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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 15m
Letter: I hope all Utahns will see through this attempt to take the ability of our citizens to challenge the supermajority in our Legislature. Vote NO on Amendment B.
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Letter: Lincoln Fillmore hates Utahns’ ability to challenge him and the Legislature
Letter: I hope all Utahns will see through this attempt to take the ability of our citizens to challenge the supermajority in our Legislature. Vote NO on Amendment B.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 5h
The #EndangeredSpeciesAct is under attack yet again — this time under the guise of helping renewable energy. We only have a short window to stop this so please contact your senators right now and urge them to reject this bill and protect the Act. ➡️ biodiv.us/4yqnfXl
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1h
The federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe on.wsj.com/4zBOcZ9
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The federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe
Authorities have subpoenaed members of the Democratic congresswoman’s family as part of a broader look at their immigration paperwork.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10h
Judge's' ruling to halt toppling of more trees by Trump Adm in DC is fierce "It's a coincidence, the govt seems to suggest, that (they) cut down 100s of trees at the course weeks after the President asked the dept to cut down trees at the Course and not, say, any other time in the last 7 years"
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Utah News Dispatch @utahnewsdispatch.com · 3h
“Congress did not contemplate USDA using its appropriated funds to shut down offices or relocate employees,” a federal judge wrote in a ruling blocking the Trump administration's plan to reorganize the Forest Service. #utpol
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Federal judge blocks Trump administration from moving Forest Service headquarters to Utah • Utah News Dispatch
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from moving the U.S. Forest Service's headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h
There's a secret reason your electric bill is going up — and not enough people are talking about it. Here's what you should know about investor-owned utility companies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U98f...
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The Secret Behind High Electricity Bills
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Utah News Dispatch @utahnewsdispatch.com · 10h
The Great Salt Lake is now below 30% of its natural volume, and a billboard along the Wasatch Front is back to remind Utahns just how much the lake has declined. Read more from @fox13news.bsky.social and @greatsaltlakenews.bsky.social
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Great Salt Lake tracker returns as the lake falls below 30% full • Utah News Dispatch
With the Great Salt Lake now below 30% of its natural volume, Grow the Flow's billboard along the Wasatch Front is back to remind Utahns.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 9h
This is disgusting, but not unexpected. The Trump administration is putting their thumb on the scales for Putin, despite the fact that it’s Russia violating the energy ceasefire. 
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Vaccines and voting rights @awinbauer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The People of Utah vs. Kevin O'Leary - The Verge Environmental regulations are being cut in the name of data center development expediency. apple.news/Agfc0-Af0QeK...
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The People of Utah vs. Kevin O'Leary — The Verge
On the morning of May 11th, the celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary appeared on Fox Business and announced that he was under attack by Chinese agents.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hahahaha low energy Facing Backlash, Trump Says His Super PAC Will Pay for Taxpayer-Funded Ads www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...
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Facing Backlash, Trump Says His Super PAC Will Pay for Taxpayer-Funded Ads
The president said that his PAC, MAGA, Inc., would pay for TV ads promoting him that had been paid for with taxpayer money.
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Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 04/10/2026
Happy banned books week! If you align yourself with the book banners, you’re on the wrong side of history.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 03/10/2026
At least half of Utah’s 16 ski areas — including Brighton Resort, Solitude Mountain Resort, Deer Valley Resort and Snowbird — are either adjacent to or overlap with an inventoried roadless area.
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Trump could soon make it easier for Utah ski resorts to expand. The question is: Will they?
The Trump administration has proposed rescinding the Roadless Rule, which provides a layer of protection against development and logging on National Forest land — some of which is adjacent to Utah ski area boundaries. Without that obstacle, will resorts consider expanding?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The wealth of the richest 0.1 percent of Americans has more than doubled since 2019. If that doesn't convince you we need a wealth tax, renowned economist Gabriel Zucman will. Watch.
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How to Actually Tax Extreme Wealth (ft. Gabriel Zucman)
Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done.Baloney.Economist
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don’t get complacent. They’re still going to try to cheat. Check your registration. Vote early if at all possible.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Philip Jacobson @philjaco.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New 166-page report is first comprehensive review of impact of USAID’s closure on its nature-related initiatives (biodiversity conservation, climate adaptation, clean energy, ocean plastics etc) news.mongabay.com/2026/09/new-... by @shokes.bsky.social @mongabay.com
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New report reveals the environmental cost of USAID’s destruction
Nearly two years after U.S. President Trump’s decision to dismantle international development agency USAID removed nearly $1 billion from global conservation and environment funding, the agency’s abse...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/10/2026
This is obscene. Buy enough of Trump’s crypto, and you can buy your way into a dinner with the President. Buy even more, and you get VIP access. Presidential access with a price tag. #PayToPlayPresident
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All by himself Sen Mike Lee killed a bill to stop Trump from razing other President’s memorials Mike Lee has no morals left, only blind ambition to be appointed to SCOTUS
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 01/10/2026
The state of Utah just banned seven more books from all schools statewide, bringing the total number of banned titles to 44. We thought we’d take a minute to tell you about the seven new additions. 🧵
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Utah just banned 7 new books — at once — from all public schools in the state. Here’s what the novels are about.
The additions bring the total number of books now prohibited in Utah public schools to 44.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 01/10/2026
Avian enthusiasts worry a huge resting area for flocks visiting the Great Salt Lake could become a major hunting ground instead.
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Salt Lake airport plans to sell nearly 1,000 acres of wetlands. Bird advocates worry about what could come next.
Avian enthusiasts worry a huge resting area for flocks visiting the Great Salt Lake could become a major hunting ground instead.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Household debt at a record high. Student loan defaults at a record high. Credit card debt at a near record high. Meanwhile, corporate profits are the highest they’ve ever been. CEOs are paid 325x more than their typical workers. U.S. billionaire wealth is up 30% in a year. It's unsustainable.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mentions on Fox shows of the very newsworthy confrontation between Schmitt and Jack Smith: Ingraham (7-8pm): 0 Watters (8-9): 0 Hannity (9-10): 0 Gutfeld (10-11): 0 Fox & Friends this AM: 0
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On the same day Trump announces that top tech firms have signed an accord to "self-police" their own AI development, we learned that OpenAI employees and security researchers were reportedly ignored when they brought safety concerns to the company's top executives. See the problem here?
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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Most swing state GOP Senate candidates took $$ from Jack Abramoff's now pardoned partner.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 29/09/2026
In 2018, voters did something unprecedented, putting three initiatives on the ballot — to expand Medicaid, legalize medical marijuana and ban gerrymandering — and passed them all. This fall, voters will be asked if they want to make it significantly harder for some initiatives to pass.
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Battle lines drawn on constitutional amendment to make some ballot initiatives harder
Amendment B on the November ballot asks voters if they want to make it more difficult to pass a ballot initiative that includes a tax increase. Critics say it undermines the constitutional right, proponents say it protects taxpayers.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 29/09/2026
A look at state legislators who resigned from their seats after being charged with crimes ranging from poaching wildlife to soliciting sex.
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Before Rep. Trevor Lee, these lawbreaker Utah lawmakers resigned after being charged with crimes
A look at state legislators who resigned from their seats after being charged with crimes ranging from poaching wildlife to soliciting sex.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
US 30-Year Treasury Yield Rises to Highest Level Since 2002 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US 30-Year Treasury Yield Rises to Highest Level Since 2002
Yields on the US Treasury’s longest-dated bond rose for a sixth straight day, crossing another key threshold amid a deepening selloff across global debt markets.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s just amazing how easy and straightforward it is to do reporting like this
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Where could these men have gotten such a sense of entitlement about touching women?
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Trump On Tape: I Grab Women "By The Pu**y”
YouTube video by TDC
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump White House official app is fraught with trackers. The White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules. For example, the app includes scripts to monitor a user's location several times per minute.
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White House Drove Users to Official App Fraught With Trackers
The White House app became the App Store’s most downloaded news app after the president barred three news outlets.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
The trans women in sports panic has got to be one of the GOP's most successful manufactured culture war campaigns. Somehow they got a lot of people who would otherwise say they support trans rights to somehow fear "fairness" in sports. It's a non-issue.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Like everything else Trump “fixes,” the reflecting pool (along with the war in Iran, gas prices, beef prices, and mortgage rates) is in exponentially worse shape than when he started.
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Vaccines and voting rights @awinbauer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The trillion-dollar wellness “con” exploits us all, says top scientist. This is how we wrestle back control - apple.news/Ab67lyf_PTa-...
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The trillion-dollar wellness “con” exploits us all, says top scientist. This is how we wrestle back control — BikeRadar
We talk to exercise scientist Dr Nick Tiller about his new book The Health and Wellness Lie, where he reveals the “hype, hacks and hidden agendas of the well-being machine”
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kash Patel should resign in disgrace. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
Ciaran Martin, the former head of Britain’s cyberdefense agency, said the F.B.I. hack likely had “huge impact on the operational capability” of the bureau and could rank as one of the most consequential data breaches in history — graver even than the Office of Personnel Management burglary.

“Losing the data on 20 million federal employees to the Chinese was bad,” Mr. Martin said. “But you knew the Chinese weren’t going to sell or publish it.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration cannot leverage grants meant to help prevent terrorist attacks to force states and local governments to adopt a slate of new anti-voting measures, a federal judge ruled Monday in a major win for voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Judge strikes down Trump’s bid to cut states’ anti-terror funds unless they impose new voting restrictions
The judge ruled that FEMA had no “authority to extract unfunded reforms from states in exchange for grants.”
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Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance @protectwildutah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From 2018-2021 (during the previous, illegal reduction) there were a total of 20 mining claims filed in the lands cut from Bears Ears National Monument. Today (two weeks after the mineral withdrawal was lifted), 72 claims have been filed. For more info, visit: suwa.org/in-less-than...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026
US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies
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US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies
This has gotten very little attention, as far as I can tell....
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump and Hegseth are hiding the true cost of their idiot decision to put American service personnel’s lives in danger so they can strut around and act super macho Pathological liars and psychopaths who put no value on any lives but their own
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CNN @cnn.com · 26/09/2026
The White House is barring CNN from flying on Air Force One on Saturday as part of the news outlet's duties covering the president on behalf of major television networks. cnn.it/3TpnjIc
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just on time, there’s another fucking caravan. You can’t make this shit up. Anyone buying this is a complete moron
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Buckle up: "Trump’s last refuge will be the unchecked use of executive authority, a politicised justice department and a sweeping pardon power. With nothing to lose in his final two years, he could go out all guns blazing." www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘The weaker he gets, the more dangerous he gets’: Trump lashes out as his power wanes
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 27/09/2026
An herbicide mix-up killed 200 trees on a major Salt Lake City street, but a new landscape will be in place just in time for one of the largest events in Utah's history.
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An SLC worker accidentally poisoned 200 trees at the city’s front door. Two years on, a greener future is taking root.
An herbicide mix-up killed 200 trees on a major Salt Lake City street, but a new landscape will be in place just in time for one of the largest events in Utah's history.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength —Orwell, “1984”
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 27/09/2026
The affordability crisis looks very different from their table.
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The United Nations has released a statement for World Contraception Day (Sep 26) and Int'l Safe Abortion Day (Sep 28). "We reaffirm that sexual and reproductive health and rights are fundamental human rights and indispensable to the enjoyment of health, dignity, equality and non-discrimination."
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Sexual and reproductive health and rights must be protected from polarization, regression and underfunding
GENEVA - States must urgently address growing attacks on sexual and reproductive health and rights, including through renewed investment in health systems and protection of essential healthcare servic...
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Vaccines and voting rights @awinbauer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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OpenAI bots meddled with US government agencies, including SEC and Census
OpenAI said its bots access public data from the US Census and the Securities and Exchange Commission, which looks over US stocks and investors
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war: With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, database shows. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war
With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.
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