I somehow made it through this horrible funeral weekend, including a whole work day where I had the distinct pleasure of singing in front of people for several hours despite being on the verge of collapse, and so now I would like to crawl in a hole please and thank you.

8 Ways To Support Someone When They're Really Struggling:

Fulfilled is the person who minds their own business, focuses on the emotional health of their own family, and who gives back to their community on a regular basis.

If you don't believe the America is a Christian nation, just look at the tender mercies we offer our moneychangers and the absolute brutality we rain down on asylum seekers.

Let’s say you want to engineer an upswing in public hatred of a group. For reasons.

Love that Maintenance Phase mentioned “a vegetarian friend in Montana” in a brief anecdote and I know exactly who. #smallstate

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d… And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

We understand boom/bust in the West. We need a state government that gets it too and will stop the slide. inthesetimes.com/article/displa…

Essay: The rural rotting of democracy – Daily Montanan dailymontanan.com/2023/04/16/ess…

Vague, but anyway… It’s been a low-key difficult day to be the mom of a fabulous, but also challenging, kid with special needs.

This is a picture that extremists and White nationalists don’t want you to see. Kids and community members had a great time at drag story hours in Bozeman and Livingston! Here’s a picture from supporters at the Bozeman event. /1

The N*zis showed up on schedule for Bozeman, MT, Pride Walk. But it was still a beautiful day for queer love, gender and sexual diversity, and allyship. Grateful to table with Interfaith neighbors in celebrating with unintimidated support!

A wonderful thread about what is possible in respectful collaboration and partnership.

“Just because you legislate that climate change doesn’t exist does not resolve the fact we’re getting choked by it. It’s the issue of our time, and we’re supposed to turn a blind eye?” - Derf Johnson, MEIC. #YouthvGovMT #MTClimateTrial #MTClimateRights eenews.net/articles/monta…

I love the frequency with which @RottenInDenmark quotes “pooping back and forth,” a niche 2005 indie film reference, with zero context.

Once a rising star among Southern Baptists, Russell Moore lost his job after criticizing Donald Trump and standing by abuse survivors. Truth-telling requires going beyond "what the expectations of the tribe demand," says Russell Moore in 'Losing Our Religion' julieroys.com/in-new-book-ru…