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Joyce is resistance

@lajoyce.bsky.social
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UMC Pastor, socialist, mom. Talk to me about Chicago politics, public goods and the world we want to win. Working to build a community that struggles for what we can change and endure what we can’t (yet)

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Today 8 watched the original Camp Rock with Demi Lovato and the Jonas Brothers and asked me if "the actors from this movie were still alive."
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 14/08/2026
Anti-fascism is the best evangelism!
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Chicagoans can vote on how the Park District should spend $500,000. Here’s how to cast your ballot: blockclubchi.co/45vzJ3L
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I mean, Trump's president, why can't AOC be president?
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Can’t go outside, can’t eat lettuce. Things are going great.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I don't want to hear any plan about the budget crisis in Chicago that doesn't meaningfully address the insanely bloated police budget.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Chicago can't have anything nice because of the police.
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Chris Walker @thatchriswalker.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"We cannot turn a blind eye to ​the Mexicans who have died…especially to Mexicans whose only crime is working honestly ​in the United States," Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said. truthout.org/articles/mex...
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Mexico Filing Criminal Complaints Over Deaths of Its Nationals in ICE Custody
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her country “cannot turn a blind eye” to the ICE-related deaths.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 07/07/2026
ICE is still kidnapping and killing people.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
8 year old: “will you not let me watch Hamilton just because Ophelia drowns?!”
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I'm going to make my kids make ambrosia salad with me tomorrow for the 4th of July and when they complain I'm going to yell, "THIS IS YOUR HERITAGE," at them.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
There is no “center” in American politics. The poles aren’t fixed. There’s only moving right or left. It would help if people understood that.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I find this to be nearly universal in people in power with otherwise good politics. You cannot meet this moment if you don’t, at the very least, understand that it is naive to believe the cops are going to de-escalate or protect protesters. It’s really soured me on Pritzker, for one.
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
What really gets me is that this has happened literally every time a governor or mayor has brought out local law enforcement at a protest where the feds are brutalizing demonstrators. There are dozens of examples from multiple cities in less than a year.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This is so fascinating to me because we’ve been shouting for decades about the cherry picking that leads to anti-lgbtq readings of Scripture, but right wingers have been so successful at it that they’re now employing the strategy to make *checks notes* “going to seminary,” a sin.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
genuinely thought this was the onion
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I’m so excited about this
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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
👀 sojo.net/articles/opi...
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Praying the Imprecatory Psalms in the Age of Empire
Almost 20 years ago, Barack Obama's campaign was rocked by three scathing words from his pastor. Today, those same three words feel prophetic.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
"If the United States, as a nation, has a soul, it is currently hellbound" sojo.net/articles/opi...
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Praying the Imprecatory Psalms in the Age of Empire
Almost 20 years ago, Barack Obama's campaign was rocked by three scathing words from his pastor. Today, those same three words feel prophetic.
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Institute for Christian Socialism (The Bias Magazine) @smashmammon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
In the farming community of Lupang Ramos, what is hope? Rev. Hazel Joyce Salatan shared reflections with @crbernasol.bsky.social about her piece “The Justice and Hope of the Salakot.” Full interview on YouTube soon! Order Issue 1 at our pinned post.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
We like to say, "Can you imagine if we had Paul Vallas?" And, 100%, we should be glad he isn't the mayor of Chicago right now. On the flip side, can you imagine if we hadn't harassed Kim Foxx out of office? Instead we're left with O'Neill Burke and she is absolutely failing to meet the moment.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I had a baby in 2020 and, when we were able to interact with other people again, I remember breaking down in tears with how kindly people treated us. I tell my kids that it's pretty special that they bring joy to the world just by existing.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
some things about becoming a parent are radicalizing in ways I expected - e.g being reminded viscerally how screwed we'd all be if childcare and other care work disappeared. but other things are radicalizing in ways I didn't - like experiencing constant spontaneous solidarity in ways big and small
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Staring longingly from Chicago
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
My favorite drum to beat: One way to help save protestant denominations that are crumbling under the cost of healthcare for clergy is to support and fight for universal healthcare.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This is great news for the city! Emmanuel Andre is a gift.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
i'm sorry for what I said when the leafblowers were outside
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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Rahm Emanuel is the candidate for the three people who find Gavin Newsom too likable.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I'm grateful Huerta is still alive for this reckoning. I'm wrecked that she had to carry this for so many years to protect so many people.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I’d love to get in on the “what types of girls do gym bros actually like” discourse, but my gym is in Andersonville.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Great work by @minabloom.bsky.social Watching my peaceful colleagues bloodied, brutalized and violently arrested by the Illinois State Police left me so traumatized I had an acute trauma response in early January. The psychological distress is real. Pritzker and Burke have failed us.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
“Brought to you by Bank of America” is taking me out.
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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Since the announcement of “Operation Midway Blitz” in September, thousands of people living in Chicago have been arrested by federal immigration agents. Community leaders joined “Chicago Tonight” to discuss the operation’s impact on local life. to.wttw.com/44wjGmp
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
It’s decades day at my kids school. My daughter picked 90s grunge (rude). I played her some Nirvana and she told me she understood why people liked this music in the olden times.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
5 y/o daughter requested the Chicks’, “not ready to make nice” for her bed time song.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We've started doing "truths to be told" during our joys/ concerns time at church because it is so disorienting to live in a moment where you/your neighbors are being gassed, shot and disappeared only to have the people who are supposed to be on our side* giving flowers to the fascist responsible.
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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
but there’s no such thing as someone else’s children. (From One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, by Omar El Akkad)
But so many will remember. We say that, sometimes, when it's our children killed: Remember. And it may seem now like it's someone else's children, but there's no such thing as someone else's children. The problem with fixating on the abyss into which one's opponent has descended while simultaneously digging ones own is that, eventually, it gets too dark to tell the difference.
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mitchell atencio (he·him·his) @mitchellatencio.com · 19/11/2025
"Our rage means that, for as hard as President Donald Trump and his administration are trying, they have failed in intimidating us or convincing us that what’s happening is normal. And there is Holy Spirit power in that." —@lajoyce.bsky.social on clergy protests at Broadview.
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Chicago Is in a State of Holy Rage
On Nov. 14, clergy from a variety of faiths gathered outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Ill., to articulate God’s rage.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
My hot take is that bad Christmas movies were so much better before “bad Christmas movies” became a thing. Now they’re too self aware and it’s REALLY hard to do that well.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The unity and clarity of (many) Christian denominations right now is kind of astounding. To be in alignment with all Catholic Bishops, as a female clergywoman, is Holy Spirit work. And that's not even mentioning the interfaith solidarity. People of faith are united against a clear and present evil.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
A few days ago as we were leaving McDonald's my 5 year old yells, "MOM STOP THE CAR! I FORGOT SOMETHING!" And I said, "what did you forget?" And she yelled, "MY BARBECUBES!" And now that is our name for all McDonald's sauces
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This is actually what happened at Broadview. Thanks to @jackjenkins.me for covering this. religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
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At least seven faith leaders arrested at Broadview ICE facility protest
(RNS) — 'I've got bruises all over my body,' the Rev. Michael Woolf, who was thrown to the ground and arrested by police, told RNS.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
One time a woman came to our Bible study and told me that you couldn't use a Bible app on your phone because the devil could get into the technology and changed the words. I brushed it aside and continued my lesson and, well, sorry to that woman I guess...
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I was there. Not one attempted to hurt an officer. But police brutalized protesters with batons, threatened tasers, ripped people from the crowd, etc. I asked on the mic, “Who saw the police brutalize someone they love today?” And 100 people raised their hands. Shame on Broadview’s Mayor.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13/11/2025
NEW: So, the courtroom at the "Broadview 6" arraignment in Chicago yesterday featured lotsa Methodist pastors. Why? They were supporters of defendant/fellow Methodist Brian Straw. "If you come for one United Methodist, you have come for all of us,” one pastor said. religionnews.com/2025/11/13/m...
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Methodist pastors march into courtroom with 'boring suburban dad' indicted for protesting
CHICAGO (RNS) — ‘If you come for one United Methodist, you have come for all of us,’ said a Chicago area UMC pastor.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Welp, this aged like milk. Really disappointed that @govpritzker.illinois.gov refuses to deal with the fact that the State Police are brutalizing peaceful protesters, including my unarmed clergy colleagues, to protect ICE at Broadview. We need more than speeches, our neighbors are disappearing.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
@durbin.senate.gov gets to retire in wealth/security while millions of people lose their healthcare, suffer, and die for nothing. And he won't face the political consequences. There aren't words for the rage I feel at the betrayal of the IL people at the moment we are under attack. Shame.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Regular occurrence in my city now to come face to face with masked armed men and to have guns pointed at you. Amazing, if unsurprising, that regular Chicagoans response is not to cower but to tell them to get fucked.
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Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
As always in this house it’s, “sit down, shut up, Rahm Emmanuel” Emmanuel deserves the Cuomo treatment here in Chicago.
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