"Idaho, where has our compassion gone?"

“Have we forgotten that calling people predators and treating them as criminals — not for behavior, but for their identity — is repugnant and flies in the face of the kind of freedom and respect our state has struggled for so long to embody?” —Cole Nicole LeFavour

"In [the] absence of peer-reviewed studies on matters beyond surgery and hormones...many clinicians are unable to answer trans people’s basic questions...use that uncertainty as a reason to withhold care. In other words, doctors punish their trans patients for the legacy of institutional neglect."

Today you should send love to your trans friends. Tomorrow, too. Maybe every day for a while.

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To friends, Matthew Allison was a likeable part of Boise, Idaho’s electronic music scene. But behind his computer screen, authorities say, he helped lead the Terrorgram Collective, an online network that inspired white supremacist violence. (Published March 2025 with @frontlinepbs.bsky.social)

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE. Donations are down, but ICE is very much still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater We keep us housed 💛 Please share and help if you can! Thank you!

Oh. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

Beautify your neighborhood with these brand new posters warning of the menace of AI surveillance. PDFs available for printing on mtlcounterinfo.org. #camover

Did you know that Texas Tech recently canceled an abortion provider’s speech because of a TPUSA campaign? Medical students in the state say this censorship harms not only their education, but their patients’ health:

❗️DONATIONS NEEDED❗️ A mom & three kids had their electricity shut off & can’t get it turned back on until Monday. We need $550 to get them a hotel for the weekend! CA: $RemoraHouseDC Givebutter: givebutter.com/remorahouse Thank you all!

Latest from me: I talk with people in Rojava and in the U.S. how we can support the democratic confederalist experiment at one of the most serious moments in it's history. They need our solidarity now. truthout.org/articles/roj...

Shout out to trans people who exist y'all are the real ones.

@lataco.bsky.social is raising money to launch a dedicated investigative news desk. If you've relied on their immigration coverage this year like I have, you know this is a worthy cause to support. givebutter.com/la-taco-inve...

Using one of the oldest tricks in the book to propagate the oppression of minorities, conservatives are making the push to label trans people as inherently violent. Read this week's TWIBS here, brought to you by @alyssaur.bsky.social

New - The Prairieland 19 trial collapsed on day one in federal court, spotlighting how politically charged protest cases are handled. The case previews aggressive prosecution tactics, the implications it has beyond the courtroom, and what to watch as it moves forward.

An argument could be made that a harsh crackdown and overly expansive powers already exist and this action, that didn't hurt anyone, was a direct confrontation of that. It seems out of touch to pretend that everything was fine and that this action came out of nowhere and puts that at risk.

Those that say we have a spending problem really just want to bankrupt, litigate and exhaust the people and government to a point of non functioning. That’s the goal. They got elected not to serve, but to destroy from the inside and use the tools and infrastructures that have been built against us.

Providers say it marks the third death among patients who were receiving mobile, specialized treatment in less than three months since an Idaho Medicaid contractor cut the service. In the year and a half before the cut, providers say only one patient on the program died. #idleg #idpol

YES! We spent months getting to know and love what we called "privacy respecting" technology for the 'ALL OF US VERSUS TECH DYSTOPIA' article. We LOVE tech and HATE being exploited.

An argument could be made that a harsh crackdown and overly expansive powers already exist and this action, that didn't hurt anyone, was a direct confrontation of that. It seems out of touch to pretend that everything was fine and that this action came out of nowhere and puts that at risk.

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.

“A State that Massacres Its Own People Cannot Be a Force of Liberation for Others” In this interview, Palestine solidarity activists from the Chinese diaspora speak with Iranian activists in exile about the January 2026 uprising in Iran, comparing notes about resistance to authoritarianism.

Idaho youth are already experiencing consequences from a harmful so-called "parental rights" law signed in 2024. Contact Rep. Ehardt at [email protected] to demand a fix to the “Band Aid law” that allows suicide hotlines to hang up on kids in crisis. @babevote.bsky.social

News you can use, from the @wired.com security team (who are the best in the biz). They asked technologists, activists, aid groups, and cybersecurity experts for guidance on how to organize and collaborate in an age of surveillance. Here’s the result:

Also noteworthy that the Idaho Supreme Court just recently upheld the $52 million judgement against PRN, Bundy, & Rodriguez for when they attacked St Luke’s . And a federal court threw out Bundy’s bankruptcy play. Some of his followers have been issuing threats like this.

A 2024 law barred minors from accessing medical care without parental consent. It affected the suicide hotline.

Taken from (1) Facebook (2) generally right-coded community page. Take with grain of salt but also sometimes the authorities/scanners directly feed information. It's a guide point, not definitive data: this may be true.

"We are aware of a situation at St. Luke's Portico North building that occurred very early this morning..." - St. Luke's "Last week, word spread that St. Luke's was leasing office space in the Portico North building [to DHS] for administrative purposes" - CBS2

Shortly after midnight, a stolen ambulance crashed into Portico North, a medical-offices building on the campus of St. Lukes Meridian Medical Center, across from hospital. The ambulance was doused in gasoline and set aflame. St. Luke’s recently leased space to DHS, drawing complaints. #Idaho #News

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“A veteran of the 1969 Stonewall Inn uprising, Sylvia Rivera was a tireless advocate for those silenced and disregarded by larger movements. Throughout her life, she fought against the exclusion of transgender people, especially transgender people of color, from the larger movement for gay rights.”

Need something like this for Idaho as their operations ramp up

For folks listening to this and wanting to go further, would suggest checking out guides from @eff.org and @activistchecklist.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/acti...

If you traffic in fringe, antisemitic rhetoric but you don’t want people to think you are a “Nazi,” I strongly recommend that you avoid telling a journalist after a few beers that “Nazism” is your “art.” Because Dave Reilly did that:

NEW: One year ago, we caught a peek of MAGA authoritarianism when men roughly dragged a woman named Teresa out of an Idaho town hall. This is the story behind that viral video and the radicalization of the community where it happened. My investigation: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Our demands are clear. The U2 songs will continue until ICE is abolished. You have been warned.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

We love you #Boise #Idaho

It's FINALLY snowing pretty good in Boise and the nature chat sickos are snowposting their asses off

New episode out now! "We speak with an organizer based in New Orleans about the community’s efforts to confront ICE during a special operation that took place there in December of 2025." thebeautifulidea.show/mutual-aid-a...

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

How extremists reconquered Idaho in the age of Trump

We’re trying a new thing where we put out PSAs for people organizing against authoritarianism in the US. On this first installment, we talk with @eff.org’s Bill Budington about staying safe while using Signal. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

"It may be small, and it may not start a revolution, but I want to echo the Lacqueristas community and say: Fuck ICE, today, tomorrow, and forever."

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

Hey, Idaho, it's time to take back our state. Christian Nationalists have hijacked the legislatures and do not represent us. Ordinary Idahoans know that...

In what could be the “largest rent strike in the US in the last 100 years," a coalition of tenant + labor unions representing over 25K workers are threatening a mass rent strike in the face of the ongoing occupation by ICE. www.commondreams.org/news/minneso...