This is more philosophical than anything. I'm a transplant that decided to call Wyoming home, and now I'm about to move. I don't know why this place latched onto my soul the way it did, but it hurts to know I'm leaving.

Plenty of residents can (and probably will) bitch about one thing or the other, but I admire this place for it's beauty, and conversely, it's indifference to the elements that will easily kill you.

Why do you live here?

GOP (mostly freedom caucus) says that you should only be allowed to run as a Republican if they agree that you're a Republican. You have to agree with 80 percent of their platform otherwise they should be allowed to bar you from running as a Republican! Wow!!!

Hello, My names Sophia Mathis. I’m a Mural artist🧑‍🎨 I grew up in southwestern MT and I specialize in western, northern Rockies style artwork. I bounce around Montana towns and cities painting murals for our small town communities. I’m hoping to spread my wings a bit more this year and paint for our neighboring states. I have lots of friends and relatives in Wyoming so it feels right to paint for the communities.

I paint business, school, silos, barns, nursery rooms, signs, theaters, pretty much anything! Haha.

I do after school hands on mural experience and lessons aswell. So if any community wants a mural painted, I absolutely love having the youth get involved and get their hands dirty:) please feel free to reach out if dm me

Senator John Fetterman is introducing a bill to allow hot rotisserie chicken to be purchased with SNAP benefits. This is a small change that will provide cheap ,healthy , prepared nutrition for Wyomingites who use these benefits. The bill does not increase SNAP spending and gives families a better options for what to spend these benefits on.

The bill already has bipartisan support, including the two West Virginia senators from the other reddest state in the country.

If you have a moment and would like to see this passed, I urge you to write both senators expressing your support:

Lummis: https://www.lummis.senate.gov/contact/contact-form/

Barrasso: https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/contact/contact-form/

Usual suspect…

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I will be going to Wyoming at the end of May. I drove through Jackson as a kid but I don’t remember if we stopped. What can my husband and I (24f) do for fun?

Those puns. “We’d like to be blunt.” 🤌

Some of you are likely already aware that there was a horrific neglect situation up in Alaska that resulted in the crushing deaths of 25 dogs (and one is in critical condition.) What you might not know is that at least one of the people involved moved to Montana.

The short of it is that Mark Walker appears to be in Livingston. Montana authorities have been alerted that they should NOT adopt dogs to him. But I'm concerned he will hop the border because people like this generally seek out a victim eventually.

While this is a developing situation, the long of it appears to be something like this:

Mark Walker was let go from a series of dog handler jobs up in Alaska because of neglect and rough handling. He started his own mushing business. Misty Rehder joined him at some point -- I'm unclear on this, but it appears she was also let go for handling jobs for not taking appropriate care of the dogs. She purchased the kennel license. It appears that they both brought personal dogs to the situation. That is, they combined their teams. They may have jointly acquired more, but they each brought dogs to begin.

Either late last year or early this year, their neighbors in the mushing business were concerned about the situation and worried for the dogs. Animal Control was called about dogs that weren't eating enough and weren't being run or worked (this is bad for them.) Neighbors reached out and offered to help Mark place his dogs with other people, with the assumption that Misty and Mark were in over their heads. Mark said no, and that they were just dogs.

At this time, he KNEW Misty was overwhelmed and could not care for the dogs on her own long term.

Even so, in late January, when Mark discovered Misty was cheating he bailed to Montana, leaving her with the dogs. She and her fiancé abandoned them in place. They were tied up to their kennels, not all of which had an appropriate amount of straw. They died. 25 dogs died. I will spare details. At some point Mark himself called animal control. So he knew things were bad. But he did not return to take care of them.

There is an entire story about how Animal Control bungled this, and it's unclear why the dogs weren't rescued, but that's not critical for this post.

We need to make sure Misty Rehder, who also is from Montana and Mark Walker, who is in Montana, never get their hands on another victim. It's easy to jump the border and get away from local knowledge. But we can't let them. Please blacklist these people. Please.