Spending this morning at Union 101 here at the Union Labor Center in SLC. Great turnout of labor leaders and candidates to get educated about the important role unions play in our state and country.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. -Niccolo Machiavelli

“I know that the most dangerous form of government is theocracy. Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they’re on a mission from God.” There are many MAGA Republicans in Utah who believe religion and politics should be fused. Beware of them.

Trump has basically turned the presidency into a giant Bribe Delivery System. newrepublic.com/article/2092...

New in PN: The world's worst dealmaker screws up the Iran negotiations "All of Trump’s weaknesses as a negotiator are now on display: His childish understanding of power, his inability to grasp the perspective of his opponents, his belief that anything can be accomplished by threats and violence."

This Truth Social post will in the not-too-distant future serve as an illustration of Narcissistic Personality Disorder in college textbooks for courses in Abnormal Psychology in all languages the world over.

Reporter: Consumer sentiment plummeting to the lowest level on record. War-driven price hikes have really darkened the mood on Main Street. Consumer sentiment falling by 11% just between March and April.

The GOP civil war is a good and necessary thing.

Buttigieg: "The big thing that's different now is that in many periods in American history, you have inflation and then the administration does things to reduce it. Right now, we have the administration actively making prices higher."

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much. -William Hazlitt

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone. -Miller Williams

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism. -Earl Warren

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

we remain firmly on track for 'republican president leaves the country an omnishambles, next democratic president is punished for not cleaning it up fast enough'

We wouldn’t be where we are right now if Trump and the rest of the Epstein class had been held accountable for their crimes.

Thanks, @robertgehrke.bsky.social, for this info on hardball tactics of Republican legislative leaders to silence dissent and retaliate against those who won't go along: bit.ly/3NfnHGk. We see the fruit of supermajority control. Political monopolies are just as bad as market monopolies.

Anyone who believes Trump cares about the average working Utahn or U.S. citizen is living in a fantasy.

We’ve never, ever had this before. A President completely untethered to truth. I mean completely untethered to truth. That’s such a bad thing. But you know what’s even worse? Way, way too many people don’t care. And way too much of the media no longer cares.

It is possible to believe two things at once: That the long-suffering people of Iran deserve freedom from their despotic leaders, and that a bombing campaign by the current highly corrupt authoritarian government of America is unlikely to bring it.

TRUMP’S IRAN WAR: we are starting a war illegally (ie without congressional approval), in order to obliterate Iran’s nuclear capability, which the White House has said it does not have any more as a result of the Trump administration’s attack on Iran last year? In short: An illegal pretextual war.

Once again, the founders foresaw Trump perfectly, what they failed to foresee was this supine Congress.

Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."

This. A hundred times, this.

Hey Spencer J. Cox, Senator John Curtis, Senator Mike Lee, Rep. Blake Moore, Rep. Burgess Owens, Rep Celeste Maloy, and Rep Mike Kennedy, are you good with this? This is your President. Will any of you say a word in protest? You know this is sick. Please say something. Your silence enables this guy.

I wrote a thread last March at the Stand Up for Science rally @standupforscience.bsky.social Here is Utah’s Democratic Chair Brian King @briansking19.bsky.social asking all of us to together help talk about the realities facing our world, locally and globally. bsky.app/profile/jkin...

Trump just said Republicans should “take over the voting and nationalize it.” That’s authoritarianism, full stop. The silence from elected Republicans is cowardice—and it’s dangerous heading into November. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. -Hartley Shawcross, barrister, politician, and prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal

Good article here. I ask, we should all ask, why Sen. John Curtis and Sen. Mike Lee over and over again vote to give lifetime entire to judges who are not willing to state that the U.S. Capitol was attacked by a violent mob on January 6, 2021. ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Trump is corrupt beyond anyone’s wildest nightmare. The world’s biggest shakedown artist. Endorsed, enabled, and empowered by just about every elected Republican. They are all rotten to the core.

What Spencer Cox and the power hungry super-majority legislature have done to turn one of the highest quality state court systems in the country into a partisan, political animal is nauseating.

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I'm skimming through mentions of Trump in the Trump-Epstein Files, and there's one thing that I'm thinking over and over: All we had to do was believe the women. There are dozens of stories in here that make me ill. Do you really believe these are all lies?

God bless these people.

Former criminal defense attorney here. If what we’ve seen of the Epstein Files so far—heavily redacted and with 3 million pages still missing—is bad, keep in mind that the *Files in full* are a *hundred* times worse. That’s how this works. You’re seeing the G-rated version.

It's not the rulers that make America great. It never has been. The resistance is what makes us great. Keep pushing and never let up.

Six days ago federal officers murdered a man in the streets of Minneapolis and we still don't know their identities. Is there any modern precedent for this?

ICE and CBP agents seem to enjoy gratuitously breaking glass—from car windows to store fronts to homes. It’s an expression of unchecked power and dominance: “We’re in charge. We break and shatter what we want.” And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

I hope every person on Earth listens to this. America is not gone yet.

This is what the Republican party has become. The GOP: instead of Grand Old Party. It's Guardians Of Pedophiles (Trump), Or Goons on Patrol (ICE- Homan, Noem, Bovino).

Let’s give him credit…. At least the corruption isn’t hidden. He’s doing it right out in the open. The name “Trump” will be treated like Benedict Arnold’s name within the decade

"This is a criminal president and a criminal administration. This is straight-out fascism. This is about ending democracy. These people are destroying the Constitution. And if we say it in words that are any less blunt, we are not telling the truth." www.ms.now/the-weekend-...

“Why would you bring a gun to….” Is irrelevant under the second amendment

What about this murder by ICE, Spencer Cox, Mike Lee, John Curtis, Burgess Owens, Blake Moore, Celeste Malloy and Mike Kennedy? Are you going to say a thing? Or will you just continue to cower? Will you vote in a few days to keep funding ICE?

No elected official should be silent about this level of derangement from the President.