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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

I have no one to obsess over LATIN MAFIA with 🤧

Normally, I’m not phased by lovers celebrating Valentine’s Day, but this one feels spicy 🥲

RACIST MASCOTS HAVE NO PLACE IN THE NFL!

The Chiefs' mascot is just the tip of the iceberg. We demand the league take action to ban all racist mascots and change the name of the Kansas City Chiefs. Anything less is racism. loom.ly/QCkhMqs

#TheTimeIsNow #ChangetheName

The drawing winner has been selected for the Cupiit Yurartet Valentine’s Day Fundraiser! 🎉❤️

An Inuit women’s group based in Montreal and Nunavik is taking teaching women how to react to intimate partner violence through self defence.

The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

✨There’s still 4 more days to enter for your chance to win these beautiful Native goodies for you and your hunny or for your loved ones!

DM me to enter! 🥰

There’s nothing that can breathe life into me the way music does

Happy:
Black history
Black present
Black future
Black love
Black joy
Black health
Black healing
Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
Black innovation
Black liberation
Black resistance
Black existence
...month🖤

Made a curated AK list (Basically if I can find AK-ish content while browsing past posts & open to nominations)

Pulled from:
@shayne.bsky.social AK BIPOC list, @alaska.bsky.social list w/ the honorary AK, & @krazytheealaskan.bsky.social which also has past residents.

Art by the late Indigenous anarchist artist Klee Benally 🏹

Good advice here about immigrant rights and what do to if you're pulled in
www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

Anchorage folks, here's who is running for Assembly and School Board: www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

i will say that we have never experienced anything like an administration trying to essentially freeze the activities of the entire federal government while making a series of illegal power grabs. genuinely unclear to me what kind of response, if any, these guys are generating against them

Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps | CNN At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citiz...

At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation officials.

Alaska House to ‘expedite’ consideration of education funding increase Proposed legislation would add $464 million to Alaska’s $1.2 billion schools budget.

Alaskans, please testify in favor of HB 69 to increase the BSA (public school funding) on Wednesday, Jan. 29! Choose the 8 am or 5 pm time to call in at your LEO office ((907) 269-0111 in Anchorage).
www.adn.com/politics/ala...

I immediately think of the impact that the constant Israeli bombardment in Gaza has brought across the globe, and of course the Arctic is always impacted first and worst.

Yup’ik elders have always warned that the climate and weather will change with its people, and they weren’t wrong. The drastic difference in the weather in Anchorage this year and last is astonishing and so scary.

Today is a solemn day of remembrance for the millions murdered in the Holocaust.
 
On the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we look to our history as a warning against the dangers of antisemitism and intolerance and honor the promise: never again.

Library Path Post

People are seeking books to teach their kids about diversity & belonging. What I hear: They're looking for books from a plethora of perspectives! Here are a few books, you & your kids may already be reading them ☺️
(🧵 1/4)

SPEAKING OF GARDENS

yall better have library cards. Some (most!!) public library systems have seed libraries and libraries of things where you can borrow things you may not need to own.

Also libraries are revolutionary and librarians have always been on the front lines

This is what we all should remember.

🫵🏼 Need a Valentine’s gift idea? 💘

Enter Cupiit Yurartet’s raffle❣️

✨ Prizes:
• Women’s XL qaspeq by Molly Webb
• Men’s Large qaspeq by Buz Daney
• Beaded dentalium earrings by Julia Bill

🎟️ $5 = 1 entry | $20 = 5 | $50 = 15

PM/comment to enter by Feb. 7—just in time to share the love! 🥰

if you and your sweetie (or potential sweetie) need a cute, fun, low-cost date idea, get your ass to your local used bookstore posthaste

So far here’s a list of companies reinforcing their commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:
Apple
Costco
Bank of America
Delta
JP Morgan
Marriott
Microsoft
Procter & Gamble
Goldman Sachs
American Airlines
Southwest Airlines
United Airlines
Catholic Health

Calirpagpegnak unangenaituten.

Without hard work, you will not gain anything.

Cat aulukeluvki, tamakut cat aulukciqaatgen.

If you take care of things, those things will take care of you.