“I've been told for years that my eggs are dying and have been dying since I was like 18. I've been told that I better get on that. I've even had family members offer to freeze my eggs for Christmas, in case I ever wanted kids.” 😬

Many American Christians will find a way to disagree with Pope Leo. They even called him “Woke Marxist Pope.” It’s just so sad and hope that people of the Christian faith (like me) can find a bit of compassion and altruism this Christmas

I’ve been looking into what it would take to run for the UT state house for my district - the Republican incumbent was not challenged last time. This website builder gives 50% “Longshot” discounts for districts like mine. 😆 It looks like a fantastic resource BTW - only pay when you go live.

Harkens of Nazi Germany. We must stop this horror show. The Trump administration is seeking to overhaul the U.S. immigrant detention system and hire contractors to renovate industrial warehouses that will hold more than 80,000 immigrant detainees at a time. GIFT LINK: wapo.st/4axtwZ4

Chumps.

The FBI was supposed to deliver all the Epstein files to @AGPamBondi's desk by 8 AM on Feb. 28, 2025. That's almost ten months ago. This seems like something @JusticeOIG would need to dig into www.justice.gov/ag/media/139...

Ogden PD going live at 12:55 about this. Fox 13 has it on their FaceBook feed.

“Every time a state gets fair voting maps, Republican lawmakers suffer”

jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation

Kavanaugh: “Stop the Kavanaugh stops”

This victim told a driver that she couldn't report Trump raping her because "They will kill me." In 2021, another victim said that Epstein told her girls who don't behave are fed to alligators and took her where they die. He threatened to kill her and her son.

Lol it’s so over

Sasse was one of the seven Republicans to vote to convict Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial over the Capitol riot.

It’s wild that we spend years, with significant community engagement, to draft comprehensive plans, and we don’t automatically update zoning codes to match those plans. Instead, American planners often need to restart years of new battles to change zoning. This system has so many veto points

“They were on a boulder removed by either a group of men or Boy Scouts in the 1940s and brought to a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Tremonton for unknown reasons” Things we know women don’t do, so yeah, men or Boy Scouts. 😉

Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"

Trump was a frequent traveler on Epstein Air, including trips with Epstein alone and a trip with just Epstein and a [redacted] trafficking victim.

Utah has long been treated as a dumping ground for dangerous waste. Decisions like this demand transparency and accountability, not quiet approvals that leave future generations with the risks. 🔗 The Salt Lake Tribune:

Star BYU Player Suspended After Testing Positive For Coffee https://theonion.com/star-byu-player-suspended-after-testing-positive-for-coffee/

Found the Associated Press article where the existence of this letter was first disclosed two years ago, in response to a FOIA request It's definitely real apnews.com/article/jeff...

When I talk to a congressional staffer about one of Trump’s unconstitutional acts the staffers usually will ask at the end “Well do you have a message you want me to take to the Representative/Senator?” “Yes, it’s do your job and impeach and remove Trump”

I can't overstate how much I love this video. Doomerism is the enemy of progress. Documenting how things actually improved is crucial if you want to keep making incremental progress. @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social youtu.be/3eDqC87zpXU?...

can’t sleep, thinking about how some of the most charming parts about BYU were also the gayest; what do you mean they just sort of assumed all of us would have a deep, essential need to know ballroom dance at some point in our lives and all our bishops would sigh if we thought they were wrong

Very telling that this is redacted: “Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being trafficked and sexually abused.”

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

NEW: We downloaded a new batch of around 11,000 Epstein documents that were briefly on the DOJ website today. They include wide-ranging references to President Trump. wapo.st/4b3ycG6

“The goal, apparently, was to give a childlike president a new toy, named after himself, in exchange for gobs of money that the Navy will figure out how to spend later”

While we stand by the reporting in our 60 Minutes piece about El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison, it was missing crucial information—specifically about how woke campus protestors would benefit from a few weeks there to see how good they have it. by Bari Weiss

Air Force Chief of Staff terrified Trump’s next announcement is to usher in the “Golden Age of Zeppelins”

I’m announcing a new type of large computer I’m calling “UNIVACs”

Watch for the Ursid meteor shower this week. - Note: I worked for a college observatory decades ago, so I like to post occasional astronomy stuff.

American food safety could be headed for a breakdown. Story by @sarah-todd.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/a...

A massive sinkhole has developed in a canal in the English county of Shropshire, trapping two boats in deep mud and prompting emergency services to declare a “major incident.” https://cnn.it/48QqZaZ

My main takeaway is not so much how it demonstrates that they know they're full of shit, because we already know that. My main takeaway is how easy it is to catch them with the simplest follow-up, and how obvious this makes it that they're not used to being asked basic journalistic questions.

Whoohoo! IT HAS ARRIVED! I gotta admit, the thrill of opening a box of freshly published books with my name on them never gets old. Thank you, @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social for a great author experience thus far. I hope those of you with an interest in the subject enjoy the new material! #booksky

Whales of the High Desert - Explores the story of James Wickham; an Englishman who was reported to have brought whales to Great Salt Lake in the 1870’s. thegoodline.com/watch-wothd/

She’s not doing journalism but I do think she’s doing the job she was hired to do.

Defiant sunrise after the longest night of the year

“The profound irony that women have forever been the keeper of the flame in the home to a religion that, thru dogma, often subordinated them, to find that, when they step away from that role of subordination, religiosity falters. Who was dependent on whom all along?” - Martian @jmk833.bsky.social

"I was told by many people after the installation that there are actually no whales in Utah," he said. "If I had known, I would have done a kangaroo. You know, something indigenous to Utah." 😆

Something I talk about in my book Religion for Realists. It's okay to recognize right-wing Christians *are correct* that egalitarian gender arrangements likely contribute to religious decline. You can disagree with their response strategy (shoring up patriarchal norms), but they're rightly afraid.

The “AI art community” whining about their prompts being plagiarized is… something.

anyway this is why you don’t turn over an entire news network to a glorified blogger because she’s good at sucking up to you at cocktail parties

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

James Talarico: The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick. The closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people

Fixed.

Lmaoooo media is cooked through. What was that quote about journalism being telling people things they don't want to hear but need to and everything else is public relations

Some of the most interesting things I’ve written about were found when I was looking for something else.

Study in Helsinki indicating benefits of portable air cleaners on lowering infection risk in daycare centers, less absences & parent absences from work in intervention vs. reference (no air cleaner) groups. Cleaning indoor air is not difficult and it works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...