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Alaska election officials filed a motion to dismiss a DOJ lawsuit that would block the results of the Senate race if incumbent GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan loses. www.adn.com/politics/202...

I’m guessing the “likely noncitizens” don’t have last names like johnson or mitchell or jones. But it’s a guess I’d put money on.

Trump’s vision of electoral mortality in Mississippi: "For some reason, presidents don't do well in the midterm, no matter how good they are, even if they're great like us together or whatever."

Link to the full article. alaskabeacon.com/2026/10/26/o...

I think a lot of people outside of Alaska have forgotten that Daniel J. Sullivan is a real person. From the latest @alaska.bsky.social article on the election, this quote is a good reminder of how hard it has been on him simply to run under his own name. FYI - there are 9 Dan Sullivans in AK.

Spinny thing in the southwest Bering Sea Monday afternoon will remain west of 180º but will keep south winds going and bring another round of high water/erosion to Alaska Bering Sea coast through Tuesday. This is not ex-typhoon Champi: that's inbound later this week. #akwx #weather

BREAKING: The 9th Circuit rules 2-1 to dismiss DOJ's effort to force California to remove 20,000 purported noncitizens from the voter rolls based on data CA officials view as faulty. Majority: Bennett (Trump) Sanchez (Biden) Minority: Bumatay (Trump) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Nothing confusing about it. Alaska, get out and vote!

Stares at 7.25% interest rate on a 30 year mortgage, up from just below 6% in February of this year

Rising prices squeeze more Americans ahead of pivotal midterm elections, writes Kevin Hardy for @stateline.org @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/10/26/r...

Done, and for the record, as an Alaskan voter, I was not confused in the slightest. #Vote2026 #Alaska

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar: "I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students List, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them... I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle."

A Serbian nationalist leader who courted MAGA just lost in a landslide

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Juneau this afternoon.

Here’s the relevant language in the DOJ lawsuit. It asks for the election not to be certified if Peltola’s margin of victory is smaller than the number of votes cast for the third-party Sullivan. (I expect this to be laughed out of court.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Alaskans, apparently, must elect Senator Dan S. Sullivan or the President will not let them elect anyone at all,” attorneys for Peltola say alaskapublic.org/news/politic...

The Archdiocese of New York and attorneys for about 1,300 parishioners who said they were sexually abused by clergy have agreed to an $800 million settlement of their legal claims, the second-largest involving a Catholic archdiocese in the US. https://cnn.it/4jGyV4r

Sheep, details later. 🐑

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Mary Peltola's campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Elias Law Group has filed to fight DOJ's lawsuit to rig the Alaska Senate election. We will win this case, Mary will win this election, she will be certified and seated.

The U.S. Senate campaign of Democrat Mary Peltola is among those asking a federal judge to dismiss a Department of Justice lawsuit that seeks to block election results if she wins.

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.

NEW: Blanche claims DOJ's Alaska lawsuit doesn't seek to block certification of the state's election results. The actual complaint says it does. His attempt to reframe the lawsuit is a bid to push back against how it's been correctly interpreted: a dangerous effort to subvert the midterms.

And then the Russian company, presented with the evidence we had gathered, acknowledged in a statement: Yes, we are moving to take a large stake in the Polar LNG project in Alaska. Story was nailed. A bit hard to follow with all the names. But this is confirmation. Had not been previously disclosed.

A particular birch tree helps alert gardening columnist Jeff Lowenfels to changes in the season, like when it's time to bring plants indoors.

“It’s not only unlawful, but it’s not in the U.S. interest to have Russian technology controlling the commercialization of Arctic gas in the North Slope,” Mr. Riddle said in a brief interview.

Most surprising moment of this reporting effort was when we pressed the Russian energy company to concede it was financing a US gas project in Alaska, which has promoted itself as a patriotic push toward U.S. energy dominance.....

Overall, we are seeing some very odd deal talks that are supposedly a part of ending the war in Ukraine. But in fact evidence shows these deals are structured (in the most recent case secretly until now) to financially benefit Russia or business partners of the Trump and Witkoff families.

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A sunny fall day. Renewed my license. Voted. Little acts of faith. #haiku

Meta will have to name the people who greenlit its torrenting of pirated books.

NWS San Diego has issued new Coastal Flood Warning for near-record/record-breaking tides and possible widespread coastal inundation in SoCal Sun-Thu. And there's no king tides or major storms in the mix yet...just elevated sea levels from extreme El Nino plus long-term warming.

Solar power also continues to skyrocket in Texas, with generation up 32% compared to last year and hitting a new record high Over the last twelve months, solar has made up 13.4% of Texas' electricity, a record high!

🚨BREAKING: In a win for Utah voters, a Trump-appointed federal judge dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit seeking to obtain the state's unredacted voter registration list. The ruling puts the department at 0-27 in its sweeping legal effort for access to states' voter data.

BREAKING: The Trump administration sues to block Alaska Senate certification if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses as another candidate shares his name.

Oh ffs, of course he can’t.

Diesel prices have jumped 65% since the Iran War began — to $6.28 a gallon. That's hitting farmers, truckers, and industry hard in several states that will decide control of the Senate.

I'm also available to be profiled about what I believed when I was 11

“Technically” is carrying a lot of weight in that sentence.

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Homeland Security to NOT conduct election-related field operations that could involve U.S. citizens in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wisconsin

The abuser was convicted in court. This, my friends, is what the GOP has become.

Archaeologists thought they understood Inca history and chronology based on historical documents. It turns out a 16th century Spanish priest just...made up those dates. So scientists are starting again, this time with radiocarbon www.science.org/content/arti...

BREAKING: A defeat for Trump at the Supreme Court as the justices reject his attempt to enforce restrictions on treatments for transgender prison inmates: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Two and a half months ago.

it took four hours and emails across three agencies to determine if a simple, polite email invitation was legitimate, in case you're wondering whether AI has improved efficiency in my field

Side view of eightpetal mountain avens, Dryas octopetala, taken in mid-June on Murphy Dome, Fairbanks, Alaska. Info in my Alaska Wildflower Guide: www.lwpetersen.com/alaska-wildf... #alaska #summer #wildflowers #bloomscrolling