kris 愛婷 (she/her)

#PrettiGood reason to ride today for the two Americans murdered by Ice and to call out tRump’s gestapo for their brutal tactics. @ 200 fatbikers rode today in Anchorage, Alaska. Like Alex, I know I would have intervened to help the woman beaten and gassed by ICE. Wouldn’t you? #iceout #fucktrump

Anchorage joined cities across the country today & showed out to raise our voices collectively against ICE.

means we get data that DOES apply to us.

Why is WW data useful? It can help w/ decisions like when to schedule medical procedures or trips, what precautions to take. If we know there's high #flu or #COVID in #Alaska, we can #MaskUp, get vaccinated, & delay travel/care. WW data keeps us all safer.

samples large portions of the community w/o having to rely on ppl self-reporting or being able to afford to see a doctor in order for us to have data.

3️⃣ National trends don't always represent what we're seeing here b/c #Alaska is so distant from the lower 48. CDC's state-by-state breakdown...

Here's why #Alaska should care about CDC's wastewater surveillance:

1️⃣ Wastewater (WW) picks up on trends more quickly than hospitalizations or deaths. When these lagging indicators increase, there's already been weeks of high pathogen spread.

2️⃣ Unlike case count or positivity, WW...

fwiw this is the kind of stuff that is going to get us through, not playing rambo

ALT: Picture of a white man with short brown hair in profile is wearing glasses and a white KN95 bifold respirator looking out the window while on public transportation with a laptop on his lap. Headline from a recent Alaska Public Media article titled "Alaska Flu Cases Spike, Causing at Least 3 Deaths and High Numbers of Hospitalizations" is pictured in the upper left hand corner of the image. Captions from the article underneath the headline read: "Those most vulnerable to have severe cases or be hospitalized include anyone age 65 and older, kids under 2, those with underlying medical conditions, obese people, pregnant women, and Black, Latino and Alaska Native people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" and "Benjamin Westley, an infectious disease physician in Anchorage, said he and his colleagues are concerned about the high number of patients they’re seeing with severe cases of the flu. "Most of us are saying that we've never in our careers seen so much, both volume of flu coming into the hospital rapidly, as well as how ill people are," Westley said". A post from the r/Alaska subreddit titled "Flu" reading "This is the hardest I've ever been hit with a bug except maybe once in Nepal. I always take the vaccine. Everyone in our house has been sick too. Our neighbors are sick as hell. I just got back from the lower 48 but is the flu hitting hard up here or did I bring it home? I havent held down food in 3 days and have an constany dry cough. The cdc maps dont show alaskas flu rates." with a black background is in the lower left hand corner of the image. In the lower right hand corner of the image is a graph showing the spiking levels of Flu A listed on the Wastewater Scan Dashboard for Anchorage, AK.

The flu is hitting Alaskans hard. Flu A & B are spiking, with high levels of hospitalizations and at least 3 flu-related fatalities in #Alaska this season. It’s not too late to get updated flu and COVID shots! #MaskUp 😷 to protect yourself and your loved ones. Use our form if you need masks. ❤️

Get ur flu shot so that you do not destroy the lives of vulnerable people.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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Bay Area Sports Mascots Ranked by the Ultimate Experts: Furries Everybody has an opinion on mascots, but what do the real masters of the fur think?

A couple people have asked and so I want to be clear: YES please do a version of this story for your local sports mascots. Send it to me! This is what I want my legacy to be!

Colorful poster for the Mutual Aid Network of Anchorage November Free Store on Sunday, November 2nd from 1-4pm at AKPIRG Building 2522 Arctic Blvd. Clothing swap, bike repair, tech support, household goods. Two QR codes to RSVP for attending or bringing stuff. To learn more about MANA, visit our website https://wearemana.org/. Click on the “Give Aid/Get Aid” button and fill out the form to join our network!

We'll be tabling at the @anchoragemutualaid.bsky.social November free store at @akpirg.bsky.social on Sunday! Come say hi and get masks and other free stuff! #Alaska #MaskUp #Anchorage

I keep hearing that it’s important for the soul to do things you enjoy—but do badly—without remorse, so it was a painting night: inspiration vs product

A photo of Guillemots at RSPB Bempton Cliffs. There is an egg being tucked under one adult Guillemot (centre left) and a chick being sheltered by the one with the yellow tag

For #SuperSeabirdSunday and #Auktober here's a photo of Guillemots at RSPB Bempton Cliffs. If you look closely you can just about see there is an egg being tucked under one adult Guillemot (centre left) and a chick being sheltered by the one with the yellow tag 🥰🥚🐣🐥

I see familiar faces here!

Also- #AlaskaNativeResilience is 40% off using the code and link through @uwapress.uw.edu here through Oct 31!

Lucrative ICE detention centers bring money — and anger — to an Alaska Native community NANA Regional Corp. is supposed to uphold Iñupiat values. Some shareholders say its role in Trump’s deportation machinery makes a mockery of that.

If you haven't read this article about how an Alaska Native corporation is supporting ICE's efforts, you should. It's long but comprehensive: alaskapublic.org/news/politic... #akleg

Western Alaska Disaster Relief. Ways you can help: online fundraiser - donate to support (QR code links to the link in the post). Purchase items - Amazon wishlist (QR code link will be in a reply to this post). Donation drive at AFN convention.

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📣 MUTUAL AID NEEDED 🚨
Typhoon Halong flooded homes across the Y-K Delta in Western Alaska.

❤ PLEASE DONATE ❤ Support this community fundraising effort and DONATE with the Alaska Community Foundation > alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

#AlaskaSky #MutualAid

Now is a really good time to donate to food banks, and do food runs for mutual aid groups. Also, do menstrual product runs.

mutual aid request:

we are housing family who were displaced from flooding
donations for clothing and household items would be appreciated, they are looking to furnish their apartment

men’s medium clothes, 9 shoes
women’s small clothes, 7 shoes

venmo: mikaelalhunter
quyana cakneq!

Typhoon leaves flooded Alaska villages facing a storm recovery far tougher than most Americans will ever experience ‘As the storm approached Alaska, everything went sideways,’ leaving people no time to evacuate and little time to prepare. An Alaska meteorologist explains what happened and the challenges ahead.

I’ve got a short piece up in The Conversation on the catastrophic flooding in Southwest Alaska from ex-typhoon Halong and the challenges of recovery work. #akwx #ExtremeWeather #Alaska #AlaskaSky

theconversation.com/typhoon-leav...

It should not be as niche as it is, but I keep having to repeat it:

If your values don't apply to *everyone,* they're not actually your values. They are simply a favor that you do for people that you like.

“Pvt. Alan Borbridge speaks in the Yup'ik language with an evacuee from Nightmute

He said he thinks it has been meaningful for some to encounter a Guard service member who can speak to them in Yupik. "They have a better understanding in their own language"

🥹🥹🥹🥹

If you think that the folks evacuating western Alaska right now don’t deserve sympathy or support because they’re from a red state and “probably voted for Trump,” you should just go ahead and block me right now.

Being from somewhere is NOT a political stance, and NO ONE deserves to lose their home.

This goes for anyone out in the streets today or any day, wherever you are.

What does Typhoon Halong reveal about housing conditions in Western Alaska? Here's a thread...👇

The Attorney General shall issue specific guidance that ensures domestic terrorism priorities include politically motivated terrorist acts such as organized doxing campaigns, swatting, rioting, looting, trespass, assault, destruction of property, threats of violence, and civil disorder. This guidance shall also include an identification of any behaviors, fact patterns, recurrent motivations, or other indicia common to organizations and entities that coordinate these acts in order to direct efforts to identify and prevent potential violent activity.

Key words in this clause of Trump terror memo are “trespass” and “civil disorder.” Rest is objectively or ostensibly illegal. But these terms bring under the “terrorism” umbrella something as simple as, say, sitting in front of an ICE entrance. Or, for that matter, just chanting from the sidewalk.

The WHITE HOUSE 45 47 K PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence Presidential Memoranda September 25, 2025

= The WHITE HOUSE Section 1. Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence. Heinous assassinations and other acts of political violence in the United States have dramatically increased in recent years. Even in the aftermath of the horrifying assassination of Charlie Kirk, some individuals who adhered to the alleged shooter's ideology embraced and cheered this evil murder while actively encouraging more political violence. This was preceded by the 2024 assassination of a senior healthcare executive and the 2022 assassination attempt against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Two separate assassination attempts against my own life in less than 3 months took place during the 2024 Presidential election cycle. Riots in Los Angeles and Portland reflect a more than 1,000 percent increase in attacks on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers since January 21, 2025, compared to the same period last year. Just yesterday, a shooting targeting an ICE facility in Dallas resulted in multiple casualties. Separate anti-police and "criminal justice" riots have left many people dead and injured and inflicted over $2 billion in property damage nationwide.

As per usual: no mention of political violence against Democrats. The armed man near Kavanaugh’s house who turned himself in becomes an “assassination attempt” while the actual assassination of Melissa Hortman not mentioned. Attacks on ICE facilities are political violence but not attacks on CDC.

Carpenter Media, without consultation with our newsrooms, pulled this story from the website today. A heinous dereliction of our duty and a cowardly move from the company who says they’re so invested in local news.

you don’t see how many of your friends and colleagues have undiagnosed, mild, or episodic long Covid because when we’re too tired to function we stay home

"A countermovement must counter, not just in rhetoric and ideas, but in our day-to-day actions and within the movements that illustrate our radicalism."

Yes, and I think it's really important to highlight the anti-COVID work Black organizers have been holding for 6 years advocating against +

So frustrating that all Mohammad is trying to do is post his farm and help his family