 beloveds." sidewithlove.org/ourstories/2... Pledge: defendandrecruit.org/stopavelo/ #TheGathering @uua.org

Skills for #ArtfulActivism with @backbonecampaign.bsky.social 🧡 www.backbonecampaign.org/diy_tactics

Happening NOW: The Gathering May 12, 2025 8:00 PM - 9:15 PM ET -Online Join us for The Gathering, a monthly virtual event from Side With Love designed to offer: Spiritual Grounding – Strengthen your heart and spirit for the work ahead. sidewithlove.org/allevents #SideWithLove

“The administration is eroding the information environment in ways this country has never seen,” Harper wrote. pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/in-100-...

Du Bois here provides a key bridge between #abolition past—the abolition of slavery—and abolition present: the racialized apparatus of carceral power that emerged after the Civil War .... abolitionjournal.com/2025/04/29/a...

UU College of Social Justice General Assembly 2025 newsletter edition! #UUAGA mailchi.mp/uucsj/ga-202...

#GratitudePractice secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

#UUMASSAction invites you to join in the effort to Pass the Prison and Jail Construction Moratorium Bill and Stop the New Women's Prison, part of the larger movement to end the incarceration of women and girls...Learn more at: bit.ly/nonewprisonvolunteer