Retired Lawyer, retired western rural fire chief, retired rural hospital board chair. Former co-chair 350Montana, current Third Act Vol Coordinator
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senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
POPE LEO: “Let us plead God to stop the pandemic of arms, large and small, which infects our world.” He prays for the victims in Minneapolis, and “the countless children killed and injured every day around the world”
Public safety in California is on the rise. Last year, California had the second-lowest homicide rate since at least 1966, decreasing by nearly 12% overall since 2023. We're going to drive that progress forward up and down the state.
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
You know what? We're the ones who believe in the Constitution. We're the ones who believe in free and fair elections. We didn't storm the Capitol. We're the REAL patriots.
Pallas's cat: One of the world's oldest felines that stands on its bushy tail to keep its paws warm www.livescience.com/animals/cats...
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
I like the rebrand.
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
I gotta say: This feels like a planned thing.
California stepping up.
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This is the face of the typical #drug smuggler! tinyurl.com/37dj3zh7 "Data obtained through the FOI Act found that most people arrested for smuggling fentanyl at ports of entry are U.S. citizens, accounting for 81.2% of all seizures along the southwest border from fiscal years 2019 to June 2024."
“‘Nakba All Over Again': West Bank Palestinians Still Displaced More Than 6 Months After Israel Forced Them to Flee” The Israeli operation in Jenin, Tulkarm, and other cities, has displaced more than 40,000 people – the largest mass displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank in decades.
thinking about the fast, efficient driverless cars we should’ve had decades ago
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
OMG 😳 😆
Just saying.
I almost wet muh pants. 😭
The current government won't care.
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
Germany and Italy say they export lots of goods to Kyrgyzstan (black), but Kyrgyz import data (blue) show little arriving from either. Kyrgyzstan is just what it says on the invoice. This stuff obviously goes to Russia. Poland & Lithuania stopped this racket. Why won't Germany and Italy do the same?
Why isn’t RFK researching the effects of long term heroin use on cognitive function?
He’s on another QAnon posting spree tonight.
So true
Some personal news: My Son is officially canceling his second coming until y’all are actually ready to listen to Him.
Happy Saturday! 🌞 I'm sleeping lots lately. Went to bed before 9 last night, and it was 8 this morning before the dogs decided I had to get up. 🥱☕ It might look nice and sunny but I've got my fire on. 🔥 Autumn is in the air now 🍂 so I'm keeping my eye out for mushrooms. 🍄
This is too cute, dogs really are the best... 🥺❤️ #dog #dogday #bluesky
well the police helicopters are sure annoying tonight, my windows are rattling
This is never going away, is it?
Yep.
Please do.
One can hope apple.news/A9ShpUy-URX6...
A sobering read on how Finland and Sweden have prepared their population for potential war with Russia. I think there are things Canada must do to better prepare our population and our defence capability. We no longer have a stable neighbour, we need to adapt. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Injured Spinal Cords Repaired With Breakthrough 3D-printed ‘Scaffolding’–Team Regrows Nerves in Rats: www.goodnewsnetwork.org/injured-spin...
My kids are so loud. They are fighting. They are laughing. They are playing. They are screaming. Did I mention it’s loud? But I just keep thinking, “they came home safe from school every day” and somehow, that’s remarkable enough in this country for me to be glad for the noise today.
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“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
Clean energy isn’t “woke.” It’s an essential part of our energy future and saves us all on power bills. This administration’s war on offshore wind and solar is just going to raise Americans’ utilities.
“As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one’s life or one’s work,” Leonard Cohen said, in 2016.
Brainworm bobby says he will reveal the causes of autism in September. He will also give out the recipe for his roadkill cancer cure and explain why facts are dangerous to mental health.
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated that Russia is attempting to destabilize Germany, including targeting its infrastructure, and therefore Berlin is in direct conflict with Moscow.
I imagine future historians will judge us by recent events where the shooting of children in church is met with shrugs, thoughts and prayers, and a tech bro getting the crap kicked out of him by a 15-year-old girl resulted in a military occupation of the nation’s capital
Angry constituents confront Congress on immigration, Medicaid cuts and Gaza The few lawmakers who held town halls this summer faced voters furious with Republicans about Trump's agenda and with Democrats for not doing enough to fight back. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
California lawmakers reach an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app-based drivers to form unions. This is a victory for organized labor that could lay the groundwork for similar efforts in other states.
The warfighters in DC got the trash picked up, now time to mulch.
In honor of the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina: "Heck of a job you're doing, Donny."
By Benjamin Slyngstad.
LOOK at this monster of a sheening fountain pen ink. This entire picture is painted using only one ink: Quetzalcoatl by Kiwi inks
THANK YOU, Miccosukee tribe! A federal judge sided with the Miccosukee Tribe and said the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center must close. GOOD JOB!
Let that sink in.
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
CHICAGO…
Excellent question.
Next thing you know, she'll be clutching her pearls.
She's gone from concerned to alarmed - a giant step for Susan
ohmy god, that's right! She did say that. [laughs] [cries] [goes insane]
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You're not going to believe this but Susan Collins is "extremely alarmed"
Here's some good news: Catelin Drey won a special election this week to flip a seat blue in the Iowa Senate and break Republicans' supermajority.
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
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"Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the shooter acted alone, did not have an extensive criminal history and legally purchased the guns used in the killings." What matters is the last part of the sentence "legally purchased the guns used in the killings."
I'm reading about children killed in yet another shooting while sitting in the very campus building in which my department's former head was killed by a man wielding a gun and I am so far from okay I don't know where to start
Pushing out top officials. Firing hundreds of lifelong public health experts. Trying to slash the CDC’s budget by billions. How is this “Making America Healthy Again”?
The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism. In the end, faster than I imagined possible, it did happen here.
On Labor Day we Protest!!! #WorkersOverBillionaires
This is Parker. He will not eat until he receives a forehead kiss. 13/10 would give him so many smooches (TT: parkerthegoldenboy)
Several hundred demonstrators gathered in Lower Manhattan on Thursday to protest the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion policies and its effort to exert control over policing in Democratic-led cities.
THOU SHALT STOP WORSHIPPING GUNS!!!
You mean like deny vaccinations to the great unwashed masses?
Q: What did the CDC director do wrong to deserve being fired? Leavitt: "...She was not aligned with the president's mission to make America healthy again."