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Western Alaska Communities Unite to Establish Disaster Response Fund Following Recent Storms  - Alaska Community Foundation In response to recent severe storms, including Typhoon Halong, that devastated Alaska’s western coast, local …

Please donate to Western Alaska disaster relief efforts to support the response to Typhoon Halong. I won't overexplain how displacement, underfunding and marginalization of Indigenous Peoples have devastated communities. But know this: Our Alaska Native friends and family need us to show up.

One of my tricks is to try to describe someone's actual problematic behavior rather than resorting to blanket terms that often have ableist roots.
"Bob is such an idiot!" vs
"Bob is so inconsiderate of others!" Also in some circumstances it's more helpful in conveying specific information.

Forcible institutionalization is so popular but literally any of us at any time for about a billion reasons including OUR BRAINS JUST DOING THAT can become extremely severely mentally ill in like a heartbeat

The US is so ableist & eugenicist & genocidal at its core that we DO THIS TO OURSELVES

"that's not funny, no one should lose their lives to gun violence" so true! that's what we've been saying all along. I'm so glad you agree

So people don't always understand that the name of a federally recognized tribe is a government label, often chosen a long time ago. This is often different from how they refer to themselves. When in doubt, ask them.

Alaska is not taking this shit. Our governor might be OK with this and our congressional delegation might bend the knee. But we will not. Neither you nor your fascist buddy are welcoming here. #StandUpAlaska why don’t you #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles and leave us in peace.

There is a spa here that bills itself as a "glacial salt cave" and has a whole wall made of that pink salt you can vibe with and you can get massages etc. I've never been, but I'm of the opinion that they can irradiate me with whatever spice they want as long as I'm getting my back worked on.

Alt text since I can't seem to get it to work on videos: Short looped video of a tuxedo cat lying on her back on a blue quilted sofa cover and fuzzy blanket. She looks relaxed and impassive while a hand rubs her fuzzy widdle black and white tum-tum.

Timeline cleanse: rub, rub, rub the Kraken kitty belly

Dang, I am not a person who needs a mobility aid of this type, but if I was I'd order the heck out of one of these. I do have one of their drawing gloves tho and I love it. 💖

Know Your Rights | Immigrants' Rights | ACLU Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.

There are reportedly 7 ICE agents in Juneau now. If that is true, now is a good time to familiarize ourselves with this:

www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

Entire communities across Alaska rely on it for all their news, tsunami and extreme weather warnings, and much more that helps them stay alive and informed. Like that’s it. That’s all they have. There is nothing else. Some of these places don’t have vegetables if a barge doesn’t show up regularly.

“You know, I do believe in magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God’s sake. And you know why we’re told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad of what the’d allowed to wither in themselves.” ~Robert R. McCammon

“…I do believe in magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires & comets inside us…able to sing to birds & read the clouds & see our destiny in grains of sand…We get put on the straight & narrow…the magic we knew made them ashamed & sad of what the’d allowed to wither in themselves.”
~RR McCammon

Gotcha. I have just been that person who wasn't in on a joke and felt bad later. Also yeah the extent to which people I know IRL are using it as a substitute for actual mental health and health care is frightening to me.

While I agree with your sentiment 1000%, I think this was a Mystery Science Theater 3000 joke reference.

Liberatory economics will necessarily include creating ways to subsist that don't rely on extracting resources and labor from elsewhere, not simply distributing imperial spoils more equitably.

Lisa had the chance to use her enormous power to do something really meaningful today, but as usual when the stakes were the highest, she caved and voted the party line. It’s really sad because lots of Alaskans will die without Medicaid, and she just signed their death warrant.

In a country characterized by the rule of law, some regulation of immigration is a legitimate function of government. In a lawless, expressly bigoted, and expressly corrupt regime, it is not. Download IceBlock and defy this administration.

If this bill is signed into law, I think it's fair to consider it a sign that the U.S. government should be treated as openly hostile to the people of this continent. I am in no way advocating violence with this post, but please understand that self-defense in many forms will be sadly necessary.

Dear Lisa Murkowski - I hope your lasting legacy is that with this vote you hurt/killed millions of people through cowardice. I hope that the Deisheetaan disown you, and that you never again know a moment's peace.

SICK OF TRUMP CALL OUT SICK ON JULY IST! JOIN AN ACTION IN YOUR CITY IN SOLIDARITY WITH OUR IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORS We must all unite, and not let immigrant workers be terrorized and isolated. This is not just an immigrant thing - everyone with citizenship has a duty to stand up!

CALL OUT SICK ON JULY 15T! IN SOLIDARITY WITH OUR IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORS SICKOFICE.ORG ON JULY 1, DON'T GO TO WORK AND: • Support immigrant street vendors and small businesses Go to a march, community event or meet-up • Donate to an organization taking action or providing emergency relief for immigrant families • Join or form an immigrant defense committee in your area • Post messages and videos explaining why you're participating OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO: Mass marches against ICE raids and racial profiling, Organize support committees in your neighborhood and workplace to respond to raids and support separated families, Block parties, Informational events and know-your-rights events, Zoom meetings to connect with those who don't want to go outside, Banner drops, Put up lawn signs and window signs, Share a pamphlet or flyer in your local businesses and grocery stores, Contact your church or school to become a sanctuary for organizing, Call your radio station and explain the sick-out during drive hour, and more!

Calls going out for a national strike on July 1st.
Fuck ICE
Fuck MAGA
Fight fascism!

My ignorant ass didn't realize that Natives living on the rez in New Mexico didn't have voting rights until nineteen sixty-fuckin'-five. Jesus.

Remember, babies are only people *before* they're born

Imagine if we had more people running for office in Alaska because they genuinely love our shared home, not the myth of American exceptionalism it represents or the capital they can harvest from it

Thank you for saying it. Between the maddening layout, the incredibly loud music, the constant random alarms and beeps from every door and device, our household avoids Fred's like the plague. Like if I can't find something anywhere else, I'll do curbside rather than walk in those doors.

No one is illegal on stolen land 🌸

#battyart #inupiaq #inuit

On his first Father’s Day, Mahmoud Khalil will sit in a detention center 1,500 miles away from his wife and newborn son, as punishment for speaking out in support of Palestinian rights.

An image taken from the "it's Friday Again Garfy Baby" Facebook account which usually automatically posts on Fridays an image of the human cartoon character Jon Arbuckle yelling the titular phrase next to an excitedly grinning Garfield the Cat sitting on the table next to him. The text has been altered to change "Friday" to "Priday" by the original poster with a Progress Pride flag in the background in honor of June being LGBTQ+ Pride month. It has been further altered for the purpose of this post by digitally editing the image so that Garfield appears to be wearing a realistic hockey mask like Jason Voorhees, the main antagonist of the Friday the 13th horror franchise, because today is Friday, June 13th.

"It's Friday Again, Garfy Baby!"is one of the few FB accounts that I truly miss, especially because they do the Priday variations for June, so I made something special for today's unique date.