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.

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence. -Bill Maher

This is what we've come to: masked thugs dragging people out of cars as they go about their everyday lives. ICE wants to terrorize people for no good reason other than to get them to submit. To sit down. To shut up. And Utah's Congressional delegation? Happy to oblige.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -William James

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors. -Lewis H. Lapham

This, from the Chair of the DNC, is worth reading as we recollect the dark events of five years ago. Democrats will continue to defend our country and our elections from attack.

One of Trump’s first principles: might makes right.

The chief requirement to be a Republican lawmaker is a willingness to deny reality. Here's Rep. Darrell Issa saying Trump won't run Venezuela a couple hours after Trump explicitly said he would run Venezuela.

UPDATED LIST of countries the Trump administration has threatened to invade, annex, or otherwise attack in the 85 hours of 2026 so far: 🇻🇪 Venezuela 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇬🇱 Greenland 🇮🇷 Iran 🇨🇦 Canada 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇲🇽 Mexico Insane.

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice. -Jerry Coyne

Glad to see former Sen. Romney has come around on the need to tax the rich at greater levels and means test entitlements. It makes sense and is fair that those who have more should pay more and those who are struggling should pay less. bit.ly/4qicfYa

Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud. In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that. What a confession.

Murderer gleefully announces more murders.

Just flat-out unabashed racism, not even trying to hide it any more.

This kind of behavior by the Dept. of Justice is destroying the integrity of that department with the Judiciary.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and the government when it deserves it. -Mark Twain

This Thanksgiving, we’re immensely grateful for the dedicated Democrats across the state who are fighting for a better future for their communities. Your work is the foundation of everything we do. Wishing you and your loved ones a Happy Thanksgiving!

"The exposure and punishment of public corruption is an honor to a nation, not a disgrace. The shame lies in toleration, not in correction ...." Theodore Roosevelt

This should surprise no one. Rampant corruption at the highest level is a core part of today’s MAGA Republican party. And the fish rots from the head down.

Utah has a new congressional map! It's clear that the GOP is terrified of voters actually getting a voice in who represents them in Congress. That's because they know that their record is simply indefensible. With this new map, Utahns will hold them accountable next November.

This Veterans Day, we honor those who have sacrificed to serve our country and protect our freedoms. We have a sacred duty to care for our veterans and to continue fighting for the liberties they sacrificed to preserve.

Statement from Chair Brian King on last night's Senate vote:

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The Washington Post on Abigail Spanberger: "No woman has led Virginia since its colonial government was formed 406 years ago."

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. -Lois McMaster Bujold