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Brad Troemel's "the MAN report" was exactly the acid critique of the 2010s idpol that I was looking for.

I've long complained that congregating around "cis straight white men bad" isn't a substitute for class consciousness.

Ash Sarkar had a similar critique in Minority Rule.

https://www.patreon.com/bst/posts/man-report-162164393

#society #idpol

More Truth Social Derangement Syndrome (TSDS). A Canadian pilot dies fighting a US fire while MAGA-land threatens Canada with sanctions and visa restrictions because of their wildfires that our climate inaction has helped to create! Another day in “paradise”…. #idpol #uspol #climate #canada

U.S. Lawmakers Threaten Annexa...

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Amidst all the ongoing horribleness of our state and national governmental circus of absurdity, here is some great news!! Idahoans will get to vote on their own health and reproductive rights! #idpol #healthcare

One of strictest US abortion b...

A lot of MAGA right now, those who aren't at their core about hate and power grabs, they're in the phase just the other side of FAFO, where they're destabilized in their belief systems.

This is the point where they're going to be open to listening.

But not if we aggro at them.

#USPol #MTPol #IDPol #AbuseCulture #cults

Here's how you reach rural conservative communities in the inner-mountain west.

This town is just over the mountains from me.

As I keep saying, most people in these areas share our core values. People here are already organized and connected in ways similar to what we call "mutual aid." They've just been twisted all up to point their energies in the wrong direction.

We need to stop messaging like "those stupid rednecks" and start messaging to appeal to our shared prosocial values.

https://youtu.be/n3PMfV9z5Qo

#USPol #MTPol #IDPol

Talk at the adjacent counter at the grocery store in rural Idaho was about "food insecurity." The guy, an older gentleman maybe in his 70s, explained it like he'd just learned the term. He cited statistics in the county. Said he couldn't afford the gas anymore to go to the larger town south of here.

It's coming, and even they can't ignore it anymore.

I hate this so much. I don't glory in being right about any of this.

#USPol #IDPol

Governor Little just signed HB 822, which forces teachers and health care professionals to out trans youth, into law. This is yet another harmful attack on transgender young people in Idaho, and we condemn lawmakers for it. #IDLeg #IDPol

Honestly Idaho businesses would do well to make them all unigender bathrooms at this point.

These laws don't make any sense, and thus, are not only easy to thwart, but great opportunities for rapid transformation to progressive ideals.

#IDPol #USPol

😬

Thankfully I pass as my assigned gender. I've intentionally done little to change that, and my genderfluidity makes that possible for me, as does the acceptance of "tomboys" in farming towns. I've had no trouble passing as a tough woman in pants who likes her hair short.

I'm still not up to causing good trouble. But my county way up here is ripe to be challenged on this. People hold values here who wouldn't much like the TORT LAW and RED TAPE angle that REGULATES SMALL BUSINESSES over FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION. This is solid NANNY STATE nonsense INVADING our LOCAL community.

(So much of the fash stuff actually goes against the language and values of the strain of conservatism that is popular in places like this. But I've got to stay on the DL. My mental health isn't up to a fight. That said, if anyone gave me guff, I could not help but lay into them. And I'd play up my femaleness without hesitation. You bitches will PROTECT ME, a poor damsel, over these TYRANTS from the GOVERNMENT.)

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Thankfully, I'm not the only one who raised issue with this story, as they did publish one (I think it's a letter to the editor) on Nov 18th opposing the city move and the locker room story.

This bit is probably behind the paywall:

"If the goal is truly to protect children, then let’s confront the real and well-documented dangers: poverty, familial sexual abuse, and inadequate maternal healthcare. These are the issues that harm children every day—not the existence of a tiny number of transgender people trying to use a bathroom.

"To portray our transgender neighbors as threats is not only outdated and misinformed; it is a deliberate distraction from real problems. And it raises a troubling question: whom will be targeted next? Lesbians? Gay men? Once we start banning people from the locker room, it’s a slippery slope."

Basically, we're not alone in rural areas. We just need help applying good pressure and causing good trouble.

https://bonnercountydailybee.com/news/2025/nov/18/we-need-to-stop-demonizing-our-friends-neighbors/

#IDPol

oh heh. Turns out the city vote was DIRECTLY related to the YMCA story. ffs.

So yeah, use your voice. If I, a person who is targeted by laws like these with a severe anxiety disorder, can do it, then so can you.

(The part behind the paywall says, "The issue was brought to council follow an incident at the Litehouse YMCA where a lifeguard said she saw a “semi-dressed” man in the women’s locker room. The YMCA said its locker room procedures followed Sandpoint’s non-discrimination ordinance.")

https://bonnercountydailybee.com/news/2025/nov/19/council-votes-4-3-to-amend-non-discrimination-ordinance/

#IDPol

One nice thing about local journalism, is that the people there are more likely to respond to individual opinion.

In the town where this paper is published, the city council recently voted to remove LGBTQ protections from their anti-discrimination policy, shortly after this story was published, and in spite of massive protest. These are connected.

#IDPol

whew well I did the thing, called the local paper (from the county south of here) and canceled. I originally wanted to cancel because I'm broke, but then they published a really transphobic YMCA bathroom story on the front page in Nov. I was just waiting for a day when I had energy and my anxiety levels were manageable.

The woman on the phone took down my notes to pass to the editor. I offered that if they wanted to contact me with clarification, they could. lol now I have anxiety over that so lol maybe I shouldn't have offered. 😅 (While I'm not a trans woman, I am trans, so I'm not acting as an ally here, but putting myself out there, even if I didn't ID to them as trans. It really helps if yall allies could do this work, as I have hardly any emotional buffer between myself and this issue.)

I told them the story was one-sided and only offered the transphobic side but using inclusivity language. She was receptive and paid attention to my remarks.

The story is that some woman at the YMCA complained on Facebook about a trans woman (not using those terms, mind you... I'll bet you can guess), was using the bathroom while vulnerable women and children were around. Not all of the misgendering / fear mongering language was in quotes.

The only part of the other side they gave was YMCA making official statements about their policy being that they define gender as the person identifies. No outline of the reasons why that might be, that trans women are at least as vulnerable as cis women, or anything else. The transphpobic language took up the full text on the front page, and you had to turn to A6 to read the YMCA's statements.

I hope they email instead of call. I should have asked for that lol. I panicked. Probably if they call I'll let it go to voicemail, to see what tone they take before I call them back.

I originally subscribed to support local journalism, but this is not the kind of journalism I want to support. And I told her that.

#IDPol

We did our traditional Halloween binge last night, and while I'm not hungover this morning, my body is working hard to process all that sugar. Ugh.

It's raining hard, so I feel no pressure to work on the insulation. But there's a talk in town about extremist hate groups in the region and what to do about them, that I'd really like to go to. For the first time this year, I don't feel I'd be white-knuckling it to do a social thing with strangers, BUT it would still be hard. And I want a break from doing things that are hard.

I feel like I'm talking myself out of it, and feeling relief, which probably means I should stay home. But I also get the sense that such opportunities to network with like-minded people here won't come along often.

#Recovery2025 #IDPol

cdapress.com/news/2025/oc... While MAGA cuts food stamps and creates hunger to pay for Trump’s superfluous golden ballroom, the Kootenai Dems are helping to put food on hungry people’s tables. #idpol #cda #kootenaicounty #hunger

Democrats collecting donations...

thehill.com/homenews/hou... More MAGA cruelty. Trump administration tells USDA to reverse course and not support food stamps, so that 40 million Americans will go hungry as Trump parties. #hunger #nokings #idpol #snap #resist #indivisible #maga

thehill.com/homenews/house...

bsky.app/profile/poli... A great video from Politics Girl. Nobody says it better. #cda #kootenaicounty #idaho #idpol #resist #nokings #whitehouse #shutdown #corruption #trump #vance #noem #ice #usa #convictedfelon #facism

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ca5og5dzdlmoedpdbpbtkkeo/post/3m3qflhswkk2c

www.mobilize.us/aft/event/84... Come on out and join the protest in Coeur d’Alene. 12:30 at Appleway Ave and Hwy 95. No Kings! #resist #nokings #idpol #protest

CDA/NORTH IDAHO NO KINGS · AFT

It's like all the liberal talking points of the past 20 years with a super fashy dogwhistle ending.

#USPol #IDPol

something something now that fascism is something they can finally tell the truth about the economic math something something and are starting to sound liberal something but only for whites something?

#USPol #IDPol

idk if I have a take here, but this sure is an interesting picture.

(I do have takes but I'm having trouble processing.)

https://pocatellochubbuckobserver.com/2025/10/10/idaho-dept-of-labor-rising-cost-of-living-limits-labor-force-availability

#USPol #IDPol

alhamdulillah ane bukan pemilih prabowo, meski pernah ada harapan ternyata harapan semu.

untuk beberapa hal dia lebih parah daripada mukidi

#idpol

Kartu identitas liputan wartawan CNN dicabut karena nanya soal MBG?

https://www.cnnindonesia.com/nasional/20250928163924-20-1278604/istana-cabut-kartu-identitas-liputan-wartawan-cnn-indonesia/amp

Sepertinya istana begitu sensitif soal MBG, melihat komentar atau tanggapan prabowo tentang kejadian keracunan massal akibat MBG membuat ane jadi bertanya - tanya. Jangan - jangan prabowo selama ini “buta atau dibutakan” soal ini.

Di luat konteks komunikasi buruk yang dimiliki para pejabat publik Indonesia.

#idpol #indonesia

Independent journalism is alive and well in Idaho.

I've gotten ahold of at least five print papers, some published daily, some monthly, some biannually, from just these two counties in the panhandle. Some are free at the grocery store.

The one I'm reading right now (The Reader, a weekly) published a syndicated article about the loss of OBGYN doctors in Idaho due to the abortion ban, originally published in a Boise-based nonprofit paper.

They all have a surprisingly left bent, though not always. The Reader and Northern Journeys are quite artistic and quirky.

#IDPol

#Idaho #Boise #AdaCounty #IDPol

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kgcnbazbxwi7mgd6k5p6b2b6/post/3lulfeg6raz2o

Political vibe check, sample size of 1:

A local up in Idaho reports that Big Beautiful Bill isn't popular amongst anyone, right or left.

#USPol #IDPol

Just a little tip from a white American living on stolen land to other white people trying to decolonize:

Use your powers of commerce for good. Track down your local tribal businesses and shift your purchases over to them. (I know you have some – even living up north of Seattle I couldn't help but notice some, so I'm sure you'll find them if you actually go looking, and if not (say if you live on the side of the Mississippi where indigenous people were OUTLAWED), find some online.)

Money is power, so give some of your power to people who will use it for better things than Starbucks investors do.

🧵

#IDPol
#decolonize
#decolonization
#antifa #LandBack #rewilding #Solarpunk

Oh!! And the huge convenience store which was where we stopped on the way home after our emergency visit up here last fall while making the decision to escape mom to up here, the one where I posted (or intended to post) a pic of the Bear Spray Recycling Bin, is owned by the tribe! I will be shopping there on purpose now. It's closer to where I live than down in Bonner's Ferry proper. Maybe I'll make that my main gas station.

I remember it was a REALLY nice convenience store. Rather huge, lots of lunch type foods, like real sandwiches. I was super in trauma-brain, so I can't describe my fragmented memories well, but I remember being quite impressed.

#IDPol
#decolonize
#decolonization
#antifa #LandBack

I've been trying to get an accurate bead on the policing up here. Word from the human rights taskforce is that the three police forces, including Kootenai Tribal Police, cooperate, that they're aware of hate groups and keep an eye on them, and that they're not aggressive towards the left.

I'm trying to connect the dots here (I'm sure I'll learn more), but these dots seem to go: Kootenai refused to sign the treaty with the US that would have stripped their rights, held a peaceful war (civil disobedience and blocking traffic) to get rights without giving any up, and because of that got a significant amount of policing power, which has influenced settler policing.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that THESE particular cops are not bastards. Until I hear otherwise.

"The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho Police Department is a Community-Based Policing agency which prioritizes interaction and input from the Tribal Community to address issues which affect the lives of its members."

I see their cars out around town, btw. They were patrolling around the protest along with the sheriff.

https://www.kootenai.org/pages_Government/lawEnforcement.html

#IDPol #decolonize #decolonization #antifa #LandBack