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Oh good morning Tweeterverse! I'm in the Lewis & Clark District Courthouse for Day 3 of Held v. Montana, the constitutional climate change lawsuit. Follow for updates.
#heldvsmontana #mtclimatecase #mtnews #mtpol
#heldvsmontana #mtclimatecase #mtnews #mtpol
Starting off with continued testimony from pediatrician Dr. Lori Byron. Attorney Phil Gregory is on direct, currently going through Adverse Childhood Experiences and how they affect individuals later in life.
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Dr. Byron says some plaintiffs have testified to experiencing "solastalgia," the idea that 'you've lose your home even when you're still living in it."
Day 2 of the Held v. Montama trial is about to begin in Helena. Today we will here from five witnesses from the plaintiffs: Dr. Cathy Whitlock, Dr. Lori Byron, and Dr. Dan Fagre, and youth plaintiffs Mica Kantor and Badge Busse. #mtclimatecase #mtpol #mtnews
I wrote profiles on Mica and Badge and why they ended up as plaintiffs in this lawsuit. Read them here: mtclimatecase.flatheadbeacon.com/running-toward…
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Starting with Dr. Cathy Whitlock, who co-authored an expert report with Dr. Steven Running, whom we heard from yesterday, about the climate change and specifically the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on climate change in Montana.
Welp, I'm here in with a veritable media circus to cover Held v. Montana, the constitutional climate change trial. If you need to get up to speed, peruse mtclimatecase.flatheadbeacon.com I'll be tweeting throughout with a recap of today when things wrap up
#mtclimatecase #mtnews #mtpol
#mtclimatecase #mtnews #mtpol
Trial doesn't start for 40 minutes but we've got 25 members of the media gossiping, the plaintiffs are seated and maybe 25 members of the public.
Of note, Mae Nan Ellingson is here- she was a delegate to the 1972 Constitutional Convention and helped enshrine the clean and healthful environment provisions.
Read about that here:
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Read about that here:
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CONFIRMED: NAZIS COWERED BUTTE-SILVER BOW COUNTY INTO BANNING LIBRARY HISTORY LECTURE
Adria Jawort (me) was banned from doing history lecture as Nazi's brag of "campaign of complaints."
Officials also cite drag ban law as applicable to trans ppl.
#MTnews #MTpol
Adria Jawort (me) was banned from doing history lecture as Nazi's brag of "campaign of complaints."
Officials also cite drag ban law as applicable to trans ppl.
#MTnews #MTpol
At 11:14 am June 1 I received an email from an apologetic library employee who informed me Chief Executive JP Gallagher and County Attorney Eileen Joyce "have decided that it is too much of a legal risk to have a transgendered person in the library. I really regret this.” (sic)
16 minutes after this message was sent and at 11:30 am, JP Gallagher had the audacity to do a performative proclamation in alleged support of Pride Month.
🧵 How could expelling a member of the Montana House of Representatives work?
Well- again. We find ourselves in uncharted territory.
#Mtpol #Mtnews
Well- again. We find ourselves in uncharted territory.
#Mtpol #Mtnews
Some believe that expulsion is only a right protected under the constitution for the votes— meaning (vote someone out of office.)
With that said—- we will have to watch what happens on the floor, and then ultimately probably what happens in the rules committee.
With that said—- we will have to watch what happens on the floor, and then ultimately probably what happens in the rules committee.
Now if it were to happen- how would the seat be filled?
If a member is expelled:
If a member is expelled:
NEW: We map where people in #Montana prisons come from, going (where possible) down to the neighborhood level. This is the 12th installment in our series of reports about the geography of mass incarceration. #MTNews #MTPol /1
ICYMI, we also have reports about:
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Maryland
Nevada
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Washington
See them here: prisonpolicy.org/origin/
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Maryland
Nevada
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Washington
See them here: prisonpolicy.org/origin/
Our reports include download-able data tables of incarceration data by city, county, zip code, Census tract, state legislative district, and more.
The reports give researchers the data they need to study how incarceration tracks with other indicators of community health.
The reports give researchers the data they need to study how incarceration tracks with other indicators of community health.
If you’re trying to wrap your head around the connection between Eugene Yu, Konnech, and Montana, please check out my appearance on the local Fighting Back With Faith podcast from Monday #mtnews #mtpol rumble.com/v1nipos-episod…
The Montana Electronic Absentee System (EAS) is an online voting portal which allows for online voter registration, ballot marking and submission. It is used by Uniformed and Overseas Citizens to allow them to vote remotely in elections #mtpol #mtnews
The software was developed by Konnech for the State of Montana through a Department of Defense grant award for “research and development for online wizard providing absentee voting capability for the State of Montana." #mtpol #mtnews usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD…
On Wednesday, I was invited by a resident of the Missoula Authorized campsite to observe a compliance check within the camp. I did not expect to see seven armed men from Rogers International with face coverings patrolling the homeless camp. After two hours… (1/3)
I was escorted out by members of Rogers International. One hour later, and several people were kicked out. I tracked down the city’s contract with the private security firm and talked with homeless folks who had no choice but to sleep on the streets
Montanans waking up to the news about Kansas:
State government control of your reproductive health care is *also* on the ballot here in November.
In at least three separate ways, actually. 🧵
#mtpol #mtnews
State government control of your reproductive health care is *also* on the ballot here in November.
In at least three separate ways, actually. 🧵
#mtpol #mtnews
First: if Rs pick up two seats in the legislature, they'd have a supermajority.
A supermajority can place initiatives on the ballot to directly amend our Constitution and exclude abortion care from the right to privacy. They could even call a new constitutional convention.
A supermajority can place initiatives on the ballot to directly amend our Constitution and exclude abortion care from the right to privacy. They could even call a new constitutional convention.
Second: our Supreme Court affirmed in 1999 (Armstrong) that Montana's constitutional right to privacy includes abortion care.
PSC chair Jim Brown is running against current justice Ingrid Gustafson for the Supreme Court, and if elected would choose not to uphold that precedent.
PSC chair Jim Brown is running against current justice Ingrid Gustafson for the Supreme Court, and if elected would choose not to uphold that precedent.
Alright Twitterverse, start your engines and get ready for today’s @imagineiflib board meeting to discuss the challenges for Lawn Boy and Gender Queer.
Here’s the background: flatheadbeacon.com/2021/11/16/pub…
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Here’s the background: flatheadbeacon.com/2021/11/16/pub…
#mtnews
@imagineiflib The meeting room at the library is past capacity (48) and people are overflowign upstairs where the meting will be streamed. Public comment is about to start, I think about 10ish people are signed up to speak.
@imagineiflib Board member Connie Leistiko addresed a few issues of misinformation ahead of public comment, namely that the book challenges were brought by citizens, not board members, and that they are adult books and have been shelved as such. #mtnews s
Stopped by the place that full-time Californian Ryan Zinke is claiming as his residence so he can run for Congress in Montana...and it’s a hotel.
The king of the grift & most corrupt politician of my lifetime #mtpol #mtnews #mt01
The king of the grift & most corrupt politician of my lifetime #mtpol #mtnews #mt01
How in the world does someone enter politics with $2 million net worth and leave it with $36 million?
Corruption of course. Zinke made almost $1 million alone this year in consulting fees to the oil, gas, and mining industries.
Corruption of course. Zinke made almost $1 million alone this year in consulting fees to the oil, gas, and mining industries.
Hope you’re enjoying your tan over there in Santa Barbara, Ryan!
Us full-time Montanans really appreciate out of state millionaires trying to divide our communities and buy our political offices :) #mtpol
Us full-time Montanans really appreciate out of state millionaires trying to divide our communities and buy our political offices :) #mtpol
It’s late and for many Montanans, tomorrow only brings a fresh hell of bad news from the fascists now running our state and blooming in full force in our communities. 1/
I think back to June 2019 and the Montana Newspaper Association conference that inspired me to run for Governor. At the main banquet, I sat at a table with an Indigenous journalism professor and a half-dozen white men who talked for an hour about the ‘Skins.’ 2/
They were talking about the Washington Football Team mascot, laughing and joking like complete and total assholes. You know how many other women or people of color were in that room? Less than a handful. It was a sign of what was to come in Montana. 3/
We owe a big thanks to @SenatorTester for a transformative investment in our nation’s infrastructure - w/ perhaps no bigger winner than Montana 👏 #mtpol
Politics isn’t pretty - but we got there. And now that this bill is passed it deserves to be viewed in it’s own light...
The fact is that this is a big win for the American people.
The fact is that this is a big win for the American people.
The other fact is: both @SteveDaines and @RepRosendale voted against this big win for Montanans.
They consistently put themselves (and their corrupt donors) ahead of the people of this state. Shame on them. #mtpol #mtnews
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They consistently put themselves (and their corrupt donors) ahead of the people of this state. Shame on them. #mtpol #mtnews
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#BREAKING: @umontana @umontanalaw dean Paul Kirgis has resigned.
Here's a statement from Kirgis:
Story TK from @zoe_buchli and I
#mtnews #mtedu
Here's a statement from Kirgis:
Story TK from @zoe_buchli and I
#mtnews #mtedu
More information from @umontana regarding the transition including a statement from @umtpresident @SethBodnar:
Statement from acting provost Humphrey:
I'm tuned in to the @McpsMT #COVID19 task force meeting and it's a delayed start due to some technical difficulties with Zoom. Sounds like they've identified the problem and are working to remedy it now.
#mtedu #mtnews
#mtedu #mtnews
Things are kicking off now, starting with a recap of last week's meeting for members that were unable to attend.
Looking at COVID-19 data for Missoula City County lead by Cindy Farr of the Missoula County Public Health Department.
"We are still seeing record numbers of hospitalizations," she said.
"We are still seeing record numbers of hospitalizations," she said.
PSA: #mtleg literally made it against the law for local communities to do anything about COVID. If we pass a local mask mandate the state will strip our city's public funding and/or sue. It's an absolute nightmare. The only person who can take action right now is the governor.
City Councils aren't discussing mask mandates for this reason—not because we don't care. Our cities can't function (water, sewer, roads, transit) without state $$, which was the whole point of writing this threat into law. #mtnews #mtpol
"Just do it anyway, let the state sue you!" The loser there is you the taxpayer who then pays for the lawsuit on BOTH sides. And these aren't cheap lawsuits—they drag on for years. In the meantime the state has dozens of ways to punitively chop Billings' funding. #mtpol
Starting a list of Montana schools that have had to close or go virtual in the setting of increasing COVID infections in students and staff. Feel free to add. #mtnews 👇
Montforton, masks optional, Sept 2.
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Plains High School, masks optional, Sept 13.
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The big #mtnews yesterday was the Supreme Court upholding the law that gives the governor power to directly fill judicial vacancies.
The 🔥🤯🧐 news was Justice Rice's concurring opinion that compared Attorney General Austin Knudsen to Andrew Jackson. In a very bad way. (🧵)
The 🔥🤯🧐 news was Justice Rice's concurring opinion that compared Attorney General Austin Knudsen to Andrew Jackson. In a very bad way. (🧵)
Rice's opinion focused on some of the early moves in this saga between the Leg. and the judiciary. TLDR: the Leg. subpoenaed the court administrator for judicial records. She filed a challenge to that subpoena in the SB140 case, even though she/the Leg. were not parties to it.
This all happened very quickly. The Leg. had already gone to a state agency and was getting a flood of emails. The court ruled on a Sunday that, even though this was totally bonkers, the risk of releasing private, personal information was high. They quashed the subpoena. THEN:
BREAKING: Tonight’s school board meeting for Florence-Carlton public schools has been moved to a fully virtual format via Zoom. #mtnews #mtedu
The district’s meetings usually take place at the district offices building, however tonight’s meeting was moved to the new gymnasium in anticipation of a large turnout.
A Facebook post from the district said that the meeting was moved to a virtual format after some individuals indicated they would be bringing firearms to tonight’s meeting.
.@GovGianforte violated hunting regulations when he trapped and killed a Yellowstone-collared wolf near the park boundary last month. Our story here: boisestatepublicradio.org/post/montana-g… #mtnews #mtpol
It's legal to kill wolves when they wander outside the park's boundaries. @GovGianforte had the necessary licenses but he failed to take a required wolf trapping certification course before he trapped and shot an adult, black wolf known as "1155."
He was given a written warning by @MontanaFWP and enrolled in the online class 3/24. He was allowed to keep the animal's skull and hide. But @Backcountry_H_A 's John Sullivan says the governor should've known better. "It's difficult to fathom accidentally not taking that class."
Sturgeon from Dillon, Montana.
.@SteveDaines helped get Isaac Sturgeon home from Morocco at the start of the pandemic. #mtnews #mtpol
This is Sturgeon's photo (upper right) from the FBI bulletin looking for information. #mtnews
MISSOULA: vaccine appts at Walgreens for all 1B+ and educators/childcare workers. #mtnews #COVID19
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KALISPELL and WHITEFISH:
POLSON:
BUTTE: Vaccine appointments available right now for next week at Safeway! #mtnews #COVID19 mhealthappointments.com/covidappt
WHITEFISH and POLSON: Same story as above. Appointments available right now for next week at Safeway.
#mtnews #COVID19 mhealthappointments.com/covidappt
#mtnews #COVID19 mhealthappointments.com/covidappt
GREAT FALLS: Vaccine appointments available for next week at Albertson's. #mtnews #COVID19 mhealthappointments.com/covidappt
Tester staff safe also.
