victory lapping on this one

EVERY STATE has laws that protect good faith reporters from legal liability. Not a single state PROHIBITS clergy from reporting opting to waive clergy-penitent privilege to report discovered abuse. Don't let the apologists deceive you.

All five of these aircraft are currently fighting a fire south of Tooele. The one I’m tracking is on its way back to Hill AFB. I watched it take off. If you live in North Layton you’ll see it flying over in a few minutes.

Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare announced on Friday that his office is investigating the ICE shooting death of 52-year-old Houston man Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, whether or not the federal government offers any help. www.rawstory.com/texas-ice-26...

A quarter century after the Church of Latter-day Saints’ controversy-ridden purchase fell flat, a renewed plan that would trade LDS land has emerged — and it’s garnering broad support. wyofile.com/lds-church-w...

When it comes to Utah's school voucher program, the editorial board writes, “the least our Legislature, board of education and state auditor can do is drill a lot harder to find out just where all this money is going.”

A 17-year-old riding an e-motorcycle was critically injured Friday after a collision with a vehicle in Provo, police said. kutv.com/news/local/t...

the Bryce Harper thing is so targeted its in a class by itself. But it’s hard to look at Matt Damon, Ben Afflrdk, Timothee Chamolet, Kevin Hart, Jon Hamm et al the same way ever again. www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

With extreme heat forecast this weekend, Salt Lake County has published an interactive map to show "cool zones" where people can go to escape the heat. Here's the map (and a link to it here: www.saltlakecounty.gov/mayor/cool-z... ) and who it's open to... #utpol #Utah

ICE lied about Renee Good. ICE lied about Alex Pretti. Why should we believe them about Lorenzo Salgado Araujo? We can see with our own eyes that ICE is killing people in cold blood.

I unfortunately now know about the John Curtis 250-mile walk commemorative socks, and now you do too.

The Trojan Horse doesn’t come equipped with a command and control center or defense systems but it has plenty of gold ornaments. Qatar saw Trump coming from a mile away - and so does any world leader - and the US is worse off for it.

Absolute BS; DHS got $29.9 BILLION in July 2025 for enforcement purposes, specifically including funding for information technology used for enforcement, which absolutely could have been used to purchase body cams.

Wherein we learn the legislature’s legal bills the taxpayers are funding also include suing Lieutenant Governor Deidre Henderson.

Utah HD11 and Dave Calder has been added to the Reach/Stretch seat ActBlue and will be added to the sheet accordingly secure.actblue.com/donate/purrt...

Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson discussed fictional scenarios that put political pressure on elections in a PBS episode. But that scenario isn’t far off from reality for her. The same day the show aired Henderson got a threatening DOJ letter. #utpol utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/07/09/u...

Amazing!

Hey, Utah teens, if you enjoyed the films Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me, you’re out of luck. The state won’t let you read the Stephen King novellas on which the movies are based. This concludes today’s lesson on fascism.

HD11 has 36% of the precincts in Senate District 5 - which is an open seat. HD10, which now leans Democratic has 29%. The remaining 35% of SD5 precincts are split among 6 other house districts. My HD11 opponent has never had a November challenger until now and I think the UT GOP is concerned.

My campaign for the Utah House apparently warrants the attention of three congressmen who attended a fundraiser for my opponent yesterday.🔥🔥🔥

Skimboarding at Stokksnes Beach, Iceland. One of the coolest videos I've seen in a long time. The reflection! IG: Adrien Raza 4X European champion

I image the GOP is afraid of incentivizing more people to vote in November who will also vote against GOP candidates.

Dave Calder for Utah House District 11 - Strengthening Communities by Addressing Cost of Living Issues for Working Families

As an engineer, if I saw two columns buckled like that I would not be sticking around - though the fact the other columns didn’t cascade immediately after the failure of the first two has me wondering if there are flaws in the two collapsed columns that are not in the other columns.

Absolutely wild. They desperately want this to go away. It won’t.

Nearly half of LDS Church members either adhere to or sympathize with Christian nationalist views. In an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune, a leading voice in Christian nationalism gave those Latter-day Saints reason to reconsider.

One Utah family used your tax money to buy a $6,000 MacBook Pro. Another bought a $4,800 Trek mountain bike. Still another spent your money on a $2,000 Crate & Barrel bookshelf. See what else an audit of the Utah Fits All voucher program’s first year showed.

They’ve said this about nearly everyone they’ve shot in a moving car, and they’ve lied nearly every time.

Did McConnell talk back?

An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Having a dead guy in the senate feels like a metaphor for the whole institution

“…the reason ‘Nineteen Minutes’ is banned is not because it’s about a school shooting,” Picoult said. “It’s because of the word ‘erection’ on page 313.”

Christian nationalist leader Doug Wilson, who has said allowing women to vote was a “bad idea,” told The Tribune his vision for America would exclude members of any faith not considered “orthodox” Christian from holding office and possibly from even voting.

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

Unfortunately for Mike Lee’s attempt to capitalize on white nationalist anonymity, Thomas Rousseau did not mask - thus exposing exactly who they are - fellow supporters of Mike Lee’s attack on birthright citizenship.

Closed loop systems aren’t as “closed” as operators want us to think. A Meta data center was “…the source of a discharge that introduced the bacteria Cupriavidus gilardii into the city’s wastewater treatment system.”

Images of Wyoming children in a restraint chair and solitary confinement became public through a lawsuit. Now, politicians are mulling how to respond, though recent attempts at juvenile justice reform in the Equality State have sputtered out. wyofile.com/politicians-...

A lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges Laramie County Sheriff Brian Kozak and his office issued a false report and blocked access to “critical evidence” related to an immigration case. The complaint concerns a man detained by local law enforcement in April. wyofile.com/laramie-coun...

There is no such thing as a starter job. Who is making your whopper at 11am on a school day? Pay people enough to thrive.

I have some questions about your oversight of DHS Senator.

A young mother of 4 finds her dream house near Milwaukee. The previous tenant tells her, “Baby, they shouldn’t have let you move in.” This is a story about how there are 2 kinds of justice, one for those who own, another for those who rent. (Published 2022 w/ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

OMG ! video reviewed by investigators with the Scripps News Group in Phoenix show that two Gilbert police officers saw signs of life multiple times, but the toddler was still taken to the hospital’s “cold room,” Declared dead by an Osteopath licensed in AZ www.fox13now.com/us-news/todd...

🎁🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

So i left this comment on Libertarian turned Republican Mike ter Maat’s TikTok page and they deleted it as “potentially offensive or disturbing”

🎁 Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit An agreement between the USA & Kazakhstan gave a group of American investors with ties to DJT and the commerce secretary access to one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of tungsten @alpbeck.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...

It was always a scheme to put money in Trump’s pocket.

Cop quoted in article (link to gift article in comments) said they respect everyone's right to protest. I imagine as long as they're White Nationalists and communists. Photo says a lot.

Happy 250th America!

“Maverick” 🙄 Deseret News trying to rehabilitate a doormat for the Trump administration.