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Julia O'Malley

@jomalley17.bsky.social

Alaskan. Writer. Editor. Mama. Cook. James Beard🏅🏅winner. Alaska food 📖: “The Whale and the Cupcake.” Find me at juliaomalley.com

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Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 11mo ago

If you need a little hope this morning - the current tween trend involves decorating clothespins with affirming messages, then clipping them on friends' backpacks when they're not looking. Here are a few that my 11-year-old decorated this weekend ❤️

Clothespins decorated with paint markers and pens, with affirming messages. Like "bee you" with a drawing of a bee. And "you're sweeter than pie" with a checked motif. And "you can do it" and "unleash your creativity."
Julia O'Malley@jomalley17.bsky.social · last yr.

This week in the newsletter: Notes on SALMON, the women’s page in Alaska’s old newspapers, dry-brining for dinner, a new way to fillet, Thai Village, delicious tonics, gluten-free peach muffins, quick pickles, working women, local news and sourdough. juliaomalley.substack.com/p/i-found-an...

Anchorage's first newspaper recipe 🗞️ 🍽️

Notes on: SALMON, dry-brining for dinner, a new way to fillet, playground b-ball, Thai Village, gin and tonics, gluten-free peach muffins, quick pickles, working women, local news and sourdough

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Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last yr.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
Judge Luttig@judgeluttig.bsky.social · last yr.

The Wall Street Journal had a piece last night that the Judicial Conference of the United States — the policy making body for the federal judiciary — is discussing whether the Judiciary should have its own armed security force rather than rely on the U.S. Marshals for federal judges’ protection.

Kyle Hopkins@kylehopkinsak.bsky.social · last yr.

An Alaska village of 160 people raked in $1 million a month from a payday-loan style business. But here’s who was making the real money … www.adn.com/business-eco...

A 700% APR lending business tied to Dr. Phil’s son is dividing an Alaska tribe

Tribal lender Minto Money has boosted the economy of an Alaska village. But some tribal members are appalled by the millions it’s made off desperate borrowers — much of which, lawsuits allege, has gon...

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Julia O'Malley@jomalley17.bsky.social · last yr.

In this week’s Alaska food newsletter: how to love Anchorage, Walmart's immaculate vibes, perfect avocados, the People's Carrs, the smoothest hummus, Tang ice cream, chicken cutlet, ordering Top Bop, "Feeding Ghosts,” peeping other people’s shopping carts. juliaomalley.substack.com/p/join-the-f...

Join the fall-in-love-with-Anchorage challenge

Notes on: Walmart's immaculate vibes, perfect avocados, the People's Carrs, the smoothest hummus, Tang ice cream, ordering Top Bop, "Feeding Ghosts" and other people's shopping carts.

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Julia O'Malley@jomalley17.bsky.social · last yr.

This week, a word on meal trains — In Alaska, when our friends and neighbors grieve, we bring over loaves of bread and jars of soup and fillets of fish and backyard honey and, sometimes, we just set them on the porch. This is a custom here, in this dangerous place where everybody knows everybody.

In Alaska, when my neighbors grieve, this is what I bring to their doorstep

Notes on: meal train comfort food, the loss of a friend, an excellent breakfast burrito, Italian bread soup, homemade falafel, hummus tricks, Pati Jinich in Alaska

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ProPublica@propublica.org · last yr.

NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. By @abrahm.bsky.social

White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On

Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

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Julia O'Malley@jomalley17.bsky.social · last yr.

I had a lot of fun eating a messy halibut sandwich and talking about Alaska’s food culture with Pati Jinich last summer for her show “Pati Jinich Explores PanAmericana.” It airs tomorrow night on @alaskapublic at 8 p Alaska time or it can be streamed on the @pbs app. Here’s a clip!

Pati Jinich Explores Panamericana | What Makes Alaska… Alaska? With Author Julia O’Malley | Episode 1

Anchorage-based author Julia O’Malley and Pati Jinich discuss what makes Alaska unique.

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Rick Thoman@alaskawx.bsky.social · last yr.

We are pulling out the stops to save our program. If possible, please join us May 1 at 2pm for listening session. Tell us why ACCAP matters to you so we can pass it up. Register at the link: if that time doesn’t work for you, fill out our short survey. Basi’. #climate uaf-accap.org/event/specia...

Special ACCAP Listening Session | ACCAP

Why are we having this listening session? ACCAP may be losing funding and would no longer be able to provide trustworthy information about environmental change to Alaskans. Your stories will help u…

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Rick Thoman@alaskawx.bsky.social · last yr.

The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the org I work for, is funded through OAR. We’re in our 20th year of providing Alaskans with reliable and actionable info. If OAR is destroyed, so is ACCAP.

ProPublica@propublica.org · last yr.

NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. By @abrahm.bsky.social

Julia O'Malley@jomalley17.bsky.social · last yr.

In this week’s newsletter: Taking a clear-eyed view of the possibility of tariffs and a potential Canadian toll on top of inflation in a place with some of the most expensive groceries in the country, I made a shopping list for your Alaska pantry. open.substack.com/pub/juliaoma...

Here's a tariff times shopping list for your Alaska pantry

Notes on: Which groceries are about to get more expensive here, green goddess dressing, joining CSAs, arroz caldo, matcha red bean cake, Arctic Entries tickets and a new Medium Build song

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