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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 21h

As someone who has been on SNAP benefits in the past, what will happen Nov. 1 is that people will start diverting other funds towards groceries. They will choose to feed their families over making credit card payments, paying medical bills, car payments, etc. This is going to affect a lot of things.

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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 1d

Post a perfect album from 1989. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, 1984-1989.

Cover of the album Lloyd Cole and the Commotions 1884-1989

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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 1d

More faux common man bullshit from Vance. Real people live next to all kinds of neighbors, and enjoy being around people who are different from themselves. It’s the rich elite who insist on living in their little culturally pure enclaves.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d

Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do

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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 1d

electrek.co/2025/10/29/m...

More Trump job losses as GM blames 3,300 layoffs on regulatory changes

Americans are losing more auto jobs due to republicans' assault on domestic manufacturing, and China will be the country that benefits.

electrek.co

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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump has a 41% approval rating in Montana.

dailymontanan.com/2025/10/28/m...

Chart from 2025 Montana poll showing Donald Trump approval at 41% and disapproval at 41%.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2d

Lots of reporting on SNAP getting the details wrong.

SNAP is not set to run out of money on November 1. There’s money in the contingency fund to pay benefits.

The Trump admin is illegally refusing to deliver benefits on November 1, despite having funding to pay benefits.

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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 2d

Americans give President Trump exceptionally low marks on how he has managed the costs weighing on U.S. households, with 63% of the country disapproving of his handling of the cost of living.
(Reuters/Ipsos)
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 2d

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“.. In the first half of this year, the Trump Organization’s income soared 17-fold to $864 million ..

“.. more than 90% .. came from Trump crypto ventures, including sales of World Liberty tokens.”

@reuters.com $WLFI
www.reuters.com/investigatio...

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3d

Chef José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen’s Relief Team is supporting furloughed federal workers in Washington, DC, as the Trump shutdown nears its fourth week: wck.org/news/first-a...

World Central Kitchen | First Alert: WCK Relief Team Serving Meals to Federal Workers During Government Shutdown

World Central Kitchen’s Relief Team is serving hot meals to furloughed federal workers in Washington, D.C., as the U.S. government shutdown nears its fourth week.

wck.org

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Electrek @electrek.co · 3d

Canada is rumored to immently remove tariffs on Chinese electric cars

Canada is rumored to remove tariffs on Chinese electric cars soon, as Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this week. This would likely lead to the biggest shake-up in the EV space in North America after the US killing its EV incentives. more…

electrek.co

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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 3d

These dipshits support the president’s plan to flood the market with Argentinian beef but they think that a couple hundred bison grazing on public land is the threat to Montana’s agricultural industry.

dailymontanan.com/2025/10/24/g...

Governor, delegation send letter to Interior over American Prairie

State economy, grazing rights were the primary concern in the letter as ranchers worry about spread of brucellosis

dailymontanan.com

Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 4d

I am begging #mtnews to note that Senator Daines voted three months ago to cut funding for both SNAP and Head Start whenever you print his talking points that attempt to blame Democrats for delaying the programs.

Montana Free Press @montanafreepress.org · 7d

As the federal shutdown drags on, the Fort Belknap Head Start program is scrambling to secure the funding necessary to keep its doors open.

Federal shut down puts a Hi-Line Head Start program at risk

Amid Congressional gridlock, child care programs on the Fort Belknap Reservation are scrambling to keep their doors open.

montanafreepress.org

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 5d

"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."

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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 5d

Would a demolition company, especially one that works in DC, take a project like this without seeing plans/documentation that all approvals were in place?

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 6d

This is the company, ACECO, whose equipment and employees demolished East Wing of the White House this week.

They've redefined their own reputation, that's for sure. Check them out: acecoworld.com

And don't forget Clark Construction, "Building What Matters."
www.clarkconstruction.com

Web site: "ACECO, Redefining Demolition." This is from the company that tore down the East Wing of the White House this week.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 8d

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 8d

Per PL 87-286, the White House and grounds are a National Park System property, subject to the Organic Act. IANAL but doesn’t that mean anybody could sue for the APA violation of unpermitted activity?

Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 9d

Amazing how nobody in the Montana press is asking Daines, Zinke, Sheehy or Downing if they support Trump's plan to import Argentinian beef.

www.ktvq.com/news/local-n...

Montana cattle producers push back on Trump's Argentina beef-import plan

Montana cattle producers are raining concerns about President Donald Trump’s proposal to import beef from Argentina to help lower domestic beef prices.

www.ktvq.com

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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 9d

So then essentially anyone is allowed to bulldoze and build in a national park and if DOI/NPS doesn't enforce the Organic Act then nobody else can stop them? Seems like Trump just threw the doors open for rampant private development in every national park in America.

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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 9d

PL 87-286 says that the WH "shall be administered pursuant to" the National Park Service Organic Act of 1916. The only exemptions are for "administration" or "use and occupancy" by the President...bulldozers seem like a stretch.

This is just straight up illegal demolition of a national park.

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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 9d

Or maybe use less passive voice: an ICE agent shot a US Marshall.

Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 9d

I do wish just one of the news stories that let the GOP spout talking points about delayed SNAP and WIC funding would mention that they all voted to defund both programs three months ago.

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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 9d

And not just historic preservation applies. Under PL 87-286 the White House is a NPS property and explicitly covered by the Organic Act.

The President is for all practical purposes using secret donations to bulldoze a national park.

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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 10d

Yep. Demolition and construction on a National Park System property, paid for by secret billionaires. This is a staggeringly dangerous precedent for ALL national parks. It opens the door for privatization of America’s most precious public lands.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10d

The White House keeps making a big deal of the fact that the ballroom is privately funded but that’s one of the worst things about it.

These people and companies are buying influence. None of this is okay.

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A lot of FAKE OUTRAGE over construction of the big, beautiful (and privately funded) White House Ballroom.
FACT: Presidents have been renovating and expanding the White House for more than 100 years.
In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt built the West Wing.
In 1909, President William Howard Taft added the first Oval Office during a West Wing expansion.

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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 12d

Wow THREE TRILLION dollars is some truly shameless misinformation.

Screenshot of false claim by NBC Montana that the Open Society Foundations donated $3 TRILLION dollars to Indivisible. "Through a fund, the foundation issued a $3 trillion grant to the Indivisible Organization that was good for two years "to support the grantee's social welfare activities.”"

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