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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My high school best friend slash college roommate just texted me to tell me his future son-in-law will be at my marriage green card seminar at BYU-Idaho tomorrow. (His daughter would also be there except she has a class.) Currently feeling my age (old).

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Three shows that absolutely should have been in the top 100 (heck, in the top 10) TV shows of the 2000s. NYT screwed up. 1. Fargo 2. Firefly 3. Arcane

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I didn't care about pop music when I was a teenager in the 90's. We didn't have Spotify--or any form of music from the internet at all--and I still found plenty of classic rock, prog rock, and prog metal to make me happy. Why in the world would I care about pop music now?

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jim Risch put out a mailer touting his work "DEFENDING IDAHO'S PUBLIC LANDS." How? By stopping a large wind energy project (eye roll). Had it been a strip mine instead I doubt he would have cared.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Crap. My latest post just escaped containment.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Myself and other immigration attorneys have noticed that the government has paused most citizenship applications that have already been approved and are only waiting for a swearing-in-ceremony. Our guess is that they're intentionally delaying these until after the mid-term election.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Asked to speak on Sunday on whatever topic I wish, but encouraged to use a specific talk in preparation. The talk: "We congratulate those bishoprics who are eliminating announcements that detract from the spirit of our worship." Me: um.... (And yes, I'll find a way to sneak that in.)

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Report: Bishopric didn't seem thrilled about reading the letter. A brave woman stood up and walked out, her 5 kids behind her.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Am I the only one who liked the Supergirl movie more than the latest Superman movie? Give a good kid a nice upbringing and even with every super power imaginable he's just boring. Male version of a Mary Sue. Makes for a nice person in real life but a boring character for a movie.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Edible bands? I started a list but they were almost all animals (Camel, Fish, Wolverine, Pavlov's Dog) and I started getting grossed out. The non-animal one? Black Noodle Project--highly recommended for Pink Floyd fans.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oddest job: either feeding tadpoles (fun but pretty dull except for the one time I ran away from a skunk) or hooking up people to a bunch of wires--including one that went down their nose and into their throat!--and watching their brain waves etc. on a screen while they slept.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The most recent BYU Law magazine (which I receive even though I didn't attend law school there) has a section on what BYU Law faculty are currently reading--and it includes Steven Peck's psychological horror, A Short Stay in Hell (I DID take Peck's Ecology course following his fight with a

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Spencer Cox did in fact break, but not because he tried to heal American politics. I hate to say this about my 4th cousin once removed, but he broke when he decided to pull an Anakin Skywalker and turned to the dark side.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's happening way too frequently--I've prepped a case, it's ready to send out to USCIS (via FedEx because online filing is either unreliable or not a possibility) and DHS announces new "guidance" (or in this case sends out private letters which others then announce) which change everything.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art

A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’”

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My youngest is entering the 7th grade today. We moved to the next town over a couple of weeks ago--to a much better and bigger school district. Fortunately he has a cousin at the school, and one of our new neighbors has a couple classes with him and rides the bus with him.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Welp, this is going to be the last move I ever make. Moving sucks. Everything else surrounding the move is fantastic.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Typical for the Trump administration to align itself with an unqualified predator.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Just stopped by the Roy Utah Harmons to get some good bread before returning to Idaho and the store is evacuated. Lots of emergency vehicles, store employees hanging out well away from the entrance.

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 06/08/2026

Really? Because I keep seeing them in charge of everything from car dealerships to the White House, and they seem to doing just fine despite their obvious handicaps.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The wife's usually not pleased when I buy Lego sets, but she's excited for the new big X-Files set. With new releases they sometimes offer a smaller "gift with purchase" for the first few days of availability--so my lab-working wife will also be getting a surprise Scully-in-the-lab mini set.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Spent most of yesterday telling a bunch of my clients to avoid airports because even though many of them were in legal status before they filed for a green card, the government's taking so long to process their green cards that they've fallen out of legal status.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Packing stuff up for a move and found a booklet of outside readings Thomas Griffith put together for his Fall 2004 institute course (he later became a DC Circuit judge and introduced Justice Jackson to the Senate).

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Greatest line in a song? Tonight, it's Savatage: "Think you're fitting in but you hope you're not."

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hot take: I love European-style bakeries but the Cardamom fad they're all doing is...not great. Just not a top-tier spice.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Seeing reactions to reactions re: a certain senator's death and for some reason this cartoon comes to mind... Condolences to family and friends is fine. Praise for the traitor and Trump lickspittle not so much. We shouldn't act like the GOP is still the party of Bush, Romney, and McCain.

Eagles wondering my Mr. Mouse doesn't like Owl, who's always been nice to the Eagles.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A British sci-fi-ish detective show with a rocking soundtrack--how have I never heard of Life on Mars before?

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lindsey Graham's soul died 10 years ago, when he went from a friend of John McCain and an enemy of Trump to a MAGA lickspittle. Personally I think Trump had Kompromat on him--probably fairly inconsequential stuff that would have still cost him his senate seat. May he get everything he deserves.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Been putting off getting a haircut ever since my barber was arrested (fantastic guy, struggles with addiction) and as I struggle to decide which hair place to put my trust in next I can't help but blame our stupid penal system.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Guy in church is wearing a red tie with a thick blue X. The X has white stars in it. Not sure if he mistakenly thinks it's patriotic because it has elements of the USA flag or if he knows it's the Confederate flag.

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Lo @morningfog.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Damn, this poem really knocked me out. Artist Sandra Boynton posted this: My son Keith wrote this powerful sad strangely inspiring poem this morning, and it completely upended me. #IndependenceDay From www.instagram.com/p/DLscHbtM3aH/

July 4, 2025

PATRIA

You do not love her less when her skirts are torn,
Her standard bloody, dragged in the mud,
Her ankles fettered, chafed, her eyes cast down,
Her ghoulish captors dancing in her defeat;

This is the time, instead, to love her more,
With all the fervency of desperate hope,
Which sees, beyond the black horizon, fire
That may be battle, or the burst of dawn.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Idaho Falls 2026 dining awards and my takes on them: 1. Best Burger. Blue Wave somehow got #1 and they're mediocre. I haven't tried Burly Burger, but Sully's Gastro Pub (ranked #3) is incredible and deserves the #1 spot. 2. Best Diner: Dixie's Diner. Agreed.

digital.idahofallsmagazine.com

2026 Dining Awards Winners

Great food brings people together, and Idaho Falls is full of places worth celebrating. We asked our readers to vote for their favorite restaurants, cafés, and dining spots, and the results are in.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The local Costco is 15 minutes from where our new house will be and the local Sam's Club is only 5 minutes away (!) and I'm feeling guilty about considering trading in the Costco membership for a Sam's Club membership.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Under contract for a new house! Great location, nice neighborhood. Seller for the bigger one we were looking at rejected our reasonable offer (and we weren't willing to go higher) so we went with the smaller--but still big enough--option.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

“Take this 33 year old Middle Eastern activist. No job, just travels around all days with his friends criticizing hard working entrepreneurs like the money changers. Do we really want someone like that in the US?”

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Seriously wondering what kompromat Trump has on 4 of the Supreme Court justices.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

My opinion of the Supreme Court has been extremely low of late, but it wasn't "5-4 on an issue as black and white as birthright citizenship" low. Wow.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Anyone remember those Magic Eye pictures? They were popular when I was in middle school, and I hated them. As hard as I tried, I could never see the secret image. I was reminded of them today and I decided to look up why I always struggled--and I found out it's because I have amblyopia.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Two houses we're looking at--both in nice neighborhoods and convenient locations (our most important criteria). Big differences are size and cost. Which one would you choose, all else being equal?

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Trying to temporarily ignore today's Supreme Court decisions, but the absolute blindness of the majority when it comes to very blatant racism is just astounding. Trump literally says Haitians are poisoning the blood of the American people and 6 justices claim they can't see the racism.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Several months ago an employee quit and set up her own "immigration services" company, giving legal advice even though she's not an attorney. She marketed her services to some of my clients at discounted prices. She's a hard worker but she also has an over-inflated sense of her own expertise.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Back in the office yesterday after a vacation to the happiest place on Earth (Denmark!) and opened a letter stating Idaho Falls was cutting power to my office all day today. So staff rescheduled some appointments, and I gave them today off (paid).

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

this is a story about a person who fled to seattle because their life was threatened because of who they are, the other a person who fled seattle because he was a selfish and entitled person who felt out of place these are not the same www.npr.org/2026/06/08/n...

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The red state, blue state divide is real. But it's driven by more than just politics

Recent research suggests there's more going on with "ideological sorting" than simply moving to places that match one's politics. It's often one of many deciding factors, such as taxes or safety.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The first thing I noticed in the video of 9th Circuit Judge Ryan Douglas Nelson attacking a dude and breaking his glasses is that Judge Ryan Douglas Nelson parks like an entitled asshole. The second thing is that he picks fights in parking lots which will get him killed. /1

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

We wanted to understand what’s happening with the Strait of Hormuz. So we talked to five raw milk drinkers at an emergency room in Idaho.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 06/06/2026