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Mountain girl. Wife. Mother. Anthrogeek/History freak. Read everything. Learn more. Facts matter. #StopSuicide DFTBA. Rock Chalk. AMDG. Brown Ajah. Frodo Lives! Do not obey In advance. Prepare for the worst, expect the best, and take what comes.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think one of the crucial things that needs to happen in order to address rape culture, is for men to start taking action to confront it. That happens in the response which boys and men have to hearing/seeing rape culture. I think having responses ready to deploy is important. Some ideas: (1/5)
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Powder River Basin Resource Council @prbrescouncil.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The federal government issued an energy order for 17 states, including WY, thru 8/3 due to extreme heat. Reminder: Residential solar, plug-in solar, & community solar are all tools which provide independence & resilience for WY. That's why PRBRC works for solar. trib.com/news/state-r...
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Wyoming is under a rare federal energy order. Here's what it could mean during this week's extreme heat
A rare federal move has put Wyoming on a growing list as extreme heat pushes the power grid closer to its limits.
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BeefReeferLives @beefreeferlives.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Right wing concern trolls really want a split ticket... As Uncle Driftglass says: "Reminder: Primaries are where you pick your favorite candidate... The general election, in the other hand, is where you vote out the fascists..." driftglass.blogspot.com/2026/02/for-...
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For Your Friend Who Does Not Understand How Elections Work
Feel free to pass this along to any fellow travelers who were members in good standing of [Insert "You Must Be Fucking Kidding Me...
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Great coverage of the Hope on the Divide hike along the Continental Divide Trail - as 3 hikers venture through beautiful, remote (miles from the nearest road, no cell service, grizzly country) trails to raise awareness on suicide prevention. #HopeOnTheDivide www.kbzk.com/news/hope-on...
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Hope on the Divide: Hikers tackle 180-mile Continental Divide Trail to raise suicide awareness
Three hikers are walking 180 miles along the Continental Divide Trail to raise suicide awareness across Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho.
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
West Yellowstone/adjacent area folks: 3 hikers will be traveling 180 miles of the Continental Divide Trail (through grizzly country & in most cases, miles from the nearest cell phone signal let alone road) to remind us all that we are not alone, & there is hope. Join them at this kick-off event.
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Cheyenne, WY area folks: You can actually do something to address the data centers that have taken over. @prbrescouncil.bsky.social & Cheyenne Area Landowners Coalition are hosting a meeting JULY 8th, 6pm, at the Cottonwood Room at the Laramie County Library. Nothing changes until we act together.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Love David Byrne….hope the kids at Coachella were paying attention and appreciated the genius they were witnessing last night "Love and Kindness are a form of resistance"
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Dogged, determined, long-term investment that occurs year 'round and is owned by the people themselves -- it works. Ben's got a book coming out soon; he built this machine, but he built it as a strong, self-sustaining system. Get the book.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Benny Johnson ended his CPAC speech by saying conservatives would "outbreed" the left, pointing to a poll of Gen Z voters: "Young Trump voters—men and women—said my number one priority is having children and starting a family." There's just one problem...
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
It's nearly 4pm on Pi Day and I still don't know what kind of pie I'm making today....
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Montana folks - check this out, attend, and raise your voices. These data center land/water/power grabs have got to stop.
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Those who follow WY politics will know why this (FB) post by former state senator Anthony Bouchard is just WILD. (Just google him if you're wondering - but know that he's got quite a history, himself, as does his son.)
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
If you live in the Rocky Mountain West - your local/state resource council has likely been organizing around this issue for the past while. Look 'em up, and get involved. Their members have decades of experience organizing against corporate efforts like this (& gov't incompetence too).
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
No longer commenting on the warm weather. I'm cutting to the chase: This weather is miserable - terrible - bad. Weather here in the Rocky Mountains should be cold & snowy, frequently windy, often bright sun & 10 degree highs, this time of the year - not nearly 60 degrees. This is catastrophic.
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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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Bovino is just the patsy - a noxious and odious fall guy. Stephen Miller is the architect and prime mover of the whole thing. Everything they do is at his direction - often after his threats. As long as he runs policy in the WH, nothing will change no matter how many Bovinos come and go.
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Western perspective and 100% accurate
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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
DreamHaven Books owner Greg Ketter emerging from a cloud of tear gas that ICE agents fired into the streets of Minneapolis.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
a skilled ER nurse with a deep sense of civic responsibility is exactly the kind of person you want carrying a firearm. every ICE employee should be barred from touching anything deadlier than a butter knife for the rest of their natural lives.
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
For no particular reason, pondering how Ukrainian citizens built these when Russia invaded their country, as a defense against the Russian military equipment. So ingenious. Hmmm. (1/2) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x7l...
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Czech Hedgehogs l Ukraine Is Using This World War II Era Defence Tool To Stall Putin’s Deadly Tanks
YouTube video by CRUX
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
*Looks at the news, then scans the area* Where are all those pro-2A, small-government, "Constitutional conservatives?" It looks like we have a situation where we need their strong and clear defense. *Crickets*
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The sad thing is that this is kind of a "deep cut" now.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 15/01/2026
So, if I'm following all this correctly, a bunch of internet shitposters who spent years screaming "don't tread on me" and warning about federal agents stomping out people's rights... have been hired as ICE agents to go around breaking into people's homes, kidnapping & shooting them
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
OoOoOoooh, ICE has 2,000 agents in Minneapolis. That sounds terrible. Far more of them than police officers. But. There are 3.76 million people in the Minneapolis metro area. That means that ICE is .000005% of the people in that area. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPR-...
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Patti Smith - People Have The Power (Official Audio)
YouTube video by pattismithVEVO
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
If they could shut down USAID in a day, and essentially eliminated the Department of Education, we can do the same to ICE and DHS. Demand it.
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
"Might makes right" is a great foreign policy plan. I can't imagine anything ever going wrong, with that as our guiding principle. [/sarcasm]
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Resolved: No longer describing warm winter days as "nice." On Friday, I saw a woman in her 60's wearing capris & sandals at the bank. This weather isn't "nice," it's terrible - early January in the Rocky Mountain West shouldn't be like this.
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Discovered today that a snarky, smart, funny, grammar-obsessed fellow GenX woman friend has never read @mcsweeneys.net . I've just sent links to ten of my favorite McSweeney's (from decorative gourd season to the past exonerative tense to the recent "When it Happens"). What are your favorites?
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Such a lovely thread - read as we begin this next new year.
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
It is wild to me that a disease which is easily preventable via vaccination - and for which infants aren't able to be vaccinated - after over 2 decades, is making a comeback in America. (1/10) www.kff.org/other-health...
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Measles Elimination Status: What It Is and How the U.S. Could Lose It | KFF
The United States is at risk of losing its measles elimination status. This post looks at what measles elimination means, how the current measles outbreak threatens this status, and what losing it mig...
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Good news, overall, but: Man, white supremacy is a powerful drug. Wild that white folks' numbers look like they do.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
“60 Minutes” abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air
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’60 Minutes’ Pulls Segment on Trump Deportees Sent to El Salvador Megaprison 2 Hours Before Airtime
"60 Minutes" abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air.
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
One of the very best sounds: The crunch of snow on a cold, snowy night in the Mountain West
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Hands up, everyone who expects that ICE had actually deep-cleaned the facility prior to Rep. Underwood's visit, besides emptying the building of detainees.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This morning, the President of the United States publicly called for the execution of six Members of Congress. Donald Trump must be removed from office. Today. He is a clear & present danger to this country. Right now. Invoke the 25th Amendment, or impeach & convict him. Now.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about. DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom. Tonight, at Law Dork:
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Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Homan ought to brush up on his catechism, it's more than a little rusty if he thinks he knows better than the USCCB and the Pope --- not to mention, misrepresenting and lying about their statement. Hoo, boy.
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Gail Waldby ❌👑 @gailwaldby.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
A fatigue crack in the Keystone Pipeline led to an oil spill in ND earlier this year that released thousands of barrels of oil onto farmland, according to pipeline operator. www.kfyrtv.com/2025/11/14/prelimina…
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Preliminary findings show a fatigue crack caused a Keystone Pipeline oil spill in North Dakota
A fatigue crack in the Keystone Pipeline led to an oil spill in North Dakota earlier this year that released thousands of barrels of oil onto farmland, according to the pipeline operator.
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The Democratic leadership in the Senate has the strategic capabilities of a wet sock. Seriously. Give it all away for a "show" vote that won't get anyone healthcare anyway, because only the Senate will vote on it (if the Senate even does it). We need a new Minority Leader in the Senate.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
let me just say Harry Reid would NEVER have allowed this
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.
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Ski Mom @skimomwy.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
There are many important policy issues to repair/implement at what point democracy & the Constitution return -- but I'm pondering the possibility of implementing a national holiday, "No Kings Day." It could be Election Day - or, the Great Cheato's birthday? Petty says the latter ...
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