After Decades of Imprisoning #Patients, #Idaho Approves Secure Mental Health Facility
The Idaho Legislature has approved funding for a 26-bed facility after ProPublica found that state lawmakers and officials ignored repeated warnings about the practice of locking up mentally ill patients who hadn’t been convicted of a #crime.
My sisters are my heroes, including the one that made this sign for a protest tonight. The Idaho “Freedom” Foundation is an extremely heinous and harmful group. #Idaho
This Influential #Conservative Group Is Making it Harder for #Idaho Districts to Fix Their Schools
The Idaho Freedom Foundation has gone beyond the #education culture wars by targeting local bond and levy #elections, which districts rely on heavily to build and repair #schools.
#Idaho#LGBTQrights
"Thousands of paper hearts rained down inside the Idaho capitol as state lawmakers considered several bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community."
Thousands of paper hearts flood Idaho capital as lawmakers pass anti-LGBTQ+ bills
In the same way that the reflection in a still, calm lake is broken with ripples when we toss a stone in it, so also are our own reflections affected by noise or interruptions.
Perhaps we can make it to a silent place like this. But when we can't, it's worth seeking out stillness, anywhere, in which to pursue our thoughts.
With help from outside influence groups, #Idaho lawmakers work to ban #climate action
"Idaho is one of several conservative states with bills this year aimed at prohibiting investment practices that use #ESG, or “environmental, social and governance” factors.
Senate Bill 1291 bans companies that do business with the state from boycotting energy industries, including #FossilFuels, and the #firearm industry."
It's strutting time again! Too bad #Idaho politicians favor ranching and development on our public lands over the imperiled Greater Sage-Grouse. #birds#birding
@GottaLaff Man! As hard as we work to get these issues on ballots, the right works just as hard to throw up road blocks. In #Idaho#openPrimaries is close to getting enough signatures to get that issue on the ballot. And the damn legislature just rammed through a bill (on the governor's desk) that will hamper ballot initiatives by allowing the disqualification of whole pages of signatures if someone asks who is paying the gatherer and isn't satisfied with the answer.
I can’t find anything to disagree with. Those kids and their coaches deserve to be in a safe place. The Mayor of Coeur d’alene and the governor can say all the words they want, but the hate mongers have a haven that’s at least as old as I am. They’re there. They’ve been there. And they’ll stay there as long as they’re allowed.
Revealed: US professor Scott Yenor
was behind extremist site that spread conspiracies
Boise State University (BSU) professor and #Claremont#Institute scholar #Scott#Yenor was the hidden hand behind #Action#Idaho, a far-right online media platform that featured inflammatory rightwing commentary on politics in that state, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.
The documents, obtained through public records requests, also show that 💥Yenor sought and received funding for the initiative from wealthy and influential donors like Claremont Institute board chair, Thomas D #Klingenstein.💥
He also attempted to hire a rising conservative writer, #Pedro#Gonzalez, to lead the initiative.
Gonzalez was later embroiled in a controversy about #antisemitic remarks he made in online chats in 2019 and 2020.
They also show him tapping a network of expertise that overlaps both with the Claremont Institute and the Society for American Civic Renewal ( #SACR ), a secretive fraternal #Christian#Nationalist organization the Guardian has reported on extensively.
Yenor has not publicly disclosed his involvement in Action Idaho, and it has only been fleetingly mentioned in previous reporting on Talking Points Memo. The revelations could raise further questions about the potential conflicts between Yenor’s professorial position at a public university and his political activism.
"That statute makes it a crime to perform or attempt to perform an abortion or for health care professionals to assist in an abortion and contains only narrow exceptions. Labrador's letter last year interpreted the criminal statute's "assisting" language as meaning a doctor's license could be suspended for referring a patient for an out-of-state legal abortion."
Police are investigating racial harassment of NCAA women's basketball team in Idaho.
@NPR reports: "Members of the University of Utah women's team told police someone in a truck displaying a confederate flag yelled racial slurs and revved the engine in a menacing way as players and staff walked to dinner."
"The backlash to #BirthControl comes at a time of rampant #misinformation about basic #health tenets amid poor digital literacy and a wider political debate over #ReproductiveRights, in which far-right #conservatives argue that broad acceptance of birth control has altered traditional #gender roles...
"women frequently come in for #abortions after believing what they see on #SocialMedia about the dangers of hormonal #BirthControl and the effectiveness of tracking periods to prevent pregnancy.
My husband and I just finished our fifth and final winter raptor survey for the season. Highlights were finding a big flock of Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches, seeing 30 pronghorn, and spying several Burrowing Owls staking out nest sites. #raptors#owls#birding#Idaho#CitizenScience
#Idaho might as well as be a #SackOfAssholes. Instead for focusing on any of the countless areas that the state needs to improve, their (Republican) lawmakers are instead putting all their time and effort into legislation to make simple possession of small quantities of #cannabis a crime with a $420 fine. 420! Get it??? These genius' are just soooooo clever! While the rest of the nation is legalizing and decriminalizing, Idaho is levying absurd fines for tiny amounts.
When #Republicans overturned Roe, #Idaho state law banned doctors from providing any kind of #abortion care. Ever since, OBGYNs have lived in fear of taking any action that the state could consider contributing to the "termination" of a pregnancy.
Practitioners are leaving the state, and maternity wards are shutting down. Idaho has lost 22% of its OBGYNs overall, and more than 50% of its OBGYNs who handle high-risk pregnancies!