Pastor Richenda
@pastorrichenda.bsky.social
Working at the intersection of faith and creation justice. JustCreation.org; umcreationjustice.org; FossilFreeUMC.net; Oregon Interfaith Power and Light.
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There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
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In recent days, faith leaders across the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area have organized to protect Somali communities and houses of worship as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents launched an operation targeting undocumented Somali immigrants.
In Minneapolis, clergy mobilize to manage ICE raids targeting Somali immigrants
Preparing for ICE agents' presence in the city, an interfaith coalition shared best practices for dealing with law enforcement at houses of worship.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
In recent days, faith leaders across the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area have organized to protect Somali communities and houses of worship as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents launched an operation targeting undocumented Somali immigrants.
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In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests.
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
ICE Nativity scenes: Churches reimagine Christmas story amid deportations
(RNS) — 'We know that Jesus was born into a Roman imperial occupation, and pretty much immediately becomes a refugee in Egypt, has to flee and faces political violence,' the Rev. Michael Woolf said.
religionnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests.
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
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Tired pediatrician here. Folks in R districts, please call your electeds. It will only take 4 Republicans to force a vote. Nearly 80% of Americans want these tax credits extended. Call now ☎️☎️☎️☎️
All 214 House Democrats have signed a discharge petition to extend the ACA tax credits.
We only need 4 House Republicans to join us to stop the shutdown of health care for 24 million Americans.
Just 4.
We only need 4 House Republicans to join us to stop the shutdown of health care for 24 million Americans.
Just 4.
December 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Tired pediatrician here. Folks in R districts, please call your electeds. It will only take 4 Republicans to force a vote. Nearly 80% of Americans want these tax credits extended. Call now ☎️☎️☎️☎️
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"Just after 12 p.m. last Wednesday, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power shut down the last coal plant directly powering California," writes @sammyroth.bsky.social: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ding-dong-... 🔌💡
Ding dong, coal is dead
At least in California.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"Just after 12 p.m. last Wednesday, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power shut down the last coal plant directly powering California," writes @sammyroth.bsky.social: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ding-dong-... 🔌💡
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"The moral measure of an economy is how the 'least of these' experience it."
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Billionaires Are a National Disaster
Chuck Collins on how income inequality undermines everyone’s quality of life—even the most wealthy.
sojo.net
December 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"The moral measure of an economy is how the 'least of these' experience it."
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School districts with diesel buses spend $2,000 more per year on fuel 🚌 Since 2022, EPA’s Clean School Bus Program has awarded over 8,500 electric school buses to more than 1,000 school districts. Voice your support for expanded funding: bit.ly/SupportCleanSchoolBuses #CleanRide4Kids 🔌💡
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
School districts with diesel buses spend $2,000 more per year on fuel 🚌 Since 2022, EPA’s Clean School Bus Program has awarded over 8,500 electric school buses to more than 1,000 school districts. Voice your support for expanded funding: bit.ly/SupportCleanSchoolBuses #CleanRide4Kids 🔌💡
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Trump’s echo chamber:
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Bubble-Wrapped President
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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🌊🌿 Underwater forests are some of the most vital, yet overlooked, ecosystems on our planet.
From towering #kelpforests swaying off our coasts to the lush meadows of #eelgrass in our #estuaries, these habitats are absolute powerhouses for ocean health.
📸: @green_waveco | #kelp #oregon #oregoncoast
From towering #kelpforests swaying off our coasts to the lush meadows of #eelgrass in our #estuaries, these habitats are absolute powerhouses for ocean health.
📸: @green_waveco | #kelp #oregon #oregoncoast
November 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
🌊🌿 Underwater forests are some of the most vital, yet overlooked, ecosystems on our planet.
From towering #kelpforests swaying off our coasts to the lush meadows of #eelgrass in our #estuaries, these habitats are absolute powerhouses for ocean health.
📸: @green_waveco | #kelp #oregon #oregoncoast
From towering #kelpforests swaying off our coasts to the lush meadows of #eelgrass in our #estuaries, these habitats are absolute powerhouses for ocean health.
📸: @green_waveco | #kelp #oregon #oregoncoast
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📚CLIMATE LITIGATION DATABASE!
🔥The most comprehensive resource tracking climate change litigation worldwide, the Climate Litigation Database contains more than 3,000 cases that address climate change law, policy, or science.
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#climateresources #climateaction #legalresources
🔥The most comprehensive resource tracking climate change litigation worldwide, the Climate Litigation Database contains more than 3,000 cases that address climate change law, policy, or science.
🔗💼: buff.ly/wWrlMBA
#climateresources #climateaction #legalresources
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
📚CLIMATE LITIGATION DATABASE!
🔥The most comprehensive resource tracking climate change litigation worldwide, the Climate Litigation Database contains more than 3,000 cases that address climate change law, policy, or science.
🔗💼: buff.ly/wWrlMBA
#climateresources #climateaction #legalresources
🔥The most comprehensive resource tracking climate change litigation worldwide, the Climate Litigation Database contains more than 3,000 cases that address climate change law, policy, or science.
🔗💼: buff.ly/wWrlMBA
#climateresources #climateaction #legalresources
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🌍✨We’re Hiring! Climate Justice Fellow (Postdoc)
Starting September 2026, we are seeking a fellow to support climate justice research, advocacy, policy work, resource development, and events—all advancing equity in climate law.
📅⏳Deadline: January 16, 2026
✉️More Details: buff.ly/sBpru1a
Starting September 2026, we are seeking a fellow to support climate justice research, advocacy, policy work, resource development, and events—all advancing equity in climate law.
📅⏳Deadline: January 16, 2026
✉️More Details: buff.ly/sBpru1a
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🌍✨We’re Hiring! Climate Justice Fellow (Postdoc)
Starting September 2026, we are seeking a fellow to support climate justice research, advocacy, policy work, resource development, and events—all advancing equity in climate law.
📅⏳Deadline: January 16, 2026
✉️More Details: buff.ly/sBpru1a
Starting September 2026, we are seeking a fellow to support climate justice research, advocacy, policy work, resource development, and events—all advancing equity in climate law.
📅⏳Deadline: January 16, 2026
✉️More Details: buff.ly/sBpru1a
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Happy Green Friday! Today is a great day to go outside, spend time in nature, and not buy anything. #ActOnClimate #ClimateAction #Climate #nature #BuyNothingToday #TheOutdoors
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Happy Green Friday! Today is a great day to go outside, spend time in nature, and not buy anything. #ActOnClimate #ClimateAction #Climate #nature #BuyNothingToday #TheOutdoors
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November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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🚨Exclusive: Tata Power's coal power plant due to close last year, got extended life as the company projected data centres to be biggest consumers of electricity.
The plant is located near Mahul, Mumbai's toxic hell
@earthjournalism.bsky.social
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The plant is located near Mahul, Mumbai's toxic hell
@earthjournalism.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal
As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
🚨Exclusive: Tata Power's coal power plant due to close last year, got extended life as the company projected data centres to be biggest consumers of electricity.
The plant is located near Mahul, Mumbai's toxic hell
@earthjournalism.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The plant is located near Mahul, Mumbai's toxic hell
@earthjournalism.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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NEW – COP30: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Belém | @giulianaviglione.bsky.social @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @yaninequiroz.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/tBnx6KZ
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COP30: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Belém - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief breaks down the main COP30 outcomes on food, forests, land and nature.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
NEW – COP30: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Belém | @giulianaviglione.bsky.social @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @yaninequiroz.bsky.social
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More than a dozen children were taken out of a Chicago apartment building during a federal immigration raid.
One man said he worried about his 6-year-old nephew, who clung to his legs when agents knocked down the door.
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
One man said he worried about his 6-year-old nephew, who clung to his legs when agents knocked down the door.
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
What the Trump Administration’s Videos From a Chicago Immigration Raid Don’t Show
Detained and deported Venezuelans tell their stories of what happened when immigration agents raided their apartment building.
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
More than a dozen children were taken out of a Chicago apartment building during a federal immigration raid.
One man said he worried about his 6-year-old nephew, who clung to his legs when agents knocked down the door.
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
One man said he worried about his 6-year-old nephew, who clung to his legs when agents knocked down the door.
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
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Seattle and Portland area folks:
These two sweeties need a new foster home by December 12th. One boy, one girl, both fixed. They’ll come with food, toys, and litter (also a cat playpen if you want it).
Would really appreciate any shares to cast a wider net.
These two sweeties need a new foster home by December 12th. One boy, one girl, both fixed. They’ll come with food, toys, and litter (also a cat playpen if you want it).
Would really appreciate any shares to cast a wider net.
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Seattle and Portland area folks:
These two sweeties need a new foster home by December 12th. One boy, one girl, both fixed. They’ll come with food, toys, and litter (also a cat playpen if you want it).
Would really appreciate any shares to cast a wider net.
These two sweeties need a new foster home by December 12th. One boy, one girl, both fixed. They’ll come with food, toys, and litter (also a cat playpen if you want it).
Would really appreciate any shares to cast a wider net.
Note: I know the recipe SAYS 3lbs of potatoes feeds 8 people but, and I can't stress this enough, that is for 8 POLITE servings for 8 POLITE dinner guests. For a holiday FRENZY family meal with help-yourself-mashed-potatoes you are will need at least TEN POUNDS to tuck into or all is lost.
#Holidays
#Holidays
November 26, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Note: I know the recipe SAYS 3lbs of potatoes feeds 8 people but, and I can't stress this enough, that is for 8 POLITE servings for 8 POLITE dinner guests. For a holiday FRENZY family meal with help-yourself-mashed-potatoes you are will need at least TEN POUNDS to tuck into or all is lost.
#Holidays
#Holidays
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Rising heat, failing kidneys: Climate’s hidden toll on migrant workers
Rising heat, failing kidneys: Climate’s hidden toll on migrant workers
Migrant workers return from Gulf countries with failed kidneys, victims of extreme temperatures, grueling labor, and a global system that leaves them unprotected.
dlvr.it
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Rising heat, failing kidneys: Climate’s hidden toll on migrant workers
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After a freak storm destroyed his crops in 2016, Belgian farmer Hugues Falys wants those responsible for the climate crisis to pay him for the damages.
He’s chosen as his target one of the world’s biggest oil companies: TotalEnergies.
🔗 politi.co/49D1g6G
He’s chosen as his target one of the world’s biggest oil companies: TotalEnergies.
🔗 politi.co/49D1g6G
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
After a freak storm destroyed his crops in 2016, Belgian farmer Hugues Falys wants those responsible for the climate crisis to pay him for the damages.
He’s chosen as his target one of the world’s biggest oil companies: TotalEnergies.
🔗 politi.co/49D1g6G
He’s chosen as his target one of the world’s biggest oil companies: TotalEnergies.
🔗 politi.co/49D1g6G
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When a government speaks responsibly about climate risks. Iceland's climate minister Jóhannsson:
"We believe that confronting climate tipping points and the risks they pose openly is not a sign of 'pessimism' or 'alarmism' but a sign of realism and responsibility."
youtu.be/B-0eQnEEsYA?...
"We believe that confronting climate tipping points and the risks they pose openly is not a sign of 'pessimism' or 'alarmism' but a sign of realism and responsibility."
youtu.be/B-0eQnEEsYA?...
After COP30 Fire and Floods: AMOC Shutdown
YouTube video by International Cryosphere Climate Initiative
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
When a government speaks responsibly about climate risks. Iceland's climate minister Jóhannsson:
"We believe that confronting climate tipping points and the risks they pose openly is not a sign of 'pessimism' or 'alarmism' but a sign of realism and responsibility."
youtu.be/B-0eQnEEsYA?...
"We believe that confronting climate tipping points and the risks they pose openly is not a sign of 'pessimism' or 'alarmism' but a sign of realism and responsibility."
youtu.be/B-0eQnEEsYA?...
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If humans know what needs to be done to address climate change and already possess many of the tools and technologies to do so, why are they not doing it?
COP30's global ethics initiative aims to break chronic malaise on climate action
A cultural change is badly needed to shake climate negotiations from its too-prevalent low ambition, say people of faith involved in the Global Ethical Stocktake.
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
If humans know what needs to be done to address climate change and already possess many of the tools and technologies to do so, why are they not doing it?
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We only have one planet. And its climate affects everything.
The EU Parliament has just voted to reduce emissions by 90% by 2040. Once agreed with member states, the target becomes EU law.
🔗 Read more: link.europa.eu/dD9prX
The EU Parliament has just voted to reduce emissions by 90% by 2040. Once agreed with member states, the target becomes EU law.
🔗 Read more: link.europa.eu/dD9prX
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
We only have one planet. And its climate affects everything.
The EU Parliament has just voted to reduce emissions by 90% by 2040. Once agreed with member states, the target becomes EU law.
🔗 Read more: link.europa.eu/dD9prX
The EU Parliament has just voted to reduce emissions by 90% by 2040. Once agreed with member states, the target becomes EU law.
🔗 Read more: link.europa.eu/dD9prX
Cats (adorable!)
But also... maybe ghosts?
So be careful is all I'm saying.
But also... maybe ghosts?
So be careful is all I'm saying.
November 23, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Cats (adorable!)
But also... maybe ghosts?
So be careful is all I'm saying.
But also... maybe ghosts?
So be careful is all I'm saying.