threadworthy topic? 🤔
i feel like this issue is one of the most crucial and possibly closest to 'bipartisan' as we're likely to get nowadays, and the details of whatever happens are going to generate substantial discussion.
on a personal level, other than the brownshirts (which, i can't even), this is the issue i find most upsetting.
so... everybody knows the senate parliamentarian threw out Mike Lee's first version on a technicality. i'm not convinced there wasn't a push to find something from his colleagues, whose staff are probably (hopefully!) getting an earful from constituents.
Revised GOP plan would sell up to 1.2M acres of public lands
* from 3.3 to 1.5 million acres
* excludes National Forests
* specifies it must be sold for housing or infrastructure to support housing and it must be within five miles of a population center border
* excludes federally protected grazing land
doesn't change the terribleness of the idea. also i do not trust them at all. but if most of the land was still in UT (i don't know), well, they elected him.
i hope there is enough resistance on both sides to kill it altogether. 🖕