Liz Ruskin-AK public radio reporter @lruskin
DC correspondent, Alaska Public Media. Former blue check. Newsletter: Alaska At-Large @AKpublicnews News tips: [email protected] alaskapublic.org/news Washington, DC / Anchorage Joined February 2009-
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An Alaska candidate kills a bear? There's an idea for a campaign theme :)
An Alaska candidate kills a bear? There's an idea for a campaign theme :)
Alaska Congresswoman @MaryPeltola stuns home region by defending Donlin gold mine, a project she opposed when she ran for office 2 years ago alaskapublic.org/2024/04/24/ala… via @AKpublicnews
To beat Rep. @MaryPeltola, D-AK, Nick Begich vows to drop out if fellow Republican Nancy Dahlstrom bests him in the primary. It'd be like making a GOP primary out of Alaska's nonpartisan system, he says. But ND isn't pledging. alaskapublic.org/2024/04/23/beg… via @AKpublicnews
Sen. @lisamurkowski & @SenDanSullivan aren't waiting for the official announcement that Biden admin is blocking the Ambler road and fortifying enviro protections in the NW Arctic. They are fuming about it now. alaskapublic.org/2024/04/18/mur… via @AKpublicnews
Moose calf contemplates the beverages for our @alaskapressclub reception. No, Moosey! Ur underage.
Alaska Congresswoman @MaryPeltola’s campaign had a big Q1 haul: $1.7m. Both GOP challengers raised <$300k. But keep an eye on independent expenditures. Dahlstrom & Peltola have some alaskapublic.org/2024/04/15/rep… via @AKpublicnews
Sen. @lisamurkowski says she's frustrated the Senate will spend time on the Mayorkas impeachment which "most everybody understands is really nothing more than a messaging effort.” OTOH, @SenDanSullivan is calling for a full trial alaskapublic.org/2024/04/11/ala… via @AKpublicnews
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For those who missed it, Eclipse re-enactment. facebook.com/share/r/ertBkc…
Eclipse mystery: I snapped this in central Ohio during totality. Most people are facing the eclipse. But what’s that in the upper left? Odd reflection of the blacked out sun?
Save those glasses! The next U.S. eclipse is less than NINE years from now!
Sen. @lisamurkowski insists ‘I’m in the right place,’ despite rift with Trump alaskapublic.org/2024/04/05/mur… via @AKpublicnews
Tsunami program that informs coastal states of the risk is itself at risk. Without things like sirens and public education “all the technology in the world isn’t going to help anybody,” says one Alaska official alaskapublic.org/2024/04/04/tsu… via @AKpublicnews
Air Force to send ‘Arctic Pay’ to most of its Alaska-based service members. $1k for a JBER airman, or $2k if with family. Double for Eielson, where it’s colder. alaskapublic.org/2024/04/02/air… via @AKpublicnews
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Creative with the imagery.
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Did anyone participate in Hug a Plumber Day today?
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Have you been to the House of Representatives lately!?!?!? “I am here today joining my colleagues and calling on President Shafik to resign if she could not immediately bring order to this chaos,” @SpeakerJohnson said on Columbia's campus. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…
21/ I can also say w/ confidence that my fellow Tweeps were some of the smartest, most thoughtful, earnest, and humane professional colleagues that I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. 🫡 And there is a silver lining: Many have carried those qualities to new employers.
20/ I cannot sign off without also feeling sadness for the company that Twitter used to be, and which Musk destroyed. The bird was not “freed” — Musk killed it. History will show this to be true. I see no way this empty husk of a once-great platform for news will survive.
19/ If Musk were to edit George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” he might say: “All voices are equal, but some voices are more equal than others.”
14/ Furthermore, ownership of a platform like this cannot be online therapy and acting-out to soothe the grievances of insecure, immature, thin-skinned billionaires (yes, note the plural) who desperately want & need to be liked (because they are psychologically damaged).
13/ A wiser person would understand that… - a global platform like this cannot deepen and reify the worst excesses and inequalities of capitalism, privilege, and power; - nor carry water for bad actors; - nor incentivize and monetize the ugliest, most cruel human behaviors.
12/ Musk utterly failed to understand that Twitter’s hardest challenges are not about more revenue & fewer rules. They are *human* challenges, about power, speech, competition, fairness, diversity, wealth, poverty, war, peace, safety, inclusion, equity, and privacy.
11/ Musk is a textbook example of the schmucks who believe that any problem can be solved with more tech, lower costs, more automation, better code, more “hardcore” engineers & the right investors — as if Twitter’s challenges are simply *business* challenges. But they are not.
10/ Musk also demonstrates an utter lack of understanding about how a global platform for interactive communication requires a thoughtful, judicious business strategy unlike any other product. Musk has done precisely the *opposite* of what leadership requires.
9/ When one of the richest men in the world uses his own private global media platform to selectively amplify anti-democratic voices, and to prey on those he does not like, that is not “free speech.” That’s personal psychological weakness, enabled by systemic plutocracy.
7/ I cringe every time journalists and others refer to Musk as a “free speech absolutist.” Nothing could be further from the truth. The only absolute is Musk’s hypocrisy, as he repeatedly contradicts his so-called principles to serve himself and his pet causes.
5/ From all angles — be it growth, revenue, brand equity, advertising, credibility as a global news source, trust & safety, or hell, even simply as *entertainment* — Musk’s takeover of Twitter has been a stunning crash & burn story. Actually, a better word would be “tantrum.”
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