Over the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed more than two dozen people. Not a single agent appears to have faced criminal charges. Our reporter spent four years investigating ICE shootings that occurred from 2015 to 2021. Some patterns emerged.

Guy at the bar loudly explaining about how Battlefield 4 is a blueprint of what’s going to happen in the next world war.

sorry Merry Christmas but the world is dying

Overheard on the plane back to Helena “The winters are a lot better than they used to be.” I have so little hope for the future sometimes.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

Wildfires and the World Cup is not something I’ve considered but I’m sure considering it now!

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

"The project—[Bari Weiss's] and that of her backers—is to establish herself and her cohort not as new-right media, but as the new liberal media, staking out the leftmost acceptable position within the new right-wing paradigm." (This is a gift link, from October) defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Right, this line Vance used was a very common line used by segregationists. Here's Rep. Mendel Rivers (D-SC) reacting to the Brown decision, which he said "would bring mongrelization of the Caucasian race. He added that he for one won't apologize for being a white man."

I’m also about halfway through Talia Lavin’s newer book - Wild Faith - which is also a good book to read if you’re interested in RW Christian nationalism.

I’ve been reading Tim Alberta’s book “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory” and I’m going to say you should too.

This doesn’t even make sense.

the Republican Party, folks.

JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"

and they can never come up with any concrete examples

JD Vance: "They are not sending their best. Omar Fateh was Ilehan [sic] Omar's candidate for mayor of Mogadishu-- I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there."

JD Vance gets the biggest applause of his speech so far when he says "by the grace of God we always will be a Christian nation"

FACT CHECK American companies never owned oil or land in Venezuela, and officials didn’t kick them out. Venezuela, following Mexico, Brazil and Saudi Arabia, nationalized its most lucrative sector in 1976 and developed mutually beneficial partnerships with American and other firms wapo.st/4jblLKs

I had to take off my belt at TSA, this country man.

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum has “assumed jurisdiction” of three American Prairie grazing rights cases, according to a memo obtained by the Western Ag Network. By @jordyhansen.bsky.social: dailymontanan.com/2025/12/12/b... #mtnews #montana #mtpol

An embezzlement case and legislative efforts to remove its funding have complicated the financial picture for the Montana Heritage Commission and called its viability into question. By @jordyhansen.bsky.social: dailymontanan.com/2025/12/11/u... #montana #mtnews #mtpol

NEW: Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them. They finally got their wish.

Why am I seeing Scientology ads during a Monday night NFL broadcast.

A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community. From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:

Truly he didn’t do much other than beat Iowa a couple times, get ranked a couple times and lose a lot of important games.

Politicians, philanthropists and an excited public are celebrating the opening of the Montana Heritage Center, a $107 million project showcasing the state’s history. By @jordyhansen.bsky.social: dailymontanan.com/2025/12/03/m... #montana #mtnews #mtpol

Samantha Strable, a Great Falls woman who got in trouble with the Australian government over a wombat earlier this year, was charged last month with eight misdemeanors related to hunting violations in Wyoming. By @jordyhansen.bsky.social: dailymontanan.com/2025/12/02/g... #mtnews #montana

"I said, 'Is it like milk cows? They go back to the same stall?' And they said, ‘No, they talk to each other, and whatever stall is open, they go to.'” Legislators look at autonomous vehicles. By @jordyhansen.bsky.social: dailymontanan.com/2025/11/24/m... #mtnews #mtpol #montana

The drought plaguing Washington's Yakima River basin is something of a train wreck in motion. Farmers are tearing out apple orchards and letting their wine grapes die on the vine. This is only going to worsen. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

AI infidelity is reshaping family law “More and more, courts are beginning to see clients cite emotional bonds with AI companions as reasons for marital strain or dissolution.” my latest for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/ai-rel...

"Watchdogs at the government-sponsored home loan company popularly known as Fannie Mae were fired as they investigated whether a close ally of [..] Trump improperly accessed mortgage files of Democratic officials targeted for political retribution by the president." #USA #Housing

Realizing Seattle media called the mayoral election, which won’t get as much press as NYC’s but should get some degree of note

Landon Thomas’s behavior seems to be embarrassing enough to the Times hierarchy that they had their spokesman go on record insinuating to the Post that he was fired for cause. I wonder whether legal signed off on that. nypost.com/2025/11/12/u...

I witnessed six traffic violations driving five miles in Bozeman earlier

O'DONNELL: But the only country that's testing nuclear weapons is North Korea TRUMP: No. Russia is testing nuclear weapons. And China is testing them too, you just don't know about it. O'DONNELL: That would certainly be very newsworthy

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

NEWS | Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola is out for the rest of the season after breaking his fibula on Saturday against USC. More: journalstar.com/sports/huske...

It involves drones, cameras, quick spray nozzles, scanners and some crazy GIS and satellite work. Trying to make it so you don’t have to spray a whole field to kill weeds.

you guys would not believe what the ag industry is up to in the weed spraying world

Take note

"On Wednesday afternoon in Orange County Superior Court, an Angels attorney used the team’s PR statistician to argue a central argument in their defense: That deceased former pitcher Tyler Skaggs was not very good at his job." Good lord, man.

JD Vance drew a broad backlash this week after he said that he hoped that his wife, Usha Vance, who is of Indian heritage and was raised in a Hindu family, would eventually convert to his own Catholic faith.

hmmm he says, hmmm.

FBI: "We didn't zip tie children." REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old." FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."

Forrest Smith was forced to step down last month as the sole employee at the National Park Service responsible for cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells at national parks across the U.S. He wasn't replaced. Now, the wells are at risk of spewing planet-warming gases and contaminating groundwater.

Precisely the reason I rarely watch college football anymore

no YOU are in a Lewistown bar