The public can help to UNDO gerrymandering in Utah
THERE ARE DEADLINES: PLEASE FINISH BY OCT 5TH
History:
In 2018 voters decided that we wanted fair district maps - no gerrymandering in Utah. Gerrymandering is a process of packing unlike voters together and dispersing like-minded voters so that, in effect, the politicians pick their voters. Our laws and constitution intend for voters to select their lawmakers.
The Utah legislature IGNORED the voter's rights and imposed a gerrymandered map on us in 2020-2021. Their map resulted in 4 GOP house members whereas one democratic House member had been elected prior to the gerrymandered redistricting.
Lawsuits followed. Now, 8 years later, voters finally have a chance at getting what is required by law in proposition 4. See commentary by Brian Schott here:
Since Trump's ridiculous lawsuit was filed against the New York Times- and immediately tossed-their coverage has apparently taken on accurate truth-telling mode. FINALLY !
White House reporter Tyler Pager wrote about Trump’s “seemingly unscripted remark that summed up the retribution campaign that has come to define his second term.”
And he asserted, with no caveats:
Mr. Trump has used the full might of his political and executive power to express that mind-set in myriad ways, sparing no facet of American life.
Trump Playing Doctor
The Times was also brutally honest about Trump’s insane comments about autism and Tylenol on Monday.
The president is taking the extraordinary step of giving Americans, and in particular expectant mothers, direct medical advice. Trump asserted, incorrectly, that babies get as many as 80 vaccines at once. Trump has long expressed the view, refuted by mountains of scientific evidence, that vaccines are linked to autism. “They pump so much stuff into babies, it’s a disgrace.” He also instructed pregnant women not to take Tylenol. Trump has no medical background, and there is no evidence to support his remarks.
The briefing at the White House featured often unsubstantiated medical advice from Mr. Trump, reminiscent of his first term, when he encouraged Americans to try unproven treatments for Covid.
ACTION: Keep up the pressure on the local ABC station by calling their local advertisers that we are boycotting them for keeping Kimmel off our airwaves -or supporting them for broadcasting Kimmel.
Current condition of GSL is in the EXTREME ADVERSE STATE, which begins when water falls below 4192 ft in South arm. The South arm is currently 1.1 ft below that level, and falling.
Grow the FLOW has an excellent tracker of data about the DIRE and unhealthy condition of the Great Salt Lake.
Utah’s Leadership Failures Drop Great Salt Lake Water Level to 4,192 Feet
The Great Salt Lake’s South Arm dropped to 4,192 feet above sea level, triggering toothless conservation measures which are too little and far too late for this struggling ecosystem. The lake is now on track to hit a new historic low in 2026, jeopardizing the 12 million migratory birds it harbors annually, the $1.3 million lake-supported economy, and the health of all Wasatch Front residents.
Utah legislators are also preparing to meet in a special session and legislate to dry up the North Arm of the Great Salt Lake, which they have been preparing to do in legislation passed over the last few legislative sessions. Since the North Arm represents 40% of the surface area of the lake, this move formalizes Utah’s leadership failure in protecting the largest remaining wetland ecosystem in the American West.
This is a disaster we could have avoided had state leaders not squandered the precious time they had to raise water levels.
A topic that gets limited attention is the completely lawless pocket rescission effort by White House to cause even more mass deaths in other countries. In detail, 5 billion dollars of foreign aid is at risk.
Congress and the public will be EVEN MORE sidelined and subverted if this is allowed to stand.
Congress controls all money, White House must spend it as specified by Congress. By using illegal project rescisions, White House can do whatever it wants. Current plan is to defund all foreign aid and frankly
IT is important to appreciate that there has ALREADY BEEN a big rescission bill passed to defund foreign aid. The bill also defunded public media: National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting.
USAID lost their approved congressional funding in a LEGAL (but highly partisan) attack on factual information this summer
How expensive it this? What else could be funded with 1 million dollars a day? Vaccines, head start, food assistance, education aid for poor kids and disabled kids, housing the unhoused in DC could cost 4 times less.
The deployment of the national guard is a massive waste of taxpayer money.
Its actual purpose is to scare the public into submission, to accept a national gestapo-like police force.
We must ALL be brave NOW-because the alternative is far more scary.
Aug 21, 2025 — In all but two states, the daily cost of the D.C. troop deployment is greater than the daily cost of operating public housing for all unhoused ...
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