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Believer in the Founding Fathers

@AMSKenai

Retired Senior Officer, Proud American, Father of Future Great Americans. #TeamIronWill

Alaska, USA Katılım Temmuz 2016
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Dale Stark
Dale Stark@DaleStarkA10·
They love to overcomplicate nutrition, but it’s actually simple: If it doesn’t grow from the ground or have a face, don’t eat it. And it’s always best if you raised or grew it yourself.
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Viva Frei
Viva Frei@thevivafrei·
Secret Service member caught spanking it while on duty. His name is Spillman. The jokes write themselves.
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Laura Loomer
Laura Loomer@LauraLoomer·
Rubio is very likable. The press is loving him today in the Press Room.
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I 100% back @allardforak She gets the job done!!!
907Honest@907Honest

I am proud to enthusiastically endorse Representative Jamie Allard @allardforak for re-election to the Alaska House of Representatives, District 23, this November. Since taking office, Rep. Allard has been a consistent and principled champion for restoring fair, transparent, and straightforward elections in Alaska. From 2020 onward, she has stood strong in support of repealing Ranked Choice Voting, a system that has brought confusion, weakened voter choice, and undermined trust in our electoral process. I urge everyone in Eagle River, Anchorage, and across Alaska who cares about election integrity to join me in voting to re-elect Representative Jamie Allard in November. She has earned our continued support and confidence. Also please donate to her campaign. Thank you, Rep. Allard, for your steadfast commitment to repealing Ranked Choice Voting and for your service to our community. Phil Izon @907Honest Rep. Allard did not ask for the endorsement and this is the first one for 2026.

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@Alaskacryptogi1 Did you see @AGofAlaska just finished his confirmation hearings. Now we can help him, like he has been helping us. TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO CONTACT THEIR SENTORS AND ASK THEM TO VOTE YES ON CONFIRMING STEVEN COX as Alaska Attorney General.
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@NotThatMrsJones Did you see @AGofAlaska just finished his confirmation hearings. Now we can help him, like he has been helping us. TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO CONTACT THEIR SENTORS AND ASK THEM TO VOTE YES ON CONFIRMING STEVEN COX as Alaska Attorney General.
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To my Alaska friends, Steven Cox just finished confirmation hearings. It's obvious its a close vote. I have known Steven for several years both as a lawyer, a father/husband and person. He has been a solid performer as all. CALL/TELL YOUR SENATORS, VOTE YES. It will help.
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Rants From Alaska
Rants From Alaska@AlaskanRants·
Rants remix Alaska’s Greedy Politicians Robbing Families While Padding Their Own Pockets because they’re incapable of any type reduction cuts to the budget. We’ve been getting screwed for years, and it’s time to call it what it is: a straight-up heist by the people we elected to serve us. Back in 2016, the legislature ditched the old statutory PFD formula, that reliable slice of the Permanent Fund’s earnings that actually belonged to the people who own the damn oil. Suddenly the dividend became their political slush fund, a “flexible tool” to patch the budget instead of putting money back in Alaskans’ pockets where it belongs. Look at what they did to us: • $2,072 in 2015 • Down to $1,022 in 201 • Scraping bottom at $992 in 2020 • A fake “recovery” to $3,284 in 2022 before they yanked it back to a pathetic $1,000 in 2025 The human cost? Over $16,000 per person stolen since 2016. For a family of four? More than $60,000 ripped out of your kitchen table and shoveled into the state bureaucracy. That’s not budgeting. That’s theft from working Alaskans, from seniors on fixed incomes, from families trying to survive these insane prices. Now here’s where the blood really boils. While they’re slashing your PFD to “balance the budget,” these same clowns in Juneau gave themselves a massive 67% pay raise in 2024, jacking base salaries from $50,400 to $84,000. Boom. Suddenly Alaska has one of the top 5 highest-paid legislatures in the entire country, right up there with New York, California, and Illinois. Add in those fat $307–$332 daily per diems for the non-Juneau members during their short little 90-120 day session, and plenty of them are clearing $120,000+ for part-time work. Part-time! In the smallest bicameral legislature in America, with one of the shortest sessions, representing just 12,300 people each. Let that sink in. California legislators represent 325,000 people each and we pay ours elite-tier money? We’re the third smallest state by population and somehow we have some of the most expensive per-capita governance in the country. Billions in “the people’s oil wealth” your wealth, getting redirected to keep this bloated machine running while your dividend gets treated like an afterthought. This isn’t fiscal responsibility. This is institutional self-preservation on steroids. Protect the legislators fat compensation and government bloat at all costs. Screw the residents. The PFD isn’t a citizen dividend anymore, it’s a budgetary cushion they squeeze whenever they want more money for their priorities. Alaska, we’ve got a resource-funded government that talks big about “the Permanent Fund belongs to the people” while treating us like an ATM they can raid whenever Juneau gets hungry. Enough. Is. Enough. We need to demand our dividend back on a statutory, predictable formula. We need to stop pretending this tiny legislature deserves California money for Alaska workload. And we sure as hell need to remember who actually owns this state’s wealth. The politicians work for us. Not the other way around.
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Fiscal Dissonance: Alaska’s Legislative Pay vs. the Shrinking Permanent Fund Dividend Alaska has undergone a quiet but profound shift in fiscal priorities. Since 2016, the state moved away from a statutory formula for Permanent Fund Dividends (PFDs) — historically ~21% of the Fund’s five-year average net income — toward annual legislative discretion. This change turned the PFD into a flexible tool for balancing the Unrestricted General Fund budget under the Percent-of-Market-Value (POMV) draw. The human impact on Alaskans has been significant: PFD Volatility (per person): $2,072 (2015) → $1,022 (2016) → $992 (2020) → $3,284 (2022) → $1,000 (2025) Cumulative estimated loss per resident since 2016: >$16,000 For a family of four: >$60,000 redirected from households to state operations Meanwhile, in 2024, Alaska legislators approved a substantial compensation increase. Base salaries rose ~67% from $50,400 to $84,000, placing Alaska in the Top 5 highest-paid state legislatures nationally (behind New York, California, Pennsylvania, and Illinois). Added context: Non-Juneau legislators can also receive $307–$332 daily per diems during the ~90–120 day session, often pushing total compensation above $120,000. Alaska operates a “full-time lite” legislature with one of the shortest sessions and the smallest bicameral body in the country. Each Alaska legislator represents only ~12,300 residents — compared to ~325,000 in California — yet receives elite-level pay relative to the state’s small population (3rd smallest in the U.S.). This creates a striking disproportionality: high per-capita governance costs alongside reduced direct benefits to citizens. Critics see a pattern of institutional self-preservation — protecting legislative compensation and government stability while treating the PFD as a discretionary “budgetary cushion” for residents. Key Takeaways: The PFD has shifted from a predictable citizen benefit to a volatile residual item. Legislative compensation has moved into the national elite tier despite limited session length and tiny constituent base. Billions in redirected “people’s oil wealth” have subsidized a governance model that is disproportionately expensive on a per-resident basis. This raises important questions about fiscal priorities, representation efficiency, and the social contract between Alaskan citizens and their government in an era of resource wealth management. #Alaska #PFD #FiscalPolicy #StateBudget #PermanentFund

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Sturdy Jenn
Sturdy Jenn@nogooddeed2·
I’m feeling much better today. It’s been a weird whatever it is. A night of fever and chills, a day of low-grade temp, fatigue, and a slightly stuffy nose, and that’s it.
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Believer in the Founding Fathers
Smoker is officially in a Full operation in Alaska, took a while attending 35 degrees (19hrs) but they are looking good. @BuffaloRon will be well fed this summer!
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Political Polls
Political Polls@PpollingNumbers·
New - Senate poll - Alaska 🔵 Peltola 49% 🔴 Sullivan (Inc) 43% Alaska SR #C - LV - 4/19
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BuffaloRon
BuffaloRon@BuffaloRon·
I'm definitely not the sharpest crayon in the box, but if you aren't making time and having fun with family and friends, you are living life wrong. Life is short, don't waste the time you got. Try not to get eaten by sharks too...that's not fun.
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Texas Darlin' 🎀
Texas Darlin' 🎀@TexitDarling·
Jesus Christo can someone tell her how to pronounce Mexican food names please? Bless her heart.
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