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I don't have a podcast. I often quip to cope. I Follow leash laws, you should too. @ballerinaX on most other places. Also bad at typing.

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@chick_in_kiev The 2 times Ajax has snuck out the front door, he ran2 blocks & around the corner across 2 streets to the Local burger joint drive through window for an ice cream. Now we stop by on walks
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@shadesofro @Uh_huh_honey "Scram and be blessed" !!
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(imma gonna get sweary) Don't any fuckers try to 'both sides' this terrorism. ever.
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Nicole wallace is right on describing 45* as an abuser.
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10,000 people died in 5 days. We’re acting like it’s OK if 2000 loved ones die every day. It is NOT OK. It’s not.
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@abughazalehkat Reminded that most of the violence, almost all, during the big BLM protests was perpetuated by RW extremist provocateurs .
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Any elected officer, law enforcement personnel etc…
@TheRickWilson
Rick Wilson
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Any teacher identified as being part of the QAnon cult should be yanked from their job at once and placed on a registry akin to those of sex offenders.
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Manafort lives on the 43rd floor of Trump tower. He's been with Trump the whole time. 'Resignation' was bunk #AMjoy
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Governing like an LDS Stake President is Soooo Weird and inappropriate. Assuming all Sabbaths are on Sunday is ignorant.
@GovCox
Utah Gov. Spencer J. Cox
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I’ve declared a Day of Prayer, Fasting and Contemplation for our nation this Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. Whatever religious beliefs you may hold, I hope you will join me in praying for our nation this Sunday. The coming months will test our nation’s foundation. I believe the
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Glad to see Fran Lebowitz is alive and well and acerbic as ever.
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Everywhere UBI is tried it is a huge success and does a better job of lifting people out of poverty than any means tested program
@Phil_Lewis_
philip lewis
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month Results showed that close to half of the participants secured housing, and nearly $600K saved in public service costs due to fewer ER visits & jail stays. They also saw improved mental health
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Utah Governor Cox has refused federal funding to feed public school kids yet is delighted to hand $8k/year to mostly already wealthy families in unaccountable private school vouchers. #utpol
@LtGovFlanagan
Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan
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As a kid who relied on free and reduced-price lunch at school, I knew universal school meals would be life changing for millions of Minnesotans.     Feeding kids is the smartest way we can invest in the future, and that’s exactly what @GovTimWalz and I have done in Minnesota.
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Utah at 15000 cases a day 20-is death reported/day @GovCox “I am the most optimistic I have ever been about this pandemic” what a complete mess.
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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As Utah’s big Fancy 'Sex Trafficking Fighters’ Like Sean Reyes And/Or Tim Ballard made any statements on the Maxwell verdict ? No ? Okey Dokey.
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If the billionaire can afford to just up and 'buy a mall' in Sandy then Salt Lake city shouldn't have to give them $53 million in tax payer dollars built out down town as his man cave.
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Of course they were. He thinks we're idiots.
@KSL5TV
KSL 5 TV
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On Wednesday, Cox said that photos taken at Arlington National Cemetery with Former President Donald Trump were not supposed to be used in his campaign materials.
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Oh, would you look at that. The judge ruled against Adams, Schultz & Cox et al for using deceptive language and strikes their garbage from the ballot. What authoritarian trick are they gonna try now ? #utpol
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Utah needs to get with the program of its 4 corner states and elect a useful governor. Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona & Utah as a western block could be a force for good on climate & water & indigenous peoples advancement. Imagine ! We can elect @KingForUtah . Tomorrow is pivotal
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Utah opted out of feeding children.
@HillaryClinton
Hillary Clinton
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Want to talk weirdness in policy? It's pretty weird to have the opportunity to feed hungry children and say "I'd rather not."
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Hillary's quote is from @sarahkendzior
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on point
@TheOnion
The Onion
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Utah Passes Social Media Law Stating That Teens May Only Be Groomed In Person By Religious Leaders
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How about a video about what happens to a person when they're shot with a semi automatic weapon &/or shotgun ? with anecdotes from trauma surgeons & morticians ?
@KatieMcKellar1
Katie McKellar
4 years
A proposed Utah bill would require women seeking abortion to swear they’ve watched a video created by the Utah Department of Health that would show ultrasounds of a fetus throughout development and visuals of what happens to a fetus during abortion. — @ashley_imlay #utpol #utleg
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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My Mother passed away with grace and and peace in her sleep early this morning. I'm sure she's stopping for a visit in Lodgepole Montana where she spent her childhood. She asked to look at maps on Saturday. She was a super interesting woman who had an adventurous life.
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I'd love to build a wall around Utah and make California pay for it then something about if you come here leave your culture back home we don't want it -Cox on new utahns
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I just suspended May rent for my tenants & outlined a flexible plan to gradually work up to the regular monthly amount over a 4 month period being hopeful some things actually improve moving forward into autumn. Stuff is just too fluid currently & no one needs any grief or worry
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I'm loving these Tuba contingents...
@RedTRaccoon
Ted Corcoran (RedTRaccoon)
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The crowds have shown up in #Boston We have the numbers, they don't! This is a sea of #resistance against hate And yes, we brought tubas!
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"Even the doctors who run University of Utah hospitals and the Huntsman Cancer Center are unable to require masks in their buildings because, as state-owned facilities, they are under the thumb of lawmakers."
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Utah @GovCox eliminates any mention of LGBTQ in his Pride Month declaration and now a UTA bus that has a Pride themed wrap, for over a year now has been eliminated from the parade. These decisions embolden violent hate groups to act as well. Security is pricy and tight. scary.
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It's like 'zero accountability' was engineered into the program. A feature if you will.
@sltrib
The Salt Lake Tribune
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Utah families have spent over $22 million on school vouchers so far. But few specifics are publicly available about how exactly that money has been spent.
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All of the job creating infrastructure projects in Utah that Sen. Mike Lee voted against @RepJohnCurtis voted against @RepBlakeMoore voted against @RepBurgessOwens voted against @RepChrisStewart voted against When they claim credit they're lying. #VoteAboutThat #utpol
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@SecretaryPete
Secretary Pete Buttigieg
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The Biden-Harris Administration is delivering results - investing in our nation's infrastructure and growing our economy from the bottom up and middle out. New projects are underway in every state and territory. See what's happening in your community:
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So, I'm just thinking about what reversal of Chevron difference means for rescuing the Great Salt Lake and other useful efforts towards clean air in the Salt Lake Valley and we are now exponentially more effed today than we were yesterday. #utpol
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Voting for people that don't believe in science could keep it that way. #votedem
@abc4utah
ABC4 News
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Is bad air here to stay?
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Governor Cox says he’s going to try a little harder to wear a mask sometimes… Procedes to list when he might try, when he probably won’t & various excuses. So there’s your leadership by example #utpol
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(I'm obliged to do it every time)
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@lawfare
Lawfare
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Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years. @rparloff was there, and will give his report of the sentencing in tomorrow’s podcast.
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Yo, @votevets , Your signs spotted in the wild in #SLC Utah
@AleRigolon
Alessandro Rigolon
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Spotted in Sugar House
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They just gave up. The state of Utah has officially given up any government response to COVID. The governor is a believer in the magical thinking that OMICRON is the miricle varient to end the pandemic. #utpol
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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The governor is calling mostly women lazy & unproductive. Women, who lost more jobs, handled the home education struggles, kept their families as safe from disease as possible and suffered the most from that abusive year. He's also factually incorrect.
@thehill
The Hill
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Utah Gov. Spencer Cox: "It is a terrible jobs report, not what we were expecting at all. That's what happens when we pay people not to work."
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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I also just told my tenants that they have no April rent. They are clever & crafty & will rebound but I know a month with out that worry will help in our long term.
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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@jkfecke @brianstelter @RachelLarris @jamiaw @MargaretAtwood Did he miss the other ruling today ? It feel a big step closer, but i'm just a girl...
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Burgess Owens Blake Moore John Curtis Chris Stewart All just voted AGAINST codifying access to contraceptives used every day for family planning and many various medical conditions. #VoteAboutThat #utpol
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Utah is at 30% + test rate and no one seems to care really. It's so disorienting
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Wait... Isn't that Utah AG Sean Reyes on the right in the camp ?
@FireTrumpToday
Lock Up Donald Trump
2 years
What are Kim & Don Jr eating for dinner? Wrong answers only.
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@__ohdear__ @ASlavitt It's such a mess and they don't care & the hospitals are in really bad shape & no one is wearing masks & more than 10 people are dying every day and . . . crickets from GQP leadership.
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Again,You simply CANNOT bring Sutherland Institute folks in to make your case and complain about BIG Money Influence in the same breath. (The hypocrisy is making me bananas even though theGOP is trained not to feel it. )
@RobertGehrke
Robert Gehrke
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Bramble says Lewis impugned the integrity of the Legislature and that will not be tolerated. Stan Rasmussen from Sutherland Institute: Laws enacted by initiative are more prone to be driven by special interests and non-Utahns.
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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So the Government f Utah and the Health dept leadership just basically threw up their hands and walked away. There ya go. have fun this weekend folks.
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I need someone to post the clip of the cancer patient physician hospital CEO begging people to mask then @GovCox taking the mic and snidely stating "Everyone knows Masks don't work" #DisagreeBetter #utpol
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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@cliffschecter OSHA was decimated to almost useless in the Bush Admin. Gained some small ground back under Obama then got smashed again. I love to see it flex tis finally.
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Or in the Senate. Or wandering about
@Politics_PR
🌊 R Saddler
3 years
Mike Lee, election denier, has no business being on the Senate Judiciary Committee
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Vote @KaelWeston for #UTD2 For one thing he can write well & The incumbent didn't even bother to turn in his home work which exhibits how much he cares #utpol
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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"Duke’s next game in Provo has been moved to an alternate site, off BYU’s campus." They banned this fan but cannot guarantee the Duke players respect or safety from racist harassment or violent threats so they have to play off the BYU campus. #Utah , we've got a problem
@sltrib
The Salt Lake Tribune
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BYU says it has banned a fan from its athletic venues for repeatedly directing a racial slur at a Duke volleyball player on Friday night, but the player's father says the university did not immediately kick the fan out of the event.
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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This is NOT Utah house Speaker Mike Schultz original writing. This has been copied and pasted from another persons post on facebook. I see no credit or attribution to the original author cited. A kid would get kicked out of school for this. A reporter would loose their job.
@mschultz_12
Mike Schultz
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I have an employee that we hired 3.5 years ago. She hasn’t followed through with anything she said she would. We just did a performance review and based on our original contract, she is eligible for a promotion in November. During the review, she said that if she gets
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(Notices that The Banbury Cross Donut store sign thing has gone national. How embarrassing for them.)
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Going off all Patriot Act on half a dozen $5 & $10 donations to a movement is a very bad look and reflects poorly on the SLC police & the county DAs office.
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Utah nurses from IHC Murray are on @maddow currently talking about the toll of treating so many COVID patents and the death & the despair.
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How embarrassing
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“It’s a disease and a pandemic that could have ended long ago if we could just put the needs of others ahead of our own,” by wearing masks in public as well as getting vaccinated and boosted against the virus Dr. Wing Province told reporters “ This is correct.
@lisarileyroche
Lisa Riley Roche
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Why this Utah doctor says rampant COVID-19 is a pandemic of ‘personal moral character’ #utpol #utleg
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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#utleg makes a law that all abortions must take place in hospitals Then we find out an extremist Catholic non profit has acquired 4 Salt Lake County Hospitals & 1 in Utah County. They're no longer providing any contraceptive care & Salt Lake Regional closed it's maternity ward
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Much of the state of Utah is back in the Very high or high infection alert. we are breeding variants that my put vaccinated people at risk. #utpol
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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@RepChrisStewart The FBI says you're wrong & Mr. Bagely is right here in this report, sir.
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Gov Cox " the scientific community needs to consider the Utah Legislature their allies." Next: Gov cox & the legislature entirely ignore science. . . Children's health Women's health Environment health Wildlife health Public health Etc... A pattern #utpol
@sltrib
The Salt Lake Tribune
2 years
“I wish Gov. Cox understood that killing more mountain lions will lead to more cougar problems, not less. HB469 is bad for ranchers, and it’s bad for public safety. And that’s on top of it being bad for Utah’s wild lands and natural resources.”
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Wow gop Todd is really going off in a bad way tonight.
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
4 years
Hopefully Law enforcement will reject the idea of pursuing criminals after they commit crimes...
@thehill
The Hill
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Sen. @LindseyGrahamSC : "Hopefully the Senate will reject the idea of pursuing presidents after they leave office."
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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I am praying today that Gov Cox will hear the voice of his Heavenly Father firmly advise him to dump the criminal he's been hangin' with. His church has a record of changing stuff like this, am I right ?
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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It wasn’t inflation or even avian flu so much as just greed. And not just the egg business. #utpol Profits of largest U.S. egg producer increased by 718%
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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OMG calm down Cox this is a weird cokey energy.
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@Danielle85 @TVietor08 He expects 'pre plowing' for white drivers ?
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
1 year
Can we do Utah AG Reyes please also too ?
@joshgerstein
Josh Gerstein
1 year
BREAKING: DC Bar discipline committee recommends Rudy Giuliani be stripped of DC law license over 2016 election work for Trump. Story w/ @kyledcheney
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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"We don't get to change the rules to make sure we always win" -Michelle Obama Timely, eh ? #utpol
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
2 years
Not usually a big OD &/or meme fan but this has troubled me as well.
@ennui365
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Still time for an election audit: Column via @usatoday
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For what it's worth, I am endorsing & will be voting for Michelle Quist for AG. I think she has some unique experience that makes her a good option for the current challenges and frankly I see her working hard for my vote. I don't even know the democratic candidates name
@MichelleLQuist
Michelle Quist for Utah Attorney General
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So what’s happening with Utah’s constitution? 🧐 Michelle Quist, candidate for Utah attorney general is here to break it all down! 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Let’s vote 🙅🏻‍♂️ NO to taking away our constitutional rights and vote for candidates who are determined to protect them!! 🗳️ #utpol
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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My rep, @RepChrisStewart sit on the House Intelligence Committee is sadly so lost in partisan trumist conspiracies he become a gullible sucker for Kremlin disinformation. Vote for @KaelWeston An experienced statesman who will represent Utah as we deserve. #utpol
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
3 years
so Utah
@TheOnion
The Onion
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Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Every accusation from the GQP is a confession.
@GregTSargent
Greg Sargent
3 years
Ron Johnson claims that in Milwaukee, votes aren't counted until Dems determine how many they need to win. Good one, Senator! You know who *actually did* pressure vote counters to "find" precisely the number of votes he needed to overcome his deficit?
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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Here’s the thing @GovHerbert is a lame duck. It won’t cost him anything politically to actually lead and yet he’s made the choice to stroke the lowest common denominator in his party & ignore science & data all for their favor & mammon.
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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DC cops rioting tonight
@wyattreed13
Wyatt Reed
4 years
BREAKING: DC Cops just smashed the windows out on the BLM van and arrested the occupants—right after clearing Black Lives Matter Plaza with gas + rubber-coated steel bullets, leaving multiple protesters serious injured
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Always duplicitous this guy. "Utah Gov. Spencer Cox says he won’t vote for Donald Trump in 2024 — but wants him to win"
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
3 years
Utah exceptionalism is kinda creepy and nasally superior actually.
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@darth @AstroKatie Now he's embarrassed
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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3...2...1... special session called for the Utah Legislature to change the appointment process to the Utah Supreme court to be limited to a list of names provided by Patrick Byrne, Steve Bannon, Roger Stone and a sub set approved by Senator Adams and Leonard Leo. #utpol
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Aren’t Moms For Liberty also invited to BYU for some conference as a “Parent Group” and has leaders involved in a weird violent swingers scandal ? #utpol
@Geo_Is_Pissed
🇺🇸 Geo Is Still Pissed 🥥🌴🇺🇸🌊🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌎🐾🗳
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Moms for Liberty is a White Supremacist Hate Group
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“It’s hard for that body ( the #utleg ) to react in the moment” Has anyone ever seen a swifter reaction then when the fake CRT garbage came up ? #utpol
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
2 years
TIL a woman I knew in high school who was really smart & interesting & funny is now touring state legislatures to testify against gender affirming care & talks about how she years ago De transitioned back to female after transitioning to male as a child… which never happened
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
3 years
Cox is up there undoing all the good the Hospital/medical experts tried to do at this presser. one step forward 2 steps back.
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Oh...
@OsborneInk
Matt Osborne
7 years
Trump’s Inaugural Committee Paid $26 Million to Firm of First Lady’s Friend
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
3 years
Years of consult & meetings with the indigenous tribes, locals, conservationists, archeologists, scientists, the real stakeholders,regarding these designations are documented. Suggesting that did not happen is lying & gaslighting your constituents. #utpol
@SenatorRomney
Senator Mitt Romney
3 years
We’ve been clear about our willingness to work with the President on a permanent legislative solution to the boundaries and management of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. His go-at-it-alone strategy only further divides us.
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
3 years
Crumbl sugarhouse no masks on bakers or customers. Pretty bird was too weird 50/50 masked. We settled on takeout from the ramen place with the “no mask no ramen” sign
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
7 years
@EdgeofSports @mj_lee Live in Utah for a bit to increase that capacity :^)
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
3 years
Woman at the #SLCo council meeting is lying about proper masks. that it all. Now a girl says masks give her headaches because she’s inhaling carbon dioxide. Sadly sending children out to lie is poor parenting.
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Evidence based care is biased towards facts and truth & the wholesome health of all communities. Bigoted culture war garbage is biased towards hate & foments fascism. You have repeatedly displayed your 'bias' @GovCox . Your bias is threatening a Utah medical brain drain #utpol
@FaceTheNation
Face The Nation
1 year
Utah @GovCox calls the American Academy of Pediatrics and American Medical Association "politicized" groups—both of them reject claims that gender-affirming care is harmful to transgender children or adults. "It's impossible to get unbiased information...right now on this
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
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This article places a whole lot of the work on the non LDS families but does describe some of the divisions experienced by non LDS kids in Salt Lake City. Utah’s LDS vs. non-LDS divide: Kids might not understand why, but they feel the pressure
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4 months
That would be KUTV channel 2 the Utah CBS affiliate locally. There are good local reporters working there. It’s regretful they have to put up with this stuff Sinclair injects deceptive attacks on Biden's age into dozens of local broadcasts, by @JuddLegum
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
7 years
BYU & UVU grad He evidently went to U Virginia Law School but wow entirely un qualified to be a Dist. Court Judge. Un real. #utpol
@SenWhitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
7 years
MUST WATCH: Republican @SenJohnKennedy asks one of @realDonaldTrump ’s US District Judge nominees basic questions of law & he can’t answer a single one. Hoo-boy.
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periodical reminder that Project 2025 calls for eliminating the nWS and NOAA and proposes hand them to for profit companies that will charge fees to use. Gov Cox & the GOP legislature support the felon candidate & implementation of these efforts and others #utpol
@NWSSaltLakeCity
NWS Salt Lake City
2 months
Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms are possible Friday afternoon along and east of I-15. The primary threats will be gusty winds, hail, and heavy rain that could lead to flash flooding in flood prone areas. #utwx #wywx
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
3 years
I'm noticing a LOT of local Utah healthcare workers, nurses & doctors taking to social media today offering their stories of the dire situation in hospitals currently. Pleading for people to get vaccinated & mitigate disease spread so their burden is lightened. #utpol
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26 days
My state senator acting I'm my family's interests. This is what quality representation looks like.
@NateForUtah
Nate Blouin
28 days
On Wednesday, after Utah Republicans made outlandish remarks about air quality, Great Salt Lake & environmental justice, I filed comments in an EPA docket urging the agency to adopt a plan to curb emissions in Utah in spite of state policy that undermines their efforts. #utpol
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@ballerinaX ( @ballerinax.bsky.social )
2 years
Danny Kaye is trending & I got to meet him and Sandy Duncan at ballet camp in Aspen Co. when i was fifteen. A life highlight for sure.
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