Colleen Mondor

If you are a freelancer you need to know what happened to me and be ready for it. Two years after being sued, four years after the article was published, I am owed over $200,000 by the Plaintiff & have gotten nothing. How to you keep reporting after this? colleenmondor.substack.com/p/58-i-am-th...

Reach Aviation Unveils Diesel Bush Plane Company raising capital to certify AC-6

Oh. My. God.

Alaska is on track to get a Democratic governor.

This is just fun. Dwayne Gretzky is a great cover band. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyOq...

Meanwhile, in Alaska....

here's what I am reading today and YES! Anchorage Press got its facts straight! anchoragepress.com/look-out-bel... Parachuting is lame. Several journalists in AK have decades of experiences, dozens of awards & impressive bylines. Knowledge & experience matter if you want to cover AK well.

This NTSB Board retirement flew way under the radar. He left the agency in early October - even though he was confirmed in May for another 5 years. Three members gone in just over a year. To say such upheaval at the NTSB is unprecedented is a vast understatement. avweb.com/flight-safet...

No indication of targeted attack behind Peltola car crash in Anchorage, writes @alaska.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/10/26/n...

Just put down a deposit on a puppy. I must admit, when we saw the shelter had named him "Moose", we thought it was meant to be. (Alaskans will understand - we are Outside and adopting in WA State, so finding an AK-themed dog seemed perfect.) We will see him & hopefully take him with us on Friday.

I miss knowing that Bowie was still in the world and doing great things. I'm also very glad that I watched all of Live Aid when it aired because my mom was cool enough to know it was "history in the making". www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFHC...

Turnout in Brazil was 81 percent today, up from 79 percent in the 2022 election.

Oh, how I love The Killers. Give them a Warren Zevon song and I'm over the moon! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMgt...

If you are looking for NF book recs from someone who reviews NF professionally for the American Library Assoc (me!), note this thread. I just added a few more books & will be updating it on a more regular basis from now on. I will be reaching back for older books often, along with new releases.

Feeling like wailing out a Cher song tonight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n3A...

It is not just that people need baseball, it is the type of baseball being played. The Brewers are making plans and executing them. They aren’t deterred by assaults or mistakes. They keep their eyes on the ball. They get in their opponents’ heads and make them crack. You might call it metaphor.

This thread comes to a close... ... as we now have a final result. Let the records show that, with 92% of the vote countywide, Lula is up 3.3%. (Can he end up doubling his 2022 margin?)

Alaska's "I Voted" stickers are sooooooooo cool!

South #Florida is already flooding, and the peak of this king tide is days away www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e... via @harrisalexc.bsky.social

Something being missed in the AK election discourse is how significant local media is in the state. People listen to public radio, consume the newspapers & AK produced & staffed news sites, etc. This is a small population state & local media is very relevant. Alaskans want to know what’s going on.

Getting kind of old: it's looking increasingly likely that next week Typhoon Champi will become the fourth (ex) typhoon in past 10 weeks to track into the Alaska portion of the Bering Sea: already Bang-Lang in August, Dujuan in September and Choi-wan in early October. #akwx

From the talented artist Adam D Thompson.

A strong Bering Sea storm knocked out power, canceled flights and prompted at least one evacuation in Western Alaska communities on Friday. A blizzard warning remains in effect for the Seward Peninsula and most of the Northwest Arctic Borough into Saturday morning.

An art historical gloss: for those who don't know, Guernica was held by MoMA in NYC for more than 40 years, as Picasso stipulated the painting should not return to Spain while Franco was still in power. It was finally unstretched, rolled up & sent back to Spain in 1981, as shown in this video

ADN editors endorse JKT. Many direct indictments of Dunleavy in the editorial. My favorite: Editorial: A steady hand in the governor’s office for an unsteady time www.adn.com/opinions/edi...

Mary Peltola and national Democrats filed a motion to stop the Trump administration from blocking Alaska’s election results if Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan loses. www.adn.com/politics/202...

We should incessantly remind people of our own revolutionary history, that when soldiers shot people during the Boston Massacre, they were prosecuted locally with no sovereign immunity invoked to protect them from homicide charges. bsky.app/profile/nath...

It's been a day of reading accident reports to update my Part 135-involved accident spreadsheet. (I should have 2010 - 2025 by the end of the year.) This provides sanity while reading and reading and reading. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OAL...

Chinese-made cars rented by Norwegian military automatically recorded and stored video footage during military exercises www.techradar.com/pro/chinese-...

It's Polar LNG, not AKLNG.

I have a ridiculous love for this movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbEP...

This is really good - the essence of apple flavors is in here.

Here's the latest.............

Palantir, of course, has an AI contract for Air Traffic Control. I guess they are going to make it more manly.

Just follow @alaska.bsky.social on the Dan Sullivans/DOJ issue. He has been covering it from the beginning, he knows all things election-wise in Alaska and really, he's the guy. The WaPo, NYT and everybody else are never going to know it as well as James.

Mary Peltola has an email out on this DOJ mess and she is, as expected, leaning hard on folks from Outside trying to tell Alaskans what to do.

Check it out - on the arrows for airmail!

My take at Cato on why DOJ's lawsuit against Alaska is borderline frivolous, abusive, contemptuous of federalism and more. "In the aftermath of the 2020 election, courts made clear that they would not allow meritless litigation to steal an election. They may soon have to make that clear again."