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The pilot who dealt with that emergency on the AK Air flight in which a piece of fuselage fell out in midair and in which everyone miraculously survived and that Boeing has planes worldwide grounded over was … a woman. Everyone should listen to the audio of how calm she was.
Just spent 1h sitting 3 ft across a table from
@lisamurkowski
with 18 Alaskan lawyers & advocates opposed to
#Kavanaugh
. We brought your message & letters from 100s of lawyers & law clerks. She was receptive, kind: a true stateswoman. We appealed to her conscience & we have hope.
NEW HISTORY JUST DROPPED.
@MaryPeltola
is the first Alaska Native, first woman, and first Alaska-born congressperson ever to sit in the United States House of Representatives.
If your hair feels dry it’s likely due to overgrowth of yeast in your microbiome. Drinking more water & eating lean protein in coconut oil and now that the men have stopped reading we must elect 100% pro-choice candidates unless we want Lindsey Graham personally removing our IUDs
@thepbg
Obscenely wealthy institutions like
@Harvard
must stop trading on their name & status to exploit labor—especially labor of women & especially BIPOC women. These places bank on the assumption that people can, should & will grovel at a chance to associate with them for free. SHAME.
Tears steamed down my face in the Senate Gallery today. 100+ Alaskan women flew down on 24h notice to meet with
@lisamurkowski
herself. We did. She heard our fear & our passion. Her post-vote words clearly echoed ours to her.
#Kavanaugh
may still be confirmed but I’m so grateful.
@jlazebnik
True story: when Good Will Hunting came out in 1995(?) I found Ben Affleck’s Yahoo email address and had a three-email exchange about his script-writing process. This is my second brush with Hollywood fame tweet of the day. I’ll see myself out now.
A pic from our meeting today with
@lisamurkowski
. No matter how she votes, my conscience is clear. Despite risks to our bodies & careers, this brave group of AK advocates used our power & privilege to urge our Senator to vote no on
#Kavanaugh
. We did all we could in this moment.
Apparently
@MaryPeltola
will be sworn in to Congress tomorrow at 6:30 pm aka 2:30 p.m. at home in Alaska, and apparently it can be viewed on CSPAN. I can’t wait to watch history be made in real time!
@msolurin
The felony murder rule is 💯 an engine of mass incarceration, and if more people outside this profession knew what it was, they’d be horrified.
The new American Girl Doll will be forced to have her uncle’s baby but when it’s born have no paid leave or childcare so while working min wage at a Christian college where she can’t wear a mask in a pandemic will get shot by a student & declare bankruptcy due to medical bills.
@Calkent
Absolutely. It’s well-documented that the cheapest way to solve homelessness is to just give the unhoused housing, but American exceptionalism and make-believe meritocracy cannot tolerate that—even if it’s in capitalism’s own best interest.
Well, folks. It took 3 years & 11 days, but if you work for the State of Alaska, you now have the constitutional right to call Trump a “Fascist Cantaloupe” & “Edward Cheeto-Hands” on social media without fear of reprisal. My work here is done—all hail the Queen of Cringe! 🎤 ✋🏼
So wearing a mask at Costco in a pandemic is “living in fear” but thinking the country is on the brink of a socialist takeover by antifa looters & thus everyone should acquire a personal arsenal & train for a final confrontation with a tyrannical government is NOT living in fear?
I want people to understand the full extent of
@MaryPeltola
’s readiness for this job. 10 years of legislative experience in AK. Deep knowledge of our issues. Authenticity, empathy, humility. Consensus building on broad common values. DC has NO idea what’s coming & AK is SO lucky.
The story isn’t “Palin lost.” The story is “Mary won.” And she MUST WIN AGAIN in November. It’s called the House of REPRESENTATIVES. Palin doesn’t “represent” Alaska. A Yup’ik woman & former legislator from Bethel who knows fisheries & natural resources & AK’s social issues does.
Roe is history. BUT the Alaska Constitution STILL PROTECTS abortion rights. That can—and likely will—change if you don’t vote NO on a constitutional convention on AK’s general election ballot this November.
I realize this is a controversial take but maybe being one blown tire, one broken bone, or one paycheck away from homelessness & financial ruin at all times isn’t actually “freedom” the way we were raised to believe it is.
@DoctorPissPants
MY TAKE ON 3 DECADES:
20s: make a bunch of critical decisions when you don’t know who you are/what you’re doing.
30s: experience the consequences of those decisions for better or worse.
40s: awaken to self-acceptance; come to terms with consequences and/or make major life shifts.
White supremacy is one kid getting a PR firm & the chance to gaslight a whole nation to salvage his reputation after being an irredeemable shit while another gets 5 seconds to drop a pack of Skittles but dies anyway & is called a thug & his killer almost gets a book deal.
“I had lunch with David Sedaris in Juneau today & at the end of the meal he spontaneously asked me to open for him at tonight’s show & so I dug around for decent material & opened for him 5 hours later” isn’t a sentence I ever expected to type & yet here we are.😬🤷🏻♀️
I’m old enough to remember 14 days ago when RBG died & 5 days ago when Trump’s taxes came out & 3 days ago when 2 old men argued over a parking spot on national TV & called it a debate & yesterday when Melania said fuck Christmas & today when Trump got rona & went to the hospital
Don Young died. He was a legend, like it or not (I did not). I always voted against him & thought a lot of the stuff he said & did was awful, but the man was the longest serving rep in Congress & I think usually had (what he at least felt) were AK’s best interests at heart. RIP.
Alaska is an amazing state & it hurts to see it often maligned & misunderstood by the rest of the US.
@MaryPeltola
represents the best of everything about AK: stewardship of land, empathy, humility, compassion, intelligence & work ethic and now she represents us all in Congress.
The AK Constitution has a unique provision that anyone who belongs to/supports an org. that advocates “the overthrow by force or violence” of the USA is ineligible for public office. Today a judge issued an injunction against Oath Keeper house rep David Eastman under this clause.
Update: the person who drives a Hummer has two sets of Nazi license plates issued by the State of Alaska that he apparently swaps out. They say FUHRER & 3REICH. His last name is neither. His FB is terrifying. The State is letting him be a mobile billboard for domestic terrorism.
I respectfully disagree with today’s
@adndotcom
op-ed today that attributed
@MaryPeltola
’s election to luck. Yes she caught some lucky breaks but the fact is Mary worked VERY hard, is highly qualified, & charismatic. It’s not some accident of happenstance that she’s where she is.
WHY DOES IT TAKE SO LONG TO COUNT VOTES IN ALASKA (a 🧵): The 1st thing to know in answering this question is that only a fraction of votes are cast on Election Day. Many are cast as absentee ballots in the 2 weeks leading up to E-Day. Many of those absentee votes are (1/4)
“Due process” is not something
@AlaskaAir
is required to provide. It’s a private company. Only the government is required to provide due process. You’d think or hope a state senator who chaired the judiciary committee would know that?
*taps mic* uh ... so we all know this whole “soft reopen” thing is really just nationwide pressure to make a control group out of working class folks while not having to pay them UI anymore, right?
Alaska and
@MaryPeltola
literally made history tonight. A brilliant and extremely qualified Yup’ik mother, grandmother, stateswoman, friend, and all-around amazing human from Bethel is in Alaska’s lone congressional seat. She is the first Alaska Native to serve there.
Since the day I was fired, all I ever wanted was for a judge to say
@GovDunleavy
’s & Babcock’s resignation demand scheme was unconstitutional. That happened today. Even if it doesn’t happen again in my companion case, the result is the same & future employees are safe from this.
No wardrobe is complete without a black ballet flat. You can dress up this versatile shoe for work or pair with skinny jeans for drinks with the girls & now that the men have stopped reading the bog witches are having a membership drive under the next full moon bring cauldrons.
@Eve6
My deepest fear is marrying a billionaire and then having to compete with my other billionaire friends for private island real estate in the Seychelles
@MaryPeltola
is going to make history, either tonight or in November. This is happening, Alaska. We WILL send this powerful, brilliant Yup’ik woman, legislator, mother, and grandmother from rural Alaska to Congress to fight for Alaska’s future.
No one is saying David Eastman can’t be an Oath Keeper, N-zi, seditionist and/or 3%er. He just can’t be a legislator at the same time. You can’t be a legislator and associate with groups that advocate overthrowing the country. The Alaska Constitution is real clear on that.
Maybe the best part of this is that my characterization of Trump as “Edward Cheeto-Hands” and a “Fascist Cantaloupe” is now forever enshrined in the federal jurisprudential canon.
Folks, please believe me when I say this:
@MaryPeltola
is the only serious candidate in the AK U.S. House race. By serious I mean: She’s the only person with any grasp of what it means to actually do this job. She’s the only person with experience in elective legislative office.
My relentless trolling instigated by
@JeffLandfield
@alaskalandmine
smoked Mike Shower out of his pro constitutional convention hole & he agreed to debate me on the merits of prop 1 this Friday at 7pm on Zoom moderated by Forrest Nabors at UAA. Live Zoom link to follow.
After 10 years of being active on social media, I’m taking an indefinite break from all platforms. Social media was once a decent vehicle for genuine personal connection & advocacy. It’s no longer either, at least for me. Thank you for reading all my stuff over the years.
Meanwhile in Alaska, Sarah Palin and literally Santa Claus are running against each other for our only seat in Congress. This is not an April Fools. It’s just a regular fools.
Heading to cloture vote soon with no cell phones allowed so will be offline. AK women advocates flew so far & I had the privilege to look
@lisamurkowski
right in the eye & tell her she can do this. That she knows this is the wrong man for the job & to please vote her conscience.
1. Nazis were canceled in 1945.
2. Neo-Nazis should be canceled now.
3. Nazi language shouldn’t be on state license plates.
4. Nazi terror drove a US coup attempt 3 weeks ago.
5. Elected officials shouldn’t defend Nazis.
6. Nazi speech is not protected by the 1st Amendment.
Thx.
Absent a court order to the contrary, looks like the US House candidates will be Begich, Palin &
@MaryPeltola
. Really hoping AK comes out strong for Mary. She’s the only candidate with experience in legislative office here. Let’s send a qualified Indigenous woman to Congress.
Please let today be the day the whole internet dies and we can all go back to 1993 when you had to make your friends a mix tape and send it through the mail.
I know it’s easy to be cynical & question the motives of
@lisamurkowski
in voting to convict Trump. But personally I don’t care why she did it. She did the right thing and regardless of why, I’m proud to be her constituent today.
The whole State of Alaska—and especially the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta—is bursting with pride for
@MaryPeltola
tonight. This is just the beginning of an incredible journey for Mary and all of her extremely lucky constituents.
#InstantIcon
.
LMAO
@SenDanSullivan
violating Congressional financial disclosure laws by failing to disclose stock in the world’s largest ATLANTIC SALMON FARM. Always giving that Ohio energy!
Folks out here making voting in AK this year sound like splitting the atom or deriving the Pythagorean Theorem. My Siblings in Christ, we are coloring in a half dozen bubbles with a magic marker
I wish I could convey the gravity and danger of a constitutional convention in Alaska at this moment. $16 million will be spent to tear up the entire constitution and start over again with a boot on the neck of your personal privacy, natural resources, and civil rights.
I’m hearing
@GovDunleavy
is mad at me re
#Tuluksak
. Bruh. I’m not the only person on social media who GAF if rural AK has water/disaster response. That said, I do need to mind my business more. My business is making Dunleavy hate me for holding him accountable & business is good!
Take care of yourself because they want you to be sick. Be kind to each other because they want you to be mean. Read because they want you to be ignorant. Be brave because they want you to cower in fear. Stay and fight because they want you to surrender and disappear.