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Brian S. King

@briansking19.bsky.social
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Chair of Utah Democratic Party, attorney, former legislator, 2024 candidate for governor, working to build a party, and a Utah, that works for everyone.

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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Not a peep from Gov. Spencer Cox about this? Surprising that he makes no effort to defend his successor or Utah’s election integrity.
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead." ~ Molly Ivins
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Trump and Hegseth’s irresponsible leadership have left us weaker than at any time in decades.
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Renewable energy sources for Utah are clean, inexpensive, and growing!
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Renewable energy sources for Utah are clean, inexpensive, and growing. Good information about solar and wind power here: bit.ly/45DVfDs
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Don’t tell me both parties are the same. Democrats dump Franken, Swalwell, and Platner. Republicans nominate Trump (three times) and Ken Paxton. Republicans used to say character is destiny. Now only Democrats believe good character matters.
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Yesterday's results make loud and clear that political extremists like Adams, McCay, Lee, and toadies for data centers are not the elected officials Utahns want. Fool around and find out. Congrats to @BenMcAdams and other Utah Democrats who are advancing to the November general election!
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The Republican legislative supermajority and its lapdog Governor working to emasculate Utah’s judicial branch. It’s as simple as that.
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. -Anne Frank A 15 year old girl living in an attic then murdered by the Nazis. Was her belief misplaced? Is there any other good option than to believe as she did? Happy 97th birthday, Anne. RIP.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
‘A Crock of Shit’: Amid Misconduct Allegations, Broadview Six Transcripts Offer Rare Window into Grand Jury talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-crock...
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‘A Crock of Shit’: Amid Misconduct Allegations, Broadview Six Transcripts Offer Rare Window into Grand Jury
Grand jury sessions are among the most tightly held elements of the...
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Our Constitution and the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights make clear that government doesn’t take sides between different religious beliefs and doesn’t interfere with the free exercise of religion. Maybe we should stress those principles on this 250th anniversary of the United States?
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Spending this morning at Union 101 here at the Union Labor Center in SLC. Great turnout of labor leaders and candidates to get educated about the important role unions play in our state and country.
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. -Niccolo Machiavelli
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
“I know that the most dangerous form of government is theocracy. Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they’re on a mission from God.” There are many MAGA Republicans in Utah who believe religion and politics should be fused. Beware of them.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Trump has basically turned the presidency into a giant Bribe Delivery System. newrepublic.com/article/2092...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/04/2026
New in PN: The world's worst dealmaker screws up the Iran negotiations "All of Trump’s weaknesses as a negotiator are now on display: His childish understanding of power, his inability to grasp the perspective of his opponents, his belief that anything can be accomplished by threats and violence."
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The world's worst dealmaker screws up the Iran negotiations
Forget the "Art of the Deal” myth.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This Truth Social post will in the not-too-distant future serve as an illustration of Narcissistic Personality Disorder in college textbooks for courses in Abnormal Psychology in all languages the world over.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Reporter: Consumer sentiment plummeting to the lowest level on record. War-driven price hikes have really darkened the mood on Main Street. Consumer sentiment falling by 11% just between March and April.
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The GOP civil war is a good and necessary thing.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/04/2026
Buttigieg: "The big thing that's different now is that in many periods in American history, you have inflation and then the administration does things to reduce it. Right now, we have the administration actively making prices higher."
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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US inflation soars in March as war on Iran drives economy into uncertainty
Prices were up 3.3% over the year, adding to the unpredictability that first came with Trump tariffs
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much. -William Hazlitt
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone. -Miller Williams
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism. -Earl Warren
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/03/2026
we remain firmly on track for 'republican president leaves the country an omnishambles, next democratic president is punished for not cleaning it up fast enough'
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
We wouldn’t be where we are right now if Trump and the rest of the Epstein class had been held accountable for their crimes.
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Thanks, @robertgehrke.bsky.social, for this info on hardball tactics of Republican legislative leaders to silence dissent and retaliate against those who won't go along: bit.ly/3NfnHGk. We see the fruit of supermajority control. Political monopolies are just as bad as market monopolies.
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GOP lawmaker says rural jobs bill was killed, and he was mocked, for questioning $10M Pioneer Trail
In the final days of Utah's legislative session, Rep. Abbott voiced concerns about $10 million for The Pioneer Trail. He says it cost him his rural jobs bills.
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Anyone who believes Trump cares about the average working Utahn or U.S. citizen is living in a fantasy.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
We’ve never, ever had this before. A President completely untethered to truth. I mean completely untethered to truth. That’s such a bad thing. But you know what’s even worse? Way, way too many people don’t care. And way too much of the media no longer cares.
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Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It is possible to believe two things at once: That the long-suffering people of Iran deserve freedom from their despotic leaders, and that a bombing campaign by the current highly corrupt authoritarian government of America is unlikely to bring it.
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 28/02/2026
TRUMP’S IRAN WAR: we are starting a war illegally (ie without congressional approval), in order to obliterate Iran’s nuclear capability, which the White House has said it does not have any more as a result of the Trump administration’s attack on Iran last year? In short: An illegal pretextual war.
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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Once again, the founders foresaw Trump perfectly, what they failed to foresee was this supine Congress.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/02/2026
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
This. A hundred times, this.
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Hey Spencer J. Cox, Senator John Curtis, Senator Mike Lee, Rep. Blake Moore, Rep. Burgess Owens, Rep Celeste Maloy, and Rep Mike Kennedy, are you good with this? This is your President. Will any of you say a word in protest? You know this is sick. Please say something. Your silence enables this guy.
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Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I wrote a thread last March at the Stand Up for Science rally @standupforscience.bsky.social Here is Utah’s Democratic Chair Brian King @briansking19.bsky.social asking all of us to together help talk about the realities facing our world, locally and globally. bsky.app/profile/jkin...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/02/2026
Trump just said Republicans should “take over the voting and nationalize it.” That’s authoritarianism, full stop. The silence from elected Republicans is cowardice—and it’s dangerous heading into November. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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A Psychopath Talking About Seizing Elections—and a Party Too Cowardly to Stop Him
“This isn’t a policy disagreement. It’s authoritarianism, said out loud.”
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. -Hartley Shawcross, barrister, politician, and prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Good article here. I ask, we should all ask, why Sen. John Curtis and Sen. Mike Lee over and over again vote to give lifetime entire to judges who are not willing to state that the U.S. Capitol was attacked by a violent mob on January 6, 2021. ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
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Trump’s New Judges Have Nothing Bad to Say About January 6
Trump is trying to erase evidence of his attempt to overthrow the government. His recent judicial nominees have been happy to help.
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Trump is corrupt beyond anyone’s wildest nightmare. The world’s biggest shakedown artist. Endorsed, enabled, and empowered by just about every elected Republican. They are all rotten to the core.
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Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
What Spencer Cox and the power hungry super-majority legislature have done to turn one of the highest quality state court systems in the country into a partisan, political animal is nauseating.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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Dave Hogg @davehogg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I'm skimming through mentions of Trump in the Trump-Epstein Files, and there's one thing that I'm thinking over and over: All we had to do was believe the women. There are dozens of stories in here that make me ill. Do you really believe these are all lies?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
God bless these people.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Former criminal defense attorney here. If what we’ve seen of the Epstein Files so far—heavily redacted and with 3 million pages still missing—is bad, keep in mind that the *Files in full* are a *hundred* times worse. That’s how this works. You’re seeing the G-rated version.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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