Hey Treasure Valley, the Fall 2025 Ridge to Rivers Survey is open www.surveymonkey.com/r/6DP775L

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.

Tried to help a student find federal data. Data is gone and was forced to see this. PS: use (and donate to if you can) the Internet Archive! They got us what we needed today. There is zero reason that websites should be scraped during a shutdown.

People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.

❌ NOTICE Federal US website newly deleted. https://mymedicare.gov Action taken by the Department of Health and Human Services (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) at or around 2025-10-01 06:12:03.

#tdih 1919 #RedSummer Black sharecroppers met in Elaine, Arkansas to organize for fair pay for cotton. More than 100 of them were massacred by a white mob. Twelve Black men were sentenced to death for "riots." #Terrorism #TeachOutsideTextbook 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/el...

Wow. Especially in a place where jobs are scarce. ... ... [fun fact, years ago I was on the cover of the Juneau Empire 😆, but seriously with AK rural PBS and NPR going dark, this is another blow to info, but amazed and proud of what the journalists did]

Got my Covid and flu at Fred’s and apparently Fred’s is giving $20 off next store purchase with flu shot and that’s they type of capitalism in here for if I am forced to live in a capitalist construct

Let me get this straight. They are going to kill the E-Rate because it is TOO SUCCESSFUL at what it is meant to do, which is provide necessary access to the internet in our forcibly online society to those who would otherwise struggle to get online. How... evil. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

So I know everyone is overloaded right now (present company included), but I wanted to let you know we have a five-day series about what Medicaid cuts to Planned Parenthood and subsequent closures will mean for hundreds of thousands of people around the country.

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

It's hugely important to know that the vast majority of this money is only going to corporate farms, not small farms. Under this policy, small farms will only be bought out by the corporate ones.

So, does Little understand how much water nuclear takes? We truly won't have any water for ag/food or survival between this and data centers....

Just women targeted. If they really wanted a level playing field and ‘fairness’ it’s not about genes or testosterone, it’s access. If they really cared, all elite athletes would have same gear, practices areas would be policed, equal budgets and food access, and coaches all at same salary, etc

whoa. Every single one of the Sinclair advert buyers on this list is automotive or automotive related (insurance). That is one aspect of the power in our society held by car companies that I haven't seen studied enough.

Yes, conservatives have been using a lot of "they did this" talk right now that's dangerous and bad And also Nice to know they're perfectly capable of using they/them pronouns after all.

I have a couple of small updates on this story, in case y'all have been wondering about any fallout since its July publication! 🧵

I am also really excited for this. I hate that this book feels so relevant in this moment, but I am so grateful to the librarians of Idaho for choosing it and giving me (and the Friends of Minidoka) a chance to speak on it. Join us if you can!

I just have too many words to put here on what this is and means...

Super excited for tonight's virtual session with @maggietokudahall.bsky.social and the Friends of Minidoka for the Idaho Center for the Book's 2025 Great Reads! Register here: boisestate.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Soup beans and collard greens. Fall is my fave. Also thankful I have my Appalachian blood to fuel good cooking on a tight budget…

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Milo Imagines the World: bookshop.org/p/books/milo... Sofia Valdez, Future Prez: bookshop.org/p/books/when... Pink is for Boys: bookshop.org/p/books/pink... And Tango Makes Three: bookshop.org/p/books/and-... Bathe The Cat: bookshop.org/p/books/bath...

Look. I'm not mad you bought a Kimmel picture book. But marginalized creators are getting banned and death threats and harassed all the time. It'd be neat to show them that wallet solidarity.

I'm not being hyperbolic. This screenshot was shared on fb. It is from TexAgs, the Nextdoor (derogatory) of A&M.

I say something akin to this almost daily. Even said it this morning at the climbing gym when someone said the US have never used military or police against citizens 🤬🙄

I guess I’ve been anti capitalist so long that every time we need to cancel something, I have nothing to cancel or boycott. Use AND ADVOCATE for your library, join exchanges, buy local, question if you really need it, buy used or buy ethical as you can. I’m not perfect but I’ve adapted best I can

How Dems in other red states try and save this country rather than going off to Isra*l.

Update: New estimates that ~$8.8 million has been canceled for UAF programs serving Native students on the Bristol Bay and Fairbanks campuses geared toward career training and student services. That includes courses in American Sign Language, IT training and pilot ground school.

Citywide protest of police brutality in D.C., #tdih 1941. In 1937, African American leaders held mock trial to “provide a complete picture of lawless police terror which has reigned in [city] for past 10 years” and of “killer cops.” Read & find 📷⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ra...

Lost in the discussion of how Charlie Kirk "did politics the right way" are the lives of the two victims assassinated at Florida State University by a member of Kirk's organization, Turning Point USA, in April 2025.

The IMLS was gutted. Public and rural libraries have lost ILL and grants, but sure, let’s throw more money at propaganda bookriot.com/imls-freedom...

Obviously, there's bigger news happening right now, but Senate Republicans just voted against releasing the Epstein files. Every Democrat voted to release them. Susan Collins was the deciding vote to protect Trump and others named in the files.

Just a heads up, while Kirk was bleeding out, 3 kids were shot and are in critical condition in Colorado from a simultaneous school shooting. Haven't seen the news or Trump share their concerns for the kids yet. Just ANOTHER school shooting...

And FTR, whether or not you believe he “deserved” to get shot (few victims of gun violence “deserve” it), these are his words: "I think it's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”

Studying Appalachia and the South really emphasizes that the richest country in the history of the world allows numerous of its counties to maintain levels of persistent poverty and excess mortality on par with countries like North Korea, Kazakhstan, and Russia.

I’ll be here virtually tomorrow night (Wed Sept 10)…Come join in to celebrate Idaho Great Reads! boisestate.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Boise North End 2003-2008, $550: whole ass, not small, house (& free wifi from Moxie after 9pm); 2011-2014 $375: adorable tiny bungalow on Boise Bench. Now these places, in very short time, are approx 2k/month (I've looked). The slow roll to bankrupting us in order to support oligarchy.

So much for academic freedom

More than anything else, the whole world runs on the disregarded suffering of children.

Listen to me: Our profit from the post office is the post office. Our profit from a library is the library. Our profit from a school is the school. And our profit from our lives is life. Our life. Ours.

Amen.

I had such a very Boise weekend. Long runs in public spaces, called reps, Drag Queen brunch, called reps, Pride, climbing gym, called reps, book club, grilled veggies from garden, called reps…enjoyed being in spaces that authoritarian rule is trying to destroy and kick ppl out of…

I’ll say it again: police unions aren’t real unions. They’re right-wing protection rackets for cops. 📌 NEW: The LAPD just pulled protection from former VP Kamala Harris after pressure from police unions. This was only in place because Trump yanked her Secret Service detail.

It's odd, don't you think, that a couple of months ago all of these people were paying to house themselves, and now the American taxpayer is going to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to house them poorly and in the cruelest fashion.

My tax dollars paid for the murder of eleven people in a boat at sea so that the president could post a video bragging about it.

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

Key data to know about incarceration in Idaho: 💲Idaho policymakers have increased prison spending at a faster pace than funding for education. 📈Idaho’s imprisonment rate continues to outpace all six neighboring states. 👩‍👧Over 80% of women behind bars in Idaho are mothers.