Audrey 💖

Screenshot of Times article with headline: "Florida may loosen child labour laws to fill gap left by migrants" The article explains a law has been proposed in Florida to allow children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts in agriculture & constraction to make up for lost migrant labour. Yes really.

You truly could not make it up.

You could not.

Where are good accounts/publications to get info about bird flu? Now that I can expect the US government to keep as much under wraps as possible. 🙃

Trump announces an executive order authorizing a 30,000 capacity migrant detention center in Guantanamo.

"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."

Audrey is a white woman with dark brown-black hair wearing clear-rimmed classes. She is softly smiling with pressed lips. She has her hair pulled up in a clip and is wearing an oversized sweatshirt that says “to write love on her arms” and holding up a DSA coffee mug that reads “the best coffee is union-made” with DSA’s rose mascot.

I can still enjoy at-home coffee for now and love on my people. Fiction books (intentionally avoiding most dystopian stuff for obvious reasons) have also been helpful.

I don’t know what to do besides get involved in local community/mutual aid structures, or how I feel besides overwhelmed. My daily prayer is to hold on to hope with as much spite as possible.

What’s keeping you going? What do you need? What can we help each other with?

You are wonderful & loved!

“how is this lowering the price of eggs” as a gotcha is totally empty!! when have they cared about hypocrisy!!! they campaigned on punishing the freaks and they’re doing it!!! shut da fuck up!! how about showing some solidarity instead!!!!!!!

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

No wonder you’re working toward a doctorate 😁

A graphic with a light red background featuring a darker red silhouette of a person holding a megaphone in the bottom right corner. on the left side. Dark red butterflies are emerging from the megaphone and are scattered across the graphic On the left is an excerpt from the poem “The Butterfly Effect” written in white text: …This is how we rise. This day is polluted with a mistrust of truth, fertile and warm medium for unchecked cruelty and power. You must choose to scream the truth until every leaf and stone bears unrepentant witness. to what happens when you try to cage and smash, to pin and frame a butterfly and their thousands and thousands of fabulous, flamboyant friends. At the bottom, smaller white font is the attribution: Excerpted from “The Butterfly Effect” in Spilling the Light, by UU Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto. In the top-right corner, the "UU World" logo is displayed in white within a blue rectangle, accompanied by the website URL: UUWORLD.ORG.

Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto’s “The Butterfly Effect” reminds us that small actions shape the world—a truth reflected in Dr. King’s legacy. On MLK Day, we honor his bold dream of justice, equality, and love, carried forward by collective action. Read the full poem at bit.ly/4jlWJrM. #MLK #UU

White cishet male converts to catholicism and orthodoxy are overwhelmingly converting to have patriarchal power and not to have a relationship with Jesus. ⚓️

How do I say “my parents + SBC church + post-9/11 upbringing were authoritarian af and I realized that maybe that was dysfunctional and maladaptive” in an academic way

I am working on a project for class that involves reflecting on the “roots and branches” of my leadership style. Lemme tell ya, reflecting on the roots of my understanding of leadership and power is giving me tension headache after tension headache.

The good news is that we don’t have it be. God is. 😉 lord knows my list gets longer by the day…

Dang! Is this is NOLA?

Martin Luther King wasn’t asking people to do community service. He was asking folks to liberate oppressed peoples.

You could look up your local unhoused and underserved community resource group, Planned Parenthood, &c, & ask them what kind of help they need. Or search for other volunteer opportunities near you. Or even just talk or plan w/ friends about what you want to work at making different.

Anything helps.

This would be quite a thing: Id this happens, Trump would be taking the oath of office on a Bible with his own name on it — not as the owner of the Bible, but a “commemorative edition.”

What will tomorrow bring? It’s hard to say exactly, but I do know one thing: Love on your people. Every day. Forever.

A wonderful teacher to look at for how to respond to a growing empire and tyranny is none other than Jesus of Nazareth. How do I interpret his teachings? We must continue, and we must continue in love.

It is both inspiring and terrifying: Clearly there is an “after” because this cycle of tyranny and emancipation has happened many times before. That also means it has happens. Many times. Before.

Thinking a lot tonight about all of my Unitarian forebears who did not mince words and were willing to take up arms against authoritarianism and injustice. Thanks, @john-marx.bsky.social, for the push in that direction.

Hillary’s email server would like a word

5th page in comment below.

Attention Pennsylvania Attorney General.

A reminder

On Organizing time to level up / an early draft of a playbook

Over 50% of nonviolent movements to overthrow governments are successful within one year of their peak.

The key is to engage over 3.5% of the country, a cross-section of society—clergy, kids, grandmas, teachers) using DIVERSE & CREATIVE tactics, with women in leadership.

We can do this.

More:

An image with a soft pink background featuring water droplets and a faint red heart shape in the lower right corner. The graphic features an excerpt from the poem “Prayer for Moving Forward” by Jo VonRue. The title of the poem is in black, bold, uppercase letters and centered at the top of the graphic. Under this in smaller black font is the name of the author, Jo VonRue. Under this, aligned left is a black quote mark and a vertical black line. to the right of the line, also aligned left, is the following in black text: "However thin our resilience may be wearing, we do not give up or give in... We join thousands of people in the streets. We move for justice We live for peace We will not rest until we are heard. We will not rest until equity is made more real, all around us." In the bottom-left corner, there is the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) flaming chalice logo in black. The URL “UUA.org/worship” is centered at the bottom in small black font.

Jo VonRue's Prayer for Moving Forward speaks to UU values of resilience, hope, and justice. It reminds us to draw strength from community, hold fast to equity and peace, and trust in shared humanity.

How can we inspire and support each other in this work?

Read more: bit.ly/4g3K0XE

#UU #Poetry

Aw, David Lynch didn’t make it to Friday.