@xowngoals.com, Hey guys. Just want to correct something you said on today’s episode. Montoya do not choose to bench Kundananji. She could not play due to yellow card accumulation. The card she got in the game when she asked Montoya to take her out set her over the edge. Love the pod!

On the death of a prophet, a church shooting in Michigan, and what I learned from President Russell M. Nelson. This was a difficult piece to write. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

My latest for the @sfchronicle.com about legendary tattooer Freddy Corbin and why he chose to move his prolific shop, Temple Tattoo, from downtown Oakland to the Temescal neighborhood and what that means for that tattoo scene. Give it a read! 👇🏻 #Oakland #tattoo #BayArea

I graduated from UVU just over a decade ago. The night before the shooting, I saw a post from the school’s paper—which I briefly wrote for—that spoke excitedly of Kirk’s visit while also noting it was controversial. The tone was completely different from when I was there, but I digress.

A Utah Valley University student was the last person to ask Charlie Kirk a question before the political commentator was fatally shot. Here's what Hunter Kozak has to say.

At the beginning of the season, several analysts had Bay FC as a probable break out team. That was largely due to the groove that Kundananji and Oshoala found by the end of last season. I was cautiously optimistic. Now the exact opposite has happened. #NWSL

For the love of Mission burritos and orange sauce, someone in the @bayfc.com front office please listen to the mid season analysis from @sheabutterfc.com, @southernsylvs.bsky.social, @diasporautdpod.bsky.social, and @thombomb816.bsky.social.

New: Multiple U.S. cities, states, and even the DOJ now believe that certain real estate tech companies are harming renters through collusion and price-fixing. Here's a look into the bipartisan fight against RealPage 👇 sfstandard.com/2025/07/09/r... sfstandard.com/2025/07/09/r...

I paid for a month of @slingtv.bsky.social Blue plus the sports package so I can watch the Women's Euros, WAFCON, and the Copa América Femenina all in my birthday month and it's *chef's kiss* #woso

As a secular, 8th-generation Mormon, it’s funny how little the Pope affects me.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Writing is re-writing, as they say. Bet you can't guess what I'm up late doing...

So, this guy obviously doesn't have MS13 on his knuckles. What an absurd claim! But as a tattoo historian, I can say: even if he did, it's all absolutely no evidence that he's affiliated with the gang anyway. Tattooing a Nike logo on you doesn't mean you make shoes.

This week, RFK Jr. vowed to look at “environmental factors” as a possible cause for autism. While he didn’t explicitly discuss vaccines, his remarks made clear, once again, that Kennedy will likely use the federal government to prop up the long-debunked claim that vaccines cause autism.

For years, I’ve been pursuing my passions of speaking truth to power and preserving culture through #writing and #journalism. Sometimes that’s meant covering a newly painted street mural. Other times, it’s meant investigating the secret financial dealings of powerful religious institutions.

OMG. I spelled "adolescence" correctly without spell check. Next it will be millenial 😆

i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗

People I can’t take seriously lately: abled men who identify as progressive up in arms about the current political climate but would wear dirty underwear or starve if their wives didn’t do their laundry or cook their meals. Read a book and confront your own biases, bro.

Anecdotally, I’ve noticed an uptick in the use of the word “wild” instead of “crazy” when describing things that seem out of the ordinary—most recently @audiecornish.bsky.social in her latest episode of The Assignment. I really appreciate people making an effort to retire that ableist trope.

There is a bar in downtown SLC called the White Horse.

San Francisco's police staffing is at a historic low. But so is its crime rate. From @esksf.bsky.social and @kellywaldron.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/02/san-...

Caitlin Clark declining the NBA 3-pt contest because she "wants her first 3-pt contest to be at WNBA All-Star” is really significant imo. Shows that the women’s league is prestigious enough & she doesn’t need an NBA audience to affirm her skill (I’d argue the NBA needs CC more than she needs them).

College dorm life captured at the University of Illinois, c. 1909.

Whether he meant it as a Nazi salute or not doesn’t matter. Nazis are going to take it as intentional either way.

As @RobertGehrke dug into all of Lee’s posts, I worked from the same dataset to focus on posts mentioning Elon Musk, and how the world’s richest man and Sen. Mike Lee have formed an increasingly close relationship. 🧵 www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Once again, Peggy nails it. This is such a well reported, timely piece. 👏🏻

Impossible not to think of this tweet every year when I watch Muppet Christmas Carol

I wrote about the coverage of Justin Baldoni's smear campaign against Blake Lively and why it's so crucial to talk about the gendered nature of it all www.usermag.co/p/blake-live...

I had never heard of any of these books, but growing up in Provo, their success despite being fraudulent is completely unsurprising. There are so many layers to all of this: the author’s audacity, the fears they exploit—both are still very much prevalent in the culture even 30 years later. #Utah

If Utahns have a deep relationship with any particular food, going by the widely held perception, it’s sugar. And the signs are all around us.

r/AmIOverreacting There’s a group of strangers outside my house yelling that they want “figgy pudding” (unclear what that is) and threatening that they won’t leave until they get some. It’s been minutes and they’re still out there. I called the cops; AIO?

We take your privacy. Seriously.

Tribune journalists explain how a polygamous leader was brought down and how they reported on the story.

Charging extra for essential software security features jeopardizes digital safety. @consumerreports.bsky.social believes companies should provide fundamental security protections to all users, regardless of payment tier. Read about this and @zatik.io's SaaS Safety Bar at the link below.

This morning I opened my inbox and only had emails I was genuinely glad to see. That’s got to be a good sign.

it's going to be essential in the coming years that we do a better job separating the billionaire brunchlords who have run the journalism industry into the ground from the hardworking journalists who are doing their best in an utterly broken system and are actively being targeted by fascists

Park City Mountain ski patrollers are ready to strike if contract negotiations with Vail Resorts stall.

My grandma had polio as a child. None of her descendants did. I wonder why 🤔

new version of A Christmas Carol where health insurance CEOs get haunted by the ghosts of everyone whose coverage they denied in the past, everyone’s coverage they are currently denying, and the future ghosts of everyone they will deny unless they change their ways before Christmas Day

First roll of film I’ve shot since high school. This was for a project on IG called @sj.shooters. Give them a follow! #Photography #SanJose #BayArea #FilmPhotgraphy

Last week I had three—yes three!—articles out in @sfchronicle.com and all of them are about the one and only Ed Hardy 🦅 🐉 His SF tattoo shop is shutting down this month so I took the chance to document his influence what the shutter signifies for the larger tattoo community. #SanFrancisco #tattoos

The Palestinian women’s national team just beat Saudi Arabia 2-1 in their opening match of the WAFF U20 tournament. There is a story of resistance behind every single one of these players. Honour.

Very excited to engage with the creative nonfiction world here! I’m edit Tattootime, the very first tattoo periodical originally published in 1982 by Ed Hardy. It hasn’t been published since 1991 but we brought it back and the return issue is available for preorder now! belzel.com/collections/...

Just finished The Message by Ta-nehisi Coates. Highly recommend. #BookSky

Lee: When Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was up for confirmation or when VP Harris was added to the ticket, they called them DEI hires. They want you to believe that Harvard graduate with over 20 years of experience is not qualified but Fox personality is qualified to run the DOD

#CurrentlyReading #BookSky

Another book has been added to Utah’s growing list of titles banned from all public schools in the state.

Hi, I’m Ethan, a writer and documentarian based in San Jose, CA. I write a lot about tattooing, Mormonism, and surveillance. Those may seem like 3 random and completely unrelated things, but I assure you, there is a theme. Let’s dive into it 🧵 👇🏻 #tattoos #mormon #surveillance

Damn. I don’t check Bluesky for a month and it’s suddenly popping off!

No, I haven’t watched the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. But, as a Secular Mormon, I am happy for the representation of a subset of the Mormon spectrum that isn’t fundamentalist (polygamy) or devout LDS (mainstream church). #mormon