Highlight of the week: Helping to put down SB 525 (chaplains in schools). This bill would have allowed MT schools to spend tax dollars on hiring anyone over 21, with no training, experience, or certification, to inject whatever religious views they hold personally…into our classrooms.

I’m happy to report that following lots of hard work, HB320(school privatization/voucher bill) is officially dead on 3rd reading.

Medicaid renewal hot in the House this week. HB 230 & HB 245 work to maintain this critical program. Both were celebrated with voluminous public testimony in Committee. Now they come to the Floor. Consider speaking up in support. Links to help you are here: www.repstrand.com/2025-session

“Let’s kill all the lawyers.”https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/opinions/guest_columnists/ed-stafman-alanah-griffith-republicans-poised-to-butcher-judiciarys-independence/article_be9d12fa-c7dd-11ef-9944-87f224629df4.html

Americans, please wake up. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Confessions of a Gun Range Worker

imagine being a former baby and thinking people don’t deserve healthcare

Please read this warning. Become familiar with the threats and the language. This is a flashing warning sign for our democracy. The alarm is being raised not just by me but from many historians and civil rights leaders who understand the danger we are in. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

On the other hand, stress over worst outcomes sure does motivate.

This is the sort of talk that tends to preface mass killing.

This is crazy.

Interesting perspective here…

www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/o...

The animating purpose of representative democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of insane rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...