Maduro should have hitched a ride on Epstein's Lolita Express. He'd still be a free man.

Brrr. #grickledoodle #winter #cold #pug #scarf #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Jiffy Quick Regime Change is still in business. But will Americans still buy it? (Cartoon from twenty some years ago)

Nothing wrong with taking it easy! (Art from Nancy For All Seasons by Ernie Bushmiller) https://ow.ly/EuVR50XQKNe

Some men will do anything to avoid having their sex crimes exposed

Are you available today?

Love this by Danish cartoonist Niels Bo Bojensen:

Prospects for a universal flu vaccine are picking up, from a San Diego start-up. Would have helped reduce the toll of the current very bad flu season, >7.5 million Americans hit www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/12/31/h...

Sunday morning low temperatures through 9am AKST: Chicken: -63F (-52.8C) Tok: -60F (-51.1C) Northway: -59F (-50.6C) Beaver Crk, YT: -57F (-49.7C) Eagle Airport: -56F (-48.9C) Dawson, YT: -56F (-48.7C) Ft. Yukon: -55F (-48.3C) Nenana: -54F (-47.8C) Fairbanks Airport: -50F (-50.6C) #Cold #akwx #ytwx

Some clips from this summer on the Gulkana Glacier in the Eastern Alaska Range. Such a beautiful area! Info about the area in my Alaska Guide: www.lwpetersen.com/alaska-guide... #Alaska #hiking #glacier

The Merrill Field Airport temperature in Anchorage reached -22F for only the 4th time since 2000. @alaskawx.bsky.social

You are correct Pat - that clause remains an outlier in a strong constitution and needs to be repealed.

H iAngel, thanks for the note. I have spelled some of these out on the web site tombegichforalaska.com, and more are coming. But, bottom line, we need to ensure we are getting our fair share for Alaska's resources - that bolsters the revenue side: Internet Corp fee, removing the S corp exception 1/3

“Giessel said applying that tax to Hilcorp, which could bolster the state’s coffers by tens of millions annually, is “a no-brainer,” though it is not clear whether enough of her legislative colleagues agree for the bill to advance.” #akleg

Generalísimo Trump the new presidente de Venezuela 🇻🇪

Pallets of Rosca de Reyes (and this isn’t all of it) at Costco, Merida. If you find the baby Jesus in the in the Rosca de Reyes on Three Kings Day you have to host a party and buy tamales for Día de la Candelaria. Everyone had one in their basket except us. Also available at Walmart in blue boxes.

Wrote this before yesterday but it gets at what undergirds that (and lots of other things in politics). "The internet universalized subjectivity instead of objectivity. … We have reverted from acting on what we *know* to acting on what we *think*."

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

If ever there were a time you might want a separate but equal branch of the United States government to run a check on the president, it would be now ….

Tok, Alaska 8am AKST Sunday -60F/-51.1C. #akwx #Cold

"And even if courts ultimately reject head-of-state immunity, they may still conclude that Maduro is insulated from liability for “official acts,” especially in light of the Supreme Court’s embrace of a version of constitutional “official act” immunity for President Trump in Trump v. United States."

I joined two great legal experts, @mikeschmitt.bsky.social @tessbridgeman.bsky.social, on this analysis In this thread, I highlight 3 items you may not see covered in same way, if at all, elsewhere. Panama 'precedent,' safeguards for Heads of State, Venezuelan nationals new legal protections in US

Jack writes--correctly--that the military abduction and extraction of Maduro "pretty clearly isn’t" legal. It plainly violates Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, which is the supreme law of the United States (per Art. VI of the Constitution) and, as I've explained elsewhere, ... [1]

This is turning into the most elaborate game of wac-a-mole in the history of armed conflict. First fentanyl, next cocaine, next regime change, and now not international lot at all, but US domestic law-enforcement. And it’s our oil is in there somewhere.

The coldest December of the 21st century (so far) for Alaska is in the rearview mirror. I've got an early look at the month posted in the Alaska and Arctic Climate Outlook newsletter. #akwx #Climate #Winter2026 #Cold @climatologist49.bsky.social alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/alaska-dec...

The average temperature at the Fairbanks Intl Airport the last 7 days is -43.7F. This is the coldest week in Fairbanks since Dec, 1975 (-47.1). Also, it hit -50F this morning for the first time this season. @alaskawx.bsky.social

Low temperatures in Anchorage this morning. Only early Feb 2024 was colder in the last 15 years. @alaskawx.bsky.social

This is another sad chapter in the saga of Governor Dunleavy’s failed attempts at transforming Alaska into some sort of AI powerhouse. Dunleavy can’t find humans that want to work for the state and apparently neither does this AI chatbot. #akleg

I am seldom impressed by the moon, but it was showing off this morning.

Enjoying the supermoon in the snow

Term limits allow lobbyists to run the show even more than they do now. My answer is to end the influence of lobbying by ending the private funding of campaigns. Just go all the way. These are public offices. They should not and cannot continue to be privately owned.

Our congressional delegation supports federal overreach. Real Alaskans support a limited government cinfined by due process, the rule of law, and the constitution.

12 years ago, Murkoswki attended a rally where attendees called the Park Service Nazis. www.newsminer.com/fed-up-fairb...

Oh, hey, Alaska: continued beachy brrrrrr edition. #AlaskaSky 🤩🧊🚴‍♀️❤️

For two full minutes at 11:42, the orb of the sun returned in the notch between Polar Bear and Eagle Peaks. #GrowingDays #AlaskaSky #Greatland

Strange rainbow pillar! It’s beaming up from the snow clouds. #AlaskaSky #Alaska #Wrangell

It’s the United States that needs regime change.

We’re losing vaccination data about kids in Medicaid: “If CMS makes this change, it will become harder to understand gaps in vaccination that leave communities exposed to outbreaks of serious and even deadly infectious diseases,” Sharfstein told CIDRAP News. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

People remember the govt shuts down on Jan 30 if it doesn’t get funded, right?

Swalwell: He couldn't run a casino, and now he's going to run a country in South America while he fails to run a country in North America?

January 3, 1959 is the day Alaska officially became the 49th state. Today, I am reminded of what the Alaska Constitution protects: our ability to govern ourselves, grounded in our values and our communities. As your next Governor, I will defend the Alaska Constitution no matter what.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Cold at Portage Lake this morning.

Inversions are amazing, I'm only ~600 ft higher and sitting 21 degrees warmer with no fog at all.

Important thread about all the fake videos and disinformation about the invasion of Venezuela.

There are public schools in the state of Alaska that don't have working bathrooms and the walls are full of black mold but sure, this country is going to "run" Venezuela. (May 2025 article on AK schools is here: alaskapublic.org/news/educati...)

Plus, oil, Nick. Amirite?