A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion.

If the rule is published for comment, interest would likely be intense: In 2024, the DEA's earlier proposed rescheduling rule for marijuana attracted more than 43,000 comments.

The sound of high tide in winter. View from my cabin porch. #AlaskaSky #Alaska #Alaskan #winter #SoutheastAlaska

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Full video from Katie Phang’s YouTube channel here: youtu.be/oO1x1Q9nxkA

From a few cakes a month to a dozen a week: Anchorage baker Kimberly Michaca recently went full-time with Kimmy’s Cakes & Delicacies. Built by word of mouth, family help and a love of making people feel celebrated. Read more in this week's Creative Currents. buff.ly/5L015Z9

The man likely contracted the virus through sexual contact outside the state and that it’s probably an isolated case that doesn’t pose a risk to others in the state.

Very interesting story!

Have you ever wondered where I find all my pictures, videos, and other sources? Well, my gift to you this morning is ten pages of the online resources I use the most, with some annotations and research tips. Get it here: (docs.google.com/docu...).

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Check out this story to see what it looks like when a firefighter puts out a fire in -30F. The owner of the house is fine, although the house is a complete loss. The firefighter is also OK, despite the massive amount of ice on him. www.kotz.org/kotz-local-n...

Someone is getting away with killing Eunice Whitman in Bethel a decade ago. Alaska’s slow justice system let it happen. www.adn.com/alaska-news/... (Reported in partnership with @propublica.org)

There are a number of situations like this in rural Alaska, where the wheels of Justice move so slowly they sometimes stop.

Because you need to read this Alaskan’s poetry… Ketchikan!!! #AlaskaSky #Alaska #poetsofbluesky #poetry

Juneau may get 20 inches of snow during a 24-hour period beginning Saturday morning, prompting warnings for residents to prepare ahead of time even though the severity of the storm is still being assessed www.juneauindependent.com/post/juneau-...

AFN alarmed by proposed review of Alaska’s system of subsistence hunting and fishing, writes @alaska.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/briefs/afn-a...

'Silent Night' by contemporary UK printmaker Hester Cox #WomensArt #ArtAdvent

The natural world is a wonderful place. This is timelapse video from a few years ago of a marine sponge sneezing. It has mucus inside that traps the sort of particles that might clog it up, and expels them in periodic contractions every 3-8 hours. Atchoo! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJqI...

Hippasteria booty cheeks, Hygrosoma, munidopsis. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 884 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET

Happy Festivus!!! We have put up the aluminum pole in a snowbank in front of our cabin. Festivus for the rest of us! #AlaskaSky #Alaskan #Festivus #Seinfeld

Had Bari Weiss just ran the story, it would have been seen by a couple million people tops. The bootleg has now gone viral, and may end up being the most-watched 60 Minutes segment ever. It might be time to rename the Streisand Effect.

Wrangell had two back to back house fires too! Scary time for people trying to keep warm!

“Flu, flu, flu. So much flu,” said one doctor in Michigan. “We are inundated." “I don’t think I ever remember seeing it really this severe, this soon,” said another in Colorado.

I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president or any other politician. Remember Edward R. Murrow?

Steves purchased the property to prevent it from closing. Many homeless people had come to depend on the Lynnwood Hygiene Center, which had operated rent-free on the property since 2020. n.pr/3MKbmJH

Poetry!

Happy Winter Solstice! #Wrangell #Alaska #AlaskaSky #wintersolstice

As cold as it's been in Alaska since December 4th, this is the first record low temperature in the state. @alaskawx.bsky.social

Meanwhile, in Alaska, ... @alaskawx.bsky.social

My 🐋 haiku are appearing in this issue of Jackdaw! #BlueSkyHaiku #AlaskaSky #Haiku #poetsofbluesky #poetry #poems #Alaska

Alaska Attorney General asks Fairbanks and Mat-Su electric utilities to reconsider charity programs, writes @alaska.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2025/12/18/a...

Over the last decade, banks, asset managers and insurers have announced plans to reduce, if not altogether eliminate, the carbon emissions associated with their financial business.

Quiet bluelight morning by the sea. It’s supposed to get colder for about a week! Yikes! #AlaskaSky #Alaska #Wrangell

High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Tuesday. A classic mid-winter pattern, with deep cold over the central/eastern Interior & western Yukon Territory, not so cold in western Alaska/North Slope, while outer/southern Southeast was above freezing. #akwx #weather @climatologist49.bsky.social

The Trump administration plans to break up Colorado’s National Center for Atmospheric Research, the largest federal climate research lab.

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As long as Elon Musk and his disgusting Boring Company have nothing to do with it. It’s interesting that there’s no money to save Western Alaska villages from flooding. #akleg

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

Phang: Wiles says she doesn’t think Trump is on a retribution tour, but that he’s going after people who did bad things in coming after him… That sounds like retribution to me. I’m not quite sure what her definition of retribution is, but she might want to look it up in the fucking dictionary.

More epic-scale snow drawing created by artist Sonja Hinrichsen #womensart #ArtAdvent

Lawmaker views on Caribbean strikes unchanged after Hegseth briefing, writes Ashley Murray for @statesnewsroom.com alaskabeacon.com/2025/12/16/r...

Easily preventable. But republicans want people to die. www.cbsnews.com/news/measles...

Not only has Juneau, AK, has their 2nd coldest Dec 1-15 in the last 30 years, but they have had their snowiest Dec 1-15 in 34 years. @alaskawx.bsky.social

So interesting!

From the new issue: Meet the scientists (and a very good dog named Eba) rushing to save southern resident killer whales off the coast of Washington State

Michelle Obama always keeps it real. That’s why we love her. This is how a decent and good person speaks about other decent and good people who died from a tragic murder.