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.

Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago

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

The Montana Department of Corrections announced crews have restored full water service at Montana State Prison near Deer Lodge. But much work remains. By @jordyhansen.bsky.social: dailymontanan.com/2025/10/27/w... #mtnews #mtpol #mtleg

The U.S. military struck a boat in the Caribbean Sea, killing six people, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday. He asserted without evidence that it was carrying drugs. It was the 10th known such attack, bringing the number of people killed by the U.S. strikes to 43.

A new Montana law requiring voters to write down their birth year has led to county election officials rejecting an abnormal number of ballots for this year’s local elections, report @dailymontanan.com and @statesnewsroom.com

Water at Montana State Prison routinely tested positive for coliform bacteria #mtnews dailymontanan.com/2025/10/20/w...

Q: How comfortable are you w/Trump seeking $230m from the DOJ? MIKE JOHNSON: Uh, I don't know the details. I just read it. I know he believes he's owed that reimbursement. What I heard is that if receives it, he's gonna consider giving it to charity. They attack him for everything. *changes topic*

Tech giants keep touting a system they built to label AI-generated content. But it only works if everyone uses it. So I checked. They're not using it. 🎁 wapo.st/4qokjaC

Few things deal a larger blow to self-respect than "mangling the spelling of a word so badly that autocorrect can't even guess at what it was you meant"

Booo jays booo

Water at Montana State Prison routinely tested positive for coliform bacteria #mtnews dailymontanan.com/2025/10/20/w...

The government shutdown stops USDA from administering farm subsidies, raising the specter of growing farm foreclosures. It also delays a bailout President Trump had promised for farmers impacted by tariffs.

“We have got to resist. It’s the patriotic thing to do.” Montanans in small towns demonstrate at No Kings rallies. By @keilaszpaller.bsky.social @mddrew.bsky.social @jordyhansen.bsky.social: dailymontanan.com/2025/10/18/s... #montana #mtpol #mtnews

About 200 people at #NoKings in Dillon

There really isn’t a word or general state of being I dislike more than “cringe” and it’s not close

Montana State Prison update: DOC says they're going to use $21 million to make the water system "modern." Some other updates in here, including where the NG is trucking water from. #mtnews #mtpol dailymontanan.com/2025/10/16/m...

Update on MSP - Three leaks found at Montana State Prison as water issues continue. Some inmates are saying there's no heat, either. #mtnews dailymontanan.com/2025/10/14/m...

Anthony's a Daily Iowan alum - and a great photoj.

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

I done saw a LinkedIn post that said using the word “and” was a signifier of AI usage in writing and (!!!) I’m once again reminded a lot of people do not live in a real world.

To be clear this person was absolutely riding horses all day.

“I feel like I’ve been riding horses all day” - overheard in the bar

It’s unreal how happy playoff baseball makes me.

Not me dropping a full bottle of hot sauce in the checkout line at Albertson’s.

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News. Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios. www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

NYT: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Attorneys argued a Kalispell man’s constitutional free speech rights were violated when he was arrested after filming police officers during a traffic stop. By @jordyhansen.bsky.social: dailymontanan.com/2025/10/01/s... #montana #mtpol #mtnews

On the Big Hole River, a search for bugs. New #mtnews, from me ⤵️ dailymontanan.com/2025/09/30/o...

Proud of the staff at The Homer News and the Peninsula Clarion who are resigning. Unfortunately, thanks to Sarah's cancel culture crusade, Alaska is losing four fantastic local journalists. Vance NEEDS to be held accountable for her overreach of power.

Idk where RFK got that photo but note the “draft not for distribution” and “confidential” it’s little stuff like that that continues this distrust in media. “Ohh so this was buried because it shows conservatives getting viewers” is the type of thought someone might have is what I’m getting at.

crazy that this is from the same company that’s slogan was once “challenge everything”