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Jon o’ Montana @mtskier.bsky.social · 1h

What you get for trusting large corporations and their billionaire tech bro owners.

Meta Removes Facebook Group Sharing Location of ICE in Chicago

Meta Platforms Inc. removed a Facebook group used to share information about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Chicago after a request from the Justice Department.

www.bloomberg.com

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Jon o’ Montana @mtskier.bsky.social · 2h

He's obviously been hearing a lot from Montanans, citing a laundry list of negative impacts. But he's too scared to push back against Trump when it comes to some great jobs and a vital energy project for this state and region. Call Sheehy's office. The GOP could end this at any time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

COLLINS: The Dept of Energy just canceled $1b for a hydrogen hub that covers Montana. Is that taking away good-paying jobs?

SHEEHY: Of course it is. We want govt to be open

C: But the Energy Secretary says he would've pulled that funding even if govt was open

S: ... Well, that's unfortunate

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Allan Paterson #FBPE FB99% #UBI #YNWA 🐟 @allangpaterson.bsky.social · 1d

Solar power is now the world’s cheapest energy source!
www.dpaonthenet.net/article/2180...

Solar power is now the world’s cheapest energy source

<a href="/products/185/Electronic-Components">Solar energy</a> is now so cost-effective that, in the sunniest countries, it costs as little as £0.02 to produce one unit of power, making it cheaper tha...

www.dpaonthenet.net

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Jon o’ Montana @mtskier.bsky.social · 15h

“FAILING ECONOMY PACK”

🌊 DudeTheyreOnToMe 24:7🌊 @dancinginthestreet.bsky.social · 15h

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Jon o’ Montana @mtskier.bsky.social · 21h

“Trump’s not doing that! But if he is, great!”

Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 22h

"Do you think Trump is directing the Justice Department to go after his political enemies?"

Yes: 54%
No: 23%

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"Do you think this is justified?"

No: 56%
Yes: 24%

YouGov / Oct 13, 2025

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

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Jon o’ Montana @mtskier.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe it’s just me @jay.bsky.team but the last two weeks videos longer than 10 seconds rarely seem to play through. No amount of waiting or pressing play again helps.

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Jon o’ Montana @mtskier.bsky.social · 1d

There’s plenty to be concerned about but that didn’t make it past the Senate Parliamentarian. Why not focus on what actually did, which is a lot of awful stuff?

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Jonathan-FL #HumanRightsForEVERYONE @amerliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Joe Scarborough: "Mike Johnson is the one standing in the way of military families getting paid

Our men and women in uniform can see right through what the speaker is doing. They see a GOP House, a GOP Senate and a GOP White House blocking the way.

www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Joe Scarborough: Mike Johnson is the one standing in the way of military families getting paid

Our men and women in uniform can see right through what the speaker is doing. They see a GOP House, a GOP Senate and a GOP White House blocking the way.

www.msnbc.com

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

The Atlantic is the latest news organization that refuses to sign the Pentagon's new press pass policy.

Editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg says the new restrictions violate the First Amendment and the rights of Americans to know how the taxpayer-funded military is being deployed.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

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Jon o’ Montana @mtskier.bsky.social · 1d

Dang! I almost unfollowed you for not eating peaches. But since it’s a song with a horrible title, I don’t even need to listen to it and fully agree with that list.

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Jon o’ Montana @mtskier.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, he’s plugging his business. But there’s a lot of good advice here, whether you’re interested in guitar or learning another language or better fitness. (I have no connection).

Give me 12 minutes. I'll save you 15 years.

YouTube video by Tony Polecastro

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Jon o’ Montana @mtskier.bsky.social · 2d

I am astounded by this story and am moved to act with love, hard as it may be these days.

A Stranger Shattered Their Lives. At First, They Didn’t Know Why.

www.nytimes.com

Jon o’ Montana @mtskier.bsky.social · 2d

I strongly agree. Latest hands on project - mostly done while taking breaks from coding.

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Jon o’ Montana @mtskier.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating breakdown on the real costs and on easy virtue signaling.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈