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Tim Kobler

@timkobler.bsky.social
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United Methodist campus minister and progressive pastor. 🏳️‍🌈 He/Him Faithfully LGBTQIA 💙🦋💙 Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Rev Timoth @revtimoth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Grieving Differently: Queering the Stages of Grief www.GrievingDifferently.com
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Rev Timoth @revtimoth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In just 10 days, this book that began in the midst of my own grief will make its way into the world. I hope it finds the people who need those words. You are not alone. “Grieving Differently: Queering the Stages of Grief” releases October 6. Preorder your signed copy at GrievingDifferently.com
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Rev Timoth @revtimoth.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
SHARE THE BOOK: THREE SIGNED COPIES + ONLINE DISCUSSION For $60, you’ll receive: • Three personally signed copies of Grieving Differently • A collection of book “swag” • Three invitations to a live online book discussion with me following the book’s release GrievingDifferently.com
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Rev Timoth @revtimoth.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
“Grief does not move in a straight line. It follows no rules or timeline.” Pre-Order your signed copy of my book; “Grieving Differently: Queering the Stages of Grief” now! GrievingDifferently.com
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Rev Timoth @revtimoth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
PRE-ORDERS ARE OFFICIALLY OPEN! My book, “Grieving Differently: Queering the Stages of Grief,” will be released on October 6, 2026. And you can now pre-order a personally signed copy directly from me. Preorder your signed copy today: GrievingDifferently.com
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Tim Kobler @timkobler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
My view from Queen’s Harbour in Toronto.
A  white ship with three sails on Lake Ontario, with dramatic clouds at sunset.
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Tim Kobler @timkobler.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I’m visiting my hometown this week, and I got to see my cousin working on his latest mural downtown. It’s looking great! #marion #illinois #publicart
Two men are painting a monochrome mural of Abraham Lincoln’s face on the side of a building using a hydraulic lift.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
🚨 RED ALERT: Trump has formally nominated his former personal criminal defense lawyer, Todd Blanche, to run the entire DOJ permanently. A single Republican "no" vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee can sink this nomination. Tell your Senators to vote NO right now: 👇
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Tell Your Senators: Oppose Todd Blanche for Attorney General
Contact Congress today!
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Ann Arbor Indivisible @aaindivisible.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
ICE arrested 3,000 mothers in just seven months in 2025. For Mother's Day this year, call your members of Congress and tell them 'No Money for MAGA Murders - no funding for ICE and CBP'. (1/2)
All we want for Mother's Day is an end to ICE detention. Border shows spring flowers.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Apparently, MAGA people are just as eager to ignore the First Commandment as the First Amendment. Glory!
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ApplesHardcoreYo @appleshardcoreyo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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Aquarius Solrac @aquariussolrac.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Read ‘em and weep
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Tim Kobler @timkobler.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Found a morrel in my yard this morning. It’s bigger than my hand, and the largest on I’ve ever found.
A large morrel mushroom rests on an oak tabletop.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Say it, Shawn Fain! Say it loud!
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/05/2026
There’s still time to stop Congress from reauthorizing a little-known law that lets the government spy on American citizens. Make sure your senators hear from you about this civil liberties disaster.
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Tell Your Senators: Oppose Warrantless AI Mass Surveillance | Indivisible
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crooksandliars.bsky.social @crooksandliars.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
dlvr.it
Anti-ICE Songs Soundtracking The Resistance
TODAY IS MAY DAY and we all need a soundtrack for the resistance. Here you go! Via @awkword.bsky.social
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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Are we great yet?
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LOVEboldly.net @loveboldly.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Season 3, Episode 2 is here! Siobhan and Ben sit down with the Rev. Tim Kobler for a fascinating conversation about ministry, beekeeping, and tattoos. Find the episode at www.loveboldly.org/comingoutchr... @timkobler.bsky.social
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LOVEboldly.net @loveboldly.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
B (Wed) - Season 3, Episode 2 is almost here with the Rev. Tim Kobler — campus minister, beekeeper, and someone Siobhan and Ben have a fascinating conversation with about ministry, beekeeping, and tattoos. Drops Sunday, April 12. www.loveboldly.org/comingoutchr... @timkobler.bsky.social
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Ann Arbor Indivisible @aaindivisible.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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Advocates demand Wayne County Airport Authority halt ICE flights out of Willow Run airport • Michigan Advance
Activists called on airport officials to halt the flights by ICE out of Willow Run Airport near Ypsilanti during the public comment period of the Wayne County Airport Authority board meeting on Wednes...
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
This video warrants reposting again & again. ICE is not slowing down in MN. They’re just changing tactics that you must be aware of. Please, please listen and pass this on. #StandTogether #Pinks #ProudBlue #OneV1
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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
ICE says a handcuffed man w/ no criminal record got 8 skull fractures running into a wall. Doctors disagree. Hospitals encrypt messages; patients fear getting care. HOSPITALS ARE NOT SAFE Call Senators. Demand investigations. Stop funding this. Keep protesting and filming ICE. ✊🏼
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Havoc @havoc147.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This is a fascinating and scary read. [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Not a Nationalist. He’s Something Worse.
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I’m late to this, but: gift link to Adam Serwer’s great article about Minneapolis. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
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Tim Kobler @timkobler.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Bible in a Minute - Daniel 7
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Ann Arbor Indivisible @aaindivisible.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Many people have been asking how they can help Minnesotans, and how they can help our neighbors who are being impacted by ICE. Here are some ideas from @naomikritzer.bsky.social to get you started. naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
Last edited January 22, 2026 I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That sa…
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Tim Kobler @timkobler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Just thinking about that episode of Star Trek where Captain Picard is kidnapped by the Cardassians, and they try to break his spirit by showing him four bright lights. How many lights are there, they ask? Picard answers: Four. But each time he answers, he's tortured. No, Gul Madred says. There are FIVE lights.
There are four lights. Gul Madred knows it, Picard knows it, we know it.
But his captors keep insisting: There are FIVE lights in front of you.
This is not a post about Star Trek.
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Tim Kobler @timkobler.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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A comic drawing of the Cincinnati skyline with a helicopter dropping turkeys onto the city below. It’s a reference to the Thanksgiving episode of WKRP in Cincinnati.
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Tim Kobler @timkobler.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Post your favorite “The Lord of The Rings” character. Wrong answers only.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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Jesus Cast Down the Mighty from Their Thrones. So Should We
Nonviolent protests are one way God's people help reclaim a gospel that is good news for the power and powerless.
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Tim Kobler @timkobler.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
If they do this in broad daylight. Imagine what they do to the detainees in the dark? baptistnews.com/article/unit...
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United Methodist pastor violently arrested in Chicago – Baptist News Global
Pastor Hannah Kardon of United Church was violently arrested along with eight others at a peaceful protest at the Broadview ICE facility
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Lori (Little Lulu) @lori51051723.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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JTyler @jtyler5.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
This is outrageous.
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Tim Kobler @timkobler.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
May her memory be a blessing. #JaneGoodall
Jane Goodall bowing her head, and a chimpanzee reaches its right hand toward her forehead.
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Tim Kobler @timkobler.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
If you are in Michigan, here’s a link to sign onto a letter supporting gender affirming care to be sent to the administration of the University of Michigan Medical Center. actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...
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Trans Youth Deserve Healthcare, Not Barriers
On August 25th, Michigan Medicine announced the decision to halt life-saving gender affirming care for trans youth under the age of 19. This monstrous decision will have severe ramifications and must ...
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Tim Kobler @timkobler.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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Joint Statement: The Church Cannot Remain Silent on Racial Profiling  — GCORR
September 9, 2025 Dear Justice Seekers,  The gospel of Jesus Christ calls us to name and resist the powers of evil that harm our communities. The Church is a living mosaic of God’s creation—exp...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/09/2025
Trump isn’t even pretending anymore. He’s openly bragging about turning the U.S. military on American cities.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Gov. Pritzker says President Trump threatened ‘to go to war' with #Chicago in social media post. The president's post referenced the "Department of War," which was approved as a secondary title to the Department of Defense under an executive order he signed Fri. www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/g...
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Gov. Pritzker says President Trump threatened 'to go to war' with Chicago in social media post
Responding to a parody social media post by President Donald Trump on Saturday, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said the president threatened "to go to war with an American city."
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Tim Kobler @timkobler.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Next time you think art doesn’t matter, consider how scared the fascists are of sidewalk chalk.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
This level of corruption is not normal or acceptable. Even if we are exhausted by each report of it going further and further, we can never grow numb to it.
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Trump Family Amasses $5 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch
The WLFI token traded far above its previous value, confirming—at least on paper—a huge windfall for the president and his sons.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/08/2025
Palestinians warned of a genocide in 2023. Why weren’t we believed? | Ahmed Ibsais
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Palestinians warned of a genocide in 2023. Why weren’t we believed? | Ahmed Ibsais
Western academics now speak of ‘genocide’ with newfound authority. Why weren’t our voices enough?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The CDC is gutting a program that monitors foodborne illnesses. The program will now only track infections caused by two pathogens, rather than eight. Hello? How does this “Make America Healthy Again”?
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The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses
As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight.
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Tim Kobler @timkobler.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
A child holds a sign which reads, “Our lives are worth more than your guns.”
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Moms Demand Action @momsdemandaction.org · 28/08/2025
“There’s an African proverb that says, ‘When you pray, move your feet.’ So I beg you, I ask you, please pray. But don’t stop with your words.” - Annunciation Catholic School Principal Matthew DuBois
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