Marie Osmond Remembers Her Brother, Alan.
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When singer and performer Alan Osmond died at 76 on April 20, his sister Marie shared on Instagram both a tribute and some final words.
She said,
Alan had so many incredible talents, from singing to performing to playing multiple instruments. He wrote hit records and albums, one of my favorites being the album “The Plan.” He produced TV shows, large events, and music videos, including my video, “No Stopping Your Heart.”☺️ So when I decided to honor the original four Osmond Brothers and fly them t Hawaii to perform together one last time, Alan tearfully said, “So you’re producing me now.” He hugged me and said, “Thank you, I get to be on stage one last time with my brothers”. The determination he manifested to stand up out of his wheelchair and be next to his brothers was simply unbelievable!!!
In a quiet moment, I had the most unique feeling come over me. I felt my Mom. It was like she said to my heart, “Honey, do you remember how excited you were for the birth of your child? Well, that’s how excited I am for the rebirth of my child here.” What a joyous reunion and rebirth that took place on the other side. I know he’s happy. The last thing he said to me was, “I can’t wait to see brother Wayne, so we can be missionary companions together and start preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to those who never had the opportunity to hear his message of peace and hope in this life.”
Alan’s daughter-in-law Annie Lloyd Osmond paid this tribute: https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2026/04/27/remembering-father-alan-osmond/
He faced his almost 40-year battle with multiple sclerosis with remarkable positivity. I have never known anyone so optimistic in the face of adversity.
She described of an experience when his MS became extremely bad.
Almost a year ago, father was falling often, and ended up needing to spend some time in a rehabilitation facility. The days were long; progress was slow, but he never complained. When he was released to go home, he did so in a fashion reminiscent of George Bailey in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” He woke up every morning in his own bed and told Mother, “I’m the luckiest man in the world,” and “Aren’t we blessed?” It was truly remarkable.
Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Goes Franchise with Spinoff Set in Orange County
When Taylor Frankie Paul fell out of “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives”, filming for season five went into temporary cessation, but only five weeks later, the cameras are no longer dark, and Latter-day Saints will continue to be disserviced and falsely defined as the show rolls ahead with its tawdry and unseemly success.
It was a massive, breakout hit for Hulu and tore past established reality franchises in popularity.
As Latter-day Saints, we may think we’ve had enough—but wait, there’s more.
Rod Mills, executive vice-president of unscripted and alternative entertainment at Walt Disney Television said there was always a hope of of greenlighting more. “When we titles the show The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, we did think, “Okay, there’s a possibility in success that you can do: Secret Lives of Mormon Wives of Blank.”
In other words, with an entire new cast in Orange County, they are hoping to make this a franchise. The possibilities for tawdriness are endless.
Add this additional distortion.
Are The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Cast ‘Mormon’? What we Know https://people.com/is-the-secret-lives-of-mormon-wives-orange-county-cast-mormon-11956797
Of the eight Orange County cast members, only two claim themselves as members. So, in other words, this name lives with the upshot of smearing the church, while few of the cast would count themselves as loyal members. That’s more than being tone-deaf. It’s a calculated misrepresentation. Why do those who flaunt the faith get to define it for a public that in actuality knows little about us?
That’s not just misleading—it’s exploitative. It turns a covenant-based religion into a caricature for attention and profit, and in doing so, distorts both belief and identity in a way that deserves to be called out.
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Radical Leftist who Celebrates Murder and Looting Gets Large Stage
https://www.thefp.com/p/luxury-crimes-at-the-new-york-times
Recently, “a New Yorker writer, a millionaire streamer, and a New York Times editor walk into a podcasting studio” and spent their time together talking about the “cutesy new term for shoplifting. It’s called “microlooting.” What would you feel comfortable stealing?
Jia Tolentino, who lives in a $2.2 million brownstone “says she has stolen from Whole Foods—for what she calls ‘mutual aid’ reasons, of course. Some old lady in her neighborhood needed lemons, and Tolentino didn’t want to stand in line—but she doesn’t think it’s an effective form of protest. Unless, of course, you happen to do it for good and heroic reasons.
“I think if someone were, let’s say, walking out of Whole Foods with an IKEA bag of whatever and giving it to the people sheltering underneath the scaffolding at the jail going up close by in Brooklyn, most people would agree,” she says.
“Tolentino, who says she feels badly about drinking coffee from plastic cups, says that she would legalize blowing up pipelines.”
The Free Press https://www.thefp.com/p/tgif-we-live-in-the-world-were-in noted that streamer Hasan Pyker, who wrote In Defense of Looting said on the podcast:
Piker: I’m pro stealing from big corporations, because they steal quite a bit more from their own workers …
Fascinating. Still, it’s just being rich and stealing groceries for fun. They’re not endorsing really bad crimes or anything. They would never try to justify the killing of, let’s say, random healthcare executives. Oh, wait—they would!
Piker: Brian Thompson, as the UnitedHealthcare CEO, was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder. The systematized forms of violence, the structural violence of poverty, the for-profit, paywalled system of healthcare in this country—and the consequences of that are tremendous amounts of pain, tremendous amounts of violence, tremendous amounts of deaths. And that was a fascinating story for me, because Americans are very draconian about crime and punishment. They’re very black and white on this issue. And yet, because of the pervasive pain that the private healthcare system had created for the average American, I saw so many people immediately understand why this death had taken place.
Tolentino: I do not think that it was effective political action. I do think it was an effective act of political consciousness-raising.
If giving the millions of subscribers to The New York Times the chance to hear this without any pushback from the moderator is sad, Yale also gave its platform to Pyker.
Hasan Piker says ‘American empire’ is dying at well-attended debate
https://yaledailynews.com/articles/hasan-piker-says-american-empire-is-dying-at-well-attended-debate
Cheers resounded for Piker when he spoke at Yale recently. The student who introduced him said that no one who had spoken recently brought this level of excitement.
Piker claimed that if the end of the American empire didn’t come naturally, must “end in a much more violent way.”
These emboldened attacks on major platforms upon the values of our social order dresses radicalism up in a way that appears cool. It makes destruction look alluring—a way of positioning nihilism as merely an expression of authenticity. High-energy, well-spoken people with access to the levers of education of our day like Hasan have disturbing power to reshape our world.
Marital Horizons: The Motivating Power of Marriage for Young Men
https://ifstudies.org/blog/marital-horizons-the-motivating-power-of-marriage-for-young-men
Latter-day Saint Jason S. Carroll gives this analysis on what’s happening to young men.
It seems like nearly every week we encounter a new headline about the struggles facing boys and the decline of men. As awareness has spread, it has led to increasing appeals for the development of programs and policies that will better support young men. Often these calls focus on educational programs, increased vocational training, access to mental health services, boundaries on harmful technologies, and other initiatives to better assist young men in transitioning into adult roles. These are all worthwhile efforts that deserve our collective attention and serious investment.
However, there is one part of the conversation about how to help young men thrive that needs more attention—and that is how the falling rates of dating and marriage are playing a significant role in undermining young men’s capacity to flourish in life. Currently, when the topic of marriage is discussed in relation to men’s life trajectories, the focus is typically on a lack of “marriageable men” in our society and how this trend is contributing to a retreat from marriage by women. From this perspective, men’s developmental trajectories (or the lack thereof) are the “cause,” and the retreat from marriage is the “effect.”
While there is certainly some truth to this observation, the reverse is also true. The retreat from marriage is contributing to the decline of men. The collective decline of marriage in our society is diminishing—and in some cases erasing—one of the primary motivational mechanisms of young men’s growth and development.
