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Idaho is a canary in the coal mine for the reactionary shift in the Republican Party. Idaho has been on the cutting edge of far right extremism since at least the Ruby Ridge incident and what used to be relegated to an oddity of North Idaho has become the driving
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This week Idaho passed a bill bringing back the firing squad for state executions and the governor subsequently signed the bill into law. In my opinion there really isn’t anything extra morally egregious about the bill compared to lethal injection or other methods used by the state to murder
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Featured fascism American Fascism Exists fascism Justin adds to Trevor's discussion in "Postmodern Fascism" and makes the argument Fascism is no foreigner in the US and describes political formations beyond Nazi Germany and Mussolini, and beyond Trump as well ♫ Listen now —> fascism fascism Postmodern Fascism
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As I close in on my second year as a public defender in North Idaho, the idea that crime is something that is done to people keeps coming back to me. And more specifically the idea that criminalization is a process that is done to people. We are taught to
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An Illinois state court declared that the state’s SAFE-T act could not go forward to the extent it was set to abolish cash bail with the new year. The reform wasn’t even set to be that monumental after significant carve outs retained judge’s right to detain people
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