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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 14h

I'm glad it's coming out that the real reason Shannon O'brien resigned was not some "noble" stand to support Seth Bodnar, but rather b/c she'd siphoned $30k of Democrat funds to pay a friend a big severance package (& then lied about it). Good riddance! The Dems should root out every leech & crook.

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Blue_Riverrrr @blueriverrrr.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Alani Bankhead wants to impeach Trump Seth Bodnar wants to have coffee with him bsky.app/profile/blue...

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Alani Bankhead for U.S. Senate (D-MT) @alanib.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yeah that needs to go, but the damage is done. The govt used & abused surveillance. A holdover from post-9/11 response including DHS w no clear training or procedures which is how we got here. We need way stronger privacy protections & limits on govt surveillance that infringe on civil liberties

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Renae Freedom @rdl8192boyz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Me, my family, and friends are all voting for Alani because of her integrity, experience, impressive military service, and her dedication to work on the affordability issues that plaque Montanans. She's the better candidate, by far. So no, we've never wished for Alani to "drop out", it's insulting.

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DakotaVAdams @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Also they distributed her underage daughter's phone # in a document of her family's contact information for the pressure campaign to force her out. So no, she will not drop out: bsky.app/profile/toxi...

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Barking Squirrel 🏳️‍🌈👩🏻‍🦰🇺🇸🇨🇦 @barkingsquirrel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This from Missoula Dem Rep Zooey Zephyr on Tester. We don’t need a Manchin Senator. You can judge Bodnar by the company he keeps.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.

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guidegroup.bsky.social @guidegroup.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Posted this 'cause I am weary of people (incl close friends) smearing this woman over her religious background and as some mysterious, suspicious newcomer. Both are very well addressed in this article. Yep, people grow up in religious traditions they later reject. Yep, good people retire to Montana

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/10/2026

Good for Alani Bankhead. She was set up by donors to drop out of the race the moment she won the primary, and she refused to. Bodnar should have run as a Dem. Glad Bankhead has a spine. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Montana Democrat who refuses to drop out may spoil party’s Senate hopes

Candidate Alani Bankhead vigorously denies claims she is a Republican plant running to take votes away from a more popular independent.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 20/09/2026

Ballot measures in Missouri and Montana would declare that people have a fundamental right to popular initiatives. This would give initiatives “the highest level of constitutional protection,” says a legal scholar.

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To Protect Direct Democracy, Two States Mull a New Approach: Name It As a Right - Bolts

Ballot measures in Missouri and Montana would strengthen citizen-led initiatives. Democracy advocates in each state are going on the offense after facing years of attack.

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Alani Bankhead for U.S. Senate (D-MT) @alanib.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s the 1% vs the rest of us #mtpol [AAUW Candidate Forum • 9.10]

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Blue_Riverrrr @blueriverrrr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If candidates are judged for validity, solely on the amount of money they’ve raised - rather than on the policies they support - I fear our elections have lost all integrity I’m voting for the candidate that wants universal healthcare, to abolish ICE, and ban data centers - that’s not Bodnar

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Blue_Riverrrr @blueriverrrr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

But I think that’s the thing that everyone is so fed up with, and the reason why The Montana Plan is on the ballot. People are tired of elections being dictated by who has the most money - because that money comes with obligations and ulterior motives.

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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 03/09/2026

I had a chance to meet @samforstag.bsky.social and he’s got a real shot in this race. Most of the cattle ranchers are out east in the other district, but affordability has been an acute problem in Montana since COVID. It would be nice to have a rep in Congress I’m not ashamed of.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

There are four overlapping scandals here: 1. Fundraising spam tactics are hallmarks of elder financial exploitation 2. The Dem establishment is in on it 3. Most of what is raised goes to fundraising consultants 4. Capitulation to legal threats by NYT and The Bulwark on a fully vetted story 🧵👇

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Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Scandal #3: The money doesn't go to help Democrats win elections Upwards of 70-75% of what's raised via fundraising spam is plowed back into more fundraising. The consultants profit whether Democrats win or lose. As the DNC's autopsy warned, these consultants are getting generationally wealthy.

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IndigiTrans @indigitrans.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Seth Bodnar's team spends fuckton of money trying to get her to beat Rielly Neill, then when she did they & DNC & DSCC pulled the rug immediately & said 'You can't win!' Yah, it's supect alright... adriajawort.substack.com/p/top-dnc-of...

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Top DNC officials allegedly approved targeting of Bankhead’s family & minor daughter

If proven true, it could possibly constitute to conspiring to commit felony extortion

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David Montana 🇺🇸🇨🇦🌈🇺🇦🇲🇽🇻🇪🇵🇸 @mountainman14.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Proving to be against Montana interests yet again. Daines is a complete embarrassment and needs to go! #mtpol

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travelincatdoc dvm jd @travelincatdoc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Data centers are so toxic and unpopular that an out-of-state billionaire is spending millions trying to trick Montanans in the US Senate primary race. #mtpol #montana 👇

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Well, That Was Really Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 04/05/2026

This is good, but we need to get politics out of billionaires. The ultra-rich control vast swaths of media, industry, think tanks, churches, and countless other pieces of hegemonic power. Their existence is an illiberal, toxic force.

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JohnBoik @johnboik.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

"A billionaire death cult has its fingers around humanity’s throat. It both causes and downplays our existential crisis. The oligarchs are not just a class enemy but, as they have always been, a societal enemy: a few thousand people can destroy civilisations." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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A catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it | George Monbiot

Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is set to collapse. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny just doesn’t do existential crises, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Cool perspective on statistical learning!

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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇺🇸 💙 @kathyswords.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

an oligarchy virus “was embedded in America’s economic DNA... waiting for the appropriate conditions to reveal itself,” “And then we created those conditions, unleashing it to infect our institutions... and democracy, replicate, and burst forth to infect anew.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The American experiment has been infected by oligarchs

How our tax system guarantees extreme wealth concentration.

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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

My painting TWO RED CHAIRS

An acrylic painting of two red adirondack chairs at the edge of a dock on a lake under an abstract sunset.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Okay now can we get rid of Schumer as minority leader

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Well, That Was Really Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 03/04/2026

The nice thing about a $10 million wealth cap and not having poor people or insanely wealthy people: - no concentrated poverty - no concentrated wealth - no means testing - hard to marginalize groups - hard for capital to capture government - capital is democratized - *all* labor is honored

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The reality is that those with everything bought the media and convinced the rubes to vote for people who would help them keep everything. So, we don’t tax the wealthy. Instead, we worship capitalism and funnel our wealth upward to them. We don’t support each other because that would be “socialism”

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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

NO MORE BILLIONAIRES PERIOD

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Blue_Riverrrr @blueriverrrr.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Rooting for Russell Cleveland for Montana US House District 1 @russellcleveland.org

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This is my collection of #NoKings events from around Montana. The huge crowds across the country are amazing, of course, but the people who showed up in their local parks and on their hometown sidewalks are my heroes. They deserve to be seen and counted. I was proud to stand among them. 1/n #MtPol

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Nora Mabie @noramabie.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Protesters line the streets in Hamilton, MT for the latest No Kings demonstration. Hamilton, a town of around 5,000 residents, is in Ravalli County, which favored Trump by a 41-point margin in 2024.

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Randy 🌴 @randyucf.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Love to see this in deep red Montana.

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The collapse of systems of domination & extraction is an inside job in that the worldview of strength through force, safety through extraction, and avoidance of sharing through growth has always held the seeds of its own destruction within itself. It can't be otherwise in an interconnected system.

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Christine Lagarde’s sober tone on the Gulf war energy shock

Christine Lagarde warns that risks from the Iran war are underestimated, with energy disruption potentially lasting years and limited fiscal space for response.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

If every top Democrat doesn’t immediately condemn this threat of war crimes and collective punishment, without any ‘process’ BS complaints, then they should be primaried instantly. They’ll be complicit in this crime if they don’t speak out. Tainted forever.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

left top: nazi checkpoint commandant in Oscar bait WW2 movie right top: Kingsman villain right bottom: demented killer who kidnaps a scientist left bottom: the scientist's pet android

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Problembear @problembear.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

We will need 60 senators to impeach him, Montana. Who do you trust to do that? My money is on Reilly Neill or Michael Black Wolf….. #DefeatGOP2026 #DefeatBodnar

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@1_seagal.bsky.social 📎 @seagal1.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

He danced around important questions in a CNN interview the other day. Seems like a John Fetterman type of guy. He will be a republican NOT an independent. Quit being fooled by a wolf in sheep's clothing!

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Problembear @problembear.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Saw an ad for a Republican candidate running for Congress in Montana tonight on HBO. Most of the ad showed him bragging about being endorsed by a corrupt pedophile. I think the people of Montana are too smart to fall for that crap. Don’t you? #DefeatGOP2026

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Yes, and yes And billionaires should be taxed into millionaires bsky.app/profile/notr...

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