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Elections have consequences!

This is a purple state that leans red and yet the liberal judge won in a blowout. Looks like the right’s no compromise stance on forced birth is costing them! This election will most likely determine Wisconsin getting rid of gerrymandered maps, protecting women’s rights, and safeguarding it from throwing out 2024 election results. This is great news for real Americans!

Just to emphasize how out of touch Republicans are with normal Americans, this is the “classy” Repub opponent who lost in the 10+ pt blowout. Why are they always imitating Trump? Why are so many Republicans obsessed with being jerks and denying election results? Some
Introspection is in order but they never allow themselves to conduct any because in their mind they never lose.


View: https://twitter.com/heartlandsignal/status/1643444930231128064?s=46&t=QT7YFlZ_IlHq81PpZAhKgw
Republicans really do need to get out and visit real America and interact with real Americans again. Just staying stuck in their Fox News silos isn’t doing them any favors. Real Americans don’t want abortion banned, don’t think Trump was cheated in 2020, and don’t like erasing books and LGBTs from society. And they don’t like jerks like this. This works well for the Cleutus dumbasses addicted to Fox. But it doesn’t play well for normal real Americans.
 
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Appears to be a bit of a compromise. Idk.

The Biden administration on Thursday proposed new regulations that would allow schools to bar transgender athletes from participating in competitive high school and college sports, but disallow blanket bans on the athletes that have been approved across the country.

The proposal was met with mixed reaction from transgender rights activists, with some saying that it provided a welcome set of protections for trans students and others saying the regulations could offer a roadmap for those who want to discriminate.

Specifically, the department’s proposal requires schools that wish to limit trans athletes’ participation to show that the decision relates to an important educational objective and minimizes harm to others.

“The proposed rule … recognizes that in some instances, particularly in competitive high school and college athletic environments, some schools may adopt policies that limit transgender students’ participation,” the Education Department said in a fact sheet. It said the proposal would give schools “the flexibility to develop their own participation policies.”

Supreme Court refuses to reinstate West Virginia’s transgender athlete ban
Under the proposal, blanket or categorical bans on all trans athletes would not be allowed, setting up a clash with Republican-led states that have enacted sweeping prohibitions.
 
Being anti gun is a big no no in a republican controlled state

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Tennessee’s House expels first of 3 Democrats for protest

In an extraordinary act of political retaliation, Republicans on Thursday expelled a Democratic lawmaker from the Tennessee Capitol for his role in a protest that called for more gun control in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting in Nashville. Two more Democrats were at risk of being...
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Tennessee’s GOP-dominated House on Thursday expelled the first of three Democratic members who were at risk of being thrown out of the Legislature for their role in a demonstration calling for gun control after the Nashville school shooting.

The 72-25 vote to oust Rep. Justin Jones was an extraordinary move the chamber has used only a handful times since the Civil War.

The House was also considering ousting Reps. Gloria Johnson and Justin Pearson a week after the trio chanted back and forth from the chamber floor with gun-control supporters who packed the gallery. The protest happened days after six people, including three children, were fatally shot at The Covenant School in Nashville.

Thousands of people flocked to the Capitol to support the three Democrats, cheering and chanting outside the House chamber so loudly that the noise drowned out the proceedings.

Offered a chance to defend himself before the vote, Jones said the GOP responded to the shooting with a different kind of attack.

“We called for you all to ban assault weapons, and you respond with an assault on democracy,” he said.

Outrage over the possible expulsion underscored not only the ability of the Republican supermajority to silence opponents, but also its increasing willingness to do so.

The move sends a chilling message just as lawmakers grapple with how to respond to the devastating shooting while others have raised concerns about undermining Democracy by overturning the will of the voters.
 
Probably a better thread for this - but to folks on the ground in Utah - does it feel like the Lake is drying up?

I've seen some satellite photos, but unsure how accurate that is for the situation.
 
Eminence said:
Probably a better thread for this - but to folks on the ground in Utah - does it feel like the Lake is drying up?

I've seen some satellite photos, but unsure how accurate that is for the situation.
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My sister was in town last fall and for whatever reason she wanted to go out to the lake. I haven't been out there since I was a kid, back when it was overflowing basically. It was obviously low. We were at the marina and it wasn't usable because the water was too low. There were some stairs you could walk down to get to the shore and the actual shore was a good 150m away from there.

In short, yeah, it was looking pretty pathetic.

I want to go back this summer and see the difference.
 
The lake has basically been on life support. Our decade-long drought has taken a terrible toll. Right now it has regained 3 feet due to all of our snow this winter and other efforts being taken. It's a start.

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Eminence said:
Probably a better thread for this - but to folks on the ground in Utah - does it feel like the Lake is drying up?

I've seen some satellite photos, but unsure how accurate that is for the situation.
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why wouldn’t the satellite photos you’ve seen be accurate?
 
Eminence said:
Could be taken different times of year, your lake could just normally have a lot of year to year variation. Probably other reasons I don’t know.
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Sounds good.

From what I’ve read, most don’t believe the legislature did nearly enough to address the problem. Although, we did have a really good winter. Not sure if it changes anything long-term wise. Last summer was the lowest I’d ever seen it. It made photography on the salt flats really bad. And the environmental and health impacts are insane. I’ve never seen so much dust from wind in my life. This is one of my biggest concerns living here. Not books or drag Queen story hour

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Did the Utah Legislature do enough to save the Great Salt Lake?

With only a few days left to go in the session, here are the bills to watch.
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Ben Abbott, BYU researcher, a guy I went to school with, is a solid follow on twitter
@thermokarst
 
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