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Clsmith

@clsmithak.bsky.social
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Writing, drawing, the Well, and Alaska. It’s my living room. Behave or leave. Not here to argue. If you are follower-shopping, don’t bother

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Clsmith @clsmithak.bsky.social · 10h
How the world and I keep changing. Every day there is something new. #haiku
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 15h
Tampa woman dies from dengue as Florida fights surge of cases Florida has tracked more than 250 locally acquired dengue cases this year. Read more: bit.ly/4ASXFfR 📷: CDC / James Gathany
mosquito with belly full of blood sitting on someone's skin.
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Larry O'Neill @larryoneill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks! Here is the map from 1/1/1940-7/31/2026 from ERA5. At least on the spatial scales ERA5 can resolve, there hasn't been a low this deep in the Gulf of Alaska since 1940 in ERA5.
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The ECMWF drops a 929 mb low into the Gulf of Alaska next week. Seems low. @alaskawx.bsky.social
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23h
ICE has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Clsmith @clsmithak.bsky.social · 18h
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’
John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists
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สุพรรณิกาทร์ Supanika Ordoñez @spiraledu.bsky.social · 20h
Happy municipal Election Day, Juneau and Fairbanks!
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Clsmith @clsmithak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I always wonder what it would be like if we just had just 24 hours when men were required to stfu. Wouldn’t that be nice.
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Clsmith @clsmithak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A good decision by the Beacon. We’re making a tough call on an upcoming U.S. House debate alaskabeacon.com/2026/10/05/w...
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Commentary: We’re making a tough call on an upcoming U.S. House debate | Alaska Beacon
The Alaska Beacon is dropping out of a debate that it had planned to co-host with the Alaska Landmine ahead of the general election.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.
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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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Progressive News Service @prognews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Former Republican governor of Kansas, Mike Hayden, endorses Democrat in US Senate race. “Chaotic tariffs are making it harder for Kansas farmers to sell what they grow. The war with Iran is causing record-high diesel prices.... We need a senator who listens." www.kansas.com/opinion/gues...
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2nd Republican former Kansas gov. backs Democrat Hamilton for Senate | Opinion
Mike Hayden joins Bill Graves as second GOP former governor to endorse Adam Hamilton, a Democrat, against Republican Sen. Roger Marshall.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
President Donald Trump took a break this weekend from his nonstop, baseless accusations about mail voting fraud to remind his own supporters to cast their mail ballots in this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump backtracks and begs Republicans to vote by mail as Democrats’ odds of taking Congress improve
Trump’s latest demand that Republicans vote – even by mail – comes as polls show Democrats’ odds of taking both the House and Senate are improving.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I love fall so much. I've lived in Vermont my whole life and foliage season still seems like such a completely bonkers and beautiful thing to happen every year. It never gets old. 🍂
Photo of a pile of leaves on vibrant dark green moss. I collected lots of fallen leaves of different colors from different plants and trees and arranged them in an egg-shaped gradient going from green at the top to yellow and then orange and then red to darkest reds at the bottom.
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Pat Race @pat.alaskarobotics.com · 04/10/2026
You guys. secure.qgiv.com/event/newlea...
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A New Leash on Life Art Auction
Local students are helping give animals a new leash on life!
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Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don't care if someone has to feed meatball.
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Clsmith @clsmithak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The #WhiteHouse fabric has sustained plenty of damage, unfortunately. More difficult to undo will be the East façade—particularly the East Room's Palladian window—an original feature from 1792—which Trump is destroying to create a second floor corridor to his new ballroom. bsky.app/profile/sund...
Original state of the East Room's Palladian window—a key surviving architectural element of architect James Hoban's original 1792 White House exterior, which Trump is destroying to create a second floor corridor to his new ballroom. Photo taken summer of 2025, prior to demolition of East Wing—during Trump's site survey with first ballroom architect, James C. McCrery at far left. Image © 2025 Associated Press Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/08/05/trump-takes-a-little-walk-on-white-house-roof-after-announcing-200-million-ballroom-plans/Close-up view of the East Room's Palladian window—a key surviving architectural element of architect James Hoban's original 1792 White House exterior, which Trump is destroying to create a second floor corridor to his new ballroom. This view shows the haphazard way the new steel structure for Trump's connecting corridor asymmetrically slams into the 1792 east façade of the White House without any regard for its historic design—wrecking the East Room's original Palladian window. Photo taken August 26, 2026. Image © Brian Finke for New York Magazine Source: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-white-house-ballroom-helipad-reflecting-pool-supreme-court.html Archived copy: https://archive.ph/dDrfNGeneral view of the East Room's Palladian window—a key surviving architectural element of architect James Hoban's original 1792 White House exterior, which Trump is destroying to create a second floor corridor to his new ballroom. This view shows the haphazard way the new steel structure for Trump's connecting corridor asymmetrically slams into the 1792 east façade of the White House without any regard for its historic design—wrecking the East Room's original Palladian window. Photo taken August 26, 2026. Image © Brian Finke for New York Magazine Source: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-white-house-ballroom-helipad-reflecting-pool-supreme-court.html Archived copy: https://archive.ph/dDrfN
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 04/10/2026
Another season of tracking freezing degree days in the high Arctic has ended. This is a simple measure of relative cold integrated with time. This past year was quite anomalous again, consistent with a rapidly warming Arctic system. ☑️ Follow temperatures along daily at: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
Line graph time series of high Arctic freezing degree day anomalies from July to June of each year from 1958 to 2026. Years for 2022-2023 through 2025-2026 are highlighted. There is a long-term warming trend in this dataset. Data is from ERA40 and the operational ECMWF NWP model. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1958-2002 mean.Line graph time series of high Arctic freezing degree days from July to June of each year from 1958 to 2026. Years for 2021-2022 through 2025-2026 are highlighted. There is a long-term warming trend in this dataset. Data is from ERA40 and the operational ECMWF NWP model.
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Clsmith @clsmithak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Well, it’s not as if it’s a patriotic duty😂
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Poll Tracker 📊 @polltracker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
NYT/Siena Senate Polls (9/21-9/30) Texas: 🔵 Talarico 51% – 🔴 Paxton 45% Alaska: 🔵 Peltola 50% – 🔴 Sullivan 43% Ohio: 🔵 Brown 49% – 🔴 Husted 46% Kansas: 🔵 Hamiliton 45% – 🔴 Marshall 45% Iowa: 🔴 Hinson 48% – 🔵 Turek 47% www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wage growth is now running below 3%, the slowest in years. So many families are feeling this right now. youtu.be/mlZg8gQAUTk
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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Snow cover is quickly expanding across the Arctic, as happens every early autumn. Details in the most recent post from the Alaska and Arctic Climate newsletter. #Arctic #akwx #Climate #Autumn2026 alaska-arctic-climate.beehiiv.com/p/here-comes... alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/here-comes...
Splash screen for the post: Here Comes the Snow: An important milestone in the Arctic's annual cycle
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is about climate change
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Clsmith @clsmithak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This!
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Clsmith @clsmithak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is gonna really annoy Taylor, who was all about supporting every MAGA legal thing there was.
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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Clsmith @clsmithak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Alaska, look here: myvoterportal.alaska.gov
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Voter Information Lookup - Division of Elections
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Mike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A new study from @CW3E & National Weather Service Juneau introduces an operational tool (the AR Hazard scale) to help identify when an AR brings meteorological conditions (beyond just precip) that increases potential for landslides. ½ cw3e.ucsd.edu/cw3e-publica...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Absentee ballot voters in Montana won’t have to comply with an onerous birthdate verification requirement after a state court blocked the measure Friday night, ruling that it violates the state constitution. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Montana court blocks onerous mail voting law that caused thousands of rejected absentee ballots last year
The mail voting measure led to nearly 3,000 mail ballots getting rejected in the Nov. 2025 election, in a state where 80% of voters vote absentee.
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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
OPERATION SANTA: US Postal Service announced Operation Santa is accepting letters earlier than usual this year: 123 Elf Road, North Pole 88888. ➡️ Letters & presents are great; however, the greatest gift is love. Vote for candidates who protect child health, safety & welfare. uspsoperationsanta.com
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 03/10/2026
Bangkok at breaking point as floods turn streets into stagnant lakes
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Bangkok at breaking point as floods turn streets into stagnant lakes
With 40 dead and a disaster declared across all 50 city districts, experts warn extreme flooding will only worsen across south-east Asia
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Clsmith @clsmithak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Juneau people. I had a chocolate mousse filled choux at lunch today at Lupo and now I am wondering why none of you ever told me about this. We need to be here for each other, people!
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 02/10/2026
WIN: A Kansas appeals court rejected the secretary of state's renewed bid to scrap the three-day grace period for mail ballots. Ballots postmarked by Election Day and received within three days will count on Nov. 3.
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Measles milestones: US closes in on 4,000 cases as Pennsylvania nears 1,000 With more than 200 new cases, the US now has 3,886 confirmed infections, while Pennsylvania has reached 977. Read more: bit.ly/4jBBqVB 📷: CDC / Cynthia S. Goldsmith, William Bellini
Measles virus highly magnified and burgundy in color
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/10/2026
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We already know what story the best man will tell at this kid's wedding.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 02/10/2026
NEW: A new USPS policy will eliminate evening mail pickups from select post offices across the country — a change that will eventually slow pick-up and delivery times for around 70% of zip codes in the U.S. We mapped those zip codes to help you figure out whether your mail ballot could be affected👇
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The Postal Service is slowing delivery. Will your mail ballot be affected?
Democracy Docket mapped the affected zip codes.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
DUN DUN DUN -- Fox Business on the September jobs report: "The numbers do not look good. I'm looking at 29,000 jobs added. That is well below expectations for 90,000, and our unemployment rate jumps up to 4.2%. A significant slowdown."
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Clsmith @clsmithak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fog on the mountains And the last blossoms falling. Signs of October. #haiku
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Galen Druke @galendruke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Learned from @alaska.bsky.social that gas has gotten up to $27/gallon in some parts of rural Alaska...............
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David Reamer @anchistorian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Four February 1961 pictures of hunters and fishers on Little Diomede by photojournalist Joseph S. Rychetnik (1927-2003). Via Anchorage Museum #alaskahistory #alaska
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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 01/10/2026
Korean officials confirm no deal exists to invest in Alaska natural gas pipeline, writes @alaska.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/10/01/k...
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Korean officials confirm no deal exists to invest in Alaska natural gas pipeline | Alaska Beacon
The nation’s industry minister implies that the Trump administration lied during a White House news conference this week.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 01/10/2026
NEW: A Georgia court dismissed a lawsuit challenging Fulton County's absentee ballot drop-off policy that increased the number of sites where voters could drop off absentee ballots. The ruling comes after the county board unanimously voted to end the entire policy earlier this year.
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Georgia court dismisses lawsuit seeking to block Fulton County absentee ballot drop-off policy
A Georgia judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to block a Fulton County absentee ballot drop-off policy.
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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 01/10/2026
Alaska’s Bristol Bay region produced a total harvest this year that was a bit smaller than the 20-year average, but fetched more dollars for fishers, according to a state summary. via @alaskabeacon.com
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Alaska’s Bristol Bay salmon return about average this year, with higher prices paid to fishers
The 2026 sockeye salmon run totaled 45.7 million fish, making this the first year since 2014 that the run was below 50 million, according to Fish and Game’s preliminary summary.
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Eric Stone @eriwinsto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
South Korea says it hasn't committed to Alaska LNG, and they say Trump's announcement of more than $50 billion in Korean investment in the gas pipeline "went beyond what was agreed." The sticking point is the same as it's always been: Commercial viability. alaskapublic.org/news/politic...
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Trump claims South Korea will invest $50B in Alaska gas pipeline. Not so fast, Korean officials say
The South Korean trade minister said Trump's announcement "went beyond what was agreed" and denied that the country had committed to investing in the Alaska LNG project.
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