Margaret Ungrodt

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

You can’t go to work, to the MALL, to the grocery store, to your church, to the movies or the bank.
You can’t attend a concert, go to a dance class or go to see your doctor. You can’t ring a doorbell, use a leaf blower, hop in a car, pull down a driveway, bounce a ball, or ask the neighbor to keep it down.
You can’t check out a farmer’s market or mail something at the post office or go to a parade, and you certainly can’t send your kids to school without worrying that someone will get shot.
That someone you LOVE will get shot.
Or that YOU will get shot.
This is where we are now.
This is not normal.
And this is not fucking ok.
It’s NOT fucking ok.

[Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀 @Trawler_Bycatch]

This summer, Kenai Peninsula beaches from Ninilchik to Kenai will be empty of setnets. Family-run commerial fishing businesses, have been shut down and may not be coming back.
Yet ⁦@NOAAFisheries⁩ lets corporate trawlers drag unencumbered. https://t.co/lXLk8qSEkX

[Dermot Cole @DermotMCole]

Ten-year retrospective: SB 21 did not lead to an increase in Alaska oil production. #akleg #akgov
https://t.co/DOmnKu0bHM

[Omar Rivero @OmarRiverosays]

BREAKING: @NPR drops bombshell, reveals that Elon Musk just sent them a “series” of angry emails “threatening” to revoke their Twitter handle and “reassign it to another company” if they don’t “start tweeting again.”

One ex-Twitter executive was shocked by Musk’s threat, telling NPR that such a threat “should be alarming to any business operating on the site, since it indicates that acquiescing to Musk's every whim may be necessary in order to avoid being impersonated on Twitter.”

Social media experts say that Musk’s threat “poses a serious risk of impersonation and could imperil a company's reputation” and that “if this is a sign of things to come on Twitter, we might soon see even more of a rapid retreat by media organizations and other brands that don't think it's worth the risk," said Emily Bell, a professor at Columbia Journalism School who studies social media. "It's really an extraordinary threat to make."

Last month, NPR effectively quit Twitter after Musk applied a label to the news organization's account that falsely suggested it was state-controlled. Other public media organizations, including PBS and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., followed suit and stopped tweeting following similar labeling.

In an email sent at 2:19 a.m. EST after this story was originally published on the NPR website, Musk wrote a new email to NPR without any text in the body but with this subject line: "You suck."

Please RT to expose Musk’s awful tenure as Twitter CEO, smash the ❤️ if you have NPR’S back against him, and consider joining the growing exodus to https://t.co/3VM3MqTSy0, a new Twitter alternative that I created that Musk is trying to keep everyone from finding out about. He banned Tribel’s Twitter account last week — but he has yet to ban this link to download Tribel’s new app: https://t.co/0c9FDbB14A

[Margaret Ungrodt @Ungrodt]

HTTPS://Fairbanks daily https://t.co/koYzMM7dAB https://t.co/prs5i3tpBh

What we don’t know……

[Larry Huynh @larryhuynh]

BREAKING: The wife of Chief Justice John Roberts made $10.3 million in commissions from law firms that, "were likely appearing or seeking to appear before the Supreme Court."

According to Business Insider this, "eye-popping figure comes from records in a whistleblower complaint filed by a... former colleague of Roberts, who says that as the spouse of the most powerful judge in the United States, the income she earns from law firms who practice before the Court should be subject to public scrutiny."

The Supreme Court's credibility is at dangerously low levels for one reason and one reason only: the Justices are corrupt. 🧵

[phxrrs1💙 @phxrrs1]

You just can’t keep voting for these despicable people!!!
#GOPHypocrisy
#DemVoice1

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

God isn't in Heaven humming the U.S. National Anthem and waving an American Flag.

"For God so loved the WORLD..."

God is the God of the Universe, not the God of Whiteness or Western Interests.

And Jesus didn’t come to save a religion.

[Margaret Ungrodt @Ungrodt]

@GovDunleavy

[Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀 @Trawler_Bycatch]

Hey @GovDunleavy with halibut dock prices at $6 per pound, out of state trawlers have wasted $12,900,000 of Alaska’s halibut.

Are you going to do something about it besides form a new committee?

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

On May 24, 2022 in Uvalde Texas, an 18 year old walked into Robb Elementary School and shot and killed 19 children and 2 adults.

Two days ago in Houston Texas, a man paused his dinner date to shoot and kill a fake parking attendant.

Last night in Cleveland Texas, 5 members of a family (including an 8 year old child) were shot and killed by their neighbor after they asked him to stop firing his gun on his front lawn so their baby could sleep.

So when Republican lawmakers in a state where it’s easier to get AR-15s than books about Black history say their abortion ban is about being “pro-life”…
They’re full of shit.

[Dermot Cole @DermotMCole]

Missing context @AlaskaBeacon. Dunleavy has always claimed that no taxes were needed. He was lying. #akleg #akgov

[Stan Stephens Cruises @StanStephensAK]

We are thrilled to share NOAA released new Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC) data for Columbia Bay and are proud to have been part of the process. As tidewater glaciers such as Columbia Glacier retreat, they expose areas of water that have previously been filled with ice.🧵2/3

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

#EmmettTill’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, ensured that the world saw how gruesomely her 14 year-old child was murdered by violent white supremacists.

Racism isn’t disagreement.

Families grieve.
Communities mourn.
Dreams wither.

Humanity suffers.
People perish.

Remember Emmett.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

GOP: We want a balanced budget!

So repeal Trump’s $2.1T billionaire tax cuts?
•GOP: NO!

End corporate welfare?
•GOP: NO!

Audit bloated military budget?
•GOP: NO!

How will you balance the budget?

GOP: Block student debt forgiveness, ban food stamps,& ban free school lunch

[Just Shannon 🌊 @ShannonMcG716]

@CalltoActivism

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

BREAKING: Gun violence is actually worse in RED states and it’s not even close according to a new analysis.

Southern politicians, including Republican governors Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott, have blamed crime in Democratic-run cities like New York for being out of control.

However, statistics show that New York City region has the lowest rates of gun violence in the US mainland, while the southern swath of the country has the highest rates.

Those living in rural areas of South Carolina are more likely to die from gunshot wounds than those in equally rural areas of New York.

The highest rates of deadly gun violence occur in regions where Republicans have long dominated state governments.

“The Deep South is the most deadly of the large regions at 15.6 per 100,000 residents followed by Greater Appalachia at 13.5. Yankeedom is the next safest at 8.6, which is about half that of Deep South,” writes journalist Colin Woodard.

Maybe it’s time we take common sense Gun laws seriously?

It’s time to win the debate. Let’s expand background checks and pass an assault weapons ban.

Let’s curb ghost guns, ban high-capacity magazines, fight gun trafficking, and lengthen the review window for existing background checks.

We know the problem.

It’s the guns.

[Jeffrey Levin 🇺🇦 @jilevin]

Three words

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

These votes were 10 days apart.

North Dakota GOP (@NDHouseGOP)
•Voted NO on free school lunches for hungry kids😳
•Then Voted YES on free breakfast, lunch, & dinner for themselves🤔

I’m beyond enraged at these cruel backward MAGA extremist politicians. A special place in hell

[Ricky Davila @TheRickyDavila]

President Biden is allowed to spend a weekend every now and again at his family home in Delaware after all the good work he does. He’s not golfing every weekend at his resorts profiting from taxpayer dollars whilst racking up a $150M bill and scamming the secret service. STFU.