Of course Gianforte doesn’t care about people struggling to better themselves and pay for college, despite nefarious student loan policies, he can not only buy his election he could buy a college…
From the Daily Montanan: https://dailymontanan.com/2022/09/21/more-than-100k-montanans-eligible-for-student-debt-relief-according-to-white-house-projections/?
Florida’s DeSantis is a heartless bully and fascist, offering no solutions — is he better or worse than Trump?…
From the Daily Montanan: https://dailymontanan.com/2022/09/22/as-desantis-tries-to-rob-immigrants-of-their-humanity-he-manages-to-lose-his-own/? migrants, immigrants, government tyranny, wants everyone to live as he does, pseudo-Christian
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
Anyone surprised?: the Gianforte administration makes a workforce training program difficult to enter and then, citing low participation, redirects money for the program to businesses…
From the Billings Gazette: https://billingsgazette.com/news/local/republicans-shift-6m-from-workforce-training-grants-to-biz-automation-loans/article_396c6a65-bd49-51ac-9322-6beb80adfbd5.html? sleight-of-hand, benefitting big business instead of individuals, who profits?, Department of Commerce, typical Republican antics, GOP
Republicans, including Montana’s Steve Daines and Matt Rosendale, are “all hat and no cattle” when it comes to our nation’s southern border: they’re all about political stunts, distractions from their own failures and no courage to offer solutions…
From kut.org: https://www.kut.org/texas/2022-04-13/gov-abbotts-new-border-policies-spur-backlash-among-many-republicans-included DeSantis, Abbott, Florida, Texas, circus, obsession
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"