Maybe we stop lionizing Mount Everest climbers.

Heads up that this is authorization for Trump to create his own version of the Wagner Group. Which would bring the number of “armies” at his disposal to four: *regular armed forces (most regulated) *ICE (minimally regulated) *private mercenaries (?) *MAGA thugs/militias (rogue) All pardonable

A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.

“What’s interesting is that Jesus taught a compassionate, flexible, grace-filled view of what it means to live a life loving God. But today’s conservative Christianity is less influenced by Jesus and more by the Old Testament and Paul.” Vertical vs horizontal morality. Fascinating and spot on.

“Never gonna give you up” Cool Easter egg. Excellent movie.

Institutional trust is collapsing in American society. Only the military bucks the trend- but I’m afraid that too will change the longer Trump controls it. Charts from @ryanburge.bsky.social

Still unreported, should be investigated: ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”

NEW: Alan Dershowitz tells Jeffrey Epstein prosecutor "You are a real mensch:" Newly released emails show that Florida federal prosecutors had "social" meetings with Epstein's lawyers as they worked to mitigate the sex trafficker's sentence. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

RFK Jr is both a liar and ignorant: “In 1918 it was not known what caused influenza; the influenza virus was not discovered until 1933. The bottom line is that a vaccine virus could never have been imagined in 1918.”

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

Within a cave used by bird nest traders, archaeologists uncover a single tooth from an ancient group: the first evidence from an extinct hominin on the world’s third largest island. What group lived there in the millennia before modern people arrived? www.johnhawks.net/p/a-possible...

Several charges have been filed against an Ogden man who police said was making homemade bombs and antisemitic threats online.

Another ass with a gun. An idiot neighbor fired a .357 round over my backyard trampoline where my kids had been playing 30 minutes prior. We knew the path because we could line up the holes in my shed.

Jeffrey Holland has gone to that great patty-cake, taffy-pulling carnival ride in the sky. Godspeed, Mr. Holland.

I was not named to any "People to Watch Next Year" lists, but I also successfully avoided making a "People We Lost in 2025" list, too. That is a success in and of itself.

People who want to get morally superior about how they hand-wash everything really gotta reckon with the fact that machine dish-washing uses considerably LESS water and emits considerably fewer greenhouse emissions than standard handwashing practices do. (And you save a lot of time...)

I design theaters, and this is deeply stupid.

Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.

Indicates foreign investors are leaving US markets.

“Around 57% of Americans today seldom or never attend religious services, a jump from 40% in 2000, per a recent Gallup survey.”

Based on John Sinclair's journal, Dec 26, 1846 was the day starving members of the Donner Party chose "either to die, or preserve life by eating the bodies of the dead; slowly and reluctantly they adopted the latter alternative." t.co/L40lvPBopW

Jeffrey R. Holland, president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, has died at age 85 www.ksl.com/article/5070...

🚨 Judge certifies Prop. 4 ruling for appeal, but absolutely roasts Utah lawmakers for playing legal games. Judge Dianna Gibson said lawmakers had TWO paths to appeal her redistricting decisions but took neither. The Utah Supreme Court will now decide. utahpolitics.news/judge-scolds...

One good thing about me is that my brain works and I don't fall for Orwellian, propaganda nonsense like this. The Israelis are breaking the ceasefire and NBC News is actively running interference to support the Israeli government (as are most other American corporate media outlets).

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Nigeria claiming this was a coordinated operation with the US but they’re trying to undo the havoc Trump seems to be trying to create between Nigeria’s two major religions.

The incredibly corrupt, lawless, & unconstitutional nature of the entire DOGE enterprise requires Elon Musk and lots of other people to spend the rest of their lives in jail.

Properly deciphering the branching pathways of evolution could unlock the history of every component of natural biology. on.wsj.com/498wuRg

Huh. The other founder of Turning Point USA died of Covid. Story from July of 2020:

“In the end, Japan’s brush with bears has left 13 dead and 230 injured this year, the most wildlife-related casualties for the country in recent memory.”

Hope everyone had a merry Christmas

Here's some really good news tonight from our Golden State. ICE- get the hell out of our Courthouses.

A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.

“Field detects a strain of decadence underlying the fanaticism, with soft, comfortable men mistaking cruel titillation for insight and trying their mightiest to look tough: “It is unseemly, and it is unmanly, and some of you will miss your liberalism when it’s gone.”

“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. 😉