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"One of the curses of history is that we cannot go back and change the course leading to disasters, no matter how much we might wish to. The past has its own terrible inevitability. But it is never too late to change the future." - @hcrichardson.bsky.social

#NewOrleans Share the Joy of the Kwanzaa with Community Book Center ❤️🖤💚

“Ocean acidification is real, is driven by fossil fuel emissions and is dramatically impacting the health of our oceans,” said Alan Barton, who manages the Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery in Oregon.... “We’ve got the bank statements to prove it..." #ClimateJusticeIsLocalAndGlobal

"No candle by itself is enough to light the path forward. Together, though, our collective flames—our gifts, our prayers, our gratitudes—cast a powerful glow, warm and expansive enough to embrace us all." - Rev. Ashley Horan uua.kudoboard.com/boards/ErZT5...

Strongly recommend a subscription to / gift of @prisonjournalism.bsky.social Nearly 2 million human beings are incarcerated in the US. They have stories and insights for everyone.

B’Tselem noted that Israel has killed 405 Palestinians and injured 1,114 since the #ceasefire began on October 10 as of Monday, through continued strikes and military attacks.

Help us support our immigrant neighbors #ICEoutofNOLA #ImmigrantsAreWelcomeHere #uuSky #UUfaith #UnitarianUniversalist

Overdose deaths in mid-2024 were down 30 percent compared to peak levels in mid-2023, and Nabarun Dasgupta, a senior scientist at the University of North Carolina, credited easier access to addiction treatment and frontline harm reduction services, not drug policing or the Border Patrol.

#HolidayGreetings #FaithfulFortitude youtu.be/RWv44qzZ2sw?...

“I continue to write because I have been inspired by Palestinian writers who shared stories, in fiction and memoirs, since the Nakba,” she said. “Through them, I got to know Palestine. And, hopefully, through us, you will get to know and experience Gaza.” - S. Abulebda to @truthout.org

Shout out to the team in Olympia with some of their recent banners. Keep up the great work!

"This year alone, 23 people have died in ICE custody — a record high. One man died with his hands and feet tied together, and ICE claimed it was a suicide. This administration continues to lie about it all." @jayapal.house.gov #DignityForDetainedImmigrantsAct & I'll add #AbolishICE #AbolitionNow

any time a White person commits an act of terrorism against people of color, which happens now so often, all White people have to say is what are we doing that allows for this to happen?......You don’t have White nationalists without White complicity. -amb www.yesmagazine.org/social-justi...

Feel the weight of your body and know that it is glorious. You are born of soil and sun, and all the heaviness of the earth is a call to you. The earth is reaching for you. Reach back. Reach back. - By Jess Reynolds, Love Like Thunder www.uua.org/worship/word... #Grounding #Meditation

for everyone who needs a #universalist prayer today www.youtube.com/watch?v=f77C... #RestInLove #AndreaGibson #Abolition is a way of being #WinterIsComing

#ProtectTransYouth 💟

"This existing crisis, alongside national patterns of unchecked data center expansion and disregard for environmental laws, must be addressed." - Louisiana #NAACP President Michael McClanahan www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/l... #ClimateJustice #RacialJustice #KeepSpeakingUp beloveds!

#Advent invites us not simply to "be not afraid," but to act with love in the midst of fear. Words by Rev. Dr. Boyung Lee creation by Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity of Sanctified Art vimeo.com/1127582529?f... For the many #Christians who know better but are afraid to do better - #LoveTheStranger

"Joy is our resistance. Community is our power. Love is our center." #SongsOfJoyAndJustice Community Church of #NewYork Dec. 14th @ 5PM Eastern www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ggC...

“Ecocide is committed to guarantee the objective of genocide,” Omar Nashabe, a scholar of international human rights law...“You kill the people, you need to not allow them to go back to the land, so you destroy the land.” [email protected] newsletter.mariannedhenin.com/prosecutors-...

@hrw.org specifically urged countries at risk of #complicity to closely examine their maritime cooperation and intelligence-sharing with the Trump administration..." - Jake Johnson, CommonDreams #StopComplyingWithEvil beloveds #ProtectEachOther

Minutes ago today the Trump regime abruptly cancelled citizenship ceremonies for several immigrants in Boston. THEY CANCELLED CITIZENSHIP CEREMONIES. These immigrants followed every rule & did everything right—Trump banned them anyway. All are from Black & brown majority nations. This Is Fascism.

"As each new generation expands their imagination, let them also develop a keener ability to detect bullshit." -Ruha Benjamin (thank you Toi Marie 💕 #TheDeepening)

As conditions in Gaza have continued to deteriorate, comparatively little attention has been paid to conditions in the occupied West Bank, where human rights groups are calling on the Israeli military to cease their attacks on Palestinian neighborhoods and refugee camps.

To work in opposition to the violent, dehumanizing politics being thrust upon us, we must adopt a political posture that centers our shared humanity and regard for one another. “We need to help reduce the harm and suffering all around us,” Tanuja said. #SideWithLove

You are invited to the Gathering December 8, 2025 5PM PT/8PM ET hosted by #SideWithLove and featuring the glorious Rev. JeKaren Bell - Creative Lament: #Art for #Grief and #Rage Strengthen your heart and spirit for the work! sidewithlove.org/actioncenter

For everyone who needs a #WinterSolstice Ritual, with gratitude to the Unitarian Universalist #MinistryForEarth - December 21st, 4PM Pacific Time/7PM Eastern

One year after the hearings, the commission published Personal Justice Denied, a nearly 500-page report that concluded Executive Order 9066 was driven by “race prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership.”-Connie Y. Chiang

“The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. That action is the testimony of love as the practice of freedom.” - bell hooks

"It confirms what we already knew — this was not about public safety, it’s about stoking chaos and fear and terrorizing communities,” said state Sen. Royce Duplessis Get #ICE out of #Louisiana #ProtectOurNeighbors #ProtectEachOther #ResistDehumanizingNarrativesEveryDay

98 human beings disappeared by our government from #Tacoma by #ICE on this #PearlHarborDay #FightFascismAgain #AbolishICE

"Nearly two months into the ceasefire, #Gaza remains suspended in limbo. Waiting for aid. Waiting for news of prisoners. Waiting for the world to see that the genocide has not ended—it has only changed its form, becoming quieter: genocide without explosions or headlines." - Hassan Abo Qamar

When locking people up is a business, we have no business locking people up. #FreeFamilies #AbolishICE #EndFamilyDetention #NoKidsInDetention #EndDetention

I can't stress enough that you should take every opportunity that comes your way to support your local public libraries. Many of them are currently struggling and are being DEFUNDED. Local action matters on this front. Don't sit back until those libraries are gone before taking ACTION.

Drawing of the Day: Mamdani and Sanders join striking Starbucks workers while the military and Trump’s team passes around the blame for war crimes

Galanda said that the agents’ refusal to accept Miles’ ID points to “a fair amount of ignorance about tribal citizenship generally in society and in government”. #AbolishICE #SettlerColonialBS #Indigeneity

One way to fight fascism is to not let it take away our sense of hope. Our sense of wholeness and our sense of humor. This Thanksgiving, amplify Indigenous creators. Watch my friend @joeycliiiiiift's short film POW! Hilarious, radical and real. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOTu...

Drawing of the Day: Italy makes laws against femicide, Campbell’s puts IT executive on leave after racists remarks released in court, and anti-vax doctor now in charge at the CDC making the agency less trustworthy as a source of accurate information

If you’re in TN-07, make sure to VOTE!! 👍🏼

"Because love — radical, accountable, and abundant — has no kings, only kin." -#SideWithLove sidewithlove.org/ourstories/2...

Convergence. #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 #MassBlackout "This holiday season, let’s remember: our power isn’t in Washington, or Wall Street. It’s in our #collective choice to say, enough." choosedemocracy.us/boycott-cent...

love this PS from @repemilyrandall.bsky.social P.S. Members of Congress shouldn’t have to spend so much time raising money! We really, really need campaign finance reform!!

"The US is not broken. This is how it is designed. All this violence, all this cruelty. This is what a capitalist state does. This is what an empire does. This is what a settle colony does. This is what a genocidal regime does." - Roberto Sirvent, Abolition and Spirituality #AbolitionCollective

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

#UniversalHealthcare #Washington 💕

"If this country has a future, it’s in the streets, the courts, the movements and the continued exercise of free speech and freedom of assembly against this administration." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social #ResistanceIsEverywhere

Politics is the art of the possible. If you believe it cannot be done you will not do it. If you don’t believe there can be justice you won’t work towards it. Your first job in making the world better is imagining how it could be and consistently moving in that direction

The importance of #hyperlocal reporting “We wanted to get to the detention centers so that we could minister to people there. As we started to walk, they pushed us, they shoved us. They grabbed onto us… They took about 15 clergy.” — Rev. Beth Johnson, Minister of the Unitarian Church of Hinsdale