Colleen Mondor

Boeing workers who build fighter jets go on strike The union representing Boeing employees who build fighter jets says they have begun a strike after about 3,200 workers at facilities in St.

BREAKING: About 3,200 Boeing workers who build fighter jets have gone on strike, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union said. The workers voted to reject a modified four-year labor agreement with Boeing, the union said.

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@matthewkressel.net and I are raising funds to keep this venerable institution alive. Info here: www.gofundme.com/f/fantastic-...

She was so great in that show - she could say a paragraph with a look. Just a wonderful actress.

I have written obits for family members, friends, and long ago, for a classmate killed in a plane crash.

It’s not easy but it’s worth the time. AI for an obit is laziness on an epic scale.

This kind of action is what we need Democrats to do. They don't have to fight a DHS official, they just need to use the tools that are available to them.

OMG.

The 109-Year-Old Pact That Looms Over European Moves to Recognize a Palestinian State

Delighted to see the absolute mess that was the Sykes-Picot Agreement getting talked about. Also, go read about T.E. Lawrence & establishing modern Saudi Arabia and Iraq & what the hell happened to Syria & everything else that came out of WWI in the Middle East. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/w...

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Democrat Forrest Dunbar was on Nat Guard training in Poland and got personal leave, and bought his own ticket, to get back to AK and vote for the override.

If you are wondering why the special session was scheduled when he was in Poland, well, I'm thinking no one imagined he would do what he did

This happened because my good friend Senator @forrestdunbarak.bsky.social FLEW BACK FROM POLAND to cast THE veto-overriding 45th vote, which is the most metal political move I have seen in a long while

The book “Scandal on the South Side” by @buckweaver.bsky.social and others is the standard work on the Black Sox scandal, and over a hundred years later more comes out all the time. I encourage you to get it, and not only if you like baseball. It has much to say about now.

@gavelalaska.bsky.social is amazing. Alaska benefits from their coverage of our government.

Funding Gavel Alaska should be so easy for everyone to support.

I hope you are right about ATC but if the FAA (in any capacity) is the cause rather than a factor, I will be disappointed.

I think the final will be much faster than most - in AK, even for multiple fatality crashes, we wait 2+ years. I doubt that happens here.

YouTube video by Eric Massey Anchorage Merrill Field Cessna 208 Caravan Aircraft Incident 08.01.25

So, sometimes a Caravan overruns the runway at Merrill Field in Anchorage and then this happens. (h/t to @ketacik.bsky.social for the heads-up.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c2o...

God, grant me the serenity to endure the coverage choices made by the NYT.

Boom.

Also big shout out to @gavelalaska.bsky.social coverage. Now, more than ever, they need our support to provide this essential coverage of the #akleg

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Arkansas AG Threatens to Sue Sites for Providing Info About Abortion Pills One of the sites, Plan C, is a well-known resource for information about medication abortion.

NEW: Arkansas AG Tim Griffin sent a cease and desist letter to @plancpills.bsky.social for merely telling people where to find abortion pills—the site doesn’t prescribe them.
The letter was buried amid news that 16 GOP AGs asked Congress to override abortion shield laws. Me in @autonomynews.co:

Cover for PARIS TO THE PAST by Ina Caro (2011)

An absolute delight, not just as travelogue within and beyond Paris, but because it’s a stealth portrait of a long marriage between history nerds and

"...this is an ideological project to remove local news access from rural communities...It eliminates access to information within one’s own community. This is about changing the information ecosystem that eliminates local news & replaces it with national news."

The weather dude on TV last night said it's going to be 99 degrees today. I'm demanding that he be fired and replace with another dude that will forecast a high of 82.

Am I doing this right?

Just told Republican Trump cuts to CPB mean @gavelalaska.bsky.social will be limited sadly. Ill post updates on Twitter @bsky.app Facebook Instagram as frequently as possible. Cellphones are not allowed in chambers. #akleg

‘Richard Osman made £10m, but I  got £250 last year’: How much money novelists really make The big hitters of the literary world draw headlines for their book deals. But the reality of writing fiction for a living is an altogether less lucrative existence

Publishing is not an industry, I’d say, that has any sort of aftercare. If your debut flops or soars, if you go from frontlist to mid-list, if you are on prize lists or not. It’s a crapshoot. And part of the issue is supply and demand. There are 80+ books to choose from below. No one can keep up.

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?

I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire

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I don’t take issue with testing - having been in aviation forever, I understand why that matters.

But in this case, to give that topic a headline is a journalistic choice I can not support.

I saw this movie in the theater! 😄

The cynic in me is becoming increasingly convinced that ATC will have way too big a part in the Probable Cause on this crash.

I have taken issue with NTSB probable causes in the past (Alaskans will remember PenAir 3296 & the appalling overlook of the PIC's decision to land) but this.....UGH.

Link to 2012 FAA Advisory Circular on FAA ADS-B rule. www.faa.gov/documentlibr...