Yesterday, the U.S. House passed HR 3492 by just 5 votes. The bill would criminalize gender affirming care. In 2023, Utah passed a bill sponsored by now-U.S. Rep. Mike Kennedy that banned the practice. The bill called for a study & for the policy to be revisited when the study was complete.

Jaxon Fart

Salt lake out in force today

Come be my colleague! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/188... . Our school (we're bigger than a department) is an awesome place to work. Our faculty are excellent across the board. Pay and benefits are good. SLC is a nice place to live. Happy to answer any questions

As Democrats contemplate a 2026 or 2028 run and wonder what message will most motivate voters, they need to understand that the minimum opening bid is vengeance.

Maybe it wasn't a good idea for the legislature to let anyone carry a gun on college campuses?

Lol

Just recorded a pod on solar+storage and holy shit y'all, if you are not tracking this market on a daily basis, you have no idea how wild it is. The global average price of a battery pack fell 40% *from 2023 to 2024*. That dropped the LCOE of a solar+storage plant by 22%. In a year!

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act in an image. ❌Health care ❌Clean energy ❌Education ❌Food assistance ❌Natural resources All slashed in order to pay for tax cuts to the wealthy.

Six GOP governors activated the National Guard ahead of #NoKings because they claimed the protesters may be violent. 5 million of us marched. And so far all actual violence seems to have come at the hands of counter-protesters, Christian nationalist terrorists and law enforcement.

From me:

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka. They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.

Here's my new hobby. Seeing how many people lose their health coverage if Republicans pass their $880 billion in Medicaid cuts. In David Valadao's district 67,000 constituents lose their coverage. 67,000!

Huntsman center full, already a big crowd outside for AOC and Bernie at the U of Utah

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

This is really great www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian...

Moved from a house with the cheapest induction range you can get to one with a nice Bosch gas range. Gas is so much worse! It doesn't go nearly as low or as high as the induction range

"Disagree Different" huh? "...Lee referred only to an earlier Tribune article about the bill. “Learn to read a bill instead of pushing dishonest click bait [sic] headlines,” he wrote in a text message to a reporter. “Go pound sand you Communist piece of trash.”"

The kids are all right

Congratulations to the measles virus for its victory in the US Senate today!

Four measles cases in Texas over the last couple weeks - all among unvaccinated people, including two children. www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

At the risk of sounding like a shitlib: an oldies radio station dj intro'd a song he played by talking about the huge impact that "Soul Train" had by giving black artists exposure to audiences that wouldn't have heard them before. Brightened my day a little bit

My week just got a little less shitty!

More fear mongering that harms public health and as always, the impact will be greatest on those with the fewest resources who already struggle to access dental care!

The Utah legislature loves taking away power from the people: this time banning fluoride in the water. utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/01/30/u... This review in JAMA Pediatrics is a good overview: there is null relationship with IQ at 1.5mg/L or less (US allows 0.7mg/L). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39761023/

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If you feel despair, if you feel defeated, if you catch yourself dissociating or focusing on what our oppressors are doing rather than on what you can do yourself—that is territory that the enemy has claimed within you. Give them nothing. Focus on your agency. We are in a fight that we can win. 🏴🏴🏴

Shocked, SHOCKED! To hear that Sean Reyes was involved! www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...

Instead on focusing on how to grow our programs and serve our students better, our deans and department chairs have been asked to spend their time thinking about multiple budget cut scenarios to address an increasingly negative political environment toward higher ed. #AcademicSky

Might fuck around and mod my toddler's lite bright to power it over USB instead of AAs

Merrick Garland's standing policy toward all Republicans

Broncos choked, but this is the worst reffing I've seen all fucking season. DB grabs both of Mimm's arms without getting his head around and it's not PI? Herbert grabs Coopers's face and it's a penalty on the Broncos? Bush league shit

Subjecting viewers to Kevin Harlan should get CBS's broadcast license revoked

oh, so we have to keep doing this forever wapo.st/4fkUVgo

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

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This is like a flight 93 election but we had watched one of the passengers previously hijack a plane, parachute out, then refused to prosecute them and gave them TSA precheck

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Rauru and Sonia sound like a couple of old swingers trying to bring Link into The Lifestyle

Leading with "raising costs?" Cool, cool