New: Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than a third of that. By @emilyschwing.bsky.social
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Another backwards Red state
aug 1, 2025, 1:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Headline: Republican-ass state chokes out public schools by cutting funding so they can push privatized schooling as a solution.
aug 1, 2025, 12:52 pm • 6 0 • view
Public schools should be canceled. They clearly haven't done anything to train a more competent workforce. Prisons for children.
aug 1, 2025, 1:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah, I bet it was an accident they forgot to fund schools…
aug 1, 2025, 2:31 pm • 3 0 • view
They saw the work “public “ attached to schools and blacked out from there. When are people gonna realize Republicans are intentionally defunding and seat Public Education as a whole. It’s not a bug it’s a feature.
aug 1, 2025, 12:10 pm • 9 1 • view
We had a family donate part of their large ranch to the county to be made into a Nature Preserve. You can't imagine how much the fine people of Lilyredneckburgh shit themselves over the word Preserve.
aug 1, 2025, 1:38 pm • 6 0 • view
...What is it we're preserving? Who gets to choose what's preserved? Did anybody ask if we want someone's private property that we have nothing to do with and won't cost us a cent, Preserved?
aug 1, 2025, 1:39 pm • 4 0 • view
Needless to say, the county commissioners, in all of their confederate glory, took the word Preserve out of the proposal.
aug 1, 2025, 1:40 pm • 4 0 • view
Another anti public school republican. He should have charges filed against him for negligence.
aug 1, 2025, 12:24 pm • 5 0 • view
So where is all that oil money???
aug 1, 2025, 1:14 pm • 2 0 • view
It's almost like voting Republican is like voting against your own best interests. 🤔
aug 1, 2025, 4:02 pm • 2 0 • view
😡...🤬...👎
aug 2, 2025, 3:55 am • 2 1 • view
Conservative governments around the world hate education. Same here in Ontario. I’m sure the same can be said in Hungary.
aug 1, 2025, 11:24 am • 13 1 • view
Better thank their GOO reps.
aug 1, 2025, 4:25 pm • 2 0 • view
So they’ll try to go after the Permanent Fund again…it require a vote by residents - last time they tried they lost the vote like about 99% ..Fools errand to touch those $$
aug 2, 2025, 3:17 am • 2 1 • view
republican governance is shithole goverance
aug 1, 2025, 1:34 pm • 2 0 • view
But they send those oil checks out like clockwork...
aug 1, 2025, 3:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Where did all the oil money go?
aug 2, 2025, 11:54 am • 2 0 • view
And WWF and Springer.
aug 1, 2025, 1:58 pm • 5 0 • view
Welp, I guess residents won’t be getting their PFD checks this year.
aug 1, 2025, 3:55 pm • 3 0 • view
Par for the course w/failed Republican leadership.
aug 1, 2025, 12:19 pm • 10 0 • view
Alaska taking fiscal notes from Alberta. Two failing economies based primarily on extraction of non-renewable resources. Who could have seen this coming? Woke commies, that's who.
aug 1, 2025, 4:32 pm • 4 0 • view
Conservatives are unfit to be in charge of anything. We as a species need to understand the fact that conservatives are the root of all of our misery and oppression and problems. We don’t allow them to have any levers of power, corporate or political, and the world becomes a beautiful place.
aug 2, 2025, 1:47 am • 2 1 • view
VOTE HIM OUT
aug 1, 2025, 1:31 pm • 3 0 • view
“Pro life” my arse. It’s only pro forced pregnancy. Once you’re born, screw you.
aug 1, 2025, 3:51 pm • 4 1 • view
The children suffer because of greedy uncaring governments! Shameful
aug 1, 2025, 4:17 pm • 3 0 • view
The Republicans in charge of Alaska have said that they can not waste money on the public. It has to be spent on oil companies so that they have the ability to make themselves more money.
aug 1, 2025, 4:55 pm • 5 0 • view
It’s ok we have centibillionaires instead
aug 2, 2025, 12:00 am • 2 0 • view
The people have a right to not be drowned out by big money in our elections. A 5% of average monthly personal income ($6666)max campaign donation for each eligible donor, including corporate per election cycle ($333) will go a long way. Kill the Super PACS.
aug 1, 2025, 5:19 pm • 2 0 • view
Get rid of Mike, and get someone who cares about their constituents.
aug 1, 2025, 8:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Just like taking FEMA away and dumping it on the States. Our country is going to look like a bomb hit us. With all the earthquakes, volcanos, flooding, hurricanes, and tornadoes, the United States is going to look like one big trash dump. America, the beautiful gone
aug 1, 2025, 11:53 am • 7 1 • view
Good job Murkowski, you Traitorous Bitch!!! 👏🖕👏
aug 1, 2025, 2:29 pm • 6 0 • view
Gee. If only Alaska hadn't decided to vote for Senators that gutted the US Budget unless they're billionaires, eh? Amazing.
aug 1, 2025, 2:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Of this they are proud!
aug 1, 2025, 7:37 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh, super smart Governor. Super smart. Way to prepare your children for the future and help build tomorrow’s workforce. Superlative strategy!! Bravo.
aug 1, 2025, 3:05 pm • 3 0 • view
Alaska won't be helped out by a federal government that is in "punish enemies" mode (Murkowski), which is fine by me. At some point, Alaska's voters should see the light and toss the GOP out. If they don't, ... well they can rot too. I don't want my tax dollars going to support bad policy making.
aug 1, 2025, 2:39 pm • 9 1 • view
Alaskans dont want socialized money. Its up to them to raise the funds needed to fix their schools the good old-fashioned way. Start getting those fundraisers and bake sales going. They need to pick themselves up by the bootstraps.
aug 1, 2025, 4:21 pm • 4 1 • view
@tsfishergirl.bsky.social Your post stating that Trump & his minion's ascension to power is due to Native American, Black & Hispanic votes is ludicrous. Alaska's population is approx. 60% white & whites are the majority in the U.S. So, who voted for the Alaskan Governor & Trump? Just saying...
aug 1, 2025, 2:00 pm • 3 0 • view
Wait...What??? What party does that short-sighted, political hack belong to that would make a dumb a** decision to underfund the budget for maintaining and operating schools? The Republican Party, of course, makes perfect sense. Y'all seriously need to stop voting against your own interests.
aug 1, 2025, 1:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Schools are woke socialist crap. Cut all of them off! Bigly. On Hunter Biden’s laptop in Benghazi.
aug 2, 2025, 7:05 am • 1 0 • view
Maybe sen Lisa murkowski could sell her next vote to make up the shortfall
aug 1, 2025, 2:43 pm • 2 0 • view
People who vote for Republicans need to understand that they don't believe in a government. Republican politicians use the government as a vehicle to siphon taxpayer money to corporations and billionaire donors.
aug 2, 2025, 3:39 am • 2 1 • view
You get what you vote for.
aug 2, 2025, 4:26 am • 1 0 • view
Red State government working for the people who continue to elect them. Since 1992 Alaska has only elected a Democratic Senator 6-times and only 5- House members. Voting for the same failures for 35 years means they must be happy with the job they’re doing. They did vote for a dead man for Senator!
aug 1, 2025, 4:38 pm • 5 0 • view
Schools would best be served by funding from individual states. Each state has different situations. Get the US government out of it!
aug 1, 2025, 4:44 pm • 3 0 • view
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aug 1, 2025, 1:10 pm • 5 3 • view
You get what you vote for. It's not rocket science!
aug 1, 2025, 4:16 pm • 2 0 • view
You’re talking about the GOP. It was designed to be that way. They just want to privatize the schools. The greed of the current Republican Party will never be matched.
aug 1, 2025, 1:47 pm • 3 0 • view
Nothing says stupidity like underfunding public schools. And public stupidity remains a major goal for these rich politicians.
aug 1, 2025, 1:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Cue the Biden economy comments. From the ridiculous crowd.
aug 1, 2025, 4:27 pm • 4 0 • view
🧱
aug 1, 2025, 3:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Drill baby drill!
aug 2, 2025, 2:37 am • 1 0 • view
Good thing they voted for trump
aug 1, 2025, 11:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Trump’s total dumbing down of America will lead to… China, no doubt become the world leader.
aug 1, 2025, 1:53 pm • 2 0 • view
It's clear government is going to do nothing to help the people while Republicans are in charge. Surely there's a handy person or two in AK that can at least put band-aids on a few things.
aug 1, 2025, 3:20 pm • 2 0 • view
wait until the bbb takes effect
aug 1, 2025, 11:25 am • 6 0 • view
Wow THATS wild Shi THATS real money 😀lol
aug 1, 2025, 4:18 pm • 2 0 • view
Meanwhile Norway invested their North Sea oil revenue, so they were ready for leaner times.
aug 1, 2025, 5:43 pm • 5 0 • view
And Alaska it seems did not do much advance preparation either.
aug 1, 2025, 5:43 pm • 4 0 • view
They want to destroy public schools so they can have their wealthy donors privatize. Our govt is just a money laundering scheme for the wealthy. Our stolen tax dollars are the revenue stream.
aug 1, 2025, 2:08 pm • 2 0 • view
And Lisa helped trump 🖕🗑️💩
aug 1, 2025, 12:18 pm • 5 0 • view
It's not like the US has education. The country that became the world leader by educating their population now rejects education.
aug 1, 2025, 5:13 pm • 5 0 • view
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aug 10, 2025, 12:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Hmm
aug 1, 2025, 2:07 pm • 3 0 • view
aug 1, 2025, 10:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Self-check follow-up: I have no room to talk here in PA after I voted for Fetterman 🥺
aug 1, 2025, 12:06 pm • 9 0 • view
Same! He’s not even trying to pretend he’s a democrat anymore!
aug 1, 2025, 3:16 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah, but at the time Oz was running and I think people was ready to vote for a dill pickle than Oz. No one would have predicted the shit show Fetterman ended up to be. I still think a dill pickle is probably a better choice between fetterman and Oz
aug 1, 2025, 12:12 pm • 9 1 • view
We had no choice. When I see Oz groveling to Trump, I am reminded of who was on the ballot in PA and why we had to choose Fetterman at that time.
aug 1, 2025, 3:19 pm • 6 1 • view
Senator Murkowski's been representing you folks for 23 years now. Voting matters.
aug 1, 2025, 12:05 pm • 30 1 • view
This is what 20 + years of Republican “leadership “ does.
aug 1, 2025, 1:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Again & AGAIN republican leaders short change it's constituents. Texas doesn't fund emergency notifications systems because it's too expensive and now Alaska is trying to maintain schools on the cheap. Why? Because the rich won't make money off of it. SHAME SHAME.
aug 2, 2025, 2:51 am • 4 1 • view
We don't want our citizens to get too bright. Then they might stop voting for Republicans!
aug 1, 2025, 3:01 pm • 2 0 • view
What I think we can see is a pattern. Republicans come in and starve their communities of resources, but everyone feels good for a while. Then the Democrats come in and fix all the broken infrastructure the Republicans broke, but people feel pissed off because guess who pays for it all?
aug 1, 2025, 8:04 pm • 5 2 • view
Until we learn to hold those who f*** up things accountable and responsible, the tax payer will always be the one who picks up the tab. We have to stop CEO’s and others from taking credit for destroying things, claiming that they have made great savings and that deserves a bonus.
aug 1, 2025, 8:10 pm • 3 1 • view
Then, later on we find that they have achieved the complete opposite of that which they claim. Companies too big to fail need saving, but those responsible are never held financially accountable. They walk away to become the head of some quango and make even more money.
aug 1, 2025, 8:12 pm • 3 1 • view
Meanwhile Mr and Mrs Tax payer picks up the tab. The rich pay diddly squat tax, as do their parasitic companies. We’re all being screwed!
aug 1, 2025, 8:13 pm • 3 0 • view
Someday people will wake up and see our government as one party and realize all they care about is themselves and their back pockets. Public servants are becoming multi-millionaires after being in office only a few years on a salary of less than $200k/year.
aug 1, 2025, 11:41 pm • 2 0 • view
While more money goes into the pockets of billionaires.
aug 1, 2025, 4:49 pm • 4 0 • view
Who needs safe schools in Alaska? Do parents care about their kids at school? Do Republicans treat everyone this way in every state of America? Apparently.
aug 2, 2025, 4:32 am • 1 0 • view
That's what they get for voting scumbag republikkans
aug 1, 2025, 12:40 pm • 6 1 • view
You get what you vote for.
aug 1, 2025, 3:06 pm • 2 0 • view
He is trying to make the Alaska Marine Hwy to fail so it can sell it off. Probably trying to force the public schools to fail so he can justify the voucher program and then suddenly a ton of tax payer funds will spring up out of nowhere.🤦 Dunleavy is a corporate shill.
aug 2, 2025, 5:40 am • 1 0 • view
You can not educate children in red states. They're not going to allow it. They intend your kids to work night shifts in factories or to pick crops.
aug 1, 2025, 11:16 am • 52 3 • view
But also genetics
aug 1, 2025, 6:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Unfortunate.
aug 1, 2025, 7:55 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s about dismantling public education. If you have enough money, you can go to private schools. If you don’t, you don’t.
aug 1, 2025, 2:01 pm • 14 2 • view
My Dad got the kids out of the south in 1960. He didn't like the poor quality of the education & knew nothing good could come of it. After Fort Gordon, we went to the Presidio in SF & he took classes at Stanford & Berkeley. He had great respect for education & he was prescient.
aug 1, 2025, 2:12 pm • 16 0 • view
My sister lives in a small southern town and it only occurred to me about 15 years ago why all the “Christian” private schools founding dates were so close. We are in/from a nice suburb and have very good public schools. Her in laws to me “aren’t you afraid?”. Uh 🙄, of what? “Being shot”. Uh no. 🤪
aug 1, 2025, 5:11 pm • 8 1 • view
Yep, desegregation
aug 2, 2025, 7:29 am • 5 0 • view
That’s not unusual in any state. You will find that most states don’t put a lot of money or effort into schools. The people of Alaska will have to force to state to fix the problem.
aug 1, 2025, 11:49 am • 6 0 • view
Elections meet consequences. FAFO
aug 1, 2025, 5:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Red states can go **** themselves!
aug 1, 2025, 9:05 pm • 5 2 • view
If only Billionaire "Job creators" were forced to pay income tax on borrowing against their holdings.
aug 1, 2025, 1:31 pm • 6 0 • view
Just take some of that money Trump is using to fix up that bribery Plane of his
aug 1, 2025, 2:10 pm • 3 0 • view
Lets make a bet. Most of those schools serve Indigenous people.
aug 1, 2025, 12:19 pm • 4 0 • view
When the kids are injured the parents will have grounds for a class action negligence suit. And discovery will show the state knew the issue existed and deliberately ignored it, probably owing to some racist MAGA BS.
aug 1, 2025, 4:12 pm • 2 0 • view
They don't care about ordinary people. He said he loves the uneducated and he wasn't joking.
aug 1, 2025, 3:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Congratulations to @emilyschwing.bsky.social of KYUK Federal funding through CPB makes up 70% of KYUK’s budget. ‘Exhausting and demoralizing’: How public media in rural Alaska is responding to federal cuts | Alaska Beacon
aug 1, 2025, 2:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Sad so true in Red States. Blue States education is the biggest expense, children are our future and invest in them.
aug 1, 2025, 2:21 pm • 8 1 • view
Yes, the uneducated are easier to control and lie to.
aug 2, 2025, 12:37 pm • 3 0 • view
The strategy is to keep the population stupid, which makes them more easily manipulated.
aug 1, 2025, 3:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Trump spends our money like it is his. New ballroom in the Whitehouse, gold of course, being planned. Almost one billion for upgrades to his grifted airplane, redid the Rose Garden and trips for golf games every weekend or to car races any where he desires.
aug 1, 2025, 12:19 pm • 3 0 • view
Republican led States are suffering from stupidity and ignorance of the welfare of the people
aug 1, 2025, 12:07 pm • 19 0 • view
Blame Murkowski
aug 2, 2025, 1:51 pm • 1 0 • view
We are now living, the result of defunding education. And, yes, it will get worse
aug 1, 2025, 1:31 pm • 2 0 • view
The GOP stance is; if the kids can’t fight their way out of a collapsing/burning/sinking/molding building, do we really want them in the gene pool?
aug 1, 2025, 1:14 pm • 5 0 • view
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aug 1, 2025, 11:29 am • 6 1 • view
Everything's falling apart because the Oligarchs must have yet another mansion, yacht, private jet and lavish wedding.
aug 2, 2025, 12:56 pm • 4 0 • view
We are considered a 3rd world country now. 😠 Everything we seem to have are mere theatrics. All the money we should have went back to the elites. The rich don’t want equality. They want servants.
aug 1, 2025, 2:23 pm • 2 0 • view
This is what government run by Republicans looks like. Check your voter registration and vote in every election. Remember to pay attention to local politics.
aug 2, 2025, 12:23 am • 2 0 • view
www.juneauindependent.com/post/dunleav...
aug 1, 2025, 5:51 pm • 3 0 • view
Meanwhile the governor is playing a shell game to lose even more federal funding.
aug 1, 2025, 5:53 pm • 3 0 • view
And the rest of the money went to . . . .
aug 1, 2025, 4:46 pm • 3 0 • view
They don’t want educated people. Educated people can’t be turned into MAGATS.
aug 2, 2025, 2:12 am • 1 0 • view
Hmm, weird. I was told cutting taxes would fix everything
aug 1, 2025, 11:18 am • 19 1 • view
Mismanaged tax paying dollars by corrupt government officials
aug 1, 2025, 1:02 pm • 2 0 • view
That is because - they don’t care about us! I don’t understand why no one understands that yet
aug 1, 2025, 12:55 pm • 2 0 • view
RepubliCONS like stupid people. Easier to manipulate!
aug 1, 2025, 11:43 am • 7 1 • view
Have them discuss digital services tax with Canada. Have cascadia states join in and share funding. That tax could bring billions in taxes tech bros currently legally avoid.
aug 1, 2025, 5:42 pm • 4 0 • view
What would Jesus do? I’m asking Christian Nationalist Republicans.
aug 1, 2025, 4:34 pm • 3 0 • view
Creating slave labor for Alaska
aug 1, 2025, 4:31 pm • 3 0 • view
Republican Rot.
aug 1, 2025, 2:47 pm • 4 0 • view
What happened to all that oil money? You know BigDirtyOil. Squandered again? Alaska should be rolling in money.
aug 1, 2025, 4:14 pm • 2 0 • view
Running the country with full of lies and deception.
aug 1, 2025, 4:44 pm • 3 0 • view
Lisa Murkowki was so sucking up to Mike Johnson and Trump for special carve outs of the big, beautiful bill to help Only Alaska. In the end, they cut the Alaska carve out and her vote screwed the entire US. Get her out, now!
aug 1, 2025, 2:20 pm • 3 0 • view
WTF??? I see they all have Murkowski fever
aug 1, 2025, 2:43 pm • 4 1 • view
Actually, yes, it does—it could use money in the Permanent Fund, but that would be political suicide because Alaskans can’t face a year without $1,000 to blow on a snow machine, Hawaiian vacation, or to buy fuel oil (depending where you are on the sociopathic-economic ladder).
aug 1, 2025, 4:29 pm • 3 0 • view
You mean another republican ran state doesn’t have money? Shocker.
aug 2, 2025, 11:28 am • 3 0 • view
Intentional Defunding of Education.
aug 1, 2025, 4:13 pm • 4 0 • view
this is the time for all state and local officials to be building strategies to counter the effects of this administration on their constituents - you cannot wait for the flood before you start laying sandbags.
aug 2, 2025, 11:30 am • 2 0 • view
The GOP winning is always like a dog catching the bumper of a car, they have NO idea how to govern. Winning the hat trick at the fed level was guaranteed disaster for red states that had completely eroded state revenue to attract corporations and were entirely dependent on Fed pass through funding
aug 1, 2025, 1:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Tell me again how Republicans are America first... Tell me how they want to make sure our children will have a future. If this doesn't light a fire under any Alaskan parent to get every Republican out of their govt, then they got exactly what they wanted.
aug 1, 2025, 12:14 pm • 8 0 • view
That's the plan the schools don't need to be save and operating! Those kids would be much better off working in unsafe conditions for pennies on the dollar!
aug 1, 2025, 5:37 pm • 2 0 • view
More schools less ICE prisons
aug 1, 2025, 4:52 pm • 3 0 • view
That's cause the republicunts in charge want, and need, them stupid to maintain power.
aug 1, 2025, 12:22 pm • 2 0 • view
For the mere price of a stupid WH ballroom, over 1/4 of the schools could safely remain operational.
aug 1, 2025, 11:56 am • 5 0 • view
Thats not only ignorant governing, that's just blatant pandering to special interests and educational malpractice. And practically child abuse, considering that they're consigning those kids to undertake their education in substandard facilities, some of which are probably downright dangerous.
aug 1, 2025, 12:46 pm • 6 1 • view
So Alaskans STOP ELECTING REPUBLICANS PEOPLE!
aug 2, 2025, 5:00 am • 2 0 • view
Murkowski shouldn't have voted for the BBB. If one cut comes, usually many more follow. That's all that bill was about. Lining pockets. I hope she's voted out! Republican need to go!
aug 1, 2025, 1:00 pm • 7 1 • view
education, that's not on trump list deporting ppl who look Hispanic, weather there illegal or not is not on ICE'S LIST amen
aug 1, 2025, 2:14 pm • 4 0 • view
#fafo repubs care about $ & power not people. So sorry for Alaska but DT said he loves the uneducated
aug 1, 2025, 1:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Schools & education never a priority, we know that by now. Alaskans are lucky schools have not been demolished completely!
aug 1, 2025, 5:01 pm • 3 0 • view
So, your point is that they only budget5ed that money, instead of doing something else with it?
aug 2, 2025, 10:21 am • 1 0 • view
Moral of the story stop electing republicans!
aug 1, 2025, 4:17 pm • 3 0 • view
This is what you fucking get when vote Republican. Goddamn morons.
aug 1, 2025, 11:38 am • 7 0 • view
Stupid is as stupid does.
aug 1, 2025, 11:18 am • 11 0 • view
The they wonder why so many don't even want to have kids anymore.
aug 1, 2025, 1:18 pm • 7 0 • view
The last thing corrupt politicians want is a well educated citizenry - so bad schools help them stay in office. Jefferson warned us that Democracy cannot survive without a well educated citizenry but that’s precisely what many leaders fear. Is education for the individual or society’s benefit?
aug 1, 2025, 6:14 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s like the universe is telling us to tax the rich!
aug 1, 2025, 2:50 pm • 3 0 • view
Seems to me that Alaskans need to vote every one of those supposed conservatives, out of office. It’s apparent that they don’t know what they’re doing. #VeryStupidGOP
aug 1, 2025, 12:03 pm • 5 0 • view
Banana Republicans.
aug 2, 2025, 11:13 am • 3 0 • view
They'll vote for them again and again.
aug 1, 2025, 11:58 am • 6 0 • view
Just like people in the south. No matter how bad republicans screw them they’d never consider voting for a democrat.
aug 1, 2025, 2:43 pm • 6 1 • view
100% and crooks.
aug 1, 2025, 2:51 pm • 3 0 • view
Well Lisa murkowski is best friends with Trump. Tell the pearl clutching B*tch to fix it.
aug 1, 2025, 2:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Idaho and Alaska are good mates.
aug 1, 2025, 5:17 pm • 2 0 • view
As designed to keep the masses under-educated, and easier to manipulate by fear to exploit.
aug 1, 2025, 3:40 pm • 3 0 • view
What an opportunity to then shout “public schools don’t work!” Then privatise them.
aug 1, 2025, 11:19 am • 65 3 • view
The GOP way: DEFUND, DESTABILIZE, and DECOMMISSION safety nets and programs. No program can meet its mission if it's underfunded.
aug 1, 2025, 4:42 pm • 2 0 • view
100%
aug 2, 2025, 3:50 am • 1 0 • view
You could never privatize schools in Alaska because you'd have to pay teachers seven figures to move to these generationally poverty-stricken Native rural towns that nobody can escape. Republicans will just let the schools rot until the kids don't go at all.
aug 1, 2025, 2:37 pm • 29 1 • view
You might be able to get some church run schools out there.
aug 1, 2025, 2:43 pm • 7 0 • view
😡😡😡
aug 2, 2025, 2:01 am • 0 0 • view
Bc that doesn't have any negative history./s
aug 1, 2025, 4:37 pm • 17 0 • view
For the record. I’m against church runs schools and privatization efforts. It should be funded by the state. An educated population not only protects them and their neighbors but also helps the state grow. Churches can do good but they have often have perverse incentives structures.
aug 2, 2025, 5:59 pm • 1 0 • view
There's no money to be made so the churches won't get involved.
aug 1, 2025, 5:23 pm • 3 1 • view
historically not awesome
aug 1, 2025, 4:32 pm • 2 0 • view
It's ok though because Donald Epstein and his friends can now afford to buy groceries with the help of billionaire tax breaks.
aug 1, 2025, 1:29 pm • 3 1 • view
☝️
aug 1, 2025, 1:53 pm • 2 0 • view
Practically every municipality in the US is Bankrupt, expending too much on Fat Salaries, to make their Fat workers. Some will just go Bankrupt quicker than others...
aug 1, 2025, 5:27 pm • 2 0 • view
Alaskans have guns
aug 1, 2025, 3:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Oopsa-daisy. Maybe he was a bad idea, and not just ‘cuz he shits himself 3-5 times a day.
aug 3, 2025, 5:27 am • 0 0 • view
How about you put that oil money to some productive use
aug 1, 2025, 4:30 pm • 2 0 • view
Maybe Americans need to start suing our politicians
aug 1, 2025, 1:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Stop. Electing. Republicans. #forfuckssake
aug 1, 2025, 2:08 pm • 2 0 • view
A government's inability to tax the rich will only end with its inability to control the masses.
aug 1, 2025, 11:10 am • 168 16 • view
I’m nearly done with Just Around the Corner: A Highly Selective History of the Thirties by Robert Bendiner. It’s been very entertaining, and this has really stuck with me:
aug 1, 2025, 4:25 pm • 3 1 • view
One can conclude that historically repeating rhymes are truisms.
aug 1, 2025, 4:32 pm • 3 0 • view
I’ve seen that suggested as a possible goal for all of these changes: break things such that the only probable outcome is war. Here is hoping things trend towards the mean rapidly in the coming years.
aug 1, 2025, 3:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Sooner rather than later please.
aug 1, 2025, 1:37 pm • 32 0 • view
Maybe remaking the oval office to look like the Palace of Versailles just before the French Revolution was not the best choice. People can get ideas.
aug 1, 2025, 6:19 pm • 3 0 • view
Except the foundational purpose of a democratic government is to BE controlled. The dysfunction is not that the majority are out of control, it's that the will of the majority is apparently no longer a function in whatever math the government is using to set its policies.
aug 1, 2025, 2:18 pm • 3 0 • view
Wrong. The fundamental principle of a "democracy" is to give the PEOPLE, (the Demos,) the right to elect their leaders. By that means, they can, in fact *elect* a Mob boss, as we've seen. Don't conflate a government's basic form with its charter documents. They're very seperate things.
aug 1, 2025, 4:21 pm • 2 0 • view
And how does democracy compare to a dictatorship or a Kingdom in terms of being controlled? I'd really love to hear how you can justify what you just wrote.
aug 1, 2025, 7:00 pm • 0 0 • view
But It Is Not a short timeline - it can take MANY years - and even then it is Uncertain that the end product is any better.
aug 1, 2025, 2:57 pm • 2 0 • view
Guess their Murkowski has some splaining to do....... she voted for the big bullshit bill.
aug 1, 2025, 12:50 pm • 10 1 • view
THIS
aug 2, 2025, 12:32 am • 2 0 • view
Waiting on blue states to bail them out I suppose 🙄🙄
aug 1, 2025, 3:15 pm • 3 0 • view
Alaska politics is so maga and so broken.
aug 2, 2025, 4:28 am • 2 0 • view
They want parents to complain that public education is lost so they can voucher us all into religious schools that refuse to take the poor and disabled.
aug 1, 2025, 1:36 pm • 13 0 • view
Who knew Darwinism was such a Christian policy
aug 2, 2025, 7:31 am • 2 0 • view
Vote for republicans and this is what you get. Enjoy.
aug 1, 2025, 11:55 am • 8 1 • view
They're going to get everything they deserve. They keep electing shills and treason weasels, consequences suck. And now they're learning about how their hate for others isn't the reason to vote for dictators and spineless reps.
aug 1, 2025, 12:11 pm • 20 1 • view
Their innocent children are ones being shorted here. Those kids didn’t vote for Republicans
aug 1, 2025, 1:47 pm • 10 1 • view
Like Uvalde, the parents are failing their children and allowing them to get hurt
aug 2, 2025, 2:23 am • 5 0 • view
Looks like Alaska is winning under dump and dunleavy. I hope you like all the winning Alaska, your kids aren't winning.
aug 1, 2025, 3:54 pm • 2 0 • view
Well, they got the government they elected. Murkowski screwed over the rest of the country to get her share, so there's that as well. Perhaps this might be the catalyst for a change from red to blue. You know, a government actually works for their constituents...
aug 1, 2025, 3:17 pm • 6 1 • view
*surprised Pikachu face*
aug 2, 2025, 4:41 am • 1 0 • view
Is Alaska racing to the bottom to tie with Texas?
aug 2, 2025, 2:01 am • 1 0 • view
Who needs schools when there are crops to pick?
aug 1, 2025, 12:09 pm • 10 0 • view
Your headline omission of the party responsible makes your reporting into “a pox on lawmakers” when it is most certainly in this case a *party* doing this. This is a story about the failure of *Republican* ideas. They can do math. They know 40 isn’t 800. They just hate people. Your frame omits.
aug 1, 2025, 12:20 pm • 14 0 • view
And don’t get your backs up and get all indignant and angry. Just fucking fix yourselves. If you’re the best journalists we’ve got then you’re it. Be the best.
aug 1, 2025, 12:27 pm • 5 0 • view
hey, here's a radical thought, funding education is the best long term plan for ensuring economic growth in the coming decades; defunding education is the best short term plan for slashing taxes to promote economic growth next week;
aug 2, 2025, 11:42 am • 1 0 • view
Our kids are our future. What they’re doing is a huge mistake.
aug 1, 2025, 11:06 am • 19 1 • view
No, they see AI as the future yet they want more human babies.
aug 1, 2025, 11:52 am • 11 0 • view
It’s going to take a few years to replace us slaves with robots. so yea kill off the old and sick but have more babies for a strong work force to kiss the rich peoples asses for food and water!
aug 1, 2025, 7:32 pm • 4 0 • view
Hopefully I'm not here to see this boat go down.
aug 2, 2025, 12:03 am • 3 0 • view
Sounds like Indiana Gov. Mike Braun screwing over public schools by taking public taxpayer funds, and diverting them to charter and religious schools, while our legislators hide behind kindergartners parents saying, “school choice”, but we don’t want to pay for it.
aug 1, 2025, 4:15 pm • 4 0 • view
Old people running Alaska. Didn’t want to give up salary or bonuses. Made horrible decisions and now. They are making more
aug 2, 2025, 7:01 am • 2 0 • view
Did they see what their senators voted for? Just a crumb from what they gave to ice.
aug 1, 2025, 4:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Another fked up red state.
aug 1, 2025, 12:47 pm • 5 0 • view
Schools? We don't need no stinking schools!
aug 1, 2025, 5:06 pm • 2 0 • view
You can thank Lisa Murkowski for this Alaskans. If she had voted to protect this entire country instead of only Alaska’s interests we wouldn’t have this BIG BS BILL that will affect you also.
aug 1, 2025, 2:43 pm • 2 0 • view
“crumbling schools” - just how they like it…
aug 1, 2025, 1:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Talk about a public education crisis. It's not enough for the Trump regime to cut funding, but now we have state governments mismanaging the dwindling funds they get. Damn.
aug 1, 2025, 4:49 pm • 4 0 • view
Alaska DID have the funding, their representatives spent it all on yachts for themselves. They need to find who did that and get some street justice, since court justice doesn't seem like an option.
aug 1, 2025, 1:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Anyone ask Lisa Murkowski?
aug 1, 2025, 1:54 pm • 2 0 • view
Have Lisa murkowski pay for it with the bribe money she received in exchange for her vote.
aug 1, 2025, 11:41 am • 5 0 • view
Keeping the population unsafe, and uneducated is key to maintaining power.
aug 1, 2025, 11:55 am • 8 0 • view
It's important that Republicans get elected next time to repair the Damage.
aug 1, 2025, 1:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Republicans really hate school. Maybe it’s because they never learned arithmetic.
aug 1, 2025, 2:39 pm • 2 0 • view
The cruelty is the point. is was will be has always been will always be
aug 1, 2025, 2:51 pm • 4 0 • view
Lisa? Lisa Murkowski? Your constituents are calling.
aug 2, 2025, 2:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Vote blue next year, Alaska!
aug 1, 2025, 2:45 pm • 2 0 • view
Well, since they keep electing that lying cunt Murkowski...
aug 1, 2025, 6:18 pm • 17 0 • view
just another step in the dictator handbook - destroy public education
aug 1, 2025, 3:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Maybe they can ask Murkowski to sell out the other 49 states again and get them that funding
aug 1, 2025, 6:34 pm • 3 0 • view
Republicans betray and fail Americans.
aug 1, 2025, 8:35 pm • 5 1 • view
Fix the schools, Dunleavy!
aug 2, 2025, 2:13 am • 1 0 • view