It always gets on my nerves when people say the “Old Testament” is so violent and disturbing, compared to the supposedly much more peaceful and loving “New Testament.” I think we have to look at them as different genres. One is a warts-and-all family memoir, while the other is more like self-help.

I will scream up and down the street about how Citizen’s United has ruined our opportunities for qualified normal people to be elected in Montana

I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.

We got the Vim!! We’re Here to win!!💙💙💙💙 #BrawlOfTheWild #MontanaState

I liked the part where the president suddenly sang, "Because I knew you...I have been changed for good."

imagine walking down the beach and seeing jesus carrying some guy

Bring me all the tic-tox

An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

You belong to a v particular cultural-politico formation if you can pronounce Ghislaine correctly, no notes, but Mamdani throws you for a seemingly permanent loop

I have a 14 yo daughter. She is my baby. Listen to this very smart baby.

The same people who claim we don’t know what a “woman” is are having a real tough time defining a “child”.

Learning is often hard and uncomfortable and you should do it anyways.

I feel like people don’t appreciate enough how bonkers the memory capacity of stage actors has to be. In some ways, learning all the lines is the easiest part of it. There’s also the staging, intentions, business backstage etc. And they have to know it well enough to also be in the moment.…

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

I definitely recommend this thread. The Irish are well read and really quick with words sharp as a scalpel

Part one of our two-part look at the birth of Sesame Street. Today we look at the big ideas about television, children's psychology, and set design that went into designing the world of Sesame Street. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

It's that time of year when Halloween decorations haven't all come down, and Christmas decorations are about to start going up. We're in...the Tim Burton Zone.

Gosh, the way Republicans are carrying on about Mamdani, you'd think he had been convicted of 34 felonies, had a trail of legal penalties for various frauds, and lost two civil rape trials or something.

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

This is the hardest soft launch of a divorce I’ve ever witnessed.

and the best part about all of this? the yankees don’t get to experience this feeling

I am pro-CHILD.

I think that according to the rules established this week by Karoline Leavitt, the official Democratic response to this should be "So was your mother." nymag.com/intelligence...

I live in a mostly dry climate but I love this history of a cool accessory

the ballroom will never be built and he’ll just pocket whatever money he collects because he is a grifter first and foremost

I legitimately appreciate that the Democrats are negotiating for a federal budget that actually helps people, but it's kind of unbelievable how the Republicans have kept (some of) the parts of the government that they use for fraud and racism running so smoothly during the shutdown.

This week felt like someone ran a blacklight over the hotel bedspread of politics and it all came up smeary swastikas

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Does anyone else see the heist at the Louvre and the wrecking ball to the East Wing as some kind of perverse cosmic alignment? Like thieves are brazenly walking off with pieces of our countries’ histories in broad daylight?

Polebridge, Montana, and the surrounding North Fork area only has around 100 full-time residents. On Saturday, the hamlet on the edge of Glacier National Park saw more than 60 people attend a No Kings Indivisible rally at the dirt road intersection.

Tomorrow, when you are at your local #NoKings rally be wary of those in a Van Halen t-shirt. #oneBattleAfterAnother

One of the dumbest ways to go extinct as a species really would be for our leaders to decide they have to mine coal and drill up oil not because we actually need them anymore but because they just refuse to accept that we don't.

Pritzker: "It's clear that Donald Trump has diminished capacity, which I think is sad -- that the people around him are not getting him help, and instead they're just taking advantage of him. And that's what Stephen Miller is."

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What’s all this fuss I’ve been hearing about CBS being run by Barry White? He’s a great singer, I’m sure he’ll do a fine job with the news too.

get in we're making Idaho even more shit

I would like to be myself and not disappoint you

America is saved by an immigrant. Just of the Floral variety

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

The housing crisis in Indian Country is defined by demand that far outpaces chronically short housing supplies. With demand high, and plenty of land, why can’t developers build new housing to close the gap? Part 2 of The Shelter Gap answers that question. montanafreepress.org/2025/10/01/t...

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Pasteurization kills H5N1 in milk. Viral bits remain, but they didn’t make mice sick. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pasteurization-milk-no-h5n1-bird-flu

Eric Adams is a 30 Rock character come to life.

My kids' pediatrician fighting misinformation online.