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Alicia Abbott

@abbottalynn.bsky.social

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Experienced Campaign & Project Manager | Grassroots Strategist | Communications Specialist | Estimation & Logistics Professional Fighting White Christian Nationalism with everything I've got.

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Alicia Abbott @abbottalynn.bsky.social · Apr 10

We have an update on Dr. Teresa Borrenpohl's town hall incident.

The Coeur d'Alene Police Department has completed their investigation, including recommended charges. The case now sits with the Coeur d'Alene City Prosecutor for review.

Please read today's GoFundMe update for full details. #idpol

Donate to Justice for Dr. Teresa Borrenpohl: Fight for the First, organized by Alicia Abbott

On Saturday, February 22nd, citizens gathered at a town hall in K… Alicia Abbott needs your support for Justice for Dr. Teresa Borrenpohl: Fight for the First

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Jane @janeg.bsky.social · 14h

Dershowitz is still coming to the Bellwood lecture on Friday. The @uidaho.bsky.social college of law is the driving force behind the Bellwood lectures. Im a bit miffed the dean has ignored my email. isb.idaho.gov/blog/2025-be...

2025 Bellwood Lecture Featuring Guest Speaker Alan Dershowitz – 10/17

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Alicia Abbott @abbottalynn.bsky.social · 18h

Miranda knows what’s up! #idpol

Miranda Marquit @mirandamarquit.bsky.social · 18h

I always have petitions and voter registration cards

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Alicia Abbott @abbottalynn.bsky.social · 18h

So excited to be doing this with you, again. Let’s save some lives!!

Alicia Abbott @abbottalynn.bsky.social · 18h

Online training every Tuesday! Here’s the link for next week. www.backtoidaho.com/events/virtu...

Weekly Virtual Petition Training — Back to Idaho

www.backtoidaho.com

Alicia Abbott @abbottalynn.bsky.social · 18h

I have a plans to collect some Reproductive Freedom signatures tonight.

Have you put your clipboard together so you can carry the initiative everywhere you go? 😎

We’ve got 197 days to collect tens of thousands of signatures. It’s all hands on deck baby. #idpol www.backtoidaho.com

Back to Idaho

We are gathering signatures for the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act. For nearly 50 years, Idahoans had the personal liberty to make private medical decisions—including regulated access to abortio...

www.backtoidaho.com

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1d

for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people.
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
slate.com/news-and-pol...

He Was the Most Notorious Sheriff in America. He Says the Supreme Court Vindicated Him.

Thanks, SCOTUS.

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Alicia Abbott @abbottalynn.bsky.social · 2d

Idahoans are happy to sign the Reproductive Freedom & Privacy Act initiative. Especially my neighbors in Bonner County after the loss of our labor & delivery unit.

People are angry about the harm the extreme trigger ban has caused. They want to go back to how it used to be. www.backtoidaho.com

Back to Idaho

www.backtoidaho.com

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Alicia Abbott @abbottalynn.bsky.social · 3d

George Stephanopoulos gave every journalist in the US a crash course this weekend on how we deal with dishonest authoritarians.

People like me have been demanding this kind of accountability journalism for a decade.

Where’d we be now if journalists had been fielding lies properly for a decade?

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 3d

George Stephanopoulos cuts off JD Vance mid sentence 🤣🔥….this is the way!

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Zeb Palmer @zebpalmer.com · 4d

Periodic reminder for no particular reason...

Iowa is not Idaho
Idaho is not in the Heartland

Iowa: 🌽🐖🌪️🚜
Idaho: ⛰️🎣⛷️🥔

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Alicia Abbott @abbottalynn.bsky.social · 5d

Need help? I’m a pro. Give me a holler.

We’ll knock out this extreme abortion ban together.

Alicia Abbott @abbottalynn.bsky.social · 5d

Collecting signatures, in the wild, with no vetted lists, for the Reproductive Freedom & Privacy Act in rural Idaho has been exceptional!💅

If you haven’t started collecting signatures, why not?

You should try to get one signature today. 😎 I know you’ll like it. #idpol www.backtoidaho.com

Back to Idaho

www.backtoidaho.com

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The Idaho 97 @theidaho97.bsky.social · 8d

Bad for Idaho, bad for America.

‘People are going to die’: Idahoans fear spike in insurance costs

Boise resident Susan Wood spent her career in the health insurance industry. She worries federal changes may upend her health care coverage.

www.idahostatesman.com

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Popular Information @popular.info · 8d

“Several journalists resigned this week from three newspapers in Alaska after the publications’ corporate owner made significant edits to an article about Charlie Kirk’s death, appearing to yield to pressure from a Republican state lawmaker who had criticized the coverage.”

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

www.nytimes.com

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OPB @opb.org · 12d

The last remaining Planned Parenthood in Idaho intends to stay put, continuing to provide a range of reproductive health services. That's even after federal cuts to Medicaid and the state's near-total abortion ban.

Idaho’s last Planned Parenthood plans to stay open despite federal cuts

Meridian clinic is a "lifeline," providing routine reproductive health care that the state doesn’t have the infrastructure to take over, organization leaders say.

www.opb.org

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Alicia Abbott @abbottalynn.bsky.social · 11d

Don't know how to have confident conversations about Reproductive Freedom & Privacy?

Come to our messaging intensive in Sandpoint tomorrow. I'll practice with you!! #EndTheBan

RFPA Messaging Intensive - With Executive Director Melanie Folwell

Join us at Matchwood Brewery this Sunday from 12 PM to 2 PM for a Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act messaging intensive with Idahoans United for Women & Families Executive Director Melanie Folw...

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Alicia Abbott @abbottalynn.bsky.social · 12d

It’s time to pull back your watering. Cacti like to be watered when it’s rainy season in the desert, (spring & summer). Grandpa taught me that. Works like a charm.

I water once a week during that time and the rest of the months, more like once a month.

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Alicia Abbott @abbottalynn.bsky.social · 12d

My favorite part of last night was watching the men tell their man friends to come over and sign the initiative! 🥹

Great crowd! Signatures from 3 counties!

I bet Rocky Horror Picture Show is going to be like fish in a barrel! 👽⚰️👩🏼‍🎤💋🦇 I’ll need some helpers that night. #idpol

Boognish Idaho @boognishidaho.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks @abbottalynn.bsky.social for collecting signatures for the Idaho Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act initiative outside a screening of a well attended film about mental health at the Panida this evening in Sandpoint!

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Alicia Abbott @abbottalynn.bsky.social · 13d

❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 13d

An interview with David A. Graham of the @theatlantic.com on Russ Vought, Kevin Roberts, and Project 2025. You know, just for fun.

www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/the...

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Devin Burghart @dburghart.bsky.social · 13d

New polling: Trump’s National Guard use upsets Black voters.

www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/02/n...

National Guard use upsets Black voters

Donald Trump believes sending the National Guard into majority-Black cities will benefit him. It may cost him — and Democrats should do everything in their power to make him pay.

www.nydailynews.com

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Alicia Abbott @abbottalynn.bsky.social · 13d

Tell me more!! 😂

Alicia Abbott @abbottalynn.bsky.social · 13d

I stopped drinking coffee last month.

I stopped buying beef.

I remember being a kid in a low income household. Meatloaf was in the regular rotation.

That same meatloaf today would cost me $15 to make.

Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin.bsky.social · 13d

You guys, tell me how the tariffs are affecting you in real time so far. For example, coffee is up 20% from what it was last year at this time.
What else?

Alicia Abbott @abbottalynn.bsky.social · 13d

My heart breaks for this man, his family, and so many families who are not getting this level of coverage.

Make it stop.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 13d

A U.S. immigration judge has denied a bid for asylum from Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has become a proxy for the partisan power struggle over immigration policy.

Abrego Garcia has 30 days to appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals. https://to.pbs.org/4mWk8Ri

Immigration judge rejects Kilmar Abrego Garcia's asylum bid, but he can appeal

Abrego Garcia has 30 days to appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals.

to.pbs.org

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Alicia Abbott @abbottalynn.bsky.social · 13d

This is not good.

I applied for a job I wanted really bad a while back and my cover letter was flagged as being written by AI.

I just ran some of my recent, 100% written by me, google docs through an AI detector. All of them were flagged.

WTF @developers.google.com?

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Alicia Abbott @abbottalynn.bsky.social · 14d

My neighbor two doors down has a “Honk if you support Ukraine” sign in his front lawn.

It warms my heart to see & hear so many people, especially working men, in my community honk when they drive by.

It never gets annoying and it happens all day long. ❤️ #idpol