Rev. Fred Small
@revfredsmall.bsky.social
Minister for Climate Justice, Arlington Street Church, singer-songwriter, author @nosycrowus.bsky.social, Cambridge, MA (Massachusett land). He/him. Info & events: https://linktr.ee/revfredsmall
Pinned
For nothing is fixed,
forever, forever, forever,
it is not fixed;
the earth is always shifting,
the light is always changing,
the sea does not cease to grind down rock.
Generations do not cease to be born,
and we are responsible to them
because we are the only witnesses they have. . . .
forever, forever, forever,
it is not fixed;
the earth is always shifting,
the light is always changing,
the sea does not cease to grind down rock.
Generations do not cease to be born,
and we are responsible to them
because we are the only witnesses they have. . . .
Tell your MA legislators: Rep. Cusack's attempt to "adjust to reality" by rolling back #climate standards would surrender to Trump & harm & dishonor our state. @theclf.bsky.social @mothersoutfront.org @votesteveowens.bsky.social @senatormikebarrett.bsky.social
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House moves forward with bill to weaken 2030 climate goals - CommonWealth Beacon
The plan reverberating around Beacon Hill, as first reported by CommonWealth Beacon last week, is sure to put lawmakers in a politically difficult position and test their willingness to defend the cli...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Tell your MA legislators: Rep. Cusack's attempt to "adjust to reality" by rolling back #climate standards would surrender to Trump & harm & dishonor our state. @theclf.bsky.social @mothersoutfront.org @votesteveowens.bsky.social @senatormikebarrett.bsky.social
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AOC: “We have a future to plan for, we have a future to fight for, and we’re either gonna do that together or you’re going to be left behind… This is about: do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now, and the assignment is to come together across difference no matter what.”
November 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
AOC: “We have a future to plan for, we have a future to fight for, and we’re either gonna do that together or you’re going to be left behind… This is about: do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now, and the assignment is to come together across difference no matter what.”
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Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy
In these dangerous times, we need music, community & soul care more than ever. This Saturday 11/8 I'll perform a rare full concert in Brunswick, Maine & lead worship Sunday 11/9 at the UU Church of Brunswick.
Concert: www.uubrunswick.org/events/an-ev...
Worship: www.uubrunswick.org/11-9-25-the-...
Concert: www.uubrunswick.org/events/an-ev...
Worship: www.uubrunswick.org/11-9-25-the-...
November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
In these dangerous times, we need music, community & soul care more than ever. This Saturday 11/8 I'll perform a rare full concert in Brunswick, Maine & lead worship Sunday 11/9 at the UU Church of Brunswick.
Concert: www.uubrunswick.org/events/an-ev...
Worship: www.uubrunswick.org/11-9-25-the-...
Concert: www.uubrunswick.org/events/an-ev...
Worship: www.uubrunswick.org/11-9-25-the-...
"This is not drug enforcement. This is murder."
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Mona Charen is a lifelong conservative.
“I don’t think we’re necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war. I think we’re just gonna kill people . . . They’re going to be, like, dead.”--Donald Trump #boatmurders
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Mona Charen is a lifelong conservative.
“I don’t think we’re necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war. I think we’re just gonna kill people . . . They’re going to be, like, dead.”--Donald Trump #boatmurders
Some of the people in this story are murderers. The others might be drug traffickers. ICYMI @monacharen.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-targ...
Trump’s Targeting of ‘Narcoterrorists’ Is a Crime in Itself
Shoot first, ask questions when?
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November 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"This is not drug enforcement. This is murder."
monacharen.bsky.social
Mona Charen is a lifelong conservative.
“I don’t think we’re necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war. I think we’re just gonna kill people . . . They’re going to be, like, dead.”--Donald Trump #boatmurders
monacharen.bsky.social
Mona Charen is a lifelong conservative.
“I don’t think we’re necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war. I think we’re just gonna kill people . . . They’re going to be, like, dead.”--Donald Trump #boatmurders
Alarming but not suprising.
On twelve markers of authoritarianism and "democractic erosion" identified by scholars, Donald Trump is . . . 12 for 12.
#DefendDemocracy
@aclu.org @moveon.org @indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social
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On twelve markers of authoritarianism and "democractic erosion" identified by scholars, Donald Trump is . . . 12 for 12.
#DefendDemocracy
@aclu.org @moveon.org @indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social
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Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article)
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Alarming but not suprising.
On twelve markers of authoritarianism and "democractic erosion" identified by scholars, Donald Trump is . . . 12 for 12.
#DefendDemocracy
@aclu.org @moveon.org @indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
On twelve markers of authoritarianism and "democractic erosion" identified by scholars, Donald Trump is . . . 12 for 12.
#DefendDemocracy
@aclu.org @moveon.org @indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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October 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A picture really is worth a thousand words, isn't it? POTUS was taking a wrecking ball to democracy, but now he's literally tearing down the White House. May it disgust enough voters that we throw out his enablers and sycophants in '26 and '28. #DefendDemocracy #RebuildTheWhiteHouse #EastWing
October 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A picture really is worth a thousand words, isn't it? POTUS was taking a wrecking ball to democracy, but now he's literally tearing down the White House. May it disgust enough voters that we throw out his enablers and sycophants in '26 and '28. #DefendDemocracy #RebuildTheWhiteHouse #EastWing
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This is extrajudicial murder. It is illegal and unethical. And it is a pathetic use of American military force, demonstrating not strength but weakness.
U.S. strikes alleged drug vessel, this time on the Pacific side.
In what is the eighth known U.S. attack on a boat since Sept. 2, two to three individuals aboard the vessel were killed.
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In what is the eighth known U.S. attack on a boat since Sept. 2, two to three individuals aboard the vessel were killed.
www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-str...
U.S. strikes 8th alleged drug vessel, this time on the Pacific side
This is the first U.S. strike against an alleged drug vessel on the Pacific side of South America.
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October 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is extrajudicial murder. It is illegal and unethical. And it is a pathetic use of American military force, demonstrating not strength but weakness.
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Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"
October 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"
"When asked whether the president had a comment on the demonstrations, Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, gave a brief response in an email. 'Who cares?' she said." @nytimes.com 10/19/25
This is why we say #NoKings.
This is why we say #NoKings.
October 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"When asked whether the president had a comment on the demonstrations, Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, gave a brief response in an email. 'Who cares?' she said." @nytimes.com 10/19/25
This is why we say #NoKings.
This is why we say #NoKings.
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My congresswoman! God bless @ayannapressley.bsky.social #DefendDemocracy
There are NO KINGS in America.
That's why we resist, agitate, organize, and mobilize.
Because the only way to beat a dictator is with defiance.
That's why we resist, agitate, organize, and mobilize.
Because the only way to beat a dictator is with defiance.
October 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
My congresswoman! God bless @ayannapressley.bsky.social #DefendDemocracy
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"I hear very few people are gonna be there" -- Donald Trump, 10/15/25
October 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"I hear very few people are gonna be there" -- Donald Trump, 10/15/25
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So no terrorism then?
October 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
So no terrorism then?
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"This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for masking-up and has heard the same reasons advanced by ... ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence."
Young’s opinion, which rules that the Trump admin illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation, is absolutely scathing.
“In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”
“In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”
September 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for masking-up and has heard the same reasons advanced by ... ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence."
In a stinging rebuke, US District Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, rules the Trump administration’s campaign to arrest and deport international students for pro-Palestinian activism a “truly scandalous and unconstitutional suppression of #FreeSpeech” @aclu.org #RumeysaOzturk
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Trump administration illegally targeted pro-Palestinian protesters, judge rules
The efforts to detain and deport noncitizen activists earlier this year represented an unconstitutional infringement on the First Amendment, the ruling says.
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September 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
In a stinging rebuke, US District Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, rules the Trump administration’s campaign to arrest and deport international students for pro-Palestinian activism a “truly scandalous and unconstitutional suppression of #FreeSpeech” @aclu.org #RumeysaOzturk
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At the UN today Trump called climate change the ‘greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.’
Congrats to the clever plotters for enlisting the planet’s glaciers, oceans and forests in their scheme.
Congrats to the clever plotters for enlisting the planet’s glaciers, oceans and forests in their scheme.
September 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
At the UN today Trump called climate change the ‘greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.’
Congrats to the clever plotters for enlisting the planet’s glaciers, oceans and forests in their scheme.
Congrats to the clever plotters for enlisting the planet’s glaciers, oceans and forests in their scheme.
I'm torn between horror at Mr. Trump's careening malice and embarassment for my country on the world stage. #TrumpUN
Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."
September 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I'm torn between horror at Mr. Trump's careening malice and embarassment for my country on the world stage. #TrumpUN
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Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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September 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...