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Emily Schwing

@emilyschwing.bsky.social
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Journalist w/ lots of bylines. I really like skis and dogs. I don't really like hot weather or spiders. Go bag packed. AK-based & Arctic focused.

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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you're living off Alaska's road system, I want to know how you're getting creative with money to cover cost of fuel, food, caring for family and children, travel & all your other general living expenses. Message me here or on Facebook, text me at 907-545-6228 or email me at emilyschwing@gmail.com
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Remember when we all were told/thought the world would end with Y2K? It's getting harder and harder to decide if we're just in a period of speculative scenarios right now or if we really should be a lot more concerned for our safty, well-being and longevity.
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BREAKING: Whittier's new cruise ship dock is on fire. Video is from Portage Pass, credit: Odin Hurst
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Here's what I am reading on this fine fall-time Monday morning. Why? Because what on earth is going on at the Division of Elections of late?
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
These newspaper closings always hit me hard. Because I know that much of the content national media and partisan influencers devote time to is based on incremental work done by relatively undistinguished local journalists. When they're gone, you won't hear about all these stories anymore.
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“These are U.S. government employees. If you want a job where you get tips, you shouldn’t be working for the U.S. government.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump gave $45,000 cash gifts to Natalie Harp, two other close aides
Financial disclosures show the sums were equivalent to nearly one-third of each of their salaries. Experts say the gifts are without precedent and may violate the law.
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
THIS. THIS. THIS. I have been reporting on this for years. It's the truth and it's a very real national security threat for so many reasons.
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This dark note from my mother today: "Hey Emily in case you do not know Dolly Partner [sic] died today! Same age as me. I better get ready. Working on it." What does she even mean? My mom is invincible.
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Dolly Parton's Surprised Look
ALT: Dolly Parton's Surprised Look
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I’ve been on several long field assignments with scientists searching for dinosaur footprints in Alaska. They all loved Jurassic park. Movies like it and actors like Sam Neill show just how cool science, curiosity and deepening knowledge can be. www.hcn.org/articles/sci...
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An Alaska expedition uncovers new details about dinosaurs of the Far North - High Country News
A trio of scientists spent weeks on the Yukon River to learn more about the habitat and landscape where ancient dinosaurs once roamed.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 11/07/2026
Norway pay their female international players the same amount as their male players and have done since 2017.
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Yeah, no. The first amendment is pretty explicit about freedom of the press. And if we back down, then the American people are not safe from their government. As always, you’re very welcome for the essential public service we all provide to you daily.
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
BREAKING NEWS from Alaska. Although it’s not clear is this will benefit our tourism economy or if this could be a detriment to an already high rate of outmigration.
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
It’s bleak out here in journalism land… the place where editors don’t hear your tummy grumbling or understand why it’s doing that 😑
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is untenable. Something has got to give.
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Half of Americans struggle to afford groceries and gas, exclusive poll finds
About 57% of polled Americans also believe economy is worsening in grim portrait of cost of living crisis, according to Harris survey for the Guardian
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Here's the investigative journalism I'm really into this week.
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I was, and remain, a female athlete. No one ever asked or demanded to see my vagina just so i could kick a ball, run, jump, swim, ski. Is this really what we are willing to do to our young girls and women? And for what? Most people who participate in sports will never rise to the elite level.
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is the story I am following closely up here in Alaska right now.
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
What makes a great editor? Here's my random thought on this: Last week, at @ire.org's annual conference, my @propublica.org editor supplied me with bananas and left me a protein bar. I felt both understood and appreciated. Journalism is rough. Snacks are necessary. Some editors just know.
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The stories about blue paint this week remind me of the time I reported on a contractor’s fraudulent use of government funds and it resulted in a first-of-its-kind reimbursement to FEMA: www.kyuk.org/public-safet...
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Company to refund FEMA for botched Yup'ik and Iñupiaq translations
A translation service company that contracted with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to offer disaster relief information to Alaska Natives will reimburse the federal agency for work that has be...
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Journalism is a public service. Here’s proof: this year, AK lawmakers could more than tripled investment in public school infrastructure. Now it’s up to the Governor. This wouldn’t have happened without 2 yrs reporting on a crisis inside public schools statewide. www.propublica.org/article/alas...
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Alaska’s Deteriorating Schools Could Receive More Than $148 Million for Repairs. It’s a Fraction of What They Need.
Following reporting by KYUK, ProPublica and NPR, lawmakers tripled the funding the state would allocate toward school construction and maintenance. The budget increase would still only cover about 13%...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
MAJOR IMPACT: Following reporting by KYUK, ProPublica and NPR, Alaska lawmakers tripled the funding the state would allocate toward school construction and maintenance. @emilyschwing.bsky.social
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Alaska’s Deteriorating Schools Could Receive More Than $148 Million for Repairs. It’s a Fraction of What They Need.
Following reporting by KYUK, ProPublica and NPR, lawmakers tripled the funding the state would allocate toward school construction and maintenance. The budget increase would still only cover about 13%...
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This. This. This.
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Gross on so many levels. Journalists are human beings who do very hard work for a greater good.
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
We also need a healthier culture and community. The othering, makes this a lonely business. And it’s generally unsustainable. Surviving journalism does not equal success and workaholism shouldn’t be a requirement.
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This. Also, incisive reporters need legal protection from powerful forces which can sue them out of existence, even if their reporting is accurate.
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I also have lots of feelings about working in journalism right now, and the bad certainly out number the good. For me, loneliness is also one of them.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/01/2026
NEW: It’s been over a decade since Alaska significantly increased its funding for public education. Two school districts are now suing the state for what they say is a long-running failure to give students a “sound basic education.” By @emilyschwing.bsky.social
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Two School Districts Sue, Claiming Alaska Is Failing Its Constitutional Obligation to Fund Public Education
The lawsuit points to the effects of the state’s underfunding, including low proficiency-test scores and dangerous building conditions.
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Troy Bouffard, Ph.D. @arctictroy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Very happy to share our latest work in efforts to help explain the importance of the #Arctic, especially on the North Pacific side: ndupress.ndu.edu/Media/News/N...
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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 30/01/2026
Commission again sets Pacific halibut harvest at rock-bottom levels amid U.S.-Canada tensions, writes @halbernton.bsky.social for the Northern Journal, @adn.com and @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social in this article republished by the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/01/29/c...
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Commission again sets Pacific halibut harvest at rock-bottom levels amid U.S.-Canada tensions | Alaska Beacon
The halibut fishery has been in a deep, prolonged downturn that has buffeted sport, commercial and subsistence fishers in Alaska, British Columbia, Oregon, Washington and Northern California.
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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 29/01/2026
The state agency that protects Alaska’s state-owned oil and gas from waste confirmed that a North Slope company deliberately burned off natural gas for almost four months because reinjecting it was inconvenient. via @alaskabeacon.com
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State investigation confirms oil company wasted four months of natural gas on North Slope
The state typically issues exemptions only in cases of emergency, or when a company is drilling test wells and capturing gas isn’t feasible.
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Dylan Tusinski @dylantus.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history. “There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
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ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/01/2026
Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...
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ICE’s excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifested
There have been incidents of harassment and threats. But there are no apparent incidents in which identified ICE officers have been assaulted off-duty.
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Zach Buchanan @zhbuchanan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea. It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road. Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 27/01/2026
My report from Minneapolis, about the things you'll never see. newrepublic.com/article/2057...
When I was being driven around the Cities in lightly falling, fluffy snow, the whole scene was rendered in real-life grayscale. I had a shameful, selfish thought: This is the opposite of a color lead. My editor sent me all the way out here for this?

I thought of all the useless video I had taken, and then of the terabytes more of data on a thousand other phones. All the interactions that didn’t escalate, or even turn out to be ICE action. All those videos are evidence of the terror, too—evidence of the wearying watchfulness that an occupation wrests from people. How occupations colonize memory as much as space.

The shots of ICE agents leaving a scene, of storefronts that aren’t blasted through, of apartments whose doors remain whole—all of that is abundant but unaccessible proof of what can be accomplished without leadership, just community and will.
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
👀 Judge Schlitz, the chief federal judge in Minnesota, has ordered the head of ICE, Todd Lyons, to appeal personally in court Friday and threatened him with contempt for the agency’s repeated violation of court orders. “The court’s patience is at an end.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 26/01/2026
‘Our government is out of control,’ Alaska legislator says, calling for end to state aid for ICE, write @corinne-smith.bsky.social and @alaska.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/01/26/o...
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‘Our government is out of control,’ Alaska legislator says, calling for end to state aid for ICE | Alaska Beacon
Chairs of state military committee ask questions about unconfirmed deployment of U.S. soldiers from Anchorage to Minnesota.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 26/01/2026
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
“As journalists, we must remember that our responsibility is not to present both sides evenly; it is to make a determination about the facts that helps audiences understand a chaotic world.” www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
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‘Terrorist! Terrorist! Terrorist!’
From Minneapolis to Gaza, how does the press responsibly report killings when officials act in obvious bad faith? By looking out the window.
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KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The bill would have expanded the state’s corporate income tax to capture revenue from so-called “highly digitized businesses” that sell to Alaskans over the internet but may not have a physical presence in the state. (From @alaskapublic.org)
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Alaska lawmakers fail to override Dunleavy's veto of corporate income tax bill
The attempt to override Dunleavy's veto fell 10 votes short. House Speaker Bryce Edgmon said it foreshadowed difficult debates over the governor's forthcoming fiscal plan.
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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Americans will only ever witness violence at the hands of their own government thanks to journalists who work constantly to protect our 1st amendment rights . Were it not for us, I feel strongly this would be far worse. Democracy isn't the only thing that dies in darkness. So does our humanity.
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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Wednesday. Continued quite mild western Alaska and on the North Slope. Not too far from normal in the eastern Interior, Southcentral and Yukon Territory valleys, but with strong inversions so higher elevations much warmer than normal. #akwx #weather
Map centered on Alaska showing site-specific high temperatures (ºF) on Wednesday, January 21, 2026. Plotted temperature range from -5F at Northway to 44F at Chignik.
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This wasn’t on my news bingo card today, but I’m here for it: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit
A conversation with Graham Granger, whose combination of protest and performance art spread beyond campus. “AI chews up and spits out art made by other people.”
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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 21/01/2026
Alaska legislators convene session, with budget issues and a veto override vote awaiting, writes @alaska.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/01/21/a...
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Alaska legislators convene session, with budget issues and a veto override vote awaiting | Alaska Beacon
Gov. Mike Dunleavy is expected on Thursday to roll out a long-term plan to bring state expenses and revenue into balance.
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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 20/01/2026
Two Alaska school districts filed a lawsuit today against the state, its governor and its education commissioner over what they say is a long-running failure to adequately fund public education.
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In lawsuit, 2 school districts say Alaska fails to meet its constitutional obligation on public education
The lawsuit filed by the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District and Kuspuk School District seeks an injunction directing the state to fulfill its obligations on funding public schools and provid...
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
BREAKING: 2 school districts sue Alaska for failing to meet its constitutional obligation to provide public education to all children of the state. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
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In lawsuit, 2 school districts say Alaska fails to meet its constitutional obligation on public education
The lawsuit filed by the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District and Kuspuk School District seeks an injunction directing the state to fulfill its obligations on funding public schools and provid...
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Idea: buy all the phones in the vending machine. What other footage is available?
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I don't have a job right now not for any other reason than the Trump Admin's rescission package that cut $$$ for public broadcasting & grocery prices in AK have always been high, but, anecdotally, they've been higher in recent months than I've experienced in the 2 decades I've lived here. Carry on.
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Vox @vox.com · 05/12/2025
On Friday, the Supreme Court said it would take up a case about President Donald Trump's executive order attempting to eliminate birthright citizenship. Back in March, we published a video that dove deep into the history of birthright citizenship in the US. Watch now on Vox's Patreon for free. 👇
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