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"Kash #Patel Tells #FBI Employees to Ignore Elon #Musk ’s Justify-Your-Job Edict" www.thedailybeast.com/kash-patel-t...

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Can someone tell Trump that he was supposed to unite America, not Canada? 🤦 It’s like he accepted the assignment but didn’t read it.

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US Arctic research faces “existential threat” "As an Arctic researcher, every day, I wake up to grim headlines of cuts to funding that had supported research into climate change and for and by Indigenous Peoples and minorities." www.cryopolitics.com/2025/02/22/u... #Arctic

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I interrupt your (my) doomscrooling to bring you winter. ❄️

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I am sad to share that all Retirement & Disability Research centers have been ordered to stop work. My fellowship will no longer exist, and the work of so many talented researchers and dedicated staff will be cut short. www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

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On this date in 1943, Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans Scholl, a disabled veteran of the eastern front, and three other students at University of Munich were executed by guillotine at Stadelheim prison in Munich, for printing and distributing anti-Nazi leaflets. Neither she, her brother, or any of

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BRILLIANT!!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🎣

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Random note: Get some popcorn now. This could get real interesting real quick. If it doesn’t you still have a nice snack. #Alaska #WatchThisSpace

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We are arms dealers to terrorists.

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Definitely sounds like an AI phishing expedition.

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FWIW, some ideas about how the potential loss of U.S. climate/environmental data might impact near-real time Arctic climate science. Latest post from the Alaska and Arctic Climate Newsletter. alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/arctic-cli... #akwx #Arctic #Climate

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Arctic Climate Science and Data Loss "... while the gutting of weather and climate information and services is proceeding, it’s happening at a slower pace." alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/arctic-cli... #Arctic #Alaska

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Elon needs a distraction from his drugged-up performance at CPAC

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Britain can provide Ukraine a nuclear umbrella and Putin will immediately withdraw from Ukraine.

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Random note: A convicted felon, a drunk, a former heroin addict, and a messianic Martian billionaire walk into a bar. The bartender looks up from wiping a glass and says, "No fucking way, I quit." #Alaska #akleg

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A federal worker supporting small businesses with disaster recovery was fired — twice "Imagine getting fired, then unfired and fired again ... 'We live in Anchorage, Alaska. I came up here in 2015 when I was stationed up here in the Army' ..." www.wfae.org/2025-02-22/a... #Alaska #akleg

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Global support for Ukraine: 78 countries, 651 cities hosting 981 events from Feb 22-24, aiming to highlight the ongoing war, its consequences from Russia's invasion, and rally for increased support and pressure on Russia to end conflict and restore Ukraine's territories.

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Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

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As world watches Ukraine, Ireland grapples with defence plans | @paulnews.bsky.social www.rte.ie/news/analysi...

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After sending over 400 ICE agents to Denver and Aurora, CO, and knocking on hundreds of Americans' doors, ICE made only one arrest. Now, Trump has removed the Acting ICE Director, Caleb Vitello. (WaPo)

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1378 fired. alaskabeacon.com/2025/02/21/u...

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From today’s FT #zelensky #trump #ukraine

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If Russia hasn’t been able to occupy more than 19% of Ukraine since 2014, how can it defeat NATO or seize Europe? It’s impossible. Their plans are failing, their army is weakening. It’s time to stop Moscow in Ukraine. Ukraine’s victory is Europe’s security. The time to act is NOW

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today in breaking laws no matter how obscure, ladies and gentlemen, the Goldwater-Nichols Act

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Watch this space ... Media: Trump may come to Moscow to celebrate 80th anniversary of Victory "...Putin would be glad to see the leadership of major countries, including US President Trump, at the parade in honor of the 80th anniversary of Victory ..." www.vedomosti.ru/politics/new... #Russia

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Like & Share if you stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦

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Hey fellow University of Alaska folk! You pissed about this, especially given that at basically the same time a judge issued an injunction against implementing those EOs? Guess what, you can email the chancellor for your university + the BoR!

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Are you fucking kidding me?

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Sullivan will capitulate to his orange lord and master every time. He will speak some weak kneed colloquialisms and try to appear strong and concerned, but he’s not. Nothing about him speaks to bravery or leadership. He’s as scared as the rest of them and exists only in Trump’s shadow.

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FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

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So they've reached down and gotten someone who has never been a service chief or a combatant commander. And who comes out of the special ops which is full of cowboys.

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Random note: Here's a thought. Since we're now such good friends with the Russians again why don't we just get our LNG from them at the Sakhalin-2 LNG plant and spend the $44 billion for an Alaska pipeline on more tax relief for the rich? #Alaska #akleg

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As the White House turns its sights on the USPS, I want to explain a little bit about Alaska and bypass mail. A lot of times when the media writes about bypass, it is in this context - AK is getting something no one else gets & abusing it. (This is from 2014). /1 www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...

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The University of Alaska "reaffirms it's dedication to being an inclusive, nondiscriminatory institution" But also we need to remove the word "inclusion" from all websites, printed materials, positions, and titles. The Board of Regents just violated their own motion in their statement. #akleg

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that Trumpers think the US Postal SERVICE should be a profit-making enterprise exposes the fallacy in their conception of government

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