@idahostatesman.com wouldn’t you kindly stop wasting my time with this garbage? #idpol

In their response, NYT calls us “trans activists.” Am I? I began health care, changed my name and sex on my ID. Continue to work and care for my home and family. Object to hearing lies about me and my community and caregivers. I live! “Trans activist” sounds like yet more dehumanizing language.

America’s celebrities have the opportunity to do something HILARIOUS this Sunday. I’d straight up tell the crew we’re not going this year. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Biggest missed opportunity if they decide to attend as normal. If that’s what happens, I will be doing another year of not paying to watch anything.

Idaho AG Raul Labrador has decided to cut paid parental leave in their office from 8 weeks to 40 HOURS. It says 2 weeks, but 40 hrs is 1 week. 2 weeks is still barbaric. Please take a moment to call & let him know what you think. They’re trying to stop women from working. +1 (208) 334-2400

Amaryllis update! I picked out a red one!

I’m going to be very clear as Idaho’s premier neo-Nazi bird dogger. You best decide soon how you will be dealing with authoritarians of all stripes in your everyday lives. Their rhetoric is escalating. There are places in this country, Idaho included, where authoritarians are going full fash.

You guys win! I decided to go collect signatures for RFPA initiative! 😂 I’ll be at Evans Bros in Sandpoint until 1 PM if you still need to sign. Only 116 days left! (yes, you will be getting the daily countdown) I need to collect at least 30 valid signatures today. Already signed? Send a friend!

Someone give me permission to keep my Christmas lights up for one more day. 🫠

Hey. Hi. 👋🏼 We need to collect thousands of signatures in N. Idaho Districts 1-5 in 117 days. April 30 is the deadline. No more procrastination. We need your signature soon! Let us know you want to sign or show up to a local signing location. Bring your friends! www.backtoidaho.com #idpol

We abducted the president of another country and his wife. All I could think of when I read it were my friends who died in Iraq. A different made up war for wealth that destroyed lives. Now I’m up at 3:30 AM crying. War is stupid. This country is so broken.

I’ve been making myself kiddy cocktails for lunch everyday and these cherries are the MVP of fruity little drink time. 🫰🏼

32 years ago today, Brandon Teena was murdered for being trans. Though much about his life was misunderstood and misreported at the time, along with the murder of Matthew Shepard, national outrage led to improved hate crime laws. Please help us make a world which doesn’t hate us.

2026 will be the year of broad scoping voter suppression tactics. Make it your New Year’s resolution to: - Have an official copy of your birth certificate. - Have an official copy of your marriage/divorce papers. - Have a current state identification with your current address.

Hey everyone who plans GOTV actions. Be sure to adjust your calendars and messaging (WHICH SHOULD BE REPETITIVE IF YOU WANT AMERICANS AT A 6-8th GRADE READING LEVEL TO GET THE INFORMATION) We have new, evil, postmark rules that will affect mail-in voting. www.brookings.edu/articles/whe...

*taps my book wild faith* as noted in literally the first chapter, the Satanic Panic never ended, it just took a nap for awhile this shit about daycares is literally just the 1980s warmed over. can we bring back cool hair instead of christian vigilantism www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia...

We know from GOP leadership & sheriff in Bonner Co. that legislative attacks on communities with local non-discrimination ordinances that include protections for our LGBTQIA+ neighbors are coming. 2026 session starts in 2 weeks. Let’s be prepared. Medicaid & Ed will over shadow this issue. #idleg

It feels like December 41st today. This was a Monday of Monday proportions. 😂 We’re gonna keep truckin. I saved my favorite thing for EOD. Need to sign the RFPA Initiative in Bonner Co? I’ll be at Matchwood in Sandpoint from 5-7 PM tonight! #idpol www.backtoidaho.com

It’s hard to care about public radio @npr.org being defunded with newsletter titles like these. 🤷🏼‍♀️ What kind of reader are they trying to appeal to? Are we learning nothing? It feels like we’re learning nothing. #idpol

@morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social is actively rotting my mother’s brain. It’s the Fox News of the left. They’re literally having a conversation about how unelectable women are instead of addressing literacy rates, misogyny, & white supremacy. All the actual drivers of current election trends.

These are daily lift tickets at Schweitzer this week. I get it, tis the season to make money, but the conditions are terrible and there’s only 5 runs available to ski. It’s raining. I bet they would actually make more $$$ if they charged much less, and then sold more alcohol.

I've been asked a few times here and elsewhere if I remember a winter off to this bad of a start. A couple weeks ago, I said probably. We are now in "no" territory. #IDwx #IdahoFire

I just made toasted coconut marshmallows from scratch for my family. These trad wives got NOTHING on me. 😂 Merry Christmas Eve! #idpol

If you are reading the NAR article at the NYT please listen to this as soon as you finish. The NAR is a violent movement bent on destroying democracy. @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Journalists ARE capable of criticizing their peers! Add all of the journalists who sensationalize crimes committed against white people right next to Bari. And the journalists who won’t educate on White Christian Nationalism while they’re covering it. It’s all white supremacy of varying shades.

Sentencing for Paul Trouette, of LEAR Asset Management, will be sentenced for his crimes committed at the February 2025 Kootenai Co. Republican Central Committee Legislative Town Hall on February 18, 2026, at 3PM PST. #idpol #idleg

If the person being arrested for explosives & firearms is a known white supremacist, please say so in your article. Leaving it at “gang member” doesn’t give the context Idahoans need to understand our actual crime problems. This guy has been in my catalogue for years. cdapress.com/news/2025/de...

I’m excited for my amaryllis to bloom because I forgot what color I picked out. 😂 It’s grown a lot in 10 days!

BEFORE this 🐎💩 happens, I invite you to listen to the 3 part series on Stuckey’s views in Dan Miller’s segment “It’s in the Code” from @straightwhitejc.bsky.social A great primer so you’re not duped by her covert bigotry & bias. Send it to a Republican who plans on watching. Here’s pt. 3. #idpol

Back to our regularly scheduled programming. I needed some organizer therapy last night. We went to Xmas beer choir & scored 3 pages of signatures from Idaho voters who want to restore our reproductive healthcare laws. ABC - Always Bring your Clipboard. #idpol backtoidaho.com

This was an excellent episode. I listened twice. #idpol

Good Morning. Day 4 of the Paul Trouette criminal trial in the Kootenai Co. town hall incident. The judge is putting everyone on the record at 9 AM when the jury begins deliberating again. I'm hoping to get there around 10 AM. Hopefully that will be before the verdict drops. #idpol

Good morning. We’re at the Kootenai Co. Courthouse for day 3 of the Paul Trouette criminal trial for the February town hall incident. It’s stormy in the panhandle this morning, but the power is on here. We’re starting at 8:30 to see if Raul’s opinion will be entered into evidence. #idpol

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...

How did guns become sacred in America? Today I aired my interview with @drrachelwagner.bsky.social about her new book Cowboy Apocalyse. It’s all about the myths that made handheld killing machines revered in America. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

"Medicaid expansion currently covers more than 88,000 Idahoans and is critical in rural areas... with serious conditions, like cancer or diabetes." #idpol "...Medicaid expansion does not provide a check... It is a health insurance program, not a source of income." idahocapitalsun.com/2025/12/16/l...

Please share. There’s only 12 likes on this important post. Bonner Co. flooding has failed many septics, wells, water/sewer systems, right before Christmas. 😭 I’m going to drop a load of water off on Thursday. #idpol www.facebook.com/share/v/1Lq5...

Good Morning. I’m sitting outside courtroom 15 at the Kootenai Co. Courthouse for the criminal trial for the KCRCC Town Hall incident last February. Capacity issues today, so we’ll be waiting to observe for a while. Bailiff said hour(s) with an S. I brought office work, no fear. #idpol

The Geminids peak this weekend and are visible through mid-December, according to the American Meteor Society. The meteors tend to be yellow in color and can be seen across the globe, but the best viewing happens in the Northern Hemisphere. https://to.pbs.org/4rLm5n7

“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there

Due to anti-science GOP leadership I thought someone with flood & fire experience should say something. Assume some septic tanks failed in Bonner County with the flooding. Test your well water & boil until you know there's no E Coli in it. Remind your neighbors. #idpol

We could ring the New Year in with nearly 25,000 more signatures for the Reproductive Freedom & Privacy Act if all 2081 volunteers collect 12 signatures this holiday season. Join me in a little seasonal scavenger hunt 😂 We have some rapid fire 30 min trainings coming up. www.backtoidaho.com #idpol

Fri: Rep Fulcher telling fellow Idahoans we're going to lose our fed #publiclands. CA Rep LaMalfa blaming wolves for cost of beef in grocery. Repub Reps & Senators telling US voters they're not going to extend ACA premium subsidies, but may give $1K total to offset cost of $1500 MONTHLY premiums.🤦🏻‍♂️

Lightning Creek(looking like a river today), Bonner County @ flood stage. Blew out East Spring Creek road overnight. All creeks/rivers in Northern Bonner County are at flood stage. Be careful out there.

A federal judge in Maryland ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from immigration detention on Thursday while his legal challenge against his deportation moves forward. https://to.pbs.org/4q6BaOp

The mass deportation of undocumented people was one of Hitler’s largest coercive policies before the war. This set off a chain of events which can give us a useful perspective on where we are now. snyder.substack.com/p/self-terro...

Two major news networks, CNN and CNBC, recently announced partnerships with Kalshi, an online predictions market. Kalshi allows the public to place bets on a dizzying variety of news events.

We’re launching The Forum Fellowship, a paid 7-month program for cultural venue leaders keeping the heartbeat of community and democracy alive across the PNW + Mountain West. Apply at westernstatescenter.org/forumfellowship Priority deadline: 2026 Jan 05

Tascha didn’t just build a volunteer team of more than 100,000 people, she built a community across our city. And there’s no one better suited to tell you how she did it than her. thedigradio.com/podcast/thre...