Matthew Downhour

Before the election I said that if Americans couldn't muster 50% of the vote for Harris, I was going to do the same. I didn't really, but I can't blame her for doing so

You wanted... more emails from a prominent Democrat?

Sadly for the next four years at least the armed force of the state will be used to stop this natural market transition

VA cuts could threaten mental health services for countless veterans Nationwide, more than nine million veterans get physical or mental health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Rumor has it that the shooter in Anaconda was a veteran with mental health issues.

If that's the case, you know Republicans will insist this is about mental health, not guns

When they do, why they prioritized Musk's DOGE fantasies over veterans' mental health

Someone on Bluesky will have translated this post into a drawing by the end of tonight

*into

Sorry I cannot hear ‘amazing for iron and salt’ and not imagine us as Han dynasty officials discussing royal monopolies

I imagine you know the origin of Chewbacca’s name!

Classic

But extractive growth is so much easier

Listen if the jobs report is getting marginal and trust in official stats is waning, we could have a tipping point approaching. The time for Liberal Asceticism has come, if you haven’t adopted it yet

I just saw the photo from here up and the word ‘appointment’ so naturally I thought Supreme Court

Becoming Argentina, very strongly.

Wait what do they have to do by September 30

Reminds me of Norm MacDonald talking about the reaction to Bill Cosby: “people keep saying ‘the worst part is the hypocrisy’ but I actually think it was the rape”

Also Travis Decker in Washington, weeks ago. I’m starting to think small towns aren’t idyllic bastions of family values after all

I was actually thinking of SW Montana

“I wish US foreign policy were more honest and less hypocritical” is perhaps the greatest monkey’s paw of all time

Yeah and it’s not a big deal I just saw it and was like - no way Anaconda is as big as Havre

Chateau is like this too (but Wibaux and Missoula aren’t, go figure)

Guess what town isn’t part of the Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Urban area

That’s right

Deer Lodge, the county seat of

Powell County

Trump gloats about US Marshals’ killing of Portland ‘antifa’ suspect | CNN Politics President Donald Trump on Thursday gloated over the September killing of Portland, Oregon, murder suspect Michael Reinoehl by law enforcement officers who had been deputized as US Marshals.

According to Trump anyway yes, he has sent out death squads www.cnn.com/2020/10/15/p...

Thanks to Russian murderers: Sofiia, Mykyta, and their 2-year-old son—all just 23 years old—were killed by a Russian strike on Kyiv. They had fled Sloviansk at the start of the full-scale war. Their bodies were found under the rubble a day later. Sofiia was pregnant with their second child

51 - Game show where we get the most geographically knowledgeable middle school kids together, ask them a bunch of questions, and see who knows the most about geography (no, this is not a new idea) support.nationalgeographic.org/s/article/Na...

Even some California ‘suburbs’ are good - Redwood City and San Mateo are both great (though basically they are towns unto themselves, they are in metro commuting areas)

Wut

The bar may well have breakfast specials