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WNBA @wnba.com · 9h

The Las Vegas Aces are your 2025 WNBA Champions 🏆

This marks the Aces' 3rd title in 4 seasons!

#WelcometotheW | WNBA Finals | YouTubeTV

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Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 11h

I appreciate them — and over a year since I first saw them! Don’t let the bros get you down!!

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Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 15h

“Everyone around me is a bad driver — but no, not me. I’m an exceptional driver.”

The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 15h

In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing, a new poll shows most Utahns see political violence as a growing issue nationwide. But fewer see it as a problem threatening Utah.

After Charlie Kirk killing, Utahns see political violence as a rising problem nationwide — but less so at home

In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing, a new poll shows most Utahns see political violence as a growing issue nationwide. But fewer see it as a problem threatening Utah.

www.sltrib.com

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 19h

I SAY IT AGAIN: GET IN LOSER WERE URBANIZING CALIFORNIA

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 19h

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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Nick Norris @nicknslc.bsky.social · 2d

Happy zoning consolidation becomes effective day in SLC for those that celebrate. For reference:
storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...

Commercial & Mixed-Use Zoning District Consolidation

The mixed-use and commercial zoning district consolidation project was adopted by the City Council on July 8, 2025.

storymaps.arcgis.com

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Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 3d

Not the worst outcome.

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Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 3d

Shaking my head; already tanking in the pre-season…

Andy Larsen @andyblarsen.bsky.social · 3d

Jazz injury report vs. HOU:

OUT - Isaiah Collier (Right Hamstring Strain)
OUT - Kyle Filipowski (Lower Back Injury Management)
OUT - Walker Kessler (Left Shoulder Bursitis)
OUT - Lauri Markkanen (Left Wrist Contusion)
OUT - Georges Niang (Left Foot Stress Reaction)

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Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 4d

Did the McCay’s get positive poll numbers in Riverton allowing Dan to grow a conscious?

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Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 5d

Start and finished of a fantastic fall day here in Salt Lake City!! Love this time of year here!

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Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 5d

Where old-timey restaurant branding goes to die — a giant KFC bucket hanging out at this metal recycling facility in South Salt Lake.

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Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 5d

Where old-timey restaurant branding goes to die — a giant KFC bucket hanging out at this metal recycling facility in South Salt Lake.

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Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 5d

With the weather turning, we’re hitting peak “birds sitting on things” here in Salt Lake City.

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Stuart98 @stuart98.bsky.social · 6d

Finished my stream drawing maps and testing them against Brady Brammer's Bogus Bill. The first of these 3 maps, drawn without regard for partisan data, fails Brammer's tests. The following 2 maps, drawn to intentionally favor specific parties, pass them. VOD and map links below:

Map drawn without regard for partisan data while splitting zero cities. District 1 consists of Davis County (minus North Salt Lake) and counties north of it and the northern and eastern parts of Summit County. District 2 consists of the northern half of Salt Lake County, and North Salt Lake. District 3 consists of Wasatch County, the remaining parts of Summit and Salt Lake Counties, and Provo and its immediate suburbs. District 4 consists of the rest of the state.

A map gerrymandered to favor democrats. District 2 is a double digit democratic district by presidential data and consists of a Salt Lake City South Salt Lake, Millcreek, Murray, Holladay, Midvale, most of Davis County excluding Syracuse and Clinton, as well as Ogden, South Ogden, and Washington Terrace. District 3 is tossup district consisting of most of the rest of Salt Lake County excluding the southwest corner, as well as the Park City area and Provo. Districts 1 and 4 are both solidly Republican districts comprising the rest of the state.

A Republican gerrymander colored by 2024 senate data. District 2 (consisting of Salt Lake, Millcreek, Murray, Taylorsville, Magna, and a string of counties going all the way down to St. George, is the only district that wasn't R+20 or more by this data, being R+15. The rest of Salt Lake County is in a district 4 which also contains Eagle Mountain and a sliver of rural areas in the south of Utah County. District 1 consists of Davis county and counties north of it, except Morgan, while District 3 contains all of eastern Utah as well as Provo and Lehi and their immediate vicinities.

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Stuart98 @stuart98.bsky.social · 7d

This bill's test passes the vast majority of gerrymanders (including the current one) and fails most fair maps. It is quite literally worse than having no test at all.

Ben Winslow @benwinslow.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING NEWS: Sen. Brammer announces he will MODIFY his bill on redistricting criteria, moving away from a single test. Here’s what changes. #utpol #Utah

Key Provisions of the S.B. 1011 Redistricting Standards:
The Three Statistical Methods
● Partisan Bias Test
○ Pass/fail: 0 for the current map with four seats. +/-1 and +/-2 fail.
○ The test played a key role in the U.S. Supreme Court landmark decision Gill v.
Whitford (2017). Similar analyses have been used to invalidate manipulated maps
in states such as Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
● Ensemble Analysis
○ Pass/fail: Must be within the acceptable bounds of 2.5% and 97.5% with no
outliers.
○ Detects purposeful favoring or disfavoring of any party.
○ Democrat-proposed test.
● Mean-Median Difference Test
○ Pass/fail: No deviation above 2% between the mean and the median.
○ Provides another method, in addition to the partisan bias test, to measure undue
favoring or disfavoring of any party.
○ Democrat-proposed test.
The Legislature will consider the bill during the special session on Monday, October 6, 2025.

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Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 8d

The quintessential Utah car / plate combo.

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Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 8d

Lmao 😂

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 8d

TRUMP SAYS HE IS CONSIDERING TAXPAYER REBATES OF $1,000 TO $2,000 USING TARIFF MONEY

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Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 8d

😳😳😳

Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 9d

My sympathies for Riverton but I’d take this deal. No takesies-backsies!

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Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 9d

Utah Folk: would you rather have a map with 1 guaranteed Dem rep or a map that could potentially have 2 despite slight leans to Repubs (R+2, R+7)?

Don’t know how to do polls in Bluesky, so I’ll leave two comments — like which one you agree with!

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Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 9d

Robert Axson should also be on here and misspell “Conservative” in profile, too

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Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 9d

Possible 2 Dem Reps, despite Republican leans

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Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 9d

Guaranteed 1 Dem Rep

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Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 9d

Utah Folk: would you rather have a map with 1 guaranteed Dem rep or a map that could potentially have 2 despite slight leans to Repubs (R+2, R+7)?

Don’t know how to do polls in Bluesky, so I’ll leave two comments — like which one you agree with!

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Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 9d

Map C has the following:
District 2: R+7
District 3: R+2

(And of course the cursed R+48 that encompasses St George)

Could very easily be a 2-2 map…

Brian S. King @briansking19.bsky.social · 9d

Appreciate your honesty, @utahgop.bsky.social, surprising as it
is, about putting in writing that Republicans are begging for the most rigged and the least competitive map. Embarrassing.

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Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 9d

I am in the proposed District 3 — TOSS-UP TIME!!!
#MyVoteMatters

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