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Happy to share my novel. Look for it serialized on my Substack in the coming days and months. Dickens, watch out!
Happy to share my novel. Look for it serialized on my Substack in the coming days and months. Dickens, watch out!
Family Anarchy
a Novel in Three Parts
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December 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Happy to share my novel. Look for it serialized on my Substack in the coming days and months. Dickens, watch out!
Happy to share my novel. Look for it serialized on my Substack in the coming days and months. Dickens, watch out!
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jon wurster!! reblog if you agree
October 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
jon wurster!! reblog if you agree
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one cynically funny thing about Hegseth thinking he can retcon the genocide atop which America was built is that the rest of the world is not fooled & will never be fooled. World history will always teach that the Army committed organized murder of civilians at Wounded Knee. It’s generally known
September 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
one cynically funny thing about Hegseth thinking he can retcon the genocide atop which America was built is that the rest of the world is not fooled & will never be fooled. World history will always teach that the Army committed organized murder of civilians at Wounded Knee. It’s generally known
I’ll be there!!
Friday night sees the triumphant return of WtMG! Join the unofficial Mountain Goats (@themountaingoats.bsky.social) server, and register your interest to get a notification before we go live: discord.gg/ppEcny4w?eve...
July 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I’ll be there!!
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Friday night sees the triumphant return of WtMG! Join the unofficial Mountain Goats (@themountaingoats.bsky.social) server, and register your interest to get a notification before we go live: discord.gg/ppEcny4w?eve...
July 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Friday night sees the triumphant return of WtMG! Join the unofficial Mountain Goats (@themountaingoats.bsky.social) server, and register your interest to get a notification before we go live: discord.gg/ppEcny4w?eve...
Truth
July 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Truth
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KIDS IN THE CAGES by The Neighborhood Kids
July 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
KIDS IN THE CAGES by The Neighborhood Kids
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"Please continue peacefully protesting": Sen. Padilla after forced removal from DHS presser
June 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"Please continue peacefully protesting": Sen. Padilla after forced removal from DHS presser
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So Trump is threatening to use the FBI against any hospital providing transgender surgeries to those under 18.
Note: Such procedures, typically limited to top surgery and in some rare cases, bottom surgery at 17 before going to college, are legal.
This is meant to scare hospitals out of care.
Note: Such procedures, typically limited to top surgery and in some rare cases, bottom surgery at 17 before going to college, are legal.
This is meant to scare hospitals out of care.
June 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
So Trump is threatening to use the FBI against any hospital providing transgender surgeries to those under 18.
Note: Such procedures, typically limited to top surgery and in some rare cases, bottom surgery at 17 before going to college, are legal.
This is meant to scare hospitals out of care.
Note: Such procedures, typically limited to top surgery and in some rare cases, bottom surgery at 17 before going to college, are legal.
This is meant to scare hospitals out of care.
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May 17, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!
April 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!
Note to self: if you live in Montana do not pack away the snow shovel until June, at least.
Happy Spring from the Big Sky!
Happy Spring from the Big Sky!
April 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Note to self: if you live in Montana do not pack away the snow shovel until June, at least.
Happy Spring from the Big Sky!
Happy Spring from the Big Sky!
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Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
April 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
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if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
April 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
Considering I still won't keep a hat on a bed all these years later, I'd posit Drugstore Cowboy as the most influential film of all time. Thank you, Gus Van Sant! I think.
April 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Considering I still won't keep a hat on a bed all these years later, I'd posit Drugstore Cowboy as the most influential film of all time. Thank you, Gus Van Sant! I think.
Truth.
He was what we needed then, and we need him again now. I sincerely hope he becomes more active and loudly confronts the evil of this administration head on. He still holds the power to motivate people, we could use his energy. 🙏🏾
April 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Truth.
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Trying to give concessions to people who were lying about you, who knew they were lying but sought to manipulate a response from you, is loser behavior. Tell them firmly not to wear that off the rack shit to court and you’ll see them there
They will never stop shaking down Columbia. Columbia should revoke all the concessions it made and take them to court.
In the NYT right now, from a Justice Dept lawyer: “I will tell you right now that Columbia has not in my opinion — and the opinion of the Department of Justice — has not cleaned up their act,” Mr. Terrell said. “They’re not even close, not even close to having those funds unfrozen.”
March 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Trying to give concessions to people who were lying about you, who knew they were lying but sought to manipulate a response from you, is loser behavior. Tell them firmly not to wear that off the rack shit to court and you’ll see them there
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Please have a read!
Please have a read!
Four Seasons with The Mountain Goats
Beauty and pain, a man's journey with John Darnielle and friends
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February 9, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Please have a read!
Please have a read!
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Montana is extremely lucky to have Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell standing up in front of openly transphobic lawmakers who wanted to pass a bill that would /take trans kids away from their parents./
Thank you to them, and to the Republicans who crossed the aisle. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Thank you to them, and to the Republicans who crossed the aisle. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Stop these crazy bills’: Republicans join Democrats to defeat anti-trans legislation in Montana
One bill would remove trans children from their parents, and the other would ban drag shows and Pride marches
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March 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Montana is extremely lucky to have Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell standing up in front of openly transphobic lawmakers who wanted to pass a bill that would /take trans kids away from their parents./
Thank you to them, and to the Republicans who crossed the aisle. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Thank you to them, and to the Republicans who crossed the aisle. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Breaking: Trump's full trans military ban has just dropped. Quickly reading it, it appears to be a full separation from the military for all transgender military members, and states being trans is inconsistent with "honesty, humility, uniformity, and integrity."
A sad day for this nation.
A sad day for this nation.
Exhibit 1 - 26 Feb 2025 OSD Policy – #63, Att. #1 in TALBOTT v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-00240) – CourtListener.com
NOTICE by TELITA CROSLAND, DEFENSE HEALTH AGENCY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PETER B. HEGSETH, MARK F. AVERILL, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, TERENCE EMMERT, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE NAV...
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February 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Breaking: Trump's full trans military ban has just dropped. Quickly reading it, it appears to be a full separation from the military for all transgender military members, and states being trans is inconsistent with "honesty, humility, uniformity, and integrity."
A sad day for this nation.
A sad day for this nation.
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this book is so, so good
“I am the nameless crew member who died on January 27, 1597.” So reports the narrator of this boldly imaginative, profoundly beautiful novel by Donald Niedekker, “the Zen master of Dutch literature.” Out in May; we have ARCs now. Media folks and bookstore peeps, hit us up if you want one.
February 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
this book is so, so good