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JKrotkov
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Montana. Back-country hike, ski, etc. Weirdo underground house in the mountains. Pottery. #mtleg #mtpol. Motivated to Love Thy Neighbor (no exceptions). Quaker.
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#silentSunday

#photography
close view of a japanese maple with bright orange leaves backlit by a setting sun a mounded japanese maple tree with bright orange leaves stands under a blue sky and sunburst of colorful rays
November 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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#FootpathFriday

#photography
a calm, low woodland creek reflects the blue sky flecked with white clouds, along with yellow leaved hardwood trees an open hardwood forest with lingering yellow leaves has a hiking trail running through it
November 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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The army used to warn soldiers about the perils of fascism.
The army was Antifa.

archive.org/details/Army...
header for war department memo on fascism, dated 24 March 1945.
October 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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The winds coming down the east side of the continental divide let us know exactly who is in charge.

#photography #canada #mountainmonday
mist fills the air on a bright sunny day, with green, roiled lake waters, low hills with pine and yellow aspens, and distant tall rocky and snow=flecked mountains under a bright blue sky yellow, orange and red shrubs fill a valley before low forested hills and distant snow=flecked mountains mist fills the air on a bright sunny day, creating multiple lens refractions, with green, roiled lake waters, low hills with pine and yellow aspens, and distant tall rocky and snow=flecked mountains under a bright blue sky mist fills the air on a bright sunny day, with green, roiled lake waters, low hills with pine and yellow aspens, and distant tall rocky and snow=flecked mountains under a bright blue sky
October 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another’s trouble,
Courage in your own.

-Adam Lindsay Gordon, poet (19 Oct 1833-1870)
A hiker walks on a red earth path through autumn colored shrubs in a forest of burned, standing trees, beneath a towering rocky snow-flecked mountain
October 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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#NoKings

I'd be there, except that I'm here.

#photography #mountains
Clouds gather around the sun above a tall, snow-dusted rocky mountain peak.
October 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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The US Capitol Visitor Center is closed due to rapid unplanned disassembly of US democracy

#uspol #democracy
photo of the us capitol, and a sign in front of it saying the us capitol visitor center is closed due to a lapse in appropriations.
October 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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What if scarcity is just a social construct, a fiction that fences us off from a better way of life?

Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry
wizened red hawthorn berries in the sunlight, with yellow and green leaves around them
October 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Mine's Alfonso. With an "f".
a chinstrap penguin hops from one rock to another in front of a tall iceberg
October 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Sad, decaying fall colors/democracy.
yellow and brown leaves lie face down on a forest floor, with all their veins starkly outlined in frost
October 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. 1-877-447-4487
October 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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#SilentSunday

#Montana #photography
foreground of yellowed grass and sagebrush, mid ground with a straight line of bright yellow cottonwood trees and background of a hillside covered in solid dark green pines
October 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Mum's the word.

#autumn #Montana
orange, red, white and yellow chrysanthemums bloom in a bunch
October 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Rambling the #autumn hills of central #montana

#photography #bloomscrolling
rolling hills with green to yellow grasses, orange and red shrubs, looking down a valley to smoke-shrouded blue forested mountains a chokecherry bush with blue berries, yellow, red, orange and green leaves, stands before a receding valley of the same autumn colors grassy hillside with yellow red and orange leaved forbs and grasses, and some tall white wildflower seedheads close up of creamy colored tufts of flower seedheads
September 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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photo of a llama and a pack of goats looking up with their mouths open. Speech bubble from the llama reads: What James Comey did is truly one of the most severe assaults on our freedoms and liberties that has occurred in the whole history of this nation."
September 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Hawthornes.

#Montana #photography #autumn
red, wrinkly hawthorne berries amid yellow leaves with filtering sunshine close up of a hawthorne stem with huge thorns. Background out of focus is a thicket of hawthrone stems a thicket of hawthrone stems puzzled together Hawthorne and other bushes in red, orange, yellow and green, with one shrub forming an arch, under which an old, rusty round culvert sits, with pockmarks of shotgun holes, through which the light shines
September 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Mood today.
woman at a protest holding a big black sign with small gold writing that says NOPE
September 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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a llama and some goats all lift their heads with their mouths openappearing to shout. The speech bubble says “What do YOU HAVE? You have NOTHING, you are nothing. You are wickedness, you are jealousy, you are hatred, YOU ARE NOTHING. You can build nothing, produce nothing, create nothing."
September 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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#SilentSunday

#photography #Montana
Large boulders sit on the edge of a grassy hillside next to a stark dead tree, with a blazing sun behind them and mountains in the distance
September 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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color me autumnal.

#montana #photography #autumn
a small white, dried flower head hangs loosely from its stem, in front of red leaved shrubs in a shaft of sunshine a pile of big rocks, covered in colorful lichen stands on a grassy hillside, before some pine trees grassy high meadow with one yellow flower blooming before a distant confluence of black and white hills bleeding into farmland landscape with stripes of dark pine trees in the foreground, yellow aspen trees in the mid ground, dun colored farm fields dotted with windmills, and smokey layers of rolling mountains in the back
September 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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You ever wish that fireworks were incredibly quiet and also didn't disappear so quickly and also you could keep them in your home and also you could hold them in your hands? Because if so, I'd love to introduce you to, flowers. -Jonny Sun
close up of a pink mallow flower with its curled pistils casting a shadow on the pink petal close up of a red holly hock flower with curled flower parts dripping spots of yellow pollen on the red petals close up of a sunflower head with many small yellow flwer heads still attached to the developing black seeds arranged in a spiral pink echinacea flowers rise like rockets through thick green foliage in a meadow
September 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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quote from George Orwell on obedience
September 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Editorial of the day.

#photography #montana #nope
A woman sits on a chair in a protest with a black sign, with the word NOPE written in gold.
September 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Today's walk in the woods.

#Montana #autumn #photography
sun shines through the white, hairy looking seed pods of a clematis vine close up of a cluster of hairy white clematis seed heads glisten in the side light wide angle view of an aspen grove on the edge of a hillside, with the sky visible through the lower trunks of the trees and the sun shining through the tree tops water color looking filter of a photo of a dirt path winding through a dappled aspen grove
September 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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#WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day Protest in Great Falls #Montana
a woman wears a hat saying "i am not well" while holding a sign saying History will remember the cowards that kept quiet and let this go on" at a protest A woman sits on the grass during a protest, holding a sign with a black background and the word "nope" in gold protesters hold signs by a roadside saying 'stop ICE," "Be a fighter not a folder, stand up america" and holding american flags A young boy sits on the grassy roadside holding a sign that says "What would Jesus do?"
September 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM