Sam Dodini

Never mind Trump, if Douthat thinks he wants to try standing before the Judgment Throne of God and rely on his own ability to love and forgive his enemies to get him into Heaven, he’s going to be more surprised than Trump will be on that day.

Democrats keep winning in Utah because the establishment has turned a blind eye to the conservative grassroots. The legislature did nothing to stop taxpayer-funded benefits to illegal immigrants. Kept gender fluidity throughout state code and did nothing when activist judges redrew a gerrymandered map. Cost of living is through the roof, putting foreigners over Utahns. These are just the tip of the iceberg issues too.

CAN SOMEONE WALK ME THROUGH HOW THIS MAKES SENSE By the time I retire at 65, I'll have paid roughly $480,000 into Social Security between my contributions and my employer's match. If that same money had just sat in an index fund averaging 7%, it would be worth about $2.1M. The dividends alone off that would be $147,000 a year. Instead, the government is projecting I'll get $2,600 a month at 65. That's about $31,200 a year. Someone explain the gap between those two numbers, because I genuinely don't understand where the rest of it goes.

“I do hate some of my enemies, and I always will,” says President Trump. cbsn.ws/4epCFnt

I made 15-22k as a phd student at Minnesota during 2008-2013. I think Yale and other Ivies were paying 30-40k. I was fine. Don't forget that you are getting massively subsidized by the university! Economic value of your classes, workshops, supervisor time is likely 100k+/yr.

Scoop: Senate Democrats held a caucus wide call today to discuss the managers amendment changes to the permitting bill. Whitehouse and Heinrich were present. 3 Dem sources familiar said the call was productive and some members felt concerns were addressed

The Memphis Grizzlies are signing No. 32 pick Richie Saunders on a two-way NBA contract, Andy Shiffman and Mark Bartelstein of @PrioritySports tell ESPN. Saunders -- rehabbing from a torn ACL in February -- has been cleared to increase his on-court activities and the move allows him to begin practicing with the Grizzlies.

Trump names Stephen Miller chief of staff, succeeding Susie Wiles There are few officials in the administration more closely associated with the Trump policies/demeanor that led to Tuesday's midterms rebuke. So this is a very instructive move.

.@JamesTalarico: There was a lot of talk in this campaign about what it means to be a man, and I wanted to take that discussion head-on. When I got those attacks, I told the story of my adoptive dad, Mark Talarico — the man who gave me his last name, the man who raised me as his own. Every Saturday morning, my dad would mow our lawn, rain or shine, and then he would go next door and mow our neighbor’s lawn because she was an elderly widow. He never talked about it. He just did it. A man upholds his commitments to his family and to his neighbors. A man does what’s right even when no one is watching. That’s the kind of man I try to be every day, and I hope that’s the kind of man young guys across this state and country will try to be going forward.

You know if you detrend this and do a little eyeball adjustment for Covid this sorta looks like a shape… trying to think of a name for that shape… maybe a “J”

Monitoring the Situation from the RCA Circle Bed, the ultimate in personal environment.

The Brewers regarded smoking cigarettes before games as a good luck charm and their motto was ‘if we smoke heaters in the cage, we will smoke heaters in the game’ Christian Yelich on this: “You walk by the cage and see the cigs lit and you’re like, the boys are ready to rock.” (Via @JeffPassan)

You know who actually is sending their best? Whoever’s in charge of LDS missionaries. I’ll never convert but I’m always impressed