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Candidate for Utah House District 11 Account Explores Utah culture and US democracy Retired USAF Occasional photos. Deseret Magazine: “Dave — who looks like the quintessential vacationing dad”

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Funding for group empowering Utah women again cut by Utah Legislature at the last minute - The Salt Lake Tribune

Article courtesy of the Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com

Tucked away
Last day of the session
Madsen not informed

But, that $13 tax cut will come in handy for someone.
#utpol

Funding for group empowering Utah women again cut by Utah Legislature at the last minute
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11.03.2026 13:30 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Meanwhile in today’s other news…

11.03.2026 12:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe he should have told them to budget better.

www.beaconjournal.com/live-story/n...

11.03.2026 12:37 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Ohio Sen. Jon Husted testifies in FirstEnergy execs bribery trial today Ohio Sen. Jon Husted takes the witness stand today in the trial of two former FirstEnergy executives accused of bribing a powerful state official.

Maybe he should have told them to budget better: “Husted advocated for legislation to bail out two nuclear plants then-owned by FirstEnergy Solutions. Text messages between executives indicated Husted and Randazzo were lobbying state lawmakers for a longer, and thus, larger bailout.”

11.03.2026 12:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Here is a guy projecting he doesn’t look at prices when he shops for groceries.

11.03.2026 12:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes. The attorney’s question exposed DOGE for the bigots they are. This needs to follow them.

11.03.2026 09:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The CW on Kennedy is that he's a smart man who pretends to be stupid. Maybe that's right. But if the senator thinks he's mocking Bier in this exchange, he's lacking some pretty basic self-awareness.

10.03.2026 18:49 👍 924 🔁 131 💬 57 📌 5

When you’ve only used the term “DEI” to mean “people we don’t like” but you know you can’t say that in a deposition.

10.03.2026 19:47 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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U.S. Judge says Kari Lake broke law in overseeing Voice of America He declared all of Lake's actions over the past year to be null and void, including the layoffs of more than 1,000 journalists and staffers.

www.npr.org/2026/03/08/n...

10.03.2026 14:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What conflict of interest? A federal judge just ruled she has no more authority running the Voice of America than I do.
😂😂😂

10.03.2026 14:57 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Chicago law firm leading push to appoint special prosecutor to target ICE, Border Patrol agents The firm, Loevy and Loevy, said 200 individuals and organizations are supporting a petition to appoint an outsider to the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, who has spent wee...

A high-powered Chicago law firm announced a plan Monday to push for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and potentially charge the agents who carried out Operation Midway Blitz.

@sophiesherry.bsky.social reports: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

10.03.2026 02:01 👍 6241 🔁 1484 💬 53 📌 90
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Video appears to show U.S. Tomahawk hit naval base near Iranian school The video is the latest indication of likely U.S. involvement in the attack on Feb. 28 that killed dozens of children in the southern Iranian city of Minab.

That’s four reports confirming

wapo.st/4rjsnZG

09.03.2026 18:20 👍 39 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
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Utah nice is pulling over, smiling for the camera, and letting folks know gas is under $2.00 in Fillmore.

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< Senator John Curtis « Dec 30, 2025 • Utah nice is pulling over, smiling for the camera, and letting folks know gas is under $2.00 in Fillmore. 1997 9248 山 6.8K 3.1K 303

throwback to 10 weeks ago and this dumbshit regime propaganda posted by my feckless senator

08.03.2026 23:55 👍 72 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 3

I find it extremely difficult to believe that anyone experiencing what honestly looks like the apocalypse is going to regard it as a form of liberation or that anyone responsible for it actually cares about how Iranians regard it at all.

09.03.2026 11:51 👍 2206 🔁 450 💬 9 📌 12

As is the case with most laws quickly rammed through the legislative process:

"It's unclear how the postage change might actually be implemented. County clerks may not be able to distinguish which stamps are prepaid and which are not if a regular $.73 stamp is placed on a removal form”

09.03.2026 13:08 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lawmakers target Prop 4 recession campaign in 11th hour twist In a late-night bill change on the last day of the 2026 legislative session, the Utah legislature passed a bill that could be a major blow to the efforts to keep a repeal of Utah’s anti-gerry…

In a last ditch effort to protect existing signatures on their gerrymandering initiative, the GOP led legislature and Governor Cox made it illegal for citizens to use prepaid postage to submit signature removal statements when citizens learn they were misled about the initiative's purpose.

09.03.2026 13:08 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Drains across the Iranian capital Tehran are continuing to explode after earlier Israeli and US strikes on oil depots and infrastructure.

Medical experts are warning the toxic smoke and runoff has increased the risk of deadly illnesses, including cancer.

09.03.2026 05:05 👍 830 🔁 574 💬 31 📌 65
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Page One in UK:

@telegraph.co.uk

07.03.2026 12:57 👍 4082 🔁 1685 💬 267 📌 132
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

07.03.2026 21:00 👍 9291 🔁 6069 💬 608 📌 1538

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

07.03.2026 23:52 👍 7798 🔁 2443 💬 239 📌 62
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Federal Prosecutor Used Fabricated Quotes in Court Filing An assistant US attorney in North Carolina filed a response with the court that included “fabricated quotations and misstatements of case holdings” and then made “false or misleading statements” of ho...

NEWS: A Justice Dept. line attorney in North Carolina fabricated quotes in court filing, causing judge to order hearing to consider sanctions and holding entire US attorney’s office jointly responsible.
Pro se defendant flagged the errors.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

06.03.2026 22:50 👍 1125 🔁 365 💬 31 📌 51
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CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.

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I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

06.03.2026 23:10 👍 8245 🔁 2104 💬 96 📌 38
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DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social on the woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a minor ...
"A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible – and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying."
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

06.03.2026 23:39 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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The Bygone Era of Supreme Court Support for Voting Rights Sixty years after upholding the Voting Rights Act, the Court has dismantled most of it.

Tomorrow marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. It also marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court first upholding the Voting Rights Act.

We have gotten so, so far away from a Court that cares about democracy.

New from me at @brennancenter.org:

06.03.2026 15:15 👍 1087 🔁 429 💬 12 📌 15

i hate when liberals pull shit like that. i know part of it is because its a sensitive topic for me but you'd think we would have less credentialism when the two worst presidents of the last 50 years went to fucking yale and wharton.

06.03.2026 19:36 👍 832 🔁 116 💬 34 📌 5

Trump team preparing for their Dear Leader’s inevitable declaration of victory and attempt to wash his hands of the regional war he started. Meanwhile, on Instagram, my Senator, John Curtis, said it would be irresponsible to invoke the War Powers act to do essentially the same thing (he’s wrong)

06.03.2026 23:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How Swig Turned Dirty Soda Into a National Obsession The Utah soda-fountain chain is rapidly expanding in the US thanks to TikTok and a hit TV show.

Rachel Sugar's byline is apt on a lot of her stories, but it seems *especially* perfect here.

06.03.2026 19:16 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Sure Trump defers to Putin a lot, but no one else in his administration thought this through?

06.03.2026 19:28 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Sorting out the Utah GOP congressional field: Lisonbee preps a run while Maloy moves to signatures Karianne Lisonbee is set to challenge Blake Moore in Utah's 2nd District. Celeste Maloy pivots to signatures after Phil Lyman enters the 3rd District race.

Utah's GOP congressional field is finally taking shape, and there's some real movement.

Karianne Lisonbee is gearing up to challenge Blake Moore.

Celeste Maloy reverses her "convention only" strategy after Phil Lyman jumps in the race.

Full story:
utahpolitics.news/sorting-out-...

06.03.2026 16:27 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1