The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations officially comes into effect today. Read our full joint statement: transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/08...
🌈Rev. Pat Raube
@patraube.bsky.social
She/ her. PCUSA Pastor, singer, mother, adoptee, member of the family, sharing photos and opinions about politics, books, LGBTQ+, and, of course, religion.
Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth. ~Psalm 78:1 #protecttranspeople #protectindigenouspeople #protectimmigrants #protectchildren #GodIsLove💜
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts. See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. ~Psalm 139:23-24 #protectchildren #protectimmigrants #protectindigenouspeople #protecttranspeople #GodIsLove🌻
How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! I try to count them—they are more than the sand; I come to the end [I awake]—I am still with you. ~Psalm 139:17-18 #protecttranspeople #protectindigenouspeople #protectimmigrants #protectchildren #GodIsLove💙
Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed. ~Psalm 139:16 #protectchildren #protectimmigrants #protectindigenouspeople #protecttranspeople #GodIsLove🖤
My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. ~Psalm 139:15 #protecttranspeople #protectindigenouspeople #protectimmigrants #protectchildren #GodIsLove🦓
The thin line between US President policy making satire and reality ... via Arthur Barnes
In Broome County, NY it’s Sheriff Fred Akshar who is so eager to fill his notoriously deadly jail with brown people. #FredAkshar
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 6d agoI wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. ~Psalm 139:14 #protecttranspeople #protectindigenouspeople #protectimmigrants #protectchildren #GodIsLove❤️
For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. ~Psalm 139:13 #protectchildren #protectimmigrants #protectindigenouspeople #protecttranspeople #GodIsLove🧡
Just wondering, where all the “say it’s a genocide” folks have been when it comes to Sudan and Myanmar?
The guy who campaigned on grocery prices is gold-plating horse statues on our dime. It’s going to be hard to tell the difference between Washington, DC and the Las Vegas Strip in a minute.
Gift Article: a report on ways that Trump's ICE is losing in court.
They Were Charged With Assaulting ICE Agents. The Cases Are Crumbling. (Gift Article)
The Trump administration has lost or abandoned hundreds of criminal cases against protesters and immigrants, a Times investigation found.
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This week, TPS for Haitians is expected to end. No state will feel the impact more than Florida, home to roughly 350,000 -- many of them healthcare workers. “The workers are suffering, but the patients are going to suffer more.” My latest for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Florida's nursing homes are bracing for life without Haitian TPS workers
The Supreme Court ended its legal status. Their patients will pay the price.
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Americans are going into debt to afford food for their families. This is Donald Trump’s America. www.cbsnews.com/news/america...
Millions of Americans take on debt and drain savings to afford food
A quarter of working-age adults use credit cards to purchase groceries but struggle to repay their debts, a new study finds.
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In Massachusetts, Haitian TPS holders contribute: $481 million in annual economic contributions $88 million in annual federal and payroll taxes $59 million in annual state and local taxes Immigrants make our state, our culture, and economy stronger. Full stop.
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, & night wraps itself around me, even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you. ~Psalm 139:11-12 #protectchildren #protectimmigrants #protectindigenouspeople #protecttranspeople #GodIsLove🖤
#DOOR #5thAmendment #14thAmendment Both are part of the US Constitution. #Trump and the #CorruptGOP #MAGA have killed more Americans than #Iran. Yes, let that sink in.
If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me fast. ~Psalm 139:9-10 #protecttranspeople #protectindigenouspeople #protectimmigrants #protectchildren #GodIsLove🧡
If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there. ~Psalm 139:8 #ProtectTransPeople #protectindigenouspeople #ProtectImmigrants #ProtectChildren #GodIsLove💜
You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it. ~Psalm 139:5-6 #protecttranspeople #protectindigenouspeople #protectimmigrants #GodIsLove❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Mural, Eagle Street Cafe, North Adams, MA
Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it completely. ~Psalm 139:4 #protectchildren #protectimmigrants #protectindigenouspeople #protecttranspeople #GodIsLove🩷
Impeach. Convict. Remove. Trump, his cabinet, and his toadies that support him or are complicit. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @houserepublicans.bsky.social: What are you waiting for? THIS IS YOUR DUTY! @citizensimpeachment.com @jessicadenson07.bsky.social @removalcoalition.bsky.social #SheShed
Listen to Alex Borstein. Listen to & Support @senecaproject.us Step out of line. Use your voice. Act. Life is meant to live forward. There’s absolutely no way we go backwards. #Pinks #Voices4Victory
The Seneca Project@senecaproject.us · 2w ago178 years ago today, women gathered at Seneca Falls & ignited a movement for equality. The Seneca Project carries their name & their fight! This 2024 ad is more urgent than ever: We won’t let Trump and MAGA drag women backward. Hell No! We won’t go back. Not ever. Narrated by AlexBorstein.
You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. ~Psalm 139:3 #GodIsLove🩵 #protecttranspeople #protectindigenouspeople #protectimmigrants #protectchildren
It's right to be outraged. Just as it's right to be outraged when ICE guns someone down. But I also want us to remember all of the people dying due to deplorable conditions in prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers, bc they are also being murdered by the state.