Opened up the Ninja-Sewing Shack today... I needed a salmon themed item for an upcoming party on Friday.
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Love This Alaska Life In The Woods and The Company of My Dogs Newton & Zephyr. Creative Writing, Reading, Phone-Photography and Art. No AI photos..just regular cell phone!
I just found this unopened DVD.... It was in between 2 books on my shelf 😁 I mean why??? 😆 #oldschool #obsolete #movies
Getting closer... Formatting the ebook version of "Fathom a novel" 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞 #amwriting #fiction #newrelease
It's raining today ☔ so I'm glad for the opportunity to focus on the final formating of my novel... 📖 #amwriting #fiction
Today I discovered that a letter attributed to a man was actually written by Ann Bathurst, the 17th-century visionary woman I’m researching. 🤩 Archival work might be slow and painstaking but it’s totally thrilling to be going in search of lost voices from the past and finding them! 📚
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
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Very little amount of blooming fireweed here in Kasilof Alaska this year.
It seems as though, even if I vote in the Alaska primary to limit funding on elections, people will still find a workaround. Isn't that what the powerfully-rich thrive on, workarounds? #can'twin #vote #elections #corruption #alaska
Three years ago, our reporter received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of thousands of files: years of secretly recorded conversations, private militia chat logs and videos sent by a man named John Williams. (Published Jan. 2025)
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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My girl Madison!!! "I think Dan Sullivan is out of touch." #alaska www.facebook.com/share/r/19AM...
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BREAKING: The Justice Department moves to dismiss a criminal case against the ex-Olympian charged with damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
Justice Department drops criminal case against ex-Olympian charged with damaging Reflecting Pool
The Justice Department has moved to dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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"A president without a moral compass and advisers whose true north is the extreme right, helming a government with unparalleled legal, technological and financial resources, can implement...political repression that Joe McCarthy...could not have dreamt of," writes @judith-levine.bsky.social.
McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous | Judith Levine
Trump’s campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful tools
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Lettuce and arugula - grown by me. Cashew Chicken Salad delicious
More than one third of seats installed in Boeing 737 MAX jets pose a safety risk, according to the FAA.
FAA Flags 31,000 Improperly Installed Seats On Boeing 737 MAX Planes
More than one third of seats installed in Boeing 737 MAX jets pose a safety risk, according to the FAA.
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Whelp that was fun but not so fishful 😆 Dip Netting high tide around dinner time Kenai Beach and the Salmon were nowhere to found. I got one at least. #Alaska
These orange globe flowers seeded themselves 3 years ago into my container garden and weirdly aren't growing anywhere else in my large yard. I'm excited to see them blooming again.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars in public subsidies goes to funding internet service to unlivable buildings on Alaska’s Adak Island. We knocked on every door and talked to every person we could find. Not a single one told us they used the service. with @adn.com
On This Nearly Deserted Alaska Island, You Pay to Keep Hundreds of Empty Buildings Wired for Internet
U.S. phone customers pay more than $340,000 a year for an Anchorage company to keep homes and buildings on Alaska’s Adak Island wired for obsolete internet service. All but a few of them sit empty.
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I'm getting toooo old for this! Or is this actually keeping me on my longevity path 😁 hard work
Leaving these two with access to the cabin for the day.... They look trustworthy right? Bye Boys 😅🫣🤞 #dogsofbluesky #huskies
Joseph Schwartz, owner of a nursing home empire, served just three months of his sentence before Trump pardoned him for a $39 million fraud scheme. Meanwhile, families who won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against him haven’t collected a cent. (Published March)
A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.
At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.
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