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Utah's elected leaders have abandoned their duty and oath to the people of #Utah and the Constitution. Sens.

Their silence in the face of growing threats is not just a failure of leadership, it is a betrayal of their oath and the trust of those who elected them.
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/letters/2025/03/16/letter-by-embracing-trumps-quest/
#utah


If you are in #Utah and want to support #LGBTQ and specifically #trans people,
#TransVisibility, and #TransJoy, sign up with #ProjectRainbow.

Even if you don't have a yard for a flag, you can donate to the community fund and/or volunteer with the project to put up and take down flags and/or help at events.

This is real, local action you can take to fight back against the effort to eliminate trans people in our community.
#utpol

https://projectrainbowutah.org/


Howdy to Mastodon! I'm still wrapping my head around things here but figured I'd go ahead and do an #introduction.

I'm a #landscape and #nature #photographer based out of Fort Worth, #Texas which means, aside from my local park, I do a LOT of driving for #photography, especially to #utah and the desert southwest.

I produce my own #prints for sale, create educational and in-field videos for YouTube, and also offer workshops.

Learn more about me here: https://www.michaelrungphotography.com
Riverside Glow: Golden cottonwood trees wind into the distance along the Paria River under a pinkish sky at dusk in southern Utah.
Transcendent Glow: A photo of bare cottonwood trees glowing white against a rich orange backdrop of a canyon wall in southern Utah.
The Witch's Hand: A gnarled old oak tree covered in lichen set against a backdrop of rusty orange leaves at Eagle Mountain Park in north Texas.
Killarney Wanderings: The Torc River cascading over moss-covered boulders amidst lush green trees and blooming rhododendron in Killarney National Park, Ireland.


Addendum 4

Utah private prison company returns $5M to Mississippi after understaffing found at facility
Investigations continue into 2 other Mississippi prisons operated by Management & Training Corporation
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2023/09/18/utah-private-prison-company/

https://persagen.com >> search: ALEC AND "Management & Training Corporation"
"American Legislative Exchange Council"

#Utah #Mississippi #prisons #PrisonIndustrialComplex #corporations #DefundCorporations #ALEC #PrisonersRights #neoliberalism
https://persagen.com/#q=ALEC%20AND%20%22Management%20%26%20Training%20Corporation%22

ALEC
American Legislative Exchange Council
Management & Training Corporation


Campus Community Invited to USU Computer Science Open House Friday, Jan. 17 https://www.byteseu.com/638023/ #Media #News #PressReleases #Science #stories #story #today #utah #UtahStateUniversity
People jumping next to a mural that reads "computer science."


The parent's complaint cites #Utah's 2022 #BookBanning law which forbids any books containing "#pornographic or indecent" material and calls the #Bible "one of the most sex-ridden books around."

The Bible does include disturbing sex stories.

https://www.salon.com/2015/04/06/the_8_kinkiest_passages_of_the_bible_partner/


Heh. A book ban has bitten #ChristianNationalists in the ass. The #Bible was removed from elementary and middle school libraries at a #Utah school district after a parent complained about "pornographic or indecent material."

#BookBan

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/02/1179906120/utah-bible-book-challenge


Meanwhile, in Oklahoma...

Oklahoma Revokes License of #Teacher Who Gave Class #QRCode to #BrooklynLibrary in #BookBan Protest

A former public high school teacher in Oklahoma had her teaching license revoked by the State Board of Education Thursday for providing students a link to a list of banned books posted online two years prior

By Associated Press, Aug. 23, 2024

"Oklahoma's education board has revoked the license of a former teacher who drew national attention during surging book-ban efforts across the U.S. in 2022 when she covered part of her classroom bookshelf in red tape with the words 'Books the state didn't want you to read.'

"The decision Thursday went against a judge who had advised the Oklahoma Board of Education not to revoke the license of #SummerBoismier, who had also put in her high school classroom a QR code of the Brooklyn Public Library’s catalogue of banned books.

"An attorney for Boismier, who now works at the Brooklyn Public Library in New York City, told reporters after the board meeting that they would seek to overturn the decision.

“I will not apologize for sharing publicly available information about library access with my students,” the former teacher posted on X. “My livelihood will never be as important as someone’s life or right to read what they want.'

[...]

"Teachers in public schools across the country continue to face scrutiny at the local and state level as lawmakers in Republican-led statehouses push forward with book bans and restrict curriculum on issues related to race, gender, and sexuality such as in #Iowa and #Utah. "

Original article:
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oklahoma/articles/2024-08-23/oklahoma-revokes-license-of-teacher-who-gave-class-qr-code-to-brooklyn-library-in-book-ban-protest

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/ArZoU#selection-1095.0-1167.13

#BannedBooks #Censorship #BookBanning #Authoritarianism #OklahomaSchools