These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

We're on a mission from god.

Meh. Just muddling through. Dad passed away so figuring out the feels that go with that. Out of a job in the next few months. Probably drinking too much. Wheeee.

I'm sure Marco Rubio has some free time.

No money for flood recovery, but hey...

This from Wyden is striking:

"Epstein clearly had access to enormous financing to operate his sex trafficking network, and the details on how he got the cash to pay for it are sitting in a Treasury Department filing cabinet."

He lays out roadmap for DOJ to follow:

newrepublic.com/article/1982...

most logging of it was halted in the mid-90s through much gnashing of teeth, activism, and application of environmental science and law.

yet, here we are again.

i saw a one-log truck today. it hurts.

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in my youth, they were more common to see rolling down from mount hood out of estacada or rumbling up the valley from the willamette or siuslaw forests.

the thing about a one-log truck; that there is old growth. we cannot replace it.

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