I block transphobes & racists. you get no platform here, I refuse to share space with garbage. Anyone worthless gets blocked. I don't suffer fools. Cry harder.
Let me tell you some of the things I heard growing up in off-grid/fundamentalist/anarchist/sovereign/homeschooling circles. Let me tell you things said and taught and believed by good Christian homeschooling families.
I didn't know who Andrew Tate was but my 12yo son did.
Parents, they're coming for your boys. They market misogyny and racism to cishet white boys, in a package that seems appealing. Talk to your kids, have hard conversations. It's important.
Thankfully my son said he didn't watch Tate's stuff, it "sounded dumb" to him. Said his friends talk about Tate a lot though. Friends who are also 12 and 13yo boys. Listening to a dude equate dominating women with manliness. Pay attention.
You know what has become more & more alarming to me as the day goes on & more people comment on this? How many KIDS know who Tate is & how many of us adults did not. Adults who, presumably, consume way more social media than we probably should. We aren't novices.
Just had a conversation tonight at dinner with a friend. She asked me if I knew who Tate was, said her 15yo had been watching & loves Tate. I've known this kid since he was a toddler. He was turned unrecognizable by this shit. Do not tell me that this bullshit is not a threat.
Had a conversation with several teachers yesterday. Middle school boys acting like asses, telling female teachers they have no authority & should be cooking & cleaning. This is a mental virus.
And none of this shit is new. So what is it about Andrew Tate & his marketing on social media that has suddenly been so effective? How do kids know who he is & parents & educaters don't, even parents like me who pay attention to what our kids consume?
Look, I know that Montana is constantly in the news for being a national embarrassment & having a fascist clown show for leaders but please remember that there are thousands of us who are good ppl fighting this & just trying to live our lives in peace.
#mtpol
@sandersmomma1
My 16yo told me he's a human trafficker and I was like 😳. I leaned a lot talking to my 2 oldest kids who had nothing but disgust for him.
@PrettiestFrog
And our high school told teachers to take down their pride flags. 😭
I'm glad to know not everyone lives under the red oppression taking hold of our states. Treasure that if you have it.
If a dirt poor, uneducated, never graduated, bigoted, born in a cult, rural white fundamentalist girl like me can grow up & choose education, critical thinking, inclusion, science, & humanity, then so can every other white rural conservative. Stop making excuses for them.
People are angry that Yellowstone was closed & angry that Going to the Sun isn't opened yet. Maybe we should stop treating wild, unpredictable places as tourist attractions that are there at our service. Instead, be grateful when Nature allows us to enjoy them.
#NPS
@Underrated_Dom
@_celia_bedelia_
Most of us would rather be alone than be controlled & stomped all over.
Also "men" aren't the only other solution to "alone".....
So a lady with an anonymous account from Montana stalked a kid at school, posted a photo of that kid to mock them for being a "male" wearing a skirt. Her cyberbullying was quite effective, she had all sorts of disturbing threats of violence against a kid in her thread.
Those of you ensconced in eternal blue states have no idea the work, stress, exhaustion, and heartache that we do & experience just trying to maintain our homes and lives while everything we have & love is being threatened.
She came for one of our kids.
Those of us with gender diverse kids in Montana (& elsewhere) protect our own.
She fucked around, now she's finding out.
I may never know the end of this story, but I think at least 1 right wing perv will think twice before behaving badly again.
Y'all, a massive crowd has descended on Missoula, Montana - home of my loving partner, Representative Zephyr - to proclaim that they will not be silenced.
The event is expected to grow in the coming hours.
They've woken a movement in Montana.
But this is Montana where only a million people live & she's not the sharpest tool in the shed so Twitter very quickly found the name of the town & school as well as her real name. Turns out she used to live in my town & was someone I avoided cuz she was garbage then.
The MT DOT lowered the interstate speed limit thro Bozeman today, from 75 to 65. The replies confirmed my belief that many Montanans would never survive outside
#Montana
. 😆
So I compiled The Best Of public comments, just for your entertainment. Let's start w/ Mr. Emoji:
THEN her very bad no good day started this morning.
People found her public court documents & posted them. Found her other accounts & posted those. They are all getting deleted 1 by 1.
It's all very cringe & I don't condone doxxing.
But payback's a bitch, darlin'.
After spending a week in Canada, my queer 16yo kid said they hadn't felt so relaxed & safe for as long as they can remember. They didn't want to come back home to Montana. It breaks my heart so many american babies can't just live & be in their own home town, state, & country.
People started commenting that she's a pervert & illegally stalking, posting photos of a minor, & cyberbullying. She took her account private but the internet is forever. Screenshots were sent & phone calls made by the hundreds to the school & local LE hoping to protect this kid.
I would like people to freak out a little more over the RNC claiming Montana is a road map for Christian nationalism take-over of states.
As someone raised in these circles, I am begging you, particularly Dems, to take this more seriously.
#mtpol
Dear Christian parents, I have a huge favor to ask of you. Please tell your children to stop telling our children that they're going to hell for not believing in your god.
Christians are the ones actively working to make this country unsafe for kids like mine. Chrisitians are the ones who bully my LGBTQ kids, who work to strip human rights from them, who invalidate them. Christianity is the enemy of my family & they pride themselves on it.
@GretaThunberg
They will question you till you die. They will try to silence you, age won't matter. I'm sorry you're having to learn this lesson young, the one that shows us what the world thinks of outspoken women. But I think you got this. And we got your back.
I was 18 the first time I realized that it might be weird and alarming that i didn't have a social security number and drivers license. From there it was a slow dawning on just how weird my background was and why.
Somehow all of Montana ended up in the Upside Down and I'd really like to know how to get back to the Montana I've known and loved since childhood thanks.
I can NOT with the people commenting that employees forming a union is trying to "change Montana into California". 🤣 Did they not teach Montana state history in schools 10-30 years ago?
Abortion has historically always been part of contraception. It's only been recently that we've been able to separate the two, creating categories. Women have been using abortifacients for as long as there have been women. It's in all the earliest writings on women's health.
@hufflepuffxo
As someone who grew up in a very strict, controlled environment I can say with 100% certainty....they will find a way around you. It's best to teach them critical thinking, buil a trusting connection so you can talk about stuff like this, and be watchful.
Once upon a time, I was a worship leader at a local church, after having been in music ministry since I was 15. I had helped transform their music ministry with my gifts and time
Then they kicked me out. And that was how I became
#Exvangelical
. It wasn't originally voluntary.
Just found out we have $65,000 worth of unpaid negative food account balances in our school district. Ppl are struggling to pay for food for their kids. Never forget the
@MTGOP
could have fixed this & refused, giving money to billionaires instead.
#mtpol
@salesses
My 6th grader refused & she was singled out by her teachers, made to watch a bullshit YouTube video about how its disrespectful to not say it, teacher went ballistic on me when I confronted them, I raised hell, & no one has bothered my kid again.
As someone who had 4 uneducated homebirths, I will gladly say....
...this is bullshit. Take the drugs. No one wins a medal for suffering the most pain. Your life will be wonderful & fulfilling, no one idolizes pain except these weirdos.
I am always going to encourage women to have an unmedicated birth if possible. There is a purpose to the pain and if you spend your life avoiding it, that’s not a life at all
This Montana lawmaker who led the charge for banning gender-affirming care for minors in the House gives a shocking argument for her bill based on her own family’s experience. (Extended version)
Got a report from our district superintendent today. This year we lost 50 district employees and had several outright homeless teachers.
Tell me again how
@GovGianforte
and the
@MTGOP
are so good for the Montana working class.
@RepMattRegier
You're a fascist with blood on your hands. Stop leveraging political power to silence people you don't like and stop going after our children and THEN we'll stop calling you out for it.
I've spent all week in Italy. 1st time I've ever traveled to another country. Everyone here wears kn95 masks even outside, you have to be vaxxed or exempt to get in anywhere even natl parks, all restaurants have outdoor seating. It felt safer than walking around MT towns.
@_celia_bedelia_
@ProgBlacksmith1
I just got kicked out of a "progressive" group for talking about the misogyny within Bernie's followers' ranks and for daring to question him about anything. The Bernie Bros are just Trumpers who want free health care.
Watching history unfold as old straight people try to defend why they're big mad at a young trans representative and why she deserves punishment. These people hold so much hate at the end of their lives. They will die with this absurdity as their legacy. How utterly sad.
@marcorubio
Could have avoided all of this had you found your moral compass 2.5 years ago instead of selling your soul. Nothing in this letter is new news.
But how long can beliefs like these fester out there in the woods before someone acts on them? Had a serial racist bomber come out of any of this, I and many others would not have been surprised. Beliefs have consequences.
Never thought Montana, the state that raised us & our kids, gave us hope & a future,
would become too small for our family.
Would shrink until we suffocated under the oppressive "big sky",
a gentrified bigoted sky,
sold off & shrunken
unable to nurture difference.
Disclaimer: these are not necessarily all beliefs that my family ever held, but they were held in sincerity by friends, church members, teachers, and various members of the homeschooling community in which I was raised.
CW for ALL the awful things.
These are the voices of those good Christian homeschoolers people seem obsessed with today. Families active in church and communities and farmers markets. I lived in a part of the west where anarchist Christian white supremacy was rampant.
Sitting outside a coffee shop in Livingston MT, dude next to me is on the phone. He says "say what you want about white supremacists but they're my best customers!" and if that doesn't succinctly sum up white allyship, I don't know what does.
@jackmjenkins
Has become?? As a kid in the earl 2000s who spent all my time in that area, I can tell you it was big then. I saw swastikas in churches & heard a grandpa of a friend bragging about participating in the Hayden lynching. And that's the tame stuff.
@DokiDiscourse
@ContraPoints
They brag about hitting, neglecting, shaming, threatening, shunning, and coercing their kids to anyone who will listen so I don't really have to guess.
@GovGianforte
It's actually very American. Vaccine mandates in America are as old as Washington's army. Washington mandated all his troops get vaxxed for smallpox & the US has been mandating vaccines ever since. History is fun, you should learn it sometime.
So our school district turned a veterans day assembly into a right-wing campaign event & nationalist church service that we were not informed of & that our kids were forced to participate in. They invited Qanon candidates & politicians to talk about God & America.
If I hear "but Potiphars wife lied" 1 more time...YOU GUYS. She sexually harassed, stalked, then tied to rape a dude, then she lied about it. LIKE PERPS DO. And the victim was punished. GTFO with your false comparisons and using the bible to justify not believing women.
In case anyone needs to know, we walked into the vaccine clinic at Boz Health this morning, got boosters in about 5 minutes (no line at 9am). Didn't have an appointment, but they didn't care, they were accepting anyone who walked in. They were friendly & efficient.
#boosted
Don't your fuckers dare attack teachers & school staff over closures. Fuck you, it's not our fault. We can't stay healthy enough to keep your kids in school when you refuse to do even simple things like wear a fucking mask or get vaccinated. DON'T YOU DARE.
Montana. We have no top down leadership. We have no one at the helm who can effectively deal with disasters or can even bother to be present. Everything being done is by community members, local businesses, & even childen pitching in to help neighbors. Shame on
@GovGianforte
Our curriculum was white supremacist at worst, white-washed at best. We had books from men who defended slavery [Steve Wilkens]. We were sovereign citizens. We were raised to see the gov't as illegitimate and opposed to God. Violence was boasted about.
"Black people can't be saved and inhabit heaven; they are under the curse of Ham. They could possibly be redeemed and occupy a different place in heaven than the rest of us Chosen people, but most won't. They are often enemies of God."
"Modern day Jews are imposters. White Caucacions are the 10 lost Tribes and God's true chosen people. " (they were torn on whether white people would once again restore Israel to its true owners or if America usurped Israel as the promised land)
I'd like to thank the
@MTGOP
and
@RepMattRegier
for giving Rep Zephyr and freedom loving Montanans a national platform by their immature little stunt. 🤣
Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr has been silenced in her legislature, after she told Republican lawmakers they would have “blood on their hands” if they approved legislation banning gender affirming care for transgender youth.
@ZoAndBehold
joined
@CarlNasman
on
@BBCWorld
to discuss…
As I was debating sticking it out or leaving, J looked me in the eye and said "don't stay where you're tolerated, go where you're celebrated". He has no idea how much that has become the theme of my entire life.
"The gov't is Rome. They are illegitimate. We are under no obligation to follow Rome. Actually we have a moral imperative to oppose Rome. We recognize no authority but God's. And we may have to fight and even die for that stance."