Big congratulations to Janice Park who won the midtown Anchorage assembly seat by 26 votes after a recount. The Assembly now has only one conservative member, and for the first time in recent memory the school board is 100% progressive.

Every time something scandalous comes out of Washington DC, we hear, “Oh, everyone knew that he was a player” or “all the staffers knew not to be alone with him” or whatever. If “everyone knew” why didn’t they tell the rest of us? These people need to stop protecting each other.

I’m not a fan of Noem or Bondi, but it’s interesting that he’s only firing the women, not Patel, Kegseth, Miller or any of the other embarrassing cabinet members or staff. Typical.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: action.bestfriends.org/petitions/al... @@actionteam.bsky.social

Capt. Curtis Angst, 30, a native of Wilmington, Ohio, was one of the six Air Force personnel shot down over Iraq on the 14th. Wilmington is where I was born and where my Quaker ancestors settled a couple centuries ago. Curtis graduated from Wilmington High School⬇️

Haha, Kristi’s out.

I’m visiting my daughter and her family in Culver City, where the school kids have been offered an excused absence tomorrow if they decide to join the protest. Good job, CCSD.

Their 6 month old stopped breathing & lost consciousness after #ICE threw tear gas canisters & flashbangs into their car, deploying the airbags and flipping over a child's carseat. Only 1 news outlet is covering this story of dangerous #ICELawlessness. Please tag your local paper & media outlets.

look at how the tiny one gets all the bigger ones riled up

Mmm mmm

A bit breezy in Anchorage this afternoon. Luckily the top of our neighbor’s dead trees didn’t land on our house this time, just the back yard. He was supposed to cut these down three years ago when the top of the other tree landed on our deck.

So first they eliminate the easier-to-read font that helps the vision-impaired, and now they want to do away with the sign-language interpreters of Trump’s “speeches”who aid the hearing-impaired. Who benefits from this? What’s the purpose other than meanness?

@peark.es this is shameful, disgusting.

A question - assuming arguendo, as the lawyers like to say, that Pam Bondi and Kash Patel were already familiar with the contents of the Epstein material, why are they only now threatening an investigation of Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, et al.? If they were so concerned, wouldn’t they have…

I just finished watching all 27 seasons of the fantasy show Law & Order SVU, where justice is actually meted out to the rapists and pedophiles. If only it were real life.

Someone explain Lindsey Graham to me. He says he wants to do away with the ACA because the insurance companies are making too much money. How does doubling or tripling someone’s premiums reduce insurance company profits? Am I missing something here?

When are Republican legislators going to wake up and realize that Trump is destroying their brand? They have elections coming up.

Does anyone still believe that trump won fairly in 2024?

I’m thinking that in a few years lots of lawyers will get rich on the asbestosis and mesothelioma claims and the defense thereof. Who will be on the hook for the settlements? Us?

"Congress approved funding for the renovations in 2008—before Obama took office—'after a Bush administration report revealed some systems in the White House were periodically failing.'"

A few more photos from Anchorage No Kings

Anchorage No Kings.

Updated list of No Kings! demonstrations in Alaska tomorrow. List put together by everyone who said something. Saturday, October 18 • Anchorage 3-5pm at 516 L St • Bethel 12-1pm at Yup’iit Piciryarait Cultural Center • Dillingham 11am-2pm at the Hickey Rink • Fairbanks 12-2pm at Pioneer Park

Per Rick Knecht on Facebook: “The Nunalleq site got hit hard by last weekend's typhoon, losing at least 60 feet to the sea. Much of this area hadn't been excavated yet and artifacts have been scattered for miles down the beach. Many thanks are due to the good people of Quinhagak who have recovered⬇️

This is so heartbreaking. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

Today’s ear worm rattling around in my brain - Lunatic Fringe. Sadly the lunatics aren’t so fringe anymore.

Some of the Alaska Native corporations (looking at you, NANA) need to get their priorities straight. They should be helping their fellow Alaskans instead of making huge profits on detention centers.

An unprecedented storm has forced more than 1,400 people from their homes in Western Alaska while emergency officials scramble to place stranded residents seeking shelter in the region’s hardest-hit areas.

At least 20 people are unaccounted for in Kwigillingok, in the Y-K Delta as of Sunday morning, and several homes were flooded and carried away by the remnants of Typhoon Halong - the worst storm on record. Damage is still being assessed along the coast of Western Alaska www.kyuk.org/alaska-state...

A disaster is unfolding in Western Alaska. Record rainfall, record flooding. Houses have floated, people are trapped in their homes, and some are unaccounted for. Undoubtedly we’ll learn of further damage in coming days.

Stay safe out there. Look out for each other. Alaskans are at our best when we look out for each other.

Homes floating away in Kipnuk, Alaska. (Photographer unknown)

Per meteorologist Melissa Frey “We're starting to hear early reports of significant flooding in the Kuskokwim Delta area. Wind gusts through the night reached over 90 mph and flooding is beginning. Please make sure you are in a safe area today.⬇️

Hurricane force winds are hitting western Alaska, and people in their homes in Kipnuk are floating away. Flooding is bad.

someone in a kipnuk facebook group screen recorded all the pleas for help in the community due to the disaster flooding hopefully the alaska national guard will make it out there soon

We’re flying back to Alaska tomorrow after a two-week vacation in Montana, western Dakotas and northeast Wyoming. We saw one ranch in North Dakota that had Trump flags about every hundred feet along the fence line next to the highway, but that was the only indication that Trump even existed. ⬇️

Why am I not surprised that Bill Maher, who loves to whine about “cancel culture,” is not standing up for Jimmy Kimmel and Steven Colbert? www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

In the interest of fairness, I’ve watched some of these CK reels on FB. That guy was a bully, and I don’t understand why the Right is idolizing him. But then I don’t understand why they voted for Trump either. It makes no sense.

Personally, I don’t think Jimmy Kimmel owes anyone an apology.

My blocking finger is really getting a workout. All these flippin’ CK fanatics wanting me to follow them? Not on your life.

An observation - we have been vacationing in Montana and the Dakotas for the past week and haven’t seen one Trump flag, Trump bumper sticker or MAGA hat.

Rule is if you see a post about Elizabeth Peratrovich, you share it! I didn’t learn about her till 2016.

Now that Trump seems even more forgetful and addled - e.g. forgetting the name of the Pacific Ocean - I wonder if anyone, like Jake Tapper, for instance, has suggested that maybe Melania is running the show, or maybe…

I have posted some photos from the Anchorage pro-Ukraine, anti-Trump and Putin rally on Friday at my Facebook page. I go by my name, Linda Scates, there.

I’ve posted some photos of Anchorage’s Thursday afternoon protest on my Facebook page if anyone wants to check them out. I go by my real name Linda Scates over there. I think you can only post 4 pics at a time here, and I posted about 30.

A couple from today's protest in Anchorage. More to follow.

Trump and Putin are coming to Alaska and here are... NEW ALASKA POLL NUMBERS! This is a sneak preview just for you special Bluesky folks, so make sure to spread these far and wide, OK? Alaska Survey Research August 12-13, 2025 N=848 Alaska 18+ adults, MOE +/-3.8% Fielded: ASR Survey Panel 🧵 1/12

Oh, great…Trump is meeting Putin in Alaska next week. Do we get to protest, or will we be hauled off to a gulag somewhere?

I’ve been binge watching Law and Order: SVU. I love the fantasy that the pedophiles and child rapists get arrested, tried and sent to prison for decades.