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politicaldilfs · 2 months

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Utah Governor DILFs

Mike Leavitt, Norm Bangerter, Spencer Cox, Jon Huntsman Jr., Gary Herbert, George Dern, Cal Rampton, Charles R. Mabey, Henry H. Blood, George Dewey Clyde, Simon Bamberger, Herbert B. Maw, Scott M. Matheson, J. Bracken Lee

#Mike Leavitt #Norm Bangerter #Spencer Cox #Jon Huntsman Jr.#Gary Herbert #George Dern #Cal Rampton #Charles R. Mabey #Henry H. Blood #George Dewey Clyde #Simon Bamberger #Herbert B. Maw #Scott M. Matheson #J. Bracken Lee

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sitting-on-me-bum · 8 months

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White Sands National Park

BY SPENCER COX

#spencer cox #photographer #white sands national park #black & white photography #landscape #desert #sand dunes #nature

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commiepinkofag · 3 months

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Utah governor signs bill to throw trans people in jail for using the correct facilities

February 1, 2024 / Alex Bollinger

A bill that creates criminal penalties for many transgender people who use the bathroom associated with their gender has been signed into law by Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R). The bill, H.B. 257, says that people can only enter the restroom of their sex assigned at birth in publicly-owned facilities, which includes schools and other government-owned buildings. It also creates an exemption for transgender people who have had bottom surgery and those who have had the gender marker on their birth certificate corrected. The bill includes locker rooms and other facilities. Under H.B. 257, transgender people who have not had such surgery and have not updated their birth certificates but who use the restroom or locker room associated with their gender can be charged with lewdness, lewdness involving a child, voyeurism, loitering in a privacy space, or, in the case of locker rooms specifically, criminal trespass. Voyeurism is a class A misdemeanor in Utah, punishable with up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine, and a third-degree felony – punishable with five years in prison and up to a $5000 fine – if a child is present. Criminal trespass is a class B misdemeanor, punishable with up to six months in jail and a $1000 fine. Government-owned institutions that don’t enforce these rules can be fined up to $10,000 per violation per day. More >

#utah #bathroom bill #anti trans legislation #anti trans law #queer #trans #transgender #lgbqti #transmasc #transgirl #transfem #trans rights #trans rights are human rights #spencer cox #republican #2024

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dadsinsuits · 2 months

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Spencer Cox

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tomorrowusa · 8 months

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The Great Salt Lake is drying up and the Republican government of Utah is doing little to save it. They constantly cave to the usual groups: agricultural interests, mining, homeowners who like spacious lawns in an arid region, and big industry.

The largest saltwater lake in the western hemisphere has been steadily shrinking, as more and more water has been diverted away from the lake to irrigate farmland, feed industry and water lawns. A megadrought across the US south-west, accelerated by global heating, has hastened the lake’s demise. Unless dire action is taken, the lake could decline beyond recognition within five years, a report published early this year warned, exposing a dusty lakebed laced with arsenic, mercury, lead and other toxic substances.The resulting toxic dustbowl would be “one of the worst environmental disasters in modern US history”, the ecologist Ben Abbott of Brigham Young University told the Guardian earlier this year. Despite such warnings, officials have failed to take serious action, local groups said in their lawsuit, which was filed on Wednesday. “We are trying to avert disaster. We are trying to force the hand of state government to take serious action,” said Brian Moench of the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, one of the groups suing state agencies. “Plaintiffs pray that this Court declare that the State of Utah has breached its trust duty to ensure water flows into the Great Salt Lake sufficient to maintain the Lake,” reads the lawsuit, which was brought by coalition that includes Earthjustice, the Utah Rivers Council, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club, among others.

Political pressure has not been very effective in a state dominated by Republicans. The state's response is lukewarm at best. That's in addition to bizarre proposals.

The state’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, has suspended new claims to water in the Great Salt Lake basin and appointed a commissioner to oversee response to the lake crisis. Last year, Utah’s legislature passed several conservation measures, including a $40m trust to support lake preservation projects. But Abbott and his colleagues, who authored a sobering report on the lake in January, found that those measures increased flows to the lake by just 100,000 acre feet in 2022. About 2.5m acre-feet a year of water will need to flow into the lake to bring it to a healthy level, the researchers estimated. That water will likely have to come at the expense of agriculture, which takes in about three-quarters of the water diverted away from the lake to grow mostly alfalfa and hay. Cities and mineral extraction operations each take up another 9% of diverted water. But wresting water away from agriculture is politically complicated. Officials have explored propositions to pay farmers to fallow land and use less water, though such proposals have yet to gain much tractions. Lawmakers have also offered up a series of out-of-the-box solutions – including cloud seeding, which uses chemicals to prompt more precipitation – or building a giant pipeline from the Pacific Ocean.

Seriously, a pipeline from the Pacific Ocean? This is a classic idiotic GOP way to deal with an environmental catastrophe which doesn't get to the root of the problem.

Already, the lake has lost 73% of its water and 60% of its surface area, and is becoming saltier, threatening native flies and brine shrimp. A diminished lake may be unable to support the more than 10 million migratory birds that stop over in the region. A white pelican colony recently abandoned a nesting site on the lake, potentially due to declining water levels. “In addition to the millions of people who live here, so many plants and animals depend on the lake,” said Deeda Seed, Utah campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The health of northern Utah’s entire population depends on the Great Salt Lake’s survival and I hope this lawsuit can help save it.”

^^^ emphasis added

Yep, take their asses to court to save the body of water which gave the state's largest city its name.

#utah #great salt lake #water levels #diversion of water #the environment #migratory birds #white pelicans #brine shrimp #republicans #utah state government #spencer cox #deeda seed #brian moench #ben abbott #earthjustice #utah rivers council #the sierra club #center for biological diversity #utah physicians for a healthy environment

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gwydionmisha · 1 year

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#Utah #Spencer Cox #Gender-Affirming Care #Trans Youth #News

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kp777 · 1 year

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#marjorie taylor greene #national divorce #spencer cox #red states #maga republicans

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jodielandons · 3 months

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ECHO (2024) | 1.02 'Lowak'

#echo #echo tv show #maya lopez #henry lopez #alaqua cox #chaske spencer #mcuedit #marveledit #dailymarvelgifs #dailymarvelstudios #marvelladiesdaily #femalecharacters #mcufam #marveladdicts #tvedit #pocedit #televisiongifs #mygifs

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nikredd · 3 months

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Maya Lopez & Uncle Henry Lopez Echo Season 1

#echo #marvel echo #maya lopez #echo spoilers #echoedit #alaqua cox #marvel mcu #chaske spencer #henry lopez

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sitting-on-me-bum · 1 month

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“Above the Clouds”

by Spencer Cox (USA).

2023 EPSON International Pano Awards

#spencer cox #photographer #aerial photography #above the clouds #desert #clouds #epson international pano awards #nature #landscape

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l0caltiredgirl · 2 years

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*checks the age gap between me and my favorite actors*

also me:

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reportwire · 2 years

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The Ohio GOP would like to ‘inspect’ your daughters’ genitals

Photo: Getty Images Ohio’s ban on trans youth in sports is the epitome of the conservative culture war on the LGBTQ community. Their obsession has reached pathological levels. Last week, Ohio’s Republican-dominated House approved a bill requiring genital inspections to prevent transgender female athletes from competing in girls’ sports. In the 1960s, elite female athletes had to prove their sex…

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