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One of the most common claims by the MAGA faithful is that everything was better under Donald Trump. “The country is falling apart,” they say. “The country is shittier” I’ve seen MAGAs claim. Most of their complaint is that inflation has risen to about...
by Frank Vyan Walton
on Tue Oct 11, 2022 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Alaska is shrinking. Oh, we are still the largest state by a wide margin. Our population, however, is shrinking year after year. There are more caribou than people here. Alaska’s population dropped by nearly 4,000 people — half a percent — last year,...
by oldmanriver
on Wed Jun 23, 2021 at 03:44 PM PDT
with 30 Recommends
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Great News: from the New York Times: The Biden administration on Tuesday suspended oil drilling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, unspooling a signature achievement of the Trump presidency and delivering on a promise by President Biden to...
by DrMarmot
on Tue Jun 01, 2021 at 07:55 PM PDT
with 25 Recommends
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When the last Republican administration rode into office on a minority vote, slight electoral victory, the GOP knew they were closer than ever to their oily dreams of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Early on in the corrupt...
by Walter Einenkel
on Tue Jun 01, 2021 at 04:33 PM PDT
with 95 Recommends
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January 6 witnessed two brutish attacks on the public good. Both failed. The first of course was the fascists, QAnon crazies, white supremacists and other seditious abusers who rioted in our nation’s capital, likely committing treason in the process....
by DrMarmot
on Sun Jan 31, 2021 at 08:29 AM PST
with 136 Recommends
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The Republican Party has a thing about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Or rather, the oil companies that lobby the Republican Party are bent on drilling there, and by God what the oil companies ...
by Hunter
on Wed Jun 12, 2019 at 06:20 PM PDT
with 55 Recommends
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The Interior Department has been working furiously to issue drilling permits so that oil companies can begin drilling and constructing the infrastructure that enables production in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Trump administration is...
by Pakalolo
on Fri Jan 11, 2019 at 03:25 AM PST
with 25 Recommends
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Mother Jones is reporting that a leaked memo written by FWS Alaska regional director Greg Siekaniec warned the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that going ahead with plans to seismically test for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) would...
by Paul C
on Mon Dec 17, 2018 at 07:03 AM PST
with 34 Recommends
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Honey badger don’t care. Honey badger don’t give a shit, it just takes what it wants.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck on Sunday near the native Alaskan village of Kaktovik and part of the Arctic National...
by Pakalolo
on Mon Aug 13, 2018 at 05:17 AM PDT
with 55 Recommends
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Doctor RJ, Magnifico, ...
by side pocket
on Mon May 14, 2018 at 08:59 PM PDT
with 31 Recommends
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From our community:
Lake Hazen, located on northern Ellesmere Island in Canada’s far north is, by volume, the largest lake north of the Arctic Circle. Arctic indigenous people’s first arrived at Lake Hazen circa 2500 BC. At various times since...
by Pakalolo
on Thu Apr 05, 2018 at 05:22 AM PDT
with 85 Recommends
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I miss Nixon.
Seriously.
How about that? OMG.
That’s how bad things are. The GOP and their disastrous leader are mounting an assault on our animals, our skies, our waters, our land, and of course on the American people. Why I have no...
by Colorado Blue
on Thu Dec 28, 2017 at 07:34 PM PST
with 8 Recommends
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Where is the Democratic party in Alaska? Why haven’t they sent out a tweet since May 31st, 2017?
These are questions I ask myself on a near daily basis. I wait for a tweet. I wait for them to tell us who is running for local office. I wait for them...
by ezjtharocka
on Mon Dec 25, 2017 at 11:46 AM PST
with 5 Recommends
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This is crushing.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski is wearing some Hulk earrings Tuesday in honor of the late Sen. Ted Stevens, who was known for wearing superhero ties and would wear a Hulk tie whenever he tried to get Congress to approve oil drilling in the...
by OrWhatHaveYou
on Tue Dec 19, 2017 at 07:13 PM PST
with 5 Recommends
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Tucked amid the other destruction included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act the Senate passed in the wee hours last Saturday is a provision to open up 1.5 million acres on the coastal plain of the vast Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling. It’s...
by Meteor Blades
on Thu Dec 07, 2017 at 01:00 PM PST
with 75 Recommends
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In early 2005 I was a student at Portland Community College, taking my first college-level political science class. One day we had a guest speaker come to class: Chief Evon Peter of the Gwich’in people of the Arctic. Peter spoke about what was at that...
by NickEngelfried
on Wed Nov 29, 2017 at 09:03 AM PST
with 26 Recommends
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OIL AND ENDGAME
IN THE AMERICAN SERENGETI
Drilling the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
By Doug Lee
NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED HERE on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska’s Far North—for about the past ten...
by Douglas Lee
on Fri Nov 17, 2017 at 01:10 PM PST
with 8 Recommends
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Between 1998 and 1999, Ryan Zinke, then a Navy SEAL Team 6 officer, traveled to and from his home in Montana and billed the Department of Defense for his travel expenses. According to a report last year by Mathew Cole of The Intercept:
Two SEAL...
by Susan Grigsby
on Sun Nov 19, 2017 at 02:01 PM PST
with 110 Recommends
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Since taking office 10 horrifying months ago, Donald Trump has been able to assemble a team filled with fossil fuel interests that is determined to destroy the livability of the planet and all for a quick buck. The chaos President, with it’s endless...
by Pakalolo
on Thu Nov 16, 2017 at 05:17 AM PST
with 17 Recommends
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When the Trump administration proposed a budget earlier this year that seemingly gutted the entire government, we took some solace in the knowledge that Congress was unlikely to enact the most extreme cuts. But there was one sneaky idea that has,...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
on Fri Oct 06, 2017 at 07:31 AM PDT
with 5 Recommends
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