Scott Nesbit

Married, Mason & Latter-day Saint and very active in each.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Every Senate Democrat just voted against a simple Voter ID requirement—a scaled-down version of SAVE America without the citizenship-verification measures

Why?

What do they have against requiring voters to prove who they are with a government-issued, photo ID on Election Day?

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Please share if you agree that the Senate should not recess until it has (1) fully funded DHS, and (2) passed the SAVE America Act

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

🚨We can’t let what’s happening in Iran distract us from the need to:

(1) put the SAVE America Act on the Senate floor,

(2) make filibustering senators speak, and

(3) stay on it until it passes

Share if you agree🚨

[BYU @BYU]

"I feel to emphasize the warning President Russell M. Nelson issued us that in coming days, it will not be possible to survive spiritually without the guiding, comforting, and constant influences of the Holy Ghost." - President Dallin H. Oaks
#BYUDevo

[Heidi Hatch KUTV @tvheidihatch]

A couple who survived being shot at their Grand Blanc @Ch_JesusChrist meetinghouse in September tried to enjoy a @BYUfootball game this weekend, just a few hours from home, when their sense of security slipped away again as parts of the crowd chanted, “F- the Mormons.”

On Facebook, Brandi Hicken wrote that she and her husband, Jared, “got to sneak away this weekend for a much-needed date night” at the BYU–Cincinnati game. She said they hoped for a night where “the attack is not at the forefront of our minds for once.”

Instead, the trip became an emotional reminder of the hate that took the lives of four members of their congregation two months ago.

Last month, the FBI said the attack on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meetinghouse in Grand Blanc was motivated by “anti-religious beliefs” toward the faith. The gunman, Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, rammed his truck into the building during Sunday services, opened fire and set parts of the church on fire. He was killed by responding law enforcement.

Jared and Brandi Hicken were among the survivors. Jared, a native of Roosevelt, Utah, and a fourth-year chief emergency medicine resident and BYU grad, helped other victims after being shot in the leg. Their 5-year-old daughter, Piper, was also hit, and Brandi suffered shrapnel wounds as she carried their two youngest children to safety.

“Jared took a bullet to the leg. My 5-year-old took one right in the middle of her back,” she wrote shortly after the shooting. Doctors later determined Piper’s wound was more superficial than they first feared, likely caused when a bullet ricocheted before hitting her. Brandi said she didn’t realize she had been hurt until the adrenaline wore off and she saw blood on her dress.

Now physically recovered, the couple drove to the BYU–Cincinnati game hoping for a break from the anxiety that has followed them for two months. Brandi said the chants from portions of the Cincinnati crowd left her shaken.

On Monday, Cincinnati athletic director John Cunningham issued a public apology to BYU and to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “The use of offensive or religiously derogatory language by a group of fans during Saturday’s game was unacceptable and does not reflect our values,” Cunningham posted to X. “We remain committed to creating an environment at Nippert Stadium where every visiting team and its supporters are treated with dignity and respect.”

Brandi shared the letter she sent to Cunningham describing how the chant affected her as a survivor of a religiously motivated attack.

The full letter:

“Dear Mr. Cunningham,

I am writing to you from my heart as a disheartened college football fan. More specifically, as a BYU football fan and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints commonly know as “the Mormons.”

As a BYU alumni and huge fans of college football, my husband and I took the opportunity to travel 4.5 hours from our little city in Grand Blanc, Michigan to come spectate and enjoy our favorite pass time at the BYU vs. Cincinnati football game at Nippert Stadium last night.

I want to provide a little bit of background for you in order to portray the strength and courage it took for us to travel to this event and really try to enjoy ourselves.
You see, just eight short weeks ago, while attending church, we were attacked at our place of worship simply for being “Mormon.”

Someone with hatred in their heart rammed their truck into the front of our church building, entered the chapel, and began shooting us and setting our church on fire while many people were still hiding inside. As my family (me, my husband, and our three young children), ran for our lives, my husband and my 5-year-old daughter were both shot. I was also running with my 15 month old baby and my 3 year old in my arms as I was struck in my back with shrapnel. I will spare you any further details about the nightmare we lived through that day and the recovery that has followed, but miraculously, me and my family all made it out alive.

The anxiety and fear we have felt since that day has been debilitating. We have put in a lot of work in that short 8 weeks so we can try to feel some sort of safety and normalcy again and enjoy the things we used to, including football games.
We had been planning to come see this game for months as we don’t get the opportunity to see many BYU games in person since we moved across the country for my husband’s medical training. We almost didn’t come because it felt scary and overwhelming since the attack on our church. However, we know we cannot live in fear and we need to enjoy the things that used to make us happy. We decided to come and that took a lot for us both mentally and physically. I was nervous putting on my BYU fan gear that day because I knew it would identify me as one of ”the Mormons.” I did it anyway.

I was apprehensive when I walked down to my seat and saw that the nearest exit was pretty far from me. I continued to my seat anyway. We came. We smiled. We cheered. We enjoyed ourselves….Until the University of Cincinnati fans began to chant “F** the Mormons.”*

This is not a new chant. This is not a chant that is specific to your university. This is a chant I’ve heard before while enjoying a football game whether in-person or on tv. It’s always disheartening to hear. However, now that we Mormons have been quite literally targeted, attacked, chased, shot at, and some of us have been killed simply for being “Mormon,” this chant is no longer just disheartening. It’s crippling. It’s personal. It’s unacceptable. Period.

While I did hear the announcer give a warning over the speakers at the game that such chants will not be tolerated, it was simply just that- a warning. It was not just a few fans, it was tens, possibly hundreds of the university’s student fans chanting “F** the Mormons.”*

Please, Mr. Cunningham, do not tolerate it. Remove them from the game. Don’t let them come back.
Educate them on the seriousness of their actions. Set that standard and expectation moving forward and enforce it. We are hurting. Badly. We just want to enjoy the things that make us happy again without the fear of being targeted and attacked for our religious beliefs.
I know you have no control over the Cincy fans on the shuttle after the game ranting about Mormons and how awful we are and how we must have just paid off the refs because we’re corrupt and evil. I don’t get it, but I am used to it. It’s not new to me to hear this stuff and these huge misconceptions about my faith. But now it is personal. Now it is me fearing for my life everywhere I go because someone decided to take it there. Someone tried to kill me, my kids, and my husband. Someone killed 4 of my friends. Now the chanting means something more than it used to.
I know you can’t control the actions and words of the fans on the bus. However, I do believe you have the ability to get control of the students’ hurtful and hateful chanting.

If you made it this far, thank you for listening. If I am mistaken about any actions that were or were not taken as a result of the chanting, please feel free to correct me.

I would welcome the reassurance.

Sincerely,

Brandi Hicken

A fellow college football fan
A Mormon
A Christian
A mass casualty hate crime survivor
A human deserving of respect”

[Sky @_sky_sorensen_]

As a “sexual minority” trying to keep his covenants, here’s what I think would’ve happened if my parents didn’t value this document.

[Stacker @stackerco]

A father near where I live disappeared this weekend and was just found dead.

He went out to the desert, left a note for his family, set up a hammock, shot himself.

A horrible story.

He had dropped off his daughter at the MTC a few weeks ago and appeared to have everything together.

Life is really hard right now. His business was struggling, but nobody seemed to know his internal pain from what I hear.

I know I’m a random anon, but if you’re feeling this way, please reach out. Maybe some words from a random could help.

[Scott Nesbit @njnezzy]

@BasedMikeLee Subsidizing NPR never made sense. Continuing to subsidize them now is an offense to every tax payer.

I listen to NPR occasionally and I wouldn't give them a dime for their biased, misleading product.

[Scott Nesbit @njnezzy]

@BernieSanders Senator, this is just sad. Climate change didn't cause this disaster. You're not helping to solve the problem.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress . . .  

Nothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk . . . think about it .  . . nothing’s impossible. (not to mention the joy at seeing the collective establishment, aka ‘uniparty,’ lose their ever-lovin’ minds)

[Scott Nesbit @njnezzy]

@SpeakerJohnson Mr. Speaker, do the honorable thing and step down. You are the problem in Washington DC.

[Scott Nesbit @njnezzy]

@GuntherEagleman Johnson needs to go.

[Scott Nesbit @njnezzy]

Check out this upcoming event https://t.co/CfTttrn1S9

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Today we will vote on a continuing resolution that will fund all of government in one bill and doesn’t cut one penny.

I spoke on the House floor this morning to urge my colleagues not to participate in this unserious and insincere political theater.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Unfortunately this post is aging well.

[Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson]

It should alarm every American citizen that the sitting President of the United States, who has opened our border to over 9 million illegals, just announced that he would veto our bill to prevent noncitizens from voting.

[ProSteel Security Products @ProSteelSecProd]

We wish everyone a safe and meaningful #MemorialDay as we remember and honor those who have served in the US armed services and made the ultimate sacrifice. We also recognize the sacrifice of their families.

[Okpanachi Elvis Sunday | LDS Africa @RealokpanachiNG]

Long rant sensitive LDS topic

So I don’t normally weigh in on stuff like this because honestly I feel like it shifts our focus away from assisting in bringing to pass the immortality and eternal life of man(kind). But I feel like I have an interesting perspective because of all of the hats I wear.

I currently am a Stake RS president, Chaplain, and Therapist and in all off these capacities I am serving in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I have not been denied anything because of my sex or race within the church.

I have had access to any and every priesthood power I have needed to accomplish the work I was asked by the Lord to do. The funny thing is that when we are leading by the Spirit the only person that should be “in charge” is the Lord himself. It’s His work. We are just volunteers. Those in positions of authority within the church bare a burden you couldn’t even image. My fear is that if we continue to envy their titles and covet what we perceive as their power we loose sight of how equitably the church is currently established.

We talk about mental load in the home. But do we talk about it within the church. As a Stake RS president I am often going to meetings with my 10 month old at 6am. As a chaplain I’ve gotten calls in the middle of the night that I need to go minister to someone. As a therapist I hear gut wrenching stories about some of the most gruesome and heartbreaking traumas you couldn’t even imagine. I do all three of these while mothering 3 kids. The burden of it all is HEAVY sometimes, but by the grace of God it’s doable, and this is all under the current policies of the church.

If your desire is to serve the Lord more, then serve. But if you only want to be recognized for what you do then that’s pride. Those that know the weight of what it’s like to lead in the church wouldn’t envy it. I am grateful that I am able to serve in the ways that I do but I am looking forward to the day when I’ll have my dream calling of youth Sunday School teacher.

I have also been enabled to serve in a Stake and Ward where the leadership empowers the sisters to seek revelation and act on it. I have been blessed to have their trust and their encouragement to use my voice. I have felt an overwhelming outpouring of the spirit that has allowed me to facilitate miracles.

We as women in the church haven’t even tapped into a fraction of what we are capable of doing. My hope is that as we build our faith and utilize the gifts we already have we will begin to realize that we have everything necessary to accomplish any work the Lord asks us to do.

*My views are my own and do not represent the DoD or the Air Force*

Author : Sierra Cece Larson

[Scott Nesbit @njnezzy]

@BitlyCSChannel I don't know if your cs is a joke or non-existent but I need to open a support ticket to gain access to my account.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

It’s time to abolish the TSA.

Airlines can and will secure their own planes if a federal agency doesn’t do it for them.

They’ll do it better than TSA, without undermining the Constitution and with less groping—showing more respect for passengers.

Share if you agree.

#EndTSA