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Sasha aka Sauchi

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Sasha aka Sauchi @akchick.bsky.social · Mar 1

#UglyDogs I have photos and videos, but will post later. For now, here is a picture of the best girl, Pepe. She’s in lead with Whip who was on Q’s 2020 #Iditarod team with Kiwi.

BraverMountain lead dog Pepe and Whip wait to start the ceremonial start at Iditarod.

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สุพรรณิกาทร์ Supanika Ordoñez @spiraledu.bsky.social · 1d

@mothluna.bsky.social is one of my favorite accounts to follow because she posts amazing daily views of #AlaskaSky

I aspire to do as many hikes as she does when I retire.

Debbie Jones @mothluna.bsky.social · 1d

Walks with wonderful views

Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska ⛰️

With fresh snow! ❄️

Talkeetna mountains above Matanuska River

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สุพรรณิกาทร์ Supanika Ordoñez @spiraledu.bsky.social · 1d

“My milkshakes brings all the bears to the yard”

Arctic Velocipedist @arcticvelocipedist.bsky.social · 1d

I make the best smoothies.

Almond milk, berries, banana, and baltic herring.

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Sasha aka Sauchi @akchick.bsky.social · 1d

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Defend Our Democracy @myrnaukelele.bsky.social · 1d

October in Alaska feels different this year. We've had one light 'frost on the windshield'. Still no hard frost where I live in SouthCentral. Dahlias and garden flowers blooming. Tomatoes, basil, marigolds still producing in the (unheated) greenhouse. Weather is changing. #globalwarming #AlaskaSky

Godetia, foxglove, rudbeckia and a sunflower in the autumn garden

Sungold cherry tomatoes, basil, and marigolds in our unheated greenhouse

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Sasha aka Sauchi @akchick.bsky.social · 1d

Must read!!!

Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 1d

Honored that my piece Moon Boots found the best home in @thesunmagazine.bsky.social

It's about the mayhem and magic of being a single mother. I hope you'll read it

www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/moo...

Moon Boots

Our baby could not yet hold his head up. I lay on my parents’ living room floor next to my son, wondering how I was going to afford and overcome everything by myself, thinking I was too clumsy to take...

www.thesunmagazine.org

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Sasha aka Sauchi @akchick.bsky.social · 1d

You’re such a beautiful writer! Thank you for sharing!

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mivox is exHAUNTed 👻 @bs.mivox.net · 1d

This should probably terrify everyone.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Officially hitting the “you cannot leave” stage of Trump’s Nazi regime.

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Sasha aka Sauchi @akchick.bsky.social · 1d

Dumbest greediest administration

Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 1d

Critics say the move to axe Bill Clinton’s "roadless rule" that protected key old-growth forests will be devastating to the environment.

Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: ‘You can almost hear the chainsaws’

www.theguardian.com

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 1d

Critics say the move to axe Bill Clinton’s "roadless rule" that protected key old-growth forests will be devastating to the environment.

Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: ‘You can almost hear the chainsaws’

www.theguardian.com

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Sasha aka Sauchi @akchick.bsky.social · 1d

I mean kudos to the Republican propaganda machine. They are convinced transgender folks are to be feared and are taking over the military and that being woke means it’s okay to fire qualified military leaders. And that world leaders laughed at Biden but respect Trump.

Sasha aka Sauchi @akchick.bsky.social · 1d

The ignorance of Trump supporters is mind blowing. Holy cow.

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Purr ✨ @purrenrage.bsky.social · 2d

Someone trained too hard at puppy class.

Kenobi the brown Goldador face first on the couch

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Sasha aka Sauchi @akchick.bsky.social · 1d

Awwwwwwwww

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Sasha aka Sauchi @akchick.bsky.social · 1d

This is censorship and is also dumb.

James Brooks Cascade @alaska.bsky.social · 1d

In Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Borough, a new censorship board is up and running at the local library. Members can flag new material if it's deemed inappropriate: www.matsusentinel.com/mat-su-polic...

Mat-Su policy update gives volunteer board first review of new library purchases

The update follows requests for more oversight of library collections.

www.matsusentinel.com

Sasha aka Sauchi @akchick.bsky.social · 1d

WTAF

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

These people are just not smart

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Witamy Paçzki @hmullphoto.bsky.social · 1d

So, I and millions of other US tax payers are going to lose our access to affordable health insurance bc Trump Regime has claimed it "can't afford" to extend the ACA subsidies; yet, we can afford to give $2O billion to the weird El Vez lookalike who runs Argentina?

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump administration finalizes economic rescue plan for Argentina

The announcement came after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. officials have huddled in recent days with Argentine officials.

www.politico.com

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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 2d

Gardening columnist Jeff Lowenfels: Alaska’s unexpected bounty of flowers is one more reason to love the state www.adn.com/alaska-life/...

Alaska’s unexpected bounty of flowers is one more reason to love the state

Returning from a trip in Iceland, gardening writer Jeff Lowenfels reflects on an asset that sets the state apart from others.

www.adn.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting.

Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 1d

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 1d

Ken Paxton’s crimes are well known. But John Cornyn may be even more corrupt.

Cornyn was the deciding vote on the “Big Ugly Bill” — kicking millions off their healthcare to give his billionaire donors a tax cut.

That is corruption of the highest order.

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Sasha aka Sauchi @akchick.bsky.social · 1d

Whew!

Sasha aka Sauchi @akchick.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously. They don’t have a plan and they never intend to have a plan, which all the sane, logical, and rational people know. MAGA thinks there is a plan or doesn’t care as long as they get to own the libs.

Sasha aka Sauchi @akchick.bsky.social · 1d

Not a very funny one!

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KrazyTheeAlaskan™️ @krazytheealaskan.bsky.social · 2d

@jaxpyl.bsky.social JAX!!!

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Sasha aka Sauchi @akchick.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no! Hopefully, the Dino nugs helped!

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