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The snow crab are missing. Can a remote Alaskan village survive? | Grist

Then came the massive, unexpected drop in the crab population — a crash scientists linked to record-warm ocean temperatures and less ice formation, both associated with climate change. In 2021, federal authorities severely limited the allowable catch. In 2022, they closed the fishery for the first time in 50 years. Industry losses in the Bering Sea crab fishery climbed into the hundreds of millions of dollars. St. Paul lost almost 60 percent of its tax revenue overnight. Leaders declared a “cultural, social, and economic emergency.” Town officials had reserves to keep the community’s most basic functions running, but they had to start an online fundraiser to pay for emergency medical services.

…Between 1870 and 1946, Alaska Native people on the islands earned an estimated $2.1 million, while the government and private companies raked in $46 million in profits. Some inequitable practices continued well into the 1960s, when politicians, activists, and the Tundra Times, an Alaska Native newspaper, brought the story of the government’s treatment of Indigenous islanders to a wider world…

Source: The snow crab are missing. Can a remote Alaskan village survive? | Grist

“Moms for Liberty” — Don’t Be Fooled By Their Name!

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Today I would like to share with you Heather Cox Richardson’s newsletter of July 7th.  She covers a number of topics/issues, but primarily deals with the organization ‘Moms for Liberty’ and the reason such a group can exist and have a voice today.  The newsletter is a bit lengthier than most, but well worth the time spent to read and ponder on it.


For more than a week now, I have intended to write a deep dive into the right-wing Moms for Liberty group that held their “Joyful Warriors National Summit” in Philadelphia last week, only to have one thing or another that seemed more important push it off another day. This morning it hit me that maybe that’s the story: that the reactionary right that has taken so much of our oxygen for the past year is losing ground to the country’s new forward movement.

Today the…

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