I read the book in college (late 60s) and I knew it was important. I've thought about it a lot in the years since then.
Trying to keep my sheep together in Victor, Idaho. It takes fortitude to live in Idaho.
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I read the book in college (late 60s) and I knew it was important. I've thought about it a lot in the years since then.
Care to explain what you are talking about?
In 2018 Noem was actually pretty. But probably just as mean and stupid.
Peter Thiel has friends?
The "power of prayer" has been failing since the Columbine High School massacre of 1999, and in every school shooting since. #schoolshooting
The camel's nose has entered the tent. Protect #medicare! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
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Same.
Good advice here for making campaign contributions: www.borowitzreport.com/p/how-not-to...
It made me laugh.
Pritzker gets it.
The obvious response to this is to boycott the poultry industry.
Wake up, Americans. THIS IS NOT NORMAL. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump has gotten away with his "trial balloon" in DC. So of course he is now threatening to put troops in other [Democratic] cities. THIS IS NOT NORMAL. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
#idpol www.lmtribune.com/opinion/sen-...
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege. www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...
Nothing says illegal like planes flying without tail numbers.
The incompetence of the Trump administration is astounding. www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
Florida fascism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I bet we have a lot of patrol friends in common (if it was enough decades ago).
I worked for him for a decade. I have stories.
Threats to culture and knowledge are threats to democracy. www.everylibraryinstitute.org/culture_war?...
Quite a character. cowboystatedaily.com/2025/08/14/g...
Heroes. thehotshotwakeup.substack.com
Trump is threatening all of us with unrestrained violence.
Idaho shot itself in the foot. www.opb.org/article/2025...
The #Smithsonian American history museum altered the impeachment exhibit to try to placate Trump. (Don't they know that appeasement never works?) See Erasing History by Jason Stanley. @SmithsonianSec
I canceled my subscription to the Post, but was able to access this article. There's no question that we are living in a #1984 world. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
This is the fault of the Idaho Legislature and Governor Little. They could fix it if they wanted to. #idpol #idleg #IdahoGOP #GovernorLittle #healthcare
The Justice Department has the Epstein files. Right now. Everything they’re doing now is a distraction. Just RELEASE THEM.
Those are Jim Jones's words, not mine. But I really hope he's right. At some point Trump will go down in flames, as all strongmen eventually do. Then Risch, Crapo, and Simpson will have to eat a lot of words.
"Little, Risch and Crapo seem to think that obedience to Trump is a ticket to keeping their precious offices. Reading the tea leaves, including the most recent polling, it is a good bet that they are woefully wrong." #idpol idahocapitalsun.com/2025/07/24/i...
Where is #SouthPark available to watch if one does not have cable?
Sounds vaguely familiar. Didn't the Soviets put dissidents in mental institutions as a way of imprisoning them?
Our institutions are failing us.
I doubt that anyone ever looks at Simpson's "survey" results. They are just a way to direct people to Simpson's website. Nevertheless, I always answer multiple times, and not with the answer he wants to hear. #idpol
.@IdahoGOP is marketing #AlligatorAlcatraz t-shirts. "One way in - no way out". "Bold. Unashamed. America First. Get your t-shirt today ..." #IdahoGOP is monetizing xenophobia, cruelty, and racism. Appalling. A new low, even for #Idaho. #idpol
#Magas are scared out of their minds. #EpsteinFiles www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#NationalParks in the age of Orwell. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
I doubt there is a more obsequious sycophant than #CongMikeSimpson. He acts like Trump has kompromat on him that he doesn't want to get out. When Trump falls, which is inevitable, #Simpson will be embarrassed about his sycophancy. Vote him out. #idpol
It happened to me on top of Teton Pass. A tourist decided to “test” her bear spray by spraying it on the pavement right next to my car door as I was getting out. It nearly killed me. I nearly killed her. I told her to READ THE FUCKING INSTRUCTIONS. Lotta stupid people around here.
This is what a personalist authoritarian regime looks like. Everything is dependent on the whim of the leader.
Lest anyone had missed the plot line, he is claiming the powers of a full-blown dictator for himself with this www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/u...
I'm attending John Lewis Actions's event, “GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: Teton Valley” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-a...
Good. Simpson's propaganda (lies) and gloating about a bill that will harm his constituents are infuriating.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Cute trick, Simpson! You know the big Medicaid cuts don't take effect until after the midterms. You and your buddies are counting getting reelected before voters feel the pain you've caused -- all while stoking hate for our immigrant neighbors who can't enroll in Medicaid.
Today is one of those days when I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm really looking forward to reading the obituaries of all of the principal characters in the Trump regime.
Maybe not so dry.
The senate parliamentarian might just save our collective ass.
#FDA Reconsider the decision on elamipretide. Prove that you have empathy for kids like Hope. The kid you save could be your own. Or your grandchild.
Email from #GovernorLittle: "Thank you for contacting me about education funding... Education is my top priority as Governor." He's sure AF not acting like it. Watch what he does, not what he says. #idpol #IdahoGOP #idedu www.idahoednews.org/top-news/lit...
#GymJordan is guilty AF of covering up the #OhioState sex abuse scandal. And yet.. he's still in Congress. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
This is not okay. Call the gov: 208) 334-2100 Let him know how you feel about taking money from education to pay for private school #vouchers and #taxcuts. #idpol #idedu #IdahoGOP
BREAKING: What you just witnessed was a state-sanctioned kidnapping. These people aren’t identifying themselves. Citizens can no longer distinguish between state authority & rogue violence. This is not a warning about what might come. We are not watching the start of something. We are living it.
This is awful.
A normal president would make a unifying speech to the nation decrying political violence. Trump is not normal. He won’t even make a phone call. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...
Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣
We had fun! And I only got flipped off once.
Does Georgia have a law against wearing a mask? I see a lawsuit coming.
Business owners (supporters) complained to him and he realized it would hurt him.
#RaulLabrador is fearmongering. #idpol #IdahoGOP idahonews.com/news/local/i...
No Kings Day, Driggs, Idaho. Protesters on all four corners at the [only] stoplight in town. #idpol #NoKingsDay
He's the 2025 version of the KKK.
I hope the boarder moves out of his house soon.
If you get an email with the subject line "Letterhead Email Template", it's probably from @CongMikeSimpson. It's a shame he can't hire competent office staff. #idpol
.@SenatorRisch admits he is nothing but a rubber stamp. His email reply: "I voted for every appointment President Trump made during his first term and I intend to continue that record." Unquestioning fealty to Dear Leader. We deserve better. #idpol
This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.
It turns out "living through history" is not that much fun. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
#idpol amp.idahostatesman.com/opinion/read...
They won't stop until they control everything you are allowed to read. action.everylibrary.org/firstlibraries via @everylibrary.bsky.social
The Trump regime plans to rape, pillage, and plunder #Alaska. alaskapublic.org/news/politic...
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Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.
COMMENTARY | It is unfathomable that Reps. Russ Fulcher and Mike Simpson voted for the bill and that Gov. Brad Little strongly supported its passage, writes guest columnist Jim Jones.
#GovernorLittle and #idleg, this post is for you. Are you willing to consider new information? #idpol apnews.com/article/utah...
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
It was the first thing I noticed.
FYI from Victor: The Jackson Hole News & Guide covers all matters of importance in Teton Valley. The Teton Valley News is too timid to touch anything potentially controversial, e.g. school district, politics, scandals, etc. For actual news of Teton Valley, JHN&G is the source.
Goddam right, we paid for Medicare benefits. Out of every paycheck. Republicans want to *steal* from us.
We need a comeback of the Gray Panthers.
Why don't they just call them "Dear Leader Accounts".
Agree.
Proof that our Idaho governor does not care about his constituents. He cares more about being a Trump sycophant - and Idahoans will suffer as a result. #GovernorLittle #Idaho #BigBeautifulBill #IdahoGOP idahocapitalsun.com/2025/05/21/u...
Why is it that only Democrats care about Constitutional rights? I'm still waiting for someone in the #GOP to speak up.
Diseases are spreading and our government is failing the American people. #CDC www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...
I call them every goddam day. They'll never listen (Idaho) but at least I can use up their staff time.
The fraud is perpetrated by the insurance companies, not by Medicare or Medicaid recipients. #fraud #Medicare #Medicaid #HealthInsurance www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That phone number doesn't work! CALL 202-224-3121 for the switchboard.
Thank you! I don't have TV so I'll be depending on you.
Thread.
Republicans are having a meeting on their big ugly bill at 1am. Why? Because they don’t want the American public to know what’s in the bill.
They're not photos?
Everyone seems to have forgotten that most people on #Medicaid are ALREADY working. Low wage jobs do not include healthcare benefits. Low wage jobs do not pay enough for people to be able to afford health insurance. www.rwjf.org/en/insights/...
In some circles, including mine, "dirtbag" is a compliment. www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/o...
Everything Trump does is about self-enrichment. That is what autocrats do.
Some day you will appreciate the #privacy and #confidentiality that #libraries provide. You may want to research your rights when you protest the rise of fascism in the U.S. Do you want Trump's goons to be able to find out about that? Or your violent MAGA neighbor? www.ala.org/advocacy/int...
#Vaccines work. #RSV www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Doesn't matter.