Jackie Brennan
@jacquelinetbrennan.bsky.social
resisting domestication since 1992. the lowest sinkhole of vice in the West. YNP gateway kid. she/her.
✍️ @ jacquelinetbrennan.com/blog
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Just caught wind that we lost Fritz Daily. 💔
A fighter, a Butte diehard, and a stone-cold legend. Also the subject of one of my all-time favorite episodes of @foles74.bsky.social's ButteCast. buttecast.com/2023/01/27/p...
A fighter, a Butte diehard, and a stone-cold legend. Also the subject of one of my all-time favorite episodes of @foles74.bsky.social's ButteCast. buttecast.com/2023/01/27/p...
Podcast No. 48: Fritz Daily
Fritz Daily is Butte’s biggest champion and supporter. He has been fighting the good fight to try to get Butte the Superfund cleanup it deserves. Daily, 77, is a retired teacher and guidance counse…
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January 28, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Just caught wind that we lost Fritz Daily. 💔
A fighter, a Butte diehard, and a stone-cold legend. Also the subject of one of my all-time favorite episodes of @foles74.bsky.social's ButteCast. buttecast.com/2023/01/27/p...
A fighter, a Butte diehard, and a stone-cold legend. Also the subject of one of my all-time favorite episodes of @foles74.bsky.social's ButteCast. buttecast.com/2023/01/27/p...
My amended version of Dostoyevsky’s koan and other things I’m taking with me to keep standing without delusion in this world of wounds. www.jacquelinetbrennan.com/2025/12/26/d...
Dostoyevsky’s Koan for a Monkey’s Fist
I'd rather be bothered and lonely than delusional. I’d rather have my eyes open to the vanishing “sense of a plausible future” than have my head in my ass.
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December 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
My amended version of Dostoyevsky’s koan and other things I’m taking with me to keep standing without delusion in this world of wounds. www.jacquelinetbrennan.com/2025/12/26/d...
Is there such a thing as non-violence? This sprawling essay is my answer.
Take a little trip, take a little trip, take a little trip with me, first to the lodgepole forests of my youth, then to one of the more life-affirming books I've recently read. www.thefriendshipcenter.org/post/the-del...
Take a little trip, take a little trip, take a little trip with me, first to the lodgepole forests of my youth, then to one of the more life-affirming books I've recently read. www.thefriendshipcenter.org/post/the-del...
The Delusion of Non-Violence
Is there such a thing as non-violence? TFC’s own Jackie Brennan has a definite opinion, and it might surprise you.
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October 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Is there such a thing as non-violence? This sprawling essay is my answer.
Take a little trip, take a little trip, take a little trip with me, first to the lodgepole forests of my youth, then to one of the more life-affirming books I've recently read. www.thefriendshipcenter.org/post/the-del...
Take a little trip, take a little trip, take a little trip with me, first to the lodgepole forests of my youth, then to one of the more life-affirming books I've recently read. www.thefriendshipcenter.org/post/the-del...
In a single mistyped first name, our sitting Secretary of Agriculture has been transformed from a politician to a jazz legend. 😂
July 31, 2025 at 12:18 AM
In a single mistyped first name, our sitting Secretary of Agriculture has been transformed from a politician to a jazz legend. 😂
Beyond ready for the pendulum to swing back to an era where MT’s federal elected officials understand that one of the ultimate signs of credibility and status is being from Butte and having headframes in the background of your photos. Rest easy, Pat.
June 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Beyond ready for the pendulum to swing back to an era where MT’s federal elected officials understand that one of the ultimate signs of credibility and status is being from Butte and having headframes in the background of your photos. Rest easy, Pat.
Anti-mass-tourism protestors be out here speaking my love language.
June 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Anti-mass-tourism protestors be out here speaking my love language.
Westerly winds did such a beautiful job getting smoke from Canadian fires out of the valley today, but now Gates of the Mountains is ripping. ⚖️ 💀
June 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Westerly winds did such a beautiful job getting smoke from Canadian fires out of the valley today, but now Gates of the Mountains is ripping. ⚖️ 💀
White evening primrose in the Gardiner Basin joined by pronghorn, a road-crossing bullsnake, and the ever-present threat of any cow elk’s ambush if I unknowingly encroach on the site of a discreetly cached newborn.
June 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
White evening primrose in the Gardiner Basin joined by pronghorn, a road-crossing bullsnake, and the ever-present threat of any cow elk’s ambush if I unknowingly encroach on the site of a discreetly cached newborn.
Pasqueflowers starting to poke their heads out in the hills, auguring the rainbow of seasonal blooms to come and guaranteeing that a snowy squall will arrive in 2-3 weeks to cover all of them.
April 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Pasqueflowers starting to poke their heads out in the hills, auguring the rainbow of seasonal blooms to come and guaranteeing that a snowy squall will arrive in 2-3 weeks to cover all of them.
How can we make sure the word "shituation" gets used in every news story about down-on-their-luck mountain towns going forward? What a worthy and descriptive portmanteau with endless applications for my hometown and beyond.
Yellowstone’s gateway town fears for its future amid Trump funding cuts.
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#Yellowstone #DOGE #Trump #Climate #Environment
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#Yellowstone #DOGE #Trump #Climate #Environment
Yellowstone's gateway town fears for its future amid Trump funding cuts
“Gardiner is a company town and Yellowstone is the mill. If somebody starts screwing with the mill, we have no choice but to be concerned.”
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April 3, 2025 at 2:28 AM
How can we make sure the word "shituation" gets used in every news story about down-on-their-luck mountain towns going forward? What a worthy and descriptive portmanteau with endless applications for my hometown and beyond.
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a bunch of government goons from ICE/HSI showed up to an elementary school in DC this morning and tried to detain a staff member in the parking lot but the person's colleagues intervened and stopped it and let that be a reminder to all of us that we can do that
March 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
a bunch of government goons from ICE/HSI showed up to an elementary school in DC this morning and tried to detain a staff member in the parking lot but the person's colleagues intervened and stopped it and let that be a reminder to all of us that we can do that
Absolutely nobody is asking, but I’m really proud of my impromptu speaking skills about the significance of the 1892 Homestead Strike with total strangers at airports, even after I’ve had a few beers.
February 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Absolutely nobody is asking, but I’m really proud of my impromptu speaking skills about the significance of the 1892 Homestead Strike with total strangers at airports, even after I’ve had a few beers.
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RIP to Blackfeet Lady Baller Legend Malia Kipp
January 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
RIP to Blackfeet Lady Baller Legend Malia Kipp
Starting another year of my terrestrial allotment, my wish is that you, like me, may be surprised by your ability to remember. www.jacquelinetbrennan.com/2024/12/19/r...
Remembering
If I’ve arrived at any kind of personal spirituality or partial grasp of what the fuck we’re all doing here to start off another year of my terrestrial allotment, I’m comfortable looking at All of …
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December 19, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Starting another year of my terrestrial allotment, my wish is that you, like me, may be surprised by your ability to remember. www.jacquelinetbrennan.com/2024/12/19/r...
An absolute BARNBURNER of a real-life horror story. I'm convinced you'll feel the sucker-punch when you read about the phenobarbital dose no matter where you're reading, or when. Wow.
Let me tell you a story – one of the more haunting I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism. It’s about greed, death and denial. It took two years to unravel one doctor’s myth, a hospital’s complicity in creating it, and a documented trail of suspicious deaths…🧵
December 10, 2024 at 5:21 AM
An absolute BARNBURNER of a real-life horror story. I'm convinced you'll feel the sucker-punch when you read about the phenobarbital dose no matter where you're reading, or when. Wow.
I feel like this new Dead Pioneers song is destined to be adored in Montana on the strength of the Lily Gladstone line alone. youtu.be/ToVZHzw720I?...
Dead Pioneers - My Spirit Animal Ate Your Spirit Animal (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by HassleRecords
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December 5, 2024 at 5:33 AM
I feel like this new Dead Pioneers song is destined to be adored in Montana on the strength of the Lily Gladstone line alone. youtu.be/ToVZHzw720I?...
The most spectacular mail of the literary variety I’ve received all year. 🤘🦬
November 30, 2024 at 8:05 PM
The most spectacular mail of the literary variety I’ve received all year. 🤘🦬
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It's a revealing window into class and regionalism how extremism in the American West has been written off for decades as a local problem, just a place where the wackos collect. Really it's been a training ground and fertile soil for these ideologies to grow, expand and take over.
November 25, 2024 at 4:26 PM
It's a revealing window into class and regionalism how extremism in the American West has been written off for decades as a local problem, just a place where the wackos collect. Really it's been a training ground and fertile soil for these ideologies to grow, expand and take over.
Thrilled to see Costco now peddling pizza from these curbside ovens camouflaged as upright pianos that have seen better days.
November 26, 2024 at 1:27 AM
Thrilled to see Costco now peddling pizza from these curbside ovens camouflaged as upright pianos that have seen better days.
Some wicked inversion yesterday in Upper Missouri River country. Black ice still down in town while melting frost and snow dripped from trees in the inversion zone. You could smell the change on the way up before you even felt the temperature jump.
November 24, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Some wicked inversion yesterday in Upper Missouri River country. Black ice still down in town while melting frost and snow dripped from trees in the inversion zone. You could smell the change on the way up before you even felt the temperature jump.