He thought he was too old to be an EMT. At 76, he’s saved countless lives. A moped injury left Ed Levien vulnerable and grateful to strangers for their help. That led him to his second, and most meaningful, act — as an EMT.

Idaho also has a large number of volunteer EMTs, who give hours of their time to help their communities. True heroes, all of them! wapo.st/40KAcNJ

Insanity…

It's often presented as a kind of conformity or groupthink to "trust the experts," but you do in fact need to do this to have a functioning society!

What is the alternative? Every person researches every single issue of public concern themselves?

2402 Columbus, Boise, ID 83705 - 3 beds/2 baths (IMLS) For Sale: 3 beds, 2 baths ∙ 1170 sq. ft. ∙ 2402 Columbus, Boise, ID 83705 ∙ $489,900 ∙ MLS# 98948254 ∙ Beautifully renovated home in prime Boise Bench location—taken down to the studs and...

This house is a whole vibe. So cute! Love the use of cabinet shelves on the patio. (I'm not a Realtor. Not my house. I'm just someone who browses the new listings.)

A big Trump administration cutback went nearly unnoticed About 32,000 low-paid AmeriCorps members lost their positions in April, gutting some health clinics, food pantries and other human service organizations.

"Despite its low profile, AmeriCorps has had steady support among Democrats and Republicans. Leaders from both parties have historically viewed the program as an effective way to strengthen communities."

Official CBO analysis confirms the obvious: House Republican tax and budget bill isn't shared sacrifice.

It makes poor people poorer and rich people richer. It does this by cutting health care & nutrition to help finance tax cuts skewed to the wealthy.

www.cbo.gov/publication/...

Cost-cutting tactics The secret bonuses were just one of many maneuvers UnitedHealth devised to track and cut expenses in its nursing home initiative. Internal emails show, for example, that UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams “budgets” showing how many hospital admissions they had “left” to use up on nursing home patients. The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays. Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive.

UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money.

This is murder.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

✅ done

So the guy who is chain-sawing his way through the federal government and firing people willy-nilly to save the taxpayers a buck or two is also the CEO of an electric car company that wouldn't be able to stay in business without a steady diet of massive tax subsidies. Do I have that right?

Today House Republicans, cheered on by the richest person on Earth, passed a budget framework that will cut support for the poorest people in our country.

All while cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy, and massively increasing the deficit.

An Idaho lawmaker made a joke of deleting records. It’s legal, but should it be? • Idaho Capital Sun Rep. Barbara Ehardt, R-Idaho Falls, said she had received text messages from people “at the universities” who supported Senate Bill 1198.

Wild story by @ryansuppe.bsky.social:

Rep. Barbara Ehardt, an Idaho Falls Republican who has long opposed DEI, said she had received text messages from people “at the universities” who supported Senate Bill 1198.

“I’m gonna delete (them),” Ehardt said with a laugh. #idleg #idpol

America. Where women can die from a miscarriage and kids can die from measles.

Republicans: after years of whining about dark-money billionaires puppeteering our political system, what do you have to say about Elon Musk buying the Presidency - and now the Wisconsin Supreme Court?

💰

Elbows up, Canada.

Any time someone tells you government services should be privatized because private companies could do a better job, ask them how often they've yelled "REPRESENTATIVE" over and over again at the top of their lungs while on hold with one of those private company's "customer service" departments.

Donald Trump's chances of winning a third term—Hypothetical poll There is a growing movement to put Trump in the White House for a third term.

I feel the same about Newsweek and polling about Trump's chances for a 3rd term. Why spend time/money on something that's supposed to be "constitutionally impossible" when there are so many other things that aren't being covered? Don't give legitimacy to bad behavior www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

“It’s really hurtful for the president to insinuate…that your job consisted of sitting at home doing nothing & cashing the paycheck. I’d like to see him sifting through spiny naiad in 120-degree weather looking for parasitic snails. He’s the one that goes golfing on the government dime.” #idpol

Riggins area.. your rep wants to deny a digital access grant for veterans/rural seniors simply because the word inclusion is in the federal funding. If you're in these areas, call your reps to go pester Cindy: Burley, Challis, Plummer, Payette, Middleton, Prairie River bec those libraries impacted.

How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy (Gift Article) The operation was driven with a frenetic focus by the billionaire, who channeled his resentment of regulatory oversight into a drastic overhaul of government agencies.

Excellent article on how this shitshow started.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

Musk promises better communication between Republican lawmakers, DOGE Trump adviser Elon Musk stepped up his congressional outreach Wednesday, taking questions from Republican lawmakers, some of whom are facing anger over DOGE.

Trying to explain this story as if one is speaking to a small child. Members of congress, whose job it is to set federal spending, now get to call Elon, who is for some reason controlling federal spending, to plead for changes to federal spending????? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Crapo blocks tariff bill days before Trump imposes tariffs on Canada, Mexico - Idaho Reports By Melissa Davlin, Idaho Reports On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, blocked a bill

New from me: Last week, Sen. Chris Coons tried to get unanimous consent for a bill that would require Congress to sign off on tariffs imposed on US allies. Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo blocked the attempt, calling the bill "too blunt" an instrument. blog.idahoreports.idahoptv.org/2025/03/05/c... #idaho

Opinion | America Became Great Because of the Things Trump Hates (Gift Article) “Shock and awe” didn’t end well in Iraq and it won’t end well in the United States.

"Show me one study where the Trump administration has stress-tested any of this. Or show me the stress tests of the devastating effect that Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada will have on Ford and General Motors."

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

While Europe is uniting in its support of freedom and democracy America's wannabe dictator golds on our dime.

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

Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’

I had dinner last evening with a friend in charge of tech security for a major SoCal utility who told me that DOD is telling them to stand down in treating Russian cyber sources as hostile. He also indicated that the grid remains amazingly vulnerable.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...