Let’s Get Out The Vote Fairbanks! Municipal Elections are on Tuesday, October 7th! Early voting is still on today, tomorrow and all next week at the Bentley Mall! #gotv #fairbanksak #fnsb

Grateful for these girls and for fall. Sini’s lymphoma isn’t in remission so for now we’re trying to make the most of every moment we have

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Hey Fairbanks! Early voting starts TODAY at the Bentley Mall from 10am-7pm Monday through Saturday and on Sunday from 11am-6pm. Here’s the slate card from fireweed collective for those who are interested, all progressive pro housing, pro lgbtq, pro youth candidates #GOTV

Great day for the Armstrong campaign on the daily news miner Vote for Garrett!

Campaign season- my mom and oaken out sigh waving

hey hey rfk how many kids did you kill today

This will kill kids, their caregivers, and the community at large when we have epidemics of illnesses we eradicated decades ago. Like I really don’t know what else to say, this is straight up murderous.

Turns out that when your bathroom is getting remodeled and you have a Sani-can in your front yard instead, your German shepherd will get very upset that she can’t go in with you and will do laps around said sani- can instead

“Tregarick” sounds like the name of a D&D character, sorry guys

Vote @grarmstrong.bsky.social for Borough Assembly- a local teacher, born and raised Fairbanksan and career public servant!

The new POV for this book is one you never knew you needed- what happens when your revolution-leading, shadow daddy loving 20 year old heroine is now 50 and divorced?

I hit the back of the new POV in my novel! Yay! Now to give her a nice structural edit

Any #Talkeetna folks here? I’m heading your way Thursday to read a bit on tourism and feeling weird about it, focused on Denali and Svalbard. #AlaskaSky

It's so crazy that you can monger both war and fish.

I did not have Tylenol on my list of drugs RFK would go after next

Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.

Misogny and pseudoscience already has many mother’s thinking they have to suffer during labor. Why not the entire pregnancy too? After all, the important thing is that they know their role in society as producers of future workers. Those tiny hands can replace the hard to reach machine parts.

Thinking of rebranding my substack from being craft focused to being critical reviews of all the fantasy novels I’m reading

Oregonians: I need your help. I'm collecting stories about how Trump and Republicans' efforts to raise the costs of prescription drugs will impact patients, specifically anyone taking the cancer drug Keytruda.

The United States is becoming a public health danger to the whole world, and should be treated as such. www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

"The damage will be far-reaching, and the repairs—if we ever get a chance to make them—will not be quick or cheap."

Listen as someone who is married to an actual gym teacher, no one marrying a teacher is getting a ring that big Taylor Swift

Sen. Jon Ossoff on the CDC:   "[P]utting a quack like Bobby Kennedy in charge of public health was a grave error. The Trump Administration has been engaged for months in a campaign to destroy the CDC."   "The Administration's extremism and incompetence are putting lives at risk."

Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

I misspoke- Ivermectin is owned and produced by Merck, who would have already run it through clinical trials if there was a likelihood it could do half of what people are claiming it can do because no company in their right mind is turning down a potential blockbuster. It’s horse dewormer, thats it

The whole “Ivermectin is a cure all and BiG PhArMA doesn’t want you to know” thing is hilarious to me because if it did half of what people claimed it does that molecular would have been bought for 500 million dollars in the 1990s by J&J or Merck or Pfizer because pharma is a business guys

People weren’t healthier “back in the day.” In 1960s, life expectancy was in the 60s vs. 79 today. Testicular cancer? 95% fatal. Today? 95% survivable. Same with MANY cancers. Infections. Vaccine-preventable illness. We live longer & healthier lives today bc of science. youtu.be/rDx7LrBiMH0?...

The problem with campaigning and writing at the same seems to be that they both draw from the same bucket- the creative part of my brain that I turn on during evenings and weekends

*in the opposite direction

If an agent or publisher you're querying is concerned about how large a social media following you have, runnnnnnnnnnn

That is one of the main problems, yeah, the other is the incorrect assumption that there's automatically a correlation between a large following and sales. It means they don't know what they're doing and they hope you'll do it for them anyway. Red flags all the way down.

Accidentally took Sini the dogs anti nausea medication thinking it was my cholesterol pill, go me Fortunately it’s the same anti nausea pill they make for humans just smaller dose

“The Defend Public Health report has a tongue-in-cheek note that it was “created by real human experts relying on real rigorous data”. I’m glad that @melodyschreiber.com added this detail in her article. It was a suggestion from one of our beloved members and appears as a footer on every page.

Going to give myself a big pat on the back for going running and eating vegetables today after work during campaign season

8. This has been a short and honestly rather peevish thread, so if you want read more that has been written in a more equanimous tone, here's a short piece that I coauthored a few years ago, precisely about how we deal with this kind of duplicity.

Wins are happening every week at local elections. In many cases, these are blowout wins for progressives, with repercussions that will ripple outward for years.

Devastating. What will it take for Israel's genocide in Gaza to end? What will it take.

I’m at the writer with the day job stage where I’m laying in bed tacking out random scenes on my notes app. Didn’t hit the page today, hope to sometimes this weekend

Generally speaking, when two fascist criminals, both openly committing crimes against humanity, meet to discuss ending a war one of them started when he invaded, with the guy, a convicted felon, deep in his pockets, it’s not about ending a war. It’s about dividing the spoils and starting the next.

happy 6 year anniversary to the essay that won me a book deal, rescued me from a terrible job, and got me nominated for a james beard. it’s the most popular thing i’ve ever written to this day. if i get an obit in any major newspaper this essay will be the reason magazine.catapult.co/people/stori...

Got my cobra coverage for my month of Pfunemployment and damn these rates are steep Glad to be financially able to cover insurance but also geez

Worried about Zohran Mamdani's college application? This soggy sheet-pan banh mi will make you feel like you're in the Bowdoin dining hall.

I will not be attending this years Angry, Young and Poor because I am Complacent, Old and Rich

Celebrating Elizabeth Peratrovich’s birthday today

Is war inevitable in "Star Wars?" Will the war ever be won?