Colleen Fellows 🇺🇸 🇺🇦

Reflecting on #Idaho. #idleg #Boise

@RonFilipkowski I'll be the first volunteer in there in 2027 with a chisel, putty scraper, can of spackle, sandpaper, primer and white paint. Lot of white paint. Can I borrow someone's scaffolding?

Look at what this garish, classless, tasteless fool has done to the People’s House.

Went to Checkpoint Zoo at The Flicks. Very good documentary on evacuation of animals from Feldman Ecopark in Kharkiv in early days of Russia's invasion of #Ukraine. Sad, but also inspiring. Well worth seeing. Will be at Flicks for a few more days. #Boise theflicksboise.com/now-playing/it…

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

@CongMikeSimpson No, it does not.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act puts more money back in the pockets of Idaho families. Lower taxes and more take-home pay are a clear WIN.

Congratulations NYC!

At 12:35 am ET, the president decreed that he was nullifying President Biden’s preemptive pardons of members of the January 6 committee, an assertion of a power the Constitution does not bestow.

Black Saturday: The Day the United States Ceased to Be a Constitutional Democracy The Moment Democracy Ceased to Function 🧵1/10: Saturday, March 15, 2025, may have seemed unremarkable to most Americans. But in time, history will remember it as Black Saturday—the moment the United States ceased to function as a constitutional democracy. For the first time in modern American history, a sitting president openly defied a direct federal court order—and nothing happened. No intervention. No enforcement. No consequences. A legal ruling was issued, and the White House simply ignored it. The White House’s Decision: Power Over Law Inside the White House, the decision was not about law—it was about power. A federal judge ruled against the administration. The debate inside Trump’s team was not whether the ruling was legal, but whether they could get away with ignoring it. They decided they could. And they were right. This was not a clash between equal branches of government. It was the moment the judiciary was exposed as powerless. The courts do not have an army. They rely on compliance. But a court that cannot enforce its rulings is not a court—it is a suggestion box. And a presidency that can ignore the courts without consequence is no longer constrained by law—it is an untouchable executive. Trump did not declare the end of judicial authority in a speech. He demonstrated it in practice. This is how democratic systems collapse—not with a single act, but with the normalization of defiance, the expectation that a ruling can simply be brushed aside. theintellectualist.com/black-saturday…

If you care about Idaho's public lands & making sure they remain public for your family to hunt, fish, camp, hike & recreate, make your voice heard. Attend the Idaho Public Lands Rally, Sat. March 22nd at Capitol steps from 11am to noon. Don't sell Idaho. cvidaho.org/idaho-public-l…

Yale University just confirmed to me that the State Department did cancel this contract, which was funding a Yale research lab tracking Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia -->

The State Department has quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of alleged Russian abductions of Ukrainian children—a potential war crime—to law enforcement officials in Europe. x.com/JuliaDavisNews…

@SenatorAndyKim Thank you Sen. Kim for NO votes on Cloture and CR! There must be checks to stop the dismantling and privatization of government agencies.

This is a tough week. Trump, Musk, and Speaker Johnson are to blame. Senator Kim is a no vote on cloture and CR. Here’s why:

@SenWhitehouse Please Vote NO on Cloture as well as the CR! It's your only leverage.

Republicans left us two foul choices intended to harm Americans and give the powers of Congress to Trump and Musk. I’ll be voting NO on this fake CR. We must focus our energy on the dangers of the MAGA Republican government which gave us this false choice.

@ChrisMurphyCT Please Vote NO on Cloture as well as voting NO on a CR. The Cloture vote is the only leverage to stop the dismantling of the federal government.

My friend Patty Murray on the Senate floor right now explaining why the partisan spending bill should be a non-starter. She explains how this is the first time ever that we are passing a spending bill written only by Republicans with zero Democratic input.

@SenGaryPeters Please Vote No on Cloture and vote No on the CR. The Cloture is the only leverage we have to stop the dismantling and privatization of the government. Please Vote No, we can survive a shutdown, we can't survive them tearing up the Constitution.

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@PattyMurray Vote No on Cloture as well.

Let's be clear: House Republicans' funding bill is Congress rolling over for the billionaire arsonists by rolling out a slush-fund filled, year-long continuing resolution that empowers Trump and Musk to pick winners and losers with YOUR taxpayer dollars. I will vote NO.

@MarkWarner Vote No on Cloture as well!

Hey folks – my phone system is having some tech difficulties and hanging up on callers that opt to leave voicemails. Your calls are important to me, so we're working hard to get it up again, but to be clear, I’m a NO on the CR, so if that’s why you’re calling, I hear ya!

@LisaDNews @SpeakerPelosi They need a NO on Cloture and a no on CR!

ICYMI. @SpeakerPelosi has entered the chat. Telling Senate Dems to go w the strategy of Rep. DeLauro, Sen. Murray -- push for a 1-month CR + vote NO on the House CR. But, there is not a world where the one-month CR can become law today. Thus, Pelosi is pushing for a shutdown.

@ChrisVanHollen Thank you for voting NO in Cloture and No on CR!

I said it once and I’ll say it again. I am a HELL NO on cloture and HELL NO on the Republican CR that provides Elon Musk a slush fund to support his illegal operations.

@MarkWarner Thank you!!!! We need NO on Cloture and on CR. Please talk to your fellow @SenOssoff @SenatorWarnock @SenWhitehouse @SenAmyKlobuchar @SenJeffMerkley @SenBlumenthal @maziehirono @SenatorDurbin to tell them to vote NO on Cloture and No on CR!

Morning update: NO on cloture. NO on the CR. We’re fighting this bad bill that cuts Americans a terrible deal with everything we’ve got.

@SenOssoff Please Vote No on Cloture! Only voting no on the CR without Also voting NO in Cloture will do nothing to save services and agencies. Has to be a NO in both Cloture and the CR.

Sen. Ossoff Will Vote 'No' on House Budget Proposal