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Not groomers or pedophiles, we simply want the same thing as you
Editor’s note: This essay contains language and descriptions that may be disturbing to some readers. An elected Republican official with a history of threatening violence against LGBTQ people trained his bigotry on Zoey Zephyr, the first transgender woman to be elected to the Montana Legislature. Aaron J. Leas, who according to his Gab social media […]
Nazis 3.0 come to Billings. Will the city push back?
“The enemy is Marxism. I tried to save you. Read Mien Kampf,” a picture with Adolf Hitler states on the Telegram web page filled with Nazi propaganda, MMA fight clips, and footage of men doing hand to hand combat training. In another pic, four men in an area Billings’ locals would recognize as Pioneer Park […]
White Lives Matter in Montana advocates for ethnic cleansing
Longtime Billings residents know the story well. It all started with Neo-Nazi propaganda fliers flooding and vilifying LGBTQ folks, people of color, and of course Jews their neighborhoods. Then, after a tumultuous year of intimidation against minorities in which skinheads even knocked over Jewish headstones, vandalized houses where minorities lived, and even show up at […]
Burning books is the first step toward totalitarianism
As history as shown, one of the first thing totalitarian regimes target whether it’s right-wing fascists, totalitarian leftists, or theocracies, is literature and art. Great art, after all, can contextualize the struggles and humanity of individuals we may not understand and combat stereotypical narratives, challenging the status quo by virtue of its creation. If we […]