Don Rearden
@iraven.bsky.social
Author, screenwriter, professor, tundra philosopher, sub-arctic goofball. www.donrearden.com
Just rolled this out and we’ve already raised over a $1K of direct relief funds!
Donate any amount and get an exclusive just released novel of mine as an ebook
#TyphoonHalong #Alaska
Donate any amount and get an exclusive just released novel of mine as an ebook
#TyphoonHalong #Alaska
Storm Relief: An Alaskan Family Giving Back
Kuskokwim-raised siblings, author Don Rearden and artist Beth Hill, team up to raise funds for storm relief. Choose the donation level and destination that fits your interest. All donations will recei...
bcsfoundation.networkforgood.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Just rolled this out and we’ve already raised over a $1K of direct relief funds!
Donate any amount and get an exclusive just released novel of mine as an ebook
#TyphoonHalong #Alaska
Donate any amount and get an exclusive just released novel of mine as an ebook
#TyphoonHalong #Alaska
Power is out in a vast portion of Anchorage…
October 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Power is out in a vast portion of Anchorage…
Reposted by Don Rearden
Communities such as Tuntutuliak and Napakiak are working to get homes and infrastructure ready for winter after the destruction caused by ex-Typhoon Halong. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
Drenched insulation, muddy floors and broken heaters: Western Alaska villages race to clean up after the storm
Communities such as Tuntutuliak and Napakiak are working to get homes and infrastructure ready for winter after the destruction caused by ex-Typhoon Halong.
www.adn.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Communities such as Tuntutuliak and Napakiak are working to get homes and infrastructure ready for winter after the destruction caused by ex-Typhoon Halong. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
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This is part of the final installment of a three-part series about the 1918 wreck of the Canadian Steamship Princess Sophia on Vanderbilt Reef. The sinking remains the West Coast’s greatest loss of life in a maritime disaster.
www.juneauindependent.com/post/sinking...
www.juneauindependent.com/post/sinking...
Sinking of the Sophia: A futile search for survivors and ongoing efforts to remember those who perished
Global attention after 1918 shipwreck was on end of WW I and Spanish flu epidemic, but annual memorial and other tributes recall victims of West Coast’s worst marine disaster.
www.juneauindependent.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is part of the final installment of a three-part series about the 1918 wreck of the Canadian Steamship Princess Sophia on Vanderbilt Reef. The sinking remains the West Coast’s greatest loss of life in a maritime disaster.
www.juneauindependent.com/post/sinking...
www.juneauindependent.com/post/sinking...
I can’t believe this story is about me. David James is such a gift for Alaskan writers. (Nancy Lord, too.) and thank you to Anchorage Daily News for still publishing stories about writers and book reviews.
Between mentoring young writers, hosting out-of-state authors and his own work, Alaska author and English professor Don Rearden has made a major impact for more than two decades.
A fixture of Alaska’s literary community, Don Rearden has flourished both as writer and teacher
Between mentoring young writers, hosting out-of-state authors and his own work, Rearden has made a major impact for more than two decades.
www.adn.com
October 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I can’t believe this story is about me. David James is such a gift for Alaskan writers. (Nancy Lord, too.) and thank you to Anchorage Daily News for still publishing stories about writers and book reviews.
Reposted by Don Rearden
Ten women were inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame on Tuesday, including Joaqlin Estus, one of Alaska's first Native journalists, and her great-grandmother.
Native journalist and great-grandmother join 2025 Alaska Women's Hall of Fame
Joaqlin Estus is a prominent Alaska Native journalist and her great-grandmother is civil rights activist Tillie Paul-Tamaree.
akpub.io
October 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Ten women were inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame on Tuesday, including Joaqlin Estus, one of Alaska's first Native journalists, and her great-grandmother.
Donate, share— and please pre-order @naviyuk.bsky.social ‘s latest! 🙏
hey if you’re seeing this please DONATE to Western Alaska Disaster Relief:
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Oh yeah cover reveal.
And preorder link.
And blurb the first and perhaps only.
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alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
Oh yeah cover reveal.
And preorder link.
And blurb the first and perhaps only.
DID YOU DONATE TO WESTERN ALASKA DISASTER RELIEF YET? 🫶🏽🖤🦭🙏🏽🦅🙏🏽🖤
upittpress.org/books/978082...
October 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Donate, share— and please pre-order @naviyuk.bsky.social ‘s latest! 🙏
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As evacuations in the aftermath of the Western Alaska storms wind down, organizations are looking toward finding families longer-term housing so they can move out of mass shelters.
With storm evacuations winding down, Western Alaska families stare down an uncertain displacement in Anchorage
Officials say organizations are now looking toward finding families longer-term housing so they can move out of mass shelters.
www.adn.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
As evacuations in the aftermath of the Western Alaska storms wind down, organizations are looking toward finding families longer-term housing so they can move out of mass shelters.
It is going to take more than a village to help our Alaskan villages.
October 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
It is going to take more than a village to help our Alaskan villages.
Reposted by Don Rearden
Some residents are reportedly unaccounted for or trapped in houses as a major storm brings high water and winds to Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta communities. (Reported by @alaskapublic.org, KYUK, KNBA and KNOM) www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
Live updates: A major storm is bringing dangerous flooding and hurricane-force winds to Western Alaska
Some residents are reportedly unaccounted for or trapped in houses as a major storm brings high water and winds to Western Alaska.
www.adn.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Some residents are reportedly unaccounted for or trapped in houses as a major storm brings high water and winds to Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta communities. (Reported by @alaskapublic.org, KYUK, KNBA and KNOM) www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
The typhoon that struck southwestern Alaska last night left the region in the worst sort of disaster scenario for these already impoverished and struggling communities.
October 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The typhoon that struck southwestern Alaska last night left the region in the worst sort of disaster scenario for these already impoverished and struggling communities.
Worried for my friends in Kotz…
The city of Kotzebue is under mandatory evacuation orders. That's as the community prepares for flooding the National Weather Service warns could be worse than last year's, which led to dozens of evacuations and two families losing their homes.
Mandatory evacuations ordered in Kotzebue as flooding from coastal storm begins
Water could rise as much as 10 feet above the high tide line, according the National Weather Service.
akpub.io
October 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Worried for my friends in Kotz…
Reposted by Don Rearden
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Reposted by Don Rearden
In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".
Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
September 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".
Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
Take a bear break from all the noise…
September 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Take a bear break from all the noise…
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“…airs on Hulu in September. The documentary, set in Alaska’s most remote regions and blending true crime and Native folklore, is adapted from the 2019 Audible original “Midnight Son”; it is directed by Kahlil Hudson.” Kahlil, my adopted clan brother is the director!!!!
#AlaskaSky #Alaska
#AlaskaSky #Alaska
This New Hulu Documentary Unravels A True Crime Story In A Way We've Never Seen Before
"It became clear that if I don't tell this story, I'm going to regret it the rest of my life," filmmaker James Dommek Jr. told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“…airs on Hulu in September. The documentary, set in Alaska’s most remote regions and blending true crime and Native folklore, is adapted from the 2019 Audible original “Midnight Son”; it is directed by Kahlil Hudson.” Kahlil, my adopted clan brother is the director!!!!
#AlaskaSky #Alaska
#AlaskaSky #Alaska
Only in Alaska do we troll earthquakes under 7.0. Weak! Weakass earthquake! 🤣
#Alaska #quake M2.3 | 34 km ESE of Cantwell, Alaska | 4m ago | Aug 23, 2025 09:54 am (Alaska Standard Time)
Did you feel it? Submit a report!
#minor #M2+ #United_States #Alaska
Did you feel it? Submit a report!
#minor #M2+ #United_States #Alaska
Weak magnitude 2.3 earthquake at 2 km depth
See detailed quake info, read user reports, submit your own if you felt it!
www.volcanodiscovery.com
August 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Only in Alaska do we troll earthquakes under 7.0. Weak! Weakass earthquake! 🤣
Deal or deal? Or just more of the same?
And how come Putin knows more about Alaskan history and geography than a good majority of Alaskans?
And how come Putin knows more about Alaskan history and geography than a good majority of Alaskans?
August 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Deal or deal? Or just more of the same?
And how come Putin knows more about Alaskan history and geography than a good majority of Alaskans?
And how come Putin knows more about Alaskan history and geography than a good majority of Alaskans?
I can’t stress enough how crazy I think it is that this “summit” began with the President of the United States clapping at the arrival of a stone cold killer on our own military base here in Anchorage, Alaska. Unbelievable. (And surreal.)
August 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I can’t stress enough how crazy I think it is that this “summit” began with the President of the United States clapping at the arrival of a stone cold killer on our own military base here in Anchorage, Alaska. Unbelievable. (And surreal.)
Can’t say I ever expected to be told to stay home from work because the Russians have taken up residency on campus.
#Alaska #Anchorage #StandWithUkraine
#Alaska #Anchorage #StandWithUkraine
August 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Can’t say I ever expected to be told to stay home from work because the Russians have taken up residency on campus.
#Alaska #Anchorage #StandWithUkraine
#Alaska #Anchorage #StandWithUkraine
I wish some country or billionaire would fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ( NPR / PBS) just to show a belief in America, in art, music, literature, film, culture, stories, real journalism— you know the shit worth living for.
August 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I wish some country or billionaire would fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ( NPR / PBS) just to show a belief in America, in art, music, literature, film, culture, stories, real journalism— you know the shit worth living for.
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Important.
July 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Important.
Reposted by Don Rearden
Almost a century after Alaska Native student Benny Benson ran the very first Alaska flag up a flagpole, the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska has passed a resolution to address the racial discrimination Benson experienced as a child.
Unalaska tribal resolution honors Alaska flag designer's triumph over discrimination
The Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska says there's an untold story about Benny Benson's battle against racism. It passed a resolution to set the record straight.
alaskapublic.org
July 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Almost a century after Alaska Native student Benny Benson ran the very first Alaska flag up a flagpole, the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska has passed a resolution to address the racial discrimination Benson experienced as a child.