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🌲Wrangell, AK. ✨she/her 🐟aspiring fish/wildlife biologist 🪼the natural world makes me cry. ⚓️all opinions posted here are mine 🚽…MAGA is a cult.

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Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · Jan 26

#AlaskaSky 🧡

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Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 8h

All the dogs with furloughed parents have got to be soooo stoked right now! I know mine are.

Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 9h

Today’s good deed: smoking salmon for a friend.

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Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, yes…the ol’ “we don’t want to pay you” trick…

If I survive being a federal worker during this administration, it’ll be an absolute miracle.

Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 3d

At least I have a temporary side hustle of doing moose harvest check-ins. I get to see every harvested moose in Wrangell just about!

Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 3d

Of course the ONE burnt cd I wanted to find in my high school cd case isn’t in it. *le sigh*

Salival

Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. 😕

Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 4d

Someone I went to high school with is moving there to be a nurse. I’m curious what kind of demands there are for work outside the medical field.

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Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 4d

When/where can Americans seek asylum? 😩

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Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 5d

Should we be planning our lives out as if we’re going to actually lose our jobs? I really love where I live, but I do not know what we could possibly do

Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 5d

*virtually sending you a warm buttered slice*

Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you! I wish I could share (:

Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 5d

Bread therapy for furlough szn #breadsky #sourdough

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 5d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING: Public Citizen has filed 7 new complaints against the the CDC, DOJ, FDA, HHS, OMB, USDA, and the White House for violating the Hatch Act with their partisan propaganda.

Every agency that participates in this blatantly illegal scheme must be held accountable.

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Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 6d

Hatch Act vs. Trump Administration

Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 6d

Sometimes when I feel down I simply part Baloo’s lips to have a quick look at his very slight underbite and suddenly all is good in the world.

Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 7d

2025 can suck an expired raw hotdog

Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 7d

It’s embarrassing that emails (among many other things) we get from the Washington Office regularly have spelling errors and other critical errors. For example, for September 11, they sent out a remembrance email that referred to the event as “September 11, 2011” and it was NEVER CORRECTED.

Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 8d

At this point focusing on whether or not my basic needs have been met is all I should be doing. What an absolute shit show.

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Shoshanah in Alaska @shanahstone.bsky.social · 9d

There’s still around 15 Alaska public media stations that didn’t “make the cut.” You can support them here:

Shoshanah in Alaska @shanahstone.bsky.social · Jul 21

Adopt A Station
Rescue Public Media

Here’s a great way to find and support Public Media stations

Some of the Alaska stations have lost over 90% of their revenue.

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media

Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

adoptastation.org

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Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 9d

Not me over here freaking out once again that BOTH my partner and I will lose our jobs which help pay for a home, food, and health (physical and mental)

Coolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcool

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Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 10d

Martha wants some snacks

Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 12d

🤷‍♀️

Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 13d

If I did not have a wonderful partner in my life and if I lived alone I’d probably wither away into nothing because feeding myself is SUCH A CHORE.

Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah I believe they are but I have to double check! I dug through sooo much stuff today. Lots of old technology which amazed me how quickly technology progresses.