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"Everyone wants American turtles" latimes.com/lifestyle/story/…

How Fox News' Sean Hannity went from house painter to Trump whisperer deseret.com/entertainment/20…

They’re against abortion. So why is Abolitionists Rising at odds with most abortion opponents? deseret.com/u-s-world/2026/1…

People die every day at the hands of others. Nowhere does the taking of a life appear to be so difficult as when carried out by a U.S. state in the service of justice. deseret.com/opinion/2026/10/…

How can you NOT believe in God when octopuses dream and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little skin pocket and cows have best friends and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through dancing and they have regional dialects? Cats are purring at frequencies associated with bone healing? Forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing flowers? Dolphins literally invent names for themselves and yell them across the ocean? Penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the perfect rock to give their partner? CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS. Goats have accents. Rats laugh when you tickle them. Elephants mourn their dead. Whales make songs and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new song. Monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place they have never been. Sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an ocean that they have never seen, disappear into it for like 3 decades and then somehow come back to the same beach they hatched on. Birds can see colors that we humans can’t see. There are colors out there right now that we don’t even get to know about. There are sea slugs that eat algae and use the chloroplast/chlorophyll and then are just like…photosynthesizing. And they’re super adorable. There are mushrooms communicating underground. There are seeds sitting in the dirt for decades like “no actually I will wait. It’s fine.” Squirrels plant trees because they forget where they put their snacks. Relatable. A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG THAT IT CREATES ITSELF AND DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC GOO AND REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND THEN LEAVES. WHY IS THIS NOT MORE BEAUTIFULLY TERRIFYING TO PEOPLE?? And you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a huge tree? It just has a blueprint inside itself? Your body started as ONE CELL. ONE. And that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on electricity without you even asking it to? The iron in our blood was made inside a star?? We are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of fire and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live? We’re supposed to act like this is all just a random, accidental sequence of events?

Most people let the anniversary of the discovery of penicillin go by unnoticed this week. Not me. deseret.com/opinion/2026/09/…

“Two pillars of light will rise from the highest peak in the Northeast as a powerful symbol of resilience, gratitude, and unity.” trib.al/jrivU7H

Sometimes you just like people without ever even meeting them.

This is not sounding good, but shout out to all the Jackie fans showing up at the clinic because they care so much deseret.com/lifestyle/2026/0…

Love this story, love this idea, love this practice, love everything about it. That said, not sure how it would go over in New England.

Everything you need to know about Norway from a failed Viking deseret.com/opinion/2026/07/…

He wrote the book on Michael Jackson. Now he runs a hiking company in Utah deseret.com/lifestyle/2026/0…

Today @USDA @SecRollins and I secured a major win for animal welfare. Ridglan Farms will transfer its remaining 475 beagles out of a research breeding facility and into the care of a no-kill rescue, where they can begin the path to adoption. Thank you, @LaraLeaTrump, for championing this issue. We are also launching a new @NIH office, ORIVA, to speed the transition away from animal testing and toward modern, human-based science. We will keep fighting for humane treatment of animals, better science, and accountability.

“Do we have to live with the assumption that every thing we say and do is recorded?” @grahamtoday writes.

I was nervous talking to a religiously affiliated publication about pornography. I thought they might be looking for a gotcha quote. But @grahamtoday was very fair-minded about a complicated topic that deserves more attention and nuance.

The Ridglan beagles are all over the news, but how did commercially bred beagles even wind up in laboratories? I am truly obsessed by this story, which has a surprising tie to Utah deseret.com/politics/2026/06…

Finally broke down and set up a @Chewy account, and it gives me options under "Farm Animals" to check that I have a bear or a bison but not a donkey. 🤔

"Wouldn't it be great if you could take some of my friends in New York and put them in Wyoming, and take my Wyoming friends and family and put them in New York and give them three months and say good luck" — @DanaPerino deseret.com/politics/2026/04…

What people are saying about whether the military action in Iran meets the definition of a 'just' war deseret.com/politics/2026/04…

My National Review subscription renewal pleas have a Tony Soprano vibe.