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Exploring Mormonism, Utah, and other things that interest me. Occasional photos. Deseret Magazine: “Dave — who looks like the quintessential vacationing dad”
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2h
The Senate has just passed the military NDAA containing 2 anti-trans provisions: a surgery ban using federal funds (dependents too), and a sports ban on military academy spaces.

This will be the STARTING point for negotiations with the House, which has even worse provisions.

Only 20 Dems opposed.
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Dave's Notes @ldsfn.bsky.social · 5h
More Americans believe in Big Foot than Donald Trump’s Tylenol claim.
American Adults' Belief in Conspiracy Theories - Yearly Percentages Among U.S. Adults 18+ Aliens have visited humans on Earth 2022 - 31% 2020 - 28% Bigfoot is real 2022 13% 2020 11 %% 3,526 responses from 04/28/2020 to 05/05/2020 2022: 3,278 responses from 07/22/2022 to 07/29/2022 Margin of error: +2% Weighted by U.S. Census 18+ © CivicScience 2022
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ballerinaX @ballerinax.bsky.social · 6h
This is all TPUSA's doing
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Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social · 6h
“We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’” #MarkBray #Rutgers
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News Analysis @newsanalysis.com · 9h
A lawsuit in Utah, prompted by Mormon Women for Ethical Government, led to court-ordered redistricting. The new map improves Democrats' chances of winning a House seat. #redistricting #News
In Utah, a group that helped prompt the redistricting says it's acting on faith
A lawsuit in Utah, prompted by Mormon Women for Ethical Government, led to court-ordered redistricti...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h
“.. the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections.”

@nytimes.com #OKgov
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
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Dave's Notes @ldsfn.bsky.social · 8h
Yeah. It is blatant racism.
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Dave's Notes @ldsfn.bsky.social · 8h
Fucking Kavanaugh stop.
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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 9h
This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.
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Dave's Notes @ldsfn.bsky.social · 9h
Screenshot of Marco Rubio from the video with dead eyes and a blank look
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Dave's Notes @ldsfn.bsky.social · 10h
WWJD
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Juliette Rihl @julietterihl.bsky.social · 11h
I don’t usually cover breaking news, but this story is truly wild.

A pastor in central PA brought an AR-15 to church and pointed it at people during his sermon. Gun safety experts and internet commentators are, predictably, not happy!

(Paywall free link below)

www.pennlive.com/news/2025/10...
Dauphin County pastor under fire for pointing assault-style rifle during sermon
In a move experts called a serious safety violation, he pointed the unloaded weapon at churchgoers, while asking for a 'violent action of faith.'
www.pennlive.com
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Dave's Notes @ldsfn.bsky.social · 10h
I couldn’t have said it better.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
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Dave's Notes @ldsfn.bsky.social · 10h
Secretary of Health and Human Services doesn’t know how babies are made.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 16h
A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security.

www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...
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Dave's Notes @ldsfn.bsky.social · 12h
“I gave your master's house to you, and your master's wives into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah.” - it’s straightforward.

People just pick and choose what parts of the Bible they like and rationalize the rest away to create a god to their liking.
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Dave's Notes @ldsfn.bsky.social · 15h
Utah congressman Blake Moore propagating Trump’s MAGA BS.
Thank you for contacting me regarding the current crime and police presence in Washington, DC, as well as other cities in the country. Listening to your thoughts and concerns helps me better represent the people of Utah's First District in Congress. Prior to the mobilization of the National Guard in Washington D.C., the city was facing a public safety crisis. The nation's capital had one of the highest homicide rates in the country, vehicle thefts well above the national average, and increasing juvenile violent crime. As a response to this emergency, National Guard units were deployed to Washington D.C. President Trump has indicated that he will continue efforts to reduce crime in other cities across the nation. This directive marks an effort to expand the anti-crime movement nationwide and is one more step in the ongoing push to restore safety and order across America. I am very grateful that you took the time to contact me. Knowing your views gives me the opportunity to better understand how important issues impact you. For additional information regarding current legislation and my representation of the First Congressional District, I invite you to visit my website and to follow me on X, Facebook, and _Instagram. You can also opt-in to my newsletter to stay up to date on my activities in the District and in Washington, D.C., and learn more about how my office can serve you.
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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d
WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d
One of the most perverse ideas on the anti-trans side is that trans people are instantly affirmed and celebrated by everyone when they come out and that acceptance is driving a social contagion.

It's the ultimate form of gaslighting against our community.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/pew-survey...
Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents
The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 15h
"A practice that would have been unthinkable under past administrations is becoming normalized: sending ICE detainees, without due process, to far-flung prisons in countries with notorious human rights records."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy
Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.
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Dave's Notes @ldsfn.bsky.social · 15h
Looks like some stellar police work in not following up with the legalese that translates to “Our previous denial is no longer true”
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Dave's Notes @ldsfn.bsky.social · 16h
Once again, the church prioritizes hiding it’s culpability over helping victims of abuse:
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Dave's Notes @ldsfn.bsky.social · 16h
Farley appears to have use his church standing/positions to access victims
“Multiple Plaintiffs have testified in depositions that the Church potentially knew, or should have known, of Farley’s wrongdoing and may share culpability in the abuse they suffered,” Legacy’s attorneys wrote in the filing.”
Subpoena fight brings Mormon Church into West Linn doctor sex abuse case
David Farley has been accused of sexually abusing more than 170 of his former patients. Legacy Meridian Park Hospital, one of the medical institutions where Farley practiced and allegedly abused patie...
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Dave's Notes @ldsfn.bsky.social · 1d
“…Herget was a high priest in the ward when he was convicted of sexually assaulting his 13-year-old daughter, the release said. The complaint alleges church members advocated for Herget’s early release and wrote letters urging leniency, resulting in Herget serving 180 days of a seven-year sentence.”
Lawsuit: LDS church allegedly allowed convicted sexual offender access to children | HeraldNet.com
The complaint alleged that David Herget abused four victims in a Mountlake congregation over the course of four years.
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KSL.com @ksl.com · 1d
Cases of measles continue to rise in Utah, with the latest count of those diagnosed and documented exceeding 50. https://ow.ly/bZEz50X8Vqt
Utah measles case count rises to 53 with new infections in southwest Utah
Cases of measles continue to rise in Utah, with the latest count of those diagnosed and documented exceeding 50.
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 1d
I’ve been waiting for them to start talking about trying to stop the planned 10/18 protests.

Americans - if you are inclined to and able to, get out to a protest on 10/18. Peacefully exercise your Constitutional rights, to speak, to assemble, to seek redress of grievances, to live as free people.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
"Maybe you can look into that, Pam" -- Trump directs Pam Bondi to try to stop a planned anti-Trump rally in Austin
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d
I don’t even know Habeas. He was a coffee boy
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d
Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.
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