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.
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 ...
This week the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that clears the way for racial profiling during immigration raids and sweeps. Now we could see the Trump administration rapidly expand the racially discriminatory ICE practices we
Political violence is an avoidable tragedy that tears nations apart.
The assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk this Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, is the latest in a devastating pattern of attacks that rips at the very fabric of American civic life and the Constitution. The recent escalation is stark. Select events from just this year include: the stalking and assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband in June, the bombing of a Palm Springs fertility clinic in May, and the attempted murder by arson of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and his family in April.
This recent violence builds on years of noteworthy attacks, including multiple assassination attempts against Donald Trump in 2024, the assault of Paul Pelosi and attempted kidnapping of Nancy Pelosi in 2022, and, of course, the events of Jan. 6, 2021, that injured 174 police officers and led to five officer deaths.
To state the obvious: This is not how political disagreements are settled in a functioning democracy.
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