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COMMENTARY | Idaho should focus on maintaining and even strengthening the peer workforce as a cost-effective method for supporting recovery, writes guest columnist Beth Markley. #idleg #idpol
Don’t balance Idaho’s state budget on the backs of its most vulnerable residents • Idaho Capital Sun
Idaho faces tough budget choices in the coming months. Cutting mental health peer support should not be part of the answer. As directed by the state, Magellan, the contractor managing Medicaid behavio...
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November 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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WATCH: He’s bragging about fucking you over. #TrumpShutDown
October 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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NEW: GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027.

A new report shows the program has spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care.

By @savmargaret.bsky.social
Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says
Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at lea...
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September 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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What they are doing now is terrifying. We must brace for it to get a lot worse under the Republican budget: Cuts to health care. Billions to multiply the secret police terrorizing your neighborhood Home Depot.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Last October, ProPublica and @documented.net published secret recordings of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term.

"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected," he said.
“We Want the Bureaucrats to Be Traumatically Affected”
ProPublica and Documented obtained videos of two speeches delivered during invitation-only annual gatherings for the Center for Renewing America, a pro-Trump...
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April 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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🆕🚨: Senator Cory Booker has just delivered the longest speech in Senate history—surpassing Strom Thurmond’s infamous filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

THANK YOU, SENATOR BOOKER, for standing up and speaking out!
April 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM