Shoshanah in Alaska
@shanahstone.bsky.social
Retired APRN, Alaska voter, akleg, akgov, Anchorage, Alaska
Mérida, Yucatán, México
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Mérida, Yucatán, México
🚫 MAGA, 🚫 spam, 🚫 AI, 🚫 solicitations for money
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Hello? I’m looking for my almost 2,000 Alaska Xitter refugees. This could take a while…
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Alaska Natives, whose needs that are driven by climate change have never been addressed to the extent necessary, have now been fully abandoned by our government.
Alaska Native villages have few options and little US help as climate change devours their land
Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left increasingly vulnerable by climate change.
apnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Alaska Natives, whose needs that are driven by climate change have never been addressed to the extent necessary, have now been fully abandoned by our government.
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New analysis from the Alaska and Arctic Climate newsletter about changes in cloud cover across the Arctic. The results may surprise you. #Arctic #Climate #ClimateChange
alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/arctic-clo...
alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/arctic-clo...
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
New analysis from the Alaska and Arctic Climate newsletter about changes in cloud cover across the Arctic. The results may surprise you. #Arctic #Climate #ClimateChange
alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/arctic-clo...
alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/arctic-clo...
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So pretty with the new fallen snow
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
So pretty with the new fallen snow
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KYUK is the only public radio station in remote Alaska that regularly broadcasts in the Yugtun language, providing a crucial lifeline to Indigenous communities in the area.
After Congress slashed its budget, the station isn't sure how it'll survive.
The latest from our friends at @revealnews.org:
After Congress slashed its budget, the station isn't sure how it'll survive.
The latest from our friends at @revealnews.org:
In rural America, public radio saves lives
In remote Alaska, public radio station KYUK is crucial during natural disasters. Without federal funding, how will it survive?
www.motherjones.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
KYUK is the only public radio station in remote Alaska that regularly broadcasts in the Yugtun language, providing a crucial lifeline to Indigenous communities in the area.
After Congress slashed its budget, the station isn't sure how it'll survive.
The latest from our friends at @revealnews.org:
After Congress slashed its budget, the station isn't sure how it'll survive.
The latest from our friends at @revealnews.org:
Taxation with out representation started the Civil War. Nonetheless I like this approach. Blue States should stop paying taxes because they don’t get much back services. Red States should pay for themselves.
New Jersey may stop paying federal taxes under new governor
New Jersey may stop paying federal taxes under new governor
Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill said on a podcast with Jon Stewart it's a "great idea."
dlvr.it
November 23, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Taxation with out representation started the Civil War. Nonetheless I like this approach. Blue States should stop paying taxes because they don’t get much back services. Red States should pay for themselves.
Lisa Murkowski is on it. Via Politico she’s hard at work trying to “fix” the ACA…
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Lisa Murkowski is on it. Via Politico she’s hard at work trying to “fix” the ACA…
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Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
The Barely Legal Type: Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and America’s Lose-Lose Proposition for Girls
The very parts of American culture that claim to promote teen abstinence and sexual purity operate on a parallel logic to the rape culture that enables the darkest misogynistic violence against women.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
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Happening tomorrow!
November 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Happening tomorrow!
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Has anyone observed STEVE from Alaska? This is just a soft ask for now, but I am compiling a list of events to study further, and if you have a photo of STEVE from Alaska (specifically near Fairbanks), feel free to comment it below with a date, time, and location!
Photo below by Neil Zeller/NASA
Photo below by Neil Zeller/NASA
November 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Has anyone observed STEVE from Alaska? This is just a soft ask for now, but I am compiling a list of events to study further, and if you have a photo of STEVE from Alaska (specifically near Fairbanks), feel free to comment it below with a date, time, and location!
Photo below by Neil Zeller/NASA
Photo below by Neil Zeller/NASA
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Excellent journalism highlighting how the State of Alaska is failing rural—and predominantly Alaska Native—students.
“over the past 25 years, state officials have largely ignored hundreds of requests by rural school districts to fix the problems that have left public schools across AK crumbling”
“over the past 25 years, state officials have largely ignored hundreds of requests by rural school districts to fix the problems that have left public schools across AK crumbling”
As Alaska ignores requests to fund school repairs, its Indigenous children suffer most because rural schools serve predominantly Alaska Native students — a population that was long forced to attend separate and unequal schools.
By @emilyschwing.bsky.social
By @emilyschwing.bsky.social
A Rural Alaska School Asked the State to Fund a Repair. Nearly Two Decades Later, the Building Is About to Collapse.
Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska lawmakers have ignored hundreds of requests for public schools that primari...
www.propublica.org
November 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Excellent journalism highlighting how the State of Alaska is failing rural—and predominantly Alaska Native—students.
“over the past 25 years, state officials have largely ignored hundreds of requests by rural school districts to fix the problems that have left public schools across AK crumbling”
“over the past 25 years, state officials have largely ignored hundreds of requests by rural school districts to fix the problems that have left public schools across AK crumbling”
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sitka homeless coalition will have a ribbon cutting for our community’s first tiny homes—hitx’i saani—on december 13th 🙌🏼
newly hired services coordinator carla contreras is pictured here in one of the units
so exciting!!
if anyone is interested in volunteering or donating: sheltersitka.org
newly hired services coordinator carla contreras is pictured here in one of the units
so exciting!!
if anyone is interested in volunteering or donating: sheltersitka.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
sitka homeless coalition will have a ribbon cutting for our community’s first tiny homes—hitx’i saani—on december 13th 🙌🏼
newly hired services coordinator carla contreras is pictured here in one of the units
so exciting!!
if anyone is interested in volunteering or donating: sheltersitka.org
newly hired services coordinator carla contreras is pictured here in one of the units
so exciting!!
if anyone is interested in volunteering or donating: sheltersitka.org
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Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
Our Economy Is in Danger. Here’s Why
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
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Wow.
Here's The Highly Sexual Poem RFK Jr. Allegedly Sent To Journalist Affair Partner
Wow.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Wow.
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A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
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I am a river. You are my canyon. I mean to flow through you. I mean to subdue and tame you. My Love.
November 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I am a river. You are my canyon. I mean to flow through you. I mean to subdue and tame you. My Love.
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a PSA: most nonprofit newsrooms right now are probably participating in the NewsMatch program RIGHT NOW. That’s a program funded by a few foundations that “matches” your end-of-year donation.
If you set up $10 monthly, that literally unlocks $120 from NewsMatch.
So who could you support?
If you set up $10 monthly, that literally unlocks $120 from NewsMatch.
So who could you support?
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
a PSA: most nonprofit newsrooms right now are probably participating in the NewsMatch program RIGHT NOW. That’s a program funded by a few foundations that “matches” your end-of-year donation.
If you set up $10 monthly, that literally unlocks $120 from NewsMatch.
So who could you support?
If you set up $10 monthly, that literally unlocks $120 from NewsMatch.
So who could you support?
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Important and timely work by health law extraordinaire @jennoliva.bsky.social featured on @pbsnews.org — discussing the AI battle between private insurers (who use AI to deny claims) & patients (who use new AI tools to draft effective appeals on those denials) . 🔥🔥🔥 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
How patients are using AI to fight back against denied insurance claims
As health insurers increasingly rely on artificial intelligence to process claims, denials have been on the rise. In 2023, about 73 million Americans on Affordable Care Act plans had their claims for ...
www.pbs.org
November 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Important and timely work by health law extraordinaire @jennoliva.bsky.social featured on @pbsnews.org — discussing the AI battle between private insurers (who use AI to deny claims) & patients (who use new AI tools to draft effective appeals on those denials) . 🔥🔥🔥 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
The Big BS Bill thanks to Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Nick Begich 3 hurts nursing education, the University of Alaska, and the nursing and professional health shortage in Alaska. Another idiotic screwed up consequence of Republicans being in the majority. The list of harms keeps growing.
Alaskan nurses impacted by ‘non-professional’ designation 👉 https://tinyurl.com/4nd5dumz
November 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The Big BS Bill thanks to Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Nick Begich 3 hurts nursing education, the University of Alaska, and the nursing and professional health shortage in Alaska. Another idiotic screwed up consequence of Republicans being in the majority. The list of harms keeps growing.
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July 4, 1958 Hearst Metrotone News newsreel after Alaska statehood bill passed Congress, including celebration in Anchorage. Note the moose with the "Hey Texas Now I'm The Biggest Bull----" sign. Alaska statehood became official on January 3, 1959. #alaskahistory #alaska
November 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
July 4, 1958 Hearst Metrotone News newsreel after Alaska statehood bill passed Congress, including celebration in Anchorage. Note the moose with the "Hey Texas Now I'm The Biggest Bull----" sign. Alaska statehood became official on January 3, 1959. #alaskahistory #alaska
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There were no female airline pilots during Duffy's "golden age" because the men in aviation medicine (and it was all men) were so stupid they thought that having a period made you crash.
But hey, female passengers wore skirts so I guess that means it was all good.
But hey, female passengers wore skirts so I guess that means it was all good.
As travelers head to the airports this holiday season, the U.S. government wants them to rethink their travel checklists, their behavior — and also, their outfits. It's a part of a new campaign by Sean Duffy, the secretary of transportation, that he called “The Golden Age of Travel Starts With You.”
Sean Duffy Asks Travelers to ‘Bring Civility Back’ to Airports in New PSA
The secretary of transportation kicked off a new civility campaign on Wednesday called “The Golden Age of Travel Starts With You.”
nyti.ms
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
There were no female airline pilots during Duffy's "golden age" because the men in aviation medicine (and it was all men) were so stupid they thought that having a period made you crash.
But hey, female passengers wore skirts so I guess that means it was all good.
But hey, female passengers wore skirts so I guess that means it was all good.
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In their native Madagascar, lemurs are facing a growing threat: City-dwellers with cash to spare love to eat the endangered primates.
Lemurs in Madagascar Face an Unexpected Killer
Thousands of the endangered primates end up on the dinner plates of people in the upper rung of the country’s society who have money to spare.
nyti.ms
November 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
In their native Madagascar, lemurs are facing a growing threat: City-dwellers with cash to spare love to eat the endangered primates.
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Thoughtful piece on the importance of "DEI" in health research, published in Time Magazine.
time.com/7333975/dei-...
This presents the case in the context of lupus.
time.com/7333975/dei-...
This presents the case in the context of lupus.
DEI Isn’t Wasteful. It’s Necessary for Good Medicine
Lupus patients pay the price when we erase inclusion from medical research.
time.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Thoughtful piece on the importance of "DEI" in health research, published in Time Magazine.
time.com/7333975/dei-...
This presents the case in the context of lupus.
time.com/7333975/dei-...
This presents the case in the context of lupus.
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In the course of a couple days in Fairbanks, stunning light pillars were visible, followed by a rare red aurora, says Alaska science writer Ned Rozell. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
As the dark season settles in, a unique parade of light appeared in Interior Alaska
In the course of a couple days in Fairbanks, stunning light pillars were visible, followed by a rare red aurora.
www.adn.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
In the course of a couple days in Fairbanks, stunning light pillars were visible, followed by a rare red aurora, says Alaska science writer Ned Rozell. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
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Southeast is a fishy place.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Southeast is a fishy place.
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