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Oceans lakes rivers. Butte kid. Advocate. Cheese.
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This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous.
prospect.org/justice/crie...
Cries of Defiance and Songs of Joy in Los Angeles
The protesters are being called unspeakably violent by the Trump administration. I mostly saw clergy sit-ins and Tejano bands.
prospect.org
June 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Did CHAT GPT write RFK's MAHA Report to the President? Inquiring minds want to know. www.notus.org/health-scien...
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org
May 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.
A small Montana town grapples with the fallouts from federal worker cuts
Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.
www.npr.org
May 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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This 🧵 is diving into Head Start as its currently on the chopping block in the proposed budget. Head Start is an incredible program that is much more involved and influential than people may realize. And if the regime gets its way, this cut would result in generations of harm.
April 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Leo-pard.

Page letting the cat out of the bag in Endless Joy’s Leopard Print Camp Shirt. This is a full-on debut. By gar, it’s been a while.

Show your fangs: bit.ly/42ky28D

4/20/25, Portland, OR

#phish
April 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:
April 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Butte, Montana residents persist despite a century of setbacks.
The indomitable Butte, Montana - High Country News
The misunderstood, often-maligned mining town helps itself.
www.hcn.org
April 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
April 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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An excellent emendation to Paul, Weiss’s Wikipedia page.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul,_W...
March 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Sen Tim Kaine (D-VA) speech about Trump Admin. "buyout" idea for federal workers

"He's tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept that offer and resign, he'll stiff you just like he stiffed the contractors. He doesn't have any authority to do this. Do not be fooled by this guy"
January 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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“You cannot legislate us back into the closet, into the grave or out of existence.” - Faye Wilde, a transgender woman, against a bill that would criminalize certain types of medical care. By @keilaszpaller.bsky.social: dailymontanan.com/2025/01/27/m... #montana #mtleg #mtpol
Montana Senate Judicial committee takes up bill that criminalizes care for transgender youth • Daily Montanan
Montana Senate Judicial committee takes up bill that criminalizes care for transgender youth
dailymontanan.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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The Montana Supreme Court says the framers who enacted the state's constitution refused to "grant the State a free pass to pollute the Montana environment just because the rest of the world insisted on doing so." A lot here about climate change in Montana. juddocumentservice.mt.gov/getDocByCTra...
December 18, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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TRUMP: I’m going to use the FBI illegally to go after my political enemies!

BIDEN: Um, I guess I’ll pardon my son then because fuck that.

MEDIA: Biden is breaking norms!
December 3, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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NEW: Montana lawmakers narrowly vote down bathroom ban for transgender representative nbcmontana.com/news/local/m...
Montana lawmakers narrowly vote down bathroom ban for transgender representative
The transgender bathroom debate has once again made its way to the state capitol in Helena.
nbcmontana.com
December 3, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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November 23, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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Whenever you hear Nancy Mace talk about wanting to "protect private spaces for women and girls," please remember she & Marjorie Taylor Greene literally threatened to beat up trans people if they find them in the women's bathrooms at the Capitol. @motherjones.com

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
House Speaker Johnson announces transgender bathroom ban—on Trans Day of Remembrance
He and Nancy Mace team up on their transphobia ahead of the arrival of the first openly trans member of Congress, Sarah McBride.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2024 at 9:35 PM
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Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.
November 14, 2024 at 3:23 PM