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Moose Gossage

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Lately nominated “worst ref in hockey, ever”. Into hockey, cycling, and I bake a good loaf of bread from time to time. On a good day, I get to draw some network stuff.

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Moose Gossage

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www.juneauindependent.com/post/marlene...

Marlene Johnson, longtime Tlingit leader and SHI board chair, dies at age 90

Tributes from statewide Alaska Native organizations note her historic roles as ANCSA negotiator, co-founder of organizations and tribal executive for more than six decades.

www.juneauindependent.com

January 27, 2026 at 4:34 PM

Moose Gossage

@ctosterhout.bsky.social

Ramona Quimby’s trip to the podiatrist

Flannel, Steady Diet of @flanneloccluded.bsky.social · 1d

Ramona Quimby and the chiropractor

January 27, 2026 at 3:22 AM

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Ben Muse

@benmuse.bsky.social

Juneau came out for Minneapolis this evening. Maybe 250 people under a light snowfall.

January 26, 2026 at 2:11 AM

Moose Gossage

@ctosterhout.bsky.social

The buck stops elsewhere: “It’s not about being technically proficient on all that stuff. It’s …. Making sure that you actually are the expert on the actual delivery of that thing — no, that is not the case. That’s why you have staff. Otherwise, why do you have staff?”

KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 2d

Former Alaska Revenue Commissioner Adam Crum, who left office to run for governor, failed to perform the necessary due diligence before committing millions in state savings to a private equity fund, according to an outside review ordered by Gov. Mike Dunleavy.

(From @alaskapublic.org)

Crum deviated from state law and policy when investing Alaska's savings, review finds

In its report, the D.C.-based law firm WilmerHale said its investigation had raised "significant concerns" about whether Crum met his fiduciary duties under state law.

www.ktoo.org

January 25, 2026 at 11:40 PM

Moose Gossage

@ctosterhout.bsky.social

TABERNAC

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

*Insert Canadian insult here*

picture of a confident Mark Carney pointing a finger at a retreating Trump, shoulders slumped in shame

January 25, 2026 at 9:55 PM

Moose Gossage

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January 25, 2026 at 9:44 PM

Moose Gossage

@ctosterhout.bsky.social

Would love for our Governor to call out federal overreach that’s plain as day

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 2d

Quite a statement by the Republican governor of Vermont

January 25, 2026 at 9:41 PM

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Bill Madden

@maddenifico.bsky.social

This woman speaks for the majority of Americans. 🙌🙏🫶👇

January 25, 2026 at 4:33 PM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM

Moose Gossage

@ctosterhout.bsky.social

Missus and I out for a beverage at Harbor Brewing

2 full flights of beer on a wooden table

January 25, 2026 at 2:54 AM

Moose Gossage

@ctosterhout.bsky.social

Rodrigo de la Playa Montoya

Flannel, Steady Diet of @flanneloccluded.bsky.social · 3d

Nvm it’s actually Godfrey Salazar

January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM

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Sridhar Ramesh

@radishharmers.bsky.social

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to enroll in ICE.

January 25, 2026 at 12:50 AM

Moose Gossage

@ctosterhout.bsky.social

Shut it down. It’s time.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

(Politico) - The odds of a partial government shutdown next week are growing after federal immigration agents shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Saturday.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

January 25, 2026 at 12:45 AM

Moose Gossage

@ctosterhout.bsky.social

2A for me but not for thee

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Chip Roy: "As someone who carries a weapon in TX, if I'm in front of law enforcement or if I get stopped, I tell them that. I tell them that I've got a concealed carry permit. I show them my ID. I tell them where the weapon is bc that's what we're supposed to do. That's not what I think I saw here"

January 25, 2026 at 12:40 AM

Moose Gossage

@ctosterhout.bsky.social

Public Enemy was right

Flannel, Steady Diet of @flanneloccluded.bsky.social · 3d

Shut it down

January 24, 2026 at 10:12 PM

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bad bisque

@badbisque.bsky.social

love u all, basically

January 24, 2026 at 9:27 PM

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weeder

@weeder.bsky.social

We now go live to the greenhouse for a look at some plants

Blooming Echeveria flower stalk like a shepherds crook, a stegosaurus back of pink drying blooms, the curl of the question mark, fresher denser smaller buds grouped like a snakes rattle

A snapdragon orange and yellow, riding out the cold snap

My wonderful little coral honeysuckle cutting is sending up shoots, the main stalk a papery twist of twine , to the left, greenish purple leaves unfurling, reptilian almost in their scaly pattern

Leprechauns gold Columbine, light greenish yellow leaves with grassy toned splotches, leaf shape irregular bordered broad fanning clover

January 24, 2026 at 8:25 PM

Moose Gossage

@ctosterhout.bsky.social

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming

January 24, 2026 at 5:01 PM

Moose Gossage

@ctosterhout.bsky.social

Makes me so angry to see pics of police handcuffing clergy for their peaceful protest but allowing armed thugs to terrorize neighborhoods under the guise of law enforcement.

January 24, 2026 at 4:40 PM