John Schaberg
@johnschaberg.bsky.social
Tomorrow is election day. There are no "unimportant" election. You need to vote. Every one of you! So make a plan today so you can vote tomorrow.
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Tomorrow is election day. There are no "unimportant" election. You need to vote. Every one of you! So make a plan today so you can vote tomorrow.
#WeareAmerica
‘I protest against any theory that would make of the constitution a means of thwarting instead of securing the absolute right of the people to rule themselves.’
Teddy Roosevelt
‘I protest against any theory that would make of the constitution a means of thwarting instead of securing the absolute right of the people to rule themselves.’
Teddy Roosevelt
September 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
#WeareAmerica
‘I protest against any theory that would make of the constitution a means of thwarting instead of securing the absolute right of the people to rule themselves.’
Teddy Roosevelt
‘I protest against any theory that would make of the constitution a means of thwarting instead of securing the absolute right of the people to rule themselves.’
Teddy Roosevelt
I have not seen troops deployed to Memphis.... Shouldn't this have happened by now? Is it possible that he is bluffing? Press releases of events that don't actually happen? Maybe this is a new level of crazy in this crazy time.
September 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I have not seen troops deployed to Memphis.... Shouldn't this have happened by now? Is it possible that he is bluffing? Press releases of events that don't actually happen? Maybe this is a new level of crazy in this crazy time.
#WereAmerica
What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. - Adlai Stevenson
What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. - Adlai Stevenson
September 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
#WereAmerica
What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. - Adlai Stevenson
What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. - Adlai Stevenson
#WeareAmerica
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
September 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
#WeareAmerica
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
#WeareAmerica
"Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
John F. Kennedy
"Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
John F. Kennedy
September 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
#WeareAmerica
"Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
John F. Kennedy
"Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
John F. Kennedy
#WeAreAmerica
“The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood…Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own.”
“The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood…Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own.”
September 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
#WeAreAmerica
“The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood…Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own.”
“The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood…Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own.”
#WeAreAmerica
“The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it… and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.”
- John Muir
“The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it… and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.”
- John Muir
September 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
#WeAreAmerica
“The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it… and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.”
- John Muir
“The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it… and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.”
- John Muir
#WeareAmerica
“We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom... Before the pen of Jefferson scratched across the pages of history the majestic word of the Declaration of Independence, we were here”. - MLK letter from Birmingham Jail
“We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom... Before the pen of Jefferson scratched across the pages of history the majestic word of the Declaration of Independence, we were here”. - MLK letter from Birmingham Jail
September 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
#WeareAmerica
“We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom... Before the pen of Jefferson scratched across the pages of history the majestic word of the Declaration of Independence, we were here”. - MLK letter from Birmingham Jail
“We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom... Before the pen of Jefferson scratched across the pages of history the majestic word of the Declaration of Independence, we were here”. - MLK letter from Birmingham Jail
#WeAreAmerica
"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong".
- George Washington
"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong".
- George Washington
September 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
#WeAreAmerica
"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong".
- George Washington
"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong".
- George Washington
#WeareAmerica
"our success or failure...will be measured by the answers to four questions: First, were we truly men of courage...? Secondly, were we truly men of judgment...? Third, were we truly men of integrity...? Finally, were we truly men of dedication...?" - John F Kennedy
"our success or failure...will be measured by the answers to four questions: First, were we truly men of courage...? Secondly, were we truly men of judgment...? Third, were we truly men of integrity...? Finally, were we truly men of dedication...?" - John F Kennedy
September 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
#WeareAmerica
"our success or failure...will be measured by the answers to four questions: First, were we truly men of courage...? Secondly, were we truly men of judgment...? Third, were we truly men of integrity...? Finally, were we truly men of dedication...?" - John F Kennedy
"our success or failure...will be measured by the answers to four questions: First, were we truly men of courage...? Secondly, were we truly men of judgment...? Third, were we truly men of integrity...? Finally, were we truly men of dedication...?" - John F Kennedy
#WeAreAmerica
The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor--anywhere in the world. - FDR
The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor--anywhere in the world. - FDR
September 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#WeAreAmerica
The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor--anywhere in the world. - FDR
The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor--anywhere in the world. - FDR
#WeareAmerica
“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher…Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for the law: it invites every man to become a law unto himself, it invites anarchy.”
“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher…Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for the law: it invites every man to become a law unto himself, it invites anarchy.”
September 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
#WeareAmerica
“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher…Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for the law: it invites every man to become a law unto himself, it invites anarchy.”
“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher…Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for the law: it invites every man to become a law unto himself, it invites anarchy.”
#WeareAmerica
... there's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.
... there's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.
September 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
#WeareAmerica
... there's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.
... there's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.
#WeareAmerica
There is nothing mysterious about the foundations of a strong democracy.
They are:
Equality opportunity for youth and for others.
Jobs for those who can work.
Security for those who need it.
The ending of special privilege for the few.
The preservation of civil liberties for all.
There is nothing mysterious about the foundations of a strong democracy.
They are:
Equality opportunity for youth and for others.
Jobs for those who can work.
Security for those who need it.
The ending of special privilege for the few.
The preservation of civil liberties for all.
September 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
#WeareAmerica
There is nothing mysterious about the foundations of a strong democracy.
They are:
Equality opportunity for youth and for others.
Jobs for those who can work.
Security for those who need it.
The ending of special privilege for the few.
The preservation of civil liberties for all.
There is nothing mysterious about the foundations of a strong democracy.
They are:
Equality opportunity for youth and for others.
Jobs for those who can work.
Security for those who need it.
The ending of special privilege for the few.
The preservation of civil liberties for all.
“It’s good to feel a victory like this. I stood in the White House and when confronted by the president of the United States, I told him I’d see him in court. Well, we did see him in court, and we won.”
May 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
“It’s good to feel a victory like this. I stood in the White House and when confronted by the president of the United States, I told him I’d see him in court. Well, we did see him in court, and we won.”
April 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
If a preacher knows that legislators are developing policy that will create injustice, it is our duty to “go down to the palace of the King.”
… it is our duty to relocate our ministry to where these life and death decisions are being made.
… it is our duty to relocate our ministry to where these life and death decisions are being made.
April 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
If a preacher knows that legislators are developing policy that will create injustice, it is our duty to “go down to the palace of the King.”
… it is our duty to relocate our ministry to where these life and death decisions are being made.
… it is our duty to relocate our ministry to where these life and death decisions are being made.
I’m a lapsed Catholic who has embraced Unitarian Universalism. But Francis was a great man and a great pope. I will miss him.
April 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I’m a lapsed Catholic who has embraced Unitarian Universalism. But Francis was a great man and a great pope. I will miss him.
If you are looking for motivation to get up and go to the protests - read this... open.substack.com/pub/johnscha...
April 19, 2025 at 11:06 AM
If you are looking for motivation to get up and go to the protests - read this... open.substack.com/pub/johnscha...
Maine is not f****** around
April 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Maine is not f****** around
On Sunday, I listen to the “land acknowledgement” in my UU church. It addresses our church’s (founded 1674) active participation in Wabanaki genocide and enslavement of Africans.
This Sunday, I realized how important this reading is to our resistance of the Fascists now running the country.
This Sunday, I realized how important this reading is to our resistance of the Fascists now running the country.
April 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
On Sunday, I listen to the “land acknowledgement” in my UU church. It addresses our church’s (founded 1674) active participation in Wabanaki genocide and enslavement of Africans.
This Sunday, I realized how important this reading is to our resistance of the Fascists now running the country.
This Sunday, I realized how important this reading is to our resistance of the Fascists now running the country.
April 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
My friend Linda Shary ran into Angus King at the rally in Portland. God, I'm proud to be a Mainer.
April 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
My friend Linda Shary ran into Angus King at the rally in Portland. God, I'm proud to be a Mainer.