Erin Alberty

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

GWAR

🎶HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE MARIA?
HOW DO YOU HOLD A MOONBEAM IN YOUR HAND🎶

Here is Lake Michigan.

I’m a community college professor here in VA and this article made me so proud. I remembered a moment where I walked into class the first day to find two students speaking Portuguese. One was Angolan. One was Brazilian. They found each other, in an English class in the NRV. That is a CC.

Utah vaccine exemption rate rises to No. 2 in nation The biggest jumps are mostly in heavily conservative parts of the state.

Utah now has the nation's 2nd highest rate of vaccine waivers, per new CDC data. Meanwhile, kids are about to return to school amid outbreaks of measles and whooping cough. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Yosemite employees worked for weeks with no pay before the government hired them Seasonal employees counting on housing at Yosemite were asked to volunteer for the park while the government was unable to onboard them at the start of the summer.

Seasonal employees counting on housing at Yosemite were asked to volunteer for the park while the government was unable to onboard them at the start of the summer.

pair of child’s drawings of animals. one is of a brown dog and reads “i’m a dog and i like it!” the second reads “it’s ok to be stinky sometimes” and features a black bear with stink lines and flies surrounding him.

at the powderhorn art fair this weekend there was a young girl selling some original work for $1 each alongside her dad’s prints. i mean… how could i resist these

No, but a lot of my friends are so it sounded interesting!

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

A dozen brand new pickleball courts are now OPEN out at Glendale Park. I know available courts are hard to come by in Salt Lake City — so this is HUGE news for us picklers.

Lawsuit against Mormon church moves forward in sexual abuse case Clergy-penitent privilege may not apply, judges write in unanimous ruling reversing earlier dismissal.

ICYMI: High-profile lawsuit moves forward against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Arizona sex abuse case. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

A lil TL cleanse for the aces fans mad at the L and lynx fans worried about phee #WNBA

Ms. Belsky said these kinds of suggestions helped the company create its first billboard campaign aimed at college students. “Can you quiz me on the muscles of the leg?” asked one ChatGPT billboard, posted this spring in Chicago. “Give me a guide for mastering this Calc 101 syllabus,” another said. Ms. Belsky said OpenAI had also begun funding research into the educational effects of its chatbots. “The challenge is, how do you actually identify what are the use cases for A.I. in the university that are most impactful?” Ms. Belsky said during a December A.I. event at Cornell Tech in New York City. “And then how do you replicate those best practices across the ecosystem?”

Weird how the strategy is to get everyone using it and then figure out the use cases. Seems inverted. 🤷🏿‍♂️

It's shocking that a company as big as Delta cannot:

1. Collect phone numbers in the order they were received & call back when the wait time is more than 1 hour. Hell, make it a service I pay for. At this point I don't care, because I wish I were dead.

2. Give us a no-godawful-hold-music option.

Donald Trump to fire US labour statistics boss after weak jobs report President says he will replace Bureau of Labor Statistics head with ‘someone much more competent and qualified’

Trump to fire US labour statistics boss after weak jobs report https://on.ft.com/44Ze2d6

imagine being the night watchman here

Job growth slowed meaningfully in July, past months revised down sharply The job market had appeared strong so far this year, even amid volatile markets and trade wars.

U.S. employment barely budged in July, while prior job gains were revised to be much weaker than initially thought. It's the first major indicator to point to danger ahead for the U.S. economy.

My local radio station does 801 day every August 1st and plays tonnnsss of incredible local music all day - tune in for Salt Lake City treasures ❤️

krcl.org/listen-live/

ADL web gone

Shortly after Trump’s election in November, the Internet Archive registered major changes to ADL’s website. Sections devoted to voting rights, racial justice, and other civil-rights issues were all gone. (3/x)

new bug just dropped

SLC weighs in on leaving dog poop in strangers' garbage cans Is it socially acceptable to leave dog poop in someone else's trash? SLC readers have strong views.

Utahns have strong views about leaving dog poop bags in other people's garbage cans.

www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

It's not just the right-left balance, it's also the level of reflexive hostility in how people interact. I'm not trying to be a civility cop or anything — I'm just saying it's noticeable.

Every time I got back to Twitter to check in, I'm like, "Whoa, yikes." It feels very much like you need to have spent time marinating in the space to see the tone there as normal. (That said, I might be getting my own brain cooked elsewhere. Who knows! 😂)

Kids can't go to Utah breweries — but one is finding a workaround A temporary permit gives Utah families a taste of drinking norms elsewhere.

A beer garden? That allows kids? In Utah?

It can happen!

www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

Now we're at the point where he runs to the sink with great excitement whenever he hears ice cubes clinking in it.

Statuette of Thoth with an ibis coming out of his face.

"So when you say Thoth is ibis-headed, does that mean he has a head like an ibis, or an ibis coming out of his face?"

"Ibis coming out of his face, definitely."

(www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...)

Israel’s new measures do nothing to stop the starvation crisis in Gaza, say aid workers Humanitarian workers say airdrops and corridors to allow trucks into region have done little to stop the rising death toll

Aid groups report that Israel is refusing to allow any olives or other “fruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted” into Gaza. They will only allow in pitted olives.

Oops! Pro-Choice Senator Admits Vote For Anti-Abortion Judge Was ‘A Mistake’ The Maine senator says he was "not fully” aware of Josh Divine’s record, but "took Josh Hawley’s advice” to confirm him to a lifetime federal judgeship.

NEW: Sen. Angus King admits he made "a mistake" when he voted Tuesday to confirm Josh Divine, an 35-year-old archconservative with a long record of attacking abortion rights, to a lifetime federal judgeship.

“I took Josh Hawley’s advice." www.huffpost.com/entry/angus-... w/ @igorbobic.bsky.social

omg the final pegs. (We're at Chappell Brewing #slc btw. Fun partay, family friendly!)