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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Utah senator John Curtis (or his intern) describes the murder of Americans on the streets of Minneapolis as a "learning moment," in response to one of my daily messages:

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Martin Luther King made a brief visit to Salt Lake City in 1961. Here's my short post about that visit, written in 2007. keepapitchinin.org/2017/01/16/m...

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Martin Luther King in Deseret (Reprise) | Keepapitchinin, the Mormon History blog

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This is why I wanted to beat the UPS driver back here this morning: My friend John has sent me this beautiful thing, straight to my Brigham Young-loving heart. It’s an original BY letter, 10 May 1860 to Samuel A. Woolley in Parowan. That old time carpenter had instructions for the bucket factory

A framed 1860 letter by Brigham Young, with his portrait, displayed on a hand-made 19th century wooden cupboard filled with vintage linens.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed.” — II Corinthians 4:8 Get your mammogram, sisters.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

With the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Roscoe C. Cox, president of the Latter-day Saint Hawaiian Mission, knew parents of his missionaries, and Church leaders concerned about membership, would be desperate for information. It was the afternoon of the next day, 1/2

Image of telegram:

Kealakekua Hawaii 13
8/239P [date and time of sending]

1941 Dec 9 AM 7 19 [date and time of receipt]

Heber Grant
47 East South Temple St
Salt Lake City Utah

All Well

Roscoe C Cox

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

My favorite Thanksgiving graphics from the old LDS magazines ... but also a terrible reminder of the false assumption that Native Americans are gone. From the Children's Friend, 1949

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Have just scrolled through eight screens of Blue Sky and don't have the slightest idea what ANY of the posts refer to.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I really shouldn't have attempted it--it was too much physically--but I wasn't going to miss it. I made it all the way up Salt Lake City's Capitol Hill, with the assistance of so many kind strangers who lent me their arms or pulled me up after I sat on curbs to recover. No Kings. A lot of love.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

The last letter written by Gov. Brigham Young ti Chief Wakara of the Ute Nation (1855), seeking peace between the warring peoples, arrived at Wakara's camp on the day he died. The letter was thrown into Wakara's grave, and its contents lost for all these years.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Tylenol has nothing to do with autism. But we should check out the Epstein files in case there's anything there about autism. Better safe than sorry!

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

The LDS clerks who marked church membership records with "colored man," as here, almost certainly intended it as discrimination, yet those notations opened the way for them to be remembered and honored by Century of Black Mormons. exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of...

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

A dear friend of mine who's a multimedia artist has finally, after much encouragement, opened an Etsy shop featuring his jewelry designs and art pieces. He's hoping to make a few small sales so he can get some reviews of his shop. www.etsy.com/shop/marplebot

A geometric freestanding 3D art piece lit up in blue with intricate square and rectangular shapes

Pearlescent acrylic earrings in a geometric design

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I'm seeing so much online indignation about "Why can that old guy/fat woman/diabetic get the Covid booster when I can't??" that I wonder if human contrariness might actually spur a lot of people to get the booster just because somebody told them they couldn't!

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I have a piece in the Salt Lake Tribune at the end of this month telling a significant story using an important "missing" (never published) letter from Brigham Young to a great Ute chief. If Native American history, and the history of slavery, are important to you, you'll want to read it.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I learned a very long time ago the errors anyone falls into by tarring an entire class with the worst traits of one truly evil member of that class. It’s shocking to see a scholar I have greatly admired fall into that trap, and double down after the most mild of challenges.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Another year, another published volume in _On This Day: The Armenian Church Synaxarion_ / Edward G. Mathews Jr. One more volume (December) to come next year!

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

_A Light in the Northern Sea: Denmark’s Incredible Rescue of Their Jewish Citizens During WWII_ / Tim Brady A newly published history, which undoubtedly speaks to our day, too.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

_Judeophobia and the New Testament: Texts and Contexts_ / Sarah E. Rollens, et al., eds.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I remember a Relief Society (LDS women's organization) lesson where the teacher went on at great length faulting Joseph Smith for actions the Nauvoo city government had taken in 1844 to destroy a newspaper, and how unconstitutional and anti-American he was. Really weird for a church lesson, 1/2

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

This baby-name website says “Sedatious” is a unisex name meaning “calm or tranquil.” It represents someone who is “peaceful, composed and serene.” Hunh. That *does* fit President Obama ... www.nameslook.com/sedatious

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Twenty years after that unforgettable day, I embroidered this wall hanging, with words by the great filker Leslie Fish. HOPE EYRIE / Leslie Fish 1/6

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

_Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_ / Karin Wulf

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Utah's limp dishrag of a senator, John Curtis, queried Threads a couple of days ago for suggestions on decorating his Senate conference room. 100% of the comments, seemingly uniformly from Utahns, rightfully beat the bejeezus out of him for focusing on such nonsense during These Times.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use 2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use 3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 02/07/2025

i will be muting anyone using alligator auschwitz or alligator alcatraz. nah. not doing it.

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Adam @handle.invalid · 21/06/2025

Utahns: Prolific writer of the West, Wallace Stegner, wrote his famous “Wilderness Letter” in 1969, essentially saving wilderness lands from further exploitation. It needs to go viral once again! @keepapitchinin.bsky.social @sltrib.com @benjaminepark.bsky.social psych.utah.edu/_resources/d...

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

_Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ / Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) has issued another of his “Highs & Lows” newsletter. In a week of fascism, violence, lies and executive misconduct, what does he choose as the “Low”? The heat and humidity of summer in Washington. Really, man? What are you even doing in office?

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

One week after the inauguration, I went to the emergency room. Even though I'm healing, I have been more or less incapacitated ever since. I make phone falls, send email, try to encourage others ... but on a day like today, I really wish I could have marched. No Kings.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

A friend drove more than an hour today to water my balcony garden and take out my trash. That may not sound like "I love you," but when the watering can is too heavy and the dumpster too high for me to do those things so soon after surgery, it definitely says "I love you."

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

If you're struggling with physical problems or other things that are largely beyond your control, give yourself the same grace that you would give to others. It won't be easy, but it might not always be this hard.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

My creed as a Latter-day Saint: LGBT folks are children of God. He loves them and desires their happiness at least as much as my own. I have no calling to make their lives more difficult through my words or actions. Happy Pride Month! You are safe with me.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I’m home from a week in the hospital, grateful for skilled surgeons, compassionate nurses, and friends who don’t give up. Cancer is not going to beat me!

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I don't need you to repost MAGA ugliness about Joe Biden, okay?

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Theric Jepson @thmazing.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

You see how good I am at sales and self-promotion.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I’m checking. Might be parked out back.

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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.

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Wulf Sternhammer @tarielcell.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I am reminded of this timeless response

The Cleveland Browns’ reply to a letter received from a season ticket holder complaining of the fans’ habit of throwing paper airplanes.

Dear Mr. Cox:

Attached is a letter that we received on November 19, 1974. I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters.

Very truly yours,

CLEVELAND STADIUM CORP.

James N. Bailey,
General Counsel

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Before leaving on an LDS mission to France, I took Catholic instruction and attended Mass at least weekly for months. I wanted to avoid stupid things in ignorance of Catholic teachings or practice. I may still have said or done stupid things, but it wasn’t out of malice or mockery.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Good grief. I don't like Sen Kennedy (R-La) any better than the next liberal does, but when you ridicule his "honey in the rock" and "water from the stone" you're not showing off your leftist or northern (assumed) superiority -- you're betraying your own ignorance of Western culture.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I have documented Mayflower and Jamestown ancestry. My most recent immigrant ancestor was in Ontario by 1844. I'm about as far from being an immigrant as it is possible to be for someone without Native ancestry. I think I have taken all that for granted. I wonder, had I had 1/2

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

_The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) about Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues_ / Dan McClellan

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Then they're REALLY not going to like this illustration from the LDS magazine for its Sunday Schools, August 1906.

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