Kate Simonds

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

18.09.2025 03:09 — 👍 22305    🔁 5048    💬 455    📌 147

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

02.09.2025 20:57 — 👍 41094    🔁 10916    💬 708    📌 382

How it started // how it's going

01.04.2025 18:04 — 👍 16195    🔁 3186    💬 1031    📌 471

An effort to block non-citizens from voting could impact married women, too Voting rights groups say the SAVE Act would create a barrier for millions of Americans who have changed their legal name because of marriage or to better align with their gender identity.

Millions of American women have a different last name than what’s on their birth certificates, and House Republicans have prioritized a bill that voting rights groups say could make it harder for them to vote.

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12.03.2025 15:22 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

👀 @liftlocal.bsky.social

10.03.2025 21:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump administration is set to drop lawsuit pushing Idaho to allow emergency abortions, filing shows Documents show the Trump administration is expected to drop a federal lawsuit pushing Idaho to allow emergency abortions despite its strict ban.

BREAKING: According to the Associated Press, the DOJ is getting ready to drop the EMTALA lawsuit in Idaho.

If granted, that will leave the separate lawsuit filed by St. Luke’s. St. Luke’s filed that lawsuit in anticipation of this happening. A hearing is scheduled in that case tomorrow afternoon.

04.03.2025 20:51 — 👍 51    🔁 33    💬 4    📌 7

Idaho Moves to Deregulate Child Care in First-of-Its-Kind Legislation - EdSurge News Idaho is poised to become the first state in the country to eliminate state-mandated child-to-staff ratios for early care and education settings, a ...

as part of a larger conservative push to deregulate child care, Idaho is set to become the first state in the country to gut all state-required child-to-staff ratios www.edsurge.com/news/2025-02...

28.02.2025 03:34 — 👍 41    🔁 26    💬 5    📌 4

With 94% of testimony in opposition including the most influential business and education groups in the state. What a tremendous shame for our state’s future generations + embarrassing own goal for the governor

27.02.2025 17:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."

26.02.2025 14:39 — 👍 3100    🔁 1135    💬 739    📌 2022

Forest Service

Forest Service

Forest Service

Forest service

Salmon-Challis Forest Service Employees let go.

19.02.2025 03:20 — 👍 27    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 4

Idaho Falls Chamber of Commerce speaks against bill to ‘repeal Medicaid expansion’ The Greater Idaho Falls Chamber of Commerce has announced it opposes a bill in the Idaho Legislature that seeks to “repeal Medicaid expansion,” according to a written statement from chamber

The Greater Idaho Falls Chamber of Commerce is publicly opposing the repeal of Medicaid Expansion, saying it would "devastate our local economy, workforce and healthcare system."

#idpol

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19.02.2025 04:13 — 👍 59    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 2

Free speech baby

10.02.2025 15:04 — 👍 8578    🔁 1922    💬 411    📌 81

I’m working on it 💪🏼

07.02.2025 03:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also why is it that every Democratic “strategy” for opposing Trump sums up to “we’ll do nothing different and then he’ll magically defeat himself”? Has this worked?

03.02.2025 16:29 — 👍 187    🔁 21    💬 14    📌 1

Income tax reduction bill heads to floor of Idaho House of Representatives • Idaho Capital Sun House Bill 40 is part of Idaho House Speaker Mike Moyles' effort to reduce taxes by more than $400 million through three different bills.

Under the bill, a family earning between $55,000 and $91,000 would expect to see a tax break of about $127, according to the nonpartisan Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy. Meanwhile, the top 1% of Idaho earners making $738,300 and above would receive a tax cut of about $5,358, according to the center.

31.01.2025 00:11 — 👍 10    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

22.01.2025 20:46 — 👍 12313    🔁 5007    💬 589    📌 1174

DHS has terminated the memberships of everyone on its advisory committees.

This includes several cyber committees, like CISA's advisory panel and the Cyber Safety Review Board, which was investigating Salt Typhoon.

That review is "dead," person familiar says.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

21.01.2025 20:43 — 👍 1070    🔁 606    💬 53    📌 183

Survey: More Idahoans think the state is on the right track. But disagree on some policy ideas. • Idaho Capital Sun Results from Boise State's survey suggest Idahoans oppose private school funding using public taxes and favor less restrictive abortion bans.

Most Idahoans oppose sending tax dollars to private or religious schools, and most favor less restrictive abortion ban policies than what's in Idaho law, according to public policy survey by Boise State University.
idahocapitalsun.com/2025/01/17/s...

18.01.2025 00:27 — 👍 30    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 4

Idaho’s largest health system sues AG, seeking emergency abortion protections • Idaho Capital Sun St. Luke’s filed a lawsuit against Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador in federal court, seeking to extend court protections that have allowed for emergency abortions.

Saying Trump administration may drop Biden administration’s lawsuit challenging Idaho’s abortion ban, St. Luke’s files its own lawsuit seeking to extend court protections that have allowed emergency abortions.
idahocapitalsun.com/2025/01/15/i...

15.01.2025 19:17 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0