concept: booty shorts with the LDS foyer couch pattern and they say “Visitors Welcome” across the ass

I'm very tired of tasting diesel exhaust everywhere every morning. Not a great world we've built.

If only we’d known in 2015 that we could just turn off the escalator.

Very silly to say the map on the left lacks geographically compact districts while touting the map on the right. (Context: Utah's Congressional maps were found to be illegally gerrymandered and we are now in the process of redistricting)

A sleeper political issue of the next few years is the rising costs of electricity. AI & data centers are driving up demand & the Trump Administration is making it harder to add clean energy supply. I joined @chrislhayes.bsky.social on #WITHpod to talk about it: open.spotify.com/episode/32ps...

Practically every inch of Utah's Uinta Basin is dotted with the same petro-pox and all the accompanying access roads for oil trucks.

For real, fuck ICE. Every single one of them needs to be fired and become utterly unhireable. A good portion need to be prosecuted.

imo, if you want to be a better Christian, live your life as if this is the case

Every advocate for bicycling, walking, and safe streets expects nothing less if they are killed in traffic.

FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

The Springville Art Festival yesterday was so busy and fun I forgot to snap more than a few photos. This festival is only a few years old, it makes me happy to see it growing year over year. Fantastic artists, activities for familes, talented performers, etc. Mark your calendar for next September.

I was touching grass all day yesterday and somehow missed this - but how was it even POSSIBLE to miss this? How is this not one of the biggest scandals of our lives? A top Trump guy taking huge bribes and then the corrupt DOJ shutting it down? The whole administration should collapse

*A Centrist restaurant consultant walks into a pizza parlor* "I can't understand why you're not doing more to get people who hate pizza to come in here to complain about your menu"

This is what crossings in front of schools should look like. Raised crossing, short crossing distance, 20mph speed limit, close street trees for calming, protected bike lane, two-way road narrows to a pinch point / cars have to slow down and take turns.

Need Urban Arrow to release one of these bad boys

Dooming is silly. You cannot know what will happen, except for this one thing: if no one fights against what's happening, then it will happen. The only thing to do is to fight against the evil you fear.

Contra this, saw someone (correctly) describe our situation as the administration wanting to skip to the steps at the end of an authoritarian consolidation when they haven’t even managed the first ones

My neighbor told me networks keep silencing his late night comedians so I asked how many comedians he has and he said he just goes to a new network and silences a new comedian so I said it sounds like he’s just sacrificing late night comedians to fascism and then his daughter started crying.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

American media: the alleged shooter is said to have engaged in “transportation” when he drove back to St. George

The heated debates about cars in cities aren’t a matter of ideology. They’re a matter of geometry. You simply cannot accommodate increasing travel demand by creating more space for cars. There’s no room for that without demolishing buildings, cutting trees, and endangering bikers and pedestrians

Today I learned about pentacycles, invented in 1882. The OG cargo bikes?

The Utah Forward Party's singular member in the state legislature is proposing congressional maps that would not only still split my city, but would also split 29 other cities and the most populous counties in the state. 🙄 Minimizing the division of cities & counties is a core standard of Prop 4.

This is a story that took me many months to arrange (because they don't really do on-camera interviews), but The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints answered many of my questions about what they’re doing for water conservation: www.fox13now.com/news/great-s... #utpol #Utah

“Moving from a less walkable (25th percentile) city to a more walkable city (75th percentile) increased walking by 1,100 daily steps, on average”

Popped up to North Salt Lake this morning to see their new Foxboro Wetlands Park. It's a conserved open space corridor in the midst of residential development, which they are enhancing with additional water flow, native plantings, and boardwalks.

Y’all, those “high res” pics of the person sought in the Charlie Kirk shooting are AI fakery. ESPECIALLY the ones with my station’s logo on them. Knowledge is power and think before you share. #utpol #Utah

A guy in my local facebook group is feeding these images to AI to "enhance" them for a better look at the suspect's face. Some people in the comments can't seem to grasp why it doesn't work like that.

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

BYU, a very conservative university, has made sure Kirk didnt come near our campus primarily because he didnt practice politics the right way.

Good to learn they finally have SOME clues to go on. I really hope they find the suspect soon.

Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death. But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.

Just last month the FBI forced out its top agent in Salt Lake City, a Pakistani American woman whom a former FBI agent describes as a “legendary case agent who was involved in some of the most significant national security cases of the last two decades.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

political violence is a terrible scourge that has claimed victims from both parties the way some people are just itching to treat this as a reichstag fire moment to enable a dictatorship is extremely scary and a good reminder that political violence is a threat to the very core of liberal democracy

It's the UT GOP's opinion that school shooters bringing weapons on campus are well within their constitutional rights and shouldn't be stopped—right up until they pull the trigger.

When I was in my last yeat or so at BYU, the Utah legislature required schools to allow guns on campus. BYU pushed back, but state schools couldn't. There is no justification for shooting Charlie Kirk. The shooter needs to face justice. Also, Utah needs to rethink its approach to guns. 1/

The high salience topic is Trump is a dumb asshole and he's making everything bad

I think it's more or less impossible to drive responsibly, i.e. with the attention and sense of gravity that the task should really require

The Union forever!

JD Vance said he doesn’t care if the US commits war crimes. Did it make the news? Donald Trump said he’s declaring war on Chicago. Did it make the news? Executive agencies keep posting Nazi blood-and-soil propaganda. Did it make the news?

The school fenced off a pedestrian footpath, forcing my youngest sibling to take a different route to school through the woods... ...where they were attacked by a swarm of wasps and STUNG TWENTY-SEVEN (27) TIMES!!

A concise thread on where 'Abundance' misses the mark:

This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how Orbán took over the free press in Hungary

When I first read George Orwell's 1984, I thought that the very initial scene, where people rejoice at the sight in the newsreel of a refugee boat destroyed by a missile was a bit over the top. Well, I guess it wasn't, after all.

The problem of e-bikes/e-motos is one of their maximum speed and not the presence of a throttle.

This made me laugh

The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.

So the U.S. military just blew up 11 people on the open sea in an extrajudicial massacre, saying they were dangerous drug traffickers but offering no court prior evidence to claim such. And other military units are patrolling U.S. cities with guns and no training in criminal procedure. Cool, cool.

THIS is municipal government on Bluesky at its best 👇👇👇 #utpol #Utah