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Late 1952 new housing development in greater Anchorage, Anchor Park , between E 20th and Northern Lights, east of Lake Otis. $15,600 purchase price is $190k in 2025 money. By George Silk for Life magazine. Map section from 1954. #alaskahistory #alaska #anchoragehistory

The president of the most powerful nation on Earth is so terrified of the tales that an imprisoned sex trafficker can tell that he plies her with a comfort puppy and custom meals and is holding out the prospect of a pardon.
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Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.

Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Way to go! 🔥👍💯❤️👏
This 14-year-old girl hands Megyn Kelly her ass for her utterly disgusting minimization of child sexual abuse.
You go girl! #cdnpoli

Experts warn WA's post-shutdown air travel won’t bounce back overnight With the federal government reopened, millions of travelers are asking the same question online: when will flights return to normal?

For those you who wonder what I look and sound like....
www.fox13seattle.com/news/sea-air...

Everything is a choice.

Happy Friday!

It was a good week for the aurora, bright enough to make shadows!

The Trump admin is planning to say that being from Cuba (or any other travel ban country) is a "significant negative factor" that could lead to a denial of any of several discretionary immigration benefits (like green cards).

Seriously; national origin discrimination as official government policy.

She is a little thing. Hope she stays away from the high traffic roads.

Here’s the thing: any of us who has been a 15yo girl knows this type of guy. Any of us who is a mother knows 15 is a child, so is 17. Any of us who have been SA’d knows proof, even if glaringly clear, still isn’t enough. Believe women and girls w/out 10,000 pages of proof. Guilty AF.

Leader Jeffries and the Democratic Party caucus have rejected Little Johnson's attempt to pass the Epstein discharge petition by unanimous concent. They insist on an on the record vote.

On recent trip to Türkiye, I was reminded over and over again that humans today are no different from our ancestors from 1000 years ago to 10,000 years ago. We aren’t any smarter or less evil. Some of us improve the world and others tear it down.

Blurred lines: how Michael Wolff aspired to be part of elite circles he wrote about The writer who features prominently in newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails has achieved extraordinary access but faced questions about his journalistic ethics

Blurred lines: how Michael Wolff aspired to be part of elite circles he wrote about
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

YouTube video by Katie Phang Trump SLAMMED Over Ghislaine Maxwell’s VIP PRISON PERKS

When we talk about Jeffrey Epstein, we must keep Ghislaine Maxwell’s name in the discourse because she's just as culpable as Epstein.

My latest on Maxwell’s attempt to commute her sentence, the VIP treatment she's getting in prison, & why Todd Blanche is the worst lawyer.

youtu.be/66hLS4DU9bw?...

If you disagree, propose a better th three.

B & W's looking good. You will do great

Kimmel has always come across as authentic and a damn good guy. The world needs more Kimmel's and fewer Dons. Yes I watch his monologues. 🙌

Oliver met a bully on the beach today

Oliver has a new buddy. 😁

Pedophile protector Alaska Representative Nick Begich 3 refuses to sign the petition to #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

"Division of Public Assistance Director Deb Etheridge said Tuesday that no state funds had been issued to SNAP recipients through the EBT cards due to constantly shifting federal guidance."

She said ~$2.5 million in state funds for food banks is set to go out later this week.

This is not a fireable offense, but it also isn’t really good teaching.

It would be better to explore the history of the phrase and those who use it and have students reach their own conclusions.

Most will see the connections to race anyways.

Good grief.

There were 23 stopgap funding bills for the FAA starting in 2008.

Funding cuts have hit the agency for decades, including pauses on hiring of….wait for it….air traffic controllers.

This committee will do nothing more than performative politicking about flight safety.

Trump would never be allowed into the US, under his own policies. The administration says obesity, anxiety, other common conditions now grounds for visa rejection.

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While I was playing around videoing airplanes flying under the aurora last night, I had my other camera taking stills. Here's 1661 stills connected covering 55 actual minutes. The bright, fast moving streaks are the airplanes. I sped this up faster than normal because we all have swiping to do.

In December, I’m gonna do an end-of-year favorite photos I’ve taken around here. This one from May, of a sleeping bee on a coneflower in the backyard, will certainly make the list.

A fair number of these new Wx stations are sending publicly available data, no none (yet) in eastern Chukotka.