I’ll add that from my perspective, there’s absolutely no doubt that the goal is to make me disappear. By stripping me of identification, employment protection, and healthcare. By endangering me in all public places. By erasing any legal status for me entirely.

If you live in the Treasure Valley and are worried about increased ICE presence here... about their lawless, reckless behavior, about their racial profiling, about how it doesn't seem to be about law enforcement at all... here's a chance to help protect your community.

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

What ICE is up to in Louisiana: www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/new... The federal prosecutor says the sex wasn't forced because a prisoner in ICE detention and subject to deportation without judicial redress can freely withhold consent. I suppose these days I need to say that I'm being sarcastic.

I learned about this a couple of months ago. There is a caveat, however. If you take your mail to the counter during PO working hours, you can ask the clerk to postmark it in front of you. This is hardly a solution, but might be information worth tucking away.

The “anti-woke” university arises …https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/opinion/harvards-campus-speech-trump.html

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

In case you missed it: I’ve got a new (warning: somewhat intense) story on @npr.org about all the ways faith leaders have pushed back against the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign this year — including clergy directly confronting ICE agents and police. www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...

Yes. Also Tacoma, where I grew up. The pollution from pulp and paper mills was like, but it was 20 times worse than Lewiston and Clarkston now. And Pittsburgh was much worse than that with particulate pollution. Anti-pollution regulations have saved literally millions of lives.

It's truly remarkable how there will be news organizations and journalists who correctly identify that RFK is a menace and that HHS can't e trusted when he pushes stuff about vaccines or Tylenol causing autism... but cover the anti-trans stuff like "Well, HHS says so, and we should trust HHS!"

CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration 60M's ⁦‪Sharyn Alfonsi‬⁩ said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage My NPR story www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...

Jeff Landry, envoy to Greenland? Unless The Advocate has been spoofed, this is for real. www.theadvocate.com/news/politic...

Those that don’t experience what we do often don’t seem to believe the level of “misery and severe distress” which afflicts us. 53 years ago I came within a whisker of not being here, the pain was so acute. But I’ve had right leaning people laugh at me over that.

Good morning. We’re at the Kootenai Co. courthouse for day 2 of the Paul Trouette criminal trial for the town hall incident where Dr. Teresa Borrenpohl was violently removed by Paul’s security team. Here’s a recap of yesterday’s events from an actual journalist. #idpol cdapress.com/news/2025/de...

The Palouse Choral Society is out caroling in Pullman. They are good!

Saw something disturbing posted elsewhere. A trans person denied a passport unless they provide a record of “name and sex at birth.” Like me, they have an amended birth certificate, their county didn’t retain the original. So it’s possible we can’t get any passport, not just one with the wrong sex.

Gotta love the UMC

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Washington State University is HIRING an Associate or Full Professor of American Politics who will also serve as the Director of our excellent Foley Institute. An awesome opportunity to be right at the nexus of research and policy! wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...

Done just before he revoked the tariffs, I'm sure, lowering inflation and thereby interest rates and boosting the price of bonds. I'm no "hide your money in the mattress" guy, but investing in stocks and bonds now means betting against people who create the inside information that they trade on.

Thanks for the tip! Mercifully, my youngest turned 18 a couple of days ago, so I am now out of the woods, but I can really see the benefit of calling 988 ahead of time.

It's all in the framing. The New York Times didn't say, "Mamdami Moves to Keep Campaign Promises." Instead, it's www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

Yes. When the Crimson has become the most responsible source about a campus bombing, journalism is in sad shape.

Hey Boise, Idaho folks! I want to find a tetherball open to the public that I can take my MIL to to play with. We both loved it as kids, and I think it would make her happy. I am having a hard time finding one. Please help!!

We're well over the 50 incidents documented in our investigation now. Here's one from this week from @opb.org, reporting that a young girl was also in the the van of Mam-speaking farmworkers from Guatemala when immigration agents broke the driver window. www.opb.org/article/2025...

NEW: A JAMA study finds that "between August 2022 and December 2024 ... Idaho lost 94 of the 268 OBGYN physicians practicing obstetrics." Just 20 new OBGYNs moved to Idaho in that time, "and 114 of the 268 baseline obstetricians" stopped practicing, left the state, or retired.

What the actual hell was CBP looking for? This suggests a very specific pre-existing investigation that was done in coordination with the FBI to target him in particular.

The world‘s largest #falconry museum located outside of #Boise, has just expanded www.boisestatepublicradio.org/environment/...

Under a new legal agreement, Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador and two county prosecutors won't prosecute some doctors for referring patients for abortions out of state. #idpol

We finally made it to Bluesky—just a few billion years after the Big Bang, and only slightly late to the party ✨🌌 We’re sharing some of our best stories from the year so far to kick off our Bluesky journey!

The New York Post put the shooting in Iowa. They later fixed the headline, but the URL remains to identify it as an Iowa shooting: nypost.com/2025/06/30/u...

Coeur d'Alene has the highest concentration of right-wing white nationalists of any area in the country. Here is why today's terrorist attack on firefighters was probably carried out by liberal Democrats.

Crapo's first words of his speech on the Senate floor just now were a misque "making the 2017 tax cuts permanent presents a problem... I mean, PREVENTS a problem..." 🙃

As someone who has been on the business end of nationwide injunctions that I thought were improper, I find the question of what rules we should adopt for them to be genuinely hard. But yesterday's decision deserves massive criticism, for at least two reasons. (Thread.)

Harvard's Kennedy School of Government is now offering options to attend remotely or to finish outside the US. Trump's spite is increase the US deficit in an area, education, where it's been quite successful. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

It’s been a long and hard journey, but this letter I received today has made every heartache, smear campaign and sleepless night more than worth it!

Christian Nationalist Paul would shriek "OH MY GAWWWWD, THERE'S IDOLATROUS OBJECTS OF WORSHIP IN ATHENNNNS! WE NEED TO TAKE OVER ATHENS AND MAKE IT HAVE LAWS ACCORDING TO OUR BELIIIIEEFS, OR WESTERN CIVILIZATION IS DOOOOOMED!" Actual Paul preached the sermon in Acts 17:22-31

I’ve reached full retirement age and applied for benefits. Historically the review took up to 30 days (per website when I applied). It took 60 days to process my application so, yes, time was doubled.

Amber Alert: Idaho Keep your eyes open for these two teen siblings. May be traveling with adult siblings in Grey Honda sedan with Utah plates. Kidnapped, last seen in Monteview, ID on 6/23/25. May be heading to FLDS compound in Mendon, UT.

Yup, audio on.

I barely survived puberty in an era of no language, knowledge, or resources. Thankfully my attentive mom saw my misery, and my note. If I’d lived in a time when there is language, knowledge, and resources? But told you cannot have them? I would not have survived that.

My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them.

The Senate Majority leader is lying

Trump is reducing the ability of American universities, which produce enormous benefits for the US, to compete internationally. Other countries would welcome a world-class university.

Wrote this in the summer of 2020, definitely a good sign to be dusting it off now. "Less lethal" weapons are tools of colonial occupation marketed to police, and tools of police marketed to colonial soldiers. Anti-civilian weapons more than "less-lethal" www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

DHS FIRING ON US FOR A MINUTE STRAIGHT OUTSIDE THE DETENTION CENTER. Please watch and share. EYES ON LA! FUCK ICE!

Amazing. Respect the lede.