The scientific understanding of human-driven climate change is much stronger today than it was in 2009 when the EPA first issued the endangerment finding. There is no scientific basis for the Trump administration's decision to repeal it

Goodness. If Galena, AK (population 500, off the road system) had a $31 Mio water polo facility I think we'd know.

This LGBTQ+ soccer bar in St Psul sells merchandize and has a solidarity fund.

The @404media.co zine has arrived in interior Alaska. (I ordered two? Maybe. Well, I got two!)

The buried lede here is that this record-setting *Atlantic* halibut was caught THROUGH THE ICE. Yes, they *ice fish for halibut* in Québec That's about as hardcore as sportfishing gets, imho. This & maybe kayak fishing for bluefin tuna (no thanks lol)

Oh, cool.

The #eggcorn database is currently held hostage in the dispute that I have with our 20-year hosting provider, A Small Orange. I guess they're part of @networksolutions.bsky.social now - and that've been unhappy for a while would be an understatement. For example I had manually set up Let's Encrypt.

Kiddies who made it out of the ICE dungeon report sighting a schoolmate. Before this, the school district had no information on their whereabouts. The family has now been connected with a lawyer. Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!

The indie route is hard. Even when you’re joined by other experienced journalists, you also have to cover the business side of everything, which is basically its own job.

This is where I come down as well. I take his intent seriously, but there's a huge gap between what he wants to do and what he can actually do given the way our elections are run. We need an all-out effort to make sure he "wins" as little as he can, but the doomerism is largely misplaced.

In Anchorage for the Alaska Forum ( this year sans "on the Environment"). Very early flight, so I needed a nap after the day's program, and now in a very cool pelmeni place for late takeout. You can put on a rock music record while you wait if eat in.

Winter is far from over, but hopefully the most severe part is. Here’s a recap of what happened during that long frigid December and January grind from everyone’s favorite far north weather data assembler and purveyor, @alaskawx.bosky.social.

Our authors have higher expectations placed on them than the level of service we get from reality, who is slacking off.

In case we thought that ecological disasters were a special talent of modernity, let’s talk about how the 13th-century peat trade of Norfolk made it permanently vulnerable to flooding, including 3 catastrophic floods just since 2013. #medievalstorytime

Same for me. Also zero in 2024, 2023, 2022. I spent $28.99 in 2021.

When the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?

ICE activity has not noticeably tapered off yet here and in fact this week they seem to be focused on terrorizing kids at bus stops and schools.

ROTFL. Bravi/e.

This is the second physical attack on a Democratic Member of Congress this week. The other was Maxwell Frost. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Ann Arbor/Ypsi: Nextdoor just lit up with ICE activity at WCC not a half hour ago. Neighbors are rightly incensed; someone's daughter was there when it happened. If you're in SE Michigan and mobilized, please @ me so that I may amplify your posts. How can we best help? Mutual aid? Virtual options?

This. The alt-federal-agency accounts were very much a Trump-1 thing. Now I assume that at best they're resistance grifters if not worse. None of them is as useful as named accounts where I know who's behind it. They're beyond their use-by date. Some are clearly dodgy, but none are worth keeping.

When we were wearing home-made cloth masks I put little pins in the edge of mine, mostly a Black Lives Matter pin, or sometimes a rainbow one. I regularly got a quick "love your pin" from the supermarket checkout people.

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and the vital lessons that remain critical for NASA today. n.pr/49Gfjbo

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

It occurs to me that Alex Pretti probably was exactly the kind of man I'd have definitely preferred to a bear when running into someone alone in the woods. RIP.

The administration seems to have badly calibrated expectations of competency. Not everyone is as incompetent as they've been running things.

This is very funny.

Kinda a problem if you're dealing with a snow and ice storm.

1) The general strike came from organizing for a general strike. Not from social media posting about going on a general strike, but organizing in neighbourhoods, organizing power in unions, and organizations drawing out members and networks.

You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer. In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.

<whisper>Golden Retrievers don't actually all weigh *precisely* 65 lbs. It's not a unit standardized by NIST or BIPM</whisper>

What is this safe space that she thinks she needs? What does she want to be safe *from*? Affordable childcare? Falafel bowls?

As TX heads into what may be the biggest ice storm of the year, let’s get one thing straight before the disinfo starts. Solar and wind energy operate reliably in far colder places. The real issue is simple: large parts of the grid are not appropriately winterized. When storms come, they fail.

Oh, hello, a reincarnation of Dr Mengele, I presume.

Just rolling my eyes at that. We elect these people so that they take care of business for us. If we're unhappy with the level of taxes or the level of services, we can unelect them. I don't want to be bothered having to do political hand-to-hand combat with my neighbor - it's a huge waste of time.

The ppl og North Pole should yell at their state representative. (Not for this quote, but the venality and wooly thinking. )

This is an absolutely catastrophic emergency for the community of Aniak, Alaska. Too bad our Republican Governor Dunleavy has zero clue how to address this. Look what we are doing here to our kids and villages. It’s shameful. #akleg

Obviously a health care CEO will think of patients as consumers, but it's a framing we need to push out of the political space. Health care is universally needed, so we need to construct a model that gives everyone access for a low cost to the community. So cut out middle men and rent extractors.

Our institution in the news. The student cafeteria has a corner for rotating student art exhibitions. It's in a coffee shop I regularly use 😀

And now something positive: solar and wind energy production in the EU surpasses fossil energy for the first time. ☀️ 💨 #TippingPoint Source: dr.dk

Every single person needs to read this piece by @andreapitzer.bsky.social. It's important that we truly contend with the concentration camp reality in America. Every single word here is backed up with facts and historical analysis. As always: something sounding extreme doesn't mean it isn't real.

This probably needs to happen again among everything else that needs to happen and is happening. #Alaska

There is a GoFundMe, vouched for by Jason Chavez, a MN city council member: gofund.me/314737d63 . But there have been multiple children swept up and taken out of state by ICE today.

Excellent letter to the editor in our local paper.

I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans. When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.