Matt Singer (he/him)

social impact, @Impactual. founder, @NatlVoterRegDay. Formerly @alliance4youth & @forward_montana. #DemocracyClown #whalejoke #blessed

[Will Doran @will_doran]

The general public won’t like it, but one way to discourage this would be to simply pay politicians more.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

it's a poem about a thing that never happened, credited to an author who probably never existed, and helen is introduced within the mythology as the daughter of ZEUS, a figure literally nobody in this country even believes in, if you're emotionally invested in the historicity of her pigmentation you need a life and also medication, not necessarily in that order

[Seaborn Larson @SeabornLarson]

Former Democratic state lawmaker Jen Gross this morning reveals she was the complainant in the 2018 sexual harassment investigation against Jonathan Windy Boy #mtnews #mtpol
https://t.co/LmS00c1xAm

[Acyn @Acyn]

Warnock on SCOTUS:

First of all, no one elected this Court—to decide what kind of remedies we need in this moment. It’s really not up to the Supreme Court to say, “Well, we have reached the threshold where this issue around race and inclusion is no longer necessary.” That is not the job of the Court.

And I’m struck, quite frankly, by the very easy and nonchalant way in which this extreme, activist Court knocks down precedent after precedent. The bar for doing that ought to be high, but we’re seeing with this Court—whether we’re talking about voting rights or a woman’s bodily autonomy, the right to decide with respect to her own body—they just strike down things they don’t like.

They don’t have any respect, in the ways that we expect courts traditionally to, for precedent. And when precedents are torn down, you need a darn good reason to do it—and they are an activist court.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

The Justice Dept’s theory of the case— that the group that single-handedly disassembled the Ku Klux Klan defrauded its donors by concealing that it was using paid informant to do that work and more— have about as much merit as the now-dismissed charges against Jim Comey, the charges against the members of Congress who never got indicted for telling service members they shouldn’t follow illegal orders, & the sandwich thrower a DC grand jury declined to indict.

[Jonathan Reiner @JReinerMD]

After the breathtaking results of an early mRNA pancreatic cancer vaccine trial, Dr Makary tells @kaitlancollins that NIH canceled $500 million in support for 20 mRNA vaccine trials simply because private industry should pay for it. In reality, RFK Jr killed the funding because he doesn’t believe in the technology. He said, “After reviewing the science and consulting top experts at NIH and FDA, HHS has determined that mRNA technology poses more risk than benefits for these respiratory viruses.”

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

mRNA vaccine shows lasting results for pancreatic cancer. This is the kind of technology the current administration has sought to defund. https://t.co/tuIrru0l5l

[Matt Singer (he/him) @mattsinger7]

@MTJakeEaton @EssmannJeff @MTDems Hey man, Republicans are people. Maybe the AG didn’t want to run but it doesn’t surprise me that none of you are defending this backroom deal that denied Montana voters a choice.

[Matt Singer (he/him) @mattsinger7]

@MTJakeEaton @EssmannJeff @MTDems I think it is pretty obvious that Dems didn’t want to run against Daines but I also mean preventing any other Republican from jumping in an open seat.

Did your sugar daddy AG Knudsen not have any interest in that?

[Jordan Hansen @jordyhansen]

The DOJ has given millions over the past few years to companies and nonprofits associated with a political consultant and his wife, an attorney with close ties to the agency #mtpol

https://t.co/khNnIaZNaj

[Sami Gold @souljagoyteller]

No comment

[Sean T at RCP @SeanTrende]

Because as things stand, the Iranian regime knows that it can survive a US onslaught and bring us to our knees by closing the Straits of Hormuz. This is pretty close to the worst possible ending. It would have been better to end it right after the first few days. Unreal.

[Matt Singer (he/him) @mattsinger7]

Love this @johnsadams406 interview about #localnewsday - why we started it, how folks can celebrate, how big it has already grown. Can't wait until Thursday! https://t.co/3urfqB6uFK

[Matt Singer (he/him) @mattsinger7]

As a US civilian, I would appreciate our government not making civilians fair targets for war.

[Anna Bower @AnnaBower]

I had to check but yes this is real

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

I wake up this morning with a lot of mixed thoughts on the news. I’m so grateful for the safe recovery of the airman who crashed in Iran while I continue to deeply oppose Trump’s war and am disgusted by his post this morning. I‘m so inspired by our astronauts closing in on the moon while I’m furious at the gutting of NASA and science as a whole in the President’s budget. There is so much good happening that can be often overshadowed and hard to see, but there is so much wrong happening that is just plain hard to watch.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Let’s not accept this whiplash in our lives as the new normal. Let’s work with each other to do better.

[Matt Singer (he/him) @mattsinger7]

We are in the dumbest timeline

[Erin Burnett OutFront @OutFrontCNN]

A top FEMA official is doubling down on his claims that he teleported to a Waffle House. @KFILE reports.

[Nate Hegyi @natehegyi]

And that right there is why Montana > Wyoming, in my opinion.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Ryan Goodman has the right frame and the NBC reporting fills in the piece that makes this more than a pattern story.

Hegseth pressed Army Secretary Driscoll for months to pull these officers. Driscoll said no. So Hegseth did it himself, without the legal authority to selectively remove individual names - the system is specifically designed to prevent that.

When Gen. Randy George asked to meet and discuss the blocked promotions, Hegseth refused. Then fired him. Mid-term, two years before his tenure was up.

Nine officials. All four branches. “Not a single service has been immune.”

The Pentagon called it fake news. They haven’t disputed a name.

[Matt Singer (he/him) @mattsinger7]

The US Constitution is clear:
- States oversee elections
- People born here are citizens
- Congress decides whether we go to war