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tundragranite.bsky.social @tundragranite.bsky.social · 23h

I was able to ask!!!! You have to go back to the recording once it's posted though to see what she said to "what tangible things are you and your office going to do to ensure furloughed workers get paid once the shutdown ends"

tundragranite.bsky.social @tundragranite.bsky.social · 1d

Murkowski is on talk of Alaska at 10am on Tuesday, this should be the first thing she is asked about.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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tundragranite.bsky.social @tundragranite.bsky.social · 1d

Murkowski is on talk of Alaska at 10am on Tuesday, this should be the first thing she is asked about.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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tundragranite.bsky.social @tundragranite.bsky.social · 1d

Federal employees should be pissed at this. Because congress can't do their jobs, then they don't have to pay you. What!?!?!?

#shutdown #furlough

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

tundragranite.bsky.social @tundragranite.bsky.social · 1d

#alaskawx #alaska #weather #ruralalaska

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tundragranite.bsky.social @tundragranite.bsky.social · 2d

#startrek

tundragranite.bsky.social @tundragranite.bsky.social · 2d

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a woman in a pink sweater is crying and saying `` no you shut up '' .

ALT: a woman in a pink sweater is crying and saying `` no you shut up '' .

media.tenor.com

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 2d

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 2d

Portland never stops being Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d

wizard frog is insane

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d

wizard frog is insane

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tundragranite.bsky.social @tundragranite.bsky.social · 2d

Worth a listen today.
#janegoodall

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d

If you showed this tweet to James Madison, he would be like, "yes, this is why I wrote the 2nd Amendment"

@Sec_Noem on X: Chicago, we’re here for you.

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tundragranite.bsky.social @tundragranite.bsky.social · 5d

There was a proposal I remember to send a swarm of small probe digital cameras to the nearest star. We might have the tech now to push to .1c

It would get it there in 40 years...enough for a human life to maybe see the first closeup of an exoplanet

breakthroughinitiatives.org/initiative/3

Breakthrough Initiatives

breakthroughinitiatives.org

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tundragranite.bsky.social @tundragranite.bsky.social · 5d

This is especially pronounced in alaska.

www.kyuk.org/health/2025-...

Indigenous prevention programs seek to address persistently high suicide rates

An innovative program built around Yup’ik culture is helping to lead the way in the national conversations around the issue of suicide prevention. Financial and logistical obstacles have made implemen...

www.kyuk.org

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tundragranite.bsky.social @tundragranite.bsky.social · 6d

Regarding changes in our new rules of engagement and use of force policy for the US Military. If you know your movies, the bottom is not the flex you think it is.
#fratbro #military #hegseth #johnwick #tropicthunder

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 7d

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute.
Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner.
I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way.
Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose.
The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a

desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why.
Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes.
I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic).
"To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus

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Jess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 7d

Far Side cartoon. One gorilla grooms her gorilla friend and notices something amiss. "Well, well-another blonde hair....
Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"

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tundragranite.bsky.social @tundragranite.bsky.social · 6d

Rest in light to an amazing scientist Jane Goodall. She tirelessly worked for conservation and helped open up pathways and inspiration for many women scientists
#janegoodall #womeninSTEM #RIP

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Climate.us @climate.us · 7d

With news of the government shutdown, we wanted to let YOU know that we are still here!

One perk of taking our mission into the nonprofit sector, we still get to work toward our mission of keeping trusted climate information up to date and easy to find without the "politics" of government involved.

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tundragranite.bsky.social @tundragranite.bsky.social · 7d

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tundragranite.bsky.social @tundragranite.bsky.social · 7d

These two headlines are only separated by 4 days (top Oct 1st, bottom Sept 26)

There's always a gift.

#trumprx #medicine #tariffs #pfizer

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KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 7d

In other regions of the U.S., some centers are expected to run out of money soon because the federal government has stalled funding and essential agreements with universities that the U.S. Geological Survey needs to manage the centers.

Alaska’s Climate Adaptation Science Center will stay open amid closures elsewhere

AK CASC funded the interactive flood website that helped inform Juneau’s Mendenhall Valley residents about the threat to their homes.

www.ktoo.org

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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 8d

COVID virus still circulating in Alaska, while access to recommended vaccines varies, reports Yereth Rosen for the @alaskabeacon.com

COVID virus still circulating in Alaska, while access to recommended vaccines varies | Alaska Beacon

A delay is affecting some providers, but state officials hope to make COVID vaccines widely available as soon as possible.

alaskabeacon.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8d

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

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High North News @highnorthnews.bsky.social · 8d

The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States has shut down, illustrating the fear among US Arctic researchers, says researcher Michael Walsh.

www.highnorthnews.com/en/arcus-shu...

ARCUS Shuts Down, Highlights Dire Situation for US Arctic Researchers

The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States has shut down, illustrating the tense situation among US Arctic researchers, says researcher Michael Walsh. "There is tremendous fear among Arctic r...

www.highnorthnews.com

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tundragranite.bsky.social @tundragranite.bsky.social · 9d

745am auororas make me happy in southwest alaska (bethel)
#alaska #auorora #ruralalaska #Northernlights

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tundragranite.bsky.social @tundragranite.bsky.social · 9d

I'm getting a little paranoid and wondering if verified loyalists will be split off to a second meeting when they are all there. Then an "accident" happens in the room with all the constitutionalists

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