Michael Armstrong
@maarmstrong.bsky.social
📎Writer, journalist emeritus. #prostatecancer survivor. New College-Fla. grad. I write strange science fiction. Born in Va., raised in Fla., Alaskan since 1979. I like extremes. Tuggeht-Uzintun.
About 150 people in Homer, Alaska attended an #ICEoutForGood protest against ICE and a vigil for #ReneeGood. It was the first event I covered for the #HomerIdependentPress after coming out of retirement so of course someone rolls coal. (Photos by Michael Armstrong/Homer Independent Press)
Well, I thought I had retired from journalism… I’m now the volunteer editor for the Homer Independent Press. We went live on New Year’s Day. homerindependentpress.com/2026/01/01/e...
Editorial: Castles in the air – Homer Independent Press
by Michael Armstrong Interim editor, Homer Independent Press Decades ago, when my wife and I added on to our 320-square-foot dry cabin on Diamond Ridge, we had to jack up the building to put in a full...
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Holy coronal mass ejection! I think these are the most amazing auroras I’ve seen in 45 years in Alaska! Taken from Diamond Ridge, Homer, Alaska, looking all directions. #auroras #NorthernLights
When I lived in Florida I knew about snow but no way one told me about the magic of hoar frost. Photos taken with a #LensBaby Sweet 22 lens.
About 700 people showed up for the #NoKings protest in Homer, Alaska. That’s almost 5% of the population on the Southern Kenai Peninsula.
Some of the best reporting on l’affair Vance has been by @matt.akmemo.com . Holly Todd’s cartoon here is wonderful. mailchi.mp/thealaskacur...
Freedom of speech for me, not for thee
Far-right Homer Rep. Sarah Vance got her way after complaining about the Homer News’ coverage of her Charlie Kirk rally
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@nytimes.com reports on the resignation of four Alaska journalists. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...
Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story
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Oh no! I’ve been scolded by Rep. Delores Umbridge. alaskawatchman.com/2025/10/02/r...
REP. VANCE: Why I criticized Homer News for ‘vile and slanderous’ statements about Charlie Kirk
The following post was published on Alaska Rep. Sarah Vance’s Facebook page on Oct. 2. It responds to criticism she has received for calling out the Homer News for the way it characterized the late Ch...
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Here in Homer, Alaska, yet another media corporation has bent the knee because a conservative Republican Representative, Sarah Vance, did not like how the Homer News covered a vigil for Charlie Kirk. But Alaska reporters still have integrity. #indivisible www.juneauindependent.com/post/editor-...
Editor, most news staff of Carpenter Media’s Alaska newspapers resign due to censoring of story
Article about a Charlie Kirk vigil referring to controversies involving him was altered after a GOP Alaska lawmaker complained to company management
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More on l’affaire Vance in which reporter Eric Stone interviews me. My quote: “I don't think newspapers should be intimidated by their government. I think the government should be intimidated by the newspapers.” alaskapublic.org/programs/ala...
Alaska News Nightly: Friday, September 26, 2025
Juneau residents will soon decide whether to change the city's sales tax.
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Matt Buxton nails it.
Matt Acuña Buxton@matt.akmemo.com · 12mo agoLeave it to Homer GOP Rep. Sarah Vance to try to cancel a local paper for describing a man who once said Black women like Justice Jackson do not have "the brain processing power to be taken seriously” as holding “racist and controversial views." My latest from the Memo: #akleg
The Rep. Vance press-bullying story has been picked up by Matt Buxton of the Alaska Current. thealaskacurrent.com/2025/09/25/a...
Alaska GOP Rep. Vance threatens boycott of Homer News over Charlie Kirk coverage - The Alaska Current
Extreme-right Republican Rep. Sarah Vance this week joined the fervent movement of conservatives using their official platforms and conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death to try to silence the pre...
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Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer, didn’t like the Homer (Alaska) News coverage of the vigil she organized for Charlie Kirk. On her official letterhead she threatened a boycott. Intimidating a free press because you don’t like what they write? I wonder who she learned that from?
Every year artist Mavis Muller coordinates the creation of a beautiful basket on a beach in Homer, Alaska—and then it’s transformed into heat and light.
“The settlement is (the) largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases. Anthropic will pay $3,000 per work to 500,000 authors.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...
Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors
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Scenes from the Freedom Over Fascism rally held in Homer, Alaska, on Saturday, July 19. @50501movement.bsky.social
In November 1940 Paris students protested against the Nazi occupation … with fishing poles.
I bought a box of paper clips to hand out to Democracy protectors. I’m adding the paper clip to my profile. The Norwegian Resistance was bad ass. My niece’s Norwegian husband had a grandfather who was in the resistance.
📎Adam H@adamhochman.bsky.social · last yr.@unauthorizedbeast.bsky.social Welcome Aboard! We Vets are taking a page from the Norwegian Underground Did during WWII #Paperclip #Quislings #resistance. We need to Connect without the Red hat
About 50 people showed up on 5/30 to greet Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan at a closed visit at the Homer (Alaska) Senior Center. They protested possible cuts to Medicaid. #savemedicaid #nomorekings
Signs from the #MayDay protest in Homer, Alaska. It was cold and rainy but about 50 still showed up. A blessed #Beltane to all.
Thanks to whomever on the @maddow.msnbc.com show who snagged this photo I took of the April 19 Homer, Alaska protest for tonight’s broadcast. It was a great segment on the protests in Alaska.
Signs and scenes from the April 19 protest in Homer, Alaska.
The Irish Starry Plough flag and the Alaska flag are very similar. The Alaska flag includes the North Star with the Big Dipper. I wonder if anyone has researched this connection or the influence of the Starry Plough on Benny Benson, the AK flag designer. discover.hubpages.com/politics/His...
About 500 people showed up for the #HandsOff rally in Homer, Alaska. About 10,000 live in the Homer area. #StandUpForDemocracy.
Alaska has a new newspaper, The Seward Folly, published in Seward, Alaska. My friends Marylynn and Bob Barnwell started it. I’m helping them by covering the Seward City Council. Hurray for community journalism! sewardfolly.com.
The Seward Folly
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