Arin Peters

Montana native | BS @montana_tech | MS @IowaStateU | MT➡️IA➡️KS➡️MT 🏳️‍🌈

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

[Arin Peters @arinpeters]

1.75" in Fort Benton. Crazy that this is the first measurable snow of the season ❄️ #mtwx @NWSGreatFalls

[Arin Peters @arinpeters]

@dlhevans I got a similar photo with the big Dipper 💜

[Erik Johnson @erik_wx]

Third times a charm. We saw the northern lights directly overhead tonight. 💜💚 #Montana #BigSkyCountry @arinpeters

[Arin Peters @arinpeters]

@MKinMT @erik_wx Oh wow! 💜💜

[Arin Peters @arinpeters]

The northern lights were pretty spectacular over Fort Benton tonight 😍. @erik_wx drug me out to see them and it was so worth it #northernlights

[Voltaire @corruptvoltaire]

I can’t believe Montana with all its rage against outsiders continually votes for outsiders to office.

I can’t believe that hateful Sheehy who openly mocks Tester’s weight and now the native tribes of Montana is probably going to win.

Montana isn’t so great anymore.

[Marc Cohodes @AlderLaneEggs]

Down another 18% ⁦@SheehyforMT⁩ "A great business success story.. "Maybe it will be bankrupt before the election... Tim Sheehy is an Asshat a liar and a Scam ⁦@TomLutey⁩ ⁦@gmorgenson⁩ ⁦@NBCNews⁩ ⁦@bethreinhard⁩

[NWS Great Falls @NWSGreatFalls]

Another round of showers and thunderstorms is expected this afternoon and evening. Primary storm hazards will be strong, gusty winds, hail, and brief downpours in addition to lightning. Keep an eye to the sky and have multiple ways to receive warnings. #mtwx

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

I'll just say it: Donald Trump and JD Vance are creepy and, yes, weird.

We are not going back.

[Jon Lovett @jonlovett]

Last few weeks were heated because we all understand the stakes and share the same goal. I don’t think Trump and MAGA are ready for how united and energized we’re about to be.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

A courageous and selfless decision. The President did what he’s done for the last four years - he listened to the American people and put the country’s interests ahead of his own.

The exact opposite of Donald Trump.

[Jon Lovett @jonlovett]

There have always been two Joe Bidens. The empathetic, decent, big-hearted leader, forged in loss and grief, finding the good in his friends and opponents, in love with America, arms wide and open with space for everyone. And there’s the blowhard with a chip on his shoulder, stubborn, something to prove, his fellow senators rolling their eyes as the finger wags harder and the stories get longer. Statesman and politician, hero and fool.

Joe Biden ran for president for 50 years. He finally won because he ran as that hero at a time when the country was desperate for empathy and normalcy and wisdom and grace. It was still too close. But even when he was doubted by insiders and pundits (hi!), he persevered; he knew Democrats, he knew America, and he was right.

And then! To his great and everlasting credit, Joe Biden governed as that statesman too. He built a coalition wide enough to hold Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders. He defied Washington’s stodgy consensus when necessary, a consensus he spent a lifetime living inside. He adapted, he governed with humility and purpose, whether on how to revive the economy, or take on monopolies, or address student loans, or press for the largest investment in clean energy by any country anywhere on earth. And even as he showed the capacity to listen to the rising progressive voices inside the Democratic party, at the very same time he achieved bipartisan legislative successes in defiance of every political trend of the last thirty years. Joe Biden has been an extraordinary president! Statesman. Hero.

But it’s hard to deny that in the two weeks since the debate, it’s the arrogant and small Joe Biden we’ve seen most - hanging on, bragging, defensive, angry, weak. Who else but him? he wonders aloud. Only God could change his mind, he tells us. The stakes for the country are all that matter. The stakes for Joe Biden are beside the point. But it’s worth saying just the same: Joe Biden can leave office as one of the greatest presidents in our lifetimes, who defeated Trump and put his country first at every turn; or he can leave a stubborn old man who allowed hubris and insecurity to destroy his legacy and perhaps our democracy with it.

We all have our best and worst selves, scrambling over each other, battling it out in the moments that define us. Where is the Joe Biden we elected? Where is the statesman? I hope that version of him shows up soon. And I hope the people around him know where to look.

[Arin Peters @arinpeters]

@NWSGreatFalls Between about 5:30 and 6:00. Had a peak rainfall intensity of 1.94 in per hour

[Arin Peters @arinpeters]

@NWSGreatFalls I ended up with 0.66" of rain at my house in Fort Benton and some minor street flooding until the storm drains could catch up #mtwx

[YourOtherMotherLisa @YourOtherMom]

Thank you, atmosphere 🫶
#mtwx @GirlsWhoChase

[Arin Peters @arinpeters]

@dlhevans @NWSGreatFalls

[Arin Peters @arinpeters]

@NWSGreatFalls at least a half inch accumulation of pea size hail between Carter and Fort Benton #mtwx

[Arin Peters @arinpeters]

@NWSGreatFalls taken from us 87 NW of Great Falls looking West toward the storm Nw of Great Falls #mtwx

[National Weather Service @NWS]

Let us Reflect, Empower and Unite together this #Pride Month as we celebrate the diversity of the NWS family! Their skills and perspectives allow us to meet our mission of protecting a diverse nation.