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Nicole Rosenleaf Ritter

@rosenleaf.bsky.social
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Editor and writer. Choral and opera singer. Wife and mom. Ex-expat Montanan. Bleeding-heart liberal. Not necessarily in that order.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
At Law Dork, I covered today's SCOTUS Voting Rights Act ruling and temporary protect status arguments. One of the few reporters in the courtroom this morning, watching Justice Kagan announcing her dissent from the bench is a moment I will not soon forget. I wrote a lot about today. Read on ...
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SCOTUS guts what remained of the Voting Rights Act before taking on TPS termination case
It was Alito's decision, but Roberts has sought Wednesday's VRA result for more than 40 years. In the arguments over temporary protected status, however, DOJ might have overstepped.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Remember when Rep. Greg Gianforte, now the GOP governor of the state, body slammed a reporter into a table? We probably need to shut down the Montana Republican Party entirely until we can figure out where all this violent rage is coming from.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this: I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/02/2026
This is amazing.
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The Enshittificator
Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Kristi Noem remains laser-focused on the things American taxpayers want: (1) Kidnapping innocent people off their streets; (2) Using their money for private planes with elaborate bedrooms for her fornications, and (3) bespoke garments taxpayers could never afford for civil servants.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Can I be honest? It actually makes my teeth itch that SCOTUS is willing to step in when on this one occasion it serves their personal interests, but in matters of life and death for ordinary people they barely break a sweat telling us their hands are tied.
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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I swear to god, it is time for Me Too: The Two-ening. Me Too & The Rest of the Sex Pest Crew. Me Too: Fuck You. Whatever. When I think of how the media responded ten years ago, steam comes whistling out of my years.
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Nicole Rosenleaf Ritter @rosenleaf.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Pure evil
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I thought I was beyond being shocked at this point but...fuck. I don't know what else to say. And, of course, beyond every known story there are countless others still untold. Every family in the headlines is an example, not an exception.
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Kathleen McLaughlin @kemc.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
"So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity," UN experts said. www.reuters.com/world/allega...
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Allegations in Epstein files may amount to 'crimes against humanity,' UN experts say
Millions of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a "global criminal enterprise" that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity,...
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill. open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
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Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal
Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.
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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Jeremy Carl has rightly gotten a lot of attention this week as an assistant SOS nominee who built a career as an outspoken racist & xenophobe. In addition to being unfit for the job and utterly reprehensible, he's also A Guy In Montana and Montanans are NOT HAVING IT. www.reddit.com/r/Bozeman/co...
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From the Bozeman community on Reddit: Eww, this guy is from Bozeman
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molly priddy @mollypriddy.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
don’t underestimate the good people in red states and how angry they are at this regime. i learned about caring for my neighbors growing up in Montana; often you’re the only folks for miles who can help each other. it prepared me well for these last 7 years in Minnesota.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Roses are red but that's implicit fight back against fascism or else you're complicit
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/02/2026
This is the energy I want from every Democrat.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/02/2026
I hope Dems understand that the flip side of the "affordability" message is corruption. Trump is not bringing down costs, he's stealing your tax money to enrich himself & his family. You're forced to save & cut back; he's living like fucking Caligula.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Last week the far right started peddling a narrative that the outrage over Epstein is a moral panic. Today, like clockwork, a more polite version of that narrative appears in the Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
hey there, would you like some SUPER BOWL SNACK HISTORY? yes, you would. this one gets very nerdy so buckle up snackstack.net/2026/02/08/s...
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Superb Snack History: The secret life of seven-layer dip
Investigating the origins of a very 1970s snack
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:
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Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
NBC editing out the booing of JD Vance is a disgrace. It’s an international event. Americans have the right to know what the world is saying. NBC has bowed down to Trump.
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Nicole Rosenleaf Ritter @rosenleaf.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
For sure! A sad fall
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Nicole Rosenleaf Ritter @rosenleaf.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Just FYI that Horner has not been “universally admired and beloved” for quite some time—particularly after he married a 19-y-o undergrad when he was 70. A lot of not-surprise in Bozeman when he showed up in the files
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 06/02/2026
One thing I’ve learned that is that arguments in favor of something that does measurable harm to your community — using genAI, skipping vaccines, not wearing masks — are generally not reasoned or based in science or even deeply held beliefs. The actor simply does not want to *have to do something.*
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
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Nicole Rosenleaf Ritter @rosenleaf.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sending heaps of good wishes to Fizzy Dog ♥️
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Nicole Rosenleaf Ritter @rosenleaf.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I didn’t realize the Naval Academy had a Constitutional Law degree option
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This is incredibly powerful testimony. Ms. Rahman is very tough and clear and was treated horribly. Warning: I can't watch it without tears of rage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcW...
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WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Montana Democrats @montanademocrats.org · 03/02/2026
Montanans deserve to know if their private information is being shared to the federal government on their dime without consent. Secretary Jacobsen, a word to the wise: read the damn Constitution of the state you govern. #mtpol
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Nicole Rosenleaf Ritter @rosenleaf.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This is horrific. Horrific. War crimes trials NOW
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Mark Agee @markagee.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
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Nicole Rosenleaf Ritter @rosenleaf.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
This article was sooooooo gross. The anecdote about the “really gorgeous” teenager?!? WTAF
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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Losing Diane Keaton and Rob Reiner and Catherine O'Hara in quick succession is a pretty big blow for people who enjoy elementary things such as "laughter" and "joy"
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Montana Free Press @montanafreepress.org · 29/01/2026
Neighbors woke up at 3 a.m. and drove 800 miles to show support for Roberto Orozco-Ramirez at a court hearing Wednesday. “The community responded more than I ever thought,” his son said.
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For years he was just the beloved local auto shop owner. Then came Border Patrol.
When Border Patrol arrested a beloved mechanic in Froid, Montana, neighbors were forced to reckon with national immigration policy.
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Mary (geographile) @geographile.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
A friend shared with me a girl scout cookie link from a group that's having a hard time selling in Minneapolis right now. digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop5...
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Order your Faves on my Digital Cookie Site Today
That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Until Miller’s gone these are just gestural purges to sanitize and consolidate his reign of terror.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The terror that ICE and CBP have inflicted on the children of the Twin Cities is, by itself, a crime of scandalous proportions that will forever stain this country's moral fabric, and all those responsible should never know another day of peace. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Bauer, who is 49, struggled to maintain her composure as she described the day early this month when ICE showed up in force outside her school. Agents had been circling the school since December, seemingly learning its routines, and they arrested some parents just before the winter break. But this time, agents leapt out in riot gear and began entering the apartments just across from the school, where many students live.

“We had to lock down and keep the kids inside, and parents linked arms to block the school entrance,” Bauer said. “We had a student who was looking out the window and saw them break into his apartment and just sobbed, ‘That’s my house. That’s my home.’ And we shut the blinds, but it was too late.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Please share. 💔
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
218 people voted to fund the child kidnapping ring and masked death squads.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 22/01/2026
I'm sorry, abolishing ICE is now off the table as the centrist compromise. The floor is now The Hague.
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Shannon T. @shan73198.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
While 130 Americans die from gun violence every day, Governor Gianforte is partying with the gun industry at the SHOT Show. His continued inaction on gun violence is abhorrant in a state with some of the highest rates of youth and veteran suicide in the country. #Enough @momsdemandaction.org #MTPol
Governor of MT posing with a weapon of mass destructionGovernor of MT partying at the SHOT show
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ceej @ceej.online · 22/01/2026
I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
“may your grandkids race to change their names” is actually an incredible curse we should all start adding to our repertoire it’s gonna be true of a lot of these people
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