Hey Ron, when Coolidge said ”there are racial considerations” to immigration and that “certain divergent people will not mix or blend” he was referring to all 8 of your great-grandparents.

In September, Ryan Zinke admitted that Republicans and Trump were "aware" of the steep health care costs that Americans are now forced to face. But still, he was fine leaving town without passing ACA health care subsidies, leaving Montanans to deal with the skyrocketing premiums. #MT01

Why do reporters say things like "could run into legal hurdles" instead of just plainly stating that something is against the law? www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Steve Daines cares so little about health care that he doesn't even bother showing up for the votes anymore.

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

In an exceptional display of both dishonesty and stupidity, Leavitt spotlights Colorado for having $2 gasoline because "there is an abundance of natural gas that this Administration is tapping into."

Americans have surprisingly strong view (2-1) that it's the "responsibility of the federal government to make sure all Americans have #healthcare coverage."

This. What journalism SHOULD be doing to respond to this moment of democratic crisis (from the always brilliant @sulliview.bsky.social):

anyway I’m gonna have a very cool and normal week, especially next Saturday. I’m fine it’s fine everything is cool

Ryan Zinke thinks it is “unfortunate” that Members of Congress won’t get executed for exercising their First Amendment rights.

"The top one-in-a-million (about 5,600 adults, enough to fill a concert arena) collectively hold 3% of global wealth, more than the entire bottom half of the world’s adult population." wir2026.wid.world

Who on Earth thought it would be a good idea to put the guy responsible for the largest health care fraud case in US history in charge of the GOP health care plan? www.politico.com/live-updates...

"When a state exercises its authority to define corporations as entities without the power to spend in politics, it will no longer be relevant whether corporations have a right to spend in politics — because without the power to do so, the right to do so has no meaning."

"We are a community that is civically engaged, we're a community that cares about our neighbors, and we are a community that believes in everything great about this nation." www.kare11.com/article/news...

Making Americans pay an average of $600/year more for gas doesn’t seem like a big step toward affordability.

"Does this feel like or look like a well-run competent administration? It took them 10 months to discover that the United States doesn't grow bananas and that therefore if we tariff bananas that that's not going to bring banana factories on shore."

94.5% of Somali Minnesotans are US CITIZENS.

Florida Woman has strong opinions about “culture.”

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Demolition and construction at Grand Canyon National Park require a NEPA process. But demolition and construction at the White House and Presidential Park, also a National Park System property, apparently require nothing. azdailysun.com/news/state-r...

First they came for the "criminal" migrants. Then they came for all migrants. Now they're coming for anyone who is not "native born" (which includes 29.6 million American citizens). So who gets written out of "American People" next?

Electricity prices up significantly since January (map shows Jan-Aug 2025). In Montana, rates are up 25.3%. #mtnews

Of course Georgia was NOT one of the states that actually lifted a finger to stop Trump's illegal effort to stop EV infrastructure funds...they sure are lucky all those blue states stepped up and sued. @atg.wa.gov @philweiser.bsky.social @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov @newyorkstateag.bsky.social

Steve Daines and Troy Downing are full of jibber jabber about how bad the Affordable Care Act is, but neither of them seem to have one single idea for how to do anything better. (For chrissake, Daines has been in Congress for 12 YEARS and we still don't know what his health care plan is).

Billionaire diva @deptofinterior.bsky.social Sec. Burgum has TRIPLED his own personal staff in just nine months while slashing America's parks and #publiclands staff. Burgum's fail-by-design plan, so he can sell off and privatize, is in full swing. arkvalleyvoice.com/interior-sec...

“I think most don’t realize how hard it is to immigrate legally to the United States,” says former senior policy official @margyoh.bsky.social. She explains other surprising facts about the immigration system in a wide-ranging new Q&A:

Back in 2008, my home state of Montana gave Barack Obama 47% of the vote (John McCain got 49%). This wasn't 100 years ago, this was just a few electoral cycles ago. It’s a reminder that Americans aren’t as divided — or as predictable — as our politics today make it seem

NEW: DHS launched a $200mln+ ad campaign, featuring, Kristi Noem, aimed at stemming illegal immigration. We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem. @justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Of course he does.

This was never about “election security.” dailymontanan.com/2025/11/12/t...

NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state. José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time: “I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"

While we were live on Substack this morning, Tester's landline at the farm started ringing. He answered it and asked if he could put them on speaker phone and they said yes. It was @shaheen.senate.gov . You don't want to miss our new episode dropping within the hour!

Republicans love to holler about “waste fraud and abuse” and yet www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Not only does Trump have no idea how insurance works, but it sure seems pretty anti-capitalist to outlaw insurance companies, confiscate their funds and redistribute it to the public.

Mike Johnson just continues to openly admit that the GOP is redistricting for partisan gain, which is in fact completely illegal.

Voters in New Jersey and Virginia who said the economy was their number 1 issue voted 63-35 for Democrats last night. That’s a sharp reversal from 2024, when Trump won economy voters by 60 points www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

Look, I'm not gonna tell other cities and states exactly what's gonna work for them. But I would LOVE to see Mamdani's victory speech played before focus groups in Texas, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Montana. LET'S JUST SEE, HUH?

Amazing. He's saying the quiet part out loud without even realizing it. I know how absurd this is to say these days, but it's important to remember that officially, redistricting isn't supposed to unfairly favor one party over another.

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

Wow, a 580% increase in my health insurance premiums for 2026 is even worse than I was expecting. I sure am glad that Mike Johnson has a Secret Plan to fix health care.

Speaker Mike Johnson vs Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes -- who knows less about what's going on?

Good gear.

im no 6 figure political consultant but if i were id run a national commercial a million times a day that was just this bar chart on the screen for :30 until it was burned into americas eyeballs

Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess). www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Why do Republicans think it is bad if the public learns the actual content of their alleged health care plan? What’s in there, the Epstein Files?

Rep. Troy Downing hosts a photo op to express his “concern“ about beef imports without actually saying whether or not he supports mandatory country-of-origin labeling (hint: his campaign donors don’t). www.kxlh.com/news/montana...

Smart thread on how to think about public opinion, political leadership and the information environment that does (or does not) connect them.

Post a perfect album from 1989. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, 1984-1989.