shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Grand Canyon National Park 😍

You can just say this getting the same point across but you gotta be a snide asshole

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

The way in which Blake has no idea what he’s talking about was clear during the debate (at one point he called CIP $ “fun money” and called for the funds to be eliminated) and comes up again in this piece.

Key word here “talks”

Live spencer cox reaction after being an elected member of a political party who follows through on their promises

More of this from our creatives please:

It’s great to see the investments happening in journalism because of the @sltrib.com (a nonprofit! go donate!) Utah is better because of the Trib and its staff.

“Specifically, parcels available for leasing are directly adjacent to or near Zion, Bryce Canyon and Capitol Reef national parks and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.”

“The Trump Administration views Southern Utah’s remarkable redrock country as just another place to exploit and plunder as they promote new coal mining…America’s national parks, national monuments, and wild public lands don’t deserve this fate and we’ll work tirelessly to stop it from happening”

Maps + analysis + press release from @protectwildutah.bsky.social 💪🏻 suwa.org/trump-admini...

Last week, the Trump Administration announced it is making previously off-limits public land available for coal leasing under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), including 48,000 acres in Utah. Maps and additional info can be found here: suwa.org/trump-admini...

Conservation groups have defeated this highway proposal 7 times since 2006. And we’ll do it again.

Back from a @protectwildutah.bsky.social staff retreat. Public lands are pretty great:

209 out of 210 U.S. coal plants are now more expensive to keep running than it is to build entirely new solar and wind energy. Coal is a relic of the past that destroys our environment, pollutes our communities, and raises our energy costs.

West Slope, Best Slope, Colorado.

❗ACT NOW ❗suwa.org/keeplabywild Trump’s Bureau of Land Management is proposing to greenlight more off-road vehicles in Labyrinth Canyon at the request of the State of Utah and certain motorized groups. Tell the BLM to Keep Labyrinth Canyon Wild!

Yesterday, the BLM announced it is considering reversing course on the motorized Travel Management Plan for the Labyrinth Canyon/Gemini Bridges area near Moab. Keep an eye out for an Action Alert coming soon, we have 30 days to submit public comments! More info here: suwa.org/suwa-stateme...

Always wild to me how much politicians hitch a ride to the “we’re going to save the GSL” but then back it up with mostly inaction during the legislative session. We. Couldn’t. Even. Get. Stats. On. Golf. Course. Water. Consumption.

Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]

Kirk was a nobody to normal people, but it's now clear how important he was to the right. The dream of post-Steve Bannon conservativism: An influencer presidential candidate. A homegrown Trump. The panic we're seeing is a movement realizing they have nothing to replace Trump's cult of personality.

btwn the state sponsored censorship hypocrisy and stuff like this it really feels like a theme of being alive right now is power feeling like it doesn’t even have to try - just treating everyone with obvious contempt

We have an abundance of milquetoast, Billionaire-funded think tanks fixated on Beltway politics designed to preserve the elite status quo in the face of tyranny — not protect the most vulnerable or exercise bold leadership in the public interest. This approach will continue to fail.

Remarkable how many people are willing to form think tanks or consulting groups that siphon off Dem-aligned funding but not actually join the party to help build it.

it's also really important to spread the "this is illegal" message as far as you can because the majority of people are not exposed to it! most people do not even know the government is doing the illegal thing it's doing, let alone that it's illegal. when they learn about it they get mad!

They've silenced scientists and erased climate data. They've weaponized the law against universities, organizations, and politicians. Now they're censoring comedians like Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel who don't toe the line. Share content they're trying to censor. Speak up today while you can.

He’s not. “Disagree better” has always meant nothing and Gov Cox has shown time and time again he is a spineless bigot with a smile.

“…much of the donor revenue will be used to cover the cost of what's now fewer than a dozen employees as well as make annual rental payments on Olympic facilities operated by a nonprofit.” So…not getting kids involved in sports (work that is already happening + donors could give to existing orgs)

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

Answer: Utah’s federal delegations hates the presence of federal public lands in the state and seeks to privatize and sell them off.

It feels like leaders go out of the way to make our city as bland and boring and soulless as possible with every new development:

my hot take is that i do not care if you post on twitter but i do think that monitoring it is essential to understanding who is running the country right now and where they are directing their sentiments

Abundance = fossil fuels + big tech, let’s be crystal clear.

Firefighters, famously, have a house they all live in, where they wait for people to call them, actually.

Now that the Koch brothers — the Ür-fossil-fuel-villains — have started to fund a campaign for "permitting reform," can we PLEASE come to our senses and stop talking about permitting reform as a climate policy?

Oh look environmental review saved the day.

When Congress reconvenes in September, a reminder: There will be yet another brawl over ill-conceived federal "permitting reform," an effort championed by fossil fuels gleefully taking advantage of Republican control, rudderless Democrats, & an infusion of Big Tech money into centrist "Abundance."

When you CUT OFF WIND AND SOLAR (which MANY smart people say are the CHEAPEST, CLEANEST and MOST BEAUTIFUL energy sources) prices WILL GO UP. The ones raising energy prices are TRUMP, and the OIL and GAS COMPANIES who gave him $1BILLION.

The LDS Church already has ~9,000 parking spaces adjacent to this location. Parking in downtown SLC is a breeze. American cities were not built around cars, they were (and continue to be) demolished to accommodate them.

Trump's "beautiful" bill is "driving us back to a future where the oil and gas industry wields immense power over the future of the nation’s public lands," said Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance attorney Landon Newell.

“The details are pretty light” describes all things SEG:

Spent a long wedding weekend in/around Grand Staircase-Escalante:

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@baileyimages.bsky.social ‘s last book rocked me (in the best way!) and I’m certain this next one will do the same. And he’s a longtime friend on @protectwildutah.bsky.social and Utah’s wild places. Pre-order, now!

“This is not a serious request” hasn’t exactly stopped anything else in this administration, so forgive those of us who are taking this moment seriously:

The fact that abundance, like libertarianism, has almost exclusive appeal to a *ahem* distinctive demographic cannot be remarked upon enough

“ @protectwildutah.bsky.social filed a lawsuit in federal court, arguing the approval did not consider all environmental harms, including impacts to groundwater, migratory birds, air quality and dark night skies.”

“By failing to conduct the required environmental analysis for a project of this magnitude,” SUWA attorney Hanna Larsen wrote in a news release, “BLM has rubber-stamped a decision to irreversibly alter the extremely wild and remote nature of Utah’s West Desert.”

📢 Calling all Park Protectors! ⚠️ We could lose more than 350 national parks unless we come together and put an end to the reckless attacks on park staff, funding, and the parks themselves. ➡️ Join us for a day of action 8/23/25 to #ProtectEveryPark! npca.org/everypark