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Barking Squirrel 🏳️‍🌈👩🏻‍🦰🇺🇸🇨🇦 @barkingsquirrel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#Montana ballots have gone out to voters. DO NOT mail those. Once you fill it out take it to the elections office or a polling place in person. Beware the DOB on the back. It may get an appeal after being struck down.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What papers are you reading? Do they mention Moffie Funk?
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Where did you get get "the rap"? Given what I witnessed as a Montana voter during the primary, this doesn't fit with facts.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Well, that explains him stepping out to shill for Bodnar.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The point of voting is to support the individual who can be trusted to do the work that needs done. If Bodnar loses, it will be because he failed to earn the trust of voters.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'd rather vote for a decent person. Alani is honest. As the winner of the Democratic primary, she will caucus with the Dems, and her platform fits my values. Bodnar is trained and ready to be an obstructionist--by Manchin. He's self-serving garbage who doesn't respect voters.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Niobium and second-generation planets.
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Alani Bankhead for U.S. Senate (D-MT) @alanib.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Minimizing sexual violence at the Cornell 7 level is how you get Epstein-level corruption. #mtpol #cornell7 We can start holding powerful perpetrators and enablers accountable for their crimes by electing leaders with a history of bringing predators to justice.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Dire.
Blooming Lisianthus, first-year raspberry canes, unmown grass, my left foot, a black dress hem that has thoughts about blooming.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bodnar is comfortable lying.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: underwater ocean camera view of a whale fall on the sea floor, with various bottom feeders and weird fishes crawling around the decomposing remains. Off panel, someone says, “hang on a second…” Panel 2: the speaker is a member of a marine biologist crew, remotely viewing the video footage from a computer monitor. The biologist is leaning against his colleague’s chair. He continues, “pan the camera back.” Panel 3: Back underwater, the POV shifts to the other end of the whale carcass. There’s a large spider crab with a standing just off to the side. It has a human face in a neutral expression, and is wearing glasses. The marine biologist says, “I think I went to high school with that guy.”
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When people say a woman can't win, it usually means they need an excuse for voting for a man. I wonder if those "a woman can't win" voters are going to vote for Dan Wilson for Supreme Court.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It takes so much money fill mailboxes with dreck. Just got a money-begging text from Tester on Seth Bodnar's behalf because $3,238,150 isn't enough to convince voters, apparently.
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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Regardless of the merits of data centers, this is not an appropriate use of public lands, because it monopolizes the land for a single private entity rather than keeping the land as multi-use, defeating the whole idea of public lands. Let Valar purchase its own land if it needs space.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
...in their time...
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Barking Squirrel 🏳️‍🌈👩🏻‍🦰🇺🇸🇨🇦 @barkingsquirrel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The town of Columbia Falls, Montana rejected a $75M school bond for the second time. The state is failing miserably on funding public schools, forcing the costs on homeowners. The whole Republican controlled government in Montana is an epic failure! 🔥 We don’t have to continue down this path.
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Trent Bolger @trentbolger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My post on the #mtpol Supreme Court race. trentbolger.substack.com/p/the-most-i...
trentbolger.substack.com
The most important race in all of Montana - Supreme Court #4
With all the yelling over the Senate race, I thought I would put out a note in the world about the other Statewide race on the ballot. The one that deserves more attention.
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Blue_Riverrrr @blueriverrrr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ben Shapiro is financing a film that portrays the shooting and murder of Reneé Good from the perspective of ICE. It is currently being filmed in Livingston, Montana by Carter Boehm's Yellowstone Film Ranch. Local residents are protesting, while the film terrorizes the community.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Would Bodnar have run as a Democrat without Tester goading him down this road? I don't know. He chose to avoid the primary, collect and spend PAC money, and offer watered-down policies on data centers etc. He is what he is--and probably is as he always has been.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Try something IN the ballot box: Your vote for the candidate you believe best. The supreme court race isn't getting the attention it deserves. The Montana Constitution deserves decent judges.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bankhead respects the voters; she won the primary. Bodnar has zero votes. Zero. I don't know who you are or why you think you are entitled to nullify the Montana primary to achieve your desired outcome, but you seem to be a horrible person who doesn't respect voters.
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Barking Squirrel 🏳️‍🌈👩🏻‍🦰🇺🇸🇨🇦 @barkingsquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If we don’t make a stand against more data centers now, they are going to roll right over us.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why should Alani become Bodnar's helpmeet? Bodnar has zero votes so far. Zero. Her platform is comprehensive and issue focused.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I live here. I watched the Moffie Funk PAC strategy unfold and collapse. Bodnar avoided the primary by paying signature gatherers to collect names to get him on the ballot. It's permitted, but it doesn't entitle him to claim the Democratic primary winner is a "spoiler" who can't win.
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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
this was always my favorite of the “grey poupon” ads
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
forget context, people can't even read for fiction, the number of ppl who will read something a character said and insist they'd never say it if you the author didn't personally believe it is comically large
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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
James Ensor (1860-1949), “Woman on a Breakwater” (1880), oil on canvas, 22.6 x 30.7 cm
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Joe Manchin, James O'Keefe, and Seth Bodnar at the Independent National Convention
independentnationalconvention.com
Independent National Convention 2026: America's Independent Movement Is Entering the Same Room
This September in Washington, leaders from across independent politics and democracy reform will gather alongside independent candidates. The significance is what becomes possible when a fragmented po...
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The $$$ flowing to Bodnar...
insideelections.com
Untangling the Democratic Dark Money Web Funding Independent Candidates
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another example...
buttecast.com
A case against Seth Bodnar
Perhaps my best decision as a father was to take my daughter to Rocky Mountain Martial Arts when she was in the second grade. There, Delaney got to study under the late, great Master Jim Miller. He…
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An example of the opinions circulating in Montana...
russellrowland.substack.com
Seth Bodnar is a Way Better Example of What’s Wrong with the Democratic Party than Alani Bankhead will ever Be
For about twenty years, people have been lamenting the fact that the Democratic party has lost touch with its base, and there’s a good reason for that.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Republican voters see him as a Tester clone; Democratic voters see him as a Manchin/Sinema retread; in a year when campaign financing is a focus, Bodnar is awash in PAC money. If you are registered to vote in Montana, this has been going on for months.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The pressure to force the Democratic primary winner out; the threats targeting members of the MTDP; equivocating on issues related to the surveillance economy, single payer health care, etc. In short, his "Independence" is rooted in PAC money and old farts like Manchin calling the shots. It's ugly.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Coding people invented a technology that writes code, and now they believe it solves every other aspect of life too. You don't see this with other industries, really. Imagine if somebody invented a new kind of saxophone and they were like "it's over for auto mechanics"
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nope.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The bear on the dock looked plump, but I wonder if the food web is collapsing.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Were there moths/cutworm enough this past summer?
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Upper Seven
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) and Sabo Tabby join in solidarity.
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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Siphonophore — the grizzly bear of squishy things. ROV pilots recorded this footage at 1589 meters during the 2025 #AsgardArchaea expedition in the deep waters of Uruguay. (Sound on to learn more.)
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I find my values do not align with Bodnar's. Surveillance capitalism is one such instance. His willing and current association with Manchin's "Independent" scheme is another. I will vote my conscience; you your own.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As an atheist, I respect the rights of people of faith as framed in the Constitution. I don't demand collective punishment of co-religionists. Alani left that church a long time ago. Alani is a decent, compassionate, rational person. Look at her platform and public statements.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Would you like to see my birth certificate? We may not know the same Montana, but my grandmothers lived and died here.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sorry. I believe Alme's chances have been overestimated. As for Planned Parenthood, NOW endorsed Bankhead. She is also openly supportive of LGBTQ+ Montanans rights.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The folks behind Bodnar want to install Bodnar, and they thought a chickenshit end-run past the primary voters would clinch it. Trump's carcass is slung around Alme's neck, and Daines' approval is about 40%. I don't think Alme is a sure-fire winner.
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No. She won the primary and respected the process and the voters. Bodnar has alienated many reliable voters. I would write in Black Wolf rather than vote for him.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Autumn poem just dropped.
[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:
 
  comm   n pr  ble    whe    writin    p   ems
in the shape of decid o   s trees
is t  at once t   ere ar   ives
the fir   t sti   rings of    he new aut   mn breeze,  
  he       oems will begi    to shake    hemselves ge   tly  
  ntil their letters loos   n like leaves,
an they d start to float down
then
 
[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]

turntomushuponthegroun

[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
After you get past the "family man" blather....
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blythewoolston.bsky.social @blythewoolston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Where did Seth Bodnar say he would caucus with the Dems? Was it this past weekend?
m.youtube.com
‘I Will Not Caucus With Either Party’: Montana Independent Senate Candidate Seth Bodnar
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
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