I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

My phone and dms and been very active today keeping up with all of the differing kinds of friend the LDS+ community has been hit with the last 12 hours. This post from my friend Adam covers most of it.

"In fairness" many people of the class who write to persuade rather than build organizations to win have made this mistake repeatedly

They’re right (Obama drove them insane) but for the wrong reasons (being black and defying their expectations of black people was unforgiveable) bsky.app/profile/smot...

My face when I think about Clark Gilbert becoming a Q12 but then realizing he wouldn’t be leading CES anymore.

🚨Temple Math🚨 Gordon B. Hinckley: • Announced 78 temples • Oversaw building of 77 • 47 temples at ordination, 124 when he died • prophet 12 years, 10 months Russell M. Nelson: • Announced 200 temples • Oversaw building of 41 • 159 temples at ordination, 200 when he died • prophet 7 years, 8 months

Hey siri, how old is Dallin h oaks? We need a new prophetic probability chart from zelophehads daughters, stat. (Paging Aaron Taylor)

I talked my HS friend reunion into doing a hear me out cake. Apparently I love a family oriented king who can flex their forearms.

"Campaigns that should be building movements are instead building donor databases. Political energy that could mobilize communities gets redirected into optimizing email subject lines and testing which desperate plea extracts the most dollars from exhausted supporters." substack.com/inbox/post/1...

I thought we’d hit rock bottom of the Democratic Consulting Class’s idiocy but we now have new Dem think tanks, Substacks & DC conferences insinuating that Dems can win by telling Americans that real estate oligarchs & rent-gouging landlords are actually heroes, so no, we havent yet hit rock bottom.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

While PRRI finds that around 4 in 10 Americans hold strong authoritarian views, adherence to authoritarian and Christian nationalist views differ across race. Read more in the Spotlight Analysis from PRRI Public Fellow Michael R. Fisher Jr., Ph.D., where he explores these differences.

The brain tricks us constantly. It mistakes scrolling and "seeking information" for DOING THINGS. That is not doing. You have to act.

Selling out democracy when they could easily win the fight

One of the things keeping me busy lately is deciding to become a plaintiff in this lawsuit filed today to stop the idaho private school voucher subsidy law. Honestly I’m a bit tired and need lots of naps

it’s not great! bsky.app/profile/dari...

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

It is no longer safe to be an American who opposes this criminal regime.

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases

This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.

“…a true reckoning with the life & legacy of any political activist – no matter where they stood on the [ideological] spectrum – has to address the substance of their words & deeds, & not just their style. Focus on exactly what they said, not how nicely they said it.”— @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

It is pretty amazing to see people go from “the left is the enemy of democracy and must be purged” to “who can really know why good kids do bad things?”

In the long term, failed coup leaders who escape punishment are more likely to make a political comeback. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/jair-bo...

Watch the wall to wall coverage end now that the call is coming from inside the house. Alas. Onward.

You'll all let me know when the far right goes full 1800s anti-Mormon in response to this assassination?

Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot

people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.

Combine “Donald Trump backs away from almost anyone who challenges him” with “Donald Trump has suborned Congress, the Supreme Court, top law firms, universities, multiple media conglomerates, and the business community” to learn something interesting about American elites!

It gets even crazier

Research: Believing that the mass public in the opposing party supports undemocratic tactics leads people to be more supportive of undemocratic tactics themselves. Being assured that a majority of your opponents oppose such radical tactics increases support for democratic norms osf.io/my987/download

Doomerism is thick today, so let me note that Trump just sustained *three* big losses in court: Harvard, tariffs, Alien Enemies Act. Yes, SCOTUS could corruptly undo all this. But as @leahlitman.bsky.social explains well on the pod this is heartening, for now anyway: newrepublic.com/article/2001...

I made a group chat w friends f my ward growing up and we realized we all turned out un orthodox/exmo our bishop back then who gave us all religious trauma and we basically all said “eff that guy” So now I’m developing a bad youth bishop theory..

Although the Israeli regime managed to create effective institutions, a dynamic economy, and a powerful military, it failed to produce governments capable of making peace with the state’s neighbors, Ian Lustick writes.

FYI The best guess I’ve heard so far is that women will be able to give blessings again.

If anyone is near Bountiful, San Diego, Cape Town, or Ivory Coast temples go and do womens initiatories and return and report back to me. Apparently ~womens ~changes are pending and those temples have related content.

“At BYU, even the patches that adorn officer uniforms evoke that authority, Watkins noted in her work. Running through the middle of the design is the Sword of Laban, a significant symbol for devout members of the LDS faith representing “righteous power.”

NEW RESULT: Democrats have flipped a state Senate in Iowa. This was a seat Trump carried by 11%, but Democratic nominee Catherine Drey has just won it by 10.4%. This is the second legislative flip by Dems in Iowa this year. It also means the GOP loses its supermajority in Iowa’s senate.

The national Democratic Party is broken. Rather than embedding itself with its voters, it is captured by ad-agencies and a scam machine masked as a fundraising arm.

People shouldn’t have to ask for links for where you got something — just post it. Ethical and useful citational practices FTW!

My friend at byui went to grad school with this guy - he was born in the US

I’ve been working 40 hrs a week getting the high school finances ready and my kids bdays and getting ready for Monday …. Not much time for my phone at ALL. So popping in to say hi and that we should pay janitors.

I tried the new 9 am executive Costco opening time and there was like 20 of us in the store and I had to rush back 35 mi to rexburg to work at 10 but it was TRANSCENDENT. A true Kirkland celestial experience 10/10 ☀️ 🌙 ⭐️

"What we know from research is, if you don’t have compulsory voting, the people least likely to vote are poorer people, people from new migrant groups, and often the young," says an Australian scholar on what it means that Australia requires voting. boltsmag.org/compuls...

My support for mandated reporting among clergy has nothing to do with fears of gay men or anti-Catholic sentiment and everything to do with my belief that abusers should be held accountable for the harm they've inflicted on others, and that religious beliefs are not an excuse from obeying the law.

imagine fleeing the Vietnam War and in your arms you're carrying a baby who will one day grow up to correct the US Secretary of Defense on his jeans. like bringing a football into the end zone

For Sunday school it’s all about priesthood office/power etc and it’s complete bollocks. Once they said passing bread and water is a deacons duty you know you know more than the teacher. Completely tuned out. #churchtweets