Shtetl News: Scott Aaronson posted on the #Texas #SB18 , #SB17, #SB16 debacles a few days back. He mentions the figurative nuking of the *1st class University system* Texans took so much time & effort to build. It's not the hot take but well reasoned-as usual.The pattern of #RedStates nuking themselves is intensifying as stupidity & incompetence simply do what they do best. Brain drain tends to work from ground zero out. #BlueStates should woo the cream, reject the dross
https://scottaaronson.blog/​

A poem I wrote. Unfortunately, it's based on a true story. #SB16 #utpol #utleg #donoharm

Governor Spencer Cox...bigot, liar, and governor with blood on his hands. The #Utleg ,(Stuart Adams and Brad Wilson are the leaders there), are just as responsible for the deaths that will follow because of #SB16. #utpol

https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1619717020832116738?t=UEhlT-Ip4AvN5hLIeO8LjQ&s=19

@benwinslow #SB16 will lead to deaths....and #SB15 will lead no worse educational outcomes and more discrimination

In that case, #SB16 is about legislating religion and religious-beliefs. One must believe that one's gender-identify is defined by sex and at birth. End of story. Except, nothing fits that neatly into a box. #utpol

Any conversation about #SB16 inevitably becomes a conversations about morality. Legislating religion is unconstitutional. Legislating morality is dangerous. Every posts about #SB16 attracts a counter argument about morality. For me, there's no correlation. To find one, one must assume religion and morality are synonymous. In that case, a moral person must be a religious person and a religious person must conform to social norms that are 'perceived to be' biblically defined. #utpol #utleg

Yay!

RT @chrisgeidner@twitter.com

BREAKING: Utah's new anti-trans law, #SB16, will face a legal challenge from @NCLRights@twitter.com and @acluutah@twitter.com. Tonight, at @lawdorknews@twitter.com: https://www.lawdork.com/p/utahs-new-anti-trans-law-is-brutally

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1619876403092099073

“Rarely has so much fear and anger been directed at so few,” Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said about transgender kids in 2022.

On Saturday, he signed a bill into law that targets trans kids.

Tonight, Law Dork, on #SB16 and a coming lawsuit: https://www.lawdork.com/p/utahs-new-anti-trans-law-is-brutally

BREAKING: Utah's new anti-trans law, #SB16, will face a legal challenge from NCLR and the ACLU of Utah. Tonight, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/utahs-new-anti-trans-law-is-brutally

I'm so disappointed in you @SpencerJCox@twitter.com angry, sad and disappointed.

RT @EqualityUtah@twitter.com

Legislative Update 1/28/2023 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈- Today Gov Cox signed SB 16. What is clear is a legal challenge is inevitable. #utpol #utleg #equalityutah #unconstitutional #sb16 #lgbtq #parentalrights

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EqualityUtah/status/1619422111671652353

I am not happy. Today Conservative Think Tanks won their decades old fight to defund public education.

It’s a bad day for Utah families and tax payers. It’s a great day for the minority of families with children in private schools. #classism #racism #caste #HB215 #HB132 #SB16 #utpol #utleg