Life in a cirrus cloud. Downtown Fairbanks Sunday noon, -40F/C, visibility about 1/4 mile in ice fog. #akwx #weather #Cold @climatologist49.bsky.social

Happy Solstice morning, 2025 #Fairbanks #Alaska #Solstice #Aurora

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

The lack of human rights everywhere is overwhelming.

BREAKING: 2 Alaska troopers indicted on federal civil rights violations after arresting, assaulting wrong man ➡ https://tinyurl.com/2vk5h7rs 

Prayers this morning to the elements which give us life: water, earth, fire, air, and space. May we humans find balance once again. 🙏🏽 May we work with love for our Mother Earth & compassion for one another & our more than human kin.

This weekend would be a great time to watch “Truth, Trust, and Harvest” written by Gwich’in writer @princessdaazhraii.bsky.social , and “Thanks-for-Giving” by myself, Tlingit/Dena’ina writer Vera Starbard. I’d love to know what you get from them! You can watch for free on the PBS KIDS app (linked)

I announced that I started a small business/social enterprise supporting the Filipino American community in Anchorage. I didn’t plan for the launch to fall on the same week as Black Friday/Small Business Saturday (I was going to do this next year). But here we are and I’m excited!

I interviewed the brilliant historian and editor in chief of the Journal of Palestine studies @srseikaly.bsky.social on learning about Palestine, the intersectionality of the Palestinian cause, and how to combat a system trying to make you stupid. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

BERNIE: “This senate is about to make a horrific situation even worse… health insurance premiums will double/triple/quadruple… some will pay 50% of their income… 15 million will lose insurance… 50,000 will die unnecessarily…” #MedicareForAllNOW

Folks, a pill to swallow: if current Democrats will cave to your healthcare, they will cave to your voting rights. If they will cave to you not getting paid for 40 days, they will cave to LGBTQ+ marriage. If they cave to stalling our airplanes, they will cave to destroying our National Parks.

“Big Gust to a River Run” was written by Keith Wagner

“Molly of Idaho” and “Cinder Cones and Broken Drones” were written by Peter Ferland

“Newt in My Boot” and “Old Man of the Lake” were written by @junosynthesizer.bsky.social

“There is Pele” was written by @princessdaazhraii.bsky.social

“Feeling Sheepish” and “Chasing the Wind” were written by myself.

Molly will be visiting the lands of the Lenape, Klamath, Shoshone Bannock, Diné, and Native Hawaiian in the coming days! Pumped for the respective communities Molly visits, and everyone who gets to learn more about them. Watch them on the PBS KIDS app now or see when they air nationally near you.

On what is likely the last FULL week of episode releases for Molly of Denali, there’s some reeeeal good stuff airing! Molly and Grandpa Nat are traveling all over the Lower 48 and Hawaii to visit both volcanic activity sites and the Indigenous stewards of that land. #nativeamericanheritagemonth

“news ‘underscores the profound ecological toll .. Hurricane Melissa will have on Jamaica’s biodiversity — our coral reefs, mangroves, and terrestrial ecosystems,’ said Donovan Campbell, a professor of environmental geography at the University of the West Indies .. “ www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

I am thinking of the people of Jamaica, and the many New Yorkers with loved ones there, as Hurricane Melissa — fueled by a warming ocean — grows into the strongest storm ever to bear down upon the island.

Please continue to support those affected by the climate crisis in Alaska. Mahsi’choo!

Important article highlighting the longer term environmental threats to the Kuskokwim coast by @yjrosen.bsky.social. #AlaskaSky

though Alaska is not on a road system and mostly accessible only by small plane - that is still the preferred long-distance method of transport by Indigenous communities there do NOT use this moment to fuel the fire of Trump's recent Ambler Road Project - WHICH WILL DESTROY WILDLIFE for A.I.

FAA automated airport weather stations in western Alaska offline as of Wednesday morning: Kiana Ambler Shishmaref Teller Anvik Marshall Scammon Bay Hooper Bay Mekoryuk Kipnuk Napakiak Nunapitchuk Kwethluk Kalskag Koliganek #akwx @markspringer.bsky.social @richthompsonak.bsky.social

If there was ever a time that we need Indigenous stories told in our own language & imbued with our values - that time is NOW. It is with great honor & humility that we will premiere our short #TwoOldWomen film at #HIFF45 w/ our Kanaka relatives. 🙏🏽 Mahsi’choo to author #VelmaWallis for her support!

“Swear her in! Swear her in!” #TrumpEpsteinCoverup

We’ve lived 15 years under Citizens United, watching billionaires and corporations shape democracy with their wallets. Reform once seemed impossible. But now, a group in Montana is asking a radical question: What if states simply stopped granting corporations the power to spend in politics?

🌊 If you want to help Alaska’s small villages devastated by the flooding then this is the best legit site using a QR code. Here’s another legit donation link too from Alaska Community Foundation: Click to donate here: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c... #AlaskaSky #AlaskaFlood

Bleaching, Melting, Slowing: New Global Tipping Points report tracks growing risks of Earth system tipping points. It highlights mounting risks, from melting glaciers, ice fields to slowing ocean currents, ice sheets & rainforests under pressure. www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day - a reminder to @sendansullivan.bsky.social Sen. Murkowski & Rep. Begich - the #climatecrisis is hitting us hard! We need #FEMA, essential air travel services, #PublicMedia, #Science for monitoring weather. This Administration is actively harming Alaskans. Do better!

This Is Fascism

Another "storm of the century" is hitting Kotzebue, for the second year in a row. Last year's storm almost took out my dad's house. Woke up to videos of the flooding and it's already bad. They are expected to get another storm after this one passes. www.kotz.org/kotz-local-n...

Sending prayers to relatives along the coast of Alaska. It’s so maddening to see us all suffering effects of the #climatecrisis & dealing with an Administration hellbent on destroying #Alaska - pushing #AmblerRoad, oil drilling in the #ArcticRefuge, #Willow, pulling back funding for science, etc.

As this administration guts climate science & mitigation efforts in the midst of a climate emergency & opens #Alaska to more extraction - we are all left to suffer the consequences. @rick any data on amount of rainfall lately & potential impacts?

The rhetoric of ‘war on the enemy within’ is an authoritarian warning sign. History shows where this can lead, but history also shows that organized, nonviolent resistance, legal pushback, and public courage can break even powerful regimes. The outcome is not fixed.

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

So many sad, pathetic weak men and women harming innocent human beings… I hope they look themselves in the mirror - I’m talking about ICE agents & all those calling the orders. #disobey #protecthumanity

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Shalak naii! Pls check out this Sonic Journeys podcast featuring our (Native Movement, AINE, Deenaadàį’ Productions) work with Yo-Yo Ma through the Gath (King Salmon) & K’iyh (Birch) project. ❤️

Night skies above Vashraii K’oo, Alaska. Enjoy the beauty. ❤️

No one owns the Water. No one owns the Land. No one owns the sand. These are given by Our Mother. The Planet provides for Free. Only by the hands of the Greedy does the Earth require a Fee 🌺

Folks with the University of Alaska Fairbanks contributed mightily to the American Meteorological Society's 2024 State of the Climate Arctic Chapter. #akwx #Climate #AlaskaSky @arcticgoddess.bsky.social @climatologist49.bsky.social www.uaf.edu/news/state-o...

Missed my first fight this morning cause I was so taken by the sunrise…it was worth it. I’ll never stop being dazzled by our Mother Earth!

A Window Of Hope. 🩶🕊️🩶 #WindowsOnWednesday #clouds #sky #sunset #scape #smArtist #solar

My latest At least 63 people, mostly women and children, starved to death in the besieged city of El Fasher this past week. That number only includes those who arrived at medical facilities. Sudan’s calamity and ‘the end of the liberal world order’ Free to read. wapo.st/47taKjM

What a nuclear reactor on the Moon really means for NASA’s future NASA wants to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon. Not to promote science, but to divert resources away from it. All while staking out key territory for purely nationalistic reasons. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #nasa

This MUST WATCH video needs to go viral! Pass it on! youtu.be/VQbDgOaOh4c

I had a wonderful conversation with two of my heroes, adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown, on one of my favorite podcasts. About hope, change, climate, power, stories, survival, solidarity. Warning: laughter, singing.

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

Trawlers are in the same category as the oil industry, McDonalds (tied to Pollock industry), Elbit, industrial farming, Amazon, etc. I envision a world no longer ruled by corporations. We should all demand it.