As a Finn and a recent American, this checks. Also, at least here in Alaska, water, electricity, internet, and cellphone service are outrageously more expensive than in Finland.

#ClimateEmergency #Renewables #auspol #USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MeidasMighty #america #Ethics #ClimateJustice #bcpoli #abpoli #Klimapolitik #ClimateActionNow #ClimateChange #Climate #Ecosocialism #environment #Nature #BCClimateAction #capitalism #FalseConsciousness

IYKYK. #Alaskalife

Given the rollbacks on environmental protections, thank goodness the Farmers Market season is here. Support your local & organic growers! www.npr.org/2026/04/28/n...

Alaska scores poorly. Dietary Guidance and Sustainability by State: Scorecards and Analysis. #akleg

This little comic is so good I have to share: grassrootsjpe.org/how-colonial...

The best thing this week: A cookie that looks like something from a Miyazaki movie.

I really like conferences that have hybrid/online presenting possibilities. In this era of accelerating climate change, we SHOULD do more conferences/symposia online.

This is why I use a browser without AI.

If you haven't listened to "The Border Trilogy" by Radiolab yet, you should. Before listening, I had no idea about all the complexities of the US border wall, and feel much more educated now. radiolab.org/series/borde...

Federal regulators will accept no public comments on a pending environmental study of oil leasing in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, in line with a Trump administration policy aimed at “streamlining” development. (via @alaskabeacon.com) www.adn.com/business-eco...

Learned a new mushroom! I've been trying to find these delicious Cortinarius caperatuses from Alaska for a couple of years now, but with no luck. Now, my mother, our mushroom expert, showed it to me on a familiar trail, and now I see them everywhere! They are unmistakable :) #fungi #AKforaging

Trump is now changing the name of the Department of Defense to the "Department of War," in latest attempt to distract from the Epstein files. Last week he pretended to be dead.

National Guard troops now patrol NPS sites like the National Mall and Memorial Parks. They're even performing routine work traditionally done by NPS staff, like picking up trash around Lafayette Park, the Tidal Basin, and the Mall. Officials call it a “beautification and restoration mission.”

Here, fixed it.

We don't have a climate crisis. We have a greed crisis. policypostings.medium.com/is-the-clima...

Too good not to share!

Resistance Rangers are the real deal

Enough with the distraction! Can we have the Epstein files now, please?

This is one of those vids that make you smile and laugh at the talent that was put into it, and then curl up in the fetal position sobbing over the reality.

I've been following their work for years <3

Hahaha :D I saw a Gray Wolf (according to the Seek app by i-Naturalist)

The American Experience: The Feds

JUST GETTING OUR ASSES KICKED EVERY DAY AT THE SOUP KITCHEN. Sweet nothing, let this be the high water mark.

I never thought that giving a public history talk would feel radical. But I might have talked about a historical case of immigration that has a storyline of the US govt robbing these expert immigrants off some key rights when their expertise was no longer needed. (Cont.) #publichistory #AlaskanSámi

I think the Trump Regime is officially on the naughty list... But for real, kudos for Santa for using his celebrity status to speak out for the rest of us.

🗳️🏃‍♀️ RUN >> If you have a background in science or medicine, NOW is the time to run for office. Americans need leaders who will protect health care. 314 Action is the only national org that recruits, trains and elects Democratic doctors and scientists.

All this was in Project 2025: gutting social services, tax cuts for the wealthy, a myopic focus on immigrants and transgender people. Overturning gay marriage is coming up. So is no-fault divorce. They’ve been telling us it’s coming for years. And it’s here.

Deep fried morels & dandelions and the Northern Colombine <3

If you've got any training in research (or have common sense) you will know that if your sources aren't reliable, neither are the conclusions you draw from them.

The current administration is doing a lot of harm in Alaska. Withdrawing erosion control funds is just one of the ways. Not caring for the people is NOT normal governance.

Cultural exchange: I made a Finnish "vihta" to use as a whisk in a steambath. My Dena'ina hosts would use something similar, but not made of birch.

no kings rally all the way out in emmonak! ha, his sign says “ice is good for fish… not people”

I love Alaska so much! And morels. I love morels <3

Also, you can't have a scientifically sound report if the studies you base your analysis on (=sources cited) don't exist, no matter how much Press Secretary Leavitt et al., believe in them.

I’ve been a clergyman since 1998 and am a LGBTQIA2S ally. I share this salient cartoon by Pablo S. Lobo :-)} CLERGYMAN & LESBIAN: Lesbian: Father, I’m a lesbian- Clergy: -Ask God to help cure you of that sin! Lesbian (praying): God, please let my problem disappear- *PUF* (Clergy disappears). :-)}

One beautiful thing about our wild, edible plants is that they are at least as much medicine as they are nutrition. And! With 0% capitalistic extractivism involved. (Taraxacum officinale and Mertensia paniculata.)

As of yesterday using publicly available data via Grant Watch grant-watch.us/nih-data.html: 05/24/2025 word cloud depicting 165 unique words or phrases, flagged 10904 times, within 2118 terminated NIH grants. @standupforscience.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social

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An accurate portrayal of American heritage in National Park sites should, at the very least, be complex and highlight diverse voices. I've heard that's not allowed either, though?

Whoa. Senators & representatives should definitely put a stop to the POTUS accepting "gifts" to his personal "library." That's not just a little bit grifty

Done. I don't want NSF or NIH program officers getting fired if they "undermine the democratic process by intentionally subverting Presidential directives."

Solid Guardian article by Derek Beres (@derekberes.bsky.social, one-third of the Conspirituality podcast) about MAGA and Musk and MAHA oh my :(

With all the push to use an AI, is there finally one that will format my works cited list without messing it up completely? That's one thing I don't want to do, but a machine should excel in. #academicsky

My cousin Aaron is doing good traditional foods work in Southeast Alaska—& then the funding to feed Alaska Native families including elders & children is cut off by the fascist tRump regime. 😡 #efftRump #endfascism #AlaskaSky #AlaskaBlueSky #LisaMurkowski #Alaska #indigenousfoods

This is tragic. Jenny Irene Miller was a talented artist, and they will be sorely missed by many.

To negotiate with oneself is madness. To do it on Truth Social is presidency. -Chinese Proverb, probably

Again, all of this is completely normal, and there is nothing to worry about

They've done a decent job. I mean, who even knows if it is a wrongly deported Maryland man in a concentration camp in El Salvador or a violent MS-13 human trafficker. Depends on the news you read because facts or law don't matter anymore.