Utahns, I’ll remind you that our senators Mike Lee and John Curtis (R-UT) confirmed trump’s entire cabinet.

Qualifications?

Billionaires
Drunks?
Fox anchors
Grifters
Project 2025 author
Camera-ready
Loyalists
Anti-science
Project 2025 author
Podcaster/influencer

Zero qualifications
#utpol

Federal agents detain wife of another US army member: ‘ICE is out of control’ Jose Serrano, a sergeant, said Deisy Rivera Ortega, his wife, was arrested at an immigration appointment

A US army sergeant with 27 years of military service – including deployment to Afghanistan – has said that federal immigration agents recently arrested his wife during an appointment at an El Paso, Texas, immigration office.

I have questions.

This news comes almost eight years to the day after the Sandy Hook families first filed their defamation lawsuit against Infowars. If the situation is as I believe it to be, the deal still has to be approved by a judge. More soon -

I feel for these rural communities, but the reality is that rural American is so often subsidized by large metropolitan areas. We can agree or disagree about whether that should continue, but we need to recognize those subsidies exist

Maybe the new GOP delegates also rewrite the rules that their predecessors wrote to cement their grip on the process.

I’m gonna guess Lee’s notoriety helped a more informed HD16 electorate show up at the caucuses this go around.

If Utahns SHOWED up for caucuses AND understood who delegate wannabes plan to vote for at convention, this wouldn’t be as big of an issue.

Three takeaways from Utah GOP conventions: Lee's base cracks, Ivory catches a break, and more unopposed races Three takeaways from Utah Republicans’ convention Saturday: Delegates dump Trevor Lee for Bob Stevenson in HD16, Ken Ivory secures HD39, and November ballots thin as more races go unopposed.

GOP delegates dumped Trevor Lee for Bob Stevenson. If your base bails, that could spell trouble for the June primary.

Three takeaways from Saturday's Republican conventions.

Story at the link 🔗
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The Utah GOP led government is determined to learn principles of Public Health the hard way.

Missed this: “The bill also changes what testing is required of a raw milk producer.

If a producer is selling less than 500 gallons on their farm, they’re not required to test…”

‘Blue Power’ and the rise of police union politics Stuart Schrader's new book details how police unions became a dominant force in U.S. politics.

Police unions are now potent political forces at the local, state, and national levels, and their largely successful effort to immunize themselves from oversight is one of the great political coups in recent American history. @cjciaramella.bsky.social reviews a Hopkins professor's new book

Two engineers leaning out the side of the locomotive

The front of the locomotive

A side view of the locomotive

A side view a bit behind the locomotive

Visiting the big boy with @kemikemikemi.bsky.social at Ogden

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Salt Lake City is ready to add more foothill trails nearly 5 years after pause Utah's capital city is finally ready to move forward with an expansion of its popular foothills trails following a nearly five-year snag in the program.

Salt Lake City’s NIMBYs managed to halt the construction of mountain bike trails for *five years.* The city is supposed to resume construction this year but funding is limited and I’m not confident we’ll see new trails anytime soon

Sure looks like the GOP controlled legislature violated the law in its war against the judiciary.

To reiterate, the Judicial Conduct Commission consisting of members from the house, senate, governor appointments and Utah bar association, voted to dismiss the case because it lacked merit:

Cuts are already on the table as drought worries Utah water districts Despite this week’s rain and cold front, drought continues to hold Utah in its grip. That has water districts considering mandatory reductions this summer.

“The runoff was non-existent. It's over. We didn't see any peaks in streams or rivers,”

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Homie is bricked up about Utah Republicans stealing an election if it doesn’t go their way but swears he doesn’t want it to happen

Boots on the Groundhog Day

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Absolutely.

"These people are stealing your tax money, robbing you of services you paid for to enrich themselves. I will stop that."

That's a pretty simple and effective message.

Basket of picked green beans in the middle of the field for workers are harvesting

"Adan" shared this photo from the Coachella CA where hes picking green beans. "I get paid 40 cents per pound. The work is exhausting - especially due to the excessive heat in the area. But this is how I support my family." #WeFeedYou

Yes, the fact that I'm attending the White House Correspondents Dinner might SEEM like a supine gesture of complete deference to the insane dullard who demands total obedience from the press, BUT that's until you see the secret message I have on my pocket square

SLC’s tiny-house village is nearing the end of its first phase. Here’s what’s next. The Other Side Village is nearing completion of its first phase, but work on the overall vision is far from finished.

The Other Side Village is nearing completion of its first phase, but work on the overall vision is far from finished.

Republican Party rules allowing a caucus only candidate with as little as 30% of the delegate vote to proceed to the primary is an undemocratic concentration of power in just a few people. But hey, force them to spend money in a primary.

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Moore is being attacked from his party’s right wing for being part of Utah’s better boundaries commission. Moore’s attack on one of the Justices who upheld the constitutionally of the initiative process that changed the boundaries per the commission is despicable and cowardly act.

There is no merit to the allegations but that’s not stopping Blake Moore from trying to milk the innuendo with his statement.

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Ellen Hopkins, who is already suing the state of Utah over its book bans, just had a fourth book of hers added to the banned list. www.sltrib.com/news/education/2026/04/1...

Andy Biggs cries when he recounts the story of the first time he helped his granddaughter call 911 to report a black person