Joseph Shelton

Believe it or not, I just discovered Tom Lehrer last week! After a few tracks I was surprised to learn the recording was from the 60s since it’s still so relevant.

Utah state senator Daniel Thatcher stood on principle and refused to go along with fellow Republicans on several issues

He was harassed by GOP power brokers and left the party, joining the Utah Forward Party

I love independence and conscience in this time of deceit. Good on Mr Thatcher

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”

-Declaration of Independence

Who am I to judge another
When I walk imperfectly?
In the quiet heart is hidden
Sorrow that the eye can’t see.
Who am I to judge another?
Lord, I would follow thee.

Susan Evans McCloud

Definitely my 2nd favorite, after the blue and green one 🌏

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I understand the sentiment of folks seeing the bike infrastructure and feeling like it’s the culprit of their neighborhood changing. But gentrification has often deeper causes, such as a lack of affordable housing in a region, leading to middle class folks to look for housing in low-income areas

I met some of the Forest Service firefighters at the grocery store just now. They had soot on their hands and faces. They’re working on the mountain through the night. One of them said, “It’s definitely a labor of love!”

I’m glad to live in a world with people like them.

The security reason to electrify transport is not about oil imports, it’s economic resilience. Oil powers 90% of US vehicles, so when the price of oil spikes because of a war, people & companies pay more for energy, which hurts the economy. The more transport is electrified, econ security goes up.

I can’t wait for the trail extension up to Deer Creek Reservoir!

- planets around fast rotating stars

- planets around pulsating variable stars
-- planets that affect the pulsation of their parent star

- by density
-- planets denser than iron
-- planets denser than water
-- super-puffs
-- rocky worlds too dense for chemical rockets to reach escape velocity

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

Kind PSA: If I’m crossing the street (especially with my kids) and you (a driver) are arriving at a stop sign or red light, please come to a complete stop. Don’t inch forward. It’s not just the law, it’s also the safe thing to do, especially if kids are crossing. Trust me, you’re not saving any time

Few things give me more pleasure than being on a train absolutely hauling ass past stopped traffic.

Katy Trail in Dallas on a Saturday afternoon.

They built one piece of car free infrastructure and it’s so crowded you can’t even bike on it.

In the center is an elliptical galaxy, seen as an oval-shaped glow around a small bright core. Around this is wrapped a broad band of light, appearing like a spiral galaxy stretched and warped into a ring, with bright blue lines drawn through it where the spiral arms have been stretched into circles. A few distant objects are visible around the ring on a black background.

#PPOD: This new NASA/ESA/CSA JWST image features a rare cosmic phenomenon called an Einstein ring. What at first appears to be a single, strangely shaped galaxy is actually two galaxies that are separated by a large distance. The closer foreground galaxy sits at the center of the image... 🧪 🔭

Thank you for your attitude of optimistic perseverance, Tom.

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Captured by satellite: Great Salt Lake's dust threatens air quality in Utah cities A weather satellite captured a rare event, showing a large plume of dust blowing off the shrinking Great Salt Lake and into nearby communities.

A NOAA satellite captured something pretty wild (and the image was recently shared with me): a powerful wind storm blowing dust from the exposed lake bed of the Great Salt Lake into nearby communities.

I saw it again from the ground today: www.fox13now.com/news/great-s... #utpol #Utah

This is my old city journalist brain firing but I believe that the USA way of isolating everybody into unwalkable suburbia, requiring private cars for existence, & removing true public space has had a disastrous effect on the US's sense of community & empathy and we must, but won't, deal with that

Rep. Clancy's bill providing free school lunches to children in need (and demanding districts not stigmatize kids who rack up school lunch debt) PASSES the legislature: le.utah.gov/Session/2025... Off to Gov. Cox's desk. #utpol

A frame from the film The Godfather (1972) showing Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone looking distraught. Caption: "Look how they massacred my boy"

A beautiful canvas 🎨

I cannot overstate how it enrages me that I, a driver of a car, seem to be among a dwindling number of drivers who devote their full attention to driving the car.

I understand what my responsibilities are when operating a 2-ton machine which can kill people and I take them life-and-death seriously.

Lots of great things happening this year! 🙌 Follow us to stay up to date on the project to #BuryTheRails

#nowonbluesky #RioGrandePlan #SaltLakeCity #Urbanism #PublicTransit #Trains

Photograph of a warehouse in Kinshasa where unboxed tuberculosis medications are going undistributed due to the stop work order by the Trump Administration.

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

The Pink Pony club shall ride with the Nauvoo Legion

If you wanted to decrease the cost of homes, one thing you wouldn’t do is put a flat tariff on your main source of timber.

Calls and text messages have flooded me in the last 72 hours from friends and colleagues in Sierra Leone and elsewhere: Are my meds going to be cut off? Am I going to die? I don't know what to tell them. I don't know what to tell anyone. Hope is my whole jam, but I feel very distant from it.