<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bundy-acquitted-occupation-federal-land-left-ben-shapiro">Ammon Bundy</a>, one of the ranchers at the center of the 2014 Bundy ranch standoff with federal agents in Nevada, was arrested after he refused to leave the Idaho Capitol building on Wednesday.
It was the second time in two days that Bundy was arrested at the Idaho State House. Bundy was arrested on Wednesday after being banned from visiting the Idaho State House for one year after his Tuesday arrest, according to The <a href="https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/ap-top-news/2020/08/26/bundy-arrested-at-idaho-statehouse-for-second-time-in-2-days">Associated Press</a>.
Idaho State Police arrested Bundy along with two others, Aaron Von Schmidt and Jill Watts, on Tuesday and charged each with misdemeanor trespassing. Bundy was slapped with another charge of resisting and obstructing law enforcement, according to the <a href="https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/ammon-bundy-arrested-at-idaho-capitol-removed-from-lincoln-auditorium/article_7dbf7efa-f703-5fc2-b4e9-477f1a2dbe87.html">Idaho Press</a>. Bundy was <a href="https://twitter.com/AdaCoSheriff/status/1298612367383617536">released</a> from the Ada County Jail on Tuesday night after posting bail.
Bundy gained national attention in 2014 when he and other members of his family, including his father <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/charges-against-cliven-bundy-other-ranchers-amanda-prestigiacomo">Cliven</a>, took part in a standoff against federal agents with the Bureau of Land Management over years of unpaid grazing fees for their ranch in Nevada. Bundy again received national attention when he led a group and took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon in 2016, protesting what Bundy said was the wrongful conviction of two <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/07/10/trump-pardons-oregon-ranchers/">Oregon ranchers</a> for arson.
Bundy had led protests at the Idaho Capitol building on Monday and Tuesday prior to his first arrest, apparently over a civil liability waiver bill being debated in the state House chamber. He had testified against the legislation on Monday in front of the state House Judiciary Committee.
“The Idaho people are more than capable of keeping themselves safe,” Bundy said, according to the Idaho Press. “We the people are tired. We are tired of government force, and we will only take it for so long. I recommend you act wisely, because we will not live in fear.”
His arrest was not over the legislation, however, but over “citizen journalists” being barred press credentials and being removed from the House hearing. He walked to the press desk, sat down, and refused to leave the chair. Police were eventually forced to roll him out of the Capitol in the chair he had commandeered in order to take him into custody.
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Republican Rep. Greg Chaney (R-10) may have been responsible for kicking out two of the citizen journalists over whom Bundy was protesting. During the hearing, Chaney told two people sitting in hearing room seats reserved for members of the media to vacate those seats.
“I&#8217;m not sure precisely what their goal is, but I&#8217;m absolutely sure that the two individuals whom I asked to leave were intending to create a scene,” Chaney said. “At times in the last 24 to 36 hours, this building has descended into complete chaos, and the only way to make sure that all citizens feel comfortable coming here to be heard is to make sure that we don&#8217;t allow rule deviations in general.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-issues-pardon-ranchers-whose-arrest-emily-zanotti">Trump Issues Pardon To Ranchers Whose Arrest Triggered Bundy Standoff</a>
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On Monday, a judge appointed to Idaho’s federal bench by President Trump <a href="https://interactive.ktvb.com/pdfs/transgenderathletelaworder.pdf">issued an injunction</a> to block the state’s “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act,” which had blocked men claiming they are women from competing in women’s student athletics. On March 30, 2020, Idaho Governor Bradley Little had signed the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act into law.
Judge David C. Nye wrote:
<blockquote>The primary question before the Court—whether the Court should enjoin the State of Idaho from enforcing a newly enacted law which precludes transgender female athletes from participating on women’s sports—involves complex issues relating to the rights of student athletes, physiological differences between the sexes, an individual’s ability to challenge the gender of other student athletes, female athlete’s rights to medical privacy and to be free from potentially invasive sex identification procedures, and the rights of all students to have complete access to educational opportunities, programs, and activities available at school …
Despite the national focus on the issue, Idaho is the first and only state to categorically bar the participation of transgender women in women’s student athletics. This categorical bar to girls and women who are transgender stands in stark contrast to the policies of elite athletic bodies that regulate sports both nationally and globally—including the National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”) and the International Olympic Committee (“IOC”)—which allow transgender women to participate on female sports teams once certain specific criteria are met.</blockquote>
“Nye said that plaintiffs, who include track and field <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/17/trump-backed-transgender-athlete-ban-paused-in-idaho-397495">athletes at Boise State University</a>, ‘are likely to succeed in establishing the Act is unconstitutional as currently written’ because, in his estimation, it likely violates the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the 14th Amendment,” Daniel Horowitz of Conservative Review <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-trump-appointed-judge-idaho-cant-block-men-competing-womens-sports/">noted</a>.
Horowitz added:
<blockquote>Nye claimed that Idaho’s ban is “in stark contrast to the policies of elite athletic bodies that regulate sports both nationally and globally” and that separating sexes by scientific designation “burdens all female athletes with the risk and embarrassment of having to ‘verify’ their ‘biological sex’ in order to play women’s sports.”ia</blockquote>
Horowitz referenced Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch’s opinion in Bostock v Clayton County, Ga, saying that the“Idaho judge cited Gorsuch’s Bostock decision as part of his rationale for believing transgenderism is enshrined in the 14th Amendment.”
Nye cited the fact that the state had passed the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic was evidence that the legislation was trying to ban transgender athletes rather than an effort to protect women’s sports, writing:
<blockquote>In addition, it is difficult to ignore the circumstances under which the Act was passed. As COVID-19 was declared a pandemic and many states adjourned state legislative session indefinitely, the Idaho Legislature stayed in session to pass H.B. 500 and become the first and only state to bar all women and girls who are transgender from participating in school sports. At the same time, the Legislature also passed another bill, H.B. 509, which essentially bans transgender individuals from changing their gender marker on their birth certificates to match their gender identity. Governor Little signed H.B. 500 and H.B. 509 into law on the same day. That the Idaho government stayed in session amidst an unprecedented national shut down to pass two laws which dramatically limit the rights of transgender individuals suggests the Act was motivated by a desire for transgender exclusion, rather than equality for women athletes, particularly when the national shutdown preempted school athletic events, making the rush to the pass the law unnecessary.</blockquote>
Nye wrote, “The State has not identified a legitimate interest served by the Act that the preexisting rules in Idaho did not already address, other than an invalid interest of excluding transgender women and girls from women’s sports entirely, regardless of their physiological characteristics.”
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An Idaho church removed a stained-glass window featuring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee last week after voting in June to modify the image that some found &#8220;divisive and hurtful.&#8221;
First United Methodist Church in Boise, Idaho, also known as the &#8220;Cathedral of the Rockies,&#8221; took down the image of Lee during a deconsecration ceremony last Friday, after having originally covered the image with a black banner that read, &#8220;We repent.&#8221; The church had been contemplating removing the Confederate general from one of their stained-glass windows ever since Dylann Roof murdered nine black congregants at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015.
&#8220;Following the Charleston tragedy, we began a process to engage this community in deep questions of racial justice and God’s call to us in the 21st century, acknowledging our own sin with a stained glass window panel in the right transept of the Cathedral,&#8221; the church <a href="https://mailchi.mp/9f2fcdcdcb3b/pr6ojtnhus-1130672?e=%5BUNIQID%5D&amp;fbclid=IwAR3UUxDUxpk3_hiv4r2M94Kia1Jj5x3pBFpmWR00F4OmQ417C6Li4rcoRaY" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a> in June. &#8220;This windowpane honors Presidents Washington, Lincoln, and Confederate General Robert E. Lee. We have heard from deeply passionate voices who have engaged with us and held us accountable to this process, and we thank them.&#8221;
The church went on to explain that engaging in conversation with members of their community &#8220;brought greater focus on the key question facing us: Is this section of window, installed in 1960, an appropriate part of our sacred space?&#8221;
After explaining how &#8220;after considerable prayer and deliberation, your Cathedral of the Rockies Church Board has voted to immediately modify the window and remove this divisive and hurtful image,&#8221; they continued:
&#8220;There are several things that we know to be true,&#8221; the church said:
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<li>We recognize this section of our window is more than a benign historical marker. For many of God’s children, it is an obstacle to worship in a sacred space; for some, this and other Confederate memorials serve as lampposts along a path that leads back to racial subjugation and oppression.</li>
<li>Admittedly, we have spent too long being indifferent, and comfortable in privilege. We have concluded that this portion of our right transept window tells an incomplete, misleading, and racist account. We are committed to finding ways to offer a richer, more balanced expression of our history.</li>
<li>We want to be clear that we are not attempting to remove history, but rather are removing a piece of a window from the sacred space within the Cathedral that does not reflect our Christian values. We believe this action can yet have a second life as an effective teaching tool in a context yet to be determined.</li>
<li>The recent deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor brought long-overdue urgency to our discernment process. We are reminded of our privilege. We have waited too long. We find ourselves compelled by the witness of others, moved by the presence of God in our midst, and convicted that the Holy Spirit is pointing us toward the answer. The continued presence of white supremacy and other forms of hate cannot be ignored – nor will they be solved simply by removing a portion of a window. The racial wounds that we have seen across our nation compel us to renew our commitment to building God’s beloved kingdom.</li>
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&#8220;We have all participated in one way or another in systemic racism,&#8221; Rev. Duane Anders, the senior pastor, told <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/a-step-toward-anti-racism-idaho-church-removes-robert-e-lee-from-stained-glass-window.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Christian Post</a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s time to take action to live as anti-racist. This is a step toward anti-racism. We continue to listen and learn from each other.&#8221; According to <a href="https://www.eastidahonews.com/2020/06/a-boise-church-repents-and-will-remove-stained-glass-window-of-confederate-general-robert-e-lee/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Idaho Statesman</a>, the church also held a &#8220;service of repentance&#8221; for the window and systemic racism on June 21, and held a small group discussion on &#8220;White Fragility&#8221; by Robin DiAngelo over Zoom.
The window with Lee was installed in 1960 because of what then-pastor Rev. Herbert E. Richards called &#8220;the strong Southern influence here in Boise.&#8221; Lee will be replaced with a person of color, though the church has yet to determine who that will be. The project will cost about $26,000, the church said.
The church&#8217;s action comes as Confederate monuments are being removed nationwide. In the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s death, the mayor of Richmond, Virginia — the former capital of the Confederacy — ordered all Confederate monuments on city property to be taken down. A large equestrian statue of Lee remains standing on Monument Avenue because it lies on state property and judges have repeatedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-allows-robert-e-lee-statue-in-richmond-to-stand-another-90-days" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blocked</a> Democratic Virginia&#8217;s Gov. Ralph Northam&#8217;s attempt to remove it.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/george-floyd-hologram-to-be-projected-onto-confederate-statues-throughout-the-south" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">George Floyd Hologram To Be Projected Onto Confederate Statues Throughout The South</a>
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On Tuesday, an Idaho mother was arrested in front of her children for refusing to leave a playground that was apparently closed by the city due to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.
Video of the confrontation shows a woman later identified as Sarah Brady, 40, being cuffed for refusing to leave an area playground. &#8220;Do it,&#8221; Brady dared an officer threatening to arrest her.
&#8220;Her kids are here! Her kids are here! What is going to happen? Who&#8217;s got her kids?&#8221; another woman at the playground can be heard saying as Brady is taken away in handcuffs.
&#8220;After receiving several calls to Ada County Dispatch, Meridian Police responded to Kleiner Park on April 21 2020 at around 3:50PM,&#8221; said a <a href="http://nixle.us/BSGHY">press release</a> from Meridian Police Department.
&#8220;Upon arrival, officers saw that metal signage and caution tape announcing the playground closure due to COVID-19, was removed,&#8221; the department continued, adding, &#8220;Officers informed those gathered several times that the play structure was closed, and that they were welcome to utilize other areas of the park if they chose.&#8221;
After asking questions about the public playground&#8217;s closure and refusing to leave when asked, Brady was arrested and hit with one count of misdemeanor trespassing.
Brady was &#8220;non-compliant and forced officers to place her under arrest to resolve the issue,&#8221; the department said. &#8220;She was arrested for trespassing.&#8221;
Some of the mothers, fed up with lockdown orders, apparently planned to go to the park to send a message of their disapproval, according to a published Facebook comment obtained by <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/arrest-of-idaho-mother-at-closed-playground-with-her-children-sparks-protest">The Blaze</a>.
&#8220;There are a BUNCH of us taking our kids to Kleiner Park in Meridian today at 3 pm to tear the tape off the playground,&#8221; the Facebook comment says. &#8220;ANYONE can join us, kids or no kids, let&#8217;s take a stand!&#8221;
Before Brady was cuffed, some of the moms asked two officers why they were being asked to leave, noting that the park was public and taxpayer funded.
At another point, the moms are directed to the park director, who said authorities were just trying to &#8220;protect&#8221; people from COVID-19. &#8220;Right. Protect us from getting Vitamin D and letting our kids play in the sunshine?&#8221; Brady responded.
According to Brady, people gathered at the open park attached to the playground were not &#8220;social distancing&#8221; or wearing masks, though officers never confronted them.
&#8220;Are you going to arrest everyone for not social distancing over there?&#8221; she asked.
The incident, which was recorded and posted to social media, quickly went viral online and in the community. Within hours, about 100 angered residents gathered at Meridian City Hall to protest the arrest.
According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavirus-idaho-womans-arrest-closed-playground-sparks-hundreds-protest">Fox News</a>, Brady was booked at the local jail around 5 p.m. on Tuesday and has since made bail.
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On Monday, an Idaho grandfather addressed a legislative hearing in the Idaho statehouse accompanied by his 11-year-old granddaughter, who was wearing something she carried on her right shoulder: a loaded AR-15.
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Accompanied by her grandfather, Charles, an 11-year-old girl named Bailey Nielsen carried a loaded AR-15 into the Idaho statehouse.<a href="https://t.co/mLq7V1JLlU">https://t.co/mLq7V1JLlU</a>
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The hearing was discussing a proposal that would allow visitors to Idaho to conceal carry within city limits if they are legally permitted to own firearms, as <a href="https://apnews.com/721bb463922ef156626ef839abf40b9a">AP reported</a>.
Bailey Nelson stood by her grandfather, Charles Nielsen, who told the committee, “Bailey is carrying a loaded AR-15. People live in fear, terrified of that which they do not understand. She’s been shooting since she was 5 years old. She got her first deer with this weapon at 9. She carries it responsibly. She knows how not to put her finger on the trigger. We live in fear in a society that is fed fear on a daily basis.”
Referencing visitors to Idaho, he continued, “When they come to Idaho, they should be able to carry concealed, because they carry responsibly. They’re law-abiding citizens. It’s the criminal we have to worry about.”
AP noted, &#8220;Guns are not an uncommon sight in the Statehouse when gun legislation is being debated, particularly handguns on belt holsters. Long rifles such as AR-15s also appear occasionally. Some Idaho lawmakers are known to carry concealed weapons in the Statehouse.&#8221;
Republican Rep. Christy Zito, who proposed the bill, stated, “I stand here before you today as a mother and grandmother who has had to use a firearm to defend their child.” She recalled an incident in which she warded off two men who approached her vehicle in which her daughter was seated, saying, “Even though I didn’t have to pull the trigger, just the fact that they could see it, and they knew that I had it, was the determining factor.”
Idaho law <a href="https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title18/T18CH33/SECT18-3302/">states</a>:
<blockquote>No person shall carry concealed weapons on or about his person without a license to carry concealed weapons, except:
(a)  In the person’s place of abode or fixed place of business;
(b)  On property in which the person has any ownership or leasehold interest;
(c)  On private property where the person has permission to carry concealed weapons from any person with an ownership or leasehold interest;
(d)  Outside the limits of or confines of any city, if the person is eighteen (18) years of age or older and is not otherwise disqualified from being issued a license under subsection (11) of this section.</blockquote>
The <a href="https://isp.idaho.gov/bci/concealed-weapons/">Idaho State Police</a> add, &#8220;Idaho recognizes all other states validly issued and current concealed weapons licenses/permits. Out of state residents must have their state concealed weapons license/permits on their person when carrying a concealed weapon in the state of Idaho.&#8221;
AP added, “Idaho residents 18 and older are allowed to carry a concealed handgun within city limits in Idaho without a permit or training following a new law that went into place last summer. The legislation would extend that to any legal resident of the United States or a U.S. armed services member.”
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In higher education’s ongoing quest to appeal to the “woke” crowd, colleges and universities across the country are now training professors about “inclusive grading” as part of a larger focus on diversity and inclusion.
The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/public-university-tells-professors-not-to-grade-based-on-merit/">reported</a> that Boise State University (BSU) is the latest in a long line of schools to jump on the ‘inclusive grading’ bandwagon. This week, the university is hosting an event called “Inclusive Teaching Means Inclusive Grading, Too.” The event is part of a larger certificate program, called Boise State Uniting for Inclusion and Leadership in Diversity (BUILD).
Information regarding the event could not be accessed, but other events with the same name offered insight into what is now being taught. From the Fix:
<blockquote>BSU’s event has the exact same name as a previous University of Tennessee-Knoxville faculty <a href="https://calendar.utk.edu/event/inclusive_teaching_means_inclusive_grading_practices_too#.XaTOB-dKi_I">workshop</a>. It was aimed to “engage instructors in conversations and activities designed to foreground diversity and inclusion in considerations of assessment and grading practices.”
The University of Michigan held a faculty workshop with a near-identical name as well. The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching <a href="http://crlt.umich.edu/events/inclusive-teaching-means-inclusive-grading-practices-too-inclusive-teaching-michigan-series">stated</a> on its website that attending teachers would “be asked to review their own practices” on grading throughout the event.
This workshop is reminiscent of one <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-seminar-teaches-faculty-not-to-judge-quality-of-writing-when-grading/">held</a> in February at American University, designed to teach faculty “how to assess writing without judging its quality.”
Titled “Grading ain’t just grading” and promising to help teachers rethink “writing assessment ecologies toward antiracist ends,” the workshop <a href="https://edspace.american.edu/ariwa/">warned</a> that “the practices of grading writing” maintained “White language supremacy.”</blockquote>
BSU, the Fix reported, has been on a “woke” kick lately, including hosting a book circle that makes participants “dig deep into ourselves to explore the ways in which we all, as individuals, sometimes unknowingly, support racism and white supremacy.”
The Fix also highlighted other programs coming up as part of the BUILD certification. One workshop is titled “Implicit Bias in the Academic Workplace” and suggests faculty attending reflect on “messages that are fed to us via news and popular culture may cause us to create an inequitable environment.”
Another workshop, titled, “‘Why are You Reacting that Way?’: Unpacking Identity Development &amp; it’s Impact on Interactions in the Classroom &amp; Workplace,” promises to “give participants opportunities to examine the lens they use to interact with others and understand why there is resistance.”
So, it’s now a professor’s responsibility to change their behavior to reduce “resistance” from students? What ever happened to teaching children and young adults how to properly behave?
Another upcoming program asks: “How accessible is your syllabus? That is, to what extent is it able to be used by all intended users, each with differing capabilities?”
Schools across the country have been giving into the woke crowd with increasing frequency. Multiple schools have held “white privilege workshops” designed to teach white people that they are racist and must repent. In <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/huge-university-holds-white-privilege-workshop-joseph-curl">one recent example</a>, the University of North Carolina’s workshop was attended by just nine students.
No subject is safe from the woke brigade, either. In Seattle, curriculum has been proposed that would teach students that math – yes math – <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/seattle-public-schools-teaching-math-ethnic-studies-asks-who-gets-to-say-if-an-answer-is-right">is racist</a>.

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