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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 7h
I'm one who enjoys Americana decoration more than the regular person but this is fascist iconography dressed up in red, white, and blue.
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Fred Little @doclittle.bsky.social · 12h
Concrete formworkers? Scaffold riggers? Line Cooks? Public Sanitation workers? Movers? Grounds and maintenance workers? Same deal.
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Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Data center proponent Sen. Jon Husted, longtime Les Wexner donation recipient, voted against release of the Epstein sex-trafficking files last year. See them anyway in Columbus Oct. 8-11 at The Bookmobile exhibit. RSVP: bit.ly/4hqB82x @kmkowalski.bsky.social @columbusfreepress.bsky.social
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The Reading Room national tour | Upcoming stops
Follow the national Reading Room and Epstein Files Bookmobile tour. See upcoming stops, details, and free RSVP options.
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The basic problem in Israel & Palestine is that the Oslo Accords ended with Rabin dead at the hands of the right wing that's dominated Israeli politics since. We could not acknowledge this shift without reengineering our entire regional policy, so we didn't.
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
El Nino winters are pretty reliably warm and wet for all of Southeast. It's the strongest signal in Alaska. I would say the safest bet is more more rain and less snow than typical. ☔
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
5) there is a more logical explanation: lots of cheaper ACA plans have very high deductible and copays, so that you’d still avoid getting health care unless or until your seriously needed it. People choose these plans either because they think they’re healthy and won’t need it, or can’t afford it.
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Ben Muse @benmuse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Now and forever, never forget: Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan is and has been a Trump enthusiast. Make sure everyone knows. He’s all for DOGE, MAGA, Hegseth.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 26/09/2026
The national media is not the “human-resources department” for Democratic staffers who “seem to believe that their role is to serve as a kind of moral check on their boss,” @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues:
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Another Female Democrat Is Mean, Apparently
A New York Times report on Representative Mary Peltola’s management is revealing—about her younger employees’ self-regard.
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bluematvalley.bsky.social @bluematvalley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As distinct from my real one?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No network should broadcast a single Trump or Vance event, speech or press conference live until his ban targeting specific media companies for their coverage is lifted. At some point you have to stop limiting your response to lawsuits and go on offense to defend the First Amend.
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bluematvalley.bsky.social @bluematvalley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tlingit wereotters referenced in legal filing:
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bluematvalley.bsky.social @bluematvalley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The is the most insightful article written on the AK gas line that I have read.
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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Damn they're sensitive about Epstein. 👀
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bluematvalley.bsky.social @bluematvalley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Merrimack meets Monitor.
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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Wenn jemand so exzellent wie Melanie Amann Sahra und Tino gegenübertritt, dann dröhnt auf einmal das Schweigen. Stark auch, wie sie deren Wähler*innen ernst nimmt, sie mit ihrer Entscheidung konfrontiert und "den anderen" mitteilt, dass sie daher keine >Hoffnung< hat, sondern auf Engagement setzt.
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Nicole Rostock @portmaria.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Man sollte es handhaben wie es andere Länder tun. Keine Berichterstattung über gesichert rechtsextreme Parteien. Keine Talkshows mit ihren Gesichtern. Keine Zeitungsartikel oder irgendwelche Live-Auftritte. Einfach mal machen.
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ᒪᑰᓯ Mark Springer @markspringer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
First Anchorage, now Seattle?
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A particularly infuriating aspect of this A.I. bullshit is that nobody seems to remember that we all got along just fine without it for centuries. How are we all suddenly incapable of reading and understanding written words? Of creating art? Of telling stories? It’s madness.
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Jack Pondit @jackpondit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A lot of Alaskans will be filling up their heating oil tank before the midterms. They can blame their bill on Dan Sullivan, Nick Begich and Trump. #akleg
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Carrie Nash @carrieinfbx.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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bluematvalley.bsky.social @bluematvalley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
For the love of God, please read this thread on what AI agents have started to do.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 25/08/2026
The most telling part of this, to me, isn't that she built a bot-mom to engage with her son. It's that she wants her son to have a bot-mom just like her. It's an extreme version of the kind of only-I-know-best-for-my-kid entitlement that undermines support for public goods like public childcare.
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Indivisible in South Lake Tahoe Ca @indivisibleslt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Women holding a sign with a couple of American flags on top that says "They found the antifa handbook! It's the constitution"
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Lara Korte, who was just fired from Stars & Stripes, has been covering the relocation of personnel from Bahrain for months and did a great piece today on 1,300 Navy family members displaced from Bahrain who are stuck in limbo given the damage to the Bahrain base. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...
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Navy families evacuated from Bahrain face ‘uncharted territory’ amid bureaucratic confusion
The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs.
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One question I haven't seen discussed: does the USPS have any practical ability to implement this rule in 30 days?
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James Brooks Cascade @alaska.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
America's highest price?
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you think Natalie Harp's love letters to Trump are cringe, you should see what Donald writes to me.
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Isaac Grenfell @igrenfell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Shorter version:
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 17/08/2026
Many Alaskans rely on diesel for electricity, but Nick Begich and Dan Sullivan have supported Trump’s war that raised diesel prices astronomically. This is a matter of life and death for some Alaskans. #26in2026
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Susan Collins pulls into town in a bus full of her supporters; then they all get off the bus; and then she addresses the folks who were on the bus with her as if they were regular Mainers; and legacy media covers this, pretending it isn't deeply bizarre. (Notice the guys with cameras.) #MEpolitics
Susan Collins campaign photo.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
👇🎯 The reason the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics, from 1865 'til now, is bc there are never any personal, legal, or professional consequences for the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics. <Everyone> from the GWB era went on to $$ gigs in media, business & academia.
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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.
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Artificial Intelligence, or "A.l.," Is a broad term used to refer to several different kinds of technologies. The kind most relevant to this class are Large Language Models (LLMs), which use mathematics to analyze large amounts of human-produced text and then generate new text that simulates what a human might write in response to prompts or questions. Some examples of LLMs are OpenAl's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini.Current LLMs can provide a solution to any calculus problem I give you. So why should we work on them, you might ask? Here's the thing: for the most part, the problems were already solved anyway. Calculus as a subject is nearly 400 years old. It has reached into virtually every modern scientific and economic field. And while I would like to believe that I have crafted a few new problems with some small amount of originality tailored to this class, for the most part I have curated a collection of exercises drawn from my years of teaching calculus. Those exercises come from textbooks, workshops, friends, and other fields of study, as well as my own invention.
And they nearly all have known solutions, often with fairly standard approaches.
Before A.I. became widely available, you could find those solutions in another textbook, or from a friend's notes, or through a repository on the internet.The point of this class is not necessarily to solve problems that have never been solved before. It is for you to develop habits of thinking that are used by mathematicians, scientists, and policymakers-to develop a sort of mental toolbox that can be applied to new problems. If along the way you happen to find a new way of solving one of the class exercises, that's great! I am constantly learning new things from my students. But you will be bereft of discovery if you rely on a LLM for solutions to the calculus problems before you. Here I mean the discovery of having your own realizations, crystallizing your own internal understanding, claiming the knowledge in a way that cannot be taken away from you.
That ownership is what I want for you, and that is what the course is built around.
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bluematvalley.bsky.social @bluematvalley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This isn't really a difficult issue. With the help of the Bush administration, Al Qaeda succeeded in its secondary goal of ruining the U.S. as a superpower, but the decline of U.S. power has not resulted in Al Qaeda's ultimate goal: the re-establishment of the Caliphate.
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Fred Little @doclittle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
There are few things I love more than a solid argument that goes beyond the specifics of the case at hand to make a broader and more systemic point!
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corycuster.bsky.social @corycuster.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
If I may channel my inner Machiavelli. One can always appear to be moderate for the purpose of an election while harbouring very different, sometimes extreme views. That’s been the Republicans playbook for decades. Democrats seem unable to act like both the lion and the fox in pursuit of power.
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bluematvalley.bsky.social @bluematvalley.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Duly noted: alaskabeacon.com/briefs/cruis...
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Cruise ship helps stranded skiff and crew in Southeast Alaska as Zuckerberg yacht stands by | Alaska Beacon
The billionaire Facebook founder's yacht has been a regular fixture in Southeast Alaska waters this summer, but it drew ire this week.
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Henry @phrozen.com · 08/08/2026
Insanity. Someone’s gotta recognize this asshole.
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Colleen Mondor @chasingray.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Good grief.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.
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bluematvalley.bsky.social @bluematvalley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This truth 10,000 times.
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Ken Miller @akskierken.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Credible reports that ICE abducted someone in Fairbanks on Thursday, July 30. Credible reports that ICE abducted someone in Fairbanks at 8:30am on Friday, July 31 during a traffic stop near Fred’s East. ICE has been staging downtown in the federal building parking lot around 7am 7/30 and 7/31.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/08/2026
wanted this to be a spoof so so bad, hate that it's real, hideously depressing
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Shoshanah in Alaska @shanahstone.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Alaskans, Lisa Murkowski just put out a BS wishy washy letter on Todd Blanche’s nomination. It seems like his trip to Alaska full of bribes is working. Lisa needs to hear from constituents in huge numbers.
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bluematvalley.bsky.social @bluematvalley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This truth 10,000 times out of
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bluematvalley.bsky.social @bluematvalley.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"Lindsey Graham death-mogged Mitch McConnell. What a time to be alive." Instant classic.
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Erin aka Bippy in Alaska @itsbippy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Heads up. There are a lot of people that have soured on Dan Sullivan. www.adn.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion: I’m a lifelong Republican who worked with Dan Sullivan. I’m supporting Mary Peltola for Senate.
There are times in history when loyalty to the flag must come before party loyalty.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
It kinda got lost in the madness, but the federal conspiracy case against anti-ICE activists in Minnesota - the Minneapolis 15 - is a big deal It's not just the 1st Amendment abuse. It's part of their plan to crush dissent ahead of a stolen election My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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The Minneapolis 15 ICE-protester indictments are meant to shut you up | Will Bunch
An outrageous federal conspiracy case against 15 anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota really seeks to silence all dissent.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I attended this conference in 2024, I got... Quite a lot out of it. Based on my experience at this conference, this looks like a list of attendees for the upcoming one and not "members" per se.
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