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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 7m

Hell yes to this response. What kind of a question was that, BTW?!

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 11h

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1h

"Roughly three out of every four high-value, “emergency procurement” contracts the governor’s office has awarded are missing the legally required public documentation,"

Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 13h

“More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation”

Daniel Ducassi for Florida Bulldog

More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation

By Daniel Ducassi, FloridaBulldog.org - More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts missing legally required public documentation.

www.floridabulldog.org

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 12h

Wind damage reports coming in from the western Interior, including downed trees and power lines and building roof damage at Koyukuk. Winds so strong at Huslia that boats were pushed out into the Koyukuk River. #akwx #Autumn2025

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 12h

Arizna DEMA: "Ahead of flash flooding potential tonight, the Gila County Sheriff's Office and Gila County Emergency Management have recommended that the following areas be placed on a SET mode on the Ready, Set, Go model: Little Acres Little Acres Mobile Home Park Miami Gardens Residences along […]

Original post on ai6yr.org

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 12h

Thread about the gage observations in the area including perspective from Rick Thoman from Alaska

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 17h

This is horrible. It appears as though the tidal gage at Kipnuk has set a record (records go back to at least 2000) and the gage on the Kuskokwim River at Bethel is at the highest level it's been this century.

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static klinger @jessespector.com · 13h

congratulations to taylor and to penn state

Pop Base @popbase.tv · 1d

Taylor Swift will make an exclusive announcement on GMA (Good Morning America) tomorrow, October 13th

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 18h

I really wouldn’t be shining lasers at helicopters if I were you. It’s illegal and could cause an aircraft to crash - and that could kill a LOT of people, in the air and on the ground.

And the ICE goons appear to be *salivating* at the chance to claim people that they arrest were doing this:

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

JD Vance is a coward. He sold his soul for a seat of power. He sold his soul to someone he called “Hitler” to advance his own career. JD Vance is everything that’s wrong with our politics today.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

WELKER: Is the DOJ acting on orders from the president to prosecute his political opponents?

JD VANCE: No ... You know who we haven't prosecuted? Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton ... he's allowed to have opinions about law enforcement

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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️ @tornatrix.bsky.social · 14h

Hey, I wrote a blog for the first time in years. open.substack.com/pub/tornatri...

On retrospective EF scale upgrades using a new debris trajectory technique

The recent upgrade of the Enderlin, North Dakota EF5 tornado opens up a door for the community to reexamine EF scale ratings of past tornadoes.

open.substack.com

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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 16h

KYUK is also providing timely on-air radio and online updates on the search and rescue effort now centered on Kwigillingok and Kipnuk.

Anyone in need of immediate rescue should contact the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at 907-551-7230.

www.kyuk.org

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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 16h

The National Weather Service Alaska Region is doing very thorough briefings on the storm's progress on Youtube -

Forecasts for Sun night, into Monday and Tuesday.

Eye of the storm hitting Kotzebue Sound now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rss_...

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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 14h

To be clear, this is a coastal flooding disaster of unprecedented proportions at Kipnuk, and probably at Kwigillingok too.

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 14h

With regard to the tidal levels at Kipnuk #akwx

Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 16h

I ***think*** nearly all of the crests listed were from post-event high water mark surveys. Real-time gauging only since summer 2022, with significant gaps.

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Tomer Burg @burgwx.bsky.social · 14h

The remnants of Typhoon Halong appear to have potentially set a local ERA5 record (1950-2024) for lowest MSLP for the month of October:

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 14h

Aidan Hutchinson vs a TE

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 15h

Greatest city on this goddamn planet. ✊

Chicago is officially one of the top 10 happiest cities in the world

The Windy City is all smiles in 2025

www.timeout.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

John Denver, gone 28 years ago today.

“.. I was camping up in the mountains. We were in the Rockies … I remember looking straight up and seeing meteor showers and thinking, this is what it is to be alive. And that line ‘I’ve seen it raining fire in the sky’ — that actually came from that night.”

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 15h

Donate to Western Alaska Disaster Relief here:

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

blah blah Hunter Biden blah blah Burisma yada yada

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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 22h

The center of ex-typhoon Halong reached the Seward Peninsula coast near or just east of Cape Nome around 830am AKDT Sunday. South winds 30 to 60 mph in southern/eastern Norton Sound will shift to the southwest soon. #akwx #weather @hanners64n.bsky.social @climatologist49.bsky.social

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 15h

With respect to the water levels in Alaska I posted about

Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 16h

There are many gaps in the record, including August 2024 severe flooding.

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks I was hoping you would chime in - why I tried to qualify with “appears”

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 17h

This is horrible. It appears as though the tidal gage at Kipnuk has set a record (records go back to at least 2000) and the gage on the Kuskokwim River at Bethel is at the highest level it's been this century.

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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 18h

At least 20 people are unaccounted for in Kwigillingok, in the Y-K Delta as of Sunday morning, and several homes were flooded and carried away by the remnants of Typhoon Halong - the worst storm on record.

Damage is still being assessed along the coast of Western Alaska
www.kyuk.org/alaska-state...

A major storm is bringing dangerous flooding and hurricane-force winds to Western Alaska

The remnants of Typhoon Halong have already caused damaging flooding in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. The storm is expected to move north and continue into Monday.

www.kyuk.org

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