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Audrey 💖
@auddiemac21.bsky.social
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Queer ancom Latina full of love and rage | UU seminarian | stationery hoarder | Tex-pat in the Twin Cities | theology nerd | 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️
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zoejardiniere.bsky.social
You truly could not make it up.

You could not.
Screenshot of Times article with headline: "Florida may loosen child labour laws to fill gap left by migrants" The article explains a law has been proposed in Florida to allow children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts in agriculture & constraction to make up for lost migrant labour. Yes really.
March 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
auddiemac21.bsky.social
Where are good accounts/publications to get info about bird flu? Now that I can expect the US government to keep as much under wraps as possible. 🙃
February 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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nikkimcr.bsky.social
Trump announces an executive order authorizing a 30,000 capacity migrant detention center in Guantanamo.

"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."
January 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
auddiemac21.bsky.social
I don’t know what to do besides get involved in local community/mutual aid structures, or how I feel besides overwhelmed. My daily prayer is to hold on to hope with as much spite as possible.

What’s keeping you going? What do you need? What can we help each other with?

You are wonderful & loved!
January 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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mattielubchansky.com
“how is this lowering the price of eggs” as a gotcha is totally empty!! when have they cared about hypocrisy!!! they campaigned on punishing the freaks and they’re doing it!!! shut da fuck up!! how about showing some solidarity instead!!!!!!!
January 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors
Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs. My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete. You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us. Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered. I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA, Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness. FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY. I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same. Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world
January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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uua.org
Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto’s “The Butterfly Effect” reminds us that small actions shape the world—a truth reflected in Dr. King’s legacy. On MLK Day, we honor his bold dream of justice, equality, and love, carried forward by collective action. Read the full poem at bit.ly/4jlWJrM. #MLK #UU
A graphic with a light red background featuring a darker red silhouette of a person holding a megaphone in the bottom right corner. on the left side. Dark red butterflies are emerging from the megaphone and are scattered across the graphic On the left is an excerpt from the poem “The Butterfly Effect” written in white text: …This is how we rise. This day is polluted with a mistrust of truth, fertile and warm medium for unchecked cruelty and power. You must choose to scream the truth until every leaf and stone bears unrepentant witness. to what happens when you try to cage and smash, to pin and frame a butterfly and their thousands and thousands of fabulous, flamboyant friends. At the bottom, smaller white font is the attribution: Excerpted from “The Butterfly Effect” in Spilling the Light, by UU Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto. In the top-right corner, the "UU World" logo is displayed in white within a blue rectangle, accompanied by the website URL: UUWORLD.ORG.
January 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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conradelliot.bsky.social
White cishet male converts to catholicism and orthodoxy are overwhelmingly converting to have patriarchal power and not to have a relationship with Jesus. ⚓️
rollingstone.com Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Jan 26
"When they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns? Or are they actually worried about their bottom line?"
Vance Suggests Catholic Church Helps Immigrants to Boost Its 'Bottom Line'
Vice President J.D. Vance attacked the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops after it issued a statement condemning some of Trump's executive orders.
www.rollingstone.com
January 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
auddiemac21.bsky.social
I am working on a project for class that involves reflecting on the “roots and branches” of my leadership style. Lemme tell ya, reflecting on the roots of my understanding of leadership and power is giving me tension headache after tension headache.
January 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Martin Luther King wasn’t asking people to do community service. He was asking folks to liberate oppressed peoples.
January 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
You could look up your local unhoused and underserved community resource group, Planned Parenthood, &c, & ask them what kind of help they need. Or search for other volunteer opportunities near you. Or even just talk or plan w/ friends about what you want to work at making different.

Anything helps.
January 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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jackjenkins.me
This would be quite a thing: Id this happens, Trump would be taking the oath of office on a Bible with his own name on it — not as the owner of the Bible, but a “commemorative edition.”
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 19
blasphemous grifting -- Lee Greenwood says Trump may take the oath of office on a new limited edition Trump bible that is going to be released tomorrow
January 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
auddiemac21.bsky.social
Thinking a lot tonight about all of my Unitarian forebears who did not mince words and were willing to take up arms against authoritarianism and injustice. Thanks, @john-marx.bsky.social, for the push in that direction.
January 20, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
Hillary’s email server would like a word
January 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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plumskyhawk.bsky.social
January 20, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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plumskyhawk.bsky.social
5th page in comment below.
January 20, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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teapainusa.bsky.social
Attention Pennsylvania Attorney General.
January 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
A reminder
Very few executive orders change policy immediately. They cannot immediately change regulations, and they cannot change the law as established through statutes and the courts. Rather, there will be steps that take time and follow a clear process (such as the regulatory process requiring agencies to make notice, to solicit comments, to review such comments, and then to issue final rules). In some instances, litigation is not only expected but is also already being prepared. We do not want to encourage anticipatory obedience, rather than asserting what is and is not happening at a given moment.
January 20, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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theradr.bsky.social
Over 50% of nonviolent movements to overthrow governments are successful within one year of their peak.

The key is to engage over 3.5% of the country, a cross-section of society—clergy, kids, grandmas, teachers) using DIVERSE & CREATIVE tactics, with women in leadership.

We can do this.

More:
On Organizing
time to level up / an early draft of a playbook
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
January 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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uua.org
Jo VonRue's Prayer for Moving Forward speaks to UU values of resilience, hope, and justice. It reminds us to draw strength from community, hold fast to equity and peace, and trust in shared humanity.

How can we inspire and support each other in this work?

Read more: bit.ly/4g3K0XE

#UU #Poetry
An image with a soft pink background featuring water droplets and a faint red heart shape in the lower right corner. The graphic features an excerpt from the poem “Prayer for Moving Forward” by Jo VonRue. The title of the poem is in black, bold, uppercase letters and centered at the top of the graphic. Under this in smaller black font is the name of the author, Jo VonRue. Under this, aligned left is a black quote mark and a vertical black line. to the right of the line, also aligned left, is the following in black text: "However thin our resilience may be wearing, we do not give up or give in... We join thousands of people in the streets. We move for justice We live for peace We will not rest until we are heard. We will not rest until equity is made more real, all around us." In the bottom-left corner, there is the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) flaming chalice logo in black. The URL “UUA.org/worship” is centered at the bottom in small black font.
January 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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ihavethatonvinyl.com
January 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
auddiemac21.bsky.social
Aw, David Lynch didn’t make it to Friday.
January 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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hprivers.bsky.social
I heard y’all like queer-owned bookstores. I do too, especially when they carry my book. 💜

www.lavenderbookshop.com/product/some...
Something Resembling God by HP Rivers | The Lavender Bookshop
HP Rivers' long-awaited debut poetry collection is a love letter to the soul searcher, exploring the beautiful, messy, and uniquely human ways we relate to the Divine.
www.lavenderbookshop.com
January 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
auddiemac21.bsky.social
Good morning from Loki and all of his fangs.
Brown and black tabby cat beginning to yawn with his mouth open halfway. Brown and black tabby yawning with his mouth fully open and tongue out, showing all of his teeth.
January 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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faithonview.com
"Few are guilty, but all are responsible." -Abraham Joshua Herschel, The Prophets

#prophet #guilty #responsible

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"Few are guilty, but all are responsible." -Abraham Joshua Herschel, The Prophets
January 15, 2025 at 5:47 AM