Sea Raven, D.Min
@searaven2.bsky.social
Writer, musician, and activist for social justice, Doctor of Ministry in Creation Spirituality, published a three-volume progressive commentary on the Revised Common Lectionary available on Amazon.
This is too close
All the government funding that used to help with vaccines was rededicated to invent the Anti-Lemon, a fruit with all the same properties as a lemon except it can give you scurvy. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
A Dispatch From the MAHA Future
Featuring wearables, roadkill, and lots of astrology
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is too close
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Article about how right-wing Christianity turning a benevolent Jesus into a combative, selfish scold laid the groundwork for America turning a supposedly benevolent presidency into a force for everything Jesus stood against.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Article about how right-wing Christianity turning a benevolent Jesus into a combative, selfish scold laid the groundwork for America turning a supposedly benevolent presidency into a force for everything Jesus stood against.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
As an American, I am chagrined to see us called out by @charlieangus104.bsky.social; As #KenBurns reminded us, we must not lose it all. #Resist "The Traitor-in-Chief Betrays Ukraine and His Own People" open.substack.com/pub/charliea...
The Traitor-in-Chief Betrays Ukraine and His Own People
We are at a line-in-the-sand moment for Ukraine and the democratic world.
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
As an American, I am chagrined to see us called out by @charlieangus104.bsky.social; As #KenBurns reminded us, we must not lose it all. #Resist "The Traitor-in-Chief Betrays Ukraine and His Own People" open.substack.com/pub/charliea...
A call to action "We Ain't Buyin' It" -- join the boycott #NoBlackFriday open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
A call to action
‘We Ain’t Buying It’
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A call to action "We Ain't Buyin' It" -- join the boycott #NoBlackFriday open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
The metaphors here are mind boggling
A stomach-churning, but important read.
A depraved and decadent Trump WH dinner for MBS was a stunning low for an American ruling class that's stopped pretending to carry a moral compass
It was really a celebration of death - of democracy, of an overheating planet, and ultimately themselves. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ceos...
It was really a celebration of death - of democracy, of an overheating planet, and ultimately themselves. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ceos...
November 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The metaphors here are mind boggling
Let's do it!
This is my kind of good trouble.
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Let's do it!
Folks who think all Christians are antisemitic white supremacists -- anyone with ears to hear -- listen up. @jesus-westar.bsky.social "Christ (The) No Kings Sunday" open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
Christ (The) No Kings Sunday
A Sunday Musing
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Folks who think all Christians are antisemitic white supremacists -- anyone with ears to hear -- listen up. @jesus-westar.bsky.social "Christ (The) No Kings Sunday" open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
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Keep it up. Support your local newspaper!
DHS claims that an accused murderer was released from a Charlotte jail and was “back onto North Carolina’s streets because of sanctuary policies.”
The local paper reported that was false.
So DHS quietly removed that statement—and never admitted they lied. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...
The local paper reported that was false.
So DHS quietly removed that statement—and never admitted they lied. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...
DHS quietly corrects inaccurate information after Charlotte Observer report
As Border Patrol arrived in Charlotte, DHS falsely said a Honduran man charged with murder was released under NC’s “sanctuary policies.”
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Keep it up. Support your local newspaper!
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Vladimir Putin is popping champagne corks. His hand puppet in Washington has left the United States alone, weakened and hated on the world stage.
Canada and the rest of the world have moved on.
financialpost.com/pmn/business...
Canada and the rest of the world have moved on.
financialpost.com/pmn/business...
Carney Says World Can Move on Without The US, Stresses New Ties
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the world can make progress on a range of issues without the US, and that consensus reached at a Group of 20 leaders’ meeti…
financialpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Vladimir Putin is popping champagne corks. His hand puppet in Washington has left the United States alone, weakened and hated on the world stage.
Canada and the rest of the world have moved on.
financialpost.com/pmn/business...
Canada and the rest of the world have moved on.
financialpost.com/pmn/business...
Anyone been watching #KenBurns #TheAmericanRevolution? I'll post about it later after watching the finale -- I recorded the whole thing, so am a day late with the ending. So far: required for citizenship.
November 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Anyone been watching #KenBurns #TheAmericanRevolution? I'll post about it later after watching the finale -- I recorded the whole thing, so am a day late with the ending. So far: required for citizenship.
Is the Pope Catholic?
Do the justices have any rules they won’t let Republicans break?
The Texas Gerrymandering case is a test of the Supreme Court's integrity
Do the justices have any rules they won't let Republicans break?
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Is the Pope Catholic?
The more they stonewall and spin this the worse it will get. The Orange Pretender and his minions have learned nothing from the Epstein files debacle, so keep up the pressure.
1. He’s a lawyer
2. What is he so afraid of. There’s a right thing to say here and he’s terrified to do it.
2. What is he so afraid of. There’s a right thing to say here and he’s terrified to do it.
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Democrats to be executed: "Attorneys have to parse the language and determine all that."
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The more they stonewall and spin this the worse it will get. The Orange Pretender and his minions have learned nothing from the Epstein files debacle, so keep up the pressure.
It's also not Christian. The 10 Commandments are Jewish
This is unconstitutional.
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
It's also not Christian. The 10 Commandments are Jewish
Meanwhile the rest of us are under constant surveillance now. #GoogleMaps
Does the Secret Service even do standard checks anymore? How the hell did someone with an active arrest warrant get within 20 feet of the President, to say nothing of the White House in general?
NEW: Trump has offered his personal support to MAGA influencer Nick Sortor and invited him to the White House as a star journalist. While Sortor was at an event with Trump, Bondi, Patel and Noem, a warrant for his arrest was active in Kentucky.
jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/maga-influ...
jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/maga-influ...
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Meanwhile the rest of us are under constant surveillance now. #GoogleMaps
"We are the last of our kind." #Boomers The Terminator Future Has Arrived open.substack.com/pub/charliea...
The Terminator Future Has Arrived
Have you ever heard of the Singularity?
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"We are the last of our kind." #Boomers The Terminator Future Has Arrived open.substack.com/pub/charliea...
"Keep Your Eyes on the Prize; Hold On!" #Charlotte Another Undaunted City open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Another Undaunted City
Charlotte defends democracy and decency
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"Keep Your Eyes on the Prize; Hold On!" #Charlotte Another Undaunted City open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
My dad wanted desperately to go to war to fight Nazis but was medically unfit (poor eyesight). #GreatestGeneration
I imagine everyone of dreaded Boomer era has similar story:
-My uncle fought in Battle of Bulge, vs Nazis
-My future father-in-law was in submarine, vs Nazis
-My dad was in training as Navy doctor, to fight Nazis
Now MAGA/Trump/Hegseth: "Who are we to judge?"
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
-My uncle fought in Battle of Bulge, vs Nazis
-My future father-in-law was in submarine, vs Nazis
-My dad was in training as Navy doctor, to fight Nazis
Now MAGA/Trump/Hegseth: "Who are we to judge?"
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
My dad wanted desperately to go to war to fight Nazis but was medically unfit (poor eyesight). #GreatestGeneration
End all 287(g) agreements between local sheriffs and ICE nationwide @indivisiblefmd.bsky.social
We white folks need to come right out and say, not just defund ICE, but ABOLISH ICE.
We should not have these jackbooted thugs abducting people off the streets and abusing them in illegal concentration camps.
We should not have these jackbooted thugs abducting people off the streets and abusing them in illegal concentration camps.
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
End all 287(g) agreements between local sheriffs and ICE nationwide @indivisiblefmd.bsky.social
Nor have we seen a S.Ct. that condones any unlawful act done in the course of duties. Shall we Overcome??
At Third Act @thirdactorg.bsky.social we are by definition older Americans. We've seen more stuff than most people.
But we've never seen the president demand the execution of members of Congress.
But we've never seen the president demand the execution of members of Congress.
November 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Nor have we seen a S.Ct. that condones any unlawful act done in the course of duties. Shall we Overcome??
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I do believe that we are going to win.
NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews.
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
As ICE descends on Charlotte, faith leaders draw on other cities' actions to aid immigrants
(RNS) — As many as 500 people, a mix of clergy and other volunteers, have appeared at the training sessions on how to counter ICE.
religionnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I do believe that we are going to win.
God I miss Herblock and the old Washington Post, which made a difference in the 20th century.
This is true and this started before social media. You can compare a Herblock to any random political cartoon from the 2009-2012 period and see a delta larger than seems plausible by talent alone...
i thin that the internet has largely ruined political cartoons. people don’t know how to make actual cartoons anymore. all they do now is draw an obnoxious stand in for the artist and a giant text bubble
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
God I miss Herblock and the old Washington Post, which made a difference in the 20th century.
@nytimes.com headline: “House Votes to Kill Bill Allowing Senators to Sue Government” – The Bill would protect the Senate against “investigatory overreach.” Uh huh. They’re looking at a miserable 2028.
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
@nytimes.com headline: “House Votes to Kill Bill Allowing Senators to Sue Government” – The Bill would protect the Senate against “investigatory overreach.” Uh huh. They’re looking at a miserable 2028.