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Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · 21h

"What we have lost track of is that #faith is not an excuse for your failings, whether that is bigotry or bullying. Faith is simply an invitation to be better." - Rev. Adam Lawrence Dyer

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 1d

We’re enraged and heartbroken by the rising deaths in ICE custody. Huabing Xie, from China, died Sept 29 after being held at Imperial Regional Detention Facility. At least 20 people have died since Trump took office as he moves to triple ICE detention by the end of this year. #CommunitiesNotCages

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Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · 21h

Keep speaking out when you can, beloveds

youtu.be/XJcdnwSdwDQ?...

Susan Werner - i set this poem to music.

YouTube video by Susan Werner (SW)

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Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · 5d

"The physician, who declined to be identified out of fear of losing their job, said the Navy facility “wasn’t designed or developed to save lives. It was just to desensitize people to the trauma.”

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6d

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · 5d

PSA for those of us sending suffering towards our beloveds instead of towards undoing the systems of oppression...

on a pink, purple and blue watercolor background, in black typefaces, the words "Part of how chaos gains power is that when we are overwhelmed or threatened, we need someplace to put that charge and too often, we send it towards each other." Susan Raffo

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Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · 5d

In case we were confused - ICE IS part of the problem.

#AbolishICE
#HumansDeserveHumaneTreatment
#MigrationIsAHumanRight

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 5d

In the past 4 weeks in Chicago, ICE/CBP have snatched hundreds of people off the streets & homes, shot & killed a single-father in his car, smashed & abandoned countless cars, and deployed chemical munitions at protesters, journalists, & now on public streets. Today they cuffed an alderperson.

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Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · 5d

"...as we recently learned with Zachary Mueller, authoritarian movements require #othering and villains to sustain themselves. We reject this impulse." @uusj.bsky.social

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Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · 6d

"...dozens of civilian boats filled with humanitarian aid for Gaza, including baby formula, medicine, and prosthetic limbs. As a result of Israel’s genocide, Gaza has the largest population of child amputees per capita in the world." @truthout.org

Sit with that.
#EndTheGenocide

Truthout @truthout.org · 6d

Overnight on Wednesday, Israeli soldiers raided more than a dozen boats carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, blocked the ships’ communications, and abducted over 400 volunteers from 47 countries. During the raid, Israeli forces attacked volunteers with water cannons and doused them with “skunk water.”

Israel Raids Global Sumud Flotilla, Abducts Over 400 Volunteers, Group Says

“This is an unlawful abduction, in direct violation of international law and basic human rights,” the flotilla said.

buff.ly

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Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · 6d

Sheinbaum is not tinkering at the edges. She is rebuilding the foundation of the state to serve those who’ve been ignored for too long.
alisav.substack.com/p/she-cried-...

She Cried “Mexicanas!” First.

What Claudia Sheinbaum’s historic Grito means for Mexico — and what it could mean for us, too.

alisav.substack.com

Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · 9d

Please support by Tuesday!!!!
www.zeffy.com/en-US/team/t...

#WorthyNow

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Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · 9d

"...So, they are counting on you
To care more about them
Less about yourself
And not at all about me
They are counting on you to always leave part of yourself behind." - Rev. Adam Lawrence Dyer
medium.com/@adamlawrenc...

#DisappointThem
#ChooseLove
#WeAllGetFreeOrNoneOfUsAreFree

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I presented the poem at the bottom of this post (“They”) at the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly on June 20, 2025. I had written it…

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Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · 15d

...
May we continue
to reach for
the roots of our ancestors
and remain the healthy seeds
of the ones
yet to be fed…
the ones yet
to be born. ... - @revalexation.bsky.social

#OpenHeartPrayer

rev (Alexandre da Silva Souto) @revalexation.bsky.social · Jan 17

open.substack.com/pub/revalexa...

“Open Heart Prayer”

01.12.2025

open.substack.com

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Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · 22d

I’m fundraising for the CLF Worthy Now Prison Ministry! Nearly 2,000 UUs experiencing incarceration depend on this life-saving connection of worship, care, and community.

Donate here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/team/t...

#WorthyNow

Team Affiliated Ministers

Overcoming Isolation with Beloved CommunityYour gift helps build sacred connectionIsolation is not an accident — it’s a core feature of the carceral system. Incarcerated people are deliberately cut of...

www.zeffy.com

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Make the Road NY @maketheroadny.bsky.social · 28d

The administration is #QuietlyKillingDACA.

ICE and CBP unlawfully detain immigrant youth—including valid DACA recipients like Xóchitl and Paulo. We demand accountability.

#HomeIsHere #ProtectDACA

Immigration advocates alarmed over detention of Daca recipient: ‘No legal basis’

Border patrol arrested Catalina Santiago, who had been granted temporary protection as a Dreamer, on 3 August

www.theguardian.com

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Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · 21d

“The administration is using the system to make it as prohibitively cruel as it possibly can for the people going through.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
#StopDisappearingPeople
#AbolishICE

Plane to purgatory: how Trump’s deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo

44,000 immigrants, 1,700 flights, 100 days: a Guardian investigation of leaked flight data and government detention data reveals the inhumane journey of immigrants shuttled around and outside the US

www.theguardian.com

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Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · 22d

I’m fundraising for the CLF Worthy Now Prison Ministry! Nearly 2,000 UUs experiencing incarceration depend on this life-saving connection of worship, care, and community.

Donate here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/team/t...

#WorthyNow

Team Affiliated Ministers

Overcoming Isolation with Beloved CommunityYour gift helps build sacred connectionIsolation is not an accident — it’s a core feature of the carceral system. Incarcerated people are deliberately cut of...

www.zeffy.com

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Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · 26d

worthynow.org

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Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · 29d

"Finally entertaining solutions on the scale of the crises we faced without leaving anyone behind." -AOC

#KeepReimaginingBeloveds

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uT...

A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

YouTube video by The Intercept

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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · Sep 4

If you want to dive into the role of criminalization in this moment join our friends @politicaleducation.bsky.social’s #FightingFascism series Sep 10th!

The 1st session features Rachel Herzing & Robin D.G. Kelley on how criminalization is fundamental to the fascist program:
bit.ly/FightingFasc...

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Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · Sep 4

It was an honor and joy to worship with y'all again @firstuuneworleans.bsky.social ! With so much love and appreciation for your faithful, loving practice of co-creating #BelovedCommunity come what may... 💕

First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans @firstuuneworleans.bsky.social · Aug 30

Sunday Worship Service
August 31 10:30am
We Choose Each Other Again and Again: Faithful Practice in the Post Flood Life
Rev. Deanna Vandiver (she/they) is an affiliated Community Minster of Love & Liberation with the Church of the Larger Fellowship UU #uuSunday #uuSky #UnitarianUniversalist

Sunday Worship Service
August 31, 2025 at 10:30 am
Coffee/Social Hour to follow
All are welcome!
We Choose Each Other Again and Again: Faithful Practice in the Post Flood Life
Worship Leader: Rev. De Vandiver
Worship Associate: Beverly Rainbolt

Rev. Deanna Vandiver (she/they), of Ever Unfolding and an affiliated Community Minster of Love and Liberation with the Church of the Larger Fellowship Unitarian Universalist, was a lay leader (ye olde board president) of FUUNO during the Federal Flood of 2005 and Hurricane Katrina and was ordained as a UU minister by all three congregational members of GNOUU - Greater New Orleans Unitarian Universalists - in 2012.

Live-streaming has returned! To view this service LIVE go to the FUUNO webpage at https://www.firstuuno.org/home and click on the YouTube link. To view previous Sunday Worship Services, go to the Service Archive link under "Faith" on the menu bar or go directly to our FUUNO YouTube channel.

**Covid Safety: masks are available and may be worn at each attendee's discretion as needed.

Looking forward:
Sunday, September 7th: Ingathering/Water Ceremony with Worship Leaders: Tucker Barker, Barrett Smith, Beverly Rainbolt, and Joel/Juniper Cassaway

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Michael Tino @revmtino.bsky.social · Sep 1

Our Worthy Now ministry now serves over 2000 incarcerated Unitarian Universalists. As hard as prisons try to isolate and dehumanize, we try harder to connect. As hard as prisons try to convince people they're not worthy of love, we try harder to teach people otherwise.
www.zeffy.com/en-US/fundra...

Michael Tino

Overcoming Isolation with Beloved CommunityYour gift helps build sacred connectionIsolation is not an accident — it’s a core feature of the carceral system. Incarcerated people are deliberately cut of...

www.zeffy.com

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Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Revival Network @uu-yarn.bsky.social · Sep 2

Check out the September edition of The Sweet Potato, our roundup of online UU Young Adult Ministries, Pastoral Care offerings, educational programs, job opportunities, support groups, media, Young Adult owned creative enterprises and more. icont.ac/516OX 💗

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Loglady Marmalade (Coleen) @coldbean.bsky.social · Aug 18

This is where you donate to print community resource guides
donorbox.org/nocrg2025

Donate to the New Orleans Resource Guide for Resistance and Renewal! | Imagine Water Works (Powered by Donorbox)

The New Orleans Community Resource Guide for Resistance and Renewal (NOCRG) is a nearly 100 page guide to free and low-cost resources across the Greater New Orleans area. The NOCRG is compiled annuall...

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Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · Sep 4

#OWL - Our Whole Lives: Lifespan Sexuality Education is one of the most loving acts of resistance and care congregations can offer to our communities 🦉💗!!!! Go @firstuuneworleans.bsky.social & @coldbean.bsky.social

Loglady Marmalade (Coleen) @coldbean.bsky.social · Sep 4

Suuuuuuper psyched to be part of the facilitation team for this go round , OWL is one of my favorite things

First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans @firstuuneworleans.bsky.social · Sep 4

We are excited to offer OWL (Our Whole Lives) Comprehensive Sexuality Education for Grades 7-9 this Fall! OWL provides age appropriate sex-ed, with a focus on self-esteem &healthy relationships.
Register here: forms.gle/XqtjTTATHkR8...
Questions? Reach out to [email protected]
#uuSky #uuOWL #sexEd

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Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · Aug 26

"In sharp contrast, these same institutions have failed in their responsibility to apply their “Never Again” slogan to Gaza’s Palestinians. But both genocides are being carried out by two apartheid states – both established in 1948..."

#NeverAgainIsNow

Hindus For Human Rights @hfhr.bsky.social · Aug 26

As Gaza burns, the Rohingya continue to face a genocide the world has chosen to forget. @DrMaungZarni draws the line between two struggles for survival that apartheid states—and global silence—have made inseparable.

Read here: zeteo.com/p/the-rohing...
#Rohingya #Gaza

The Rohingya, Gaza, and Two Genocides the World Refuses to End

As I watch Gaza, I can't help but think about what's been inflicted on the Rohingya in Myanmar and the role Israel has played in it, writes Burmese activist Maung Zarni.

zeteo.com

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