These hospitals reporting people - you're just breaking people's trust and discouraging them from seeking care. Hospitals in Idaho routinely report women for positive drug tests (even when it's due to a hospital-administered epidural) - stop being narcs and help people instead!
honestly so tired of drawing a hard line "this will be in person only", "this will be virtual only" and having people pressure me to make it both - appreciate what you're getting and leave it be!!
If anyone downloaded these videos before they were taken offline lmk 🙃
Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
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I know this is impossible for us discuss in this current moment but... People want to do interesting, thoughtful, creative, day to day work. They want to care for each other, and feel like they are contributing to something bigger.
It should be where we start when we think about our communities.
The "Pro-life" party
Four patients have died after the Idaho — facing budget shortfall — cut a mobile treatment program for people with severe mental illness. #idleg #idpol
So disgusting and awful. The articles describes some ridiculous, totally unsupported claims made by backers and their resistance to any public hearing on the matter, likely because ordinary Idahoans will debunk these specious claims
This work definitely has value and will be appreciated, perhaps at a later point
"Spread the Word: Legal Immigration Is Difficult" [Alexander Kustov]
Reps. Kyle Harris, R-Lewiston, and Clint Hostetler, R-Twin Falls, supported the bill and both cited the costs to the state and counties for housing inmates who are undocumented. Harris said that ICE reimburses at a higher rate for detaining people who will be deported than the state pays counties for housing state inmates in county jails.
Our ID lawmakers needs some jail and immigration 101. Undocumented people are largely in jail for crimes (we choose to do that!), not immigration violations - 287 will not cover that!
idahocapitalsun.com/2026/03/06/i...
An Idaho House committee on Tuesday rejected a bill to criminalize helping unauthorized immigrants. #idleg #idpol
Honestly so funny. Faith healing: allowed; religious exemptions for supplying birth control: allowed; religious orgs providing aid: disallowed.
glad to see these questions!
Well, that's plainly not true. And if it's in Federal law, why have a redundant state law?
common talking point to equate all undocumented and some documented immigration with human trafficking; I'm sorry to report that my brain has marinated in enough right wing media to recognize this.
"lawful representation" - what is that, exactly?
NEW: The military systems that the U.S. sent to the Iran region in recent weeks ALONE cost us nearly $60 MILLION per day — just a fraction of the cost of this war.
That ~$60 million could cover Medicaid for 4 million Americans per day, or SNAP for 9.5 million.
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I have to miss it, but I look forward to reading your thread later!
Tomorrow is a hearing on a terrible bill that criminalizes supporting people who may or may not be undocumented
For @propublica.org’s weekly newsletter, @pamelacolloff.bsky.social shares stories that one incarcerated woman collected inside prison. The accounts speak to what they see as a link between domestic abuse and their convictions.
Powerful.
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An Idaho House committee on Thursday unanimously approved a bill to overhaul oversight of children’s residential treatment facilities to address a state report finding widespread abuse and gaps in safeguards. #idleg #idpol
NEW: We obtained 911 audio from the Texas detention center housing hundreds of immigrant kids and their parents.
Since mid-September, EMS crews have been dispatched to Dilley at least 11 times to treat children in medical distress.
Burning fevers. Low oxygen. Seizures. A broken leg.
My report:
Some good news! A bill to track immigrant status in K-12 school failed!
weird that when testimony is limited to 45 minutes and there are oodles of people waiting to testify that somehow he is called -- again! Also weird that someone representing an astroturf anti-immigrant org was called. What are the odds??
They just passed the bill, meaning that they paid zero attention to the testimony, live or written.
"We are in an era when we rarely see the Federal government do something constitutional". Something tells me this legislator is not referring to the widespread 4th ammendment violations by the Trump admin.
OMG, "I did some online googling during the hearing and that is my evidence." THESE ARE OUR REPRESENTATIVES AT A LIVE LEGISLATIVE HEARING.
So happy to hear a legislator call this an "unfunded mandate". Yes, correct!
