I can’t find anything to disagree with. Those kids and their coaches deserve to be in a safe place. The Mayor of Coeur d’alene and the governor can say all the words they want, but the hate mongers have a haven that’s at least as old as I am. They’re there. They’ve been there. And they’ll stay there as long as they’re allowed.
Police are investigating racial harassment of NCAA women's basketball team in Idaho.
@NPR reports: "Members of the University of Utah women's team told police someone in a truck displaying a confederate flag yelled racial slurs and revved the engine in a menacing way as players and staff walked to dinner."
Today in Labor History March 17, 1968: The U.S. Army Chemical Corps killed over 6,000 sheep while illegally testing a nerve gas agent at the Dugway Proving Ground in Skull Valley, Utah. A 1998 report, the by Air Force Press was the "first documented admission" from the Army that a nerve agent killed the sheep at Skull Valley. The incident inspired Stephen King's novel “The Stand.”
Natalie Cline, a full-grown adult who is a school board member from Granite School District in #Utah, targeted a 16-year-old adolescent #female basketball player in a social media post, insinuating that the student is #transgender - apparently bc she is muscular and has short hair 😑 >>>
Utah ranks among worst in the world in this critical climate change metric
The Beehive State’s ranking rises to 19th when compared on a per capita basis. On average, each person in Utah generates more than 18 tons of carbon dioxide annually.
That is about 3½ tons more than the average American, and 10 tons more than the average Californian
The desert north of Milford, #Utah, is full of a strange mix of land uses. There are large solar farms, extensive wind turbines, several geothermal plants, and then loads of pig farms.
Utah HB 157 is now onto the governor. It prevents the state from intervening in situations where parents are trying to force #transgender youth to be cis, or factoring it into custody disputes. It follows similar bills in congress that would prevent courts from declining adoptions to non-affirming parents.
Getting where we want to go takes concentration and focus, because no path is as straight and easy as a bowling lane.
Concentration and focus require that we set aside the things that don't matter, siren calls of the tech, political and entertainment world that promise to take us places, but never actually do.
No matter what happens in the world, #Republicans’ first instinct is to blame minorities and fan the flames of racism. Hatred and division are the currency of the #GOP.
This guy is running for governor! Utahns deserve better.
It appears that a lot of people don't understand the implications of laws like Utah's -- which will extend beyond the state, and be copied by many other states -- involving limits on children accessing social media. In order to prevent children from creating social media accounts by themselves, it is required that ALL adult users of social media be identified via government IDs. This is literally the beginning of Chinese-style control and tracking of ALL Internet usage here in the U.S. Nothing less.
"...Gov. #SpencerCox has approved an overhaul of social media laws meant to protect children as the state fends off multiple lawsuits challenging their constitutionality.
Republican legislative leaders announced at the start of this year's 45-day work session that they would prioritize revising a pair of policies passed last year that imposed strict limits for children...
...wishing to access social media. Two bills signed this week by Cox 👉effectively repeal and replace those first-in-the-nation laws with language the sponsors say should hold up in court..."