Dave's Notes
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Exploring Mormonism, Utah, and other things that interest me. Occasional photos.
Deseret Magazine: “Dave — who looks like the quintessential vacationing dad”
Deseret Magazine: “Dave — who looks like the quintessential vacationing dad”
Hanging out on the Interpreter Foundation’s TikTok page and I venture beyond the fold to see what may affect my well being… 😆
cc: @tokensandsigns.org I’m not sure if Interpreter or TikTok did this.
cc: @tokensandsigns.org I’m not sure if Interpreter or TikTok did this.
November 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Hanging out on the Interpreter Foundation’s TikTok page and I venture beyond the fold to see what may affect my well being… 😆
cc: @tokensandsigns.org I’m not sure if Interpreter or TikTok did this.
cc: @tokensandsigns.org I’m not sure if Interpreter or TikTok did this.
“Sexism”
A millennial and active LDS young women’s leader telling my wife what the reaction was from the young women when she asked “What do you think of when you hear the word ‘Priesthood’”
A millennial and active LDS young women’s leader telling my wife what the reaction was from the young women when she asked “What do you think of when you hear the word ‘Priesthood’”
Yesterday, my wife came back from lunch with 3 PIMO women, and they are ANGRY about this very thing: Patriarchy, polygamy, and the role of women in a church centered society.
November 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“Sexism”
A millennial and active LDS young women’s leader telling my wife what the reaction was from the young women when she asked “What do you think of when you hear the word ‘Priesthood’”
A millennial and active LDS young women’s leader telling my wife what the reaction was from the young women when she asked “What do you think of when you hear the word ‘Priesthood’”
Ezra Taft Benson did much damage to my generation
“…he doesn’t explicitly say women should stay home. He does say we should have more babies. But what the women I was with heard in his talk, and likely most of those Gen X or older, is an echo of all the many talks over the years… saying women should stay home and have lots of children.”
Guest Post: As a Gen Xer, President Oaks' Talk Was Hard - Exponent II Blog
Here’s the thing- he doesn’t explicitly say women should stay home. He does say we should have more babies. But what the women I was with heard in his talk, and likely most of those Gen X or older, is...
exponentii.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Ezra Taft Benson did much damage to my generation
“…he doesn’t explicitly say women should stay home. He does say we should have more babies. But what the women I was with heard in his talk, and likely most of those Gen X or older, is an echo of all the many talks over the years… saying women should stay home and have lots of children.”
Guest Post: As a Gen Xer, President Oaks' Talk Was Hard - Exponent II Blog
Here’s the thing- he doesn’t explicitly say women should stay home. He does say we should have more babies. But what the women I was with heard in his talk, and likely most of those Gen X or older, is...
exponentii.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“…he doesn’t explicitly say women should stay home. He does say we should have more babies. But what the women I was with heard in his talk, and likely most of those Gen X or older, is an echo of all the many talks over the years… saying women should stay home and have lots of children.”
Back in the day in Texas, away from Utah news, a ward member excitedly showed me all the Paul Dunn tapes he got at a steep discount at Deseret Book during our Temple trip to Dallas.
November 15, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Back in the day in Texas, away from Utah news, a ward member excitedly showed me all the Paul Dunn tapes he got at a steep discount at Deseret Book during our Temple trip to Dallas.
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How Blackrock destroyed a very profitable local home remodeling company through debt-based financing of the purchase.
This should be illegal. The people responsible should have both their corporate and personal assets seized, for them and their heirs.
www.startribune.com/how-a-privat...
This should be illegal. The people responsible should have both their corporate and personal assets seized, for them and their heirs.
www.startribune.com/how-a-privat...
www.startribune.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
How Blackrock destroyed a very profitable local home remodeling company through debt-based financing of the purchase.
This should be illegal. The people responsible should have both their corporate and personal assets seized, for them and their heirs.
www.startribune.com/how-a-privat...
This should be illegal. The people responsible should have both their corporate and personal assets seized, for them and their heirs.
www.startribune.com/how-a-privat...
Laughing at this. When I called Representative Blake Moore’s office about the GOP avoiding the vote on Epstein, his staffer fed me the line that “Oh, he voted to continue the investigation” which caused me to laugh on the phone with a “How stupid does he think his constituents are?”
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Laughing at this. When I called Representative Blake Moore’s office about the GOP avoiding the vote on Epstein, his staffer fed me the line that “Oh, he voted to continue the investigation” which caused me to laugh on the phone with a “How stupid does he think his constituents are?”
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as I said before, everyone keeps dancing around the fact that this is open nativist blood libel. This is how you legitimize mass dispossession, en masse, of an entire sub-population of a nation. And this is now an institutionalized belief in ostensibly the most powerful org in international finance.
Fed Governor Stephen Miran: "Cutting down net migration to 0, potentially even negative because of the deportations that have been occurring, I think is very deflationary."
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
as I said before, everyone keeps dancing around the fact that this is open nativist blood libel. This is how you legitimize mass dispossession, en masse, of an entire sub-population of a nation. And this is now an institutionalized belief in ostensibly the most powerful org in international finance.
It’s also funny how Republicans mistakenly think people care if Bill Clinton is also caught up in the Epstein files. So?
Per WSJ: Epstein email threads mentioning Clinton. The rest (the gray ones) mention Trump.
November 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
It’s also funny how Republicans mistakenly think people care if Bill Clinton is also caught up in the Epstein files. So?
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SCIENCE!! “By about 10,000 years ago, half of all the variation that we see today was already present in dog populations,” said Carly Ameen, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Exeter and one of the lead authors of the analysis. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/s...
The Dogs of 8,000 B.C. Were Amazingly Diverse
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
SCIENCE!! “By about 10,000 years ago, half of all the variation that we see today was already present in dog populations,” said Carly Ameen, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Exeter and one of the lead authors of the analysis. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/s...
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INBOX: @benmcadams.bsky.social announces that within the first 24 hours of his congressional campaign launch, he has raised $500,000. #utpol #Utah
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
INBOX: @benmcadams.bsky.social announces that within the first 24 hours of his congressional campaign launch, he has raised $500,000. #utpol #Utah
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I might be biased, but Salt Lake City has improved so much just over the last 6 years
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I might be biased, but Salt Lake City has improved so much just over the last 6 years
“Newsweek reached out to the White House by email to comment on this story outside of normal business hours.” 😆
Mark Epstein asked Jeffrey Epstein in an email to ask Steve Bannon if Vladimir Putin has "the photos of Trump blowing Bubba."
Donald Trump ‘Blowing Bubba’ Message in Epstein Emails Under Scrutiny
www.newsweek.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“Newsweek reached out to the White House by email to comment on this story outside of normal business hours.” 😆
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If you asked Trump supporters who was President and in charge of the federal prison system when Epstein was found dead in his cell, how many of them would correctly say Trump?
November 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
If you asked Trump supporters who was President and in charge of the federal prison system when Epstein was found dead in his cell, how many of them would correctly say Trump?
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“Bluesky must have some juice if scientists are subtweeting other scientists.” defector.com/let-us-now-c...
Let Us Now Celebrate Our Extinct Short King, Nanotyrannus | Defector
For decades, paleontologists have been terrorized by the notion of a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex. Starting in the 1940s, excavations unearthed skulls belonging to what appeared to be smaller and more sl...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“Bluesky must have some juice if scientists are subtweeting other scientists.” defector.com/let-us-now-c...
“In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we not only have a history of immigration, we have a modern practice of immigration, one we support, among other ways, through non-English speaking wards in the U.S.”
If it seems like all of my Mormon blogging these days is immigration-focused, well, all of my Mormon blogging these days is immigration-focused. 1/
USCCB and Immigration - By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog
When it comes to religion, immigration is not a left-right issue. Rather, the dignity of immigrants finds roots in Christian and Restoration scripture, in our history and rhetoric. Protecting the dign...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we not only have a history of immigration, we have a modern practice of immigration, one we support, among other ways, through non-English speaking wards in the U.S.”
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If it seems like all of my Mormon blogging these days is immigration-focused, well, all of my Mormon blogging these days is immigration-focused. 1/
USCCB and Immigration - By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog
When it comes to religion, immigration is not a left-right issue. Rather, the dignity of immigrants finds roots in Christian and Restoration scripture, in our history and rhetoric. Protecting the dign...
bycommonconsent.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If it seems like all of my Mormon blogging these days is immigration-focused, well, all of my Mormon blogging these days is immigration-focused. 1/
I’m glad the church did this. It’s too bad, in this case, it was done in a low-key way when that knowledge would have helped ease anxiety among the poor, but I suspect the church did not want to rile up its conservative base that supports a political party that uses food as a weapon.
November 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I’m glad the church did this. It’s too bad, in this case, it was done in a low-key way when that knowledge would have helped ease anxiety among the poor, but I suspect the church did not want to rile up its conservative base that supports a political party that uses food as a weapon.
“Last year, about 40% of the food the church produced went to food pantries across the country, he said, with the remaining 60% going to members in need, Carmen said. Two years ago, he noted, that ratio was reversed — 60% of the food that the church produced went to outsiders.”
LDS Church launches an ambitious plan to stock up food banks and celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday
The LDS Church will help celebrate next year’s 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by sending 250 semitrucks loaded with 20 tons of food to 250 food banks across all 50 states.
www.sltrib.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
“Last year, about 40% of the food the church produced went to food pantries across the country, he said, with the remaining 60% going to members in need, Carmen said. Two years ago, he noted, that ratio was reversed — 60% of the food that the church produced went to outsiders.”
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
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November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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Visiting F-22 catching the setting sun about an hour ago.
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Visiting F-22 catching the setting sun about an hour ago.
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It may not be official doctrine in a pedantic technical sense, but BYU teaches it as part of their required general education curricula, and I would not lose a bet on where President Oaks personally lands if pressed on the matter. No one seems willing to press these men though, which is a shame.
The Requisite Indoctrination of Queerphobia at BYU | Tokens and Signs
The LDS church claims they now oppose conversion therapy, but courses at BYU still teach conversion therapy principles, including that LGBTQ+ members will be "cured" through Celestial Conversion Thera...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:32 PM
It may not be official doctrine in a pedantic technical sense, but BYU teaches it as part of their required general education curricula, and I would not lose a bet on where President Oaks personally lands if pressed on the matter. No one seems willing to press these men though, which is a shame.