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DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Utah offers a variety of services to support housing for refugees. Some are more "politically popular" than others - the state highly promoted their own Afghanistan SIV housing to protect Afghanistan workers who risked their lives in helping United States forces. But other programs exist.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1939686396010078390

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Sorry for the long and rambling thread - the gist of it is that Utah gets a lot of assistance from the federal government to provide housing and benefits for refugees. Salt Lake City issues loans for developers, and special housing is set aside for refugees and other low-income families. Immigration status is not considered in housing, which means that even if illegal immigrants do not get direct refugee support, they can get benefits through other means like federally financed NGOs and county-level subsidies. Hope you enjoyed this thread!
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1939698642643755289

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Random thoughts for tonight on Deaf culture. And why there is a "Deaf culture" in the first place.
If you have a bum foot - it's a bum foot.
If you have bum vision - it's bum vision.
But language is EVERYTHING to human interaction, logic, exchange. Language is what separates us from animals.
Because Deafness directly affects language - Deafness separates by humanity in a way that no other disability physically can separate.
Imagine if your stomach hurts every time you ate, despite your physical hunger. That's what it's like to be deaf. You have a need for social interaction, but every single instance brings with it burden, work, pain.
With each other, Deaf people fill this gap with their hands - sign language. The need for language touches a deeply primitve need for who we are as humans, beyond who we are as animals.
Yes, we can wear hearing aids or cochlear implants. But Deaf people absolutely, unequivocally strain to meet someone on the same terms socially at their own language.
The best analogy I can come up with is: you are a person who's had to use crutches to walk. And everyone around you expects you to ignore the inconvenience of crutches in order to meet them halfway. You say, "I'm tired of always being on the race track" and the response always is: "you are being selfish. just by doing this one thing, you're meeting so many people's requirements. Why don't you do this?"
The fact is, hearing aids and by extension cochlear implants are a deeply unpleasant and artificial experience. I don't wish to discourage people who genuinely want to help there. But at the same time, when I tell Elon Musk, I don't care about losing my hearing in the pursuit of experiments... I don't care.
@deaflibertarian is right. Deaf people need sign language.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1939866277969096752

Defiant L’s @DefiantLs - Hilarious!
https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1939836286921318548

Dept. of Agriculture @USDA - USDA is revising National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations to reduce unnecessary red tape that is killing jobs and raising prices for Americans, allowing the Department to efficiently deliver the critical services and funds America’s ranchers, farmers, loggers, and rural communities rely on.
https://usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/06/30/secretary-rollins-rolls-back-overly-burdensome-environmental-regulations-unleash-american-innovation
https://x.com/USDA/status/1939716101207642527
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