Soybeans are the US's largest export crop Last year, over half of our exports went to China. Currently - zero soy goes to China due to Trump's trade war Where does China now get soy? Argentina - our competitor Who did Trump just bail out to the tune of $20 B? Argentina Soy farmers are big mad

On Sunday's @lastweektonight.com, John Oliver noted that presidents can fundraise for their libraries while in office. Minor problem for Trump, though—Florida administratively dissolved his library nonprofit in Sept. after it allegedly failed to its annual report. search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/Corp...

New KFF poll: Americans want Congress to extend the expiring, enhanced Obamacare credits by a whopping margin of 78% to 22% — a remarkable political entrenchment for subsidies that were a heavy political lift for Democrats just a few years ago, per Politico.

Uh oh. Trump's shamelessly illegal attempt to defund blue states ended up axing a clean energy project in Montana. Oh well. Mineral County went 71% for Trump, they must not have really wanted the jobs anyhow. www.kpax.com/news/western...

Who do you think is mainly responsible for the federal government partially shutting down? (Washington Post) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251002

Daines opposes extending the ACA credits, which will impact 58,000 Montanans, because he says it will cost $350 billion. But he happily voted to extend the doubled estate tax exemption, which will benefit fewer than 1000 Montanans - including himself - at a cost of $211 billion.

Heads up 406rs. Junior just said the quiet part out loud. Make him pay.

A senior Interior Department official doesn't believe that state fish and wildlife agencies should...exist.

“Even when he presents his Alabama-issued REAL ID, officers reject it as fake.” ij.org/press-releas...

Inspired by a Perry Bacon post, I created a little game to see how well you understand the presidential electorate.

The Kimberley region is special: extraordinary landscapes, rich culture, brilliant coastline. WA Labor gov mustn’t allow horrendous fracking, or massive gas developments to disfigure and ruin this part of Oz. Australia's Great North Conference Declaration: www.ecnt.org.au/australias_great_north

This is what happens when you elect a Speaker who doesn't give a fuck about working people.

Preventing soldiers from getting cancer is woke.

Under Trump, US cedes its share of China's beef market to Australia. You seeing this Montanans? www.reuters.com/world/china/...

"It reveals that campaigns are now spending 38 cents of every dollar raised just to raise more money—a fourfold increase from the 9 cents spent in 2004." - @adambonica.bsky.social data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-fundra...

A $20 billion deal to shore up the Argentinian peso will have little benefit for 99% of American taxpayers. But it will bail out one of the Treasury Secretary‘s billionaire hedge fund buddies.

EXCLUSIVE: The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a @reuters.com review of court dockets found. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Ezra Klein has been speaking a lot on red states and rural Democrats and here’s the thing…he shouldn’t. He has no idea what he’s talking about.

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting: Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial 100%

What a truly gutless comment from Sen. John Thune: "I didn’t watch what he said, but like I said, I think the decision that he issued is the one that everybody will end up having to adhere to."

New: "Trump Golf Course Displays Gold Presidential Seal—Here’s Why That Could Violate Federal Law" 🏌️🚔 me, for @forbes.com 1/

This is about more than an ugly ballroom. The White House is a National Park System property. If they can just ignore the law and build a "privately funded" monstrosity here, they can do it in all the other #nationalparks too. The sell off of our #publiclands is underway.

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Political campaigns now burn 30¢ of every dollar raised just fundraising for more dollars (up from 9¢ in 2004). In 2024, $3 Billion was spent on fundraising. In 2026, fundraising costs are on track to exceed advertising spending for the first time.

"If Mr. Homan knowingly failed to report this $50,000 payment on his 2024 tax filings, that omission would likely constitute a violation of federal tax law."

Outstanding work strengthening & enriching China by Trump: "President Xi Jinping’s export engine has proved unstoppable during five months of sky-high US tariffs, sending China toward a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus." (gift link)

"Bribes." Homan definitely took more money than just the $50,000 from the FBI.

This is a smart suggestion backed up by good data. We won't solve health care, housing, the environment, or any other issues until we fix our broken political system. Democrats need to ditch the big money chase - which doesn't work anyway! - and focus the fight on corruption.

Submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP...

There is simply no way an alleged law enforcement official accepts $50,000 in cash and is not up to something deeply illlegal. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Brian Killmeade sure is lucky that Charlie Kirk wasn’t homeless.

Sunday post: People are more likely to support partisan violence if they think the other party does too This gives us an incredibly powerful tool for reducing mass political violence: Sharing the real (very low) numbers on how many people actually support it www.gelliottmorris.com/p/people-are...

This is exactly right - and is basically the best-polling idea among young men among the many we checked out over the summer! Young men are extremely hungry for Stuff To Do After School, even if they have to pay for it, see tax hikes, have their school run it, etc. etc. www.ymrp.org/polling

Chucklefucks who hate “woke” want us to refer to the Department of Defense by a new chosen name instead of the name it was legally assigned at birth.

Good heads up especially for media: do not take a bunch if correlations by motivated actors seriously. If they don’t preregister their hypotheses and data, chances are the results are spurious and cherry picked

The most ironic part of the pocket rescissions fight is that exact section of the Impoundment Control Act that the Trump administration says *grants* it the power to do pocket rescissions actually makes them illegal.

“[D]emocracy often erodes slowly at first, via the gradual surrender of those entrusted to defend it…Responses that, early on, can feel pragmatic—waiting it out, remaining silent, cutting a deal—only embolden autocrats, leading ultimately to the demise of democracy itself.”

"Researcher who has distorted voter data appointed to Homeland Security election integrity role" www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Broadband in rural Montana is not being provided by Amazon, Starlink, Greg Gianforte or the State of Montana. It is being provided by the federal government, which rural Montanans love to hate, through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which Steve Daines voted against. Big Hypocrisy in Big Sky.

I don't know any details abt the MN shooter. But I know whatever traits get revealed, they will be (statistically) misused in ways that inescapably malign entire groups, often vulnerable groups. It happens every time. It's called "selecting on the dependent variable," and it's a REALLY big deal.

Wow, Drey didn’t just flip the seat, she flipped the margin of victory from 55-44 R in 2022 to 55-44 D. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/08/26/i...

And now the commentariat is mad about land acknowledgements because they saw somebody on Fox News or Xitter get mad. The advice seems to be that Democrats should never ever do anything that any right wing rage farmer could throw a fit about. That seems unrealistic and ultimately ineffective.

Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."

The full write up is here: Was It Something The Democrats Said? A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...

“When the DCCC and DSCC employ the same deceptive tactics as the most exploitative spam PACs, they provide cover for the entire ecosystem.” @electdemocrats.bsky.social @montanademocrats.org @dscc.bsky.social

What Governor Gianforte doesn't want to tell you is that 54% the state's workforce development budget comes from the federal government. Montana Republicans just love to rail against federal spending in the abstract and claim credit for it in the specific.