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Idaho Open Enrollment is today - Oct 15! Here is a plan comparison for a 63 year old couple making $85K. In 2026, they will pay over $22K for the plan, in 2025 they paid just $472 for the year. Hard to believe we're doing this to benefit some billionaire tax cuts!

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.

📣 OK, I wasn't planning on adding anymore state legislative fundraising pages to the list until after November, but under the circumstances I'd say the @texasdemocrats.bsky.social deserve a boost! Donate today! secure.actblue.com/donate/txblu...

Donald Trump remains very unpopular in our July poll with @verasight.bsky.social . And he’s underwater on every issue except for border patrol (where he has lost a lot of ground since our May/June surveys). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Here's where Trump explains why he wished Ghislaine Maxwell well in prison: because her poor boyfriend (AKA, Trump's own close friend) died in prison. [via @secretsandlaws.bsky.social] youtu.be/yJIhxKFH9gI?...

I have the full transcript here for those who are interested. bsky.app/profile/secr...

I've been obsessed with Trump saying he "wished her well" regarding Ghislaine Maxwell, and how neither the media nor Dems have made an issue about it. It turns out Jonathan Swan did ask him about it in that train wreck interview back in 2020, and holy shit, his answer then is even worse. Follow 👇

I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope. She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive. But the FDA recently denied its approval. Now, her health hangs in the balance. Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵

This Atlantic article was so one sided and obsequious to Trump. Phrases used include "Trump gently declined", and "Trump trying to be the adult". I guess we are continuing the sane washing of all things Trump. Just gross.

🚨New Bi-partisan Town Hall alert! Join former ID US Reps Larry LaRocco (D) and Richard Stallings (D), former ID Attorney General Jim Jones (R), and former Montana Governor Marc Racicot (R) at the Egyptian Theatre in Boise, Idaho on 4/26 at 2:00 PM. Link to tickets: www.showclix.com/event/a-bipa...

#HandsOff Sequim WA (pop 8,000) showing up! Organizers said over 1100 people protesting!

My husband and I run a game store and after all the tariff announcements, he decided to write out kind of a "behind the scenes" of how we spend and spill it out for people who don't understand. He's had so many reactions and shares I wanted to bring it here, too.

Murphy: "It's not designed as economic policy. It's designed as political policy. Because Trump gets really excited when people have to come to him, petition the king for relief. That's what he's doing with law firms, doing with universities. That may be what he's doing with businesses."

Some voters got mad about people listing their pronouns, so now we're sending law-abiding, legal immigrants to torture prisons and being hit with the largest middle class tax hike in at least 40 years.

Hoping that @murray.senate.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov show up.

A Skadden attorney resigned today, citing the firm’s decision to strike a deal with Trump amid pressure campaign on law firms. “[I]f my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, then I cannot ethically continue to work for them,” the former Skadden lawyer, Brenna Trout Frey, wrote on LinkedIn.

A tremendous concerned crowd in Post Falls. All expressing concern regarding democracy!

Our official statement from Albert Sellars LLP on President Trump's recent executive order.

Thank you Lewiston! What an amazing turnout! www.lmtribune.com/local-news/c...

Look at these scheduled town halls in Idaho! The current GOP reps won't hold any so former reps Stallings and LaRocco are going on the road!

Nampa Idaho Town Hall on Saturday March 15. Register now!

The next townhall is scheduled! Join former Congressmen LaRocco and Stallings to talk about issues facing Idaho and America because Congressman Russ Fulcher refuses to meet with his constituents.

Can confirm! 2 former congressman held townhalls in Idaho and when presented w/this data the crowd was shouting for more information and wanted links to the data to share with family friends neighbors and most importantly to hold their electeds accountable. Empowering voters with data is the way.

Former ID Dem Reps Stallings and LaRocco held 2 town halls in Pocatello and Idaho Falls over the past few days. Attendees were especially interested in potential Medicaid cuts. Thank you to @charlesgaba.com for providing CD data!

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Idaho! Former Congressmen Richard Stallings & Larry Larocco are going to show our current congressmen how it’s done. Since Fulcher & Simpson couldn’t be bothered to hold townhall mtgs, Stallings & Larocco will do it for them. Pocatello: Fri 2/28, 3-5 @ Liberty Hall 🧵 #IDpol #USpolitics #idaho

Today just goes to show what can happen when tens of people dare to ask “Who is the administrator of DOGE?” To the WITAOD (“Who is the administrator of DOGE?”) community: Thank you! We did it.

So 42% think Musk should have 0 influence in the administration. And this is prior to people feeling the impact of his actions. What’s going to happen once the full impact is here? Drastic decrease in Medicaid funding, rural hospitals shut down, long wait times www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Every single article about Trump being “elected” Chair of the Kennedy Center must mention in the headline that Trump *fired all the Board members that wouldn’t vote for him.* “Made Chair” is such weak, passive language that fails to call out what’s really going on. Our media must do better.

Someone should ask Musk in live interview what the difference between SQL and CSS is.

SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

Wow, that was fast. Irving Energy, company that provides propane/fuel oil customers in New England, says it will pass on the full 10% tariff cost to all their customers immediately (reposting with fixed figure - meant to say 10%, not 30%)

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

All GOP senators voting to confirm Hegseth show their disrespect for our troops. Sen Ernst's vote as a sexual abuse survivor and soldier confirming that utterly unfit incompetent abuser is especially abhorrent.

Never forget that McConnell could have put an end to this bulls**t four years ago, including a penalty that would have prohibited Trump from ever holding public office again.

The gaslighting from WAPO on Musk is astounding. Now from Parker after McArdle wrote the same article. Unbelievable. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

We are in scary times with immigration sweeps, executive orders & farmworkers laboring in thick wildfire smoke. We're scrambling to do everything at once & our resources are stretched thin. Be there for farmworkers. Make a donation today ufw.org/scarytimes or paypal.com/paypalme/ufwdonate #WeFeedYou

BREAKING 🔥🔥🔥 Oh look! Pete Hegseth’s tattoo. Sported by Proud Boys in DC yesterday and Christian Nationalists!

The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden's questionable pardons with Trump's outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable. The newspaper I've been part of for 48 years has utterly lost its soul.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Is she trying to best Kathleen Parker as most oblivious editorial? Equating arms raised for a blessing and what Musk did are not similar. The aggressive throw the clenched mouth?! Stop with the false equivalence.

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.

A lesson from the TikTok Affair should be that bipartisan efforts to preserve U.S. national security are vulnerable to the incoming president getting bought off and switching sides for his own personal and political benefit. Not great!

Look, sorry about your tickety tock, but we said if you let a fascist get elected we’d take away your screen time. So here we are.

Incredible that GOP Senators are willing to sacrifice the DoD to continue their faux outrage of wokeness. Absolute dereliction of duty. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Please do not let the Gaetz nomination distract you. Gabbard is the real menace. Gaetz is 2nd. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...