Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote that it is “still hard to believe that policymakers just added $4 trillion to” deficits after Republican lawmakers “have spent months or years appropriately fuming about our unsustainable fiscal situation.”

Shutting down Congress to avoid transparency on a child sex trafficking ring is quite a look.

@theoutwordsarchive.bsky.social just posted the piece I wrote on The New York Times' Sara McBride-Ezra Klein podcast. In all that talk about radical #gender ideology, did anyone else notice how the topic of the gender binary itself never really came up? drive.google.com/file/d/1kpGf...

Trying to sum up the problems in the world right now and one of them is clearly sociopaths calling themselves Christians.

Did you get a pretty email from SocSecurity? It tells a tiny part of the story. The tax break actually comes out of social security funds (it's paid for by future retirees.) This "tax break" puts #socialsecurity itself at risk. Read to the end of this article. Anyone under 65 doesn't get the break.

Wendy Fox on KRBX Radio Boise Tennis Court Disco is rocking songs of resistance. Love you @wendyfox.bsky.social

It is not big or beautiful to cut hard working people's health care and hungry people's food stamps to fund rich people's tax breaks and build more weapons of war.

Dear Senator Mike Crapo, IDAHO does NOT want you to sell our public lands. MAKE SURE tonight as you debate and cote that YOUR bill does NOT let anyone sell our hunting, fishing, camping, rafting, beloved places, and our way of life.

Register your objections to the sale and loss of our Idaho public lands today to our two US Senators: Risch: 202-224-2752; Crapo: 202-224-6142

Hey, Idaho, one can't really fuck up our way of life more than by letting that bill sell off our public lands. Highest bidder. Tell your conservative friends. This hurts us ALL.

#IDAHO Right now Congress is poised to pass that ugly #bigbeautifulbill with language MANDATING the SALE of YOUR national #forest & BLM public lands to the highest bidder. Mansions and fences instead of #wildlife, solitude, #hunting & #fishing. Affordable housing this is NOT.

Challis #idaho reminds you that big ugly bill sells off YOUR public land. No Democracy; no freedom. The constitution matters. No one is free without checks & balances from independent courts & an independent congress. Americans, let's LOVE our neighbors & coworkers not terrorize or deport them.

Maybe we should all contemplate if we were in LA or living in the state of California facing a military attempt to quash our right to dissent. We could all be next.

1000 pages of grift, pork and new levels of poverty. Welcome to Trump's new economic model: Desperation deep enough that seniors & once middle class Americas will work for nothing to get healthcare & pay for food & housing. Desperation Economics. It's not beautiful. #bigbeautifulbill

The "party of the working class," everyone.

For all those out there also listening as people #trumpREGRET their vote. We need these folks on our side if we are going to save us. The appropriate response is: "I'm so sorry that happened to you. For the constitution, conscience & all our families, together we have a problem we have to solve."

In #Idaho, #aoc said something profound to the Trump supporters protesting outside. She said of them that the struggle for justice and freedom and for working people is not just about making our lives better. She said, "We want their lives to be better too." SHE understands justice.

Government OF the PEOPLE, BY & FOR the PEOPLE, (not the billionaires.) Thank you Bernie & AOC for standing against the racism, defending working families & people with disabilities from DOGE. We need a government that honors the people & the constitution that protects us. Come join us! #bernie #aoc

With all the pain & cruelty in the world, some days it was just the pair of Idaho mountain blue birds that made me smile & got me through. This is the 3rd year they nested in a hole in our soffit. Today the male hit our window chasing a swallow & died. Thanks for giving this human joy. I'm sorry.

Challis, Idaho says Congress do your job! NO to Musk. Hands Off our jobs, tax dollars, the social security we paid, hands off our neighbors’ lives, our land, our privacy, our bodies, our libraries, and freedom of speech. Respect the US Constitution. Government of by & for the people. NOW.

THIS SONG is beautiful and powerful. Spin it up. Stand together for each other. As the constitution fades and simple freedoms crumble, ask every day, “Which side are you on?”

If you knew these were the days before we became the nation of the handmaids tale, what would you be doing differently? How would we stop this descent into hell? #Booksky #nonfiction

Perhaps some forget that the only reason our parents are not roaming our streets wheeling shopping carts and eating from dumpsters is because they paid dearly their whole lifetimes in to social security.

When I was an Idaho State Senator, our local public radio gave each of us in the House & Senate a copy of the US #Constitution —maybe because no other document matters more to anyone serving at any level in every branch of US Government EVERY action EVERY DAY should uphold these principles #booksky

Maybe we all just need to pull out the constitution and just keep quoting it every day all day. OATH of SCOTUS: “I will administer justice…without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and the rich…” So help me God.

So called “Biblically responsible investing” — which is anti-LGBTQ and racist is a new push for the alt right. If you invest, please engage with companies, tell them you care about their social responsibility and DEI & LGBTQ support more than ever. open.substack.com/pub/uncloset...

@nikson-mathews.bsky.social This made me teary. If only we had you in there every day all year long.

If you look at them as a whole, nearly every act of this administration appears designed to cause illness, loss, fear, or harm on some segment of the US population.

Don't know who the woman on the right is, but big kudos to her. #sotu

Thank you Dems. THIS is not a time to comply. Our national security is at risk. Racism is king as is bigotry against trans people, those working for citizenship & those w disabilities. People of both parties are losing access to healthcare, food, their employment, & ability to educate their children

Deluded. He is completely deluded.

While it’s LOVELY out and I’m always happy to see them, the #bluebirds here in the high desert are two weeks early this year. That’s a bit frightening. Farmers must be freaking out. #climatechange

Those in Congress who still hold shreds of power can’t let themselves grow desensitized by these increasingly alarming events. It’s time to DO SOMETHING —or else for all of us of BOTH parties it will be too late.

That day when your government decides to FIRE members of the nation’s intelligence community from their jobs doing work to keep our nation safe & secure, simply because they are gay or #transgender— THAT IS A SINISTER DAY. That’s a day when ideology mattered more than the constitution or the people.

How is ANYTHING that this administration is doing intended to make any but a tiny handful of America lives better right now?

1. Today, the NYT has reported that 100 members of an ERG-adjacent LGBTQ+ chat in the intelligence community have been fired. This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Dear REPUBLICAN friends, you hold power right now BUT what if that was to end bc the last 12 yrs weren’t about making us great but burning it all down, dividing us into tiny warring camps, handing it over to make ONE person all-powerful? Musk Trump Putin, doesn’t matter. What then?

What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?

The Idaho legislature is not addressing housing affordability, not the cost of childcare, not the safety of drinking water, wages, traffic or anything you wish they would. INSTEAD they are cruelly placing trans people in harms way by trying to force them to use the absolute wrong bathroom.

Thank you Chris Kluwe …and Parker Malloy for sharing good stories of people telling M A G A like it is, right now.

Once upon a time in the United States, presidents served the people and struggled to make better lives for us all.

Challis, idaho tonight. It was beautiful. #doge is hurting our rural communities.

We’re gathering in Challis Idaho at 5pm at the bottom of Main Street on Hwy 93 to protest this administration’s cruel policies & decimation of jobs families & businesses in small communities rely on to keep their economies strong. Give us back government of the people, by the people, FOR the people.

Sign ideas for rallies TODAY: Federal jobs fuel our small town economy  We are all next Keep government  of the people  by the people  for the people DOGE = destroy obliterate gouge and eviscerate   Keep M U S K out of our data

Loss of firefighting, disaster relief, public schools, power infrastructure, cancer research, disease prevention… This is not an attempt to shrink federal government, it’s an attempt to destroy it and us all. Why?

Best salsa ever.Tomatillos grown by our farmer friend Jan H. Carol used serrano peppers. Wow. We’re also doing the #greatamericanbackyardbirdcount Saw pileated woodpecker & American Dipper today. Golden eagle, chukars, mergansers, goldeneyes, horned larks! www.feastingathome.com/fresh-tomati...

To all the Idaho communities & families reeling as this administration fires hundreds of thousands of employees who labored for all of us & the land & water, who supported their families & whose wages kept local businesses alive, these are not the actions of a #President who cares about the people.

@creelefavour.bsky.social Cree!

Yvonne Ritter is a trans S_onewall Veteran. She dedicated her life to nursing those dying of AIDS. She was a mentor to me and many others. She was just erased. You can't spell S_onewall Without a T. Rally at S_onewall Inn on 2/22 at 2pm Been there. #TransRightsAreHumanRights