Joyce Jenkins
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Joyce Jenkins
@joyceljenkins.bsky.social
Mom to 2 grown daughters; retired attorney; former Peace Corps volunteer (Cambodia); proud democrat
Some peacemaker
December 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Read it and weep, folks. The administration’s plan to take over the Americas.

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December 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Who are behind the inane attempts to bolster Trump as a man of Peace? Now he is scheduled to be given some kind of peace prize at the world cup draw at the Kennedy Center today.

We are a laughing stock.
December 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Today’s outrage—

the Trump administration renamed the gutted U.S. Institute of Peace building to the “Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace”. Don’t think that’ll get a Nobel any closer.
December 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
“We will not comply with the Trump Department of Justice’s request for Coloradans’ sensitive voting information. The DOJ can take a hike; it does not have a legal right to the information. Colorado will not help Donald Trump undermine our elections and hurt the American people.” CO Sec’ty of State
December 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
“U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did not reply to a letter from 10 Secretaries of State seeking information on their collection and use of state voter roll data and whether they misled state officials” by the deadline. — Colorado Sect’y State
December 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
They all need to he put on leashes. Congress, are you listening? My thanks to the federal courts for paying attention.
December 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“In a statement of the former JAGs Working Group, the former military lawyers analyzed … relevant international and domestic law, concluding that ‘both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both.’”—the Contrarian

Just as Congressmen warned.
December 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“[T]he administration’s plan for peace was a Russian-led blueprint for joint U.S.-Russia economic cooperation that would funnel contracts for rebuilding Ukraine, extracting the valuable minerals in the Arctic, and even space exploration to a few favored U.S. and Russian businessmen.”H Cox Richardson
December 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Sen. Kelly on fire this morning on Meet the Press! And Heather Cox Richardson’s most recent column is a must-read.
November 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Reverse migration? Trump’s latest delusion. He now wants to denaturalize certain migrant citizens and deport any immigrant who is “not compatible with Western Civilization”, whatever that may mean.—as discussed in the Colorado Sun
Civilizatio.as
November 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Drop Site Daily—Reportedly a US-Russia “draft plan to end the Ukraine war would hand Russia control of the entire Donbas, bar Ukraine from NATO, limit the size of its military, ease sanctions, and return Moscow to the G8.”

I don’t think so.
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols.
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”—WAPO
November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Federal Judge Orders Some Texas Schools to Remove Ten Commandment Posters www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Federal Judge Orders Some Texas Schools to Remove Ten Commandment Posters
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November 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
He must stop vilifying reporters, usually women, for doing their jobs. Outrageously insulting and threatening!

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Trump Threatens ABC’s Broadcast License Again After Reporter Questions Saudi Crown Prince About Khashoggi Murder | Common Dreams
President Trump lashes out at ABC News reporter Mary Bruce during press conference with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, calling her "fake news."
www.commondreams.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
More good news-

NYT—Federal Court Blocks Texas’ Republican-Friendly Congressional Map
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
NYT—Judge Dismisses Trump’s Challenge of New York Law Barring Arrests in Courthouses
November 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Latest from DJT

quiet, quiet, piggie
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
CO SOS—Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced that Colorado, along with nine other states, has sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem regarding their collection and use of state voter roll data, and whether they misled state officials.
November 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM