Let me put it this way: my first clearly trans-leaning thoughts happened when I was only SEVEN, and that was in total absence of outside influence or the awareness that trans folk existed. These feelings just kept intensifying until I transitioned at age THIRTY.

Scott Kelley Ernest - CEPI x HEIR | #mtpol 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 11h ago

New study deflates right-wing claim that many trans teens later regret gender-affirming care www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/new-...

House Ethics Committee confirms investigation into Rep. Max Miller www.kltv.com/2026/08/04/h...

House Ethics Committee confirms investigation into Rep. Max Miller

The House Ethics Committee confirmed Tuesday it has opened an investigation into Rep. Max Miller, an Ohio Republican facing allegations of domestic violence, abuse and possible illegal drug use.

kltv.com

Safety, freedom and no misgendering: inside the Texas summer camp for trans kids www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Safety, freedom and no misgendering: inside the Texas summer camp for trans kids

At Color Splash Out, LGBTQ+ kids can play, create and connect without judgment, especially in a state that passed seven anti-trans bills last year

theguardian.com

New study deflates right-wing claim that many trans teens later regret gender-affirming care www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/new-...

New study deflates right-wing claim that many trans teens later regret gender-affirming care - LGBTQ Nation

Gender identity among adolescents initiating hormone therapy is "highly stable," the authors write.

lgbtqnation.com

Missouri voters reject income tax phaseout, initiative petition changes • Missouri Independent missouriindependent.com/2026/08/04/m...

Missouri voters reject income tax phaseout, initiative petition changes • Missouri Independent

Missouri voters resoundingly rejected major Republican priorities on Tuesday as proposals to eliminate the income tax and change the way majorities are counted lost by large margins across the state.

missouriindependent.com

AIPAC in well deserved shambles tonight

Spokane trending more progressive has been a good thing for it. It’ll come with fits and starts but it’ll get baked in.

Respectfully as someone who lives in Montana there is a lot more going on than the polling.

I’m with her.

Alani Bankhead for U.S. Senate (D-MT)@alanib.bsky.social · 15h ago

Montanans have been told the polls settle this race. They don't, and the numbers being cited say something close to the opposite of how they're being used. #mtpol

Well that and I have some ties to UM and round about know one of the lady professors that sued...so that was my line in the sand.

Not sure thats the best idea. The number of fascists that could potentially make would be overwhelming. The "male loneliness epidemic", in particular, is a complete self-own. Educating better and teaching better behaviors would do far more than relying on Grok to not make them fashier.

John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · 14h ago

We're experiencing loneliness epidemic. Could AI chatbots help solve that problem? If you would have asked me up until recently I would say "probably!". But we don't know for sure. To answer this question, researchers in France recently ran a very cool experiment...

Bodnar definitely can't be trusted. Especially knowing he is training under jo manchin. Disgusting and def NOT independent.

Torture memos to Trump admin.

'Torture memos' UC Berkeley law professor joins conspiracy investigation of perceived Trump foes

John Yoo was a senior official in the George W. Bush administration and authored memos justifying “enhanced interrogation” after 9/11.

berkeleyside.org

A former law professor dismissed for sexual harassment of his students representing children?!?!?!

Steve Held@peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 15h ago

Just reading about a couple of the attorneys at this firm, this is disturbing.

It's baffling to me that this isn't the standard opinion, it seems very obvious.

Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social · 14h ago

i would go so far as to say that israeli and palestinian nationalism came to exist as we know them today in opposition to one another. neither would be what it is without the other

How a judge’s decision opens the door to a potential agreement between the tribe and the BIA.

A judge’s decision opens the door to a long-sought tribe-fed agreement.

3 Things to Know: federal lawsuits and local law enforcement on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation

montanafreepress.org

Seth has sent talking heads into the Resistance Montana FB group to push his candidacy. Its not working, so they are starting to all play the victim.

We just keep holding the line. It’s how we survive this next week. Ignore the noise and keep on truckin. I’ve been impressed with the Alani campaign the last few weeks. Solid policy and messaging. They are getting good help.

Alani Bankhead: Focus on policy, won a primary, understands the extremist threat. Seth Bodnar: Focus on attacks against Alani and the nostalgia of those establishment in both parties he associates with. Won no primary. Red flags galore. The choice is clear.

Also see: Montana’s senate race.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 14h ago

Fetterman is not a moderate or centrist Democrat. Like Sinema and Joe Manchin a few years ago, he wants to announce as loudly as possible that the party has gone too far left and punish it for doing so. trib.al/byNISBB

Guv’nor Thor.

Some personal news

"WE ate in charge. WE decide who you vote for and if you don't vote for them it's YOUR fault."

“Vote Blue, No Matter Who” “Endorsements must be earned.” The disdain Dems have for registered Democrats that vote in primaries is wild.

I'm proud of my family in Michigan. Whether they are working class in the Pontiac or Saginaw... or my more bougie relatives in rural Genesee County, Houghton Lake, Traverse City, or Sault Ste Marie... they are all voting Abdul El-Sayed.

Montanans looking to renew their driver’s licenses, IDs and commercial driver’s license credentials can benefit from a state waiver of some fees through September, if they are adding a new U.S. citizenship marker. By @mddrew.bsky.social: dailymontanan.com/2026/08/04/m... #mtnews #mtpol #montana

Montana extends fee waiver for driver’s license, ID renewal • Daily Montanan

Waiver applies to Montanans adding U.S. citizenship marker to credentials following new legislation

dailymontanan.com