Another advocate for vote suppression comes out in a letter to the editor in the Carbon County News, discouraging absentee voting — must be a non-working person who doesn’t travel…
Difficult to vote in person if you have to work that day, have limited mobility or have to travel or et cetera. election integrity nonsense,...
Ignoring the fact that gas taxes pay for only roughly one-third of road costs, a Montana state legislator attacks electric vehicles (& a smart energy future) by asking EVs to pay more in taxes than they already do in electricity fees…
From the Daily Montanan: https://dailymontanan.com/2022/09/20/interim-committee-passes-two-draft-bills-aimed-at-taxing-electric-vehicles/? double taxation, climate change, EV future better for Montana, fossil fuels lobbyist, Denley Loge
Montana’s right-wing extremist Senator Steve Daines is one of only two-cosponsors of a bill that would force women to bear pregnancies, regardless…
From Montana Public Radio: https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2022-09-15/daines-backs-national-abortion-ban-bill fascism, government tyranny, tell others how to live, take away our freedoms
Yep, the border crisis Republicans don’t care about…
Thanks to Pedro Molina. fascism, anti-democracy, anti-America, Nazism, GOP, QAnon
Good reads here on why COVID may no longer be a pandemic, and how the virus is now endemic (but stay up-to-date on vaccinations and mask when appropriate)…
From nymag.com: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/09/biden-right-to-say-the-pandemic-is-over-on-60-minutes.html From the American Medical Association: https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/how-we-will-know-when-covid-19-has-become-endemic coronavirus, Parodi, AMA, masking, vaccination
As overpopulation and climate change diminish water supplies in the West, Oregon irrigation districts are looking at innovation to stop water loss from irrigation ditches…
From grist.org: https://grist.org/parched/ oasis civilization, limits to supply of water, wasteful irrigation ditches, "drought"
We’ve known for years that Donald Trump is an unhinged narcissistic psychopath, but he’s getting even more unhinged and openly flirting with Nazism…
From The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/167795/trump-qanon-violence-2022-midterms? fascism, QAnon, mental illness, Naziism, Nazi salute
A good read here on how our flooding in June exacerbated Montana’s affordable housing crisis, featuring Carbon County’s Fromberg (Gov. Gianforte might do well to read it)…
From High Country News: https://www.hcn.org/articles/north-housing-when-a-housing-crisis-meets-a-megaflood? man-caused climate change, workforce housing, absent state leadership, Livingston, Clark's Fork, Red Lodge
Bumper sticker seen around Carbon County…
Trump, anti-democracy, QAnon, fascism, pseudo-Christian, nationalism, treason, conman, criminal
Even though roads are death to a forest Gianforte’s DRNC is asking for permission to build a road in a pristine wild area near Red Lodge, info on taking action here…
From a letter to the editor in the Carbon County News.