Okay, so. This is our first attempt at a podcast. They say boys can do it, so here we are.
But please accept our sincerest apologies for any sound imperfections and know that we are just two girls who care very deeply about Utah politics and very little about technology. We’re learning. Be gentle with us.
What we can promise you is that the content is worth it because this week we went down a rabbit hole so deep and so dark that we genuinely could not stop until we hit the bottom. And the bottom, it turns out, involves Nazi propaganda films, a eugenicist who tried to take over the Sierra Club from the inside, a sperm bank for geniuses, and 10 boxes of sealed archives at the University of Michigan that won’t be opened until 2035. All of this because Trevor Lee walked into a committee hearing and cited one source.
We’re breaking down HB 88 — Rep. Trevor Lee’s bill that would strip healthcare, food assistance, WIC, CHIP, domestic violence shelter access, and more from undocumented immigrants and mixed-status families in Utah. We cover who Trevor Lee actually is, where his numbers came from (spoiler: a federally designated hate group), why the math doesn’t add up, and what happened to Alabama, Arizona, and Georgia when they tried this exact same thing.
You can listen right here, find us on your favorite podcast app (we think it works), or head to YouTube where you can watch our faces react in real time and see all the pictures, graphics, and references we're talking about.
📌 Voices for Utah Children one-pager on HB 88: https://utahchildren.org/newsroom/speaking-of-kids-blog/protecting-utahs-immigrant-families-say-no-to-hb88#i
📌 FAIR 2023 report: https://www.fairus.org/sites/default/files/2023-03/utah2023.pdf
📌 ProPublica - John Tanton: https://www.propublica.org/article/john-tanton-far-right-extremism-environmentalism-climate-change
