Ruth Goring
@ruthgoring.bsky.social
Christian mystic, author-illustrator, activist/organizer, visual artist, mom and grandma. Lover of Colombia and the Spanish language. Free Palestine! ruthgoringbooks.com
A BDS win! Let's keep it up! #FreePalestine
September 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
A BDS win! Let's keep it up! #FreePalestine
In the midst of a genocide, "putrid beasts with ten horns, seven heads, and seemingly boundless power seem appropriate as representations of such massive evil."
Unwontedly, I wrestle with the book of Revelation (aka the Apocalypse) in my new post.
#Gaza #genocide
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Unwontedly, I wrestle with the book of Revelation (aka the Apocalypse) in my new post.
#Gaza #genocide
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Not the way of the beast
In our time, the beast is money, racism, and domination. The way of the beast is not the way of Jesus.
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August 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
In the midst of a genocide, "putrid beasts with ten horns, seven heads, and seemingly boundless power seem appropriate as representations of such massive evil."
Unwontedly, I wrestle with the book of Revelation (aka the Apocalypse) in my new post.
#Gaza #genocide
ruthgoringbooks.com/2025/08/22/n...
Unwontedly, I wrestle with the book of Revelation (aka the Apocalypse) in my new post.
#Gaza #genocide
ruthgoringbooks.com/2025/08/22/n...
Good news.
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Authors Guild Celebrates Victory Against Florida's Book Ban Law - The Authors Guild
In a sweeping victory for readers and authors, Judge Carlos Mendoza granted our coalition’s motion for summary judgment in Penguin Random House v. Gibson, striking down Florida’s book ban law as uncon...
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August 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Good news.
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Bravery is wheelchair users putting their bodies on the line to stop Medicaid cuts.
Shame is arresting them instead of listening.
Medicaid is a lifeline — not a line item.
Shame is arresting them instead of listening.
Medicaid is a lifeline — not a line item.
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
June 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Bravery is wheelchair users putting their bodies on the line to stop Medicaid cuts.
Shame is arresting them instead of listening.
Medicaid is a lifeline — not a line item.
Shame is arresting them instead of listening.
Medicaid is a lifeline — not a line item.
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“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Department official. “It keeps me up at night.”
Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations
Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while…
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June 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Department official. “It keeps me up at night.”
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The FAIR Act has passed through both chambers of the state legislature! Illinois will launch a statewide office of public defense in 2027!
This marks the first time Illinois has significantly updated its public defense structure since 1949. endmoneybond.org/2025/05/31/i...
This marks the first time Illinois has significantly updated its public defense structure since 1949. endmoneybond.org/2025/05/31/i...
June 1, 2025 at 4:39 AM
The FAIR Act has passed through both chambers of the state legislature! Illinois will launch a statewide office of public defense in 2027!
This marks the first time Illinois has significantly updated its public defense structure since 1949. endmoneybond.org/2025/05/31/i...
This marks the first time Illinois has significantly updated its public defense structure since 1949. endmoneybond.org/2025/05/31/i...
What the USA & Israel are doing to the people of Gaza is moral injury to the whole world. Yet around us beauty flames out & insists that life is good. What does it mean to live now . . .
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June 1, 2025 at 4:20 AM
What the USA & Israel are doing to the people of Gaza is moral injury to the whole world. Yet around us beauty flames out & insists that life is good. What does it mean to live now . . .
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A new post on my website. Let's stay awake together, even when our hearts are breaking.
Staying awake with Jesus
Good Friday worship can awaken a whole raft of emotions: love, gratitude, sorrow—and sometimes rage. In the final weeks of his life, Bonhoeffer wrote, “Christians stand by God in God’s …
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April 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
A new post on my website. Let's stay awake together, even when our hearts are breaking.
Absolutely.
Trump is trying to hand billionaires another tax cut — while climate disasters get deadlier and the rest of us foot the bill. The ones who should be paying? Big Oil companies like @exxonmobiloil.bsky.social that caused the climate crisis.
This Tax Day, we’ve got one thing to say: Pay up, Exxon 🧾
This Tax Day, we’ve got one thing to say: Pay up, Exxon 🧾
April 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Absolutely.
A poem for Amer Rabee, Emmett Till, & all the dear awkward 14-year-old boys.
#Palestine #WestBank
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#Palestine #WestBank
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Almonds
A poem in seven parts, by Ruth Goring
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April 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
A poem for Amer Rabee, Emmett Till, & all the dear awkward 14-year-old boys.
#Palestine #WestBank
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#Palestine #WestBank
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The first is my joyful midchant face when I see my photographer friend Michael Bracey at Chicago's Hands Off march (April 5). The rest are favorite images of other marchers.
#handsoff
#handsoff
April 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The first is my joyful midchant face when I see my photographer friend Michael Bracey at Chicago's Hands Off march (April 5). The rest are favorite images of other marchers.
#handsoff
#handsoff
Dear traveling friends, be prudent.
Crossing the U.S. Border? Here’s How to Protect Yourself
Searches of phones and other electronics are on the rise for those entering the U.S. Take these steps to help secure your devices.
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March 31, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Dear traveling friends, be prudent.
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FACT: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.
March 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
FACT: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.
Yet another reason to never move to Utah.
March 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Yet another reason to never move to Utah.
Songs & bodies of water can take us into the deep places of ourselves.
Let the wave wash over me
This evening as I walked toward Lake Michigan, I suddenly had the thought I’m almost exactly the same age Mom was when she died. Then I thought, I have the life Mom would have wanted. Well, maybe s…
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March 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Songs & bodies of water can take us into the deep places of ourselves.
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A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security with 100% of their income.
A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income.
Who agrees it’s time to scrap the cap?
A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income.
Who agrees it’s time to scrap the cap?
March 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security with 100% of their income.
A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income.
Who agrees it’s time to scrap the cap?
A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income.
Who agrees it’s time to scrap the cap?
Have some joy in the midst of it all.
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You can draw a sun for the Third Act / 350 dot org gallery!
#stopclimatechange
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You can draw a sun for the Third Act / 350 dot org gallery!
#stopclimatechange
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March 27, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Have some joy in the midst of it all.
sunday.earth
You can draw a sun for the Third Act / 350 dot org gallery!
#stopclimatechange
sunday.earth
You can draw a sun for the Third Act / 350 dot org gallery!
#stopclimatechange
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All I keep thinking about is how Pete Hegseth raised questions of the competency of a Black four-star general and Air Force fighter pilot who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hegseth asked did he get the job “because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt.”
March 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
All I keep thinking about is how Pete Hegseth raised questions of the competency of a Black four-star general and Air Force fighter pilot who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hegseth asked did he get the job “because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt.”
This is a relief. Thanks for the good news.
For all the "It doesn't matter" people, I can confirm that in response to the court order, all 10 of the DOGE people at SSA were completely removed from the system. Someone was just dying to wipe their profiles, and they did it immediately.
March 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This is a relief. Thanks for the good news.
We sang together today to say, We love you, Gaza. Dear immigrants, we're with you. We see you, LGBTQ+ friends. Black folk & all those whose history is being erased, you are our neighbors. Federal workers, you are my neighbors.
Mennonite Action Chicago, Songs 4 Liberation, Casa Solidaria DuPage. ❤️
Mennonite Action Chicago, Songs 4 Liberation, Casa Solidaria DuPage. ❤️
March 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
We sang together today to say, We love you, Gaza. Dear immigrants, we're with you. We see you, LGBTQ+ friends. Black folk & all those whose history is being erased, you are our neighbors. Federal workers, you are my neighbors.
Mennonite Action Chicago, Songs 4 Liberation, Casa Solidaria DuPage. ❤️
Mennonite Action Chicago, Songs 4 Liberation, Casa Solidaria DuPage. ❤️
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In February 2025 alone, we tallied 2085+ protests, incl major protests in support of federal workers, LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, Palestinian self-determination, Ukraine, demonstrations against Tesla, & protests against Trump’s agenda more generally. This compares w/ 937 protests in Feb 2017.
March 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In February 2025 alone, we tallied 2085+ protests, incl major protests in support of federal workers, LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, Palestinian self-determination, Ukraine, demonstrations against Tesla, & protests against Trump’s agenda more generally. This compares w/ 937 protests in Feb 2017.
@greenpeace.org and @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social just lost $660M lawsuit from fossil fuel giant Energy Transfer for supporting peaceful protest.
I stand in solidarity with Greenpeace against this attack on our right to speak out #ImWithGreenpeace
Find out more: www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
I stand in solidarity with Greenpeace against this attack on our right to speak out #ImWithGreenpeace
Find out more: www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
Jury delivers verdict finding Greenpeace entities liable for more than US$660 million in Energy Transfer SLAPP trial - Greenpeace International
Free speech and right to protest on the line in the United States.
www.greenpeace.org
March 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
@greenpeace.org and @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social just lost $660M lawsuit from fossil fuel giant Energy Transfer for supporting peaceful protest.
I stand in solidarity with Greenpeace against this attack on our right to speak out #ImWithGreenpeace
Find out more: www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
I stand in solidarity with Greenpeace against this attack on our right to speak out #ImWithGreenpeace
Find out more: www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
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Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:
March 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025: