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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me

Idaho Attorney General: ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ sign cannot be displayed in Idaho schools because they are “part of an ideological/social movement.” www.idahoednews.org/top-news/att...

jul 2, 2025, 11:06 am • 1,279 552

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The Danish Musician 🇩🇰 @thedanishmusician.bsky.social

It's basicly a childrens translation of what it says on The Statue of Liberty!?!? Allrighty then... Seems like, they should blast that Liberty Lady sky high...

jul 2, 2025, 12:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ian B. Bautista @xicanodekcenmke.bsky.social

Wow! So now even "All Lives Matter," is too woke, eh?

jul 3, 2025, 4:10 pm • 15 1 • view
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Elon's Sainted Fuckin' Aunt @tommytimp.bsky.social

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jul 3, 2025, 2:50 am • 0 0 • view
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envirochk.bsky.social @envirochk.bsky.social

Do these people do any real work?

jul 3, 2025, 1:27 am • 0 0 • view
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Kindler @kindler.bsky.social

You really can’t satirize these guys. They’re like comic book villains at this point.

jul 2, 2025, 10:57 pm • 67 1 • view
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Irrational Robot @irrationalrobot.bsky.social

He's right on the edge of claiming that the sign is a political poster. "The Idaho Democratic Party even sells these signs as part of its fundraising efforts." I think they started seeking them because he started banning them. Full opinion here: www.idahoednews.org/wp-content/u...

jul 2, 2025, 2:42 pm • 1 0 • view
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Irrational Robot @irrationalrobot.bsky.social

*selling

jul 2, 2025, 2:42 pm • 1 0 • view
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ciro @ciromo.bsky.social

wow, bold of them to announce they're against everyone

jul 2, 2025, 2:08 pm • 6 0 • view
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Mary Forrest @maryforrest.bsky.social

Crayola Colors of the World ban incoming.

jul 2, 2025, 5:12 pm • 2 0 • view
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strevor33.bsky.social @strevor33.bsky.social

When did kindness & acceptance become part of an ideological/social movement? I’m not religious but JC might have some words on that argument.

jul 2, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ryan P. Madden @rpmadmsu.bsky.social

I'd like to see the Idaho AG sue the school over it....they should leave it up just to see the AG go in front of a judge and explain why "Everyone is Welcome Here" is part of a "social movement" that causes harm to the state.

jul 2, 2025, 2:25 pm • 34 2 • view
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DrCrlsnPE @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social

Same energy.

2 Idaho firefighters killed in ambush, dead man found with gun near Canfield Mountain https://www.khq.com/news/idaho_news/2-idaho-firefighters-killed-in-ambush-dead-man-found-with-gun-near-canfield-mountain/article_1e5c4d27-5211-407f-95d2-0c273b893033.html
jul 2, 2025, 2:54 pm • 8 0 • view
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James O @jto75.bsky.social

Make it a religious thing

jul 2, 2025, 11:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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steve-oneill.bsky.social @steve-oneill.bsky.social

That's not a political statement, it's a moral one. But God (Pun only slightly intended) forbid that we teach our children to have compassion and empathy for others. You know, like Christ espoused.

jul 2, 2025, 2:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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sldet.bsky.social @sldet.bsky.social

They are fine with 10 Commandments but not the Beatitudes

jul 2, 2025, 3:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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steve-oneill.bsky.social @steve-oneill.bsky.social

And they don't actually follow either.

jul 2, 2025, 3:37 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jared G @jpglion.bsky.social

This just in: "Hang In There" kitten posters banned due to woke ideology

jul 2, 2025, 12:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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🥄Rutrow🥄 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @rutrow.bsky.social

But if you’re an arsonist with rifle and mad at firefighters...

jul 2, 2025, 12:42 pm • 0 0 • view
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jongrizz.bsky.social @jongrizz.bsky.social

I would ask “What the hell is wrong with Idaho,” but everyone knows it’s Republicans and the people who vote for them.

jul 2, 2025, 1:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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Liz @lizbethann.bsky.social

Love is a political ideology?

jul 2, 2025, 3:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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humoristguy.bsky.social @humoristguy.bsky.social

Welcome to Idaho. Now get out.

jul 2, 2025, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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pgreenkc.bsky.social @pgreenkc.bsky.social

So unAmerican

jul 2, 2025, 11:42 am • 1 0 • view
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Kurt Hansen 🥄🏳️‍🌈🌎 @trypax.charityweb.net

I think that ideological/social movement is more commonly known as Christianity, though no necessarily in USA.

jul 2, 2025, 7:55 pm • 1 0 • view
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elaine @elainealimonti.bsky.social

An ideological social movement to welcome all children. The horror!

jul 3, 2025, 12:40 am • 33 1 • view
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tgunsh.bsky.social @tgunsh.bsky.social

I mean, welcoming everyone *is* a social movement. It’s only a bad thing if you’re a sociopath (republican).

jul 2, 2025, 12:35 pm • 0 0 • view
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Funksands @funksands.bsky.social

Honesty I guess Better for these kids to know that not everyone is welcome in Idaho schools

jul 3, 2025, 7:32 pm • 3 0 • view
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Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social

Saying ‘hello’ and smiling at people will destroy the foundations of Western civilization.

jul 2, 2025, 11:50 am • 19 1 • view
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gcm5.bsky.social @gcm5.bsky.social

How absurd!

jul 2, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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Halfbreedrezman @halfbreedrezman.bsky.social

Will never eat an Idaho potato again.

jul 2, 2025, 4:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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Songthrush @emilydev.bsky.social

Wait, who are the ideologues here?

jul 2, 2025, 2:57 pm • 7 0 • view
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Retro Des @retrodes.net

I’ve never felt welcome in Idaho.

jul 2, 2025, 11:34 am • 2 0 • view
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Goth or Ostro-goth @edwardericsonjr.bsky.social

youtu.be/4vPCIWbCOyY?...

jul 2, 2025, 3:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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Goth or Ostro-goth @edwardericsonjr.bsky.social

But what if I paint all the hands white?

jul 2, 2025, 2:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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mediaeater.bsky.social @mediaeater.bsky.social

Humans having a problem with humans being human.

jul 2, 2025, 12:11 pm • 1 0 • view
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Trampoline Academy @trampschool.bsky.social

You have to say it like this: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” - Galatians 3:28

jul 2, 2025, 11:10 pm • 9 1 • view
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TomRN @tomrn.bsky.social

I dunno… Evilgelicals hate following the Bible.

jul 2, 2025, 11:41 pm • 7 0 • view
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Trampoline Academy @trampschool.bsky.social

They like saying the stuff tho.

jul 2, 2025, 11:44 pm • 2 0 • view
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TomRN @tomrn.bsky.social

Well, this is true.

jul 2, 2025, 11:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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Hipster Sasquatch, trapped on the planet of the nepo babies @hipstersasquatch.bsky.social

In the exact same sense that a parrot I once knew enjoyed saying cusses.

jul 2, 2025, 11:47 pm • 5 0 • view
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TomRN @tomrn.bsky.social

::snort:: 🤣

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Trampoline Academy @trampschool.bsky.social

That parrot was problematic.

jul 2, 2025, 11:56 pm • 3 0 • view
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Hipster Sasquatch, trapped on the planet of the nepo babies @hipstersasquatch.bsky.social

She was at the parrot rescue organization for a reason. Her love of saying "oh shit!" and "mofucker!" was probably not it.

jul 3, 2025, 12:00 am • 5 0 • view
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TomRN @tomrn.bsky.social

Uh… that’s considerably less funny than just a run of the mill sweary parrot. 😬

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Hipster Sasquatch, trapped on the planet of the nepo babies @hipstersasquatch.bsky.social

Parrots end up in rescue or adoption programs a ton; people really don't understand what they're getting into when they get one.

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TomRN @tomrn.bsky.social

Yeah, most have no clue. I went to a rescue ages ago and saw a Blue and Gold macaw who was just the sweetest bird ever but I knew I could never take care of him the way he deserved, so he stayed at the rescue when I left and I may have actually cried a little.

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Trampoline Academy @trampschool.bsky.social

A parrot is a machine you put food into, and then insults and poop come out of it.

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TomRN @tomrn.bsky.social

I very much understand that! I knew someone with four of them, from itty to gigantic. They were something. Not so much putting out insults as general smartassery and mischief, but the poop… oy.

jul 3, 2025, 1:10 am • 2 0 • view
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Michael Bishop ☕ @michaelbishop.bsky.social

I work at St Luke's hospital in Meridian, Idaho. An ICU nurse is moving to Oregon because his wife works as a teacher in the school district restricting the signs. She too was in trouble for displaying the sign.

jul 2, 2025, 4:38 pm • 16 0 • view
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MJ @mj2468.bsky.social

The AG didn't even have the basic facts right. These people are out of their tiny little minds.

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adambirnbaum.bsky.social @adambirnbaum.bsky.social

Thanks for clearing up that equal access to public services is an 'ideological/social movement" as opposed to, e.g., the law.

jul 3, 2025, 12:05 pm • 15 1 • view
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Derek K. Phillips @digistrategist.bsky.social

So, what exactly is the message they're sending here? It seems to me NOT everyone is welcome there. Parents should take note.

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✨Tom Fenny✨ @tomfenny.bsky.social

Very clear example of how apathetic adherence to the rules benefits oppression. Rules are not apolitical. Systems are not amoral.

jul 2, 2025, 1:00 pm • 1 0 • view
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Alan 🇨🇦 @alanroseca.bsky.social

Here is a link to boycott all products and services from Idaho

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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social

At what point does MAGA mean literally taking a sledgehammer to the Statue of Liberty like the Taliban did at Bamiyan and ISIS did with Palmyra, then finding funding to add Trump to Mt Rushmore? It just gets darker and weirder. Anything is possible. Why we must keep fighting.

jul 2, 2025, 11:51 am • 20 2 • view
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Hypergraphic @hypergraphic.bsky.social

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Alan Smithee, First of His Name, ANTIFA Soup Grenadier @tdotopenletter.bsky.social

What if they agreed to put weapons in all the hands?

jul 2, 2025, 5:39 pm • 1 0 • view
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glameyedoc.bsky.social @glameyedoc.bsky.social

When you take a road trip, each state has some type of “welcome to (fill in the blank.) When you enter Idaho, you’ll know because the sign will say “all are not welcome here.” What kind of AG makes that ruling?

jul 2, 2025, 2:49 pm • 2 0 • view
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oinonio @oinonio.bsky.social

the racist kind

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social

“House Bill 41, which goes into effect Tuesday, prohibits flags or banners depicting a political viewpoint from public K-12 schools.” The American flag itself would very clearly be prohibited under this definition. It’s not even arguable, if one simply takes the words at their plain meaning.

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Patty @patty316.bsky.social

My first thought

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Titaness Themis @titanessthemis.bsky.social

Discrimination case?

jul 2, 2025, 1:10 pm • 3 0 • view
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PHC @phcro.bsky.social

Meaning what? Everyone is not welcome here?

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Lewis Barnavelt @lewisbarnavelt.bsky.social

And what movement might that be? That everyone is welcome? Not that! NOT THAT!

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iconoclasticloner.bsky.social @iconoclasticloner.bsky.social

Betcha if some white separatist charter school there put up a Nazi banner, this POS AG would unquestionably ignore it.

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Trapper John, JD @john304.bsky.social

Ten Commandments are OK, though, probably

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SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com

there was a time when “Everyone is welcome” would not be viewed as partisan

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Deadwood CS @deadwoodcs.bsky.social

Because “Everyone is Welcome” is so….controversial for the GOP to deal with. Can’t make this shit up

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OpinionatedDoodle @unpopularopinion4u.bsky.social

I don’t see the issue here. We don’t want Nazis or cannibals in our classrooms, do not everybody is welcome. I think a sharpie can fix this: *Except Nazis and Cannibals… and spiders.

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Wishing You Well 🇺🇦 🌻 @klaaskid8.bsky.social

Ohh, poor spiders 😟 To have to be lumped in with Nazis.

jul 2, 2025, 1:43 pm • 2 0 • view
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Mysteron 1 @mysteron-1.bsky.social

How about cannibals that only eat Nazis? - asking for a friend (not a spider).

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Ben Kester @benkester.bsky.social

Anti child education is more than diversity, it affects all of us. For instance, Dennis Prager hates all children. He thinks they have no value because they aren't in the workforce.

jul 2, 2025, 3:17 pm • 1 0 • view
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takea1name.bsky.social @takea1name.bsky.social

Did these people fail kindergarten?

jul 2, 2025, 9:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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8thDegreeSavage @actuallymossman.bsky.social

Strong counter point No they are not, you cowardly bigot

jul 2, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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Muad Lib @muad-lib.bsky.social

“Don’t fail, Idaho“ was a campaign cooked up by the state government not that long ago so you know exactly how well things are going there

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LaMariaMartinez @lamariamartinez.bsky.social

CA teacher here…I ordered my sign.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social

This sign is woke.

Welcome to Idaho sign. White text on a blue sign. It is outdoors with grass and a few trees and a sky with sunny but bored clouds in the background.
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Jake V @viraldonutz.bsky.social

Just put up a new sign quoting the Bible: "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints..." Ephesians 2:19

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twotenths.bsky.social @twotenths.bsky.social

checkmate!

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Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social

Who is on the other side of "Everyone is Welcome Here"? Who are the people who are going to stand up and say, out loud, "No. You, you, and you are not welcome here."?

jul 2, 2025, 12:40 pm • 13 0 • view
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Darq (anno/ying) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🍞🌹 @darqchild.bsky.social

The republican party has been saying that very loud for years

jul 2, 2025, 12:54 pm • 4 0 • view
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marymacdougall.bsky.social @marymacdougall.bsky.social

Apparently, the entire Trump administration. And Donald himself doesn’t want anyone here except for Eastern European models.

jul 2, 2025, 12:55 pm • 5 0 • view
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tower[dan] @towerdan.bsky.social

If anything this "movement" doesn't include enough left handed people.

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nondescriptfolk.bsky.social @nondescriptfolk.bsky.social

And also, not everyone is welcome here…

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maj0rmattmas0n.bsky.social @maj0rmattmas0n.bsky.social

I'm stating clearly that Republicans are sick and depraved. That is not political. It's fact.

jul 3, 2025, 9:37 am • 1 0 • view
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Proverbial Crow 🌲 @proverbialcrow.bsky.social

Suggests some are unwelcome, don't it. Some shall be traumatized (or is that word banned, too?).

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social

I think that's the point. Liberty and justice for all, except if your skin is brown or you disagree with Dear Leader.

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Lisa Loeb @stewardn.bsky.social

Idaho, previously known as a diverse bastion … oh nvm

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antifa4ever.bsky.social @antifa4ever.bsky.social

No thank you anyway Nazi Idaho.

jul 2, 2025, 2:21 pm • 1 0 • view
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Cat Toyz in the Attic @gcfong.bsky.social

Hmmm. Reminder: Scratch Idaho potatoes and products from all shopping lists.

jul 4, 2025, 10:13 am • 0 0 • view
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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social

They should put the words on a circular paper. Then it wouldn’t be the prohibited long or rectangular shapes.

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Phīlomorph @philomorph.bsky.social

It does appear that anything perfectly circular is not included, but ovals are "long", unless they are only just barely ovoid, because that would not be "greater than usual". It also prohibits celebration of events or achievements, so no diplomas or graduation or football banners can be displayed.

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jlindblu.bsky.social @jlindblu.bsky.social

It’s time for Idaho to do some housecleaning.

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daves211.bsky.social @daves211.bsky.social

Ideology to teach children decency? These are the same people who claim to be pious Christians. They may go to church, but Idaho is clearly filled with bigoted scumbags. With any luck all the gun-loving freaks will all shoot each other.

jul 3, 2025, 12:54 am • 3 0 • view
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chris quixote @chrisquixote.bsky.social

What kind of flag or banner does not display "opinions, emotions, beliefs or thoughts about politics, economics, society, faith or religion"? Nothing about registering to vote. Nothing about saving money. Nothing about working hard resulting in success. Nothing about fairness or kindness.

jul 2, 2025, 3:07 pm • 1 0 • view
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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social

This is PATHETIC.

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Just call me Jane @suzanwho.bsky.social

So will it be replaced with a sign that “not everyone is welcome here” or the more direct “only white Christian children welcome here”?

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M Levinson @strengthandpower.bsky.social

The new America.

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Philip Martin @philipmartin.bsky.social

Change the words “Everyone Is Welcome Here” to “We The People”, but leave the hands. See if the Idaho AG has a problem with the US Constitution.

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Stretchdad vs the Dicktocracy @stretchdad.bsky.social

I think we all know the real problem: some of those hands aren't white.

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Casey Cameron @foxthingsup.bsky.social

I actually really like this. We should take back the language. Imagine if those big ass-trucks with "we the people" on the window were interpreted as being inclusive!

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Patty @patty316.bsky.social

Good idea

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Jake V @viraldonutz.bsky.social

Or this: "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints..." Ephesians 2:19

jul 2, 2025, 3:11 pm • 3 0 • view
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Br. Gabriel Giella @brothergabriel.bsky.social

Time for *everyone* to leave Idaho.

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Sam Sandmire @samsandmire.bsky.social

Disgusting.

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Tim Tuttle & 44 LIGHTS @44lights.bsky.social

J…F…C.

jul 2, 2025, 12:37 pm • 2 0 • view
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georgethomas.bsky.social @georgethomas.bsky.social

Idaho: Making America Barbarian Again.

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Jill Read, Rise, Resist @reading2learn.bsky.social

Ridiculous.

jul 2, 2025, 11:58 am • 0 0 • view
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AbiGezunt @abigezunt.bsky.social

In other words, schools in Idaho should not use words, letters of the alphabet, pictures, definitely not books, and ideas and thinking are passé. You can be sure this will be adopted in other red states as well.

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De Music @dakotapiano.bsky.social

Typical. They use the excuse that the Democrats sell the sign, when they only started to AFTER everything went viral. So again these monsters pretend it's all Democrats' fault after they are the ones who broke it. The white nationalists are the ones who politicized it in the first place.

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Mich Fisher @michfisher.bsky.social

With each passing day, these extremist loons become even more ludicrous caricatures.

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Brownie @browniemn.bsky.social

Idaho. Where only that center one is welcome here.

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oinonio @oinonio.bsky.social

Makes me think the Idaho AG shouldn't be near any school, really.

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gylc.bsky.social @gylc.bsky.social

That tells us all we need to know.

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Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social

Our school can neither confirm nor deny the welcomeness of everyone here.

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thewalla.bsky.social @thewalla.bsky.social

I wonder if all of the hands were white and it said “You are welcome here” if that would be legal?

jul 2, 2025, 12:37 pm • 8 0 • view
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Vincent Guacci @sciencevinman.bsky.social

What the fuck is wrong with Idaho?

jul 3, 2025, 1:37 am • 0 0 • view
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rispahfarmer.bsky.social @rispahfarmer.bsky.social

What if it's religious?

jul 2, 2025, 11:13 am • 4 0 • view
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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social

What a great world in which a public institution welcoming all members of the public is considered partisan politics.

jul 2, 2025, 11:47 am • 1 0 • view
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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social

How is this not just a statement of fact with some nice accompanying artwork?

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social

Also, how is it about Trump when this 2011 article is talking about how it's ubiquitous at churches? www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/erik-r...

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social

I can't find a picture of it, but I helped design a very similar banner (“Everyone is welcome here!” with hands of a wide variety of different skin tones) for a small church back in 2012.

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Hunter but a unique one @hunterbaun.bsky.social

"Everyone is welcome here" is only political because there's an entire political party in America saying, "a ton of types of people are not welcome here". That should be disqualifying from office, public life, and basically any polite interaction, but that's just where we are, I guess.

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Paul Lutchendorf @khanvoluted.bsky.social

Kindness is an ideological social movement? Fuck right off there, IDAHO!

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Huntracony @huntracony.bsky.social

Sometimes the right is just so comically evil that I can only laugh. Would just a normal welcome mat be legal, or is that also political because it welcomes everyone?

jul 2, 2025, 11:46 am • 64 1 • view
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jameslrennie.bsky.social @jameslrennie.bsky.social

“Welcome*”

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🔵Vincefil @vincefil.bsky.social

Shorter version: In Idaho, everyone is NOT welcome here.

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@dcEmerald 🍀 @dcemerald.bsky.social

What?!!!!

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🖖🏽Ardwynna🍷📚 @ardwynna.bsky.social

But there'd be room for the ten commandments, i'm sure

jul 2, 2025, 3:54 pm • 1 0 • view
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Accountabilabuddy @accountabilabuddy.bsky.social

Dissolve Idaho as a state and return the land to tribal management.

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Craig @crrrrrraig.bsky.social

Isn't Idaho the state that just had a nazi murder two firefighters?

jul 2, 2025, 11:39 am • 102 2 • view
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WitchypooRose @witchypoorose.bsky.social

Yep

jul 2, 2025, 12:30 pm • 10 0 • view
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Maudi63 @maudi63.bsky.social

👇👇 bsky.app/profile/maud...

jul 2, 2025, 2:45 pm • 4 1 • view
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Casey Cameron @foxthingsup.bsky.social

I'm skeptical about any Daily Fail post, and I'm very skeptical about that middle aged man being a 20 year old

jul 2, 2025, 4:05 pm • 1 0 • view
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Maudi63 @maudi63.bsky.social

That’s his mother and stepfather, not him.

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Casey Cameron @foxthingsup.bsky.social

AHHHHH that makes much more sense

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gianttigerkitty.bsky.social @gianttigerkitty.bsky.social

Ah - hadn’t heard who was responsible for the murders. A nazi, you say? That fucking figures.

jul 2, 2025, 12:43 pm • 2 0 • view
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NonViolet @not-a-violet.bsky.social

"school employees cannot display flags or banners that show opinions, emotions, beliefs or thoughts about politics, economics, society, faith or religion." My kids' school was covered with banners and posters about how to be a good citizen. But maybe Idaho doesn't want good citizens.

jul 2, 2025, 11:16 pm • 33 1 • view
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jordie3000 @jordie3000.bsky.social

Good sovcits, maybe

jul 3, 2025, 7:46 pm • 1 0 • view
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elizabethr.bsky.social @elizabethr.bsky.social

What about the “Not Everyone is Welcome” sign? Is that one ok?

jul 2, 2025, 11:10 pm • 9 0 • view
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billb3.bsky.social @billb3.bsky.social

America has lost its f-ing mind.

jul 2, 2025, 11:36 am • 25 0 • view
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Rick does Math and Stuff @mathandstuff.bsky.social

The Pledge of Allegiance is part of an ideological/social movement. Are all these morons home-schooled? What's going on here? The bottom has fallen out.

jul 2, 2025, 11:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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Chris B @chriswb71.bsky.social

Next week: "Posters telling children to share and keep their hands to themselves have been removed from kindergartens"

jul 3, 2025, 2:01 pm • 12 0 • view
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Mineru Atreides @rauruatreides.bsky.social

Clearly "everyone is welcome here" is an evil ideology, because it means that we aren't allowed the freedom to be bigots!

jul 2, 2025, 12:43 pm • 3 0 • view
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squamishviews.bsky.social @squamishviews.bsky.social

Fascism!

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Diana @diana60.bsky.social

Sounds like that poster was adopted and sold by the Democratic Party, according to the article. It seems to me that teachers can create their own posters of welcome, right? I would suggest that each of them does so. My own says, "Everyone is welcome. Everyone is valued. Together, we learn".

jul 2, 2025, 2:58 pm • 2 0 • view
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Blimple @blimple.bsky.social

No free speech for non-Christians is the takeaway for me

jul 2, 2025, 3:49 pm • 1 0 • view
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Evo Daily @evodaily.bsky.social

It's never been more obvious how many crooked AGs the red states have. Imagine how many votes they suppressed. Innocent people they left in jail. Looked the other way when environmental, anti-trust and charitable trust laws are broken. They didn't just suddenly become corrupt when Trump was elected.

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michellenonumbr.bsky.social @michellenonumbr.bsky.social

Preposterous

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Mari @mariker.bsky.social

Sad. Nazi regime playbook, over and over again, controlling the messages, and propaganda.

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AZTeacher @cbourne.bsky.social

Reminder… order one for my classroom because the sentiment is true.

jul 2, 2025, 11:12 am • 12 0 • view
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Holli Winters @holliwinters57.bsky.social

Idaho should take down the Welcome to Idaho signs at their border and put up a You're Not Welcome instead.

jul 2, 2025, 12:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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Stacy Fitz @fitstace.bsky.social

“That guidance said school employees cannot display flags or banners that show opinions, emotions, beliefs or thoughts about politics, economics, society, faith or religion. The guidance and the attorney general’s opinion did not define these terms.”

jul 2, 2025, 12:39 pm • 4 0 • view
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shamoogity.bsky.social @shamoogity.bsky.social

Republicans are just cartoon villains at this point. Their only ideology is cruelty.

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Donuki @donuki.bsky.social

Another good reason to not visit Idaho. There’s nothing really there anyway except potatoes 🥔.

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wholesooth.bsky.social @wholesooth.bsky.social

Betcha that a "White Christians Only" sign would be permitted.

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X the Owl @x-the-owl.bsky.social

And people wonder why Idaho is a hotbed for right wing nut jobs…

jul 2, 2025, 11:53 am • 5 0 • view
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Star @starmann.bsky.social

Republicans are Neo Nazis

jul 2, 2025, 12:34 pm • 1 0 • view
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kevinrsours.bsky.social @kevinrsours.bsky.social

Idaho Tourism Department: You aren't welcome here.

jul 2, 2025, 11:31 pm • 5 0 • view
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Minor Heretic @minorheretic.bsky.social

They have become a parody of themselves.

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We're Running Out Of Time @aletheia777.bsky.social

#Madness

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teabelly @teabelly.bsky.social

In the place where killers are killing kids at school ...

jul 2, 2025, 2:51 pm • 2 0 • view
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Zanthine @zanthinegirl.bsky.social

I honestly don’t think I could make this up if I wanted

jul 3, 2025, 4:38 am • 1 0 • view
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MEGapocalypse @megapocalypse.bsky.social

"Bigots and Potatoes Only" is their new state slogan until they find out potatoes originated with the Indigenous peoples of Peru and Bolivia

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Hayduke @hayduk3.bsky.social

The boycott list keeps growing: Potatoes from Idaho King Crab from Alaska Lobster from Maine Oranges from Florida ... Guess it makes grocery shopping easier.

jul 2, 2025, 2:56 pm • 20 3 • view
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Sharon Chisholm @theogsharonc.bsky.social

Buy Canadian for potatoes, crab & lobster. Buy Brazilian for oranges. Problem solved.

jul 2, 2025, 3:14 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jake V @viraldonutz.bsky.social

Honorable effort, but you're just going to be hurting the farmers and fishermen, not the people in charge

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Hayduke @hayduk3.bsky.social

Seems that farmers and fishermen are more likely to support these fascists. Their "choices" of representation and ideology are hurting others. Murkowsky wants a carve-out for Alaskans. Fuck the rest of us. If sacrificing them is how we get to those in charge, they got us here, not me.

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ResisT @trevojrwill.bsky.social

There won’t be anyone left to farm/catch/process them soon anyway, so…

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These Pretzels are Making Me Thirsty 🍄 @thesepretzels.bsky.social

Hurt Idaho by not vacationing there. Cx hotel rooms.

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AGoodEgg.bsky.social @jameseglynn.bsky.social

So long as the Potato Head boy parts go into one plastic box, and the Potato Head girl parts use a different box. Let's not have woke taters.

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🍞🍞 Spacebread98 🍞🍞 @spacebread98.bsky.social

They should not be welcoming the boers they should be sent back to Africa

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firstnameed.bsky.social @firstnameed.bsky.social

The country is a fucking characature at this point.

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Viktor Jóhannes @bluedotling.bsky.social

😵‍💫🤬

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joandinfla.bsky.social @joandinfla.bsky.social

It just confirms that racism and misogyny are the GOP ideology.

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Carrie Is Busy @carrieisbusy.bsky.social

It’s all they have. Sadly, that seems to be enough for their supporters.

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S.T. Bikes KC 🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎 @stbikeskc.bsky.social

And saying the pledge isn't part of an ideological movement????

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Nakami Jun | ENVtuber @nakamijun.bsky.social

So... The things laid out in the founding documents is now part of a 'ideological/social movement'...? 😆

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katherineperkins.bsky.social @katherineperkins.bsky.social

My late partner Jeff lived in Idaho for the last two years of high school. The school used to get complaints from Aryan Nation parents that the history teacher was 'biased against the Nazis.' I wish I were kidding.

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Leelee Why @leeleewhy.bsky.social

Yeah the ideology of treating your fellow human beings like human beings.

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nycitymouse.bsky.social @nycitymouse.bsky.social

Haven't read the sign on our door, have they? The one that says "Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"?

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Tom @tomt2025.bsky.social

Sign of the times.

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Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social

Exactly what Jesus would say. Oh, wait...

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Zanthine @zanthinegirl.bsky.social

LOVE that meme. Stealing!

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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social

It's a sickness. Btw, I know the cure for this sickness.

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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social

One of the things I find most remarkable is that very few people ever ask me to share the cure for this sickness.

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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social

idk... it could be rather than learning about the cure for the underlying sickness, folks enjoy more the commenting about the symptoms of the sickness, like this ridiculous ban on welcome signs in schools.🤷🏼

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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social

Don't get me wrong... I get that symptoms of sicknesses are compelling in themselves. Symptoms are often quite hideous, such as this extreme example. It's just that I find that the cure for the underlying sickness more interesting than its symptoms.

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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social

One of the most interesting things about it all is that the major difficulty is in the administering of the cure for this sickness. Interestingly, hating the sick person is much easier than the process of administering the cure to them.

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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social

#WhatsOn 🎁🎧🎶🎶 youtu.be/_ZditPOzJnM?...

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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social

🎁💐🎶🎶 youtu.be/dxHmOhpOMI0?...

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ScratchTheSurface @scratchthesurface.bsky.social

Poor Jesus wouldn’t be welcome.

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georgethomas.bsky.social @georgethomas.bsky.social

👍That's the truth! With his dark complexion, and taking them to task for the anti-inclusiveness, they'd have him deported.

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deborah @deboraha55.bsky.social

www.instagram.com/reel/DKXaYSE...

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F*ckThatGuy @accadacca.bsky.social

Just hang up the Whites Only/No Jews signs and be done with it, eh Idaho?

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Amanda @brownandpinkdot.bsky.social

I started teaching in 2011, these posters were very much for sale then

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Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social

Oh, but empathy is secretly undermining the traditions of our nation. They didn’t understand then how dangerous ordinary decent behavior would be to the fabric of society. Now they KNOW and must stop it any way they can.

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Process Analyzer @processanalyzer.bsky.social

Only murderers and murder victims are welcome in Idaho.

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Edith Horwitz @eeheli.bsky.social

Hmm. Some used to call that movement Christianity. You know, #WWJD ? So now, DON’T live your faith. Interesting. #Idaho

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The Spike Syndrome @spikesyndrome.bsky.social

I hate these people.

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Savannah Simpson @savvyspark.bsky.social

The fuck have we devolved to when “don’t be a douche” is a political message?

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Mona Williams @monawilliams.bsky.social

Justice and charity are “part of an ideological/social movement.” Hatred is just common sense.

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Sarah @sarahinitaly.bsky.social

Oh. I thought otherwise.

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social

In 1866 Chinese people were banned from citizenship.

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social

Every Chinese American family you know either came before 1882 or after around the mid 1960s when legislation lifted the bans. The supreme court never blocked it (in 1924 all Asian immigration was banned, including Japanese).

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demsrock.bsky.social @demsrock.bsky.social

So it’s an ideological/social movement to welcome kids to school?

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Sherry Strayer @1whostrays.bsky.social

Insanity. Will it be replaced by an “approved” pyramid of the hierarchy of acceptable skin color?

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Nechesa Achiro @nechesaachiro.bsky.social

If the hands were all white the attorney general would have no problem. Just need to scratch the “everyone”.

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ArvuReBantra @arvurebantra.bsky.social

Imagine being so morally bankrupt that you say this, and still somehow consider yourself the good guy.

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Laura Maguire @lumagoo.bsky.social

JFC, welcoming everyone is ideological??? You've gone terribly wrong somewhere in your life if this is the battle you're fighting.

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dixlon1948.bsky.social @dixlon1948.bsky.social

That is wrong.

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Live By Reason @livebyreason.bsky.social

Yet another example with how saying "no politics" is fundamentally poltical, because those in power can always define speech they want to oppress as "political".

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❤️OccupyOneLove❤️ @occupyonelove.bsky.social

👀 Idaho 👀

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Justice and Peace @socialwkr99.bsky.social

Reads like the Onion!

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Sheila G🌎🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @sheilaginhb.bsky.social

That sign was in my son's kindergarten class. He's 23. Utter bullshit.

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Bob Morris @bobmorris.bsky.social

Proudly and belligerently ignorant.

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Francesco Caporusso @czesco.bsky.social

These are disguising and vile people.

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Lyn @mrsdridge.bsky.social

Well, at least now we know how the downfall of civilization happened! The democrats stole the phrase "everyone is welcome here," rendering it useless for the stupid people.

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ExactlySorta @exactlysorta.bsky.social

Hatreducation

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Greg B @btdgreg.bsky.social

The Idaho AG taking a strong stand in support of racism. As on-brand as potatoes.

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JackG @jackg.bsky.social

oh OK... what about the "no one is welcome here" sign which would be more truthful Idaho ideology...

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Is Doom Imminent? @isdoomimminent.bsky.social

The United States of America: home of the free! ** ** All are NOT welcome.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social

Can a teacher argue that such a ban violates their freedom of religious expression?

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me

As you can imagine, I'm curious about that bit as well.

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Natanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.social

If they're employed by the state there's the issue that the state can direct speech for government employees

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social

Not necessarily. They can't be barred from wearing a cross or a Star of David or a head covering, for example. And they can keep a bible on their desk. And if some states (two that I know of) require the display of the ten commandments in classrooms, that line gets even murkier.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social

Wait, this isn't NY Times Pitchbot

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Tooey @sueric.bsky.social

Would a “Whites Only” sign be more appropriate?

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The_DFO @thedfo.bsky.social

They convinced me. I will not go to Idaho.

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deedeel.bsky.social @deedeel.bsky.social

Illinois:: Land of Lincoln Idaho:: Land of the Lost aka - where moral compasses go to die

jul 2, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view