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Kevin Turinsky 🇺🇸🇸🇰🇪🇺🇺🇦
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Alaska-grown |📍Salish Sea | 🏫 SU & APU alum
Oxford comma. 1 space.

🏫Public Schools
🚃Transit
🏥Health Care
🚲Bicycles (The All Powerful Bicycle Lobby)
🏔️Mountains
📻 Amateur Radio - K7SEA
⛑️ Wilderness First Responder
📷 Holga/Sténopé/Pinsta/Cyanotype
😻 Cats
Pinned
Is it too early for this?
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Anchorage folks:

This weekend, in addition to my OWN block & screening (w/ @joshalbeza.bsky.social) Sunday morning, I'll also be attending the Sat morning animated shorts & the Sat 12:00 feature film "Remaining Native." Any of you going? If so, holler! anchoragefilmfestival.org/festival-sch...
December 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Meet Phoenix, our newest Bald Eagle patient. 🦅 She came to us from Hoonah after getting into a burn pile that resulted in the loss of her tail, the tips of her primary flight feathers, and burns on her legs and feet. #AnimalRescue #helpingothers #wholesome
December 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Doug Ford's like; 'Right On, let's make some money by helping the U.S. round up coloured people, imprison them and deport them without any rule of law - while we're talking, is there any money to be made by murdering Venezuelans?'

#onpoli #cdnpoli
#boycottusa #facistusa #racistusa
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Sale of Canadian armoured vehicles to ICE agency 'deeply troubling': Kwan
OTTAWA — Anti-armament advocates say Canadian firms shouldn’t be selling armoured military vehicles to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or any other organizations with sketchy human ...
shorturl.at
December 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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You can hit 124 miles per hour in the cheapest production car sold in america.
Love how much energy we all spend circle jerking over classes of ebikes while car culture runs around with metrics of multiple tons, hundreds of horsepower, and top speeds only limited in triple digits.
December 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Big news: my Wild Olympics bill got a Senate hearing and picked up dozens of new endorsements from local sportsmen groups and more this week.

This is a big step in our fight to protect key areas of the Olympic National Forest & preserve world-class recreation. Let's keep it going!
December 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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These two vehicles simply are not the same problem #ebike #cargobike #bikedc
December 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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In 2025, I'd advise leaning heavily on policies that afford the freedom of choice in mobility for Americans. Forced car dependency has stolen countless lives and robbed both private and public coffers of financial freedom.
Michigan’s auto industry put America on wheels, and I’m fighting to keep us in the driver’s seat. 🚗🚚⚙️
December 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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My windshield right now in west alaska. At least a 1/4 inch thick too.
#alaskawx #ice #alaska
December 3, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Commute Seattle Executive Director (and former D3 council candidate) Alex Hudson announced this morning that she's leaving her post to take a job in Katie Wilson's office.
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Cosmically funny that, the American public has had less than a year of uncut republican governance, and they’ve decided that they absolutely hate this shit, spit it out
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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If you are a state legislator, city council member, doctor, or scientist in an R+20 or better district and for some reason you want to be in Congress, you should probably start making calls tomorrow to form an exploratory committee.
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Congratulations to the city of Chicago for achieving 100,000 car crashes for the year to date as of Saturday 11/29 at 1:20pm! #VisionZero
December 3, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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compared to 2019, the U.S. is on track to see 13 million fewer international visitors by the year-end,
December 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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since denver launched its e-bike rebate program - the have sold 10,000 e-bikes and reduced an estimated 1,000,000 car trips - replacing millions of VMTs and reducing air pollution

there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close

denvergov.org/Government/A...
Denver Celebrates 10,000 E-Bike Rebates
Since its inception in April 2022, Denver has distributed over 10,000 electric bikes (e-bikes) to community members through its pioneering e-bike rebate program. As the first U.S. city to implement su...
denvergov.org
October 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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that's right!

e-bikes replace *car* trips

they're the greatest climate mobility hack invented yet

governments should be giving them away
Interesting study from Germany on e-bikes and the modes they replace:

"43.1% of electric bicycle trips and 63.2% of electric bicycle mileage would have been undertaken using a car if no e-bike had been available, highlighting their substantial potential to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions"
Further, steeper, greener: Implications from an electric bicycle mode choice model
Electric bicycles are transforming the active mobility landscape, potentially increasing active mode uptake and delivering environmental and health benefits. This study examines electric bicycle mo...
doi.org
July 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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The Right wing culture warriors are worried about professors getting tenure and becoming deadwood but are not at all worried about college football coaches with Golden Parachutes?
This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.
December 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Developers’ efforts to overturn the cancellation of a vast gold and copper mine planned for southwest Alaska are getting a boost from national mining and pro-business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

(From @alaskabeacon.com)
Pebble Mine, halted by EPA order, gets support from national development groups
Developers' efforts to overturn the cancellation of a vast gold and copper mine planned for southwest Alaska are getting a boost from national mining and pro-business groups, including the U.S.…
www.ktoo.org
December 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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An Astonishing Graph. For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.3%. (It’s 0.3% in countries like Japan & Norway.) [kottke.org]
An Astonishing Graph
For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.3%. It’s 0.3% in countries like Japan & Norway. This dramatic decline has resulted from b
kottke.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Putin told reporters in Kyrgyzstan that he will kill every “last Ukrainian” if that’s what it takes to gain control of Ukraine’s eastern territory.

Endless Russian attacks for over three years haven’t been able to achieve that objective, yet Trump wants to reward a war criminal for murder anyway.
Putin refuses to budge on demand for Ukrainian territory ahead of talks with US
Russian president says peace plan proposed by US could form the ‘basis’ of an agreement to end conflict but will not give up maximalist demands
www.independent.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Trump’s whole strategy is to be so outrageous on multiple fronts—racism, corruption, misogyny, nativism, plutocracy, greed, authoritarianism, etc.—that it’s nearly impossible to keep a focus on any individual outrage or maintain a high level of indignation and concern. It’s deliberate bludgeoning.
I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".

Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Text SIGN PPQXDJ and write your #akleg to use any means of law in Alaska to block #PebbleMine and #SaveBristolBay
December 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara notes the MPD will not work with federal agents & says "In moments like this, I know how real the fear is in our community. People are going to want to speak out, protest, & exercise their 1st Amendment rights. We will absolutely defend people's right to do just that"
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.

But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.

The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM