Most Utahns oppose what the GOP is trying do: “A recent poll by the conservative Sutherland Institute found that 85% of Utahns want an independent commission involved in redistricting. And a poll by Better Boundaries found that nearly two-thirds wanted Proposition 4 to remain in place.”

Coming up on a year since I started this 🧵. I very much wanted to be proven wrong & shown to be exaggerating. Several hundred posts later, it's sadly clear that I was, if anything, underestimating just how quickly & markedly we would move down the road of democratic backsliding.

Despite having seen countless photos of Delicate Arch, we weren't prepared for its enormity in person. We stood at its base while a kind stranger snapped our photo. It provides some scale for its towering stature. #StunDay #Landscape #Scenery #Nature #OrangeSun #NationalParks #Hiking #Utah

Could've fit in 14 words tbh.

"Trump’s unhinged, hateful remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast don’t disgust his evangelical supporters because they share his seething cultural resentment and endless persecution complex. For them, his open contempt for their mutual enemies resonates more than a true sermon."

We need trials: “Y.Z. said his zip-ties were too tight and painful; his wrists had started to turn red. The officer laughed and told Y.Z. his ties were too loose. The officer then tightened Y.Z.'s zip-ties, increasing his pain. …Y.Z. still has scars from the zip-ties that are visible today.”

“It wasn’t our Olympians who embarrassed America this week. It was Trump, Lee and Cox.”

BREAKING: The victim in Sunday morning’s fatal rollover crash in Salt Lake City has been identified as a sergeant with the Utah Dept. of Corrections. https://www.abc4.com/news/wasatch-front/driver-ejected-fatal-crash/

"White people are becoming second class citizens in America because of the radical left agenda." Is it Jeremy Carl in 2026, or an Oregonian's white supremacist screed written in 1959 in opposition to a proposed Civil Rights bill?

At some point ‘Disagree Better’ gonna have to admit Utah wants an independent redistricting commission

Platner's dismissive comments about sexual assault in the military were so disgusting that a candidate who had experienced assault in the service dropped out to endorse Mills rather than risk Platner getting into the senate. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/progressiv...

“After word spread about a car crash in St. Paul involving federal agents, a woman in a robe rushed to the scene to record… The woman is Sam Stroozas, a digital producer at Minnesota Public Radio. Minnesota Star Tribune photographer Leila Navidi @leilanavidi captured the moment”

I’m not sure why the Utah GOP sued. According to their Party Chairman and signature gathering leader, they are on track executing their strategy to success…

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

The underlying problem is that stopping the lawless authoritarianism is ultimately not a legal problem, & there are no actual legal solutions to it. It is a political problem, & the only solution is a political one requiring a majority of votes in the House & 67 votes in the Senate.

Everyone saying they follow pop culture but don’t know who these women are is embarrassing themselves in the exact same way as anyone who said they hadn’t heard of Bad Bunny.

CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.

idk where to even start with this, how about here DoD: our new laser weapon is totally safe we promise FAA: show your work pls DoD: no :) DoD: also we’re gonna let border patrol use it lol

Fourth and fifth grade students running from the US government.

Patti Edwards, the wife of Hall of Fame BYU football coach LaVell Edwards, died at age 93.

I've slept a bit on this other than a few posts, but one of the most brazen things happening in state governments right now is that the Kentucky GOP is trying to impeach a liberal justice (and the first/only Black woman to join the court) because of a vote she took last year they don't like.

TikTok comments do not fail. 😂

Researchers have found that 6 of 10 abortion restrictions — bans on Medicaid funding for abortion, mandated waiting periods, 2nd-trimester abortion bans, ACA marketplace insurance coverage bans, biased counseling laws, and ultrasound requirements — were linked to higher rates of maternal mortality.

“Utah is about to have one of the most premium surfing destinations in the world…”

This morning's crescent moon with United Airline Flight 2420.

Please read this long but important thread from an immigration defense attorney. If this administration is permitted to scale its current abuse, neglect, and inhumane treatment of immigrants to the breadth and scope for which they’re currently planning, we’ll all be witness to mass atrocities.

The @washingtonpost.com layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, per data from the @postguild.bsky.social. 50% of Hispanic/Latino guild members,​ 45% of Black members, and​ 43% of Asian members were laid off, compared to 37% of white members. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/wash...

The card my wife wanted to give me 😆

There’s a Pam Bondi meme for everyone

These men suffered torture in a Salvadoran prison because the Trump administration denied them due process. This ruling is a critical victory and step in the right direction.

🚨UPDATE: On Friday afternoon, the Utah Supreme Court denied Utahns for Representative Government's last-minute bid for an extension to submit signatures. utahpolitics.news/prop-4-repea...

This has been the coolest part of the last few months, all of these people stopping Kat on the street to just shoot the shit about what’s working and what’s not because they know her from Instagram or the TV. It happens… a lot. They’re usually people who say they don’t vote but now they will.

Police departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by @the74.bsky.social reveals.

US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.

The default assumption should be that they’re lying

GOP has a new appreciation for what happened last year, BTW myuea.org/advocating-c...

Both my degrees were paid for by the military. My decision to stay beyond my initial four year commitment hinged on the Air Force selecting me for their graduate school program. I would have left otherwise. So it’ll be interesting to see how this goes. 🍿

Chutzpah from the party that intentionally made this process difficult in the first place.

Salt Lake County prosecutors have filed charges of murder against a transport driver accused of leaving three men in a running van before they died. District Attorney Sim Gill said the worker had been reprimanded a month earlier for ‘client abandonment.’ utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/02/13/t...

Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis was shot in the leg during the incident. Another Venezuelan man was also accused of attacking an immigration officer. n.pr/4rKGbNj

ICYMI - Utah Senate President Stuart Adams claims his first-time homebuyer program has reduced rents by getting more people into new homes. But we found that claim is not grounded in the facts www.ksl.com/article/5144... #utpol @ksl.com

Yeah, we definitely need more info here. CourtListener docket: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72164...

clown shit

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

How about any longtime Intermountain employees who have (somewhat) recently retired? Trying to talk to someone who retired *with* pension benefits so I can better understand what that looks like

Found the blanket.

Pathetic. Non-Utahn, Ted Nugent, shills for Kansas based Hunter Nation in a video against “outside interests” and pretends proposition 4 is about the second amendment and protecting his “pioneer heritage” youtu.be/OCVs5p7iMGY?...

Countless articles over the past year quoted hundreds of employers stating that Latino-American workers who are citizens are afraid to show up to job sites for fear of being profiled and detained. If they are afraid to go to work, they damn sure won’t go to vote with ICE there.