The mid to long term game plan for Alaska Native Corporation organizing is a big, and scary, ask, but the sooner it happens, the sooner shareholders like me can go from protesting to advocating for specific demands to prevent this from ever happening again.

Is there any turmoil over Alaska Native Corporations and their disgusting ICE contracts? We hear so little about this and it’s been going on for years. They are loving the money in 2025. #akleg

An important LTE by @kenske.bsky.social Trump's racism www.newsminer.com/opinion/lett...

Made the front page of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner today. I also have a letter to the editor about NANA. These ICE contracts use the same violence inflicted on Alaska Natives during the boarding school era- separating families and denying access to language and culture. It is white supremacy.

The Republican Women of Fairbanks PAC is the biggest political spender in our local elections. Spoiler: their top donors are mostly men. It’s funded by the owners Chena Hot Springs and Sunrise Bagel & Espresso. ❌ Boycott big MAGA corps (Amazon, Spotify, Walmart, etc) AND local MAGA money. #AkLeg

@kenske.bsky.social is one of the strongest moral voices in Fairbanks. He speaks truth to power. Every time. “This is not and Iñupiaq, Inuit, Alaska Native or Indigenous issue. This is a human rights issue, and we all must work together to demand NANA divest, before more people suffer.”

Upcoming #Fairbanks events— 🍎 Food security town hall & food drive, Saturday, Nov. 22 📢 Protest outside Dan Sullivan’s fundraiser, Monday, Nov. 24 💰 Boycott Black Friday: protest and food drive, Friday, Nov. 28 #AlaskaSky #AkLeg #Alaska

President Trump and several others now high up in his second administration have been talking about using the National Guard to help with mass deportations — and possibly invoking the Insurrection Act — for years. Now, those plans might be playing out.

Happy Halloween! It’s scary year round with this clown in office...#907initiative #YesManDan #SullivanShutdown #Alaska

Bwhahaha! 🤣🤣🤣 J.P. pulls out his wigs

I'm mentioned in this. Previous dividends weren't even enough to pay my rent. This round is, but not by a lot. But none of it is worth human rights violations. @humanrightswatch.bsky.social has called our Akima's ICE facilities, this is documented and being ignored by NANA leadership and AFN.

“Bloomberg Businessweek, working with Kotzebue radio station KOTZ, found NANA held nearly 58.1% of ICE's 8(a) contracts over the past decade, a period during which it raked in about $1.2 billion.”

In April 2023, PJ Simon signed a $50,000 contract with AIDEA to push for the Ambler road project, just fyi.

Seeing the community work together to feed people as SNAP benefits get closer to lapsing is reminiscent of the Great Depression. I suggest we call this era the Great Suppression.

"Trump's Unlikely ICE Detention Giant Is an Alaska Native Company - Nana Regional Corp. is supposed to uphold Iñupiat values. Some shareholders say its role in Trump’s deportation machinery makes a mockery of that." www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Are they counting the missing?

As ICE detains more people than it has in years, deaths in its custody have surged, with 2025 now the deadliest year on record for the agency.

I'm in this article. NANA must divest from ICE contracts. They are perverting our Iñupiaq values for greed. This is truly evil, there is no other words to describe it. This is white supremacy at the highest levels of Alaska Native leadership.

“Some shareholders say the financial payoff isn’t worth the human toll. “Yeah, we get some money, but we also tarnish our culture, our people,” says David Leslie, a shareholder who lives in Fairbanks. The company is complicit in “acts of violence” he says, “and I can’t pay my rent.””

University of Alaska Fairbanks officials estimated cuts of $8.8 million for a variety of programs and student services. Via @alaskabeacon.com

The NAACP Anchorage branch declares a state of emergency over escalating hate and threats to our members and community members for speaking out in light of recent events and calls for the community to stand in solidarity with us to uplift and support marginalized voices and communities across AK.

#akleg Alaska: Blow it up!

This is what passes for “family values” in the Mat-Su-based Watchman comment section on Facebook…thinly veiled threats directed at school board members. Absolutely vile and dangerous.

It's getting where I think that if Trump dies in office, the only way we'll find out about it is if it happens in the middle of a press conference.

Melania sits Don Jr., Eric, Ivanka and Tiffany down and tells them their dad went out for cigarettes but hasn’t come back.

remember that you can't play Wagon Wheel after Labor Day

I dunno. If Trump kicked the bucket, I can't help but think one of those greedy, grifting sleeazebags on his staff, despite being sworn to silence, would've sold that info for an exorbitant price at the first chance.

Trying to explain the “Trump is dead” thing to someone who is not terminally online.

I'm Iñupiaq and a NANA Regional Corporation shareholder. I personally profit off of ICE detention centers via Akima, which operates in Guantanamo Bay and Krome in Florida, facing countless allegations of human rights abuses. Alaska Native Corporations act faster when white folks speak up.

#akleg Dunleavy probably: Welcome to America's Resource Warehouse™

Lingering questions around the death of a man held at the Alaska Psychiatric Institute have renewed scrutiny of Alaska's only state-run mental hospital. @adn.com reporter Michelle Theriault Boots has been following the case.

This is a call to violence.

The Federal Public Defender program has been out of funding since July 3rd. So the public defenders (and support staff!) in these cases are working without pay. Nationwide backlog is >$100M. The related Federal Defenders program has also been under a hiring freeze for attorneys, *since October*.

Rule is if you see a post about Elizabeth Peratrovich, you share it! I didn’t learn about her till 2016.

This. This ten thousand times. This FOREVER. I live in the Yukon. I work full time plus side jobs. I am 38. I am professional, with a career. I pay 34% of my take home pay into renting an apartment with holes in the ceiling and mold in the walls and I would be utterly fucked if i had to move.

Earlier today I submitted my comments to the State Medical Board. In addition to a resolution prohibiting gender affirming care for youth, the State Medical Board is also considering new regulatory language to limit abortions that may occur after the first trimester. [email protected]

Finally!!! Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia has been released from TN custody and is on his way to reunite with his family in Maryland.

I got enough signatures to call for a vote to remove the five Tanana Valley State Fair Association board members who mishandled Bible Baptist Church, allowing them to have a booth this year, canceled the drag show, and their general lack of transparency, accountability and leadership.

Matt Heilala now on his anti-abortion bullshit. He says that people don't understand that the state laws (Alaska Constitution) are "extremely permissive." He wants the Board to issue a statement that "late-term abortions" (not a real medical term) "does not embody the values of Alaskans."

🗣️ Bring Atcharee Home! 📢 Rally in Fairbanks this Saturday, August 23 at noon at the intersection of Airport Way and Peger. Keep Fairbanks families together! ICE out of Alaska! #Alaska #AkLeg #Fairbanks

Call our Alaska federal delegation and leave written comments with them at Pack the Offices every Monday! Bring Atcharee home! #Alaska #Fairbanks #akleg #IceOutOfAlaska #FuckIce

Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc

New: Israel is starving Palestinians, forcing them to beg for donations on sites like Bluesky. Their accounts keep getting flagged as spam. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Kingmeata Etidlooie was an Inuk Canadian graphic artist and sculptor. A relatively prolific artist, she had more than fifty of her prints published between 1970 and her death in 1979. Her work is characterized by a strong sense of order and structure. Here's some nice bird features 🪶

An excellent summary of the whole event.

If there are any journalists out there trying to come up with their one big question for the summit of warcrime bros tomorrow, I'd like to know why Russia has never issued a formal apology for the Battle of Sitka or for their many crimes against the Unangax̂.

The warcrimes bros press conference has begun. I don't know why I'm watching this. Putin mentions Russia's history in Alaska but leaves out the murdery, hostage taking, canon fire bits.

President Trump taking over Washington DC and Zohran Mandami just sitting there letting it happen. smh