Rev Laura Everett
@reveverett.com
Let's all get free. Mass Council of Churches Exec & Pastor. Writer, Mender + Textile Artist. Unabashed urbanist. @BostonWomensSports.com Schemer & Dreamer in Boston.
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Rev Laura Everett
@reveverett.com
· May 10
Sabbath Sign Out: Besitos for dessert. This pup is Luna who I met on May Day in #ChelseaMA. Then today, I found besitos at Market Basket in Waltham! We all deserve más besitos y menos deportaciones. Feast and rest for the work is long.
# HereToStay
# HereToStay
Praying with Matthew 15- Let us pray 🙏🏽: O Jesus the people come to you to be healed and fed. You love our whole selves. Forgive us for divide and conquer. Forgive us for leaving broken people. Forgive me for clinging to bread 🥖 & fish 🎣 like it is mine. Let us have compassion on the crowd like You.
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Praying with Matthew 15- Let us pray 🙏🏽: O Jesus the people come to you to be healed and fed. You love our whole selves. Forgive us for divide and conquer. Forgive us for leaving broken people. Forgive me for clinging to bread 🥖 & fish 🎣 like it is mine. Let us have compassion on the crowd like You.
Y’all Christians remember how many times we are supposed to forgive? 70x 7.
Take that log 🪵 out of own own eyes 👀
Take that log 🪵 out of own own eyes 👀
Please remember that flawed human beings who have made mistakes deserve dignity too, an undocumented person with a criminal record still doesn’t deserve violence at the whim of the government.
Not everyone ICE is targeting is a perfect person and you shouldn’t fixate on that.
Not everyone ICE is targeting is a perfect person and you shouldn’t fixate on that.
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Y’all Christians remember how many times we are supposed to forgive? 70x 7.
Take that log 🪵 out of own own eyes 👀
Take that log 🪵 out of own own eyes 👀
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We can only have a healthy society if we change this
Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 AM
We can only have a healthy society if we change this
The heavens are telling the glory of God.
~Psalm 19:1
~Psalm 19:1
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The heavens are telling the glory of God.
~Psalm 19:1
~Psalm 19:1
Heh. I like the lights putting on a show even if I didn’t get to see it.
No ai bot, no gov shutdown can stop the glory of Creation.
No ai bot, no gov shutdown can stop the glory of Creation.
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Heh. I like the lights putting on a show even if I didn’t get to see it.
No ai bot, no gov shutdown can stop the glory of Creation.
No ai bot, no gov shutdown can stop the glory of Creation.
#Aurora #Boston Update from across the river- not a ton of variation from #JamaicaPlain because of light pollution but mostly a very cold chihuahua.
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
#Aurora #Boston Update from across the river- not a ton of variation from #JamaicaPlain because of light pollution but mostly a very cold chihuahua.
Not kosher.
Okay, I was just in Newport, RI and saw this in a window display. Confirmed- it’s ADORABLE!!! 🦞
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Not kosher.
Paging @weatherishappening.com. A sign of our the anger of weather overlords.
I was just served an ad encouraging me to start gambling. On the weather.
Now I am sad.
Now I am sad.
November 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Paging @weatherishappening.com. A sign of our the anger of weather overlords.
Today I think about my grandfather Williard Worth and his landing at D-day, the horrors he saw at Buchenwald, and how he never talked about it. And how that truly messed up multiple generations in my family.
War is terrible.
Make for peace so we make no more veterans or
#VeteransDay
War is terrible.
Make for peace so we make no more veterans or
#VeteransDay
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Today I think about my grandfather Williard Worth and his landing at D-day, the horrors he saw at Buchenwald, and how he never talked about it. And how that truly messed up multiple generations in my family.
War is terrible.
Make for peace so we make no more veterans or
#VeteransDay
War is terrible.
Make for peace so we make no more veterans or
#VeteransDay
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This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
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Happy Veterans Day.
One-fourth of federal workers are veterans.
Trump has literally decimated the federal workforce over the last nine months. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
One-fourth of federal workers are veterans.
Trump has literally decimated the federal workforce over the last nine months. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Has Forced Out An Alarming Number Of Federal Workers — And Now We Have An Exact Number
“The performance of our government across the board is being diminished,” warned Max Stier, CEO of Partnership for Public Service.
www.huffpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Happy Veterans Day.
One-fourth of federal workers are veterans.
Trump has literally decimated the federal workforce over the last nine months. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
One-fourth of federal workers are veterans.
Trump has literally decimated the federal workforce over the last nine months. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Look. Flying is a privilege.
Food and health care are necessities to live.
I would MUCH prefer that our elected leaders hold their ground about hunger and health than the luxury of air travel.
Cowards.
Woe to you, you Pharisees.
Food and health care are necessities to live.
I would MUCH prefer that our elected leaders hold their ground about hunger and health than the luxury of air travel.
Cowards.
Woe to you, you Pharisees.
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Look. Flying is a privilege.
Food and health care are necessities to live.
I would MUCH prefer that our elected leaders hold their ground about hunger and health than the luxury of air travel.
Cowards.
Woe to you, you Pharisees.
Food and health care are necessities to live.
I would MUCH prefer that our elected leaders hold their ground about hunger and health than the luxury of air travel.
Cowards.
Woe to you, you Pharisees.
Beloved, I’m sure the Lord can see his goodness but Larry Summers has consistently been a cranky, crabby, and stubborn man.
Why are you surprised?
Why are you surprised?
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Beloved, I’m sure the Lord can see his goodness but Larry Summers has consistently been a cranky, crabby, and stubborn man.
Why are you surprised?
Why are you surprised?
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Robots are cool, but have we tried just paying caregivers more?
Inside MIT's lab training robots for a future in caregiving
Scott Kirsner, a columnist with our editorial partner MassLive, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss a recent trip to the lab and the future of robotic caregivers.
www.wbur.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Robots are cool, but have we tried just paying caregivers more?
Baby, it’s ALL God’s backyard. #YIGBY
“Christian love and hospitality are responses to God’s generosity. We are often exceptionally good at showing hospitality in our private homes, but we may not have considered how we and our spaces might be unhospitable on a greater, bureaucratic level.”
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/hosp...
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/hosp...
Charity Begins with Zoning Reforms - Christianity Today
Stewarding our neighborhoods is part of Christian hospitality.
www.christianitytoday.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Baby, it’s ALL God’s backyard. #YIGBY
lol now the whole block is outside because some large truck got itself jammed up on our tiny street. We’ve got yelling in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole happening. And dogs yapping.
I love you Boston.
I love you Boston.
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
lol now the whole block is outside because some large truck got itself jammed up on our tiny street. We’ve got yelling in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole happening. And dogs yapping.
I love you Boston.
I love you Boston.
Loving my neighbor in the abstract is easy.
Loving my neighbor who I can hear FROM INSIDE MY APARTMENT while she praises her dogs’s 💩 while outside on the street because girlfriend is so damn loud at 7am is so much harder.
Help me, Jesus. Seriously.
Loving my neighbor who I can hear FROM INSIDE MY APARTMENT while she praises her dogs’s 💩 while outside on the street because girlfriend is so damn loud at 7am is so much harder.
Help me, Jesus. Seriously.
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Loving my neighbor in the abstract is easy.
Loving my neighbor who I can hear FROM INSIDE MY APARTMENT while she praises her dogs’s 💩 while outside on the street because girlfriend is so damn loud at 7am is so much harder.
Help me, Jesus. Seriously.
Loving my neighbor who I can hear FROM INSIDE MY APARTMENT while she praises her dogs’s 💩 while outside on the street because girlfriend is so damn loud at 7am is so much harder.
Help me, Jesus. Seriously.
Beloved! November 11, #VeteransDay is when we Christians commemorate St Martin of Tours! Brother Martin cut off a portion of his own cloak to give it to a poor man. After his baptism, he said “I am a soldier of
Christ. I cannot fight." His shrine is a site of sanctuary and refuge. Bless us, Martin!
Christ. I cannot fight." His shrine is a site of sanctuary and refuge. Bless us, Martin!
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Beloved! November 11, #VeteransDay is when we Christians commemorate St Martin of Tours! Brother Martin cut off a portion of his own cloak to give it to a poor man. After his baptism, he said “I am a soldier of
Christ. I cannot fight." His shrine is a site of sanctuary and refuge. Bless us, Martin!
Christ. I cannot fight." His shrine is a site of sanctuary and refuge. Bless us, Martin!
I was away and am just now finding out that Fugakyu had closed?! This is terrible news Boston. www.boston.com/food/food-ne...
FuGaKyu in Brookline closes after 27 years in business
FuGaKyu, a Japanese restaurant that's served sushi for 27 years in Brookline, is closing this week, according to a Facebook post.
www.boston.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I was away and am just now finding out that Fugakyu had closed?! This is terrible news Boston. www.boston.com/food/food-ne...
“We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” (Rev. David) Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted.”
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
“We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” (Rev. David) Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted.”
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I am not a crazy ideologue. I just think that the richest society in human history has a moral responsibility to welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, treat the sick, and house the homeless. If doing that requires forcing comfortably-housed people to accept neighborhood change, I'm ok with that.
Probably the key part of this piece. It comes down to the following: "What does prioritizing millionaire homeowners’ aversion to change over the needs of the poor and unhoused do to our souls?"
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I am not a crazy ideologue. I just think that the richest society in human history has a moral responsibility to welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, treat the sick, and house the homeless. If doing that requires forcing comfortably-housed people to accept neighborhood change, I'm ok with that.
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Media coverage of traffic deaths matters: calling pedestrians "jaywalkers" and treating crashes as random tragedies—not design failures—makes funding safer streets harder.
Pedestrian deaths up 75% since 2010. We know the fixes; language shapes policy.
Pedestrian deaths up 75% since 2010. We know the fixes; language shapes policy.
Ending the pedestrian safety crisis begins with how we talk about it - Smart Growth America
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November 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Media coverage of traffic deaths matters: calling pedestrians "jaywalkers" and treating crashes as random tragedies—not design failures—makes funding safer streets harder.
Pedestrian deaths up 75% since 2010. We know the fixes; language shapes policy.
Pedestrian deaths up 75% since 2010. We know the fixes; language shapes policy.
In my youth pastor voice…
“You know who is the maximum Alpha and Omega?!?!”
“You know who is the maximum Alpha and Omega?!?!”
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
In my youth pastor voice…
“You know who is the maximum Alpha and Omega?!?!”
“You know who is the maximum Alpha and Omega?!?!”
It is meat and right. 🥩
i'm convinced if we ever tried to touch the rail of meat politics in America (something that's going to eventually need to happen in order to reduce CO2 emissions), it would lead to a huge right-wing shock
remembering the time a random catholic priest got mad at me about a hypothetical about the government restricting meat production on the other site
meat politics is going to be insane for the next Dem administration which takes climate change seriously, imo
meat politics is going to be insane for the next Dem administration which takes climate change seriously, imo
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM
It is meat and right. 🥩
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In a single day, two different federal officers point guns at two different @chicagotribune.com photojournalists in and around Chicago. This is dangerous stuff.
1/2 Are there any experts out there who can correctly identify the weapons being pointed directly at these two @chicagotribune.com photojournalists?
What type of gun is this?
cc: @mandophotos.bsky.social
What type of gun is this?
cc: @mandophotos.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
In a single day, two different federal officers point guns at two different @chicagotribune.com photojournalists in and around Chicago. This is dangerous stuff.