Gavin Dahl
@gavindahl.bsky.social
Executive Director, KRCL community radio - Salt Lake City 90.9FM
Host, Bubbling Up - Tuesdays 7-10p mt
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Host, Bubbling Up - Tuesdays 7-10p mt
*views my own / shares are not endorsements*
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Stunning development: Senators now confirm the Trump admin’s 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine wasn’t a U.S. plan at all. It was a Russian wish list. Follow along. This is crazy. 1/
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Stunning development: Senators now confirm the Trump admin’s 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine wasn’t a U.S. plan at all. It was a Russian wish list. Follow along. This is crazy. 1/
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NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
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Where we are as a country
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Where we are as a country
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I just wrapped up two projects with students working on automated license plate reader tech in the context of abortion and this is still more dystopian and horrific than anything we uncovered.
The US is now a surveillance state with border patrol as the Gestapo.
apnews.com/article/immi...
The US is now a surveillance state with border patrol as the Gestapo.
apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I just wrapped up two projects with students working on automated license plate reader tech in the context of abortion and this is still more dystopian and horrific than anything we uncovered.
The US is now a surveillance state with border patrol as the Gestapo.
apnews.com/article/immi...
The US is now a surveillance state with border patrol as the Gestapo.
apnews.com/article/immi...
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"never in modern U.S. history has the office intersected so broadly and deeply with the financial interests of the commerce secretary’s own family, according to interviews with ethics lawyers and historians."
NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"never in modern U.S. history has the office intersected so broadly and deeply with the financial interests of the commerce secretary’s own family, according to interviews with ethics lawyers and historians."
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Letter: The world the book banners dream of seems within reach
Letter: The world the book banners dream of seems within reach
Letter: The world the book banners dream of seems within reach
www.sltrib.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Letter: The world the book banners dream of seems within reach
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Behind Trump defense of Saudi crown prince, a deeper US shift on human rights reut.rs/4pkkiDu
Behind Trump defense of Saudi crown prince, a deeper US shift on human rights
When President Donald Trump defended Saudi Arabia's crown prince this week over the 2018 killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, he did more than just stir renewed accusations from critics of an affinity toward strongmen.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Behind Trump defense of Saudi crown prince, a deeper US shift on human rights reut.rs/4pkkiDu
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More and more corruption....
November 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
More and more corruption....
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Brendan Carr's latest completely bogus "investigation" is just a blatantly political threat to public media. The censorship czar is back, baby!
I'm not sure how Carr's expanding his jurisdiction to the BBC, but then the point is always just spreading fear and scoring cheap points with Trump.
I'm not sure how Carr's expanding his jurisdiction to the BBC, but then the point is always just spreading fear and scoring cheap points with Trump.
Trump's censor in chief at the FCC, Brendan Carr, just sent a letter to the heads of BBC, NPR and PBS informing them he's launching a "news distortion" probe into the BBC's editing of a documentary on Trump's Jan. 6 activities.
Here it is:
Here it is:
November 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Brendan Carr's latest completely bogus "investigation" is just a blatantly political threat to public media. The censorship czar is back, baby!
I'm not sure how Carr's expanding his jurisdiction to the BBC, but then the point is always just spreading fear and scoring cheap points with Trump.
I'm not sure how Carr's expanding his jurisdiction to the BBC, but then the point is always just spreading fear and scoring cheap points with Trump.
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Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
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November 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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Everyone needs to read this thread.
Everyone.
Everyone.
🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Everyone needs to read this thread.
Everyone.
Everyone.
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The great @timkarr.bsky.social explores why our nation's legacy media outlets are so allergic to covering protests in the newest edition of Pressing Issues.
pressingissues.org/to-the-natio...
(You'd already know how great this piece is if you were a subscriber!)
pressingissues.org/to-the-natio...
(You'd already know how great this piece is if you were a subscriber!)
To the Nation’s Dominant Media, No Kings Means No Coverage
Why many legacy media outfits are allergic to protest reporting
pressingissues.org
October 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The great @timkarr.bsky.social explores why our nation's legacy media outlets are so allergic to covering protests in the newest edition of Pressing Issues.
pressingissues.org/to-the-natio...
(You'd already know how great this piece is if you were a subscriber!)
pressingissues.org/to-the-natio...
(You'd already know how great this piece is if you were a subscriber!)
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Uh oh, the FCC Chairman is podcasting again.
Brendan Carr’s supposed efforts to “reinvigorate the public-interest standard” are really about bullying timid media executives and transforming their newsrooms into Trump mouthpieces.
New Pressing Issues out now! Subscribe!
Brendan Carr’s supposed efforts to “reinvigorate the public-interest standard” are really about bullying timid media executives and transforming their newsrooms into Trump mouthpieces.
New Pressing Issues out now! Subscribe!
Uh Oh, the FCC Chairman Is Podcasting Again
To Brendan Carr, the ‘public interest standard’ means whatever helps King Trump
pressingissues.org
October 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Uh oh, the FCC Chairman is podcasting again.
Brendan Carr’s supposed efforts to “reinvigorate the public-interest standard” are really about bullying timid media executives and transforming their newsrooms into Trump mouthpieces.
New Pressing Issues out now! Subscribe!
Brendan Carr’s supposed efforts to “reinvigorate the public-interest standard” are really about bullying timid media executives and transforming their newsrooms into Trump mouthpieces.
New Pressing Issues out now! Subscribe!
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Thank you, Chicago.
October 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Thank you, Chicago.
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New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
www.cnn.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
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This is Trump’s make-believe story to justify murder.
The Times never says so.
The closest the Times gets to anything like that in the first eight grafs is calling it “legally questionable” in graf four.
Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
The Times never says so.
The closest the Times gets to anything like that in the first eight grafs is calling it “legally questionable” in graf four.
Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
October 24, 2025 at 4:57 AM
This is Trump’s make-believe story to justify murder.
The Times never says so.
The closest the Times gets to anything like that in the first eight grafs is calling it “legally questionable” in graf four.
Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
The Times never says so.
The closest the Times gets to anything like that in the first eight grafs is calling it “legally questionable” in graf four.
Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
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Phang: One man has single-handedly disenfranchised 813,000 voters in the state of Arizona, all because he wants to kiss the ass of convicted felon Donald Trump.
October 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Phang: One man has single-handedly disenfranchised 813,000 voters in the state of Arizona, all because he wants to kiss the ass of convicted felon Donald Trump.
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Hasan: The great irony is of course that Donald Trump is the son of an immigrant. The grandson of an immigrant and married to an immigrant. In fact two of his three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do.
October 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Hasan: The great irony is of course that Donald Trump is the son of an immigrant. The grandson of an immigrant and married to an immigrant. In fact two of his three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do.
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
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White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT
White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers
White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.
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October 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT
Join me for 50 new songs on @krclradio.bsky.social from 7-10pm mountain. krcl.org/listen-live/
October 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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