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Matt Tunseth

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5 months

Alaska is the kind of place where you can make $200k a year, pay zero state income taxes, cash a yearly $1,500 check from the government, have the state pay for your kid’s dance lessons and proudly call yourself a “fiscal conservative.”

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Someone in a Jeep just decided to ditch the Glenn Highway traffic.... #AkEarthquake

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Alaska’s largest cities: 1) Anchorage 2) Fairbanks 3) Soldotna Fred Meyer parking lot 4) Juneau 5) Wasilla

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Alaskans agree on virtually nothing, but there is one hill every last one of us will absolutely die on: snowmachine.

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Show me you’ve never used an ice scraper without telling me you’ve never used an ice scraper.

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3 years

While hardworking Alaskans worry about jobs and the failing Biden economy, Joe Biden’s Chief Enabling Officer Liberal Lisa was in Scotland at the sham climate conference that is hellbent on killing our energy jobs. I hope Lisa enjoyed the Scottish castles with Liberal Elites!

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Spenard, Alaska

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The Soldotna Pride marchers have the anti-Pride protestors outnumbered by the hundreds. A huge contingent just marched past the 20 or so counter demonstrators.

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@ggreenwald So just out of curiousity Glenn, why doesn’t the recent ban of journalists bother you? Wouldn’t it be hypocritical on your part not to defend them from Twitter’s arbitrary content moderation system?

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Waves on beach with snow Kenai, AK

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Sarah Palin lost to Mary Peltola by more than 50,000 votes. This isn’t about ranked choice it’s about sour grapes.

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Alaskans for Honest Government launched a citizens initiative to repeal ranked choice voting. I was honored to be the first to sign the petition.

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Anchorage officials moved the city’s homeless into a bear-filled park and then immediately had to kill the bears. The absurdity playing out in Centennial Park right now is full-on Parks and Rec meets Black Mirror.

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Heading down to Kaladi for a latte, better make sure I got my gun, knife and camo pants.

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Votes are still being counted, but it’s safe to say the biggest losers in this year’s Alaska election were religious extremists Bob Bird and Jim Minnery, whose scheme to sneak an abortion ban into the state constitution was resoundingly defeated by voters.

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2 years

That new “Anchorage” show is going to have to work pretty damn hard to replicate this kind of gritty realism

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2 years

At 16 I experienced major traumatic stress. Never received a day of therapy. At 45 I’m alone, childless, have few close friends and am a personal and professional failure. Have kids talk to someone if they’re struggling or we’ll continue to produce broken adults. #MentalHealth

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There are a lot of “only in Alaska” pictures out there, but I gotta say you’d be hard pressed to find another state with a bipartisan pro-fish roadside campaign sign.

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Salmonfest is Burning Man for people who eat at Moose’s Tooth once a week.

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2 years

It’s been like four hours since Alaska election results were announced and still neither Dan Sullivan nor Mike Dunleavy has tweeted a word about Alaska electing its first female and first Alaska Native congresswoman. They must be…sad!

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Let these two host the Oscars

Pep Boys & Baboon Cinematic Universe (Updates)

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Anchorage, Alaska

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Lol someone caught a phone while fishing in the Kenai River and is trying to find the owner…

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@atomiques @TylerIAm

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Remember when Dan Sullivan and a cancel culture mob of reactionary lunatics tried to ruin the career of the first female superintendent in Denali National Park history?

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6 months

Not sure what all the fuss is about this photo, I honestly couldn’t spot any digital alterations

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“Ukraine has always been a part of Russia.” - Anchorage Assemblywoman Jamie Allard

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I can’t think of a better illustration of Alaska conservative thought than the governor dragging Biden for high oil prices while simultaneously bragging about high oil prices.

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2 years

Alaskans overwhelming support abortion rights yet neither of its U.S. senators do. Weird how that works.

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Seward Highway, Alaska

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2 years

Both the Alaska governor and the Anchorage mayor have now formally come out in favor of a state constitutional convention, bowing to pressure from far right activists who want to rip up Alaska’s constitution and replace it with their own.

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Nick Begich just attacked Rep. Mary Peltola for voting with hard-left democrats “when she’s there.” Begich is correct — Peltola did recently miss some time from work in Congress. Her husband died. Classy.

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2 years

You ever seen a public restroom in Anchorage? When you don’t have a home, the most basic human needs become huge inconveniences. Rather than complain about the guy you saw shitting in the street, think about what it’s like having to make that choice.

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3 years

Oh shit, Bronson just shut down air traffic control in order to put a halt to chemtrails.

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4 years

Fast food parking lot ravens will absolutely cut you.

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3 years

The final act in Bronson’s political masterclass will see him installing himself as head librarian and revealing the whole mayor thing was just a ruse to get the muni to carry more large-print Louis L’Amour books.

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2 years

Alaska needs to have a grown-up conversation about gaming. There’s no Powerball but there is something called the “Alaska Lotto.” No sports betting, but you can wager on when ice will melt. No casinos but rippie and bingo joints galore. It makes no sense.

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Matt Tunseth

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@Climatologist49 This is the moment he knew he was in trouble:

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4 years

"If you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, let me catch you up…"

I (Still) Hate Alaska Nazis

Free speech isn’t under attack when people speak out against the use of Nazi symbolism on government-issued license plates.

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If you’re outraged Alaska Natives get free museum admission but not that they make up a disproportionate amount of Alaska’s incarcerated population, you might be a MRAK reader.

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3 years

The Brown’s Electric sign is the closest thing to Boomer Facebook you’ll find in real life.

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Berkowitz: “Nobody’s ever gonna flame out at this job as bad as me.” Bronson: “Hold my horse paste.”

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2 years

Colder than a raven’s eyelashes

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Anchorage is not a dying or failed city, you’ve just been brainwashed by shitty takes from lazy men.

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3 years

Alaska Tinder is just the same 117 people and every one is married, ethically nonmonogamous and holding a fish they caught in 2009.

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Alaska’s next member of Congress

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4 years

Dude went Hasselhoff today to retrieve a stranger’s dipnet as it floated out to sea near the mouth of the Kenai River. The grateful owner of the net gave the Good Salmaritan the sockeye tangled in the mesh. #onlyinalaska

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The only things people are building in Kenai/Soldotna are gas stations and car dealerships. It’s so weird Alaska keeps losing its young people, I can’t figure out why.

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Kenai River, AK

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Midnight in Anchorage

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Can anyone guess where I found this sticker? If you said the Anchorage Police Department’s personal vehicle lot you are correct!

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“We’re not going to be Seattle or Portland” says the mayor of a city whose violent crime rate is double that of Seattle and Portland.

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We’re living in a Golden Age for dudes with hot takes on women.

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4 years

Last sunset of 2020. Peace

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3 years

Alaskans didn’t used to think spending a week in Florida with East Coast billionaires was a badge of honor but I guess here we are.

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The Mat-Su area of Alaska is widely known as the “Cradle of Genius” due to the large number of highly intelligent people living there.

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3 years

If Mike Dunleavy and Dave Bronson were in a head-on collision they’d blame the tow truck driver.

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Kincaid Park is a national treasure. #WildAboutAnchorage

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Anchorage, Alaska

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When hack political consultants from Alaska are taking trips to Dubai you know the state is absolutely drowning in dark money. Best game in town.

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2 years

Ever notice how every time politicians promise to boost “public safety” all we get is more police? It’s never safer bike paths or better street maintenance or a renewed commitment to affordable health care. Nah, “public safety” only ever means 3 things: Cops, cops and cops.

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Bronson’s administration is falling apart faster than a McKenna can steal gas.

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A moose swimming in the Kenai River

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The Anchorage Baptist Temple received $961,962 in federal PPP loans, all of which was forgiven by the government.

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1 year

Oil companies are a malignant presence in Alaska. They take, take, take and when we ask for our fair share they threaten, bully and intimidate us. Fuck Shell. Fuck ExxonMobil. Fuck ConocoPhillips. Fuck Hillcorp. Big oil is anti-Alaska.

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In the past 40 years there has never been a problem Alaskans didn’t think could be solved by drilling for oil.

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I don’t care what anyone says I’d love to see the Winter Olympics held in Anchorage.

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2 years

Quick! Someone share a story about how they’re NOT leaving Alaska. Need a timeline cleanse.

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Best city on planet earth

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@lisamurkowski @SenatorCollins Can you more fully explain why you believe that decision should not be left to a woman and her doctor and why it is your position that government should regulate these very personal and often heartbreaking choices?

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High summer in Kenai, Alaska

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The Anchorage Assembly is in its second week of public testimony from people who say their freedom of speech is under attack by the government.

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OMG this is real

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BREAKING: The House Education Committee is voting on a parental rights bill that mandates anyone with a kid on the football team has the right to review every play the coach calls before the ball is snapped. #akleg

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Are you dating? The weirdest mf in Alaska has a warning for you:

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There’s now localized flooding, which the National Weather Service is likely due to the steady flow of tears coming from the world’s youngest Boomer.

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We’ve now had nearly 100 aftershocks of magnitude 3.0 or higher...those last two were 4.2 and 4.7, six minutes apart centered near Big Lake, Alaska. Lot of sleepless nights for folks tonight. #AkEarthquake

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@ABC7 Why are you minimizing the woman he killed?

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Palmer people have prevailed in their battle to be called colonizers. Congratulations, Palmer.

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There is no possible way anyone can argue the Anchorage Police Department is “overworked” if they have enough resources to assign a detective to a sign vandalism case.

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A public campsite in Alaska generally runs around $20 a night. A 15-minute shower costs $5-10. Just to legally sleep and shower would cost someone $750-900 a month. The poorer you are, the more expensive it is to simply survive.

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A brief history of Anchorage Twitter complaining about the city’s terrible snow plowing 🧵

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Welp, looks like the voters of the Kenai Peninsula and Mat-Su Valley have once again been stymied in their attempt to recall a member of the Anchorage Assembly.

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If Alaska’s “leaders” spent half as much time thinking about solutions as they do trans kids they would have already solved homelessness, funded education, reformed the criminal justice system, settled the fish wars, brought back the Aces and discovered a cure for Alaskapox.

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I live in a postcard. #ChugachStatePark #WildAboutAnchorage #Alaska #Aurora

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Alaska is ~60% white and ~15-20% Alaska Native, yet the two groups make up roughly the same number of sentenced prisoners in the state. This is outrageous and a glaring example of the systemic racism that exists in Alaska. #akleg

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Have a look at the data. #akleg

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What’s the opposite of a think tank?

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A brief tour of coastal Anchorage (a photo thread) A surfer heads out into Turnagain Arm on Tuesday, May 7, 2024 near Bird Point in Anchorage, Alaska.

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Earlier today, Governor Dunleavy said there was “no way” to verify claims of harassment against Charlie Pierce. Today, Pierce’s own running mate dropped him. 😂

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Sometimes you can hit Alyeska on a weekday and just be absolutely stealing money.

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Seeing tweets from zero Alaska accounts. Did everyone leave?

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This is now officially the saddest, most fucked-up story in Alaska history.

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Timothy Hoffman, whose 19-year-old daughter was murdered in a elaborate catfishing plot five years ago, died Sunday in a motorcycle crash during a memorial ride marking the anniversary of her death.

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Outside the premier of Hamilton I watched a well-dressed couple openly taking shots alongside 5th Ave while 50 feet away cops breathalyzed a poorly dressed man in the park. Weird how if you’re rich and white it’s cool to drink in public but if you’re not you get a cruiser called.

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Matt Tunseth

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The Anchorage Police Department has had four officer involved shootings in the last two months and is on its fifth police chief in three years. How’s the culture there? You tell me.

Anchorage police to publicly disclose all officer arrests under new directive

An off-duty officer was charged with driving drunk in December. At least two other off-duty officers have been arrested on similar charges since 2022.

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You may have heard claims the nation’s highest-grossing pizza parlor is in Anchorage, but did you know the planet’s busiest Taco Bell is in Soldotna?

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