#utpol — Public Fediverse posts
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Hundreds demonstrated on Utah’s Capitol Hill against a proposed data center in Box Elder County, calling on political leaders to reverse course: https://www.fox13now.com/news/politics/hundreds-demand-utah-political-leaders-walk-back-data-center-project #utpol #Utah
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Of course #Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz bought 640 acres of the land to be used for the humongous Box Elder county data center a year ago for an undisclosed price.
#utpol #AIhttps://www.elevateutah.news/p/the-call-is-coming-from-inside-the
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ICYMI, a lawsuit challenging Utah’s book banning law gets its first hearing in federal court: https://www.fox13now.com/news/politics/lawsuit-challenging-utahs-book-bans-goes-to-court #utpol #Utah
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@elforesto.coolestfamilyever.com
Don't even have to do recently.This is what #JohnCurtis should forever be known for. Provo settled the lawsuit for $750K.
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John Curtis is doing the Jon Huntsman playbook, running on an entirely unearned "moderate" image and hoping that nobody looks at what they've actually done or said recently. #utpol
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zvzenefytgpphtsrosmxuy3c/post/3mlri2kcw7k2r -
NEW: Utah’s chief negotiator over the Colorado River tells me the Trump administration may just have to make some short-term decisions for the states: https://www.fox13now.com/news/colorado-river-collaborative/utahs-negotiator-on-colorado-river-says-feds-may-make-short-term-decision-for-states #utpol #Utah
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So I filed a public records request for how much the City of St. George paid Southern Utah Drag Stars to settle their First Amendment lawsuit. This morning it was GRANTED. Here's what they paid: https://www.fox13now.com/news/politics/how-much-a-group-of-utah-drag-queens-really-got-in-a-lawsuit-against-st-george #utpol #Utah
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Great Salt Lake dust is a big concern for a lot of people. Scientists have been doing a lot of research on it. Here’s what we know, and what we still don’t know about it: https://www.fox13now.com/news/great-salt-lake-collaborative/what-more-we-know-and-what-we-still-dont-about-great-salt-lake-dust #utpol #Utah
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@stephenwolf.bsky.social
Yep. They cannot stand that diluting rural votes by cracking #SaltLakeCity into all four US House districts frustrated rural GOP voters enough to vote for an independent redistricting commission.This is just their latest action in the war to wrestling power back from the people.
This plus the recent #BoxElderCounty #AI humongous data center.
Eventually #Utahns are going to clue in and stop voting GOP.
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Name and shame.
All rich, powerful, white men in development and/or real estate with conflicts if interest galore.
#utpol #Utah #MIDA #AI #BoxElderCountyhttps://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/05/09/mida-board-members-breaking-down/
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Why would a Proposed data center pull its water use application ? I don't know This one just stole water. #utpol
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zxbcb3gyb5m4nmevsp7z7ewa/post/3mlhdalrqhk2d -
#StuartAdams, who has been in the news several times for corruption like his Qatar junket and changing the law to protect his statutory rapist relative, is yet again in the news for corruption.
#utpol #Utah #AI #BoxElderCountyhttps://utahpolitics.news/stuart-adams-pac-mida-donors-data-center-approval/
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So much for your precious Winter Olympics, #Utah.
#utpol #2034WinterOlympics #Olympics #HeatIsland #BoxElderCounty #AI #DataCenter #Kevin_O_Leary #GreatSaltLakehttps://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2026/05/07/utahs-data-center-could-create/
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BREAKING NEWS: A group of state and federal agencies have recommended to Governor Spencer Cox that he make an emergency drought declaration for Utah: https://www.fox13now.com/news/utah-drought/state-federal-agencies-recommend-emergency-drought-declaration #utpol #Utah
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BREAKING NEWS: The company pushing the massive Box Elder County data center has withdrawn its water rights application — for now: https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/box-elder-county/box-elder-county-data-center-owner-withdraws-water-application #utpol #Utah
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The Utah State Engineer tells me she has begun reviewing the application — and a record number of public protests filed — over water for a massive data center proposed in Box Elder County. But she’s not the only one scrutinizing it: https://www.fox13now.com/news/great-salt-lake-collaborative/state-agencies-start-scrutinizing-box-elder-county-data-center-project #utpol #Utah
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NEW: A state lawmaker has filed a bill in the Utah legislature to demand environmental reviews of any new data center project in the state: https://www.fox13now.com/news/politics/utah-lawmaker-introduces-bill-to-review-data-centers #utpol #Utah
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I watched the first few seasons of Shark Tank post-2020. O'Leary stood out to me, in part because he looks just like Mr. Burns on Simpsons, but also because he was a great study of Aspirational Dictators.
He'd make these "jokes" at the business hopefuls, like "I want to put a shock collar on you, and any time you say 'ROI,' I'd zap you." He'd make remote-control zapping motions.
And everyone else would laugh. ha ha so funny.
But Kevin O'Leary, he did not laugh. He did not laugh because he was not joking. Not at all.
He made this "joke" on more than one episode. His tone was dead serious and even wistful. He'd get a twinkle in his eye. I knew even then in the early 00's, he was planning for a future where he *could* put a shock collar on anyone he wanted to, and zap them whenever he felt like it.
His plans are well under way.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/05/05/kevin-oleary-says-protesters/
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What a quote.
"O’Leary, a Canadian, said in his video that 'people who live in Utah aren’t stupid,' and they 'see this happening and realize, "Why am I letting people who don’t even live in my state make decisions for me?"'"
#Utah #utpol #BoxElderCountyhttps://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/05/05/kevin-oleary-says-protesters/
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RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/116524059261047908
What #BoxElderCounty residents don't understand is that when a billionaire really, really wants something, our #GOP leaders really, really want to give it to him.
Poor billionaire #Kevin_O_Leary is already being slowed down in his data center project in #Alberta. Why shouldn't he get a much easier process in drought-ravaged #Utah?
https://www.sharktankblog.com/kevin-oleary-70-billion-ai-project-still-a-mirage/
It's for a good cause. "Winning" a pointless, unmeasurable "race" with scary China on an unreliable, Magic 8 Ball technology. Isn't that more important than your measly air, water, land?
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RE: https://newsie.social/@benwinslow/116524652262404854
We already knew this. If price mattered,.we would simply house and provide easily accessible, free services to raise people to a stable baseline.
We prefer harassing them, imprisoning them, destroying or stealing their property, hounding them away from services, and making them more stressed and ill. It's the #Utah way.
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A new study finds about 1,000 people are having an outsized impact on criminal justice, health care and social service systems that help people experiencing homelessness. This new data could help the state better tackle problems: https://www.fox13now.com/news/politics/a-small-group-of-homeless-people-are-a-disproportionate-drain-on-utahs-social-services #utpol #Utah
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So you may have noticed sprinklers running when they shouldn't. I've heard from A LOT of FOX 13 News viewers about it, saying they're conserving and the see others wasting. Did you know the state runs a website to report it? YOU DO NOW! https://www.fox13now.com/news/utah-drought/sprinkler-shame-where-to-report-water-wasting-in-utahs-ongoing-drought #utpol #Utah
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BREAKING NEWS: The Lower Basin states along the Colorado River have offered a deal for the water that provides life for more than 40 million people in the West. Here's what they're offering: https://www.fox13now.com/news/colorado-river-collaborative/lower-basin-states-offer-a-colorado-river-deal #utpol #Utah
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The Great Salt Lake has peaked — a month early: https://www.fox13now.com/news/great-salt-lake-collaborative/the-great-salt-lake-has-peaked-a-month-early #utpol #Utah
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Governor Spencer Cox says an emergency drought declaration is coming soon: https://www.fox13now.com/news/utah-drought/we-will-be-doing-that-cox-assures-emergency-drought-declaration-as-reservoirs-projected-to-struggle #Utpol #Utah
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I was going through the TV news websites to try to figure out what's up with the big fire in Syracuse and saw that Riverdale is losing 20% of their usual water allocation this year. Not great (very bad) that we're not even through spring and we're already doing mandatory cuts.
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Governor Spencer Cox tells me he believes the states along the Colorado River might be able to reach a short-term deal for water for more than 40 million in the West: https://www.fox13now.com/news/colorado-river-collaborative/cox-sees-potential-for-short-term-deal-on-colorado-river-water #utpol #Utah
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BREAKING NEWS: The Utah Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the new law the legislature passed creating a special “three-judge panel” to hear lawsuits against the state. The justices accepted the case from the League of Women Voters and Mormon Women for Ethical Government: https://www.fox13now.com/news/politics/utah-supreme-court-to-hear-challenge-to-3-judge-panel-in-redistricting-case #utpol #Utah
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What is the logic of this? I can't control my neighbor's pollution so I should be allowed to pollute myself further?
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What's that you say? The #Downwinders are in Southern Utah, not the #GreatSaltLake?
Ask #GovernorCox #SpencerCox about his plans for nuclear energy.
#utpol #Utah #nuclear #DataCenters
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2026/03/27/utah-will-seek-federal-nuclear/
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In Salt Lake City, we already have the existential crisis of the drying #GreatSaltLake. Why not radiate the remaining water, too?
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/04/13/pushing-trump-nuclear-plan-doge/
Read the whole article, but here are some of the alarming quotes:
"'They are testing in Utah. … I don’t know, like 70 people live there,' he said.
"'They’ve been downwind before,' another staffer joked.
"Figures like Cohen are forcing a 'move fast and break things' Silicon Valley ethos on one of the country’s most important regulators.
"The Trump administration has been particularly aggressive in its attacks on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission[...]
"During that Idaho meeting, Cohen shot down any notion of NRC independence in the new era.
"'Assume the NRC is going to do whatever we tell the NRC to do,' he said, records reviewed by ProPublica show.
"'We knew regulatory capture led directly to Fukushima and to Chernobyl,' said Kathryn Huff, who was assistant secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy during the Biden administration.
"One nuclear industry insider, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said many firms are fixating on changing these radiation rules: Their business model requires moving nuclear reactors around the country, often near workers or the general public.
"The DOE has been considering a fivefold increase to the limit for public exposure to radiation, which will allow some nuclear reactor companies to cut costs on these expensive safety shields, internal DOE documents seen by ProPublica show.
"For his part, Cohen has told the nuclear industry that he sees his job as making sure the government 'is no longer a barrier' to them.
"He also suggested that regulators should not fret about preparing for so-called 100-year events — disasters that have roughly a 1% chance of taking place but can be catastrophic for nuclear facilities."
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Natasha Helfer on developments in Utah with the LDS church supporting rollbacks of discrimination protections for transgender people. 10 minutes.
#ReligiousTrauma #UTPol #exmo #exmormon #LGBTQ #Sexcommunicated
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CW: ICE bullshit
RE: https://socel.net/@PalmerAnimates/116257460344533131
To provide context for those outside of Salt Lake City, the west side of the city is poorer, more polluted and more policed than the east side. Can you guess the demographics of the population there, given the governmental policies that typically produce that kind of environment?
You got it.
There's a real threat that residents will be forceably moved from their neighborhoods to the detention center, regardless of their citizenship or legal residency. But ICE is ignoring that, hoping you will, too.
Want to destroy your city: economically as well as morally? Let ICE in.
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RE: https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/116250786806679193
Well, what do you know? He's #DezNat. Our own weirdo Mormon brand of Christian Nationalism: Deseret Nationalism.
https://gist.github.com/travisbrown/3e6d29e2a6931f40c2293f092337fa03
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Heads up, #Utahns and #SaltLakers
We have a concentration camp purchased in Salt Lake close to the #Airport for #ICE and #CBP to warehouse our fellow humans in crowded, unsanitary, and inhumane conditions.
You can't pretend you don't know what is happening in these places. We know. If we allow this, we are complicit.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2026/03/13/its-bleak-day-our-state-reactions/
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What can you do? Write! Show up!
Read how: ➡️ https://sweetstreetsslc.org/news/anti-traffic-safety-bill-targeting-salt-lake-city
#cycling #roadsafety #safestreets #utpol
