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Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 26m

Hey Alaska did you know that state Senator Mike Shower has gone all-in on deranged gutter anti-Muslim bigotry, up to and including quote-tweeting Alex Jones.

We just ousted one bigot, let’s get another in 2026

#akleg
#akelect

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Carrie Nash @carrieinfbx.bsky.social · 27m

Reading fiction is important for kids, and Piper argues that shared literary understanding helps to shape our nation.

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2h

We told anyone who would listen that boiling learning down to a multiple-choice question assessment at the end of each year would lead to teaching to the test. That teachers would feel forced to teach test-taking strategies rather than teaching life strategies

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Silencing Mockingbirds

Reading is resistance

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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 2h

“Conversion therapy” isn’t counseling — it’s psychological abuse.

Colorado isn’t “silencing Christians.” It’s protecting LGBTQ youth from harm.

No one has a constitutional right to traumatize kids in the name of faith.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

Gov. Pritzker after Trump calls for him to be jailed: “I will not back down… what else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1h

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Carrie Nash @carrieinfbx.bsky.social · 38m

This is disturbing and straight-up evil.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 15h

Kristi Noem praying before sending her secret, masked goons out to harass the people of Portland

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 51m

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then this guy speaks again

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 7h

Only generally aware of Nigel Farage, it’s been shocking to me in the week I’ve been reading UK papers daily how *precisely* Tory & Reform rhetoric echo Trumpism, particularly the full conquest of GOP by MAGA circa 2017-18. Reminder yet again that this fascism is global.

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Carrie Nash @carrieinfbx.bsky.social · 43m

She won and I guess we’ll see!

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907 Life @907life.bsky.social · 1h

Autumn light

#icm #impressionism #landscape

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Geek in AK @akvirtualgeek.bsky.social · 1h

The genie can’t be put back in the bottle. He said what he said…

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Plenary authority, the dictator phrase that caused Stephen Miller to stop talking

Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in the National Guard, before suddenly stopping speaking in an awkward interview moment

www.independent.co.uk

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 7h

So damned proud of this guy. He won, we won, Fairbanks won! Congratulations on our newest Fairbanks Borough assembly member @grarmstrong.bsky.social !!!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Carrie Nash @carrieinfbx.bsky.social · 1h

And in Bethel:

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Carrie Nash @carrieinfbx.bsky.social · 8h

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Carrie Nash @carrieinfbx.bsky.social · 10h

Yes. I usually agree with all of those who supported her. She never answered for why she was ok aligning with Haney, Interior Republicans et al.

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Carrie Nash @carrieinfbx.bsky.social · 10h

Yes! Sorry to neglect mentioning her!

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Dave in AK @bikewritedave.bsky.social · 10h

This is our country.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Carrie Nash @carrieinfbx.bsky.social · 10h

So happy and relieved!

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Carrie Nash @carrieinfbx.bsky.social · 10h

Really pleasantly surprised and so proud of Garrett and Patrick Roach! And Mindy ! 🎉🎉

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Carrie Nash @carrieinfbx.bsky.social · 10h

School board races not as great, but choices were not as starkly different and/or dire as the assembly seats.

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Tara 🌎 @studytime24.bsky.social · 13h

#MedicareForAll Period.

John Jupin @vols71.bsky.social · 14h

The Hill reported Tuesday that Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) admitted that Democrats were getting the better of Republicans as polls continue to show a majority of Americans blame the GOP for the shutdown.

www.rawstory.com/gop-shutdown...

'Very challenging': GOP senator laments his party is losing shutdown battle

One member of the Senate Republican Conference offered his own candid take on how his party's message was being received by the American public in the midst of the ongoing federal government shutdown ...

www.rawstory.com

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Erin aka Bippy in Alaska @itsbippy.bsky.social · 12h

So we’re considering a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell but brown and Black people in Chicago need to be detained by a militarized police force.

Just as an aside how much does it cost to run a Blackhawk helicopter? Asking for somebody who needs their ACA healthcare insurance.

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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 13h

Alaska's education department is asking the state school board not to pass a controversial regulation change that could limit school funding from local governments, instead asking for it to be sent back to the department for further refinement.

Alaska education officials ask for another delay on proposed change to funding regulations

Local officials warn that services and funds provided to school districts by boroughs and municipal governments could be cut if the state’s proposed regulation passes.

www.adn.com

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