I have just finished reading The Rape Gang Inquiry Report. It is, without a doubt, the most horrifying document I've ever read in my life. There is no close second... and it's worse than you could ever imagine. Here's everything you need to know 🧵

@Bill_Tibbitts excels at telling you only half the story. The shocking part is that neither @sltrib nor @KUER have the journalistic integrity to lay out the whole story. Here is what he forgets to tell you: The Other Side Academy (TOSA) successfully rehabilitates ~50% of its enrolled students with ZERO tax dollars. The return on that investment for Utah taxpayers is literally infinite. There is absolutely nothing that Bill and his organizations nor @TheRoadHomeUT can do for zero tax dollars. Nothing at all. So TOSA creates a separate program, The Other Side Village, custom made for the population that does not have the skills to succeed at TOSA. As a result, it needs government funding, and Bill wants you to believe they should be ineligible for funding because they can't fix the ENTIRE homeless population without any assistance. And it just so happens that the people behind TOSA/TOSV are in favor of providers getting paid by taxpayers for the success their programs have. They don't want to be paid by the size of their population; they want to get paid for successfully transforming lives. This is the most accountable, life changing, taxpayer-friendly provider of services to the homeless population and Bill Tibbets thinks they should get zero tax dollars. Understand that TOSA/TOSV are a direct threat to the homelessness industrial complex of Salt Lake City. Do not buy the gaslighting. @TheOtherSideVi1 @BrighamTomco @Clancy4Utah @tvheidihatch @InstituteCicero @SolutionsUtah

Ferris Bueller: You would not believe the day I’ve had. Freddy: Hold my beer.

200 miles of city water line over 100 years old - Salt Lake City. (SLC loots $10 million from its utility to its general fund/yr). Utah's No. 1 Super Water Leaker - Salt Lake City Utah's No. 1 Water Hoarder - Salt Lake City Utah's No. 1 Weaponizer of water - Salt Lake City 2025 - 5.3 billion gallons leaked 2024 - 3.92 billion gallons leaked 2023 - 4.78 billion gallons leaked 2022 - 3.95 billion gallons leaked 2021 - 5.44 billion gallons leaked SLC reported "system losses" (SLC leakage from city water mains) SLC's weaponizing of water is denying water based on your politics, your land use, business, or denying a Building Permit to get money out of you or your "dry" land. Utah Division of Water Rights - No fines. No letters. Yawns. But holy moly for family lawn water volitations - snitch lines and prizes. 15% of SLC water lines ( are 100 years old. SLC water line replacement rate is every 255 years. Utah has no water line replacement laws for cities. Why do water wasting violations apply to families and industry, but not cities? SLC's excuses - Salt Lake City is doing a good job preserving as much water as it can within the system. The bottom line, he [Lewis] said, is that any system will lose copious amounts of water. "We don't have enough manpower or enough money to fix all the leaks in system." SLC loots $10 million a year from its utility department, spends $1 million on watershed cops (aka SLC private Forest Rangers) unlike any city in Utah, and is admin very heavy. Note: Boise, Idaho has a private water company (Veolia) supplying more water for less. SLC will sell about 73,000 acre-feet for $143.2 million in 2026. 19% price hike. Boise Private Veolia will sell about 50,000 acre-feet for $65 million. 12% price hike. Looks like private water companies are more efficient and better services. Better policies for Better Living deseret.com/2005/8/10/199064…

My thoughts after 3 months in the US/Texas🇺🇸: - Americans are way more extroverted than Europeans - Talking to strangers is normal here - My first H-E-B trip felt like Boris Yeltsin seeing an American grocery store - Some food is more artificial, but the amount of choices is insane - You can still eat healthy. You just have to choose it - High risk, high reward is real - Way more people are entrepreneurial - People dream bigger than in Europe, and they actually execute - Obv not everyone is smarter, but the smart people are world-class - Successful people here are way more down-to-earth. In Europe, successful people care about status and can be arrogant - Cars. Enough said - Americans have perfected artificial sweets - There’s still more freedom here than in Europe - One thing I didn’t expect: some Americans talk down on America - As an outsider, that’s weird, because imo it’s still the greatest country on Earth🇺🇸🇺🇸

99% of Utah has no houses on it. 96% of Utah's water is not used by cities, farmers, or industry. Utah imported 270,000 legal and illegal aliens. We have the land, water, and labor. Where's house hang up? Red Tape. Q: Why can't John and Mary get married at 22, buy house and have children? A: Bad policies. We agree with the churces and Gov't that Education and Morality are important. After John and Mary get 19 years of education, and attend church for 22 years, working two jobs, they can't afford a starter shack until age 40. Why? This is not educated or moral. We can cut water and land red tape so 20 yearolds can buy houses. Why don't we? All Building Permits are issued on the same State Building Code. Why do we need 284 separate Building Permit issuing agencies instead of one? Some will argue - "Local control." What has "local control" got us? A high priced housing crisis. If HOA's allow for narrower streets, less curb and sidewalks, then why isn't that allowed in cities, too? Why is an HOA needed? If you need 107 gallons of indoor water for an apartment Building Permit in Grantsville City, why do you need 400 gallons of indoor water for an apartment Building Permit in Lehi City? Dry places like Las Vegas and Israel use their water twice. Why doesn't Utah? Why hasn't Utah hired a Las Vegan or Israeli State Water Engineer? The weaponization of water is the withholding of water by a city to stop a Building Permit for power and gain. Salt Lake City, Utah's No. 1 water hoarder is also Utah's No. 1 weaponizer of water. No water for you if Salt Lake City does not like you, like your politics (ICE), your land use (gravel pit), your cabin in Brighton or Alta, or you won't pay to replace old neglected 100 year old city water lines. Salt Lake City demands the Town of Alta not to have any lawns. That's water as a weapon. Utah's housing crisis like most crises (Great Salt Lake, Homeless, Wildfire, Water, Immigration) are man made. What can we do to get 20 years olds owning homes? Better Policies for Better Living ksl.com/article/news/utah/ed…

It doesn’t have to be this way.

What’s better than a rare Super Delta formation featuring the Thunderbirds and the @USNavy Blue Angels over Washington, D.C.? Watching it from four different views for #UFCWhiteHouse as part of #Freedom250. 🇺🇸

There is nothing compassionate nor progressive about turning our parks into death camps for addicts Just another Monday morning in the parks of Salt Lake City @SLCPublicLands

It’s more than okay. ♥️🇺🇸♥️ Raise the bar. Expect more.

It’s not just Meta. Same thing happened to my former @X acct last October (except my verified account was hacked by someone in Nigeria who started spamming crypto). Poof! Everything gone. Set up new acct. Paid up-front 1 yr Premium and lost that too but X kept the $ @nikitabier

My view right now. No filter. Seems an appropriate sunset on Flag Day. 🇺🇸

Japanese fans brought their own trash bags to help clean up after their World Cup game Incredible

"We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity, representing our liberty." —George Washington

Prepare. Your home and your family. ktla.com/news/california/soc…

Meth addicts experiencing psychosis would be better served in a locked treatment facility than in the parks of Salt Lake City. I watched this go on for 10 minutes in Pioneer Park tonight. Fantastic compassion for the addict and very welcoming to families, @slcmayor. @SpencerJCox @GovCox @slcCouncil

It doesn’t have to be this way.

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving. Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free. I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these." "They just come with the table, man." They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner. This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared. "Did we…?" "Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless." Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined. My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude." Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most. Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

Thank you, Becci, for hosting last night’s Magna meet and greet, and for opening your backyard to so many people!