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Alaskan blogger. Https://www.whatdoino-steve.blogspot.com. How do we know? Be kind, but don’t take crap. Resist. Know what’s important and what isn’t. RPCV-Thailand

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🧵 2/2 TX Rep Monica De La Cruz (R) isn’t stepping up to help a family that’s here documented & following the rules

Antonio, a HS SR, the state’s 1st chair trumpet player, is sitting in the Raymondville detention center & his parents & brothers are in the Dilley Center

They’re kids, not criminals

08.03.2026 13:18 👍 530 🔁 247 💬 9 📌 0

I understand the feeling, but that’s partially how we got to this point. People not paying attention to what was going on unless it was terrible.

08.03.2026 18:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Gas Taxes by State 2026 Discover population, economy, health, and more with the most comprehensive global statistics at your fingertips.

State and local taxes on gasoline play a big role in the differences in the price of gas. The link shows state, but not local taxes. worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankin...

08.03.2026 17:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I even learned to like Chinese opera over time. This same philosophy should hold for learning to appreciate something in (if not like) most people as well

07.03.2026 21:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

this looks very AI. Why only one photo of Maddow instead of video. Lots of random white dots on the images. And Maddow would never say Bond-eye.

07.03.2026 02:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

First, let’s see the others and their tattoos. If he can’t id them and we can’t confirm they all have the same tattoo, it’s a lie.
Second, if he can produce them, it doesn’t prove he’s not a Nazi.

05.03.2026 22:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So will he decide peace talks with Russia over Ukraine are doomed to fail and taking out Putin is the only path left?

05.03.2026 07:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mine was a quibble. This is something neither of us can be certain of, but my objection stems from my belief that his own ego warps his understanding of things in a way far beyond the - and here I’ll sub ‘average’ for ‘normal’ -person. I’m not sure how one can even identify ’normal’ anymore.

04.03.2026 09:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“Because Trump has a normal person's understanding of everything”
I think you’re being generous. He has his own very warped understanding of everything. Nothing normal about him.

04.03.2026 08:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

28.02.2026 16:09 👍 13129 🔁 5317 💬 89 📌 184

They have nude passports now? 🙃

02.03.2026 04:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe it was their criminal record that messed up their chances.

02.03.2026 04:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
STOP Calling Them Illegal Aliens!  #shorts
STOP Calling Them Illegal Aliens! #shorts YouTube video by David Feldman

youtube.com/shorts/NZv75...

01.03.2026 04:31 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

A serious discussion on SCOTUS particularly on the tariff ruling with Obama’s solicitor General who successfully defended ACA at SCOTUS. Also some comments on judge Cannon locking up Jack Smith’s report on the confidential docs. This is much more informed opinion than most social media pundits.

28.02.2026 20:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Frank Rich: Roy Cohn, Donald Trump, and the New York Cesspool That Created Them The city’s Establishment will ignore unscrupulous acts to serve its interests — just look how it treated the onetime lawyer to the president.

Trump spent his whole adult life filing intimidation lawsuits to avoid all sorts of accountability. Make things so hard that your adversary gives up. Learned it from Roy Cohn. While this article doesn’t highlight lawsuit attacks, it does look at the Cohn influence on Trump. nymag.com/intelligence...

27.02.2026 17:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It seems to me that any anti-trans law is extreme in a democracy where people should be free to be themselves as long as they don’t harm others’ freedoms. (And making people uncomfortable merely because you exist isn’t harming others. All true education makes people uncomfortable at first. )

26.02.2026 05:29 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Anchorage School Board continues after break. Donley proposes to drop the language that closed Fire Lake school. Vote on amendment - fails 2-5.

25.02.2026 07:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of motion to take Lake Otis out of the proposal.

Photo of motion to take Lake Otis out of the proposal.

Anchorage School Board continues after break. Donley proposes to drop the language that closed Lake Otis School. Higgins pleading to keep this high needs Title1 school with diverse population and lots of special needs school. Fails 2-5

25.02.2026 06:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Anchorage School Board: Amendment to delete Campbell STEM school from proposal.
Long discussion Motion fails 3-4.

25.02.2026 06:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Anchorage School District Motion to take out the change to Denali Montessori program to not move 6 to graders to middle school. No mention of money. Passes 7-0

25.02.2026 05:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Anchorage School Board meeting continues with public testimony. These are people who were signed up to speak last week but didn’t have s chance because the meeting lasted too long.

25.02.2026 05:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of Anchorage School District Survey Results. Previous picture was of a list of budget cuts

Cover of Anchorage School District Survey Results. Previous picture was of a list of budget cuts

25.02.2026 05:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Anchorage School Board has gotten a budget report and then Superintendent talked about survey results that tend to support consolidations in abstract.

25.02.2026 05:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Anchorage school board amendment to postpone decision until April 21 Motion failed 3-4

25.02.2026 04:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Board member Pat Higgins via Zoom proposes postponing decision until April 24 and establish a committee that includes more people.

25.02.2026 04:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Anchorage school district board meeting room packed as board prepares to vote on closing schools

25.02.2026 04:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why the redactions? Presumably the email was not written by a survivor.

22.02.2026 17:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The fact that everyone isn’t suspicious about how all those swing states went red is what I don’t understand. Trump told us Elon had fixed things for him.

21.02.2026 18:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Keep asking them why they feel so threatened about the existence of transgender folks. Why do they believe in freedom for themselves but not others? Keep asking ‘why‘ until they get to the real reasons.

21.02.2026 18:07 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Alaska legislator's chief of staff arrested on child sex crime charges Federal agents arrested Craig Scott Valdez, 36, early Friday in Juneau, according to court documents.

Alaska Young Republican chair and chief of staff for GOP state Sen. Rauscher.

alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

21.02.2026 03:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0