Christine Riter

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☮️🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦🇲🇽🌎🗳️ If it’s possible, my mouth is filthier as I age. Martinis are my vibe, in a proper martini glass. 🍸 I call my reps often. Citizens United ended democracy. WTF is happening? Former twit. From Utah. No lists, DMs, or gofundme, please.

Screenshot of an opinion piece in today’s Salt Lake Tribune (Public Opinion page). The text is titled, “History will remember”. The author Michael Jablonski is from River Heights, Utah. His opinion is that history will remember, no matter how much Trump lies about it.
A Pat Bagley political cartoon in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Bad medicine”. A single panel with a drawing of a single cork at the center. White words written in a black background at the top of the panel read: “Trump health department issues cyclopsoriasis* recommended treatment. The asterisk at the bottom right panel says: *explosive diarrhea.
Editorial appears in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. “A trade fight in Washington will hurt Utah homeowners, and small businesses like mine”. Author is Steven B. Lloyd, owner Lloyd’s Remodeling & Cabinetry Opinion: Trump’s tariffs and quotas hurt businesses like mine, and have a likewise chain reaction effect across all trades.
Screenshot (1 of 2) of an article in the Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “We’re Trump’s national monument cuts what Utahns wanted? Here’s what polls have said.” Subtitle, “Surveys from before the downsizing show the priorities of the state’s elected leaders may not align with voters.” Author Leia Larsen for the SLT. Photo on this screenshot is of Bear’s Ears in the distance, courtesy of Bethany Baker for the SLT. Article discusses polls show a preference by voters to keep the designated monument size, not shrink it.
Pat Bagley’s political cartoon appears in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Witness to an execution”. A single panel with a Native American female on the left and Donald Trump and Utah politicians on the right. Kennedy, Trump, Moore, Cox, Lee, Curtis and Maloy are all drawn. The Native American represents Bears Ears, and is sitting in an electric chair. All the politicians are behind glass in an observation room. All the Utah politicians are smiling, cheering. Trump is “pulling the switch”. Context: Trump just shrunk Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante by 90% each; with all Utah leaders’ blessing. Tribes were not consulted.
Screenshot of an article in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Would Utah swap voters’ private data for federal disaster aid? Here’s what Lt. Gov. Henderson says”. Subtitle: “Henderson said she would not trade political favors for disaster relief.” Author Addy Baird for the SLT. The inset photo courtesy of Bethany Baker for the SLT, shows a Davis County voter putting their ballot in a drop box. Article discusses various hypothetical situations where Henderson said she would keep private voter info away from the federal government.
Screenshot of an article in today’s Sports section of the Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Texas Tech booster donated $274K one day before Texas AG Ken Paxton’s Brendan Sorsby letter. Author Justin Williams for The Athletic. A photo (inset) of Ken Paxton is courtesy of Antranik Tavitian, NYT. Article discusses former Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby, and the timing of AG Paxton’s threat letter.
Pat Bagley’s political cartoon in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Pestilential address”. A single panel showing Trump’s rear end facing news microphones. Trump is bent over the Oval Office desk; a too-small chair underneath him. The words: “Trump addresses the nation” above his head. Last night’s speech regurgitated the same “stolen election” narrative trump’s been trying to convince Americans of for six years.
Screenshot of the Opinion page of today’s Salt Lake Tribune. It features a Pat Bagley political cartoon on top. An editorial essay at center. And two shorter opinions at the bottom. The theme for today is that democracy is messy.
Screenshot of a partial article in the Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Trump drastically shrinks 2 Utah national monuments - again”. Subtitle: “The cuts amount to nearly 3 million acres across Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante”. Author Brooke Larsen, SLT. Photo courtesy of Mills, NYT accompanies article. Trump, and members of the Utah delegation are shown at the White House. Article discusses the history of the designations, and talks about the back and forth of the ever changing sizes of each.
Screenshot of a Washington Post article title. “Trump’s sons invest heavily in defense tech as father’s administration pours money in”.
Screenshot one of two of a partial article in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “What Latter-day Saints would have to change for Hegseth’s pastor to deem them Christians”. Subtitle: “For Pastor Doug Wilson, the problem lies in Mormonism’s very conception of God.” Author, Tamara Kemsley, for the SLT. A photo of the pastor is courtesy of Lindsey Wasson, Associated Press.
Screenshot of an article in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “‘Bizarre behavior’: Trump’s DOJ threatens criminal charge for top state elections official”. Subtitle: Letter saying Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson ‘could be subject to criminal liability’ comes as the Trump administration sues to obtain Utahns’ voter data”. Author Emily Anderson Stern for the SLT. A photo taken by Rick Egan for the SLT shows Henderson discussing results of voter database May 27. Article discusses Trump’s ongoing efforts across the country to seize voters’ private information.
Pat Bagley political cartoon appears in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. A single panel titled, “Commander in thief”. Two figures are drawn. At left is a MAGA woman. At right is Donald Trump. The woman is donning a red hat. She’s holding a purse which shows trump trying to take from her hands. Above her head: “Ya know, he donated his $400,000 salary!” Trump’s back is to us. He’s pushing a cart chock full of giant bags of money. Words across the front of the bags: “2026, $2,000,000,000 Grift”.
Screenshot of an article in the Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Why are berries everywhere, in every season? Driscoll’s.” Author Julia Moskin for the NYT. Four photos accompany article. Article discusses the science behind growing/shipping/producing berries from the company that operates out of California.
Screenshot of a Pat Bagley political cartoon in the Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Manspreading the gospel”. A single panel with two figures drawn. At left, Pastor Douglas Wilson, and a woman holding a Book of Mormon on the right. Pastor Douglas is shown seated in a church pew, taking up the whole thing. The woman is looking for a place to sit. Above the Pastor’s head: “It’s full.” Caption underneath: Pete Hegseth’s pastor demonstrates Christian inclusion. Context: Pastor Wilson, spiritual advisor to Pete Hegseth, recently said the CoJCoLDS shouldn’t be included as a Christian religion in the military setting.
Screenshot of a partial article in the Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Decline in doctoral students could imperil a ‘generation of new talent’.” Subtitle: “University leaders and research advocates blame uncertainty about federal funding under the Trump administration.” Author Vimal Patel for the NYT. Article discusses the consequences of funding cuts to doctoral and PhD students in the American university system.
An editorial screenshot in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Written by Thomas I. Friedman for the NYT. Titled, “Trump is fleecing us”. Opinion: Donald Trump is working for himself, not the American people.
Screenshot of an editorial in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “A new public education law further divides an already polarized Utah”. Author, photo inset, is Joanna Andres, a Park City high school teacher. Opinion: HB312 violates the US Constitution’a first and fourteenth amendments.
Headline in today’s Salt Lake Tribune sport’s section: “Belgium trumps U.S.”
Screenshot of an editorial in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “I witnessed one era of American renewal. We need another.” Author Andrew Bjelland, pictured. At the bottom left is a black and white photo courtesy of the Associated Press, of President Gerald Ford throwing out a first baseball pitch in 1976. Opinion: We’ve been divided before and came back together. We need to do so again in 2028.
Screenshot of the Declaration of Independence, posted in today’s Salt Lake Tribune.
Screenshot of the Public Forum page in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. There are two editorials. 1) “No new wars, indeed”. Don Huddleston writes from Salt Lake City. Opinion: an unnecessary war started by a potus with a vendetta? 2) “Behind Hegseth’s vendetta”. Frank T. Globokar writes from Cottonwood Heights. Opinion: current DoD secretary couldn’t cut it in the military, so is firing POC and women?
Screenshot of a partial article in today’s Sal Lake Tribune. Titled, “Utah bookstores now hand out free copies of titles pulled from public schools”. Subtitle: “Frustrated with bans, the stores teamed up with Utah’s LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce on the giveaways, which they say they won’t stop until the state stops banning books”. Author Carmen Nesbitt, for the SLT. A photo accompanying the article, also courtesy of Carmen Nesbitt, shows a table displaying the books at Utah Pride. Article discusses the group sponsoring the event and the participating bookstores.
Screenshot of a partial article in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “LDS researchers unveil a new portrait and sculpture. Do they show the real Joseph Smith?” Author Dylan Eubank for the SLT. Photo inset courtesy of Joshua Bishop, shows a sculpture and painting of what the church’s founder is thought to look like.
Screenshot of an article in the Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Texas makes Bible required reading in public schools”. Author Sarah Mervosh for the NYT. Article discusses the state’s reading requirements for each grade level as imposed by the Texas state board of education.
Pat Bagley’s cartoon appears in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Unshackled”. A single panel that depicts a giant statue titled “Racism” on the left. On the right is Justice John Roberts. The statue is shown to be released from captivity by John Roberts, who’s holding a key to the now free racist ideology. Context: yesterday the majority SCOTUS removed Temporary Protective Status (TPS) from Haitians and Syrians who were seeking asylum in the US.
Pat Bagley’s cartoon appearing in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. A single panel titled, “Burning down the house”. The cartoonist has drawn an enthusiastic fireworks purchaser holding a box of fireworks in one hand, with a lit sparkler in the other. He’s standing on a giant pile of unlit match sticks. Context: fireworks go on sale in Utah soon. Amidst the entire state on fire and a never ending drought.
Screenshot of an article in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Some Utah primary races have been called, but results are not yet official. Here’s why. Subtitle: “Under the processes established by state law, winners won’t be officially decided for weeks”. Author Emily Anderson Stern, for the SLT. Inset photo courtesy of Rick Egan for the SLT, shows Poll Manager Luke Todd giving an ‘I voted’ sticker to voter Sherri Stringham. Article discusses the voter certification process in Utah.
Screenshot of an editorial in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “If you love America, cringe for it”. Author is Bret Stephen’s for the NYT. Opinion: We all played a role in trump’s arrival on the political stage. Embraced or repelled by him, will we “be” him?
Screenshot of an article in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “NFL denies Sorsby’s application, will not hold supplemental draft”. Authors Jayna Bardahl, Justin Williams and Mike Jones, The Athletic. Photo inset courtesy of Ron Jenkins, Getty Images via The Athletic shows Brendan Sorsby getting ready to throw the football. Article discusses the collegiate athlete’s efforts to play football in the NFL while suing the NCAA over eligibility to play.
Screenshot of a partial article in the Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Utah lawmakers Stuart Adams, Dan McCay and Trevor Lee all bounced in GOP primary”. Author Emily Anderson Stern, for the SLT. Pictured inset, photo courtesy of Bethany Baker (SLT), Stuart Adams at a recent debate. Article discusses Tuesday’s Utah primary election results.
Pat Bagley cartoon appears in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. A single panel, titled “Fiasco Circus”. Bagley depicts a fellow cartoonist Bill Keane, the original artist for the cartoon “Family Circus”. The mom is asking her two kids who did all the damage to various Washington monuments. She continues her inquiry about the war, gas prices, etc. she and her kids are drawn on the left. In the center are drawings of what’s left of those monuments. A shadowy Trump figure is seen walking away, with “not me” drawn on his front, blaming Biden and radical leftists. All this is drawn on the right side of the panel.
Screenshot of a page from today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Three full articles: 1) New Air Force One, via Qatar, ready for takeoff”, 2) “Firm tied to Trump donor got no-bid contract to clean Reflecting Pool”, 3) “Italy doesn’t ‘beg’, prime minister tells Trump”. Each article describes the president’s consequences to his unilateral actions.
Screenshot of a partial article in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Utah Supreme Court expands to seven justices”. Subtitle: “Jay Jorgensen and Stephen Dent will join the Supreme Court amid the Republican-led Legislature’s effort to reshape Utah’s judiciary”. Author Robert Gehrke for the SLT. Inset is a photo courtesy of Chris Samuels for the SLT. Governor Spencer Cox is shown shaking Stephen Dent’s hand. Jay Jorgensen is to their left. Article discusses both candidates’ confirmation by the GOP-led senate.
Screenshot of an editorial in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “The tiny solar panel that could change America”. Author Robinson Meyer writing for the NYT. An illustration at the center of the text shows several small solar panels surrounded by butterflies and flowers. Background colors are rainbow like layers. Opinion: A small step but one that renters can use at small cost. Plug-in solar panels.
Screenshot of a graphic appearing in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Illustration is courtesy of Christopher Cherrington for the SLT. A side-by-side illustration of how the Utah Supreme Court has become partisan and male-dominated. On the left are two graphs, where nominees were split between male/female, and law school graduates were more diverse. This was before 2023 and before legislation changed the commission which nominated justices. On the right the two graphs clearly show a male-dominated/female-eliminated list of nominees, and the overwhelmingly BYU law school graduates dominate list of nominees..
Screenshot of a partial article in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Quarterback Brendan Sorsby to enter NFL Supplemental Draft, ending saga at Texas Tech”. Authors Chris Vannini and Justin Williams, The Athletic. A photo of a smiling Sorsby accompanying article is courtesy of Getty Images. Article discusses how the collegiate athlete attempts to leave his gambling problems behind him by transferring to the pros.
Pat Bagley’s political cartoon in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. A single panel titled, “The power of books”. The cartoon shows a MAGA, male Trump supporter in the upper left hand corner. He’s wearing a red t-shirt and red hat. He’s holding back a bunch of scared men, women and children from a single book that’s drawn in the center. The caption below, “Stay back, folks! No telling when one of these things might go off and give you ideas!” Context: Utah public schools just banned a 35th book from library shelves across the entire state.
Political cartoon courtesy of cartoonist Pat Bagley and the Salt Lake Tribune. A single panel titled, “World Cup Welcome”. Three figures are drawn from left to right. A soccer official, an attack dog, and Donald Trump. The soccer official’s jersey is being grabbed by the attack dog, which is being held by Trump. He’s dressed as a cop and is holding a sign that says: “Welcome World Cup!” Context: Somali ref was due to make history by reffing a soccer match in the US. Instead, he was detained.
Screenshot of an article in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Utah just banned a 35th book from all public schools. Here’s what it’s all about”. Subtitle: “It marks the second memoir that focuses on surviving sexual abuse to be added to the list”. Author Carmen Nesbitt, SLT. Inset in the article is a list of all the books banned in Utah’s public schools. Article discusses the most recent banned book, “Lucky” by author Alice Sebold, and what it’s about.
Screenshot of an article in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Texas Texh QB Sorsby granted temporary injunction to play in 2026 despite gambling admissions”. Author Justin Williams, The Athletic. A photo of Brendan Sorsby, courtesy of Getty Images via The Athletic, accompany article. Article discusses how the court is allowing the gambler to play football in 2026.
Screenshot of an article in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Trump says Iran has made a ‘big’ nuclear promise. It isn’t new”. Author Michael Crowley for The New York Times. An accompanying photo of Trump in the Oval Office, is courtesy of Doug Mills (NYT). Article discusses Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the U.S.’ intervention over decades.
Pat Bagley’s political cartoon appearing in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “High Fidelity”. A single panel with the giant word FIDELITY in rainbow and transgender coloring. Below, the words “Month” and “Be True To Who You Are!” A person at left is shown running away; leaving different colored spray paint cans in his wake. Governor Spencer Cox is shown with shock on his face at the newly painted word.
Screenshot of an article in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Ohio State reaches $100M settlement over sex abuse claims”. Author Jenna West for The Athletic. Contributor: Cameron Teague Robinson
Pat Bagley’s political cartoon appears in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. A single panel titled, “A Nation at Odds”. The panel is divided in two halves. On the left, “A Nation of Immigrants”, Bagley has drawn the Statue of Liberty surrounded by a very diverse grouping of people of color, nationalities and gender. They are all smiling. On the right, “A Nation of Ignorance”, the cartoonist depicts DJT in front of tidy rows of white, MAGA hat-wearing people, each holding white “Get out!” signs. Their faces are all brooding and angry.
Screenshot of an editorial in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “This is the formula that defeated Orban. It would defeat Trump, too”. Author is M. Gessen for the NYT. Opinion: Inclusion. Pluralism. Optimism. The opposite of what Orban instilled in Hungarians. These are traits that defeated Orban, and she said could defeat Trump’s authoritarianism in the US.
Screenshot of an analysis inside today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Author David E. Sanger with the NYT titles his piece “Trump hits the stalemate phase of his international intervention, and it stings”. Inset is a photo of Trump, courtesy of Doug Mills for the NYT. He is pictured in a Cabinet meeting. The author writes about why Trump’s lack of patience and diplomacy haven’t ended war/conflicts as he thought they would, upon entering his second term.
Screenshot of two partial articles appearing on today’s front page of the Salt Lake Tribune. 1) “O’Leary responds to outrageous’ demand to slash data center plan”. Subtitle: “The celebrity investor told The Tribune he is ‘not walking away’ from the Utah project, but he was caught off guard by Sen, Stuart Adams’ letter”. 2) “Top lawmaker backpedals on Kevin O’Leary’s data center plan”. Subtitle: “Senate President Stuart Adams is facing primary challenge and ‘public feedback’ about the proposed center”. Both articles discuss Adam’s letter to O’Leary.
Screenshot of an editorial in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Sen. John Curtis shows a welcome hint of having had enough of Tump’s corruption”. Subtitle: “We take what we can get.” A photo if Sen. Curtis inset, is courtesy of Francisco Kjolseth, for the SLT. Opinion says that the junior senator from Utah is at least voicing concern.
Screenshot of three articles appearing in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Laid out top to bottom: 1) “Judge reopens Trump’s IRS suit and questions his ‘weaponization’ fund.” 2) “Research funding slows again for universities targeted by White House”. 3) “Kennedy Center must remove Trump’s name from building, judge orders”.
Pat Bagley political cartoon in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Pandumbic”. A single panel split in half. On the left trump is shown standing on the globe of the earth of North America. He’s shown in the foreground. Two grim reapers are in the background. They are labeled “Hantavirus” and “Ebola. Above trump’s head, “Not our problem”. On the right the viruses overpower trump. They are large and have moved to North America. Trump is small and in the background and says, “What?”
Screenshot of an article in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Paxton’s Texas victory opens a new front in the battle for the Senate”. Authors Lisa Lerer and Reid J. Epstein’s for the NYT. Three photos inset are of John Cronyn, Ken Paxton and James Talarico, candidates for US Senate from Texas. Article discusses a potential for democrats to win in November.
This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. A single panel titled, “The cool kids”. Bagley depicts Governor Spencer Cox (at right) turning on a yellow fire hydrant aimed at data center robots (left). A yellow sun ball is blazing overhead. Cox looks behind him and addresses a couple Utah kids: “I’m afraid you’re going to have to conserve…”
Screenshot of a partial article in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “ ‘Nothing to like’ about Trump fund that could pay out Jan. 6 rioters, Curtis says”. Subtitle: “The Utah senator is among those criticizing the president’s settlement with the IRS”. Author, Addie Baird, SLT. Inset is a photo of Curtis, courtesy of Francisco Kiolseth, SLT. He’s shown in front of a mural at the Utah Capitol in February. Article discusses Curtis’ stance on trump’s “slush fund” and his thoughts on the War Powers Act.
Screenshot of an article in the Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Jeff Bezos praises Trump’s second term as ‘more mature’. Author is Katie Robertson for the NYT. Inset is a small photo of a smiling Bezos. Article discusses the billionaire’s sit down interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin, of CNBCs “Squakbox”.
Screenshot of a Pat Bagley cartoon in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “You can’t take it with you”. A single panel divided in two. On the left is Donald trump (blue suit, white shirt, red tie, orange face) holding giant sized bags of money and gold bars in one hand. On one of the bags, the words “greed & corruption”. In his other hand an orange monopoly “chance card”. On the right, the grim reaper who’s holding a sign that reads what’s on the “chance” card: “Go to hell. Go directly to hell. Do not pass Mar-a-Lago. Do not collect bribes & extortion.” Word bubble above trump: “I don’t get it”. Above grim reaper: “Exactly”.
Screenshot of a partial article in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Justice Department announces $1.8B funding in settling IRS suit”. Subtitle: The creation was intended to hear and redress claims of individuals targeted under the Biden administration”. Authors Glenn Thrush, Andrew Duehren and Alan Feuer for the NYT. A photo Haiyun Jiang for the NYT shows the IRS headquarters in DC. Article discusses trump’s terms in settling his $10B lawsuit against the IRS.
Screenshot of a Pat Bagley political cartoon in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. It’s a single panel titled, “Tired of winning”. Jesse Watters from Fox News is depicted in many segments of his program repeating the line “Trump won the Iran war!” The fox host is drawn five times.
Screenshot of an article in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency”. Authors Yan Zhuang, Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Apoorva Mandavilli, all with the NYT. Article discusses the spread of the virus in Congo and Uganda, and the risks to the world.