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We agree. It is completely insane that someone who profits from private insurance sales is trying to cancel the health care of 90,000 Idahoans who can’t afford insurance. Remember, they’re also trying to push new, HIGH deductible, private insurance at the same time they’re trying to repeal ME.

When Rep Ehardt introduced this fix, she said there was some “interesting compliance” with the original version. Duh. Stakeholders said there would be terrible unintended consequences. But as usual, republicans don’t listen.

Send your Medicaid expansion prayers straight to Rep. Jordan Redman at his for profit insurance company! D3 Rep. Redman (R) is the sponsor of the bill to repeal voter approved Medicaid expansion. We’re praying that he starts respecting the will of the voters. redmaninsurance.com/prayer-requests

Data privacy IS a proper role of state government. "McGrane wrote in his letter that the Justice Department had recently revealed in a separate federal lawsuit filing that sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers, were shared from federal systems 'to unauthorized persons.'"

“This makes citizens across Idaho fearful of volunteering at hundreds of charitable organizations across the state, a state that prides itself on taking care of its neighbors,” Idaho Foodbank CEO Randy Ford testified. #idleg #idpol

HB 794, anti student protest bill FAILED on a tie vote. Yes votes were Hawkins, Mendive, Ehardt, Hostetler, Wisniewski, Marmon, Pickett. No votes were Mathias, Galaviz, Sauter, Handy, Garner, Veile, Nelsen.

A public hearing will take place TOMORROW (Tuesday, March 3) at 1:30 p.m. MST for HB 764. HB 764 would make it a crime for any organization to help undocumented immigrants. Learn more about this cruel anti-immigrant bill: buff.ly/VOhRzlC

Idaho "you're on your own, neighbor" bill

"According to Jorwic, other states are watching what Idaho will do. Idaho, she said, may be a bellwether for what happens to disability services in other states." Sorry, other states.

Meanwhile in North Idaho, KCRCC must be stocking up on the prostitutes & blow for their big Lincoln Day guest tonight, disgraced former US Rep. Matt Gaetz, of Florida. #idpol #idleg cdapress.com/news/2026/fe...

At your service, fellow Idaho kids.

A bit late for this, but also true: As Kate Bitz of the Western States Center said, “If it happens in North Idaho now, no one should be surprised when it happens nationally a few years later.”

The suit decimated the Aryan Nations, and for a time, residents felt like things had calmed down—until Trump’s first term. “Things got weird in Coeur d’Alene after the 2016 election... But then after the Covid-19 pandemic, shit went completely off the rails.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

@socialistlyawkward.bsky.social Brings the 🔥 on ICE leasing from St. Luke’s to bring increase their terror in Idaho.

Attention gentle NIMBY friends: Who wants to help us block this expanded ICE office in Meridian? ICE is planning a new office at the "Portico at Meridian Center," on the southeast corner of Eagle and Franklin roads, at the Meridian Rd. exit, near St. Luke's Meridian www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...

Lawsuit names local and federal law enforcement officials — FBI, ICE, Canyon County Sheriff Kieran Donahue, Caldwell Police Chief Rex Ingram, Nampa Police Chief Joe Huff, Idaho State Police Director Bill Gardiner, Cities of Caldwell and Nampa, Canyon County, and unidentified law enforcement.

After a 16-year-old complained his zip-ties were too tight at a an ICE/FBI raid in southwest Idaho, an officer laughed and tightened them, the ACLU alleges in a new lawsuit. He still has scars, months later.

Follow @idahocapitalsun.com for this important coverage.

What part of *sovereign* do they actually not understand? What's that expression about doomed to repeat it? idahocapitalsun.com/2026/02/10/f...

Some cuts are DEADLY "Since the cuts, visits to eastern Idaho crisis centers rose 34% in December and 43% in January, compared to the same months a year earlier." idahocapitalsun.com/2026/02/10/b...

Good morning. Today I'll be watching House State Affairs and House Education. Flag bill hearing in State Affairs and Students, Immigration Data in House Ed. #idpol #idleg legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/...

NYT deep dive on Wilder immigration raid. “The one thing everyone got asked was, ‘Where were you born?’” said Neal Dougherty, an immigration lawyer. “Not, ‘Did you see gambling?’ Not, ‘Did you participate in gambling?’ Just, ‘Where were you born?’”

The additional new budget cuts that the Legislature’s budget committee approved Friday could mean at least an $800,000 cut to treatment court programs. During FY 2025, 636 people graduated from the court programs and 87 treatment court participants gave birth to drug-free babies. #idleg #idpol

I’ve seen many clips this week of middle aged white guys learning the lyrics for Bad Bunny’s performance today. Very funny & intentional. I hope everyone has so much fun singing at halftime today that maybe some other Americans 🙄 decide that hate is lame. Sing loud! Happy Super Bowl. Go Seahawks!

🥇 USA’s first gold goes to Idaho’s Breezy Johnson! 🇺🇸 Johnson grew up near Victor, Idaho. She won with a nearly flawless run in the women’s downhill. The event was marred after teammate and favorite Lyndsey Vonn crashed while racing on a torn ACL.

Love and respect.

More details this AM: “This whole thing happened in less than five minutes, it was so fast,” Nick said. “It just was like the most heart-wrenching, terrible thing I've ever seen.” “And like I said, it just happened so fast. It felt like an abduction.” www.idahopress.com/boiseweekly/...

Across from the Capitol.

"In January 2025, the Trump administration rescinded a Biden-era policy that used to prohibit the arrest of people within 1,000 feet of [sensitive] areas." Zero reason to arrest a dad at his kid's school. Pure cruelty.

Mondragón, @poderofidaho said: "ICE is “continuing to break the law” and called the agents’ choice to detain a father outside his child’s school “disgusting.” It sends a message that they’re there to racially profile, she said." www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/c...

Please support the family whose father ICE kidnapped outside a Boise daycare yesterday. Give what you can and share the link. www.gofundme.com/f/support-a-...

ICE Out #Idaho

ICE rears its ugly head in Boise, terrorizes children, families, and preschool staff with in an obviously calculated snatch of a father dropping off his child.

Former Idaho Supreme Court Justice John Stegner has announced his intention to run for Governor of Idaho as an independent candidate.

Zamora: “I’m out here protecting and making sure people are able to voice their opinions and to express themselves and do what is right. But then I’m basically muzzled, I guess, for doing the job that I was appointed to do.” 💯 idahocapitalsun.com/2026/02/05/l...

Inama’s lawsuit names multiple defendants: The Idaho State Board of Education The Idaho Department of Education Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador The West Ada School District West Ada Superintendent Derek Bub Principal of West Ada’s Lewis Clark Middle School www.idahoednews.org/top-news/ina...

Wow, that's low....

Emergency Action tomorrow morning at the Capitol!

Bottom line: Estella Zamora is an icon who has fought for human rights in Idaho her entire life. Gov. Brad Little once again bowed to a far-right Christian nationalist witch hunt.

Simpson and Fulcher both taking blood money from private detention firms, fueling ICE deportation regime, building concentration camps in the US. via theappeal.org/ice-cold-cas...

Inama sues the state for violating her CONSTITUTIONAL right to free speech, per @maggiektvb7.bsky.social Everyone is welcome here, to.

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

This is so sad. Alt-Right Caillou and his goons strike again.

Estella is an icon. Brad Little is spineless douche. “The governor knows me well. I have been active in this community almost my entire life, and for him not to have allowed me the courtesy and give me a call or, you know, even email me anything, I think that is what is the most frustrating to me."

"Idaho’s Congressional delegation is Exhibit One in the case for limiting the time our exalted potentates can feed at the public trough." #idpol cdapress.com/news/2026/fe...