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stick on the ice, head on a swivel. / writing at alaskasportsreport.com / she/her

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Jennifer Graham @jennrgraham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Every intro to sociology class I teach gets this image.
A small digger trying its hardest to dig out the Ever Given ship that has run aground. It says, “Structural Problem” on the giant Ever Given and, “Making different personal choices” on the tiny digger.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 21/08/2026
I wrote about how angry I feel watching people write columns about trans women in sports.
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Just call me a man already and get it over with
I'm angry. I hate writing when I'm angry. I think it makes me too emotional, too attached to copy and most importantly makes my brain move too fast having ideas pop up and die before I can even get t...
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A teenager in North Carolina has been arrested for assault with a "deadly weapon" after taking abortion medication. @kylietcheung.bsky.social has been doing such an incredible job with these pieces on post-Dobbs criminalization
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North Carolina Teen Arrested for Using Abortion Pills As “Deadly Weapon”
The 18-year-old faces criminal charges for trying to self-manage an abortion
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Matt Acuña Buxton @matt.akmemo.com · 07/08/2026
A supporter of Rep. Nick Begich III gets in the face—which is putting what he’s doing lightly—of local Democratic state candidate Peter Bauer after a closed-door rally with Speaker Mike Johnson. #akelect
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Valerie Valkyrie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
For newbies who need an explainer on how maga barbie has ALWAYS sucked!
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 06/08/2026
"How can you be so sure that you're creating something transformative for women when you haven’t truly made the pathways for women to get there?"
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The Women's Pro Baseball League Will Eventually Need To Escape The Past | Defector
You may think you’ve experienced joy before, but you had previously never seen a mascot version of a 99-year-old woman with a cane dancing and cartwheeling around a baseball field in Springfield, Ill....
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Zombies. The undead. You know, ghouls. @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I worked at Disney a while ago. Do you know why theme parks are so safe? Because OOSHA reps can walk the track on any ride at any time and any safety violation they see is a $10,000 fine. Each. Theme parks are not safe because the company cares. They're safe because it's cheaper to comply.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is a reminder that some schools have already begun closing girls’ athletics teams because the requirement to verify gender was too onerous. Even just a form signed by a parent confirming their child’s gender identity is a barrier beyond what boys are required to do to play sports.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The never-ending experiment in how many times we can ignore the same results of a same study continues
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chanda @akclee.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
gasline, gatekeep, gondola
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chanda @akclee.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
gasline, gatekeep, girlboss
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 12/04/2026
It’s really frustrating to watch media who don’t usually cover the game show up to the big games & ask questions that don’t address the hockey & just push a particular narrative that centers being a role model over being a pro athlete.
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Nicole Haase @nicolehaase.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
It should be illegal to win a men's national championship if you refuse to sponsor a women's team in the same sport Looking at you Denver and Michigan
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Excuse me but some of us are fools all year round.
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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 17/03/2026
i watch mostly softball these days and the thing that strikes me when i turn on Baseball With Stakes is how slow and terrifying everything is. softball's frenetic, fluid, it never stops moving. baseball is slowslowslowslowslowslowFASTFASTslowslowslowslowFAST, it's paced like a horror movie
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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
NEW: Lawmakers advanced the all-time high Alaska Dept. of Corrections budget last week - questioning its cost drivers which DOC officials said is rising staffing + medical costs. They also pointed to "policy changes" like harsher prison sentences enacted in 2020 alaskabeacon.com/2026/03/10/a...
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Alaska lawmakers advance all-time high $523M Department of Corrections budget | Alaska Beacon
The Dunleavy administration has proposed a $523 million budget for the Alaska Department of Corrections for the next fiscal year, which House lawmakers with a finance subcommittee advanced without sub...
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
hey Anchorage folks: want to learn about birds? i'm teaching Field Ornithology this summer, and while the main audience is current UAA students, I would *love* to have general community members as well! contact me if you're interested and want registration info
a poster on a light blue background with a red pine grosbeak on a branch yelling "Hey! Do you like birds?" In a font suspiciously reminiscent of the Indiana Jones font, it then says "New for summer 2026! Field Ornithology, BIOL A490/A690" Further text says "Summer session II- June 25-Aug 1. Tuesday 9-10 AM. Thursday 9-12:30 AM. Questions? jfmclaughlin@alaska.edu". Further text bubbles in exciting comic book shapes say "Get summer Experiential Learning credit! Hands-on field experience! Don't be stuck inside all summer! All experience levels welcome!"
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chanda @akclee.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
it is a travesty that UAF has not partnered with homefield because I need a nanooks hoodie :(
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chanda @akclee.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
heartbreaking. these kids deserve so much better.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I feel bad for everyone who says "I asked ChatGPT for advice" instead of just adding "reddit" to whatever what was their search term or topic
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Nicole Haase @nicolehaase.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
It's not just the guys. It's really not prudent to not understand that women's hockey has MANY of the same problems A lot of folks have joined the discourse this week w/out one iota of context or history & are putting the women's team up like a foil to the men's. They're going to be disappointed
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HockeyBroad @hockeybroad.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
From Threads: didn't know this about Ted Lindsay, but b this is badass. 🔥🏒👏
In 1966, my grandfather, Ted Lindsay, boycotted his own Hockey Hall of Fame induction because women and families weren’t invited.

I’ve been thinking about that story a lot lately.

It reminds me that standing up for women isn’t dramatic. It isn’t radical. Sometimes it’s just a decision a very simple one.

Men have always had the power to expand the table.

Some choose to.

The last photo is of me and him on Ted Lindsay, night  at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. 🐙#7
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 23/02/2026
It was always going to happen this way. Those of us in the media space have been a) warning new fans that this was what men’s hockey culture was really like, & b) warning the NHL that they should maybe not alienate all the new fans they said they were excited to be receiving. And yet, here we are!
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
one of the weirdest parts of old newspapers: they had a whole section where you could just Tell People What You Were Up To
"Miss Alice Walton, of Nashville, who has been visiting Mrs. T F Whetstone returned home yesterday."
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Lizsmalls (she/her) @lizsmalls.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Please help this family if you have the means: gofund.me/2b1d7c131
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Donate to Help Sonia & Her Children Return Home, organized by Alexander Sanchez-Ramos
Sonia and her three children, ages 18, 16, and 5, have been a vibrant pa… Alexander Sanchez-Ramos needs your support for Help Sonia & Her Children Return Home
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chanda @akclee.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
goalies, basically
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
the thing about the Olympics is that they combine one of the most corrupt organizations in the world and also pure joy.
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Matt Acuña Buxton @matt.akmemo.com · 19/02/2026
fuckin grim
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Jane McManus @janesports.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
So great but also, ESPN has had 15 years to get this going. Keep in mind it owned the rights to WNBA, NCAA women’s sports and all four Grand Slams at the height of Serena’s dominance. People pitched these shows. The network didn’t just find out about women’s sports.
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Big sliding save by Aerin Frankel after a failed clear from the US
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chanda @akclee.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
look, I love the USWNT — AND you’ll never get me to root against canadian women’s hockey
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Tom Wright @tomwright.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
great time for an all time sports tweet
Jon Bois' famous 2014 tweet, "why watch overtime playoff hockey when you can simply snort cocaine and ride a motorcycle out of a helicopter"
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
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chanda @akclee.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
are goalies not put through enough already
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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 18/02/2026
ICE officers took a mother and her three children, including a 5-year-old, into custody in Soldotna on Tuesday, according to the woman’s attorney.
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ICE takes mother and children including 5-year-old into custody in Soldotna, lawyer says
A group of clergy held a hastily convened media briefing Tuesday afternoon in support of the family and to publicize their apparent detention.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
This seem really dangerous. Someone is going to hurt.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
after thinking about this a bit i think this guy is the final boss of Men Who Propose On The Stadium Jumbotron So She Has To Say Yes
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
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Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after New York City.
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Kaitlyn Arford @kmarford.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
1. If you want indie journalism, you gotta pay for it. 2. Paywalls work. I resisted using a paywall for a long time until I realized I had to if I wanted to pay my bills. 3. Journalism is a public good that doesn't exist without public support. Keep it out of billionaire hands with a paid sub.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2025
my view is that everyone should be able to earn a living wage doing whatever it is they like. if you love working in a bookshop, you should be able to live a comfortable life doing so. if you loving being a barista, the same. and if you want to do more traditional blue collar work, that’s cool too!
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
if anyone wants to help some trans folks today for any particular reason, the UAA Pride Center is have a gender-affirming clothing event next week and i'm planning on running to Costco for stuff after work today. if you want to chip in, here's my PayPal, or I'm on Venmo w the same handle as here
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Pay Jessica McLaughlin using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/jfmclaughlin and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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chanda @akclee.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
i think the reason april fool’s day is bad is because it seems to be the day that people try making a joke for the very first time in their lives. meanwhile, for some of us, clowning is a year-round activity
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