Julie Anne Smith
@defendthesheep.bsky.social
I have 2 gigs: 1) I am one of the #DisobedientWomen and 'Sheep lady' blogger concerned about the harm done to women and the vulnerable in the name of Christ. #churchtoo (Bio: http://goo.gl/eFI15S) 2) Cybersecurity Analyst she/her
My friend, @rlstollar.bsky.social has recentlly died. My heart aches with this loss. spiritualsoundingboard.com/2026/06/29/c...
Creating Safe Spaces: Ryan Stollar’s Legacy
I’m not sure how I first met Ryan Stollar through social media initially. He was a young adult who had been homeschooled. I was a homeschool mom of 7. He was a couple of years older than my eldest.…
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Today I introduced the No Political Enemies Act, with a powerhouse group of co-sponsors, to put in law protections for prosecution or harassment for political speech. Trump is shamelessly exploiting the death of Charlie Kirk to try to destroy his opposition. We cannot let him.
NEW YORK (AP) — Appeals court upholds the $83.3 million defamation judgment E. Jean Carroll won from President Donald Trump.
Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"
The president of the United States doesn’t believe domestic violence is a crime. We really elected a great man to be our leader
The old divorce laws gave all the power of the state to the abusers, cheaters, and swindlers. No-fault divorce gives it to the victims. It's the ability to throw off the yoke of being forced to stay with someone who treats you as their enemy.
Julie Anne Smith@defendthesheep.bsky.social · 12mo agoh/t @lifesavingdivorce.bsky.social
Evidently, it's not polite to talk about abused wives right now and how churches have failed to shepherd and discipline abusers while #JohnMacArthur is on his death bed. But it's fine for women/children to endure abuse for decades waiting for church leaders to help.
Warnock: "I rise tonight in a moral moment in our nation ... if this awful budget were an EKG it would suggest that our nation has a heart problem and is in need of moral surgery."
Because of men's/women's "biblical" roles, I stayed in my lane. Now, as a single homeowner, I have learned to snake my basement drain (out of necessity), and I also made two self-wicking 4 x 8 x 32 in. raised garden beds. Now I'm driving in both lanes. Watch out!
WHISTLEBLOWER REPORT ON SEAN FEUCHT This is wild! A full-blown website written & sourced from ex-employees & ex-leaders in Sean Feucht's various ministries detailing his abuses, financial misconduct, & general scumball-ery. Let me detail why this is important... 1/ truthandfreedomstories.com
Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
We should refer to the El Salvador prison as a concentration camp, because it is. We should refer to the process by which we're disappearing people as kidnapping, because it is.
My friend, historian of Harriet Tubman who has consulted for that NPS, was part of that outcry. This is her book. www.amazon.com/Bound-Promis...
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero [Larson, Kate Clifford] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
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The National Park Service has restored the changes to its website about the Underground Railroad following public outcry www.nps.gov/subjects/und...
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last yr.The National Park Service quietly edited its website about the Underground Railroad to remove key references and quotes from Harriet Tubman and soften its language about slavery
Blown away by this incredible servant leader, Senator Cory Booker: www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
YouTube video by Associated Press
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Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
The United States has dropped to its lowest-ever ranking on the World Happiness Report.
U.S. Reaches Lowest-Ever Ranking on World Happiness Report
The nation’s happiness rate peaked in 2012.
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US District Court judge John Coughenour of the Western District of Washington, after issuing an order blocking the Trump administration, was subject to a bomb threat and "swatting" attack calling in a false alarm burglary at his home www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
Threats Rise Against Judges Overseeing Trump Policy Cases, Fueling Safety Concerns (Gift Article)
Federal judges are worried that online threats against those who oversee high-profile cases challenging Trump administration policies may lead to real-world violence.
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You be mindin your business & then BAM! Here come a reformed Christian breaking all their own hermeneutical rules to point to ONE verse in Isaiah (53:10) that literally no NT author quotes in speaking of Jesus to insist that penal substitutionary atonement makes all kinda sense.
"driving a dagger into the to heart of climate change religion." Wondering WTF? I can explain. This is Christian Reconstructionism & it's fundamental to their theocratic vision. There are only 2 categories of anything: God's, and everything else. Everything is religious www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History
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Today, a woman at church reminded me that she'd followed my blog for years. My personal story of spiritual abuse helped her in her own spiritual abuse journey. Telling your personal story may help many who are trying to make sense of what they experienced.