"If they are not willing to represent Idahoans where we are on this issue, we are going to hold them accountable and they can find a new job,” said Brian Brooks, one of three board members of the PAC for Public Lands.

Idaho public land advocates form PAC, target pols who support selling or transferring public land. www.lmtribune.com/local-news/p...

Idaho public land advocates form PAC, target pols who support selling or transferring public land www.lmtribune.com/local-news/p...

"Ultimately, my concern is for the privacy rights of Idahoans who have registered to vote, as secured under Idaho law,” Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane wrote to the Justice Department in a Feb. 26 letter. #idpol

The nine law firms that surrendered to President Trump “failed a high-stakes character test,” writes the editorial board.

December 2025 through February 2026 was the 2nd warmest winter on record for the Contiguous U.S. according to Prism climate data. The widespread record to near record warmth in the west easily outweighed the cool temps in the east. 🔥🔥🔥

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

There's always a quote.

"Across the seven countries barred from U.S. aid, at least 6.2 million people are facing “extreme or catastrophic conditions,” according to the UN. But they have little to offer the U.S. in return for help."

Late-night show host Stephen Colbert said that CBS lawyers barred him from airing an interview with Democratic Texas State Representative James Talarico, who is running for his party's nomination for the US Senate reut.rs/4qCIJMB

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A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked. A judge ruled his arrest was unlawful.

I've thought of this song often over the past many months and especially since the killings of Alex Pretti and Reneee Good.

ICE is demanding the employment records at a Maine jail after a sheriff openly criticized immigration agents for arresting one of his guards

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

ICE agents in Minneapolis are using facial recognition and other tools to identify undocumented immigrants and track protesters, officials said. The agency is also using cellphone and social media tools to monitor people’s online activity and potentially hack into phones.

"Hamas and ICE also share one very visible trait that I never thought I’d see in the United States: Almost all of their foot soldiers wear masks."

Imagine having to defend your fatally shot son from Stephen Miller's slurs that he was a "domestic terrorist" trying to "assassinate" ICE officers. This is what Trump and Trumpism has brought to the United States.

“We cannot stand silent and stand aside as people are being attacked and separated from their families and disappeared,” she said. “They’re beloved children of God, and we are with them — that is our call.”

www.startribune.com/agents-detai... “We have never seen this level of depravity with a 2-year-old.”

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

Two days ago we learned that Federal agents showed up at a Washington Post reporter’s home, searched it, seized her phone and two laptops. We also learned that the Post's owner, Jeff Bezos, remained silent that day. No words of support. Well, Thursday came and went and still nothing from Bezos.

The “if she had complied, she’d still be alive” line that we’re hearing from ICE defenders is the mantra of apologists for security forces in dictatorships through the ages.

Gift link for the Oregonian. Local news will have better info www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...

Idaho Fish and Game seeks information on bighorn ram poached and left to waste near Riggins. www.lmtribune.com/local-news/b...

Shopping has always been a game. And now it’s being rigged against you.

A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me

Once thought stable, one of Hells Canyon's iconic species is in trouble. www.lmtribune.com/local-news/s...

The plow, the steam engine, electricity — all replaced muscle. AI replaces cognition. If you spend your day “reading lots of stuff and turning it into straight English,” well… so does the machine. The goal now is to learn from history and cushion the blow better than last time.

Trump’s War on Carolina Christians

Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.

"If he was some kind of narcoterrorist,” she said, “then why are we living in misery instead of a mansion?” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

BREAKING: Two Spokane Police officers resigned this year amid an investigation into allegations they were seducing victims of domestic violence, hundreds of documents show. MORE: www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

During a press conference this week in Gary, Indiana, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem brazenly claimed no US citizens have been detained or arrested by ICE, and labeled any reporting to the contrary is “simply not true”. But Noem is ignoring the facts.

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know. By @deldeib.bsky.social

"Provincial officials allied with the Trump regime have jailed a political dissident for over a month after he made comments on social media critical of the authoritarian leader and a recently slain political ally who founded an influential group to radicalize America's 'White' ethnic majority."

"No planning. No proposals to the National Capital Planning Commission. No opportunity for notice and comment from the public. Just Trump’s whim—and a beloved national symbol tumbles to dust. It’s obscene." @monacharen.bsky.social on Trump's White House demolition www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-mar-...

"What the fuck? How is this real? This is a nightmare"

Journalism, he said, is how we know what's happening in troubled lands. "These extraordinary eyewitness accounts are the culmination of the daily efforts of countless people who work to ensure that information isn't manipulated for ends contrary to truth and human dignity“ apnews.com/article/pope...

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

“The [US] supreme court hasn’t wanted to be Churchill.” Levitsky said. “John Roberts has been Chamberlain. I think that is incredible destructive behavior.”

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

American taxpayers are paying people to post Bible verses on a US government account.