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Anchorage Daily News@adn.com

Sen. Lisa Murkowski is one of just a few Republicans to vote with Democrats on measures to check the Trump administration’s war in Iran, something she highlighted when discussing rising fuel costs.

adn.com‘This is not right’: Murkowski slams high energy costs in AFN speechMurkowski is one of just a few Republican senators to break with their party and vote with Democrats on measures to check the Trump administration’s ongoing war in Iran.

Anchorage Daily News@adn.com

A company planning a new coal project in Mat-Su has leased more than 800 acres of University of Alaska land near Port MacKenzie to build a large-scale industrial park and energy facilities. via @matsusentinel.bsky.social

adn.comLarge industrial, energy projects planned for leased UA land at Port MacKenzieThe lease is tied to a proposal for a coal plant near Skwentna and additional projects on borough port land.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov

Just in time for tennis season to peak in New York City, 10 public tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only courts in the Bronx with lights for nighttime playing — are now fully renovated.

Jacob Soboroff@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

TDS: Trump Decorating Syndrome. @connectwithjacob.bsky.social

Anchorage Daily News@adn.com

The question of whether Alaska will keep its novel voting system will again be placed on the November ballot, drawing massive spending from Outside billionaires seeking to influence the initiative's outcome, according to filings submitted to the state. www.adn.com/politics/202...

adn.comOutside megadonors fuel campaigns over the future of Alaska’s election systemAlaskans will again be asked this year whether they would like to repeal the voting system adopted in 2020.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ossoff: "Citizens United was the most destructive court decision in modern history. It's unleashed a flood of secret money, corporate money, billionaire money. Trump's rise is a symptom of this deeper disease. Our task is not just to contain his wickedness, but to cure the rot that gave rise to it."

Anchorage Daily News@adn.com

Boosters say a data center proposed for Alaska's North Slope could take advantage of abundant land, low temperatures and a huge natural gas supply. The $500M project could consume twice as much natural gas as urban Alaska’s grid. (via Northern Journal) www.adn.com/business-eco...

adn.comA huge data center could rise on Alaska’s North SlopeThe $500 million project could consume twice as much natural gas as urban Alaska’s grid.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Trump's fruitless search for a goreable ox; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/05/09/c... #Pluralistic 1/

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com

"Give human beings instant communication and rapid transportation over vast distances, along with production processes with high capital costs—including the production of weapons and military materiel—and you will inevitably get people organizing the use of force on a large scale."

liberalcurrents.comVote Blue No Matter Who: Party Politics as Political AgencyPolitics is a collective enterprise aimed at controlling the state, and requires working together as co-partisans.

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social

Trump lost this war in every possible sense — morally, legally, politically, economically, reputationally, and strategically.

David Roberts@volts.wtf

All of this was very foreseeable but lots of people spent the election prosecuting their precious factional disputes rather than rallying to prevent a fascist from taking office and so here we are.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

nyti.msU.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video ShowsThe evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.

Alaska Public Media@alaskapublic.org

Tonight on Alaska News Nightly: The federal government's Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale fails to draw any bids. Plus, the Alaska Supreme Court considers whether prisoners can be forcibly medicated with psychiatric drugs. Listen here: https://akpub.io/3OMT8rX

akpub.ioAlaska News Nightly: Wednesday, March 4, 2026The federal government's Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale fails to draw any bids.

David Roberts@volts.wtf

If the right dominates the infosphere, if they can demonize any marginalized population they turn their eye on, then strategizing around *a current snapshot of public opinion* is almost definitionally misguided. They can change that opinion. Dems can't seem to, or won't try. All else is noise.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "We hit 'em. And we want to hit 'em right, sir, and we want to hit them from the top! East, west, north, south. Sir, they won't know what the hell! And we'll knock them out. We did it politically correct. Five years."