Dave's Notes
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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”
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
Not surprising that Trevor Lee believes the sh*t his leadership feeds to him.
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.
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 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.
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Another post that would have gone hard on Mormon Twitter.
November 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Another post that would have gone hard on Mormon Twitter.
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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
Pew notes that never in 20 years of polling have Latinos said their situation is worse than a year before
“Choosing Trump’s literal get out of jail free card from Judge Cannon for this proposition was cheeky. And we approve.”
Say what you will, she managed to resolve two cases simultaneously!
Lindsey Halligan Manages To Lose Two Cases At Once, Which Is Honestly Impressive - Above the Law
DOJ saved from having to lose Comey case over illegal indictment by losing case over illegal appointment!
abovethelaw.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
“Choosing Trump’s literal get out of jail free card from Judge Cannon for this proposition was cheeky. And we approve.”
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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
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!
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Children are not therapy
Wives are not therapy
Marriage is not therapy
only therapy is therapy
Wives are not therapy
Marriage is not therapy
only therapy is therapy
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Children are not therapy
Wives are not therapy
Marriage is not therapy
only therapy is therapy
Wives are not therapy
Marriage is not therapy
only therapy is therapy
When I was a kid, for a nominal price per whack, carnivals would hand you sledgehammer to whack at a car.
Rage rooms: demand is surging – and 90% of customers are women
Rage rooms: demand is surging – and 90% of customers are women
Venues designed for people to smash things up safely are seeing an enormous rise in bookings. But why? And what explains the pronounced gender gap?
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
When I was a kid, for a nominal price per whack, carnivals would hand you sledgehammer to whack at a car.
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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
📸Don Johanson & Maurice Taieb piecing the fossils together
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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
📸Don Johanson & Maurice Taieb piecing the fossils together
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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
1/Judge Cameron Currie dismisses the Comey prosecution because Lindsey Halligan was improperly appointed US Atty.
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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 should have been an instructive moment in people’s understanding of just how much people are willing to pay economically for racism and xenophobia.
This is rich:
“For example, the "Mormon Stories" name and logo.., incorporate Church trademarks including the word "Mormon"…”
“For example, the "Mormon Stories" name and logo.., incorporate Church trademarks including the word "Mormon"…”
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is rich:
“For example, the "Mormon Stories" name and logo.., incorporate Church trademarks including the word "Mormon"…”
“For example, the "Mormon Stories" name and logo.., incorporate Church trademarks including the word "Mormon"…”
“they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me”
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me”
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.
Future BYU football players Ryder Lyons, Brock Harris plan to take shorter LDS missions before joining the Cougars — and that's OK, Tribune columnist Gordon Monson writes.
Gordon Monson: Shortened LDS Church missions? Some star BYU football players are shrinking — not shirking — their service.
Future BYU football players Ryder Lyons, Brock Harris plan to take shorter LDS missions before joining the Cougars — and that's OK, Tribune columnist Gordon Monson writes.
www.sltrib.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 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.
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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
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...
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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
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
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
#birds
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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
#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
Archaeologists finally lift lid on ancient sarcophagus hidden beneath capital city
Not eating dinner with people who continue to support white supremacists running the government isn’t the problem.
In America, one in five people are estranged from a close relative because of political differences.
Inside Voices: How to survive the holidays (and not blow up your relationships)
In America, one in five people are estranged from a close relative because of political differences.
www.sltrib.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Not eating dinner with people who continue to support white supremacists running the government isn’t the problem.
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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
🎁🔗: 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
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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...
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
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...
Excellent article in the Defector:
defector.com/bari-weiss-s...
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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
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...
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
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.”
"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."
Seattle voters elected a self-described socialist mayor last week just days after New York City voters did the same — and Utah's Democratic strongholds could be next, according to a new poll.
https://ow.ly/xgyn50XvTiJ
https://ow.ly/xgyn50XvTiJ
New poll: Majority of Utah Democrats have favorable view of socialism
Seattle voters elected a self-described socialist mayor just days after New York City voters did — and Utah's Democratic strongholds could be next, according to a new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll.
ow.ly
November 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
"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."