Deb Stevens

Sen. Cory Booker entering hour 16 of holding the Senate Floor.

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Wreckage, Rapists, and Resistance: Week Six of the Coup The Wreckage They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal governm...

I so appreciate Rebecca Solnit’s writing.

Happy Monday. My 401(k) tanked and Musk has my bank account info. How’s your day going?

Prioritize people, not politics. Practice empathy, not blaming. Praying for the vast number of people impacted by the aviation disaster in DC

The Washington Post sent me a survey. That was fun.

Community UMC: The church that founded Pacific Palisades by Rev. Catie Coots, East District Change Managerphoto from Community UMC of Pacific Palisades The fires are still burning as I write this. We don’t know yet the totality of our losses. But we know we...

Of interest to #umc peeps, especially in Ohio. Pacific Palisades was founded as a Chautauqua www.calpacumc.org/stories/comm...

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Praying for the LA area. For safety for residents and for firefighters. There is so much loss. Hear our prayer, O God, that the winds would calm, the fires would be extinguished, the help arrive quickly.

Perhaps this explains some things—
“No one has patience for hearing about the consequences unless they’re experiencing them as well; otherwise, all they can see are the choices.” Akwaeke Emezi from “Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir”

Someone did. Use #beumc

Could someone who knows how to do this create a #umc feed here?

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Each year, the trans community loses too many lives, especially trans women of color, to hate and violence.

More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop.

Now.

I’m terrible at clever posts on this kind of platform, but I’m giving it a try. Glad to be able to curate what I see.