Hopefully you made it through April Fool's Day yesterday without getting pranked. The National Parks Department is notorious for hokey pranks on the holiday, for example, this post about Utah Giant Prairie dogs that you can ride in Bryce Canyon.
But they weren't the only ones in government joining in on the pranks this year. Here are five pranks politicians pulled for the holiday, including Sen. John Fetterman jokingly confirming that he has a body double.
Rep. John Curtis says TikTok phone campaign backfired, but bill still halted in the Senate
The phones in Rep. John Curtis’ office were ringing off the hook a couple weeks ago. It was before the House voted on the bill requiring TikTok to divest from ByteDance, a Chinese company.
“We literally had calls that said, ‘So, what’s a congressman?’” Curtis said.
As part of TikTok’s media campaign against the bill, the company sent out a notification to some users asking them to input their ZIP code to call their representative.
It’s a move Curtis described “as very effective for us and very ineffective for them.”
“What really alarms me is that they could then use that same technique to influence an election or taint somebody’s opinion about an issue,” Curtis said.
Read more about the bill and how TikTok launched an advertising campaign against it.
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Former Young Women General President Ardeth Greene Kapp died Saturday, March 30. She had turned 93 years old only a few days earlier.
Sister Kapp served as the ninth Young Women general president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1984 to 1992 and became a mentor to hundreds of thousands of Latter-day Saint young women.
Her presidency was highlighted by the introduction of the Young Women values and the strong growth of the Personal Progress program that concluded in 2019.
“Goals can change, but values never change. Values are the lodestar, they are anchors," Sister Kapp said, referring to the Young Women values from the Personal Progress program. "If you have your values in place, then you have a basis to make decisions."
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