the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

How it started // how it's going

Millions of American women have a different last name than what’s on their birth certificates, and House Republicans have prioritized a bill that voting rights groups say could make it harder for them to vote.

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👀 @liftlocal.bsky.social

as part of a larger conservative push to deregulate child care, Idaho is set to become the first state in the country to gut all state-required child-to-staff ratios www.edsurge.com/news/2025-02...

With 94% of testimony in opposition including the most influential business and education groups in the state. What a tremendous shame for our state’s future generations + embarrassing own goal for the governor

SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."

Salmon-Challis Forest Service Employees let go.

The Greater Idaho Falls Chamber of Commerce is publicly opposing the repeal of Medicaid Expansion, saying it would "devastate our local economy, workforce and healthcare system."

#idpol

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Free speech baby

Also why is it that every Democratic “strategy” for opposing Trump sums up to “we’ll do nothing different and then he’ll magically defeat himself”? Has this worked?

Under the bill, a family earning between $55,000 and $91,000 would expect to see a tax break of about $127, according to the nonpartisan Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy. Meanwhile, the top 1% of Idaho earners making $738,300 and above would receive a tax cut of about $5,358, according to the center.

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

DHS has terminated the memberships of everyone on its advisory committees.

This includes several cyber committees, like CISA's advisory panel and the Cyber Safety Review Board, which was investigating Salt Typhoon.

That review is "dead," person familiar says.

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Most Idahoans oppose sending tax dollars to private or religious schools, and most favor less restrictive abortion ban policies than what's in Idaho law, according to public policy survey by Boise State University.
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Saying Trump administration may drop Biden administration’s lawsuit challenging Idaho’s abortion ban, St. Luke’s files its own lawsuit seeking to extend court protections that have allowed emergency abortions.
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