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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @jreynoldsward.blacksky.app · 22h

Have fun!
And if you ever make it up here to NE Oregon...let me know.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @jreynoldsward.blacksky.app · 22h

Husband and I are lucky. We have this doofus to keep us happy. He always nickers a welcome and is just plain happy to see us. Our 1100 lbs Golden Retriever is what he is.

Bay Foxtrotter gelding with blue halter tied to rail fence, saddle on, willow tree in background.

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @jreynoldsward.blacksky.app · 1d

Absolutely bad policy. Nope.

Joyce Reynolds-Ward @jreynoldsward.blacksky.app · 1d

Agreed. Back in the '70s, I studied at the college that sponsored the Institute for Church Growth and studied missions under someone who had studied under C. Peter Wagner. Wagner yanked a lot of stuff from Saul Alinsky when it came to organizing techniques--but I didn't realize it then.

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @jreynoldsward.blacksky.app · 1d

Nods. And it goes back even further. I kept trying to tell my local fellow Democratic party organizers in the '80s and '90s that Christian nationalism was gonna bite us in the rear if we didn't get our act together and...I just kept getting blown off.

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @jreynoldsward.blacksky.app · 1d

thanks to high-stakes testing, which deemphasizes history and social studies.

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Jennifer @princessjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

For all the racist mouth gashes demanding COUNTRY MUSIC FOR HALFTIME SHOW

I agree.

Beyoncé should perform her award winning Cowboy Carter album next year to satisfy their demands.

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 2d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Sinnamon Love @sinnamonlove.blacksky.app · 2d

Use those vouchers NOW.

If you can get powdered milk & canned goat milk to cook with. They will store well.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Millions of moms and young kids could lose WIC food assistance within two weeks amid shutdown | CNN Politics

Barbie Anderson is trying to conserve the milk her three young children drink in case she doesn’t get her WIC benefits on October 15 as scheduled.

www.cnn.com

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @jreynoldsward.blacksky.app · 2d

There's more going on behind the scenes than we're aware of.

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Liberal Librarian, Emotional Support Cuban 📚 🌿🕓 @liberallibrarian.bsky.social · 3d

This. Everyone does their own thing. Black folks being on the frontlines is just what the fascists want, because, quite frankly, white people can't be trusted to not freak out when the regime rolls out anti-Black propaganda.

OrdinaryBrotha @ordinarybrotha.bsky.social · 3d

Taps mic: You all coming at the 92% and the 81% are intentionally being obtuse. When we Black Americans said to stay home, we didn’t mean do nothing. Don’t conflate the two. People are contributing in their own ways. We are just not putting ourselves on the front lines as sacrificial lambs.

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @jreynoldsward.blacksky.app · 2d

Lemme tell you, fledgling redtails are OBNOXIOUS to listen to. Second only to fledgling goshawks for being noisy.

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @jreynoldsward.blacksky.app · 2d

Middle schoolers are more fun, in my opinion. Kindys are...too much excretions!
(then again, when I was applying to my teaching program, I think what got me in was that I said I wanted to teach middle school. They thought I was either talented...or crazy.)

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 2d

It's a good sign that the Trump Administration is trying to find legal "loopholes" to send in the National Guard to Portland (the TRO technically covers the Oregon NG, not Cali NG) because it means they don't think they have consolidated power enough to just ignore the courts yet.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

NEW: California joins Oregon and Portland in asking Judge Immergut for a SECOND temporary restraining order blocking the Trump admin from "circumventing this Court's Order" by deploying the federalized California National Guard to Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

MEMORANDUM OF LAW
I. INTRODUCTION
Yesterday, this Court recognized that the legal principles at stake in this case “go[] to the
heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.” Opinion & Order
Granting Mot. for Temporary Restraining Order (“Order”), ECF 56 at 2. Applying those
principles, this Court concluded that Defendants likely lacked authority to federalize Oregon
National Guard members and ordered Defendants to halt federalization for 14 days. Defendants
filed a notice of appeal last night (Ntc. of Appeal, ECF 57), and they have now asked the Ninth
Circuit to stay the effect of this Court’s decision.
Not content with this Court’s or the Ninth Circuit’s judgment, Defendants are now in the
process of circumventing this Court's Order. After this Court ruled that 10 U.S.C. § 12406 could
not justify federalizing the Oregon National Guard to deploy them to Portland, Defendants have
deployed members of the California National Guard to Portland—servicemembers who were
federalized under that very same Title 10 authority for deployment in Los Angeles. That
redeployment is illegal: Setting aside whether the underlying federalization order from August
violated Section 12406, the federalization order clearly did not contemplate the use of California

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 2d

Holy fuck.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Liberal South Carolina
Judge Diane Goodstein's home is burning to the ground after an explosion. SLED is investigation as arson and refer attack as Judge Goodstein had been receiving multiple threats.

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @jreynoldsward.blacksky.app · 2d

Log decks are pretty big over here on the East side...at least in my corner. Not sure where they're being sold.

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @jreynoldsward.blacksky.app · 3d

Yeah. I am sadly saying farewell to clogs. I'll hang on to the ones that aren't mules a bit longer but...I'm appreciating that Dansko tells you how high the heels and soles are on their website!

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @jreynoldsward.blacksky.app · 3d

Yeah. I find the best conversations tend to be...very much out of sight.

Joyce Reynolds-Ward @jreynoldsward.blacksky.app · 3d

Yeah. My 20s weren't really great (except for marrying my husband). Things definitely got better in my 50s. Even with the Evil Bosses.
(and menopause. Post-menopause is great. Menopause, though...)

Joyce Reynolds-Ward @jreynoldsward.blacksky.app · 3d

Beautiful, just beautiful, but...wrong size and, alas, I can no longer wear even low-to-mid heels. SIGH.
But I can drool.

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paul goyette @pgoyette.bsky.social · 3d

Community advocates in Cicero tried to join the annual Houbyfest parade today with a banner that read “ICE Out of Cicero: Silencio es complicidad. Solo el pueblo salva el pueblo.” They were intercepted and moved off the parade route by Cicero Police, one of whom was armed with an assault rifle.

Community advocates in high visibility vests March along an empty parade route with a banner reading “ICE out of Cicero“

Community advocates address the public on an empty parade route using a bullhorn. Protest signs igns read “Fuck ICE” and “Chinga la Migra. Fuera de Cicero.”

Cicero event staff grabs a banner from community advocates on an empty parade route as a police SUV approaches with its illuminated.

True police SUVs, two police 4x4 vehicles, and two police on foot – including one who is holding a long gun – approach community advocates along an empty parade route.

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @jreynoldsward.blacksky.app · 3d

Hey, I'm here because I discovered on Twitter (pre-Musk) that Black people were saying the things about politics that I had been trying to say for years...and got scoffed at for saying.
I'm here to learn.

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @jreynoldsward.blacksky.app · 3d

Oooh.
Meanwhile. I stumbled across some family history and discovered that way back when, my mother's family were Quakers of a rather mouthy ilk. One got into a fight with William Penn over property.
So...I'm working through George Fox's Autobiography and...yow. What's old is new again.

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Liberal Librarian, Emotional Support Cuban 📚 🌿🕓 @liberallibrarian.bsky.social · 3d

AND TACO TRUCKS ON EVERY CORNER!!!

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