It’s really hard to believe people can be this evil. But I think they don’t view their victims as human. Including the kids.

“Are you concerned about the optics of that?” Rep. Doug Owens asked Sen. Brady Brammer. “The court says ‘Follow Prop 4,’ and the first thing out of the chute, we’re narrowing Prop 4?”   Brammer said he was not.

Trump is consolidating power mainly in areas where it's relatively easier for him to do so. When he faces real resistance, it's a different story. Stop acting like he's invincible.

I'm convinced the only reason we haven't had the "Trump Old" media doom cycle is because expectations of his cognitive and speech abilities were already on the floor. And yet, he continues to test those boundaries...

Just in time for our 250th anniversary, we reboot as United States of Tylenol.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Worth noting on all of these that Dr. Trende is a favorite of majority-Republican states to pull in as an expert witness for the GOP side. He's been through the routine in several states already.

Thanks, Google.

Sandall asks Trende how 2021 maps fare under Prop 4. Trende - they would all have problems. 4-way split of Salt Lake County (split of Juab too). All of them fail the partisan bias test. They all fall outside the bounds of the redistricting simulations - drawn with partisan intent. Lol.

Translation: "We want to prevent a debate in courts by codifying that our side has already won."

😳 “think it's really important to note here that this would represent a dramatic reallocation of Congress's war powers to the executive. It would be the president deciding who the United States goes to war with and where that takes place.”

This deserves major pushback. If a party candidate decides to buck the party and go independent, and gets votes as an independent against the party nominee, those voters were explicitly choosing not to vote for that party in that race! #utpol

"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. " Rev. Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. (1967, Beyond Vietnam)

Even with their convoluted "fairness" formula they weren't satisfied, so they had to find a way to still count independent write-in Lyman voters as Republican votes

Spread the word widely. We knew there would be back door hail marys to override prop 4. Utah deserves fair maps!

This is obstruction at best if they were merely transferred, kidnapping and human trafficking if they were deported to another random country without due process, wrongful death if any of them died due to camp conditions and are being covered up, and at worst—hearkens back to WWII "disappearances"

This isn’t getting enough coverage: Hundreds of people once held at Alligator Alcatraz Florida have vanished from federal records, prompting lawyers to accuse U.S. authorities of running a detention "black hole," as a new sprawling report from El País has revealed.

If you want to fully understand just how lawless Trump's bombings of "drug boats" has really become, check out this pod episode. @bcfinucane.bsky.social is so illuminating in explaining it all:

An article about at PWS last week about how fishy this whole thing is www.piratewireservices.com/p/us-claims-...

A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19 What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us? www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

I told the Reverend he made me proud to be a Christian.

( #utpol subtweet) How sanctifying.

this 72-page book, The ABCs of Media Literacy, is given to every grade nine student in Finland media literacy is a core component of the national curriculum. everyone has the toolbox and training needed for practicing responsible citizenship its CIVICS (a bullshit detector) abcsofmedia.com

All headlines just from today 🇺🇸

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

This is it. Equal population in each district is a requirement, not just a priority. Since there are 4 districts to draw and SLCo has 1/3 of the state's pop, it's impossible to draw a legal map that contains all of SLCo. That said, these maps all look egregious for *how* they split the county.

Literally this cartoon

The mainstream news environment. Page 1: arguments at a suburban Miami town council Page 24: Ted Cruz calling the FCC a mafioso, US attorney forced out, Pentagon demands no investigative journalism

This is it, essentially. The core of it. The goal of ICE detention in the mass deportation system is to make people give up their case without fighting; to have an officer say “if you want to see a judge and plead your case, you’re going to be jailed for months and months, so why not give up now?”

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

lol they really done fucked it huh?

Psychologists and psychiatrists call this "concrete thinking." It reflects an inability to engage in abstract thinking, and a strong propensity to think of all nouns as depicting physical objects. It's the first way children begin to understand how to describe the world with words.

Just nonstop racism.

I worry that some folks will miss the real significance of this: Donald Trump knew that his border czar was a criminal when he hired him, and one of the reasons he hired him is that he knew his border czar would do *whatever he was told* in order to avoid having an FBI and DOJ investigation proceed.

In light of the increasingly apparent pattern of extortion that Trump engages in as his way of doing business or wielding power, we ought to ask what he has extorted, and from whom, outside the public view. Especially, how many Republicans are under his thumb bc of blackmail?

“On Sept. 20, with hidden cameras recording the scene, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case.” Homan was being investigated for allegedly “soliciting payments in exchange for awarding contracts should Trump win the election” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

In 2021, Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. pleaded guilty to conspiracy to engage in forced labor as part of a federal investigation that exposed widespread abuses of H-2A workers across Georgia. This is the story of what one of those workers endured. By @maxblau.bsky.social

A bit late to just now be reporting on this, but necessary nonetheless: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

This appears to be the 3rd lethal US strike in the Caribbean. Once again, the specific "terrorist" entity targeted is not identified. No legal justification is offered for this premeditated killing. President Trump is asserting a license to kill outside of the law. 1/n

This is wildly illegal and he has no authority to do this

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

This will make the US smaller, less capable, less competitive, and frankly, less vibrant and rich. Anti-immigrant policy is the opposite of everything that I love about America's founding ideals. Without immigrants, what would we have left as a nation?

If this is implemented and stands in the courts, significantly fewer international graduate students will come to American universities because it will be nearly impossible to get a job in the U.S. after graduation. Another major hit to the U.S. higher education system

We're months away from the media calling these "Royal Decrees"