Idaho's new bathroom bills would ban trans people from accessing public spaces and make it a crime for them to simply exist in a public bathroom. These harmful bills would also increase policing of physical appearance, making bathrooms less private and safe.

COMMENTARY | Idahoans, no matter their political leanings, literally can no longer afford to ignore what our legislators are doing, write guest columnists Nancy Vannorsdel, Julie Yamamoto, Jarom Wagoner and John Rusche. #idleg #idpol

March 27, 1936: Portraits of the Führer are raised on official buildings across Berlin. This one at the Potsdamer Railway Station reads "Freedom - Peace"

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!

More views of Kristi & Corey's love nest/party barge in the sky. When they tuck in at night, will they say a prayer of thanks to the American taxpayer?

More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes. Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted. Beautiful and devastating all at once.

By the way, I seem to have caught the attention of the BSky moderation team. So, if I disappear, in the words of the Ninth Doctor, always remember: "You were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And d'you know what? So was I."

From the beginning of this anti-trans campaign I've considered, where is the line that tells me I must leave? It's quite far, as this is my state as much as, or even more than, theirs. That's my state capital, my family has been here for generations and they'll have a helluva time getting rid of me.

Though I have many concerns about the directions this legislature has taken, I can't help but be completely focused on their trans obsession, as it won't end with criminalization of bathroom use. I am a current prime target, but it won’t end with me. They’re on a mission from their god.

Idaho deserves solutions, not culture war distractions idahocapitalsun.com/2026/02/19/i...

Instead of addressing structural funding gaps or stabilizing school budgets, lawmakers are advancing proposals that seem designed less to solve Idaho problems and more to score ideological points in a culture war. idahocapitalsun.com/2026/02/19/i... #IdahoLegislature

Other countries are arresting the predators in the Epstein files. That won’t happen here because the GOP won’t let it happen. GOP obstruction should be clear in every article about the Epstein files. Because Americans need it spelled out for them due to literacy rates. www.npr.org/2026/02/19/n...

the overseer of project 2025 is telling you out loud that every inch you cede on trans rights is part of the plan to create a white christian fascist state

This would be less scary if science journalists hadn't completely abandoned science in favor of right wing propaganda on youth trans care already.

KANSAS JUST ENACTED A BILL THAT INVALIDATES AND REVOKES THE DRIVER'S LICENSES OF TRANS PEOPLE. www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/...

Discovering I was trans was the greatest blessing of my life. A simple explanation for a sense of wrongness I'd felt so long I thought that wrongness was me. I credit the trans community for bringing society to the point where I could understand what was wrong and get help.

"We’re out to set a message that Idaho will do what it takes to protect our children and our ladies,” Hostetler said." This bill is about the patriarchy and the deep sexual insecurities of MAGA men. #idpol #lgbtq #bathrooms www.boisestatepublicradio.org/politics-gov...

Moscow, Idaho’s controversial pastor Doug Wilson (who has said ‘women are the kind of people that people come out of’) is back in the spotlight. This time, DOD Sec. Pete Hegseth invited him to lead the Pentagon’s monthly prayer service. From me: www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

I would bet $1000 each Trump, Musk, Miller, and Hegseth have never changed a diaper in their lives “MAGA is all about retrograde gender roles that treat raising kids as women’s work. When dads do dip in, it’s often about pushing toxic, backward notions about gender and sexuality on their kids.”

I just want to point out that’s Doug Wilson speaking at the Pentagon. Doug Wilson wants: the 19th amendment repealed, non-Christian religions outlawed, the death penalty for homosexuality, women barred from working or holding office, blasphemy laws, and one party theocratic rule.

Important reflection from @sarahstankorb.bsky.social, who knows the danger of Doug Wilson & has been trying to warn people for years: sarahstankorb.substack.com/p/doug-wilso...

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...

25 years ago, a bunch of libertarians moved to NH to take over state government. Jason Osborne, one of those "Free Staters," has since risen to be majority leader in the state house. How is he fighting for "liberty?" By helping Stephen Miller build a 324,000-foot prison for migrants and refugees.

These people never grapple with the reality that the right not only outspends trans people 20:1 but they also control social media algorithms and many legacy media institutions. They never ask the questions why public opinion changed and why certain issues are so central to the debate.

"... and increasingly, acts of violence. We have to come to grips with that." Okay, but we don't have to come to grips with the other 99.9% of people who are committing acts of violence and are cis? Give me a break.

Oh, we here! Civil War soon come! (Because this actually isn't the first time they've been in the minority... remember, kids. That's a sociological term, not necessarily a numbers one!)

Both the Feds and state of Idaho will take my health care, and everything else that is "me," unless we the people stop them. Here in Idaho especially we know, that what Heritage and their proxy Blaine Conzatti wants, they ultimately get.

Hey, Idaho so-called representatives:

the logic of his position is that you would them abandon those issues and so on and so on until you’ve fully sacrificed a group of vulnerable americans to reactionary bullies for the sake of a percentage point (if that)

They just talk as though the public spontaneously lurched to the right on a few specific issues -- sports, restrooms. And now they just take that as a given, a fact that trans supporters must work around. But how did that happen? Anyone? It's fucking *bizarre* they never even raise the question.

This whole fight over transgender stuff happening on X is so weird to me. The most notable thing about trans issues in the last 5 years has been the enormous, coordinated anti-trans activism campaign across the right, aided by moral cowards in the center. But that campaign is *never mentioned*.

The Senator from South Carolina had a mental breakdown. Graham’s outburst was directed in particular at Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen. “He called her ‘little lady,’” a source who was in the room told Berlingske. However, the prime minister did not appear affected by what everyone

I speak out against bills that target and hurt me, but I am not an “Idaho activist.” I’m a longtime resident, worker, taxpayer, family and community member who happens to be trans. I am an ordinary Idahoan and my life is not an ideology.

Kristi Noem's new ride features 17 seats and two queen beds on a B737. For when the party's too big for the G700 I suppose. Article has interior views from the AvJet listing.

Hi friends. I'm sick so I slept through all morning committees. I did tune into the House floor session though. HB 607 (bathroom bounty bill) passed the House. Vote was 56-13-1. 607 applies to ALL public accommodations in public and private spaces. #idpol #idleg

If anyone wants an example of the kind of stuff I wish more Democrats would do when it comes to defending trans rights, look no further than this from @jayapal.house.gov

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Are you in Bonner or Kootenai County? Have you signed the Reproductive Freedom & Privacy Initiative yet? We need your in-person signature and today we have TWO Drive & Sign locations from 10 AM to 7 PM. Location details in thread 🧵 #idpol

They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.

Though southwestern Idaho was off my radar, the complaint alleges that the govt has also used this dubious legal theory—leveraging criminal arrest warrants for a few individuals into a mass immigration dragnet—in Chicago; Austin, TX; Colo Springs; & Cato, NY. (H/t David Emery of Dover, NH.)

Idahoans since 2015: We would like basic, statewide anti-discrimination protections for the LGBTQ+ community. State lawmakers in 2026: Here's a bill that would erase local LGBTQ+ protections for thousands of Idahoans. Contact your elected officials and ask them to oppose HB 557: buff.ly/MpSasyO

"Coming to a city near you", is not hyperbole.. ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months long expansion campaign. Documents show that more than 150 leases and office expansions have or would place new facilities in nearly every state. www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...

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Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19... I tended to keep my disco love to myself back then and, wow, did this really come out when I was 19? In my memory I was so much younger! And honorable mention to Earth, Wind, and Fire's All in All, and Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus!

“I’ve never had a man in the women’s bathroom in my entire life, in my existence, across this globe, across this country, across this state. I think sometimes we are legislating for problems that might happen or are one-offs, and I don’t think we should be legislating like that.”--Rep. Mickelson

First, don't forget to check out our bill tracker! www.idahostatesman.com/news/politic...

A Mark Twain tale of the post-Civil War era, as oligarchs lusted for wealth and power, feeding industrialization, monopolies, and political corruption. Though much is left out, including the terror campaign against Black Americans, it is still a Tale of Today.

Jaywalking in the United States is a made up "crime" that was literally a psyop campaign.... funded by automakers because their cars were killing pedestrians So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.

Idaho and DC legislators can pass laws to ensure I can be discriminated against and criminalize bathroom use, yet I will still have friends and family and community. I will still be me and find joy. And their children will see and know the world is bigger than their parents hate. Yes, love will win.

14 women knocked 600 doors yesterday in the Idaho Panhandle for the Reproductive Freedom & Privacy Act Initiative. We were in a gas station parking lot for our first meet up. People were VERY curious about what we were doing 😎 Here’s a list of people we met. #idpol