We have traveled a few hours south to the Wallowa Mountains in Northeast Oregon for my birthday. The wildfire smoke is obstructing views as per usual for mountain adventures I choose to celebrate this time of year. 🤦🏼♀️ Anyway, if baby producer stays in a few more days, that will be cause to celebrate! (Don’t worry, there is a hospital nearby in case of emergencies, though Lynn has delivered babies before…😳)
Sassy the horse is not the only one who wears a saddle anymore.
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We took the producers to Busch Gardens and this moment with the penguins was too cute!
We’d sworn off ducks … until this happened.
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A good ruling. "Go after the bad ones" turned into a sycophant witch hunt.
Federal Judge Halts Immigration Raid Tactics in Los Angeles
https://archive.ph/hIK1L
"A federal judge blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from stopping and detaining people based solely on their skin color without probable cause and denying detainees the right to a lawyer.
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Possibly the best, and least reported, news of the week appeared in Monday’s New York Times, below the headline, “I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit.” It’s another Trump promise, fulfilled.
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The Johnson Amendment is a 1954 statute that says nonprofit organizations —501c3’s, including churches— may not endorse or oppose political candidates if they want to keep their tax-exempt status.
It was introduced by then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, mostly to stop some Texas nonprofits from attacking him during a campaign. It passed quietly, with no debate, and over time, it became a kind of political muzzle for religious groups: preach all you want, but you can’t stump.
In theory, the rule applied to all tax-exempt nonprofits, but in practice, the IRS almost never enforced it, especially against churches. It was more of an effective threat than an actual hammer— used selectively, inconsistently, and often politically. For years, conservative churches complied but argued that the rule...
