captbobalou
@captbobalou.bsky.social
Dad, IT guy (open source advocate, 40 yrs in), musician with severe GAS and limited budget living in the western part of Montana. Love riding fast motorcycles fast, fishing, kayaking, bird hunting, skiing. Have opinions.
Washington DC is roughly 2,122 times smaller than Montana, with just over 8000 more SNAP beneficiaries. DC has committed to funding the SNAP shortfall. Montana (proudly) has not. This is a shameful dereliction of public service.
November 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Washington DC is roughly 2,122 times smaller than Montana, with just over 8000 more SNAP beneficiaries. DC has committed to funding the SNAP shortfall. Montana (proudly) has not. This is a shameful dereliction of public service.
I have continued my 25-year winning streak (with one slip up near Kalispell in 2006) of keeping alligators out of Montana. Only I could have accomplished this. It wasn't that hard, but everybody is thanking me for it. I'm being nominated for the Nobel Prize in Pest Control.
November 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I have continued my 25-year winning streak (with one slip up near Kalispell in 2006) of keeping alligators out of Montana. Only I could have accomplished this. It wasn't that hard, but everybody is thanking me for it. I'm being nominated for the Nobel Prize in Pest Control.
18 USC § 242 is our friend. States can use it. Which one will find the courage to be first?
October 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
18 USC § 242 is our friend. States can use it. Which one will find the courage to be first?
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Serious question: has the Fed govt ever arrested so many elected officials in such a short period of time, across multiple cities, and not for legit corruption reasons?
This seems like a distinct degree of anti-democratic escalation.
This seems like a distinct degree of anti-democratic escalation.
ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
October 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Serious question: has the Fed govt ever arrested so many elected officials in such a short period of time, across multiple cities, and not for legit corruption reasons?
This seems like a distinct degree of anti-democratic escalation.
This seems like a distinct degree of anti-democratic escalation.
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The number of people that go bankrupt every year from medical bills:
Canada - 0
Australia- 0
France - 0
Sweden - 0
Norway - 0
Spain - 0
Portugal - 0
UK - 0
Finland - 0
Iceland - 0
Germany - 0
United States - 326,000
Canada - 0
Australia- 0
France - 0
Sweden - 0
Norway - 0
Spain - 0
Portugal - 0
UK - 0
Finland - 0
Iceland - 0
Germany - 0
United States - 326,000
October 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The number of people that go bankrupt every year from medical bills:
Canada - 0
Australia- 0
France - 0
Sweden - 0
Norway - 0
Spain - 0
Portugal - 0
UK - 0
Finland - 0
Iceland - 0
Germany - 0
United States - 326,000
Canada - 0
Australia- 0
France - 0
Sweden - 0
Norway - 0
Spain - 0
Portugal - 0
UK - 0
Finland - 0
Iceland - 0
Germany - 0
United States - 326,000
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What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").
Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.
Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.
![Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.
Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.
“I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreib66z6racbfo5llgukbvmldxq44zaa7nqetkcs5cwxfez6xcec5oy@jpeg)
October 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").
Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.
Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.
Here's a suggestion to improve Bluesky: an AI-driven filter that allows you to hide any posts containing words or phrases for 24 hours. The use case is, "As a Bluesky user I want to remove any mention of Charlie Kirk so that I won't feel like breaking things to allow me to temporarily feel better."
September 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Here's a suggestion to improve Bluesky: an AI-driven filter that allows you to hide any posts containing words or phrases for 24 hours. The use case is, "As a Bluesky user I want to remove any mention of Charlie Kirk so that I won't feel like breaking things to allow me to temporarily feel better."
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American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana https://earthhope.substack.com/p/victory-for-public-access-american (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291132)
September 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana https://earthhope.substack.com/p/victory-for-public-access-american (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291132)
The last King I admired was Murray The Sturgeon King who passed away in 2000. The end of a magnificent era.
June 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The last King I admired was Murray The Sturgeon King who passed away in 2000. The end of a magnificent era.
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BREAKING: A fucking ICE agent rammed into a car full of U.S. citizens—then fled the scene. LAPD confirms it. This wasn’t a routine stop. This was state-sanctioned racial profiling turned felony hit-and-run. ICE is operating like a gang now.
Where’s the accountability?
Where’s the accountability?
June 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
BREAKING: A fucking ICE agent rammed into a car full of U.S. citizens—then fled the scene. LAPD confirms it. This wasn’t a routine stop. This was state-sanctioned racial profiling turned felony hit-and-run. ICE is operating like a gang now.
Where’s the accountability?
Where’s the accountability?
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Florida child welfare officers found a 17-year-old living in a shed with no food or water. They sent him to a foster home... and then reported him to ICE, whereupon he was handcuffed and shackled and marched to detention.
Not only is that victimizing him again, it violates Florida's own rules.
Not only is that victimizing him again, it violates Florida's own rules.
![The decision to alert immigration authorities to Henry’s status as an undocumented migrant is at odds with decades of child welfare practice in Florida – and it appears to violate a 30-year-old state Department of Children and Families rule that prohibits workers from acting upon a child’s status. Fran Allegra, a children’s attorney who ran Miami-Dade’s private foster care agency from 2004 until 2014, said if DCF’s action in Henry’s case represents a formal change in policy, it “puts Florida children at risk, and introduces a new chilling effect on reports to the [state’s] child abuse hotline. Reports about undocumented families are already low. This shift makes the chance for reporting, and, therefore, rescuing kids, less likely.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifzejzvkh3dka76wm5kctwo2jvthtmawpnyjkxtuzhn7es3fqlcau@jpeg)
June 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Florida child welfare officers found a 17-year-old living in a shed with no food or water. They sent him to a foster home... and then reported him to ICE, whereupon he was handcuffed and shackled and marched to detention.
Not only is that victimizing him again, it violates Florida's own rules.
Not only is that victimizing him again, it violates Florida's own rules.
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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Stupid stupid stupid
June 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Stupid stupid stupid
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Turns out the "illegal" pregnant woman was a US citizen, and she's since been hospitalized.
June 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Turns out the "illegal" pregnant woman was a US citizen, and she's since been hospitalized.
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BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
June 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
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FINED-
for treating a 10-year-old rape victim.
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10 year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
for treating a 10-year-old rape victim.
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10 year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
May 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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for treating a 10-year-old rape victim.
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10 year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
for treating a 10-year-old rape victim.
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10 year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
A 10-year-old rape victim
Was feeling morose at the rainy cold weather we got this morning until I passed the school playground filled with kids in colorful raingear and...umbrellas! (I didn't think they used them here in Montana) ... and realized I'm focused on the wrong thing. We have so few rainy days.
May 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Was feeling morose at the rainy cold weather we got this morning until I passed the school playground filled with kids in colorful raingear and...umbrellas! (I didn't think they used them here in Montana) ... and realized I'm focused on the wrong thing. We have so few rainy days.
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As a child sex crimes expert, it’s frustrating seeing childrens’ safety politicized
You want to know the REAL data on who is responsible?
I have receipts
www.linkedin.com/posts/alanib...
You want to know the REAL data on who is responsible?
I have receipts
www.linkedin.com/posts/alanib...
No more being polite
Americans tout the moral high ground
But their… | Alani Bankhead, PCC, ELI-MP | 19 comments
No more being polite
Americans tout the moral high ground
But their actions say differently
While perpetrators are a minority
They wield a strange power over the masses
Their primary tool?
Fear
...
www.linkedin.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
As a child sex crimes expert, it’s frustrating seeing childrens’ safety politicized
You want to know the REAL data on who is responsible?
I have receipts
www.linkedin.com/posts/alanib...
You want to know the REAL data on who is responsible?
I have receipts
www.linkedin.com/posts/alanib...
The 2025 MT legislative session realized the ambition of Montana Republicans to tax the general population for the benefit of it's wealthiest, most privileged citizens. A "historic tax cut" after 2 years of historic property tax increases. Shame. helenair.com/news/state-r...
Gianforte signs income tax cut bill into law, cementing a third reduction in five years
"All of those supporting this measure are motivated by this fundamental principle: Your tax dollars belong to you, not to the government," the governor said while announcing the tax cut.
helenair.com
April 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The 2025 MT legislative session realized the ambition of Montana Republicans to tax the general population for the benefit of it's wealthiest, most privileged citizens. A "historic tax cut" after 2 years of historic property tax increases. Shame. helenair.com/news/state-r...
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This is a new image from #JWST.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
April 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This is a new image from #JWST.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
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Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."
April 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."
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I will say this until I die: You long for the "good old days" because you were too stupid to understand what was actually going on back then.
March 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I will say this until I die: You long for the "good old days" because you were too stupid to understand what was actually going on back then.
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This is all it takes for the government now to make someone disappear
March 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This is all it takes for the government now to make someone disappear