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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You can expect an article a day from now until Election Day throwing dirt on Mary's name. Why? Legacy media's corporate benefactors are terrified she will flip the senate. As Beyoncé said, "you know you that bitch when you cause all this conversation." Keep it coming.

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Zuck sailed into our Alaskan town and parked his yachts in the bay for around a month. He earns one dollar a year — because hard to tax a man who only receives $1 in salary. One dollar a year buys a lot of yacht.

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Can you imagine telling your child: “Sweetie, we must go to the power plant today. There, we will join your aunties and cousins. We must all go there today so the president of the United States doesn’t completely wipe our civilization off the face of the earth. Then, maybe he’ll change his mind.”

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The Venn diagram of dudes saying “well just follow the law and you wont get hurt” versus the dudes who consistently broke the law growing up is literally just one big circle.

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

So the guy that ran on ending wars has now renamed the Dpt of Defense to the Dpt of War. 🙄 It’s almost as if they just don’t even care about votes anymore. Almost if they won’t even need them...

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

There’s a saying: Whoever discovered water wasn’t a fish. Fish don’t know they’re in water because water is all they know. The water is patriarchy, which we now know is the real enemy of male mental health. I wrote this as a love letter for men and boys. open.substack.com/pub/summeris...

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Gaslighting women is killing men

Why patriarchy is the real enemy of male mental health

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Wakeboarding in Juneau, Alaska. 9 PM.

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

“We understand your frustrations with our spotty wi-fi. Our carrier terns were in luteal phase, and our glaciers were menstruating HARD. Although watching you get swarmed by mosquitoes like you’ve never pitched a tent in a D.C. swamp, I nearly spit out my beaver testicles whiskey.”

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Alaska to CNN: I Can See Your BS From My House

Nobody asked our opinion, but here it is anyway

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

“My condolences, Jake Tapper, that you were picked over Anderson Cooper to report from the frozen tuliwhackers where the news media banishes its low-value males. (1)

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Alaska to CNN: I Can See Your BS From My House

Nobody asked our opinion, but here it is anyway

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I used to think that the underlying emotion of anger was grief, but now I know it’s love. New newsletter just dropped. 💕 open.substack.com/pub/summeris...

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Sorry Mom, But We’re Gonna Need a Stronger Word Than Fuck

Reclaiming Sacred Rage

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

"You don't have to say fuck on Facebook," my mom said. But frankly, I don’t think women say fuck enough. I don’t think we give enough fucks, and I don’t think fuck is a strong enough word to express the horror at the state of the world. I think we should also say fuck a lot fucking louder, frankly.

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Ted Cruz offers prayers instead of flood relief funding while voting to increase ICE's budget by 2,000%. Apparently, God loves border enforcement 2,000% more than flood victims.

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Gonna need some whiskey in my covefefe

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

My friends and I led / danced a crowd of almost 2,000 peaceful protestors (6% of pop.) down Egan highway in our sequins and foam fingers blasting protest songs like a bunch of sparkly Pied Pipers. In Juneau, Alaska

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

“The worst thing in the world is to feel that you’re the only one who feels this way and that you are going quietly mad and everyone else is in denial,” writes psychotherapist Caroline Hickman. “That terrifies people. It traumatizes people.” open.substack.com/pub/summeris...

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Greta Was Right: The "Normal" Ones Are Acting Pretty Strange

The cognitive dissonance of normalizing the abnormal

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

In comedy there’s one rule: punch up, not down. It’s almost as if this administration didn’t get the memo.

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Teaching girls to be compliant teaches them that their value lies in pleasing others. They learn to make themselves smaller, exchanging their wants and needs for a perpetual state of what-do-people-want-from-me anxiety. (1)

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

OK now we need people showing up who love democracy as much as they loved the Pope

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Mr. Antifascism @mrantifascism.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

This ruling is a massive win for immigrant rights and proof that Trump’s authoritarian playbook is collapsing in courtrooms across America. Due process is non-negotiable. Stay loud, stay fighting! 3/3

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

So much hope…. The judge who was arrested for allegedly sheltering a migrant was released and now there will be no autism registry. PopeJohn Paul, first pope to openly advocate for LGBTQ, appointed 4/5 of the Cardinals in the Vatican, hoping that his spirit and mission live on. (1)

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This administration wants to make the country fertile again. You know what would make me fertile? *quality affordable childcare *fully funded public schools *a partner who contributes equally to housework and childcare *a village *less gun violence *a habitable planet * Making empathy cool again

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Criticizing the government doesn’t make you un-American. Criticizing Israel doesn’t make you anti-Israel or antisemitic. The deportation/detention of legal migrants who criticize Israel is a litmus test… For all of us.

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Breaking news!!! the man who least makes me want to bring life into this world is calling himself the fertilization president!

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

“Today didn’t see an Insurrection, but a Resurrection.” Best quote yet!

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

My latest unpacks why it’s hard to have high justice sensitivity right now

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

think I must be a witch because as soon as I cut my fingernails, they grow back again instantly. 🧙

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

So cancer enthusiast RFK took a break from roasting under hotdog halogen lights to announce that autism is an epidemic caused by mold and food additives. My daughter was raised in a mold free home and breast-fed until 3 ½ supplemented w/ organic foods. Not that that matters anyway because science.

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Neurospicy peeps from U.S., do u feel like your neurodivergence is making u more fearful and obsessed with the news? I don’t know if it’s cuz I’m hypersensitive or I tend to obsess compulsively about things, but I feel that living in Merica is causing me to spiral a little more than fellow Normies.

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Every year, our dance troupe the Off the Hook Honeys Performs with Juneau-famous band High Costa Livin at the annual Alaska folk festival, a free music festival! A music festival centered around community and not profit. What’s not to love?

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Wow I haven’t lost this much hair since pandemic lockdown.

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I’ve been wondering when will it no longer be safe for me to write about politics. I’m a primary care provider for my kids, one of whom is disabled and homeschooled. Are you self censoring? Where do we draw the line between speaking up for the greater good vs becoming smaller 4 self preservation?

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

You can cut off our blooms, but you can’t uproot our seeds. We were 1,500 strong in Juneau, Alaska. That’s 5% of the population!

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

My sisters from other misters and I stood in front of a crowd of 1,500 on the steps of the Alaskan state Capitol and sang “What‘s Going On” by 4 Non-Blondes and the audience sang along. I know there’s some seeds rattling under the Earth right now… Happy damn spring. Y’all give me hope.

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Approximately 1500 people came out in Juneau, Alaska

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James Brooks Cascade @alaska.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I’d guess about 1,300 people at Juneau’s protest today in front of the Alaska Capitol. Largest I’ve seen there since the women’s march and march for science during the first Trump term. Extra credit to the person who had a Greenland flag — not many of those in town, I’d guess. #akleg #Alaska

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Recently, I learned that birdsong awakens the seeds under the Earth. The famous mystic Rudolph Steiner has said that for seeds, plants, and trees to grow, birdsong is essential. open.substack.com/pub/summeris...

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Beyond Babylon: What Jamaica Taught Me About Power

+ How Birdsong Awakens Seeds (& what this means for us)

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I just learned that bird song lets the seeds know when to start germinating, and I am shook.

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Michelle Milliken @michelleym.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Good read from a good writer and concerned educator!

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I stood on the steps of the Alaskan state Capitol before hundreds gathered at a protest rally and gave my speech. "I'm a teacher and a parent," I said. "This administration opened a snitch site, paid for by your tax dollars, where so-called patriots can rat out teachers for using DEI.” 🧵/1

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

POV: You’re a teacher homeschooling a disabled child in a red state where education is underfunded, they’re doing away with the dpt of education, and on the first day of spring some peeps are playing a song that keeps looping “American Summer, American Summer, American Summer.” OH HELL TO THE NAW.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”

A picture of Vladimir Putin holding his phone

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Although the governor of Alaska and his followers seem to have forgotten, education is a right under the Alaska state constitution. We won’t stop fighting for our children’s right to be educated so they can learn critical thinking skills, think for themselves, and imagine a better future than this.

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

What keeps looping in my mind free of rent is how we could have avoided so much of this if we had just let men (and women!) be allowed to feel their feelings.

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Is it too much to ask to live in rural state that’s not red? Is it too much to want nature and also rights?

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Just curious, what writers here are using AI to help them write? Do I use ChatGPT and be more productive while using up all the water in California, or spend all day on something that could otherwise take a few minutes? exploit or be exploited? Sigh capitalism…

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Came here to say that sometimes taking back your power means dropping out of that one thing you committed to so you can spend time at home walking your dog and doing laundry. (Ask me how I know.)

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Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Apple just erased international women’s day, but we are celebrating with some girl power anthems rewritten for accuracy. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/summeris...

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Girlpower anthems rewritten for accuracy

Happy International Women's Day!

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