Rep. Zooey Zephyr
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Rep. Zooey Zephyr
@zoandbehold.bsky.social
State Representative out of Missoula, Montana. Fighting for housing, health care, & human rights.

Wife of @erininthemorning.com

Bi🏳️‍🌈 Trans🏳️‍⚧️ she/her♀️
God it was unbelievable watching Japan deliver the highest score ever seen in the Free Skate, especially after their heartbreaking performance in the Short Program. Just unflinching perfection from start to finish.

Congrats to Japan on winning their first Figure Skating Pairs gold!
Just watched Japan's Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara skate the free skate of their lives after falling behind yesterday.

It was so incredible to go from watching their tears of sadness the day before to their tears of joy today.

From 5th to 1st.

One of the best skates I've ever seen in my life.
February 16, 2026 at 11:46 PM
A reporter called to ask me about Jeremy Carl's nomination, given that he's from Montana and apparently wrote some wild shit about me in 2023.

I'll echo my comments to the reporter here: I think he'd fit in well with the Trump administration, given that it's filled entirely with nazis & pedophiles.
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 13, 2026 at 10:03 PM
I'm a sucker for impromptu political strategy conversations, especially over brunch with friends. ☕️
February 9, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
What a moment.
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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Naah, I want them on trial.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:

End the roving patrols and racial profiling.

Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.

Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 4, 2026 at 4:21 AM
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GEORGIA — @ossoff.senate.gov : “This is a SEISMIC event. This should have people across 🇺🇸 absolutely shook. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office… this is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections.” (H/T @atrupar.com )
January 29, 2026 at 5:46 AM
Update: I finished my first 2 books of the year!

On Tyranny felt like a pamphlet warning me of a bomb that was already mid-explosion, which is terrifying.

The Emperor's Soul was solid. Syntactically simple, but philosophically enjoyable. It makes me curious how longer Sanderson books will be.
January 19, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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Every year I that have served in the legislature, Republicans have attacked the rights of trans people & the LGBTQ community. If this is the so-called Utah Way, I'm done with it. I'm proud to be endorsed by @zoandbehold.bsky.social, who knows what it means to stand up against bullies. Thanks, Zooey.
January 19, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Seraphon players, rise up! #warhammer
January 14, 2026 at 3:32 AM
One of my 2026 political goals is to become deeply knowledgeable about every aspect of Artificial Intelligence.

It's development, trajectory, limitations, impact on other research, it's economic/cultural impacts.

Montana's legislature meets again in 2027; I want to be ready to make good policy.
January 13, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Was feeling adventurous today, so i made some onigiri for the first time. Super happy with how they turned out 😤
January 12, 2026 at 1:50 AM
my wife (@erininthemorning.com): your pedagogy is so good....

...

it's pedagoodgy
January 11, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Prosecute the former regime at every level.

ICE's murder of a young mom should be the final nail in this wicked gestapo's coffin. Disband ICE, investigate all agents.

Also: impeach & prosecute Trump—both for the cavalcade of illegal presidential actions, as well as the fact that he's a pedophile.
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists.

Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.

Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.

It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
January 6, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Congress must immediately act to impeach & imprison Donald Trump.

And if they fail to do so, the rest of the world should punish the USA just as heavily as was done to Russia for attacking Ukraine.

We should not get to kidnap heads of state & "run" sovereign countries like vassals.
JUST IN: Trump says the U.S. will “run” Venezuela for now, until a “proper transition” can take place
January 3, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.

It’s about oil and regime change.

And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
January 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
My personal resolutions for the new year:

1) Read 12 books (& get back into some academic reading)

2)Get a consistent exercise schedule (yoga & gym)

3) Do more art (& branch out to more different kinds of art)

4) help dems not suck and pick up more seats in '26 (in Montana & beyond)
My resolutions:
- Read more
- Get really good at photography
- Ski my first blue
- Exercise
January 1, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Happy new year, y'all!

Here's to the joy we will carve out in defiance of fascism. Let this year be the turning point to something brighter, and let it be our joy that lights the way.
January 1, 2026 at 7:10 AM
"And I never say no"

We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.

We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
December 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background.

The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
December 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
My wife hyperfixating on the subject of my grad school work is the greatest christmas present ever. We just had like a 4 hour discussion on transhumanism, semiotics, symbiosis, art, and more.

I love my wife so much. Also, god this conversation made me miss academia so much (damn you, politics!) 😅
Next I’m going for a change of phase and aiming for nonfiction. I’m diving into transhumanism books, from lots of different perspectives. There is a lot going on in the world with tech, AI, ethical questions, and I want to grasp things better.

Starting with Life 3.0 as my first.
December 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
@erininthemorning.com and my D&D group is so spoiled.

In addition to having a god-tier cleric & note-taker (@settiai.bsky.social), our group's bard writes & records original songs and plays them during key moments of our campaign.

We just had a battle of the bands with a cult, and it was amazing.
December 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
My wife is now encouraging me to play (& stream) Outer Wilds 🤔
Oh my GOD I just beat Outer Wilds and holy shit.

What an ending.

One of the best games I've ever played. One of those times a game rises above being just a game and becomes a story worth remembering.
December 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM