missy nurmi

@missynurmi.bsky.social

👋🏻 Teacher, Alaskan, kahu, cabin dweller, friend.

i dream of seeing a governor call special sessions for clean drinking water in every alaska community—like dunleavy is doing for the lng gas project kivalina doesn’t have potable water? back 👏🏼 to 👏🏼 session 👏🏼👏🏼 angoon & unalakleet have brown water coming out their faucets? back 👏🏼 to 👏🏼 session 👏🏼👏🏼

America votes in more than 10,000 different election jurisdictions, each with different rules set by state and sometimes local governments. That structure makes the nation's elections extraordinarily complicated — and also safe from widespread fraud. https://to.pbs.org/3T4duz3

Here's what makes American elections so complicated and secure

One of the strongest security features of U.S. elections is the fact that they aren’t conducted at the federal level.

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Deadline for voter registration in order to vote in Alaska’s primary is TODAY. You can use the link Mike posted below to make sure you’re still in there and at the right address bc w/ the admins, you just don’t know.

@mikeedgington.bsky.social · 3w ago

Can confirm. A family member just discovered they are no longer listed at myvoterportal.alaska.gov The circumstances are entirely consistent with the division purging the rolls based on inaccurate Federal data.

I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It.

July 2, 1964: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law the historic Civil Rights Act in a nationally televised ceremony at the White House. 🎞 Excerpt of the signing of Civil Rights Act

The real headline from the birthright‑citizenship case isn’t the outcome. It’s that four Supreme Court justices signaled they believe a president can effectively rewrite the Constitution through executive order.