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Rev. Wendy von Courter

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Somewhat retired UU minister, farmer, gardener, human rights activist, interfaith leadership prof., adoring wife of an adoring wife, doting grammy committed to a better tomorrow for all Creation’s children.

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02.04.2025 19:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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14.01.2025 14:20 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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From our Unitarian Universalist Faithify fundraising platform...

Just launched - Emergency grants to people fleeing legislative and state violence. Gratitude to Pink Haven Coalition for this vital work. Find the campaign on Faithify.

#UnitarianUniversalist #UU #LoveAtTheCenter

26.11.2024 15:38 👍 36 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 0
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Trump keeps names of donors funding transition secret in break with practice President-elect alarms ethics experts by neglecting to sign agreement that requires disclosure of donor identities

Trump is now the first incoming president not to sign the federal transition funding agreement.

That means he can raise unlimited amounts from wealthy donors for his presidential transition — and keep their identities secret.

So much for draining the swamp.

26.11.2024 01:00 👍 641 🔁 209 💬 58 📌 15

It would be very cool if we could all agree to delink the questions of "could any alternate strategy or messaging have won the 2024 election" from "what will help us win elections going forward." The ham-handed efforts to kludge these two things together are getting increasingly silly.

25.11.2024 18:06 👍 280 🔁 43 💬 16 📌 4
US right wing hypocrisy

US right wing hypocrisy

25.11.2024 00:41 👍 57568 🔁 8169 💬 617 📌 306
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Canada's top military commander Jennie Carignan calls out the GOP for questioning women in combat: After 39 years as a combat arms officer and risking my life in many operations, I can’t believe that in 2024, we still have to justify women's contribution to defense and service in their country...

25.11.2024 01:05 👍 51016 🔁 10938 💬 1004 📌 450
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Why campuses need centers for pluralism (opinion) Now more than ever, colleges must help students learn to cooperate across differences, writes Eboo Patel.

The smartest thing I’ve read re higher ed in a while!

Phenomenal idea to reorient campus diversity initiatives towards the study and cultivation of pluralism

Thx for this Eboo Patel

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

15.11.2023 13:42 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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This fiery evangelical pastor offers a blueprint for Democrats’ revival in Trump’s second term | CNN The Rev. William Barber, the prominent Black spiritual leader who supported Kamala Harris, suggests a way forward for left-leaning Americans who are struggling in the wake of the election.

“Racism may target Black people, but it damns a democracy, and it damns humanity.”
www.cnn.com/2024/11/24/u...

24.11.2024 20:26 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Explosive Growth The fledgling social media site has been flooded with new users since the election. It hasn’t all been easy.

Bluesky’s growth has exploded as people seek alternatives to X, Facebook and Threads. The social media site's 20 full-time employees have been working around the clock to deal with the issues that come with hyper-growth.

20.11.2024 22:04 👍 2621 🔁 483 💬 73 📌 85

🧵 BREAKING: The U.S. House has just passed HR 9495, a bill that dramatically expands the Treasury’s power to revoke tax-exempt status from nonprofits it deems to be “supporting terrorism.” Here’s what this means for Palestinian rights organizations and free speech in the U.S.

21.11.2024 16:21 👍 219 🔁 176 💬 8 📌 33
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In New Zealand Parliament, Te Pāti Māori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke leads the Haka to protest against a bill proposing the diminishing of Māori rights enshrined in New Zealand's 200+year treaty. Solidarity👊💯

14.11.2024 23:11 👍 244 🔁 57 💬 23 📌 23

every culture has this problem but i genuinely think that latinidad in america is going to have one hell of a reckoning in the coming years with how sex, violence, and domination is normalized within the family and between generations.

19.11.2024 18:49 👍 154 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 0
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19.11.2024 19:19 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

White peeps, please be sure to watch to the end. www.tiktok.com/@tiffanyjana...

20.11.2024 00:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles' lobbying clients include:

- The tobacco industry
- A Canadian mining private equity firm
- A foreign news company whose owner has been indicted for money laundering

So much for draining the swamp.

19.11.2024 04:06 👍 3426 🔁 669 💬 119 📌 23
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November 18, 2024 On Friday, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo locked in a $6.6 billion deal with the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company for it to invest $65 billion in three state-of-the-art fabrication plan...

Heather Cox Richardson:

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

19.11.2024 06:57 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I don't know about shape, but it certainly seems to have a color

17.11.2024 02:22 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Perfectly said.

14.11.2024 17:12 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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14.11.2024 21:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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UUA Community Resilience Hub Resources and guidance on what we can do all right now to keep each other safe and support our communities.

Resources for mutual support and care.

Community matters.

14.11.2024 01:41 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Agree 💯

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