Lily and I got to spend a couple hours with Joel Salatin today at our friend’s nearby farm. He is in town for the Rogue Food Conference. (And has mentored our CSA farmer, “Farmer Nick” as the kids know him, for years so we were invited to come meet him.) I’ll be posting an in-person interview soon in which he discusses tyranny from the farmer’s perspective, and what he’s doing about that now. I remember reading “Everything I Want to Do is Illegal” almost a decade ago, and thinking, this guy is onto something. The man I met today has the same message he has had for decades: I own my right to feed myself. Joel is a no-words-minced kind of guy on camera and in person, but just as interested in listening as he is talking. My favorite part was praying with him and several other farmers at the end, asking God to guide us along this continually treacherous path. He and Lily shared a freshly picked carrot together and on the way home I said, “What did you think of Joel?” She replied, “Who’s Joel?” 🤣
The video of Peter with his head stuck in the gate now has almost 550K views on YouTube so Lynn says he can stay a little longer. This is his latest antic with the chicken food.
Sassy the horse is not the only one who wears a saddle anymore.
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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...
