Big big thanks to Representative CJ McCormick and his team for their commitment to putting a spotlight on Alaskan deaths in custody. We will continue to push for change to make DOC safer for incarcerated Alaskans.

Over the last few weeks, Jacqueline Shepherd, who investigates deaths in Alaska's prisons, uncovered a murder that occurred in DOC custody that was never reported to the family. Read more about why DOC needs oversight and accountability. #PeopleNotPrisons adn.com/opinions/2024/…

Summer job alert! My colleague dyani.chapman is running an environmental organizing bootcamp this summer for eight weeks in ALASKA. This is such a cool and fun opportunity for someone who is intrigued about environmental organizing as a career. jobs.publicinterestnetwork.org/en/postings/9e…

A new Mat-Su Animal Shelter program set to start in mid-May is aimed at pairing adoptable shelter dogs with people who want to borrow them for a short day hike. adn.com/alaska-news/ma…

Would love to know how Sen. Lisa Murkowski plans to support since she has promised permanent protection for Bristol Bay for years now and has introduced nothing.

Penalties aren’t preventative, and this doesn’t do anything to stop Alaskans from dying overdose deaths. HB 66 is a waste of what little resources we do have, and should not be advanced. Speak up this morning before the bill is heard in SenFin Committee.secure.everyaction.com/VZ7tdcuoXUiT9Y…

Frustrating to see so many Alaskans living without food or shelter, and to see so many children without a quality education...and then to watch #akleg spend the last days of session attacking trans youth, and trying to further criminalize substance use disorder and mental health.

Thank you to Reps. Gray, Armstrong, Fields, Galvin, Schrage, Mears, Dibert, Hannan, Josephson, Himschoot, Mina, and Story for being so outspoken in defense of transgender Alaskans #akleg The love being shown from our House minority in the face of discrimination is inspirational.

I’m proud to live in the same state as Representative CJ McCormick. More like him in #akleg, please.

🐕🐕New foster alert for Nala, queen of the snuggles! 2yo, 40lbs, house and crate trained, the only thing she wants is pets and cuddles and a forever home. #adoptable through AARF in Anchorage.

Read the letter. The issues we outlined are the tip of the iceberg at DOC facilities.

At the ACLU of Alaska, we believe that allyship is an inherently Alaskan value. Check out our lists of actions for parents, educators and community members to be allies of LGBTQIA2S+ people across our state. acluak.org/en/news/allysh…

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The girl is the sixth person shot by Anchorage police since May. She is the fourth to be killed. (this used to happen maybe twice a year: scholarworks.alaska.edu/bitstream/hand…)

This veto punishes women in rural Alaska who don’t have easy access to a pharmacy. It also will *increase* the number of abortions performed in Alaska. The #akleg should call itself into a one-day special session to override.

Wild day.

Hey Rep. Sarah Vance - your silence is deafening.

The way people warned me about Anchorage when I moved from Homer in 2018…. The gasps I got when I told them I moved to Spenard.

I’m sorry, how is this preventative to actually stopping pedestrian accidents from happening in the first place??

Anchorage: you know somebody in your life that is undocumented. You may not know it, but you do. When Trump’s ICE comes, we all need to know the law. Here’s a “know your rights” printout in English/Spanish from the ACLU 🧵