Rev Jo, Unitarian Universalist

Wow, thank you! ❤️

Watching Sen. Booker is reminding me of Sen Mike Gravel reading part of the Pentagon papers out loud, which got them into the congressional record. The letters of worried Americans are being heard.

Disruption is all they seem to understand—so that’s exactly what they’re getting. For 14 hours, @booker.senate.gov has been on the Senate floor, speaking truth within the rules. This cannot be business as usual when our democracy’s on the line. Thank you, senator.

Well this aged like unpasteurized milk🤌

3 days ago:

“Under the previous administration, we looked like fools. Not anymore.”
–Pete Hegseth

Numbing and rest aren't the same thing. Numbing is a "pause," a break, then you pick up where you left off. Rest=renewal, restoration. It's a reset. Right now, we probably need both. My numbing is through Stardew Valley. What's yours?

Warnock: They are busy attacking ordinary people. They don’t understand what it’s like to ration your prescription drugs or what it’s like to try to figure out how to afford groceries. In the words of that prophet who just spoke at The Super Bowl: They not like us

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

A tale of two scandalous Justice Department firings, and how WaPo covered each. Which is to say: today, not at all. Democracy dies in broad daylight.

And you know what else I saw? A commitment to finding joy whenever it becomes available, even if it’s just having dinner together at the end of a long, hard day.

That’s what I saw. They knew “terrible” was coming. But they did not despair, though they assume it will be worse than before.

I was with several groups at the El Paso border last week. Groups that work with migrants, in shelters, educating about rights, and also working for change.

There is a space between hope and hopeless. Not resigned. Not despair. A quiet resolve to do as much good as one can do in what will be terrible circumstances.

And just like that, the Government silenced 170 million Americans the day before the inauguration. #tiktokban #tiktokrefugee

But it seems clear that some interpret it as “no need to wait to see ‘infidels’ suffer - let’s make it happen in the here and now.”

There is a concept in evangelicalism called “the now and not yet.” It is usually meant to say that we can experience a taste of “heaven” right now by being loving people.

The glee with which some Christians fantasize about watching people who don’t share their beliefs be tortured in the afterlife … well, it explains some things about the current political world.

Owl 2.0

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.

He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.

Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

While we’re banning books…

Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.

Be. Like. Finland.

He has been doing this for years and years. I think it’s a badge of honor with him.

This is your reminder that no matter how much hard work you’ve been doing in therapy, no matter how much your self-differentiation has improved, the holidays are NOT your Therapy Final Exam. You will probably not always be calm, centered, emotionally mature, etc. with your family. That’s okay.

Gisèle Pelicot has rewritten her story – and electrified women all over the world. But what about men? | Rebecca Solnit This was an extraordinary response to unimaginable crimes. Yet true change will only come when men engage with the culture that led us here, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit

Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social as always.

This, this, this:

"Until men engage earnestly & honestly with the pervasiveness of sexual assault and the aspects of the culture that celebrate and normalise it, not enough will change."

Assault. Abuse. Harassment. Objectification.

All of it.

I’m ready to stay here through Christmas because we’re not going to let Elon Musk run the government.

So we have to learn how to both share our traumatic story and hear the traumatic story of others.

From being in a Hurricane area, I know survivors have to tell their story to someone, multiple times. But there is no one alive who is not a survivor of this to be the unaffected listener.

$60 per student really does add up. And the more the Lege cuts, the harder it will be to resist.

Yup! And now they’re taking that model to the schools with the bribery of the Bluebonnet curriculum. Everything is a grift.

Used to, there was an overall framework in TX of “we probably shouldn’t pass blatantly anti-constitutional laws.” But that’s gone out the window with this SCOTUS. It’s a gleeful free-for-all of how much damage they can do.

I love the Jacqui Lawson advent calendar. Every morning, something sweet and whimsical to fuel me up for my day.

Can someone create something similar to count down to Nov. 3, 2026? Some of us will really need it.