Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Fishers Grizzlies Mountain lions Wolves Wolverine

Just a gorgeous sunset tonight.

Missoula area friends, GET OUTSIDE NOW AND LOOK AT THE NORTHERN LIGHTS!!

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

A wee native bee tiptoeing on a lupine flower last spring in Montana. Excellent pollen pants. 🐙🌿 #Bugsky

am i the only person who cares about housing prices? is this like a niche political interest or something?

Once again I urge you to go outside NOW and look at the night sky!

Please go outside RIGHT NOW and look at the night sky! Spoiler alert: it’s a gorgeous dark night full of stars. Also, crickets chirping.

Just seems like the world, particularly the US, is unraveling. Or maybe it’s revealing itself more clearly. Or both. Anyway, what strange times we live in!

Same

Saw hundreds of freshly emerged California Tortoiseshell butterflies today at a friend’s place. It’s been an irruptive year for them!

Time spent outside is so good for the soul. Enjoy this beautiful thread from Heather’s early morning paddle. Sound on to hear the birds!!

Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)

MT peeps- the MT caucus is pretending to care about public lands while getting rid of the Roadless Rule, planning to transfer control of public lands to states which states cannot afford and planning with the USFS chief for more mining, logging and drilling. #MTPol flatheadbeacon.com/2025/08/21/z...

The goal of a broad anti-fascist alliance isn’t to agree on everything. It is to defeat fascism, so that liberals, neocons, progressives, and nationalists can disagree bitterly about everything else

anyway the choice america faces going forward is live in the confederacy or do reconstruction for real and purge those motherfuckers from all of public life. and there isn’t really an in-between.

You're invited! The Montana Election Observation Initiative #MTEOI is holding a virtual public forum on Wed, August 13th at Noon MT. We'll discuss MTEOI, upcoming observations, our goals are we move forward! blog.mteoi.org/mteoi-virtu...

Never tell a Montanan something can’t be done! “If a person wants to spend money, then they have to put their name on it. It’s full disclosure. That’s what this is all about.” - Jeff Mangan #mtpol #MontanaSky #MTSky #MonTwitter dailymontanan.com/2025/08/01/g...

If my taxes don’t pave my roads or fix my bridges or keep my schools open 5 days a week or pay local teachers a living wage or help keep my hospital open or help my neighbor’s kid eat lunch or fund public television or my healthcare… Why the f’ck should I pay taxes?

A wolf in sheep’s clothing. Or rather, a robber fly (Laphria sp.) that looks like a bumble bee.

The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

That last line hits hard

Omg you guys, I spent a few days in the Missouri River Breaks (amazing, highly recommend) and we found a SCORPION!!! I’ve never even heard of them here in MT! #MTSky #MontSky

Last week I was in a remote part of northern Montana and saw the most glorious intact shortgrass prairie. Blooming with carpets of prairie smoke and pussytoes, wildflowers everywhere, shimmering with butterflies. I kinda lost my shit a little - is this what the world looked like when it was new??

Thanks to the communities who showed up across the state! From Libby to Glendive and Billings to Missoula, we say #NoKings in #Montana!

Why aren't people ringing the alarm bells about the violence that's coming? This country is a powder keg and our own gov't is waving a lit match around the fuse.

Important thing to beat people over the head with: Trump has turned American cities into warzones and for fucking what? Prices are way up, jobs will be way down, the dollar is worth less, and now the highway is blocked off by cops. Maybe the Great Mythical Immigrant wasn’t the problem after all.

The notion that cutting thousands of public servants from the Forest Service, and thousands more from the National Park Service and BLM, is somehow going to make this country better off is just lunacy.

It is a weird irony of our era that the subsets of the population most likely to be the beneficiaries of a despotic state have invested most in arming themselves against one, while those with the most to reasonably fear have made it cultural anathema.

Happy #Pride everyone. Nature is infinitely diverse.

Promises, promises, promises. Let's keep one, for once. Take action 1 in our most recent #AoCChecklist, inspired by @refugees.org#AoCChecklist Demand the U.S. honor its promises to our Afghan allies. 🔗 ⬇️ www.americansofconscience.com/05-23-2025/#Action1

BREAKING: HERMIT THRUSHES HAVE RETURNED. I REPEAT, HERMIT THRUSHES ARE BACK AND SINGING IN THE WOODS BY MY HOUSE.

I made a long video about the "someone's got to do it" memes, where they came from, what they're really saying, and what these posts reveal about collective trauma, political cynicism, our decaying faith in democratic institutions and so so much more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXrj...

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

This means it’ll be in eastern MT soon, probably Billings, Glendive, or Sidney. #MTsky #MTpol

Ahab really said a lot of fucked up cold shit to a whale that doesn't speak English

What is the purpose of this FJ40 mod? Wrong answers will be enjoyed but would like at least one right. I had one ('71) as a daily driver for a couple years and can't imagine putting 4 people on those seats and doing much of anything safely.

THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS. Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!” Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.

One hallmark of being an American is that you do not have to fear your government. If Trump’s first 100 days in office have changed anything, it’s that. He has subverted one of the major accomplishments of the Founding Fathers.

If you think you can rely on elected Democrats alone and you don’t need to take to the streets to say you’ve had enough with Republican recklessness, rejection of due process and tyranny, you’re not paying attention.

Regulations improve people's lives, health, and longevity. Regulations have not prevented biz from making profit, or US from being the richest country. Also, why is nobody talking about how expensive it's gonna be for the next admin to fix everything Trump broke? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence

Bluesky in the Big Sky go.bsky.app/MErwwqQ

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

Nothing will ever match the cruelty of the first Trump Administration’s child separation policy, but they’re really trying hard to match it in their second term with these deportations.

I’m seeing a lot of posts about how certain immigrants sent to El Salvador are not actually criminals and this is true but I would also like to remind you that people with criminal records shouldn’t be subjected to this, either.