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I think about this headline all of the time.

you rarely hear from the Utah Supreme Court and at this rate the Chief Justice is going to be a household name. This is a fast moving coup to enshrine GOP dominance of the state in the event we get even slightly competitive. They will tear down the "Utah Way" to cling to power Major escalation

More of this!

Disgusting. Their popularity and ideas about "masculinity" are cancer for young men. The president is actively stepping in to support sex trafficking by giving them safe harbor here.

Update on SB 195: the bill got better in many ways to the point that SLC now supports it. The moratorium seems to have been removed. Speed bumps and stops signs have been removed from the list. The language exempts local streets. Thanks to everyone who spoke up so far! le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/...

The Consumer Protection agency is no longer consumer oriented. It’s now dropping major fraud cases.

SB 203, HB 451, HB 512, and SJR 9 are part of a calculated overreach by the Legislature to protect and expand their power, violating the separation of powers between the legislative & judicial branches of our government. Learn More and Take Action: buff.ly/41ndUSP #utpol #utleg

One district administrator feels like the change, which was sent to the governor, is "an end run around Constitutional Amendment A" — the proposal in last election that courts voided from the ballot.

A bill prohibiting community water fluoridation may significantly impact low-income and disabled communities.

HAPPENING NOW: Attorneys from across Utah holding a news conference to call on the legislature to back off of bills they say threatens the independence of the judiciary. More than 900 lawyers signed a letter to lawmakers opposing a series of bills. #utpol

Everything that we warned the American public about regarding RFK Jr. is already happening. An excerpt from an OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I published. We wrote about about what happened in Samoa with the measles outbreak there and said, simply: “The same will happen here”.

Reeds, reflections, and remarkable skies - another magical evening at Utah Lake🌊 📍: Utah County 📸: Matt Ahern via kutv.com/chimein

Letter: This state belongs to all Utahns, not to the legislators. If we want the Legislature to listen to us, we have to vote against incumbents.

A reminder that this week came news that an mRNA vaccine has had remarkable trial success against *pancreatic cancer*

Jeff Bezos is turning The Washington Post into his own propaganda network. "Free markets and personal liberties" is code for an oligarchic agenda. Billionaires don’t foster competition; they crush it. He controls the narrative to protect his power, and opinions would ruin the illusion of compliance.

The same people who denounce “leftist” indoctrination and the “progressive” assault on free speech are also those who literally control the media and are doing all they can to save their precious ideas from interrogation.

This is brazen 😳

Thoughts and prayers from Blake Moore, but he still voted to take away Medicaid, strip federal services (and the associated jobs), and reduce Medicare and social security.

Could headlines please not just take for granted that Trump “is doing” stuff he has no legal authority to do just because he said so? Because the implication to the reader is that he can in fact legitimately do these things.

Utah lawmakers revised an elections reform bill to require voters to opt in to receiving a ballot in the mail starting in 2028.

"While seemingly small, this reduction represents a significant revenue loss for the state and will disproportionately benefit large corporations and the top 5% of earners at the expense of Utah's many residents and critical public services" It will only save individual families about $45/year.

Because private insurance, private equity, and megacorporations are BASTIONS of efficiency, flexibility, and prudence. They ALWAYS prioritize the end user experience, right?

Utah Supreme Court Chief Justice Matthew Durrant says the Legislature is waging “a broad attack on the independence of the judiciary” with a suite of bills that would impose far more legislative influence on the courts.

my powerful and eloquent rebrand of the 15 minute city.

Re: the union-busting bill and countless others...

Folks is it a good sign when a Republican Justice appointed by a Republican Governor says this? Durrant is more willing to call this out than some of our own supposed allies. Its revenge and a power grab www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

At the end of the millennium, the CDC called fluoridation "one of the top 10 public health achievements in the 20th century." This is simply anti-science reactionary policy based on health misinformation because people were traumatized by COVID in the dumbest of ways and need to blow off some steam

This right here 👇 "For no right comes without a responsibility, and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated." -Wallace Stegner

Red-level alert for the Utah active transportation community. Please write to your state reps (especially in a red district) asking them to oppose SB 195, which would prevent SLC from implementing any traffic safety measures. Here's part of the email I wrote to my reps (feel free to reuse).

I have people close to me who are currently immunocompromised, and this is very scary 😣