RichThompsonAK
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Boot person. Retired LEO. No whinging. Usual caveats apply. Alaska Все буде Україна http://u24.gov.ua https://1team1fightusa.org https://savelife.in.ua http://ukraineaidops.org http://saintjavelin.com
High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Tuesday. Warm on the North Slope with 65F (18.3C) at Utqiaġvik the highest temperature so far this year. Chilly and rainy across the YK delta. Very warm central and eastern Interior into the Yukon Territory. #akwx #weather @climatologist49.bsky.social
July climate summary for Alaska in the latest post from the Alaska and Arctic Climate newsletter. A cool month statewide, but rainfall was all over the place. On Beehiiv and Substack. #akwx #Climate alaska-arctic-climate.beehiiv.com/p/alaska-cli... alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/alaska-cli...
Today is the date of “There Will Come Soft Rains” …
Alex Wellerstein@wellerstein.bsky.social · yesterdayI’m not even sure if this will be my DOOMSDAY MACHINES update for the week, but I just learned about this short story by Ray Bradbury and for reasons that will become clear if you look at it, felt it was worth just writing up something very short about… doomsdaymachines.net/p/bomb-shado...
Good morning, Alaska! Early voting is underway for a second day today, and if you're uncertain who to vote for, our new candidate guide may help: alaskabeacon.com/voter-guides... #akleg #Alaska
Voter Guide: 2026 Voter Guide • Alaska
From Alaska Beacon | Independent and illuminating journalism
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High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Sunday. Cooler in Southcentral. Very warm upper Tanana valley eastward into the Yukon Territory. Also in the Aleutains. Stormy Bering coast from Bristol Bay northward. #akwx #weather @climatologist49.bsky.social
THIS. China had lockdowns. France had lockdowns. The US did not. It's revisionist history. Also whining.
Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 3d agoAppropriate air quotes because the most infuriating part about Americans debating "lockdown" is that it simply never happened. Having to pick up your Applebees and eat it on the sectional does not count. There wasn't even a brief moment where "everything" was closed. That's not real.
One of our two internet providers in town is down, so the grocery stores can only take cash. I just taught one of the children running the cash register at Safeway how to crack a sleeve of quarters like an egg. Generational wisdom.
Nearly everywhere in Alaska was cooler than normal in July. Some place by little, other places by quite a bit. McGrath had the coolest July since 1981, Fairbanks coolest since 2001, Anchorage coolest since 2008. #akwx #Climate #Summer2026 @climatologist49.bsky.social
🕯️🇺🇦A daughter was killed in a strike on an ATB store in Chernihiv on July 26, and her mother died in the hospital a few days later.
Hey Alaskans, where do you think that Trump got the idea to buy 11 no-bid contract icebreakers? Senator Dan S Sullivan is running on this corruption. #akelect
Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social · 4d agoThis really should be "Trump's Fixation on No-Bid Contracts Led to Billions on Arctic Ships." There's a grift behind everything he does.
🕯🇺🇦 During the night Russian attack on Kyiv, 20-year-old Vitalina Yarovenko, an instructor at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, died The girl volunteered to the scene of the Russian strike to help save people. She died during the second shelling.
Smoke from the Tatlanika wildfire about 45 miles southwest of Fairbanks has moved into town Saturday morning. Obvious haze and smoke smell. Graphic courtesy PurpleAir. #akwx #Summer2026 #Wildfire #Smoke @leahwrenn.bsky.social @bikewritedave.bsky.social @carrieinfbx.bsky.social
north korean missiles are killing Ukrainians while the west has blinders on refusing to see that this is exactly how democracy dies one by one, under everyone's nose with criminal selfishness and indifference shame on this world
High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Friday. Warmer than normal for the end of July over most of the region but especially southern mainland Alaska. Most place though had higher temperatures last month. #akwx #weather @climatologist49.bsky.social
Donald Trump has backed off a promise to let Ukraine manufacture its own Patriot air defense interceptors
Trump backtracks from promise to let Ukraine build Patriot missiles
US president tells reporters during Camp David cabinet meeting technology ‘a hard thing to give away’
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Mama said: “GET UP THAT TREE, I'LL BE RIGHT BACK.” (she managed to chase him away) IG: @kelseylschulte Katmai National Park, Alaska
Oops. DOJ drops reflecting pool case against the former Olympian after admitting in court the damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism as initially represented. An abrupt end to a trial that was plagued with prosecutorial missteps. www.rawstory.com/reflecting-p...
Reflecting Pool scapegoat case implodes as DOJ humiliatingly backs down
In an admission of error, the Trump Justice Department withdrew criminal charges against an Olympic canoeist accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.Justice Department prosecutors ...
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Jeanne Gibson, beloved “Rosie the Riveter,” passed away on July 29, 2026 at 100. Gibson became a welder at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, helping build destroyers for the Allied war effort during WWII. Gibson helped pave the way for millions of women who stepped into critical wartime roles.
Okay, serious question time. Daily scans for info on Alaska DOE’s removal of ~3200 voters from election rolls has produced some excellent reporting. IIRC, those voters were winnowed from a list of ~15,000 names. Obviously I’ve missed the answer somewhere, but where did that list come from?
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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Random note: If you live in rural Alaska they’ll both be chickens by the time they get here. #Alaska
Vee@veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d ago
Kody Clemens just hit a walk off grand slam to drive in all the runs in a game where the Twins were down by 3 runs, being shut out, and down to their last strike, 0-2 in the count. One of the greatest things I’ve ever seen with these eyes.
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference reut.rs/4x9eTCW
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online.
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High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Wednesday. Quite warm in the greater Bristol Bay region eastward into Southcentral Alaska. Cooler on the North Slope and across the northern Interior with some rain. #akwx #weather @climatologist49.bsky.social
