Former state lawmaker Mary Peltola made history Wednesday night, as she won the remainder of the late Rep. Don Young’s (R-AK) term. She’ll be the first Alaskan native to ever serve in Congress.
Bye, bye Sarah!
Frist
And the beat goes on. Dobbs plus Trump equals radioactive environment for MAGA candidates, except in the reddest of the red districts.
Even Alaska doesn’t like Sarah. I am happy about this. Sarah may not quite be finished politically, but this sure doesn’t help her case.
Yay. And it took only one round of runoff votes. Hopefully incumbency will push Peltola over the top this november.
I got a little emotional when I read this. The idea that a Native person could win in Alaska, after hundreds of years of what Anglo-Europeans did to Indigenous–and do it by defeating the vile Sarah Palin–is powerful and just.
Yay! Good news!
Now “Mrs. Terry” and I are off for our pre-dinner walk. And I will have an extra spring to my step!
Looked it up: seven states with just one Rep (and two Senators), by population
Rhode Island has two.
Damn, this makes me happy. Good to see an actual American win.
Peltola will be first Alaska Native elected to Congress and is Yup’ik an Indigenous people of western and southwestern Alaska ranging from southern Norton Sound southwards along the coast of the Bering Sea on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (including living on Nelson and Nunivak Islands) and along the northern coast of Bristol Bay as far east as Nushagak Bay and the northern Alaska Peninsula at Naknek River and Egegik Bay. They are also known as Cup’ik by the Chevak Cup’ik dialect-speaking people of Chevak and Cup’ig for the Nunivak Cup’ig dialect-speaking people of Nunivak Island.
This expressive mask is an engaging portrayal of the theme of duality that is central to the Yup’ik world view. The concept of the shaman’s transformation is dramatically conveyed in the design as two identities are depicted in one: that of a man, and that of a fox, or “irci.” The mask depicts two faces appearing in profile, while combining to form a third face encompassing both identities. The two surrounding rings represent the dual worlds of human and animal spirits, and the light and dark color scheme further emphasizes the concept of duality in a dramatic way.
Justice and revenge in one swirly cone of electoral news? Let’s try something a bit different—maybe the happiest, most manic song ever to come out of the jazz-rock world. Mesdames et messieurs, give it up for:
I see a blue wave coming and it looks beautiful.
This is excellent news for John McCain.
When is Sarah Palin going to start screaming voter fraud? Or is she going to slink back into the slim from which she came. Loooooooser.
“Birdland”…
wow, never heard this version.
More swing/triplet feel than the album version : )
The absolute greatest fusion band there ever was (no flies on Mahavishnu, but…c’mon).
Random true fact: every 18-/19-year old Texas music kid knows this tune, because TX high school band directors love to program it, in the marching band versions later arrangers derived from it. Joe figured out how to make a 4-piece electric group sound like the baddest big band ever, and the big-band arrangers took note.
Also reminds me of the time I played about 2.5 choruses of a shuffle behind Jaco, at Jack’s in Cambridge MA around 1985, and it–and he–scared the living shit out of me. Still a peak moment, nevertheless.
I hope she does. I hope she’s miserable, and I hope her miserable fan base keeps sending their dollars to her cheap grifting drunken ass.
The best part of this article was the headline, which focused on the first Alaskan Native winning rather than mentioning who the losing candidate was. Go TPM>
Unlike Sarah who used to famously say she could see Russia from her house, Mary’s ancestors can probably claim to have crossed the water to Alaska, back in the day.
