Jeremy Rutledge
@jeremyrut.bsky.social
The grandest of our national traditions, it seems to me, and perhaps one of the few still available to us, is dissent.
We don't have to go where they want to take us.
(photo: Connecticut Ave. NW, District of Columbia)
We don't have to go where they want to take us.
(photo: Connecticut Ave. NW, District of Columbia)
October 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The grandest of our national traditions, it seems to me, and perhaps one of the few still available to us, is dissent.
We don't have to go where they want to take us.
(photo: Connecticut Ave. NW, District of Columbia)
We don't have to go where they want to take us.
(photo: Connecticut Ave. NW, District of Columbia)
As we continue to celebrate #BannedBooksWeek, may I encourage you to support your local, independent bookseller?
(photo: People's Book, Takoma Park, Politics and Prose, Washington)
(photo: People's Book, Takoma Park, Politics and Prose, Washington)
October 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
As we continue to celebrate #BannedBooksWeek, may I encourage you to support your local, independent bookseller?
(photo: People's Book, Takoma Park, Politics and Prose, Washington)
(photo: People's Book, Takoma Park, Politics and Prose, Washington)
a prayer for the peacemakers
(photo: the poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye and Yehuda Amichai on the altar, October 8, 2023)
(photo: the poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye and Yehuda Amichai on the altar, October 8, 2023)
October 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
a prayer for the peacemakers
(photo: the poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye and Yehuda Amichai on the altar, October 8, 2023)
(photo: the poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye and Yehuda Amichai on the altar, October 8, 2023)
@peoplesbooktakoma.com is actually there for the people
(don't buy a book just anywhere when you could buy it from good people)
(don't buy a book just anywhere when you could buy it from good people)
October 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
@peoplesbooktakoma.com is actually there for the people
(don't buy a book just anywhere when you could buy it from good people)
(don't buy a book just anywhere when you could buy it from good people)
children in minneapolis shot while praying, children in DC passing armed military when they take the metro to school, this country is so sick
August 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
August 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
"I want Sela and Ayla and all of the children we see at our clinics to grow up in a place where they feel safe and cared for, where textbooks replace rubble. . .where they go to bed with full bellies. . .Every child deserves that, regardless of who they are or where they live."
Opinion | The World Must See Gaza’s Starvation
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"I want Sela and Ayla and all of the children we see at our clinics to grow up in a place where they feel safe and cared for, where textbooks replace rubble. . .where they go to bed with full bellies. . .Every child deserves that, regardless of who they are or where they live."
"I believe that this character for gender and social equality runs in my family, and I am proud to have parents who have instilled these values in me. I do not like to remain silent or stand quiet before injustices."
¡Vamos Aitana! ¡Vamos España!
(Spain play Germany at 3:00 p.m. EST today.)
¡Vamos Aitana! ¡Vamos España!
(Spain play Germany at 3:00 p.m. EST today.)
Aitana Bonmatí: A Pioneer Striving For Change On And Off The Field
She wears the number 14 shirt made iconic by Johan Cruyff and in her own way, Aitana is creating legacies within Cataluyna which may influence future generations as much.
www.forbes.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"I believe that this character for gender and social equality runs in my family, and I am proud to have parents who have instilled these values in me. I do not like to remain silent or stand quiet before injustices."
¡Vamos Aitana! ¡Vamos España!
(Spain play Germany at 3:00 p.m. EST today.)
¡Vamos Aitana! ¡Vamos España!
(Spain play Germany at 3:00 p.m. EST today.)
I'm grateful for good people of every faith and philosophy, and in every country, calling for an end to this nightmare.
Middle East: 25 countries call for end to Gaza war – DW – 07/21/2025
Twenty-five countries, including Britain, France and a host of other European nations, have said that the war in Gaza "must end now." DW has more.
www.dw.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I'm grateful for good people of every faith and philosophy, and in every country, calling for an end to this nightmare.
We're with you @stephencolbert.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
We're with you @stephencolbert.bsky.social
As I prepare for Sunday's sermon on telling the truth in an age of lies, I've been listening to two of our most powerful ancestors: James Baldwin and Toni Morrison.
It occurs to me that tuning out the talking heads and tuning in the truth-tellers is something anyone can do.
It occurs to me that tuning out the talking heads and tuning in the truth-tellers is something anyone can do.
July 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
As I prepare for Sunday's sermon on telling the truth in an age of lies, I've been listening to two of our most powerful ancestors: James Baldwin and Toni Morrison.
It occurs to me that tuning out the talking heads and tuning in the truth-tellers is something anyone can do.
It occurs to me that tuning out the talking heads and tuning in the truth-tellers is something anyone can do.
From Masterpiece to Nature, Finding Our Roots to Rick Steves' Europe, Austin City Limits to the News Hour, Sid the Science Kid, and Wild Kratts. . .
PBS is a national treasure. Please join us in contacting your senator!
protectmypublicmedia.org/rsc-emails/
PBS is a national treasure. Please join us in contacting your senator!
protectmypublicmedia.org/rsc-emails/
July 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
From Masterpiece to Nature, Finding Our Roots to Rick Steves' Europe, Austin City Limits to the News Hour, Sid the Science Kid, and Wild Kratts. . .
PBS is a national treasure. Please join us in contacting your senator!
protectmypublicmedia.org/rsc-emails/
PBS is a national treasure. Please join us in contacting your senator!
protectmypublicmedia.org/rsc-emails/
Today we remember what Douglass said and feel the contradiction from which he would not let us turn.
"The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. . .This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn."
"The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. . .This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn."
“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech
We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester...
www.democracynow.org
July 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Today we remember what Douglass said and feel the contradiction from which he would not let us turn.
"The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. . .This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn."
"The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. . .This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn."
Visitors stood and walked out. I was untroubled by it, thinking it a good thing for people to hear that some churches are deeply opposed to war.
Not in our name.
Not in our name. (Proverbs 24.1-14)Jeremy Rutledge, Circular Congregational Church June 29, 2025 When I was invited to a White House symposium on poetry by Laura Bush, I asked a few fellow poet-fri…
charlestonkahu.wordpress.com
June 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Visitors stood and walked out. I was untroubled by it, thinking it a good thing for people to hear that some churches are deeply opposed to war.
While some seek to censor our history or ban it, our artists & the museums that display them find ever more powerful ways to tell the truth. In so doing, they buoy us all.
(Ringgold's "Coming to Jones Road..." & William Johnson's "Three Freedom Fighters" at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston)
(Ringgold's "Coming to Jones Road..." & William Johnson's "Three Freedom Fighters" at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston)
June 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
While some seek to censor our history or ban it, our artists & the museums that display them find ever more powerful ways to tell the truth. In so doing, they buoy us all.
(Ringgold's "Coming to Jones Road..." & William Johnson's "Three Freedom Fighters" at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston)
(Ringgold's "Coming to Jones Road..." & William Johnson's "Three Freedom Fighters" at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston)
We don't need a king. We have each other.
In Charleston, SC and across the country.
In Charleston, SC and across the country.
June 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
We don't need a king. We have each other.
In Charleston, SC and across the country.
In Charleston, SC and across the country.
A friend, Diane Tate, took this photo in Amsterdam. The banner's message is right in every way you can be right.
I'm grateful for friends of every faith and philosophy who raise their voices in love and solidarity.
I'm grateful for friends of every faith and philosophy who raise their voices in love and solidarity.
June 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A friend, Diane Tate, took this photo in Amsterdam. The banner's message is right in every way you can be right.
I'm grateful for friends of every faith and philosophy who raise their voices in love and solidarity.
I'm grateful for friends of every faith and philosophy who raise their voices in love and solidarity.
On the flight home from California, I watched Almodóvar's "Parallel Mothers" and was overpowered by it.
Its feminism versus fascism, then and now, is a vision.
Its feminism versus fascism, then and now, is a vision.
Cradles and Graves in Pedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers”
The Spanish director’s latest film, starring Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit, examines the traumas of his country’s history through the story of two women giving birth at the same time.
www.newyorker.com
June 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
On the flight home from California, I watched Almodóvar's "Parallel Mothers" and was overpowered by it.
Its feminism versus fascism, then and now, is a vision.
Its feminism versus fascism, then and now, is a vision.
A year ago, we met students camping out, holding vigil for an end to the war. They were Jewish, Muslim, and Christian.
It is very important to remember this.
It is very important to remember this.
June 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A year ago, we met students camping out, holding vigil for an end to the war. They were Jewish, Muslim, and Christian.
It is very important to remember this.
It is very important to remember this.
Happy Pride Month, everybody!
In the words of the O'Jays: People all over the world (everybody) / join hands (join) / start a love train, love train!
In the words of the O'Jays: People all over the world (everybody) / join hands (join) / start a love train, love train!
June 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Happy Pride Month, everybody!
In the words of the O'Jays: People all over the world (everybody) / join hands (join) / start a love train, love train!
In the words of the O'Jays: People all over the world (everybody) / join hands (join) / start a love train, love train!
"Our mobile bakery—recently the last working bakery in Gaza—has no flour left."
Friends of every faith and philosophy, join us by calling your representatives and urging them to do everything they can to push for the delivery of essential food and medicine.
Friends of every faith and philosophy, join us by calling your representatives and urging them to do everything they can to push for the delivery of essential food and medicine.
World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
wck.org
May 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"Our mobile bakery—recently the last working bakery in Gaza—has no flour left."
Friends of every faith and philosophy, join us by calling your representatives and urging them to do everything they can to push for the delivery of essential food and medicine.
Friends of every faith and philosophy, join us by calling your representatives and urging them to do everything they can to push for the delivery of essential food and medicine.
The production of lies is fast and furious. The manufacture of white grievance. The amplification of ignorance. But the truth remains:
He couldn't breathe.
He couldn't breathe.
How the Right Has Reshaped the Narrative Around George Floyd
www.nytimes.com
May 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The production of lies is fast and furious. The manufacture of white grievance. The amplification of ignorance. But the truth remains:
He couldn't breathe.
He couldn't breathe.
I grieve the senseless killings. The shootings. The bombings. The starvation.
May good people, of every faith and philosophy, use all of our energy, creativity, and love to push for a just and lasting peace.
May good people, of every faith and philosophy, use all of our energy, creativity, and love to push for a just and lasting peace.
May 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I grieve the senseless killings. The shootings. The bombings. The starvation.
May good people, of every faith and philosophy, use all of our energy, creativity, and love to push for a just and lasting peace.
May good people, of every faith and philosophy, use all of our energy, creativity, and love to push for a just and lasting peace.