Liz/Spark
@coldwyvern.bsky.social
“I am a bold and a Pagan soul a-rattling through this land!”
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In the latest #FaithfulFight toolkit, @Shaillybarnes.bsky.social of @Kairoscenter.org writes how to provide for unmet needs and build power. protectdemocracy.org/work/the-fai...
The Faithful Fight Toolkit: Providing and advocating for mutual aid - Protect Democracy
To counter authoritarian actions, faith-based organizations can build networks of mutual aid and support. This toolkit shows how.
protectdemocracy.org
May 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
In the latest #FaithfulFight toolkit, @Shaillybarnes.bsky.social of @Kairoscenter.org writes how to provide for unmet needs and build power. protectdemocracy.org/work/the-fai...
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Never give up. Never surrender.
May 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Never give up. Never surrender.
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I wrote about the Trump administration’s use of political prisoners. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
April 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I wrote about the Trump administration’s use of political prisoners. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Fucking finally!!!!!!
April 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Fucking finally!!!!!!
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An absolutely lawless regime. We need to get loud!
This is how you accurately write a headline. Rolling Stone gets it.
April 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
An absolutely lawless regime. We need to get loud!
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Biggest self-own ever to go from that to whatever this is today.
April 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Biggest self-own ever to go from that to whatever this is today.
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The EO that included restoring monuments/memorials on federal property is a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Beginning Monday @uncpress.bsky.social will make my book No Common Ground available to read FOR FREE for the next two weeks. Educate yourself about what this embrace means. ✊
March 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The EO that included restoring monuments/memorials on federal property is a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Beginning Monday @uncpress.bsky.social will make my book No Common Ground available to read FOR FREE for the next two weeks. Educate yourself about what this embrace means. ✊
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
March 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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"During Purim, we read the Book of Esther, which tells the story of a vain, corrupt leader willing to sell out a vulnerable people for his own convenience —quick to anger, easily bribed, and fond of displaying the 'vast riches of his kingdom'"
"During Purim, we read the Book of Esther, which tells the story of a vain, corrupt leader willing to sell out a vulnerable people for his own convenience —quick to anger, easily bribed, and fond of displaying the 'vast riches of his kingdom'"
Perspective | This year, we are all Esther in America’s own Purim story
It's time to speak out to save “dreamers.”
www.washingtonpost.com
March 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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"During Purim, we read the Book of Esther, which tells the story of a vain, corrupt leader willing to sell out a vulnerable people for his own convenience —quick to anger, easily bribed, and fond of displaying the 'vast riches of his kingdom'"
"During Purim, we read the Book of Esther, which tells the story of a vain, corrupt leader willing to sell out a vulnerable people for his own convenience —quick to anger, easily bribed, and fond of displaying the 'vast riches of his kingdom'"
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Eros, the laundry supervisor, is on duty!
March 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Eros, the laundry supervisor, is on duty!
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HOW YOU CAN HELP:
✅ Spend your money at small businesses, especially those owned by underrepresented entrepreneurs
✅ Share this message with your networks—word of mouth is powerful
✅ Stand together in financial solidarity to create real economic change
✅ Spend your money at small businesses, especially those owned by underrepresented entrepreneurs
✅ Share this message with your networks—word of mouth is powerful
✅ Stand together in financial solidarity to create real economic change
February 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
✅ Spend your money at small businesses, especially those owned by underrepresented entrepreneurs
✅ Share this message with your networks—word of mouth is powerful
✅ Stand together in financial solidarity to create real economic change
✅ Spend your money at small businesses, especially those owned by underrepresented entrepreneurs
✅ Share this message with your networks—word of mouth is powerful
✅ Stand together in financial solidarity to create real economic change
I think the vampires want my blood! 🧛🏻♂️🩸
February 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I think the vampires want my blood! 🧛🏻♂️🩸
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so glad that we're not living in the commie reagan era anymore
Seems like the relevance of this Reagan-era Herblock cartoon has risen by 200%. Washington Post, 12/22/1988.
February 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
so glad that we're not living in the commie reagan era anymore
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"I realized that all forms of religion are masks that the divine wears to communicate with us. Behind all religions there’s a reality, and this reality wears whatever clothes it needs to speak to a particular people."
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
February 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"I realized that all forms of religion are masks that the divine wears to communicate with us. Behind all religions there’s a reality, and this reality wears whatever clothes it needs to speak to a particular people."
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
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Our Supreme Connections database tracks who’s paid the Supreme Court justices, reimbursed their travel expenses or given them gifts.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
ProPublica’s Supreme Connections Database Updated With New Alito, Thomas Filings
Our database of the Supreme Court justices’ financial connections now includes Samuel Alito’s deferred 2023 filing and eight previously missing disclosures from Clarence Thomas dating back to the 1990s.
propub.li
February 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Our Supreme Connections database tracks who’s paid the Supreme Court justices, reimbursed their travel expenses or given them gifts.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
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Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."
February 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."
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Germany's Left Party has a new goal of cutting the wealth of billionaires in half within a decade.
Ultimately, they "believe there should not be any billionaires."
They aim to implement a wealth tax and raise inheritance and income taxes on the rich.
www.dw.com/en/germanys-...
Ultimately, they "believe there should not be any billionaires."
They aim to implement a wealth tax and raise inheritance and income taxes on the rich.
www.dw.com/en/germanys-...
Germany's Left Party wants to halve billionaires' wealth – DW – 02/08/2025
The Left Party says "there shouldn't be any billionaires." With Germany gearing up for an election, the far-left force has launched a new tax plan — though it will most likely never get a chance to im...
www.dw.com
February 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Germany's Left Party has a new goal of cutting the wealth of billionaires in half within a decade.
Ultimately, they "believe there should not be any billionaires."
They aim to implement a wealth tax and raise inheritance and income taxes on the rich.
www.dw.com/en/germanys-...
Ultimately, they "believe there should not be any billionaires."
They aim to implement a wealth tax and raise inheritance and income taxes on the rich.
www.dw.com/en/germanys-...
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Fortify yourself.
New:
Why practices to connect us with our own humanity, each other, & perhaps something bigger, really matter now—
And can help keep us more whole, less responding on their terms & more on our own, more making choices as the people we wish to be.
Practical tips & bigger picture here:
Why practices to connect us with our own humanity, each other, & perhaps something bigger, really matter now—
And can help keep us more whole, less responding on their terms & more on our own, more making choices as the people we wish to be.
Practical tips & bigger picture here:
fortify inside
why spiritual practice matters during the rising authoritarian tide
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
February 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Fortify yourself.
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Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.”
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?
Yes. And You Can Too.
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.”
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Bright Blessings of #FullMoon time! Join us for a free Online #NatureSpirituality rite this Wednesday night February 12 via livestream to Circle Sanctuary YouTube channel beginning at 7pm central.
More info about our monthly #FullMoonCircle gatherings: circlesanctuary.org
#PaganSky #WitchSky
More info about our monthly #FullMoonCircle gatherings: circlesanctuary.org
#PaganSky #WitchSky
February 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Bright Blessings of #FullMoon time! Join us for a free Online #NatureSpirituality rite this Wednesday night February 12 via livestream to Circle Sanctuary YouTube channel beginning at 7pm central.
More info about our monthly #FullMoonCircle gatherings: circlesanctuary.org
#PaganSky #WitchSky
More info about our monthly #FullMoonCircle gatherings: circlesanctuary.org
#PaganSky #WitchSky
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Great job by Ruben (@rubenbolling.bsky.social).
February 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Great job by Ruben (@rubenbolling.bsky.social).