Five ways our entire health care system has gone off the rails, by @kkjetelina.bsky.social and Senior Fellow @hayrook.bsky.social. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

If I ever gain the ability to pull the containers out of the cabinet without causing an avalanche of falling lids, I will have achieved wizard status.

Unfortunately accurate 👇

Turning Point leader pleads guilty to attempted election fraud in Arizona Former GOP state Rep. Austin Smith was caught submitting fake signatures in his reelection campaign.

For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.

“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”

This is a great piece - and not entirely comforting….

In a new phase 3 trial, people randomly assigned to receive a flu shot made with modified mRNA were 34.5% less likely to be diagnosed with an influenza-like illness than people given a standard flu shot made with inactivated virus. We need to stop the anti-science attacks against mRNA vaccines!

Link to study:

Disappointed that Australia has conceded its bid to host next year’s #COP31 UN Climate Summit, a missed opportunity to center the Pacific Island nations who are most affected by the climate crisis.

Happy Garbage Eve to all that celebrate. Derby accumulated a 1/4” of snow last night. That’s 6 1/3 millimeters of fluffy joy!

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum seeks the International Boundary and Water Commission intervention.

At the other end of the life cycle, there were slightly fewer deaths in Alaska last year than in 2023 — 5,525 in 2024, compared to 5,544 the year before. (From @alaskabeacon.com)

Missing elder woman from #Valdez #Alaska Last seen driving a blue Ford Escape.

At least 30 individual or corporations who have given over $116M to Trump and his super PAC have received regulatory favors from the Trump White House. That includes Big Tobacco companies, Pharma giants, and crypto moguls like the Winklevoss twins. Pay-to-play corruption.

A House panel is holding a hearing on a proposed ban on Congressional stock trading. This ban is long overdue. Why should members of Congress be able to use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you?

The U.S Department of Education has cut a grant that funds about half of the faculty and staff at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Bristol Bay Campus.

here's today's post: "‘things happen’ — because bone saws, they’re so unpredictable" — laugh it up, you fucking ghouls. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

When Lauren refers to Jeffrey Epstein's "entanglements in the Democrat [sic] party," I assume she is talking about that time in 2003 when a Democrat gave Epstein a highly incriminating birthday card. The giver was Donald J. Trump, a Democrat at the time.

🚨BREAKING: Federal prosecutors admitted Wednesday that the grand jury handling the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey never reviewed or voted on the final indictment used to charge him — a virtually unprecedented revelation that could topple the entire case.

The sun just set in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, for the season (71.29°N). It will rise again in 66 days (January 23rd). Good night. 🥱 @alaskawx.bsky.social

Photos: When the Polar Bears Move In - The photographer Vadim Makhorov, while recently cruising on the Chukchi Sea, noticed a group of polar bears that were taking shelter inside an abandoned research station on Russia’s remote Kolyuchin Island. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Important piece on how we got here. Brownstone raised millions to undermine COVID prevention policies. Now at least 8 people with ties to Brownstone hold senior positions at federal health agencies, where they are restricting vaccines and cutting science funding.

Florida’s laws allow open carry, permitless carry and “stand your ground” are a potentially deadly combination. A historian points to a 31.6% increase in firearm homicides after the ‘stand your ground’ law passed in 2005. buff.ly/7LPIFNn

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.

Katie Phang calls out the abomination of hosting a welcoming party for MBS. He should never have been invited. MBS had authorized murder.

New reporting that the Trump White House intervened through Trump lackey, Paul Ingrassia, on behalf of accused international sex traffickers, the Tate Brothers. My latest with the details including a deep dive into Ingrassia’s own scandal-ridden history. youtu.be/FK7fPBKcDnc?...

Since moving to Anchorage’s West Fairview ‘hood last year, I’ve made an effort to ride the muni bus system more often. I bring my bike along for @ 1/2 of my journeys. I kinda like it. In Iowa City, not only did they make riding free for all, but they doubled parking rates. Seems to work.

My painting TIDAL WETLANDS

"Diane Reitz tried out to be a Broncos cheerleader at age 64"

Those UK journalists backing Trump - a man who endorses the murder of a journalist because he’s ‘controversial’ - against the BBC need to see if they can find their moral compass

Most Trump legal corruption is getting somebody off that has done or can do something for him. Andrew Tate offers Trump nothing. He just thinks you shouldn’t go to jail for pimping women.

'Alaskans mourn death of avalanche center director and Olympic skier, Wendy Wagner' from '' on the Alaska Public Media app! alaskapublic.org/news/2025-11... Brought to you by Alaska Public Media

Have the evening news on the TV. Just caught glimpse of the orange Oaf with Saudi Murder Prince inside the now garish gold embellished People's House. I now feel an urge to puke.

Nerd alert: The operational GFS has been remarkably unstable in handling Bering Sea/Gulf of Alaska storminess the past couple days. All these images are forecasts valid 9am AKST Thursday. #akwx @climatologist49.bsky.social

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So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?

I am with #AnchorageAK Julia O'Malley order TG dinner out or delivered but make the pies. alaskapublic.org/programs/hom...

What a disgusting SOB he is.

Could the AK legislature pass a law that said the AK national guard should *not* be deployed for “civil disturbance operations” (counter to the pentagon’s instructions)? This is a real question, I don’t know how the national guard, which I thought was a state thing, interacts with the feds.

One of my worst fears. This is positively medieval and entirely misogynistic.

Sad news of job cuts to an Alasks Public Radio station that provided thorough coverage of the disaster that struck Western Alaska villages. Alaska Public Media share.google/3LcmqpAbsM5c...

Inside one of Alaska’s national parks, a fight looms over a possible gold mine, writes Max Graham for the Northern Journal. alaskabeacon.com/2025/11/17/i...

A HUGE win for James Comey in his criminal case. A federal judge orders the DOJ to turnover ALL OF THE GRAND JURY MATERIALS to Comey's defense team. About to drop a new episode walking through the details of this scathing order on my YouTube channel! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Speak Truth....

Answer to the proverbial snow country question.

I listened to the Public Radio Podcast, over the weekend. Horrific abuse. No one held accountable.

If you are unaware of the absolute horrific tragedy that is happening in our first person communities please take a few minutes to become informed. If this was blond haired blue-eyed people we would have declared a national emergency and be throwing an inexhaustible amount of resources at this.