Dave Calder

Among other things.

Senator John Curtis on X Today's ruling affirms, despite all the noise of the moment, that the Founders' system of checks and balances remains strong nearly 250 years later. Several questions remain unanswered, including what happens to the revenue already collected and how the Administration may use alternative authorities to impose tariffs. Looking ahead, it is critical that we provide the clarity and predictability businesses need.

“Checks and balances remain strong”?

Your man used the military to invade Venezuela, is now selling their oil and has put at least $1B of those profits in a Qatar bank controlled by him.

Seems like it was just yesterday...

• Engaged in breathtaking corruption: as the conservative writer David Frum stated, “Trump’s scale of stealing and bribe-taking has never been remotely paralleled in any democratic country ever before.”

• Shaken down some of the country’s largest universities by illegally threatening to withhold funding; and

• Violated court orders on a massive scale. As the Chief District Judge of Minnesota recently wrote, “ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence;”

• Tried to impose ruinous and unconstitutional sanctions on some of the country’s largest law firms simply because Trump doesn’t like them;

• Threatened to seize the territory of a sovereign nation (a NATO ally no less);

• Sought to imprison United States Senators simply for exercising their free speech rights by reminding military personnel of their undisputed duty to disobey illegal orders;

• Released hundreds of imprisoned felons who brutally beat Capitol police officers on January 6;

• Converted the once-independent Department of Justice into an instrument of personal retribution via the prosecution of cooked-up lawsuits against the President’s enemies;

• Killed dozens of civilians on the high seas solely on the unsubstantiated claim that they were drug runners (not that being drug runners would justify their summary executions without due process anyway);

• Unleashed thousands of minimally trained ICE agents, recruited with explicitly white supremacist messaging, to inflict terror on people of color;

This is not hyperbole or hyperventilation. It is our reality, as the facts amply demonstrate. This administration has:

• Murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti, slandered them as “domestic terrorists” and “assassins,” and allowed their killers to walk free;

The most powerful crime syndicate in history It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is essentially acting as a massive criminal enterprise. It lies, steals, extorts and murders – all while cloaked ...

“It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is essentially acting as a massive criminal enterprise. It lies, steals, extorts and murders – all while cloaked in the awesome authority of the state. It is on a crime spree that puts Al Capone to shame.”

400 Christian leaders urge resistance to Trump administration on Ash Wednesday The statement’s signers include a mix of denominational leaders, seminary presidents, scholars and leaders of prominent congregations.

“If we as Christians fail to speak and act now—clearly, courageously, and prophetically—we will be remembered not only for the injustices committed in our time, but for the righteous possibilities we allowed to die in our hands. History and future generations will record our choices…”

UK blocking Trump from using RAF bases for strikes on Iran The disagreement over the use of British sites is behind the US president’s withdrawal of support for the Chagos Islands deal, The Times understands

"The Times understands that the UK is yet to give permission for the US to use the bases in the event that Trump orders a strike on Iran, owing to concerns that it would be a breach of international law."

This is a BIG deal given the US-UK military relationship.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Homeland Security Hires Labor Dept. Aide Whose Posts Raised Alarms

“During her tenure as labor secretary, thousands of department employees have been pushed out of the federal service. Her department has also broadcast social media messages that echoed those used by white nationalists.”

This couple is keeping the inspector general busy.

Yikes!

Study visually captures hard truth: Walking home at night is not the same for women An eye-catching new BYU study shows just how different the experience of walking home at night is for women versus men.

“While men tended to focus on the path or a fixed object (like a light, the walking path or a garbage can), the women’s visual pattern represented a scanning of the perimeter (bushes, dark areas next to a path).”

One of my younger kids “Dad didn’t let us drink blue or green drinks?”

Are you concerned about children who might die because we gratuitously and needlessly cut billions of dollars of foreign aid? That's toxic empathy. Are you worried about the conditions in detention facilities where migrants are held by the thousands? That's more toxic empathy. Are you shocked and appalled at ICE's aggression in the streets? Well, then, you're losing your moorings. Mass deportation was always going to be tough to watch. Stay strong. Don't let empathy seep into your soul. But this problem extends well beyond public policy into the fundamental cruelty and callousness of the culture of the new right. It is no coincidence that the attack on empathy correlates with an extraordinary rise in blatant racism, antisemitism and Islamophobia on the right.

“That's exactly how empathy becomes a sin.

And because empathy is a sin, virtually any appeal to consider the suffering of Trump's opponents becomes yet more proof that Christians are being manipulated, that their emotions are used against them.”

“I've shared this statistic before, but if you look at 2024 exit polling, you'll see that Trump won white evangelical and born-again voters by a 65-point margin, 82 percent to 17 percent. He lost everyone else by 18 points, 58 percent to 40 percent.”

Black History Month Is Radical Now A nation that wants to forget its past must be reminded of all of it.

“Gift Article”

“… [George Washington] brought men and women he had enslaved with him, and rotated them between Philadelphia and Mount Vernon, in Virginia, so that they would not earn their liberty under Pennsylvania law. He shuffled them back and forth so …”

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I used to live in San Antonio where we would get the aquifer level report with the weather. In Utah we get the snowpack level. Not good this year.

Yeah. Here’s another report on the Colorado River situation.

“Powell is about 25 percent full, and Mead is at about 34 percent. If Powell’s water level drops another 40 or so feet, which it could this year, there won’t be enough water to generate hydroelectric power at Glen Canyon Dam.”

My grandkids drink my Gatorade so I guess I’ve only traumatized one generation. 😄

Image showing a Mountain Dew bottle and a Windex bottle - both with blue fluids. Two identical glasses are filled with blue liquid. Caption says “Let’s play a game”

One of my daughters posted this on the family chat. Her son (my grandson) sent it to her. Apparently, during my kids’ childhoods they remember me telling them not to drink anything colored like this and now they tease me every time they see me drinking Gatorade that looks like radiator fluid.

Republicans, Southerners, Trump backers and nearly half of LDS are likely to support Christian nationalist ideas A new PRRI data shows deep divisions over the place of Christian nationalism in the U.S. In fact, Latter-day Saints are evenly split over those ideas.

A new PRRI report shows that only about 10% of Americans are Christian nationalist adherents.
Nearly half (49%) of Latter-day Saints, however, are either adherents or at least sympathetic to Christian nationalist ideas.

U.S. Military Moves Into Place for Possible Strikes in Iran

In this entire piece there is not a hint of even a semblance of a legal argument for how a war of this scale would be legal or authorized.

There is quite simply no legal or constitutional authority for Trump to launch a war of choice against Iran.

None. Zero. Nothing.