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I so appreciate people of goodwill like Trevor here. The world desperately needs more like him.
Hold up there, hoss.
There are a lot of things you can say about the Latter-day Saints: that they aren’t Trinitarians, that their baptisms aren’t recognized as valid by most Christian traditions, that they are nerds…
But to say they aren’t followers of Christ is either profoundly ignorant or profoundly dishonest.
Latter-day Saints take Scripture seriously. They pray in Christ’s name, worship Christ as Savior, strive to keep His commandments, care for their neighbors, serve the poor, evangelize, and attempt to order their lives around His teachings.
Now, as a Catholic, I do not recognize their formulation of the Godhead, priesthood authority, baptism, or the nature of the Church as compatible with Catholic doctrine. That is a very different claim from saying they do not follow Christ.
Jesus Himself said:
“Who are my mother and my brothers?” And looking around on those who sat about him, he said: “Behold my mother and my brethren. For whosoever shall do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.” — Mark 3:33–35
You can reject LDS theology without pretending that people who have explicitly oriented their lives around Jesus Christ are somehow not followers of Jesus Christ.
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Ezra Taft Benson: "There are some who apparently feel that the fight for freedom is separate from the Gospel. They express it in several ways, but it generally boils down to this: Just live the gospel; there's no need to get involved in trying to save freedom and the Constitution or stop communism.... Should we counsel the people, 'Just live your religion - there's no need to get involved in the fight for freedom?' No we should not, because our stand for freedom is a most basic part of our religion."
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Over the past 20 years, the United States has shut down 13 nuclear reactors, with another 19 now being decommissioned. China built 55 in the same period.
The U.S. closed 350 coal plants. China built over 600.
The U.S. shut down 11 aluminum smelters. China built 60 mega smelters and 20 smaller ones.
The U.S. closed 6 major steel mills. China built more than 200.
Leftists are now trying to do the same with AI and data centers, amplifying Chinese Communist Party propaganda so Americans self-sabotage while China grows.
It is way too easy to accidentally follow someone on this app while scrolling videos, easy to miss the soft vibration on my phone. Just unfollowed a bunch of accounts I was unintentionally following.
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If Dario and Sam are serious about safety, they should publish their models as open source, so the AI community can inspect them.
But it's all about their IPO. They couldn't care less about safety.
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Sign our petition to protect our right to intelligence.
- 1750 signatures
- 1000 in the USA
- 80 calls to local representatives logged
The door must stay open for all to reap the benefits of our species unending march towards super intelligence.
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Closed source AI models cannot be trusted and must be either entirely banned or heavily regulated.
Only open source models can be fully verified as being safe, since the code is publicly viewable to anyone. Full transparency.
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Day 1: Anthropic employee quits to work at METR.
Day 2: Anthropic nominates METR as "third-party evaluator".
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A fun thing Tesla could do: map pot holes and generally measure road quality/ride smoothness.
Then rank municipalities on road quality and how quickly they fix potholes. Some good ol’ fashion competition might help make things better!
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🚨 DHS is now taking public comments on its proposed new H-1B fee.
This is your chance to put something on the official record.
If you believe employers should have to seriously recruit Americans before hiring H-1B workers, SAY IT.
If you want stronger audits, better enforcement, real documentation of U.S. applicants, and more accountability, SAY IT.
If you want a higher fee, SAY IT.
Public comments matter because agencies are required to review and respond to significant issues raised during rulemaking.
Don’t just complain on X.
Put your argument into the federal record.
Comment deadline: September 24.
Docket: USCIS-2026-0298
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Meet Steve Waldrip — this creepy individual is Gov. Spencer Cox's senior housing advisor, and he was also freshly promoted to "state housing coordinator" as a result of a 2026 law by the legislature. Here he is on tape delivering threats to the Heber City Council in which he stated that funding "is now at risk. Meaning none. Anything within my power, I will stop. The B and C road funds, any other state funding…" — "that funding is now suspended."
The skin-crawling audio is attached, captioned and unedited (meeting video 1:56:47–2:00:00). I'd urge every Utah citizen to listen to how the Governor's office talks about the communities it supposedly serves.
It's a rare behind-the-scenes (but in public) look at how your state is weaponizing itself against real local representation. Wasatch County's sin? It said no to a developer's deal for 144 lots on SITLA land above Heber, and it joined Summit County in opposing SB 258 — the 2024 law that lets a handful of landowners conjure up their own "preliminary municipality" — while, in his words, "trying to recruit Morgan County." For that, the Governor's man declared the whole county's funding suspended… and delivered the threat to Heber City, which had nothing to do with either decision.
It would be comical, in a Darth Vader "nobody is actually that evil" sort of way, if it weren't on tape. Imagine how this thug behaves behind the scenes if he's willing to behave like this publicly. Sickening to even think about how state officials are treating every day Utahns who concerned about their communities.
Steve is not an elected official — he's an Governor appointed staffer, and a very well-paid one who's had a meteoric pay increase in recent years as people in the Wasatch Back are getting squeezed by his and Cox's policies that have contributed to our property tax burdens. The state's own transparency site lists him ("Waldrip, Andrew," his legal name) as Advisor to the Governor at $242,413 in wages and $332,122 in total compensation for 2025, his first full year on the job — up from roughly $33,000 a year back when he was a part-time legislator. Then this session's HB 68 created a brand-new Division of Housing and Community Development, handed him the "state housing coordinator" title effective July 1, moved $345,000 out of the Governor's Office to fund it, and lets the Governor set his salary anywhere in the state's top-executive pay range. Nice work if you can get it.
Second, his political checkbook tells you exactly whose team he plays for: donations to Spencer Cox in 2020 and again in 2024 — with Cox putting him on the payroll in between — and a long list of fellow GOP legislators - the same legislators that wrote a law enabling his promotion this year. So he contributes campaign money, then the people in power give him a massive pay raise, and the legislature who he's also personally funded throws him some more while they're at it. You almost can't make it up.
While you're struggling, this man is getting rich (off of your tax dollars) and spitting on you in the process with threats if you don't comply with his policies that will further increase your local tax burden.
The nice thing is that elections are coming. We have an open seat in House District 59, and a contested State Senate race so I'm publicly calling on Luke Searle, Celeste Johnson, Annette McRae and Ron Winterton to denounce this behavior and separately we should all be demanding the Governor's office to say plainly whether Steve Waldrip's performance in Heber reflects how it conducts business.
I know confrontational politics is uncomfortable for some, especially in Wasatch County. But you can clearly see confrontational politics being used by public officials against your own interests, so at this
point we don't have a choice.
If we don't demand that our local leaders denounce behavior like Steve Waldrip's, and demand change from the Governor we should expect and will get more of the same. Believe people like Steve Waldrip when they tell you who they are.
Sources: Heber City Council meeting video (CivicClerk, Aug. 18, 2026, 1:56:47–2:00:00) · Park Record, Aug. 21 · KPCW, Aug. 13 & 18 · Transparent Utah · H.B. 68 (2026) · FEC and disclosures.utah.gov records.
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Send your support for a presidential pardon to [email protected] us a sample- Re: Support for Shana Gaviola’s Petition for a Presidential Pardon stemming from her case: United States v. Gaviola No. 1:22-cr-00233-JCC (E.D. Cal.)
Dear Mr. President,
An emergency pardon is desperately needed for Shana Gaviola, a California mother of four who was trying to protect her son, Blake, from psychological and medical harm related to transgenderism. Ms. Gaviola received a three-year federal prison sentence, nearly the statutory maximum, for violating a protective order that her then 16-year-old son filed after she tried to exert her parental rights to have her son come home to her. Her crime was that she was desperately trying to save her son from gender ideology. Ms. Gaviola is scheduled to surrender to federal prison on August 24, 2026.
Ms. Gaviola mistakenly violated a temporary restraining order that her minor son filed immediately following Ms. Gaviola’s directive to Blake to return home after temporarily living with one of her friends. Blake, who turned against his own mother, had been secretly socially transitioned by his school and Ms. Gaviola’s friend. Blake then utilized the child welfare system to file a false abuse claim against his mother and petition for emancipation. This strategy is now commonplace. Gender ideology is pitting children against their parents and using a system designed to protect abused children, to extricate themselves from their parents should their parent raise the child in alignment with his or her sex.
I understand the sheer desperation and fear a parent experiences when fighting to protect her child from the outside forces pushing that child toward transgenderism.
In 2021, Ms. Gaviola desperately needed a safe place for her son, away from the school and the woman she had once trusted with his temporary care. She found a boarding school, a Missouri Christian boarding school. Agape sent a transport team to California to bring Blake to Missouri. Nothing about Ms. Gaviola’s conduct was hidden. She retained a private investigator and an off-duty sheriff’s deputy to ensure her son’s safe transport. The transport occurred, and Blake remained at the school for a mere eight days. The nonrelative paid Blake’s biological father, who had approved boarding school, to return Blake to the woman Blake’s father had never met.
Ms. Gaviola’s conviction was secured under a cloud of serious prosecutorial and judicial misconduct. More egregiously, crucial information regarding her son’s history was never allowed to be heard at trial. The jury heard no testimony about the secret social transitioning of Blake behind his mother’s back, his emotional and behavioral challenges at school, or his own personal issues that lead to his temporary living situation outside of Ms. Gaviola’s home.
This sentence is grossly disproportionate to both the offense and the offender. Ms. Gaviola has no prior criminal history whatsoever, placing her in the lowest possible criminal history category under the federal sentencing guidelines. She complied perfectly with four years of pretrial supervision, so much so that her location monitoring was terminated early and her drug testing suspended.
Despite the fact that Ms. Gaviola is the primary caregiver for three other children, maintains steady employment and runs a nonprofit, Judge Coughenour, the same judge who blocked your administration’s birthright citizenship Executive Order, showed no compassion towards her.
Ms. Gaviola lost her son, and now is losing her freedom over a misunderstanding of her rights.
I respectfully urge you to grant Shana Gaviola a full presidential pardon.
@HarmeetKDhillon @StephenM
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EXCLUSIVE: I found dozens of taxpayer-funded researchers who worked on Pentagon defense projects or in U.S. weapons labs.
They later went to work for China’s military—including its nuclear-weapons complex and blacklisted military universities.
Here are their names. 🧵
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Utah state legislature banned mugshots in 2021. I need your help to get it repealed.
1: call and email your state reps and senators and ask if they’d sponsor a bill in 2027 to repeal H.B. 228.
2: read my article on the background / issues surrounding criminal data transparency in Utah.
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12 weeks as a SAFugee in Utah.
“To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star
This is my quest to follow that star
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far
To fight for the right without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell for a heavenly cause
And I know if I'll only be true to this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm when I'm laid to my rest
And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star
This is my quest to follow that star
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far
To fight for the right without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell for a heavenly cause
And I know if I'll only be true to this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm when I'm laid to my rest
And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star
“ — The Impossible dream
Still not sure who sang this best, my vote is Elvis. These lyrics have sat with me day after day, night after night and now it is time to act. Dream M! Dreams do come true only if you act on them.
NOW it’s time to act.
I’m a SAfugee in Utah with the knowledge, ability and fire to serve — and there is a clear need for what my 8 years of solid past polygraph experience offer. A stranger stopped me on the street and said: “Step out in faith and God will step in with more grace than you can imagine.”
It’s time to get my State Professional Licence, the required course (PM me for more info), and a polygraph unit so I can begin serving this Nation. 🫡🇺🇸
Many of you asked me to open a GoFundMe. Here it is:
👉 gofund.me/abd3c3cd2
Goals right now:
• Course
• Flights + accommodation
• Pre-loved polygraph unit
• Professional Licence
If you can donate or share, thank you from the bottom of my heart. Dreams only become real when we step out of that dream into action.
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⭐ LETS DO THIS ✨
🥳 Please find on the link the much awaited Ohio South African Refugees Amazon wish list.
Kindly forgive us for taking so long to get this sorted, we had quite the week. 🙏 🙏 🙏
Thank you all for allowing us to support the refugees around us with your generous donations. May God bless you forever more. 🙏
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