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Ishalook 🐢🐻‍❄️❄️ @ishalook.bsky.social · 1h

Hopefully, the worst phase of fascism is playing out right now and only better from here on out.

Ishalook 🐢🐻‍❄️❄️ @ishalook.bsky.social · 5h

The political climate is not very inspiring at all. It's certainly not attracting the best and brightest by consistently oppressing women and minorities.

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Ishalook 🐢🐻‍❄️❄️ @ishalook.bsky.social · 12h

I'm really tired of White Christians being in leadership positions in Alaska.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19h

'Raven' collage by Lisa Morales, textile and mixed media artist #WomensArt

Textile artwork resembling the upper half of a crow-like bird with purple and black textured feathers, the bird looks backwards to the left with large beak in the air

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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 17h

Live from Nome, it's Strait Science! Tuesday 630pm AKDT on Zoom and in-person at UAF Northwest Campus, the climate context of ex-Halong and summer 2025 review in Bering Strait region and Anjali Shah will give an update on ACCAP's Extreme Events library. #akwx #AlaskaSky @hanners64n.bsky.social

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 14h

No, we can’t just agree to disagree on our opinions and live peacefully together when one person’s opinion is that the other can’t live in peace. Everyone already knows this, yet people pretend otherwise when it inconveniences them

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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NPR @npr.org · 16h

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them

Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

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Annes Mien @annesmien.bsky.social · 2d

It's Caturday!
#cats #catsofbluesky #caturday #beautiful

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3d

“To watch a glacier collapse is to feel the full weight of climate change.”

Former Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s new piece for Meidas+ is a breathtaking, and heartbreaking, firsthand look at Alaska’s vanishing world.

North to Alaska: America’s Climate Warning

Guest article by Jay Inslee, former governor of Washington State

www.meidasplus.com

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 3d

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days.

They have worked 12 days in 3 months.

Epstein Shutdown.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 4d

Big news here: the White House has backed down from shutting down I-5 this weekend following our reporting last night.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 5d

The Morning Monty cannot be contained.

Fluffy gray tabby stretching back while he lounges on a cardboard window chaise. We are getting two sunny days in a row, and he is NOT wasting them.

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Ishalook 🐢🐻‍❄️❄️ @ishalook.bsky.social · 4d

My 11-year-old nephew agrees. We had chicken alfredo pasta tonight and he passed out on the couch after a 2nd serving with Frank Sinatra's My Way playing on repeat.

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My Way Frank Sinatra , 1969 HD

YouTube video by Amir

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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 5d

Community groups, airlines and nonprofits are seeking food, clothing and supplies to help residents in the aftermath of the Western Alaska storms. Here's how you can help.

Here’s how to help those affected and displaced by Western Alaska storms

Community groups, airlines and nonprofits are seeking food, clothing and supplies to help residents.

www.adn.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 5d

🚨Jim Carrey’s fresh out of fucks, and we are here for it!

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5d

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 5d

Hundreds of people are being evacuated from Kipnuk after being told to pack a single bag and leave the village, one of the hardest hit by a catastrophic storm that hit Western Alaska over the weekend.