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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

There needs to be more coverage of this in the news. I have read so many stories bout this on Facebook, first hand stories of the terror of that storm, and very little coverage n media.
www.facebook.com/100000960660...

Screenshot of a Facebook post. Photo is an elderly woman holding a child on her ap on a couch with flood water around them. Both are wearing jackets inside. Text says: This was after our 1st drift.. staying put for awhile. Our 3rd and final drift was terrifying. House moving fast then we started spinning in circles. While we were spinning in circles my oldest daughter was just staring at me while I held onto my younger two. Kipnuk doesn't look like kipnuk anymore, like more than 3/4 of the homes displaced, power poles fallen. It smells like stove oil outside. Contaminated

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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 1d

If you're able, please consider a donation to the Alaska Community Fund to help people in western Alaska impacted by ex-typhoon Halong even as winter is bearing down. All the money donated goes to the region. Quyana. #Alaska #AlaskaSky

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

Screen shot of the ACF Western Alaska Disaster Relief 2025 Fund:

"In response to recent severe storms, including Typhoon Halong, that devastated Alaska's western coast, local community organizations and regional partners have come together to establish the Western Alaska Disaster Relief Fund, housed at the Alaska Community Foundation.
Two major storm systems struck western Alaska in rapid succession, bringing record flooding, extreme winds, and extensive damage from Kwigillingok to Kotzebue. Homes have been damaged and destroyed, critical infrastructure compromised, and subsistence resources disrupted. The Western Alaska Disaster Relief Fund will provide support to affected communities for immediate relief, recovery support, and long-term resilience, including disaster preparedness initiatives. Distribution decisions will be guided by advisors including regional leaders and stakeholders, ensuring resources reach affected communities based on locally identified needs.

The Western Alaska Disaster Relief Fund brings together a growing list of local, regional, and statewide partners endorsing the fund, including:

Association of Village Council Presidents
Alaska Federation of Natives
Alaska Native Heritage Center
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
Bethel Community Services Foundation
Calista Corporation
Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation
First Alaskans Institute
Kawerak, Inc.
Native Peoples Action
Maniilaq Association

Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation"

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

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สุพรรณิกาทร์ Supanika Ordoñez @spiraledu.bsky.social · 1d

#AlaskaSky

Taylor Heckart @theckart.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re in Petersburg, Cooper Landing, Seward, Ketchikan, Tok, Unalaska, Soldotna, Skagway, and Bethel, you should get free access to a news database through your library! There are 20+ Alaska news publications in there, including many that are normally paywalled. www.kfsk.org/2025/10/13/g...

Grant funding will give 15 Alaska libraries free access to many paywalled newspapers - KFSK

Fifteen libraries across Alaska will be gaining access to a large online database of national and in-state news sources. The Alaska Library Network received a $10,250 grant from the Atwood Foundation,...

www.kfsk.org

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Dr. Heather McFarlin @volcanoheather.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 1d

Want a fast and easy way to make your Indigenous Peoples Day impactful for years to come?

I made this list of 100+ Indigenous Voices who post daily about our lives, our truths, and our fight. Easily auto-follow all 🪶

Come honor these beautiful Native voices!

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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 1d

If you didn’t know, Alaska has been hit by a massive storm, causing severe flooding. Many Indigenous villages have been completely wiped out, with some houses floating away with PEOPLE INSIDE THEM. Please keep posting to spread the info. They need help.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Angela 🦭 ❄️ @gingela.bsky.social · 1d

More than 30 rescued and three still unaccounted for as Typhoon Halong hits NE Alaska coast. This Indigenous Peoples Day, consider donating to Alaska Community Foundation W Alaska Disaster Relief Fund. apnews.com/article/alas...

An Inupiaq auntie on the ice in Kotzebue smiling. Help our relatives recover from the storm.

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 2d

Book recommendations for Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Read today & all year! Alt text for text

Blood Sisters
• A Council of Dolls
• Never Whistle at Night
• Winter Counts (TBR)
• There, There
• Night of the Living Rez
Bad Cree
• The Bone Picker (tbr)
• Ghost Girls and Rabbits
• White Horse
• Buffalo Hunter Hunter
• Mask of the Deer Woman
• India Burial Ground
• Shutter
• Man Made Monsters (I need to finish!)
• On the Savage Side

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Arctic Goddess @arcticgoddess.bsky.social · 2d

Free penguin costume. And a sign now. I’ll buy you lunch if you wear this costume and get in the front page of the Newsminer.

A defiant penguin holds a fish while holding another flipper up into the air in a flipper fist with the words RESIST overlayed on top. Gold and black vintage graphic.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 2d

I am seeing a lot of people reposting Lakota Man today bc it's Indigenous Peoples Day. A reminder that he is not well liked amongst many (most?) Natives on social media. Many of us blocked him a long time ago. Some of the reasons why are in this article.

www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...

Who is LakotaMan, the user behind one of the most popular Native American accounts on X?

John Martin is adored by white X users—but infamous among Native and Indigenous communities.

www.dailydot.com

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 2d

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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Princess Daazhraii Johnson @princessdaazhraii.bsky.social · 2d

On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day - a reminder to @sendansullivan.bsky.social Sen. Murkowski & Rep. Begich - the #climatecrisis is hitting us hard! We need #FEMA, essential air travel services, #PublicMedia, #Science for monitoring weather. This Administration is actively harming Alaskans. Do better!

Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 2d

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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akearthquake.bsky.social @akearthquake.bsky.social · 2d

We have reviewed a magnitude 4.2 earthquake that occurred at 6:52 pm, 29 miles deep and 19 miles ESE of Kasilof. This event was felt throughout Kenai Peninsula and Upper Cook Inlet. For more information, or to submit a “Did You Feel It” report, please go to earthquake.alaska.edu/event/025d51...

Kasilof M4.2 | Alaska Earthquake Center

Alaskan Earthquake Center

earthquake.alaska.edu

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Vivian Faith Prescott @alaskapoet.bsky.social · 2d

“Troopers have received secondhand reports of people who are unaccounted for in Kipnuk and are continuing to work with local officials to verify and confirm how many people are missing,” DPS wrote.”

LIVE BLOG: Dozens of people rescued, some still unaccounted for, DPS says

Former Typhoon Halong made landfall overnight into Sunday. Its strongest impacts were felt in the Kuskokwim delta area.

www.alaskasnewssource.com

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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 2d

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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Dr. Heather McFarlin @volcanoheather.bsky.social · 2d

Western AK is in need of help. Donate to the disaster relief fund!!

CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 2d

Donate to Western Alaska Disaster Relief here:

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ᒪᑰᓯ Mark Springer @markspringer.bsky.social · 2d

CG Helo 6048 now off Bethel.

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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 2d

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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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Dr. Heather McFarlin @volcanoheather.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not seeing much else about what is happening in western AK. I hope people get the help they've been asking for.

CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 3d

someone in a kipnuk facebook group screen recorded all the pleas for help in the community due to the disaster flooding

hopefully the alaska national guard will make it out there soon

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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 4d

www.hcn.org/articles/the...

The case for national monuments - High Country News

National monuments across the West face unprecedented threats, making public voices and vigilance more crucial than ever.

www.hcn.org

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 23d

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches.

This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists!

Archaeologists! Please volunteer
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .

Alt: a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .

media.tenor.com

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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 10d

I'm running for something!

The world is a complicated and increasingly scary place. Decisions made at the local level will have real impacts. That's why I'm running for a seat on the Tompkins County Legislature.

If you can afford to pitch in, I'd really appreciate your support.

Donate to Judith Hubbard

Show your support with a contribution.

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