NEW: A devastating before and after montage of Rasheed Street in Gaza City. Put together by local photojournalist, Motaz Azaiza.
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NEW: A devastating before and after montage of Rasheed Street in Gaza City. Put together by local photojournalist, Motaz Azaiza.
Wow, two new friends that can both help you with your finances!
NEW: Man who wants Nobel Peace Prize creates Department of War.
Oof. The Dems need to stop pretending, based on some imaginary focus group, that there’s some common ground with Trump. The key is to fight everywhere. You should go study Neville Chamberlain’s attempt at “common ground.” It didn’t end well for his historical reputation. Or the world.
WTF? This is part of the ceremony of citizenship. These people aren’t against illegal immigration, they’re against legal immigration as well, and always have been.
One study (that disappeared from a federal website) found that agreements like the one between Riverton and ICE are ineffective at reducing crime. Another found they actually make Latinos more likely to be victims of violent crime.
"Some might view the recent court ruling, which will likely reunify the Salt Lake City area, as a partisan victory for Democrats. But something more important will happen: by restoring representation for Utah’s largest city, Utah’s interests will be better represented in Washington, D.C."
That time i came home and found them ready to sled down the stairs directly into an armoire. 🔥 This is the same group that our cities and police hope behave perfectly walking to school instead of forcing drivers to be safe by design. Kids are predictably unpredictable and we must account for that
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
Remember when Trent Staggs ran as a "moderate" Republican 🙄 www.sltrib.com/news/2025/09...
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
The desert news article cut off before any of the victim statements. The original East Idaho article goes into a lot more depth. And he didn't even have to register as a sex offender because of the plea deal. It's just sick 🤬🤬 www.eastidahonews.com/2025/08/form...
KSL once again carrying water for NIMBYs to protect them from the evils of bike lanes and duplexes.
"Kids in cages" was evil. This is unconscionable.
Once again I ask, what’s it going to take?
If this is not the perfect stand-in for when people complain about "white oppression" I don't know what is. These people waste away making up fake realities to get outraged about.
You'll never guess what this is about.
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
Notice how the Utah supermajority says “fuck you” to voters when they pass unconstitutional & unpopular bills & then when they are challenged in court or through ballot initiatives they ask for a “compromise”?
"We found that the tipping point where the shutdown becomes inevitable is probably in the next 10 to 20 years or so. That is ... why we have to act really fast to cut down emissions,” says @rahmstorf.bsky.social in @theguardian.com's report on a new #AMOC study: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A paragraph from this MIT study, which I read with my own two eyes, and you should, too.
I'm taking it as wishful thinking until I see some hard evidence. Wouldn't be surprised if he is sick or had a procedure or something though given that he's been lying low for a couple days. I wouldn't put it past his cabinet to hide something like that for a few days though.
Zohran Mamdani is the happiest politician in America, his whole campaign is about how New York is awesome and can be even awesomer. Meanwhile, there has never been a politician in history who talked as much about what a shithole he thinks America is as Donald Trump does.
The irony of his social darwinism outlook is that throughout history humanity has thrived BECAUSE we are social creatures who help protect our weak and vulnerable members. Evolution has taught us more to shun those who exhibit antisocial behaviors, such as lack of empathy, selfishness & callousness
Been saying this for awhile: RFK knows vaccines work. He just doesn't think they're worth it because he's a deeply twisted individual who doesn't think that sick people deserve to live.
“It would be tremendously unjust to allow an unconstitutional and unlawful map … to govern another election cycle when the people passed this in 2018,” Gaber said. “This has to be the point at which it stops.”
[Narrator]: The social media comments were right.
Plaintiff's lawyer doesn't have an issue with the 30-day timeline, saying it's "more time than the legislature took to enact its map in 2021." He wants the public to be able to review the maps that are proposed, asking the judge to order it. #utpol #Utah
It paid off for StarCraft II 👀
Hear me out—the Cracker Barrel saga, but HALLMARK... A high-strung publicist from an ad agency gets assigned to a small town for the new roll-out... A hot (secretly wealthy) farmhand who gave his life to Jesus in a Cracker Barrel parking lot... Netflix, feel free to send me the royalties.
yo this guy is cooking
A reminder that PhD students are also teachers. It'll be much harder to run undergraduate programs too with this change.
I hope that's not the case, and that it just gets shut down. But I'm nervous that it could just as easily go that way.
They usually land on good, well-reasoned decisions, but they're also often slow to reach those decisions. They might allow a stay so that they have time to deliberate. And then the GOP is sure to introduce more bills targeting the Supreme Court in the next session—maybe even in the special session.
That's correct, and then the legislature will appeal saying they had done their best to comply, and they weren't given enough time to respond, and it's all unfair, etc. They'll try to get an immediate stay to block the court imposed map until the appeal goes through. The big game is delay tactics.
There's an independent commission map with an "urban/rural split" that they could adopt tomorrow. The difference is, instead of cracking Salt Lake, it keeps Salt Lake County in one district, Utah County in another, Weber & Davis in another, and Tooele County in the fourth district.
Maybe we'll get a true 4-corners intersection for the districts
Presumably, if their map is rejected by the judge and they don't have a replacement in time, that would be the result as well. But they'll absolutely sue and try to get a stay during their appeal.
They're still going to gerrymander things. They basically said so in their statement because they want "urban and rural voters in the same districts". They're going to try to run out the clock by putting forward a gerrymandered map.
They will submit them on day 29.75, then when they get rejected they will complain and say they complied with the court order and the judge is being unfair, and they should get a stay on appeal because this "activist judge" (appointed and unanimously confirmed by a GOP majority) is picking on them.
The commission even had an urban/rural map! The difference was it kept SLCO intact and split at the border between Salt Lake and Utah counties.
So yeah the "urban and rural" thing is just a pretense to split up urban voters in one of the most urbanized states in the country, because urban voters tend to be more liberal than rural voters. That's it.
I am 100% *against* that whole "shame for using air conditioning" puritanical nonsense however I am also 100% *for* adding passive resilience into structures, too
And that's speaking of LLMs in general. This one in particular (SchoolAI) has already been examined and found wanting.
Counterpoint, no the [censored] it isn't. Having middle school students talk to an AI Anne Frank is like having a high school student (one who's willing to make stuff up on the spot) dress up as her and come visit the class. Fully pretend, will create/reinforce false impressions.
And also that months were spent on community input for the maps —only for them to say "f*** that" and draw their own gerrymandered map in a closed room that they then rammed through in a day with hardly any time for input.
I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
Same thing when people go out of their way to feed their pets a vegetarian diet... It just doesn't work like that for other species 😳
Apparently Republicans no longer have any foreign policy hawks, or they'd be screaming about what Tulsi Gabbard has done to weaken our national intelligence in the face of foreign threats. It's not like the party has all become doves either—more like a bunch of scared sh*tless pigeons.
What would you do if you were a foreign malign influencer ?
Found a workaround: drive.google.com/file/d/1fPDS...
I'm not sure that the tribune does gift links?
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
"Division itself is not the problem. Our children are often more capable of handling conflict with nuance, courage and compassion than we are. The problem is us. We model fear instead of dialogue, control instead of trust."
Someone brilliant has already put this biting parody site up. Enjoy! americabydesign.fail
They've rolled out the America by Design website to talk about their approach, and ... It seems to be designed by someone who has never made a website before? americabydesign.gov
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
"I have proof of non-citizens voting in Utah." "Can we see it?" "No." Rep. Karianne Lisonbee is pushing for stricter voter registration requirements in next month's special session, leaning on "evidence" of voter fraud she won't show anyone. www.utahpoliticalwatch.news/a-utah-lawma...
uhhhh
You can film your ENTIRE life! 😶
90%(!) cuts at the National Park Service to maintain DC parks. Now it's National Guard solides doing the work, who aren't exactly cheaper. Another DOGE "cut" that is anything but
These people have no shame in lying and propagandizing to get their way. They will falsely accuse Democrats of cheating, even as they use those lies to cheat themselves.
Gibson was nominated by Republican Governor Gary Herbert in 2018 and unanimously approved by a GOP-dominated Senate. For Utah Republicans to now accuse Gibson of being a “liberal activist" because she ruled against them is “wild,” Sen. Nate Blouin told The Tribune.
It should tell you something when every federal agency has people within it, who make up the agency that are telling the world that things are not right and that the new policies will be bad for the agencies and for Americans. NSF, NIH, NASA, FEMA, CDC, etc… And this administration punishes them.
Once again, people die from decisions like this. They'll try to push it to the abstract, but every one of these regulations and monitoring programs was bought with blood and tears.
Now all the people who swore they were going to boycott will come flooding back! Oh wait...
Anyone want to make $125-175K/year reinventing the bike?
Him and Todd Weiler
With a smirk and a nod
He’s been positioning himself as a dictator for a while now, and now he’s just outright saying it out loud. And he sees the absence of near-universal outrage and condemnation as a green light to just make it official. He says what he’s going to do, and counts on rational people underestimating him.
Dan McCay in one breath admitting that the maps are gerrymandered in favor of Republicans, and in the next threatening to impeach a judge for calling out their cheating.
www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagl... Justice raps Utah Legislature on the knuckles
10 paragraphs in... There it is. Textbooks will be written about the media's role in the normalizing of fascism in the US.
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
wrote this back in may!
Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.
"Many Americans wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from “democracy” to “authoritarianism.” Instead, this is exactly how it happens—a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged. Then you wake up... and our country is different."
My sources tell me Stuart Adams is upset that Utahns keep thinking ‘we the people’ actually includes them. #utpol
When Republican legislators say "protect the voices of Utahns" they mean themselves, not the people of Utah. They believe, by virtue of being elected, they ARE the voice of the people—and the public should shut the hell up. As an elected representative, I find this idea repugnant.
🚨BREAKING! The ruling in the gerrymandering decision is out. The judge ruled that the Utah Legislature violated the Utah Constitution when it repealed Prop. 4, which established an independent redistricting commission. The ruling restores Prop. 4 in its entirety.
Immediately enjoined!
And Australia, New Zealand, Finland, India, and many others that keep rolling in
Nope, this isn’t communism. It’s straight up theft.
John Shin, a violinist who plays at venues like the Salt Lake Symphony, Utah Symphony and Ballet West, was detained by ICE. He said "I love you and the kids, I will be okay, please call our attorney." www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...
trump very clearly sees any attempt to hold a criminal head of state accountable as a threat to his own standing
The Trump admin clawed back $62M in federal aid to bolster solar energy across Utah, derailing projects for rural towns, tribes and families.
Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
ICE detains husband of Democratic congressional candidate—who is also a disabled U.S. Army veteran. He is wheelchair bound—after suffering severe injury during training for deployment in Iraq. Agents arrested him at his naturalization hearing—he is already a green card holder.
America now
The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts. Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
This is one of my favorite short stories that I return to again and again!
Literally the premise of "The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling," by Ted Chiang. devonzuegel.com/the-truth-of...
Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes. One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.
The full write up is here: Was It Something The Democrats Said? A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...
“By their fruits you shall know them.” The fruits of this administration are corrupt and cruel, and rotten to the core. This does not make us more secure or a better nation.
When we are reviewing samples we have to look at them in different parts of the office or outside at different times of day to get a good handle on it. It really does make a big difference! Anything you can do to recreate the environment it will be in helps.