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Adam Robersmith
@adamrobersmith.bsky.social
Teacher, scholar, artist & clergyperson (UU & AODA); gardener, forest-dweller, contemplative & epicure; queer, progressive, earth-centered & Universalist.

I have alphabet soup before & after my name: Rev, DMin, PhD.

#Ecotheology #PublicIntimacy #UUABoard
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I suspect most of you #UU folks have seen this already, but for new followers…

What does watching a family of bears playing on a mulch pile tell us about love and theology? More than you might guess!

#ecotheology #Druidry #UnitarianUniversalism

www.uuworld.org/articles/rea...
Why Relationship is at the Core of Unitarian Universalism
In this excerpt from a Skinner House book, Rev. Dr. Adam Robersmith imagines an ecology of love rooted and growing within UU congregations and communities.
www.uuworld.org
Seven.

Brilliant movie, very well made, and you couldn’t make me watch it ever again.
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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MAGAs aren't earning voters’ trust with ideas, they're rewriting the electorate. This is the defining distinction between democracy and autocracy: in democracies, voters choose their leaders; in autocracies, leaders choose their voters. We are facing autocracy. www.qasimrashid.com/p/democracy-...
Democracy Is Not Self-Executing — Indiana Shows Us the Crisis Is Already Here
If you want to understand how democracies erode, don’t start with the spectacular moments.
www.qasimrashid.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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This quantification method clearly demonstrated that the risks to climate, ecosystems, and human lives posed by individual fossil fuel projects are not 'negligible' but, in fact, 'serious’ threats.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making
www.nature.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Extreme heat doesn’t just feel exhausting — it ages your body.
A new study shows repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking.
Climate change is literally speeding up our biological clock.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking
Long-term study suggests that the more heatwaves people are exposed to, the more it accelerates body ageing.
www.nature.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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This kind of dataset is a clear indicator that propaganda plays a big role in people's political positions and acting like people are unshiftable is just completely detached from reality
Republicans increasingly oppose requiring healthy kids to get MMR vaccines to attend public schools
2016 19%
2019 20%
2023 42%
2025 47%
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Boom! We getting in the political game.

Because if we don't fight in the political arena for the best interests of universities—which includes their students, faculty, & communities!—then these politicians will keep trying to take over our universities & dictate what we teach & research.
That’s right and we are gonna fight for free public higher ed, and end to student debt, an end to contingent and a new compact that prioritizes academic freedom, freedom of speech, shared governance and the right to assembly & protest on campus! JOIN US!
@aaup.org

news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
Professors Launch PAC to Fight Back Against Trump’s Attacks
The American Association of University Professors, a union whose members are fighting policies from the Trump administration and GOP Congress, launched a PAC this week to spend in federal elections.
news.bgov.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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One hundred and fifty one children under the age of 18 have been arrested between January and October, with a steep increase beginning in May.
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
buff.ly
December 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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3 Questions:

1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?

www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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They are BRAZEN in their hypocrisy. 🤯 Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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This whole thing is racist, but take particular note of the threat of denaturalization. That's stripping people of their citizenship, and that's the road to mass murder and atrocity.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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This Thanksgiving, ICE fascists are arresting people in San Diego At Their Green Card Interviews!

These immigrants followed the law & did everything right—ICE is arresting them anyway.

It was never about law & order. It was always about fascism & white supremacy. Abolish ICE. Protect our Republic.
November 28, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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The events at @aarweb.bsky.social's annual meeting have been outstanding. I was honored —beyond words— to attend a round table discussion on my life's work. This 4.5 minute video was shared there, created by my daughter, @serenebabe.bsky.social: youtu.be/9NeWpB28aCM #AARSBL25 #AARSBL
Paul Santmire's Theological Legacy
YouTube video by H. Paul Santmire
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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The AI that’s jacking up your utility bill, draining your water and threatening your job is also helping China hack the US.

@wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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CT families could pay nearly $140 more in electric bills next year. What is President Trump’s response?

Fighting against energy projects like Revolution Wind that would lower your costs, while building a golden ballroom for himself.
November 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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'Shocks the conscience': Judge brings hammer down on DHS over use of force in Chicago - Raw Story www.rawstory.com/sara-ellis-d...
'Shocks the conscience': Judge brings hammer down on DHS over use of force in Chicago
U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis ordered a preliminary injunction granting "complete relief" to a group of Chicago residents, protesters, journalists, and religious figures who said the Department...
www.rawstory.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Slap this quote on the side of Air Force One, the White House, your front lawn, everywhere. We should hear this on every media outlet and echoing through the streets.
JD Vance: "The suffering is going to get a lot worse."
October 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)
October 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."

The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
For all that the world is hard these days, something that tickles me:

One of the pieces of music that we’ll have in worship this Sunday is “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters.

youtu.be/8y-ViyUk7Dk?...
EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami from KPop Demon Hunters: Golden | The Tonight Show
YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
youtu.be
October 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM