Heather Ellsworth

"A threat to anyone’s constitutional rights is a threat to us all. Today, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Government’s [view], American citizens could be subject to the same treatment. This Court will not allow such an unraveling of the Constitution."

A traditional signal of an approaching recession. US loan delinquencies rose to 4.8% of household debt in Q4, the highest since 2017, driven by low-income and young borrowers. Mortgage defaults surged in lower-income areas, while student-loan delinquencies hit 16.3%, a record.

If you want to understand how far-reaching the corporate rot in media is, read this gutting piece about the fall of Oregon Public Broadcasting.

(And follow @ryanjhaas.bsky.social and @leahsottile.bsky.social’s new publication @thewesternedge.bsky.social which will be amazing bc they’re amazing)

Father and daughter released from federal detention after month-long separation SPOKANE, Wash. - A successful legal petition has freed a Spokane father and his 11-year-old daughter from federal detention in Texas after months of separation from their community.

A successful legal petition has freed a Spokane father and his 11-year-old daughter from federal detention in Texas after months of separation from their community.

No. We're not doing redemption arcs.

Indeed its your patriotic duty to complain, because it is the sum of all of our grumbling that creates the feeling of malaise, and the feeling of malaise is how get a reverse 1980 election

HWY 20 is not where you go. It's when you go.

#IdahoEscape

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk The Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment.

An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University

Gah this is horrendous. So so much BS in their comments. BROWN PEOPLE ARENT STEALING WHITE PEOPLE’S HOMES you racist POS.

GOP Sen Lummis says she’s changed her mind after the new Epstein revelations today: “Initially my reaction to all this was, I don’t care. I don’t see what the big deal is. But now I see what the big deal is. The members of Congress who were pushing this were not wrong!”

Big News: Governor Tim Walz will deliver the keynote at the Frank & Bethine Church Gala on March 7 in Boise.

Tickets are currently sold out, but we’re working to release more soon. Join the waitlist now to get first access when additional tickets become available.

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A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump’s Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho

Face-eating Leopardism:

'They shattered Wilder’s innocent belief that its out-of-the-way location and deep-red politics could isolate the town from the raids ...

“We rely on Hispanic labor,” said Chris Gross, a second-generation farmer ... Nobody thought something like this could happen here.”'

'they were too busy being Latino,' says man whose entire job, personality and political ideology are about being white

Puerto Rico's electricity crisis In this episode, lawyer and activist Ruth Santiago discusses Puerto Rico's latest electricity crisis, as the island struggles to restore power in the wake of Hurricane Fiona. In the wake of Hurricane ...

What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?

Silicon Valley is full of tyrants of the quantifiable. For decades, its oligarchs have preached that our criteria for what we do and how we do it should be convenience, efficiency, productivity, profitability. They have told us that to go out into the world, to interact with others, is perilous, unpleasant, inefficient, a waste of time, and that time is something we should hoard rather than spend. This ends up meaning that we can minimise our presence in the world and maximise time spent working and online, which also means maximising alienation and isolation. This has involved a reordering of society right down to our retail landscapes. Many things have become harder to do in person. Of course, there are well-recognised upsides, but the downsides are no less real: public spaces and public life have withered, including some of the places in which we once acquired our goods. All those errands – buying milk or socks (in the past, I would have said the newspaper) – meant moments of human contact, moving among strangers and making acquaintances, maybe observing the weather and the natural world. These activities meant becoming more familiar with your surroundings, feeling at home beyond the confines of what you rent or own. All this, I believe, underpins democracy: ease with difference, familiarity with the lay of the land, a sense of connection and belonging, knowing where you are and who’s out there, relationships – however casual – to people beyond your immediate circle. To embrace the tyranny of the quantifiable is to dismiss the subtle value of these daily acts out in the world and the ways they generate and maintain networks of relationships.

Here's a chunk relevant to the above:

This came across my radar in the Sunday Long Read newsletter & you should read it.

“We are told that machines will become like us, but in many ways they demand we become more like them. To let that happen is to lose something immeasurably valuable.”

The movie they make about Tulsi Gabbard's infiltration of US intelligence is going to simultaneously be a haunting look at the most damaging intelligence failure in US history and a hilarious romp about the stupidest fucking people alive

Went down a rabbit hole of Idaho’s NVRA exemption and now I’m wondering about our Repub reps opinion on this CURRENT fed intrusion into state election control…

“…this was an insidious federal intrusion into the state election process and we needed to get out of it,”

www.ktvb.com/article/news...

Uh ya.

Donate to Support a loving family after an unexpected separation, organized by Morgan Boschulte We are raising funds to support a loving, hardworking family f… Morgan Boschulte needs your support for Support a loving family after an unexpected separation

This is a fundraiser for supporting the family, it was created by another parent who was at the daycare this morning. Please, help if you can. Thank you.

From a constituent in 📍 Boise, ID

Opinion | Jeffrey Epstein, the Devil’s Concierge

I wrote about one of the worst aspects of the Epstein files

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

🚨House Republicans have made substantial changes to the revised SAVE America Act, dropping provisions which would have forced Americans to prove their citizenship at the polls on Election Day. 🧵 1/

I'm starting to think (I need to look into this more, though) that this is largely due to them being able to immediately deduct their huge data centers investments.
If so, Trump's bill subsidizes their ability to destroy our environment and our democracy.

I just can’t understand why we can’t balance the budget, so confusing.

"Human being" doesn't poll well with four people from Idaho and this roadkill armadillo from Texas. Better scrap it before it catches on.

Hope you’re not holding your breath. (I’m sure you’re not)

That whole stairway is just sublime!

A curly haired poodle head perches on a woman’s shoulder with a slightly alarmed look after being scared by fireworks.

Fireworks went off unexpectedly so my poodle just became a parrot perched on my shoulder.