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Queer, NB, 2S, Elko Band Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone/Scottish/Irish 🪶 living on the unceded homelands of the Tanana Dené 🪶STEM prof at UAF/Climate Change impacts/Mariculture/CoProduction of Indigenous and Western Knowledge Systems
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Tamamta Fellow Rachel Lekanoff is working with Alutiiq Pride Marine Institute to study clam life history for species of importance to Native Alaskan communities in the Chugach region. Photo credit: Dr. Jessica Glass

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BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.

submitted 6 days ago • 100 comments

Fairbanks represent! Today was an uplifiting reminder of the power of THE PEOPLE! 👏🏼🙌🏼 @50501movement.bsky.social

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.

submitted 69 days ago • 1841 comments

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

submitted 77 days ago • 522 comments

New in PN: John Roberts created a monster. It's about to eat him. "After all, how can the rightwing justices expect a future president — particularly a Democratic one — to accept rulings limiting the exercise of their power from a Court that served as the judicial stooge of an aspiring dictator?"

submitted 84 days ago • 945 comments

‘My dad didn’t go to war for nothing’: Pentagon scrubs Native American heroes from website, reports @diinsilversmith.bsky.social of @azmirror.com, via @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/03/19/m...

submitted 96 days ago • 13 comments

More of this please. www.npr.org/2025/03/14/n...

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Interestingly (*heavy sarcasm*), every demographic group name is here but one: “white”. White is not on this list. It’s ok to be white and talk about whiteness but everything else is banned. Pretty clear message here. Only whiteness is acceptable.

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

This gets my vote for tweet/post of the year. This is a RED ALERT post. This is exactly why he’s doing it.

submitted 121 days ago • 421 comments

www-foxnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.foxn... So that Trump can have direct control of another domestic armed force, since he cannot use the military on US soil.

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

You can say one thing, it’s a great time to be a lawyer!

submitted 138 days ago • 0 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 143 days ago • 4314 comments

Despite the chaos swirling at the national level, good science still persists and thrives. A new project in collaboration with our Tribal partners at the Alutiiq Pride Marine Institute in Seward, AK will commence next week. #mariculture #kelpfarming Exploring regional differences in kelp growth

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

It’s snowing in Florida and raining in interior Alaska where it’s 53F above the average temperature for today!

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MURKOWSKI comes out against Hegseth for DOD, first GOP opponent. "The leader of the Department of Defense must demonstrate and model the standards of behavior and character we expect of all servicemembers, and Mr. Hegseth’s nomination to the role poses significant concerns that I cannot overlook."

submitted 151 days ago • 1396 comments

THIS! This is what it’s going to take. What a fucking flex!

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

Tough morning. Anyone who was paying attention or not stupid knew these EOs were coming but it doesn’t lessen their sting or the fear they unleashed. #legitterrified

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking back to summer, PowWow season, community, culture, youth and elders. As we move into both literal winter and a political winter of sorts, I’m going to remind myself that there’s always hope and lightness and we have power when we come together ❤️

submitted 220 days ago • 0 comments