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Many Utahns scolded me for not having Crown Burger last time I was here

In a new NYT interview, Hasan Piker says that many “understand” Luigi Mangione killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson because Thompson himself was guilty of “social murder”

Sharon McMahon, whose invitation to speak at Utah Valley University’s graduation was revoked last week over safety concerns, pushed back in a New York Times response, accusing lawmakers and Turning Point USA of orchestrating a pressure campaign against her. In her statement, McMahon said a U.S. senator who had mocked the assassination of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, along with three other members of Congress, the Utah Senate president, the House speaker and two budget committee members joined the effort to cancel her appearance. She noted that one state representative publicly called for withholding university funding and coordinated the campaign on a public platform. The effort was led by Turning Point USA, the group founded by Charlie Kirk that has advocated for free speech on campuses. McMahon pointed out that Utah passed a 2024 law requiring public universities to host speakers with diverse viewpoints — a law she said some of the same lawmakers who supported it later worked to undermine in her case. “Defamation requires a false statement,” McMahon wrote. “What I did was post direct quotes of Charlie Kirk’s own words.” She said threats against the university and her emerged only after the campaign began, unlike her two previous appearances at UVU. McMahon condemned Kirk’s Sept. 10 assassination and reaffirmed her support for free speech. “Free speech was for Charlie. It’s for you and for me,” she wrote. “Either free speech is for everyone, or it’s for no one.” McMahon closed with a reference to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Either we go up together or we go down together. I choose up.” (Full context and NYT story linked in comments)

BREAKING: Not a single Michigan Democrat in the House Judiciary Committee voted for a bill which would ban sex offenders from working near childcare facilities

NEW: Leader John Thune on the SAVE America Act per Punchbowl news: “If we don't have other pressing stuff in front of us that has to get done, then we’ll see about getting that going.” What’s more pressing than the SAVE America Act? The Trump agenda is being sabotaged from within.

The view from the Anderson home at Taufer Park today… crack kills..among other things…thats for sure. The things that they have seen over the years living there.. since 1977..1 year before I was born. Thankfully it is still improving, but there are cracks in the system..😆