This seems like a really big power outage in the middle of a cold snap in Anchorage. I wonder what’s up?
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Back on after 10 minutes. At -10°F, a prolonged outage would have been bad. Evidently a “load shedding event”.
Waiting on an Alaskan social admin approval to start an account for my campaign. Watch for it. It will mostly be kinda boring selfies with hopefully non-boring anecdotes from campaign door knocking. People in my district are way more interesting than me.
Pat Race 🍕Hey Alaska friends, are you aware we have no contribution limits for state or local elections? When one wealthy donor can buy an election, we get politicians who only serve those few deep pocketed interests.
Please help our ragtag volunteer network to gather signatures and reinstate reasonable contribution limits in Alaska. Let's have a state government for the people.
More info and volunteer form here: campaignlimits.org
People against universal healthcare decry the rationing of care and saber rattle about death panels… while ignoring that the status quo has precisely those issues, except it is overlaid with a payment system where companies have a profit motive to deny care. At least in a universal public system, the payer doesn’t profit from the suffering of the public.
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A STAT investigation: UnitedHealth Group pressured clinical employees to follow an algorithm to cut off care for seriously ill older and disabled Americans — while profits soared. https://www.statnews.com/2023/11/14/unitedhealth-algorithm-medicare-advantage-investigation/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic
April Kingme: hey big companies, can I download all of your copyrighted movies and music and images in case one inspires me to make something someday?
big companies: lol no get rekt
also big companies: btw we're downloading and using all of your copyrighted works to stuff into our machine learning models
This level of injustice needs to change. This level of interpersonal violence needs to change. This disregard for the lives of women needs to change. This is heartbreaking, and we must do better. From far away in Anchorage, it is difficult to have a direct impact on rural justice - but we can be asking our governor (and asking our reps to ask our governor) why his MMIP council and the state troopers are not taking this seriously. #akleg
From: @ProPublica
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Attached: 1 image One Woman Died on an #Alaska Mayor’s Property. Then Another. No One Has Ever Been Charged. == Before they died, Jennifer Kirk and Sue Sue Norton were both victims of domestic violence, but the men involved — the ex-mayor’s sons — faced few consequences despite a long history of similar allegations. #News #DomesticViolence #Police #Politics #Women #NativeAmerican #CriminalJustice https://www.propublica.org/article/two-women-died-on-alaska-mayors-property-no-one-ever-charged?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Adam BryantGetting to hear Vic speak live a number of years ago was one of the coolest things, so in light of his passing I share that talk with y’all: https://youtu.be/p9jwJiTTuWc?si=lDthZuA0UkZtkW29
Vic Fischer: Wisdom From Our Elders | ARCTIC ENTRIES
This @anchoragedailynews headline misstates the situation. “A fence meant to help with pedestrian safety….” Um. No. If we built a pedestrian lane on the road and put up a fence to keep cars out, THAT would be a fence “meant to help with pedestrian safety.” This is a fence meant to hassle and obstruct pedestrians.
If we want engineers to start designing roads for all users rather than just car users, we could start with being precise in our language. https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2023/10/22/a-fence-meant-to-help-with-pedestrian-safety-went-up-in-the-middle-of-a-busy-anchorage-road-will-it/
A fence meant to help with pedestrian safety went up in the middle of a busy Anchorage road. Will it?
Earlier this month, a new fence appeared in the median of a heavily traveled stretch of Anchorage’s Minnesota Drive. It was about 6 feet tall, metal and dimpled with holes. It had the appearance, one person wrote on Reddit, of a “cheese grater.”