Sammtheman 🐈🐇🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸

It's Montana 🫠 Leading the nation in suicides in 2023 we had Alaska, then Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, all red states. Blue New Mexico was #5.

"Over and over again, the government cast a wide net, curtailing civil liberties and terrorizing entire communities in the name of national security, but it did not make the nation any safer."

Valarie Kaur isn't even talking about recent (2025) events and her words still ring true.

Long.

Have you heard of The Working Families Party? They're a sub-party of progressive Democrats!

YouTube video by MSNBC Maddow: This is what Democrats have been screaming about

THIS.
Increases of sixteen THOUSAND dollars per YEAR.
Increases of twenty three THOUSAND dollars per YEAR.
I'm going to research this more, but in the meantime THIS.

The camera peers around the trunk of a tree to see a tuxido cat staring back, his torso poking out of a pile of dry red leaves, eyes wide looking crazy.

A photo of a tuxido cat laying in a pile of dry red and yellow leaves beside the trunk of a tree. The lower half of his body is buried in the leaves.

A Maine Coon cat sitting upright in an empty square box. The box is white and says Jimmy John's French Bread. You can tell the cat barely fits and could not lay down if she wanted to. Her face is serious but unfocused, looking pleased that it's her box.

A Maine Coon in an empty square box, craning her neck upwards to stare at something on the ceiling. Her torso and neck is toward the camera, stretched back to see. Her name is fluffy white.

My cats being silly.

The Diaper Bank is open Mondays from 2:30pm - 5pm.
Sign up to volunteer at the Diaper Bank here: www.familypromiseyv.org/community-in...

A couple standing side by side with their arm around the other, smiling. They stand beside a small yellow school bus that says "Family Promise of Yellowstone Valley".

A woman standing inside a bus, taking a selfie. There are boxes and boxes of diapers piled high in all the bus seats.

The inside of the Diaper Bus, looking in as you take the first step up. No seats are visible, all are piled high with boxes of diapers, all the way back.

Hubs and I volunteered at Family Promise today at the Diaper Bank and it was a blast! 2.5 hours of handing out diapers, wipes, and formula to families in need.

Family Promise is looking for more Diaper Bank volunteers! And if you have the means, they need formula, wipes, and pull-ups in all sizes.

YouTube video by Hook Global ‘Democrats Are Last Line Of Defense’: Bernie Sanders Roaring Speech In US Senate On Shutdown

Listen to Bernie sum up what we're fighting for.

The amount of people yelling at me on NextDoor saying the Democrat Shutdown is causing damage is insane. If we lose this stand, your health insurance premiums will double, triple, maybe quadrupal. They refuse to believe it.

Fact from the video: SNAP has ALWAYS been funded previously during government shutdowns.

Another one: SNAP is the most efficient and effective way to deliver food benefits to those who need them, especially in rural areas where the nearest food bank may be 100 miles away.

YouTube video by Hank Green This Shutdown is Different

Listen to Hank Green speak to the Tennessee Regional Director of the Society of St. Andrew, who knows a LOT about food distribution and food access.
"For every 1 meal delivered to someone by a food bank/pantry, SNAP donates 9."

YouTube video by Under The Desk News Stewart

POTUS and the Secretary of Defense/War are knowingly committing war crimes.

Billings MT Let Them Eat Cake rally and Food Drive
Double Tree by Hilton Hotel
27 N 27th St
Nov 6th 5 - 6 pm
#MTPol #BillingsMT

While Gov Greg Gianforte and Dr Ben Carson enjoy a lavish dinner in downtown Billings with Montana Republicans, one in eight Americans are facing dire food insecurity.

Yikes.

East Wing, White House. Cost: $250,000,000. Zinke, Daines, Sheehy, Downing... Please do explain how there's no money for SNAP or ACA subsidies.

We can think of many things $250 million might be better used for… like SNAP or extending health insurance subsidies. #mtpol

Gov Gianforte CAN pay our SNAP benefits for the month of November with money we already have put away. It will cost the taxpayers $0 to do so. Feeding hungry low-income Montanan adults and children seems worth that to me.
Gianforte? You gonna feed us?
#mtpol

A reader's lap covered in a soft fuzzy white blanket. A book lays a top it, it's cover shown, "The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine" by Michael Scott-Baumann. And a pale yellow highlighter sits below the book in the reader's lap.

"The range of responses that this crisis has evoked around the world demonstrates the urgent need to better understand the past in order to craft a better future, even though it is difficult to analyze events unfolding before our eyes." - The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine

Democracy Docket in my inbox yesterday: "We need to be proactive. We need to take charge against Republican tyrrany, fascism, and attacks on democracy. If we're simply reacting to every move Trump makes, we are going to lose our country. ...It's time they're reacting to us."

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture ICE may try to hack your phone at a protest. Here's what you need to know.

Phone Safety at Protests
Turn biometrics on your phone off and set up an unlock passcode that only YOU know.
Leave your phone at home or bring a phone with limited photos, apps, and contacts. If you can't do either then keep your phone in a faraday bag.

Checking in - are you okay?

I have emailed all 3 of my MAGA dipshit Congressmen, will you join me in shaming them directly?

Feedback left!

Federal government shuts down after Senate fails to pass funding measures Congressional leaders pointed fingers at one another over the course of the day leading up to the votes.

The federal government is shut down because Republicans insist on ripping away our healthcare and handing Trump another blank check for his illegal power grab.

Our job is to hold the GOP accountable and encourage Democrats to keep protecting our healthcare: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

The hardest part about the past decade for me has been realizing just how many people will simply never care. Your neighbors could get hauled away and you’d just shrug and carry on. We’re on a razor thin edge right now, soldiers are patrolling our streets, every speech is a declaration of war against our own citizens, and as long as nothing changes for you in the immediate, you don’t care. Our culture taught you selfishness, algorithms taught you hate and apathy, and history taught you nothing.

THIS.

Leading Genocide Scholars Organization Says Israeli Action in Gaza Is Genocide The largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide said Monday that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

"Leading Genocide Scholars Organization Says Israeli Action in Gaza Is Genocide"

Its not justified retaliation against a Hamas attack.
Its about wiping out the native Palestinian people so the whole land can officially belong to Israel where they will continue to persecute survors that aren't Jews.

YouTube video by things your mom should’ve told you Don’t Eat the Rich, Starve Them

Take your money out of large banks and put it in local credit unions. Stop buying from the men/companieswho donated to Trump's inauguration. Donate to food pantries/community cabinets in your area. Curb your need to purchase new and reususe/repair instead. Plant some seeds.
So many ways to resist.

YouTube video by Under The Desk News Wes Moore Gavin Newsome IMO #news #politics #maryland

Do you think they'll like it if we start calling him Dimensia Don? It has a certain ring to it.

'Sitting in the Oval Office, flanked by adoring aides standing stiffly at attention, Donald Trump yesterday announced: “A lot of people are saying maybe we’d like a dictator.”' - Democracy Docket

Unsurprised. And when he declares himself King all we can do is point to when we stated the facts.

14 Palestinians, including children, killed in fresh Israeli strikes across Gaza Israeli forces target homes, tents sheltering displaced people and people waiting for aid, according to medical sources and eyewitnesses - Anadolu Ajansı

"14 Palestinians, including children, killed in fresh Israeli strikes across Gaza"

They were going to eradicate Hamas, remember? Hamas must be hanging out in hospitals 🙄 Netanyahou will not stop until every native Palestinian is dead. Stop aiding the genocide.

I noticed this morning that 100% of comments from Gazans on my posts have been removed. Some didn't even have links. I looked to BlueSky to explain and since they are transparent they have already done so.
But 100% of the people who have commented don't have authentic accounts? That seems incorrect.