The lawsuit centers on what are known as correspondence school allotments, cash payments to families who homeschool their kids in the state’s public correspondence school system.

On the lack of federal infrastructure for non-mainland states that are inaccessible by roads: “Traveling by plane or boat for care: The changes are expected to create even more difficult barriers for states like Alaska and Hawaii to overcome.” The US created Alaska and Hawaii as secondary states

But that would be funny. President AOC should give away the entire Trump library to Turkmenistan

Anson the Whippet is hiding in the bathroom again cuz it’s raining. 😭🐾🐾

Roughly 47% of respondents believe the president and Republicans in Congress are to blame for the current partial shutdown, according to The Washington Post. newrepublic.com/post/201268/...

If there's one thing we know about people who use and sell opium, it's that they always keep their opium in bottles clearly labeled "OPIUM." Also, opium? Do they think he emigrated from the 19th century?

🚜 More than half of today’s fertilizers are made from fossil fuels — with consequences we can’t ignore: ⚕️ Health harms 🌪️ Climate chaos 📈 Rising costs 🛢️ It's time to get fossil fuels off our plates 🍽️ 👇 Our new blog breaks it down www.ciel.org/from-frack-t...

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil. The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage. /1

Next Monday's "One First" was going to be about how we should stop covering new #SCOTUS terms through the "big" cases the Court will hear; and instead focus on how the Court is behaving. Fortunately for me (and you), @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @mjsdc.bsky.social did it first—and *way* better:

Had to read that 3x - a woman in Anchorage cut the birth control implant out of her own arm because she could not afford the service. “She had to come in and be treated and we took care of her, but people are getting desperate” -Ada Goodman, health center manager at Planned Parenthood in Anchorage

The PAC has always had problems with its roof. But now the building looks tired and is falling apart. Alaska is broke and it’s showing everywhere:

How the Federal Shutdown Impacts Indian Country Plans to orderly halt operations at federal agencies across Indian Country continued as the U.S. Senate failed this morning to meet terms to end the federal government shutdown hours after it began at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday. Read More ⬇️

A feud is escalating over Big Oil’s plans to protect Prince William Sound from another spill, reports Max Graham for Northern Journal via @alaskabeacon.com

"The ads are a lucrative part of Facebook’s advertising revenue that, the project’s researchers and others say, has led the company to turn a blind eye to a flood of low-quality or deceptive content, spam and in some cases outright fraud on the platform."

$20 per hour is what I was making when I resigned as the only news reporter at the Peninsula Clarion, asked to write 2-3 stories per day. I received one raise while I was there, up from $17 when I started — that increase largely wiped out by the tripling of my insurance premium this year.

It sounds as if Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins refused to meet with BLS nominee AJ Antoni and may have been key in sinking his nomination:

Wow, last month in Everett, WA members of the Everett News Guild union staged a protest of Carpenter Media Group, calling for better wages - up from $20 per hr ! - protesting unreasonable story quotas, layoffs and censorship myeverettnews.com/2025/09/05/c...

Juneau Assembly members who’ve spent a year waiting got a chance this week to ask Goldbelt Inc. leaders about the company’s plans for a two-dock cruise ship port on the west side of Douglas Island. www.juneauindependent.com/post/goldbel...

A study of the “rusting” Salmon River and its tributaries in Kobuk Valley National Park suggests that permafrost thaw is causing wider ecological problems. via @alaskabeacon.com

Holland America Cruise decided to make a giant advertising decision under the auspices of representing Alaska. Don’t forget to include polluted discharge water in the float. Yeah!

Ooof ... the Alaska Department of Labor announced a new workforce development plan today, but reading through it, it's already obsolete: awib.alaska.gov/documents/25... #akleg #Alaska

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

Okay so has anybody else noticed that Trump and his minions are all using the same "you're gonna make me hit you" and "look what you made me do!" abusive spouse logic?

#Alaska ?

Feeling stressed? Here are some otters enchanted by a butterfly.

Wasn’t the oil tax giveaway supposed to bring more jobs? Maybe it’s time to take some of that back so that we can pay teachers a living wage and a good retirement.

“Kids want the EPA to preserve the endangerment finding to protect our health and future,” said 12-year-old Valencia, who lives in Maryland. “Our generation is expected to live through three times as many climate disasters as our grandparents, and we’re already living through them.”

Beneath Valdez’s oil tanks sits a 1970s liner— never fully inspected. Cracks & leaks could threaten Prince William Sound. Alyeska says risk is small. Valdez says: not good enough. We need full inspection & accountability before another disaster. #NoMoreSpills #ProtectPrinceWilliamSound #Alaska

This summer, our federal delegation chose politics over patients when they voted in support of the Big, Bad, Budget Bill (HR 1), which blocks patients who rely on Medicaid from using their coverage at Planned Parenthood. Because of these votes, thousands of Alaskans must pay the price. (1/4)

Dean: The president is unhinged Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals. Johnson: I didn’t see it. Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.

February 1983, oversized Alaska Permanent Fund dividend check in an Anchorage parade. Note the cash on their hats. Frankly, I'm disappointed that we've never had a PFD mascot, Checkie the Check. #alaskahistory #alaska

PFD time. From the 2007 Simpsons Movie, commentary on the PFD and oil companies in Alaska. #alaskahistory #alaska

Statement from the Alaska AFL-CIO on the current government shutdown:

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

"A light-colored sow grizzly and her two darker cubs of the year watch us from across the gravel bar as we wade the calf-deep creek. We are too close for comfort, but we’re at a narrow bottleneck of the valley bottom." wildernesswatch.org/denali-wilde...

🛰️ Hear from Dr. Sue Natali about the new ways researchers are tracking permafrost thaw and how Alaska Native communities and Permafrost Pathways are using this information to inform climate adaptation planning.

🚨 We are sounding the alarm 🚨 The government shutdown will leave our parks understaffed and vulnerable, putting our most cherished places and millions of visitors at risk. 📖 Read More: https://bit.ly/4mUcCGA 📢 Act Now: https://bit.ly/430IbXR

Want to help organize the "No Kings" rally? Join Action Alaska! Virtual meetings every Wednesday @ 6pm. Sign up today!! #StandUPAlaska https://www.mobilize.us/standupalaska/event/804450/

Stay up to date on Alaska Harmful Algal Blooms at the #AHAB Network. There is a new update on St. Paul. #AlaskaSky 🧪🌊🦑🦭 ahab.aoos.org/hab-alerts/

Anchorage Bike to Work Day is this Friday, 7-9 am. We will have a station on the Chester Creek trail near the Davenport baseball fields. Stop by to say hi, grab some snacks and stickers. Find us and other organizations on the map here: buff.ly/DqdRIFd

When Trump threatens to nix funding to NYC if Zohran Mamdani wins, it only helps Zohran. It inflates the Trump threat, positions Zohran as a fighter for NYC against Trump, and pushes Cuomo into the role of Trump stooge. There's a lesson here for Dems. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2011...

I do wonder when media outlets will get interested in ballooning everyday costs. My family's grocery bill has exploded over the past six months and - unlike when a Democrat is president - this is a non-story.

❌ NOTICE Federal US website newly deleted. https://mymedicare.gov Action taken by the Department of Health and Human Services (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) at or around 2025-10-01 06:12:03.

The person who did all of these things was called a “tyrant…unfit to be the ruler of a free people” in 1776. Yup. Give it a read…

Just want to flag how bananas it is that in an effort to deny climate change denial is an orienting principle of the current USG — in opposition to the rest of the world — they’ve just stopped collecting data that was originally intended to protect the health and environment of Americans

In all the chaos, I would urge folks to remember that a lot of folks now don’t know when their next check will come. The vast majority are good people who love this nation deeply, and many of them are still working despite not knowing when they’ll be paid Have compassion.

About 10K of 13K DOL employees are furloughed right now. Over 400 staff are working without pay to handle urgent workplace safety & health emergencies. Economic data reporting from BLS is on hold. Staff who administer workers' comp claims are funded separately, so they will continue working.

I really like the phrase "Kavanaugh stop." It's not a Terry stop, because a Terry stop is short and based on reasonable suspicion of a crime. A Kavanaugh stop, by contrast, is when masked goons kidnap a person for speaking Spanish.