Must watch - for starting the day w/a smile :-) youtube.com/shorts/Uu9ei...
The Living Presidents' Call to Vote
YouTube video by Michael Kryton
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Dad, hubbie, retired environmental scientist 🦀 #Nobillionaires Oligarchy is the deeper story behind the distractions PS Everything Trump is doing is to distract from the Epstein Files!
Right on point - Sullivan even attended n spoke at the inaptly named Alaska Trawlers org that met in Seattle, of course …
The Alaska Current@thealaskacurrent.com · 2d agoBycatch has emerged as one of the defining issues in Alaska's U.S. Senate race, putting candidates' records, fisheries policy and campaign contributions under a new spotlight. Commentary and illustration by Holly Todd.
The MSM hand wringing tomorrow is going to be intense. mdavis19881.substack.com/p/michigan-t...
Michigan! The Choice is Clear — Vote for Abdul El-Sayed
He's better on issues and the best fighter to hold our vital Senate seat in November.
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Politico@politico.com · 2d agoMichigan will provide another crucial test of whether progressives can not only keep up their winning streak in safe-blue seats but also break through in battlegrounds crucial for control of Congress. The stakes for the Democratic Party are huge.
www.adn.com/opinions/202... ~ I missed this earlier, but it is the voice of reason and truth amid the over the top rah, rah pompom shaking that is going on …
Opinion: What’s the rush on reaching a fair compromise for taxing the Alaska LNG project?
Alaska’s next governor may be better positioned to negotiate a deal that protects the public interest.
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The fight between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens is about far more than one Senate seat. It's a battle over who controls the Democratic Party—and whose interests it serves. www.levernews.com/what-you-nee... ~ “There is a new Democratic dark money machine, and it’s trying to move the party to
What You Need To Know Before Tomorrow’s Democratic Reckoning
The fight between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens is about far more than one Senate seat. It's a battle over who controls the Democratic Party—and whose interests it serves.
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Wish I could argue, but the DNC has made this incredibly clear.
It's Going Down@igd.bsky.social · 2d agoThere's no centrist outcry over Republican embrace of neo-Nazis and actual anti-Semites because establishment neoliberals are actually more terrified of the Left and the working-class as a whole than they are of fascism.
👀 look what the Dunleavy admin is trying to do to Cordova!😡😞 thecordovatimes.com/2026/07/31/o...
“Our community cannot bear it”: Cordovans plead for options as AMHS proposes five-month winter service gap | The Cordova Times
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Repost for alt. Bold black text on a white background: They could build afiordable housing at the speed they build data centers.
GodlessPrimate@godlessprimate.bsky.social · 3d agoIt's all about priorities. The tech bros gave politicians a lot of money.
thecordovatimes.com/2026/07/31/o... ~ Screw Dunleavy and his ten gallon hat - that guy has destroyed our state. Can’t wait til he’s gone
“Our community cannot bear it”: Cordovans plead for options as AMHS proposes five-month winter service gap | The Cordova Times
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Ouch! Terrible result for Trump. www.cnn.com/2026/07/29/p...
CNN Poll: Americans doubt Trump is paying enough attention to the country’s most important problems | CNN Politics
A record-high 73% of US adults say that President Donald Trump hasn’t paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with just 27% saying he’s ...
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Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/c... ~ So are all 11 gonna be homeported in Alaska…?
Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts
The president decided to buy 11 polar icebreakers after a game of golf with Finland’s president. Experts say it’s far from clear the United States needs so many.
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Latest in the newsletter from me: Big-ticket contributions — the kind that'd be banned under the campaign finance limits voters will be asked to enact in this primary election — accounted for just 2% of all contributions but more than 52% of all the cash. #akleg #akelect
With no limits, deep-pocketed donors play an outsized role in shaping Alaska's elections
Just 2% of all contributions made to non-congressional candidates account for 52% of all the money they've raised.
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Coulda been like this in AK … Lone Star Signs: Texas state Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee, leads controversial Republican challenger state Attorney General Ken Paxton in multiple recent polls. One Fox News poll has Talarico three points ahead, with strong leads among key groups,
Members of the Alaska Legislature are asking the state Division of Elections to immediately restore the voter status of thousands of Alaskans that the division deactivated based on outdated information about their citizenship status. (From @alaskapublic.org)
23 Alaska legislators ask state to restore voters wrongfully removed from the rolls
A bipartisan group of 23 legislators wrote a letter Tuesday, asking Elections Director Carol Beecher to put all names back on the active voters list unless their ineligibility to vote has been…
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Musk Plans to Spend at Least $100 Million to Help Republicans in the Midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u... ~ Screw Elon and every other billionaire - tax em til they aren’t. #nobillionaires
Elon Musk Plans at Least $100 Million in Midterm Spending to Help Republicans
Elon Musk, a year after a huge blowup with President Trump and the Republican Party, is said to be planning to spend in at least eight states to help them in November.
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www.adn.com/opinions/202... ~ What a strange, disingenuous bunch of blather. The legislature did pass tax breaks - as originally requested by industry. Dunleavy’s foolish veto shot down any chance of it working…
Opinion: What will you do when the lights go out?
Alaska cannot afford to postpone tax reform while Cook Inlet gas supplies decline and electric rates rise.
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open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni... ~ “All institutions are imperfect, and crises expose those imperfections. I think the response to the pandemic does expose real institutional failures, but the greatest of those failures are those of our political system, not our public health system. The pandemic
Watching the show trials
Anthony Fauci and the politics of retribution
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Anchorage police pair with recovery peers to get people off the street and into treatment alaskapublic.org/news/health/... ~ I appreciate that the LaFrance Admin is trying new and crerative ways to deal with this very tough problem.
Anchorage police pair with recovery peers to get people off the street and into treatment
About two thirds of common crimes in Alaska involve drugs or alcohol. So, a new Anchorage Police Department program aims to improve public safety by getting people into substance use treatment.
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The anti-vax spam account that was bothering one of @antigrinch.bsky.social’s posts earlier won’t see this, because I blocked them… but maybe we can flush more out for reporting and blocking! #VaccinesWork #ScienceMatters Get every vaccine you can, folks! Every single one they’ll let you get!
Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · last wk.Trump is the most powerful anti-vaxxer in the world – and the abrupt rise of measles and other deadly diseases are likely to be his legacy, @pauloffit.bsky.social said. “Trump has become the president of Measles Land." My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
#Gift Trump withheld grant money from states that voted for Democrats. This is "subjugating science to partisanship and holding research and infrastructure money hostage throughout much of the country. " www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Trump Administration Tells the Truth
A government lawyer admitted in a court filing that the administration withheld grants based on whom states had voted for.
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www.buzzsprout.com/1946589/epis... ~ “So when Hillcorp says, oh, we can't do that, I just don't, I don't get that. Because because Conoco can do it and is doing it. Exxon can do it and is doing it on both in both Prudhoe and Point Thompson. Um and now Hillcorp says, well, we can't do that.
The Weekly Top 3 (7.27.2026) - The Weekly Top 3
Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 - our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets - for the week of July 27, 2026.The Weekly Top 3 is a regular weekly segment on The Mich...
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