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Exploring Mormonism, Utah, and other things that interest me. Occasional photos.

Deseret Magazine: “Dave — who looks like the quintessential vacationing dad”
Not surprising that Trevor Lee believes the sh*t his leadership feeds to him.
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
J. Stuart, you wouldn’t be pursuing a constitutional amendment if Judge Gibson actually gave you a gerrymandered map because you could win that case with the existing law.
BREAKING NEWS: "Judge Gibson gave us a gerrymandered map," Senate President J. Stuart Adams says, announcing the legislature's appeal to the Utah Supreme Court.

A special session planned for Dec. 9 to outline plans. A constitutional amendment for the 2026 ballot on citizen initiatives. #utpol #Utah
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Another post that would have gone hard on Mormon Twitter.
November 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Pew notes that never in 20 years of polling have Latinos said their situation is worse than a year before
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
“Choosing Trump’s literal get out of jail free card from Judge Cannon for this proposition was cheeky. And we approve.”
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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unironically, this is the worst thing about a Cincinnati crowd chanting FUCK THE MORMONS. There's SO MUCH HISTORY THERE, so many opportunities for better trolling. Just chanting Fuck is boring. Bring signs about the Kirtland Safety Society Failure. Talk shit about J.S. being a bad banker!
Mormons getting harassed in Ohio? What is this, 1838?
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Children are not therapy
Wives are not therapy
Marriage is not therapy

only therapy is therapy
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
When I was a kid, for a nominal price per whack, carnivals would hand you sledgehammer to whack at a car.
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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The marvelous Lucy was discovered #OnThisDay in 1974 in Ethiopia. At more than 3 million years old, she was the oldest, most complete ancestor found to date. 🏺
📸Don Johanson & Maurice Taieb piecing the fossils together
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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1/Judge Cameron Currie dismisses the Comey prosecution because Lindsey Halligan was improperly appointed US Atty.
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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This should have been an instructive moment in people’s understanding of just how much people are willing to pay economically for racism and xenophobia.
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is rich:

“For example, the "Mormon Stories" name and logo.., incorporate Church trademarks including the word "Mormon"…”
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me”
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Sure it’s OK. I don’t begrudge them. But it wasn’t OK for my kid to come home one week early because his college classes began a week before he came home tells me a lot about the church’s priorities.
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Saw this eagle and it's partner a couple of miles to the east of the turkeys in my previous post. Last week when I was driving near South Weber, I saw an eagle fly by so today I thought I'd bike along the Weber river to see if they were still around.

#birds
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 AM
I met up with three wild turkeys on my bike ride along the Weber River, Utah.

#birds
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Archaeologists finally lift lid on ancient sarcophagus hidden beneath capital city
Archaeologists finally lift lid on ancient sarcophagus hidden beneath capital city
Archaeologists finally lift lid on ancient sarcophagus hidden beneath capital city
www.independent.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Not eating dinner with people who continue to support white supremacists running the government isn’t the problem.
November 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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🎁🔗: White House Blew Past Legal Concerns in Deadly Strikes on [presumed] Drug Boats >>> Recently "junior officers ... fearing potential legal exposure, asked military lawyers ... for written sign-off before taking part in strikes... It does not appear that such memos were furnished." wapo.st/43FXQfO
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
wapo.st
November 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Reposting this gift link as the best analysis of the Bari Weiss situation (it's not just about her), all the winds of billionaire-backed change behind her ascent, and how major media got this way.
Excellent article in the Defector:
defector.com/bari-weiss-s...
Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector
On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...
defector.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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In case this wasn't.... matchlessly clear... RFK Jr. told the New York Times he's personally responsible for the new CDC website page claiming that vaccines may cause autism. This is a lie and Kennedy employed tortured logic to try to justify it to the paper. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr. wants you to know he’s personally responsible for anti-vax misinformation on CDC website
He told the New York Times there’s no proof that vaccines don’t cause autism, which is a lie.
www.motherjones.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Written after Epstein’s conviction of soliciting prostitution from a minor: “I met Jeffrey Epstein half a dozen years ago… We have been in regular contact since, with many long and often in-depth discussions about a very wide range of topics… It has been a most valuable experience for me.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"Democratic socialism — the political ideology espoused by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — was viewed favorably by 61% of Democrats nationally. But it was viewed favorably by 70% of Democrats in Utah."
November 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM