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“It’s a crucial tool that will help communities, researchers and government agencies “start extrapolating if there are certain slope angles with certain soil types or rock types that are more susceptible than others,” said Jillian Nicolazzo, a geologist with the state’s Landslide Hazards Program.”

BREAKING: IN DEFIANCE OF TRUMP, DISNEY WILL RETURN JIMMY KIMMEL TO AIR STARTING TOMORROW. www.nbcnews.com/business/med...

It's here! The latest issue of The Kenyon Review includes fiction by Madison Bakalar and Torsa Ghosa; nonfiction by Tori McCandless, Nik Chang Hoon, and Daniel Uncapher; and poetry by Sydney Mayes, Crystal AC Salas, and Clara Trippe. Cover art by Krista Franklin. kenyonreview.org/journal/summ...

Happy First Day of Fall. 🍁 Keep speaking out! Keep making art! Keep protecting the most vulnerable among us. Keep marching! Keep writing letters! Keep fighting fascism! 🍂 #AlaskaSky #poetsofbluesky #Fallequinox #Alaska

Tribune visual journalist Stacey Wescott has been making pictures in and around Chicago for 26 years. On Friday, she documented former Marine Curtis Evans carrying an American flag amid a cloud of gas in the middle of a confrontation outside of an ICE facility. Here's how she captured that shot.

The number of older people behind bars has skyrocketed over the past three decades, and prisons aren’t equipped to handle their heightened medical and mental health needs. We’re calling on elected officials to address this growing crisis. Read our new report, Trapped in Time, in full.

Last week, a bipartisan group of lawmakers, led by @baldwin.senate.gov & @congressmanraja.bsky.social, introduced a bill to restore the 988 crisis hotline services for LGBTQ+ youth. This is critical to helping LGBTQ+ youth thrive which is why we urge Congress to pass this bill.

Inuk artist Pitaloosie Saila, Loon at sunrise,1994 #WomensArt #Monday

When he died, Joseph Murphy was on a protective custody hold — a type of hold intended to prevent someone from harming themselves or others while intoxicated. He wasn’t charged with a crime.

Rain and wind that are intense at times are expected to continue through Tuesday morning in Juneau and much of Southeast Alaska, prompting official warnings about landslides, overflowing rivers and other hazards. www.juneauindependent.com/post/flood-a...

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Hundreds of Holland America cruise passengers found themselves holed up in the Chilkat Center in Haines after a convoluted day that included being rerouted from Skagway and then left behind when their ship had go find shelter from high winds. www.chilkatvalleynews.com/2025/09/18/i...

Another stormy morning with dogs. That’s the normal thing I hold onto to write poems to Aunt Eefa. I’ll bet a lot of poets in this country are doing the same thing. #AuntEefa #alaskapoets #AlaskaSky #poetsofbluesky #poetry

Slope instability alert for Wrangell near previous landslide!!!!! 🪨 🌧️ ⚠️ #AlaskaSky #Alaska

This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights.

We are seeking poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave the reader in wonder, while still reminding us of what makes us human. Send us work that uniquely explores September’s theme of impermanence. October's theme is space/place. Details below: buff.ly/HeBkoUP #writingcommunity

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

Wailing & Gnashing is a new poetry journal for outsiders. They are always open, accept reprints, and while standard response time in the future will be around three months, you can expect much faster response times for their first upcoming issue. Read more in the interview here:

My poem “Halibut Chowder & the End of Life”. You can read this poem (1.5 pages) in the pics. It appears in the Last Stanza Poetry Journal. The journal’s theme was “Conversation.” #PoetsofBlueSky #AlaskaSky #Alaska #poetry

I’ve been involved with Authors Against Book Bans since right after the Alaska chapter was started. I urge all fellow writers to join their local and regional groups. We’re stronger together.

Alaska’s 2025 Permanent Fund dividend will be $1,000 and arrives starting Oct. 2, reports James Brooks for the @alaskabeacon.com

Wait… I thought tRump doesn’t care what the media says. He once said, “You know it really doesn’t matter what (the media) write as long as you’ve got a young piece of a&&.”

🚨 CDC Website Scrubbing Alert We do not have a complete list but can report that CDC plans to delete or otherwise takedown many CDC pages about LGBTQ+ health, health equity, disabilities, hepatitis, HIV and more.

Marine Weather Statement issued September 19 at 12:25PM AKDT by NWS Juneau AK Additional Details Here.

Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

A children’s book illustrator who got nationwide attention after posting transphobic notes in public locations in Juneau referring to shooting children was acquitted on Wednesday by a jury on four charges of making terroristic threats. www.juneauindependent.com/post/artist-...

NDN Girls Book Club is so powerful, they distribute truckloads of books to tribal communities, they have merch, they have workshops, they are also authors & poets & do queen shit in their own right individually. Best book club tbh

Trump will come for all of us. He will bar organizations that criticize him. Intimidate critics for speaking negatively about the administration in public. He will turn the power of the Department of Justice to investigate any organization or person who opposes him and his administration.

Anti-fascist headquarters for poets in Alaska. Have you noticed in apocalypse, zombie, dystopian movies that remote Alaska is somehow the safer place to be. #AlaskaSky #Alaska

Holy shit. Trust me you want to watch this.

This is your reminder to go through all those snippets in your notes app 📝 How did we know they were there? ✨Magic✨ Click here to submit: www.chillsubs.com/lists/corner... #writingcommunity

Because we’ve all been there. 🥲🚗 #writingcommunity #litmag

Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening. It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

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This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Senate Democrats should introduce a “Melissa Hortman day of remembrance” and see if Republicans object to it.

Commentary - A walk across Alaska’s Arctic sea ice brings to life the losses that appear in climate data, writes Alexandra Jahn, for @us.theconversation.com via @alaskabeacon.com

As Gretchen Gehrke states, Trump's war on "woke" is altering "our ability as a collective society to be able to identify and discuss reality." “If we only are dealing with the information that we’re receiving via social media, we’re literally operating in different realities.”

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

The Senate has confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump’s nominees at once, voting for the first time under new rules to begin clearing a backlog of executive branch positions that had been delayed by Democrats. https://to.pbs.org/4nFl11f

“It’s weird to think of Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert as the canaries in the coal mine,” the comedian @wkamaubell.bsky.social tells @jemelehill.bsky.social. “But if they’re telling us, ‘We’re not afraid of rich white men,’ what can the rest of us do?”⁠ ⁠ Watch more: bit.ly/46a5DUE #TAF25

Sen. Chris Murphy: "Trump's FCC forced a major network to pull a loud Trump critic, Jimmy Kimmel, off the air — essentially saying that any media actor that doesn't say what Trump wants them to say...is going to be silenced. That's censorship. That's not America."