every year, Igivarod raises thousands of dollars for small communities in Alaska. If you have the spare cash, this is one of those things that makes the internet great.

#Iditarod #Iditarod54

With the start of the Iditarod, we also have the official start of the Igivearod. The link to the spreadsheet is below and you'll find a list of very worth charities to contribute to. Please help if you can and spread the word too. #igivearod2026 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Prehensile-tailed porcupines get their name from their long tail that acts like a fifth limb. This tail is very strong and can support a porcupine’s full body weight. Very useful when you spend lots of your day climbing, like Ozzy! 📷: Zookeeper Elsa

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Oh right, I forgot to talk about them in my thread. You can read the information below, but basically a couple of very rich people donated large sums of cash to get to run in the Iditarod, sort of. They get bib numbers and got to start with the field ... #mushersky #iditarod54 1/

Safe travels to all the mushers and their teams.

Unofficial official 2026 Iditarod thread starts now. All the teams are out of Willow after the official restart. We have 34 real teams and 3 "expedition" mushers who I probably won't be talking a lot about after today, but we'll see. #mushersky #Iditarod54 1/

Olympics, the Barkley Marathons, and now the Iditarod - so many athletes out there pushing the boundaries of what's possible. Couch athletes can join in too via #igivearod!

Two brothers from South Texas and their high school mariachi bandmates were recognized by their congresswoman last June for winning a state mariachi competition. Nine months later, the brothers, along with their parents and younger brother, are in ICE detention and facing deportation.

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The official start of the 2026 Iditarod is just 12 minutes away. For those of you who don't want your feeds bogged down with running commentary, you can mute me or the #mushersky or #iditarod54 hashtags now. For those who want to watch, I think it is streaming on KTUU but I'm not sure. #mushersky

As this was happening you were told shoplifting and home invasions were grave threats you needed to abandon any pretense of sympathy to address.

Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran @easybakeovensz.bsky.social reports for @bellingcat.com www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

TIL that military service members who were discharged for their sexual orientation or gender identity qualify for in-state tuition rates in Washington regardless of their residency! wsac.wa.gov/student-resi...

Amazing view of a team running the Ceremonial Start for the 2026 Iditarod! #mushersky

I've started my 4th annual Dogs Iditarod 2026 spreadsheet! I found the Squids!! At any given moment, you can find me scouring kennel and musher sites on the interwebs looking for dog team names!! #MusherSky #Iditarod2026 #Iditarod54 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

For International Women’s Day: some favorite books by women. MAKING HISTORY by Carolyn See SLOUCHING TOWARD BETHLEHEM by Joan Didion PARABLE OF THE SOWER by Octavia Butler A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD and THE CANDY HOUSE by Jennifer Egan GENERATION LOSS by Elizabeth Hand

All of the beans are together again. I know that Refried sang Fava and Hari home and they are all young and strong and running together again. We are lucky to have known them and their stories and are blessed to carry them with us always. ❤️💔❤️

Look the alternative is facing that Liz Cheney did the right thing when they (or their loved ones) did not and who wants to do that

1/The failure to investigate Renee Good’s death at all is ongoing scandal. The independent autopsy suggests that Renee Good was still alive after the first shot; it was the third shot that killed her, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news....

"I’ve finally arrived at a place of radical acceptance. I accept that I will be passed over, that I will sit untouched for hours, that someone will choose a lemon-lime option over me without a second thought."

The kids don't know about dumping Everclear and fruit punch into a trash can and just trying not to die

I am once again thinking about how Americans have no concept of the fact that most of the times when countries go to war their civilians are not safely stowed away from harm the way that American civilians are

The bill faced opposition from associations representing county sheriff’s offices and local police departments, who said the 287(g) program should be optional, mainly because of costs associated with forcing agencies to enter into them. #idleg #idpol

My life for the next two weeks. #UglyDogs #MusherSky #Iditarod54

You might be thinking, “They’re just saying the things everyone says about Putin and kompromat but about Israel, why is that antisemitic” and I mean… because of both the legacy of antisemitic tropes and also the facts on the ground

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

The felony murder rule has been used in many states to give death sentences to people who did not kill anyone & who did not intend for anyone to die. I don't have statistics but I'd bet a lot of money that most of these convictions are of minorities. It's a law that desperately needs changed. 1/

Mac's got his Iditarod info thread up and he has some great links in there to help you out if you want to follow along. #mushersky #iditarod54

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cc: @sickoscommittee.org - for your Big Sky correspondent.

What is more obscene and broken is that the opposition's sense of how to make many American voters care about bombing schools in Iran is correct.

If you missed the Ceremonial start to the 2026 Iditarod, Sasha has a great thread full of pics and information. #mushersky

Update on the adventure that is "Toni's corner" on the ceremonial Iditarod route. It's a gnarly 90 degree turn that provides for thrills and spills. #mushersky #Iditarod54

Covering college sports reform has radicalized me a little bit, in that I’ve now gotten to talk to a lot of lawmakers and their staff and have come away thinking “oh my god they don’t know this issue actually works. What’s happening when they work on actually important stuff?? “

happy birthday to the man the myth the legend; the three legged pirate king; the mane event - Captain Blackjack!! he is 6 today and spending the day watching the first birds of spring through his large window

Appropos of a conversation that keeps happening, one of the reasons I refuse to engage in a rehash of the 2024 election is because one of the things we keep doing is refighting the last war instead of focusing on the one in front of us. Whatever 2026 is, it's not 2024 nor will 2028 be 2024. 1/

ALMOST TIME! Jaye @sibersong.bsky.social is bib 28, out at 11:28 am Alaska time (I think?)

First Iditarod team! 🦮

AP has a new report out about the huge El Paso detention facility and the details—from 911 calls, interviews and court records—are as horrific as you’d expect apnews.com/article/suic...

the IRA is an unfortunate example of the failure of the non-bigoted theory of popularism it was a good law that poured piles of money into infrastructure (in rural areas!) and they got zero credit for it from the people who complain about those sorts of things, because the complaining is the point

There's no secret council of Democrats deciding which faction to appease and which to piss off, there's the mass of Democrats across multiple layers of influence and position, crystalized in the primary process.

Again the screenshotted threat only works if Gavin Newsom is the only unacceptable-to-someone candidate in contention. After that you're counting spears and oh hey that's a primary.

KTUU is livestreaming the ceremonial start if anyone wants to watch without paying the Insider subscription.

It’s that time again! The ceremonial start of the Iditarod is live! The dogs and their teams along with special guest Iditariders in the sleds run one at a time down 4th Ave in Anchorage. While we watch all the good dogs run through Anchorage, I’ll be here answering questions about the race so AMA

The fundamental difference here is that trans people are not asking for something new, we're asking for our current protections to not be stripped away. Bostock is the already the law of the land. Access to gender affirming care or even competing in sports were available for decades.

61 years ago today at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama.