Montana Jefferson County Democrats

06/11/2026

“I love the inflation.” Trump

06/11/2026

Wow.

06/11/2026

Texas is now dealing with multiple confirmed cases of flesh-eating screwworms, a parasite so destructive that the United States spent decades and billions of dollars trying to eradicate it. And the most infuriating part is that experts warned this could happen.

Screwworms don’t just “infect” animals. They literally eat living tissue. They can infest cattle, wildlife, pets, and in rare cases even humans. Ranchers have feared their return for generations because outbreaks devastate livestock, overwhelm veterinarians, and create massive economic damage.

For years, scientists and agricultural experts argued that surveillance, monitoring, and rapid-response systems were essential to keeping outbreaks contained before they spread. But in today’s political climate, expertise itself has become a target. Anything involving science, prevention, research funding, or government monitoring gets mocked as “waste,” “bureaucracy,” or “big government.”

That mindset has consequences.

You cannot slash oversight, demonize experts, hollow out public institutions, and then act stunned when preventable crises come roaring back. Prevention is invisible when it works. That’s the whole point. Nobody notices the disaster that never happened.

And now Texans are watching a nightmare parasite reappear while politicians who spent years attacking government capacity suddenly pretend these systems matter after all.

This is the broader problem with modern Republican governance under Donald Trump: contempt for expertise right up until reality crashes through the front door.

Because eventually, nature does not care about political talking points. And flesh-eating parasites definitely don’t care about culture wars.

06/09/2026

"It doesn't matter if my pilots crash, because I don't have to spend as much on the planes" - Tim Sheehy, probably

06/08/2026

06/05/2026

BSIP checked these stats. They are correct.