One of the featured acts for the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Paris on Friday was a drag performance that recreated the Last Supper, the final time that Jesus broke bread with his disciples before he was arrested and hung on a cross. The burlesque act that mocked one of Christianity’s most sacred […] The post Video: France insults Christianity with drag rendition of the Last Supper at Olympics opening ceremony appeared first on Must Read Alaska ..read more

Former Fairbanks Assemblyman Aaron Lojewski, who has been a budget hawk and champion of preventing higher taxes in Fairbanks, has dropped his bid for mayor of the Fairbanks North Star Borough, which gives fellow conservative John Coghill a stronger shot at winning against leftist hardliner Grier Hopkins, son of former Mayor Luke Hopkins. Lojewski has […] The post Aaron Lojewski drops bid for mayor of Fairbanks North Star Borough, leaving three on ballot appeared first on Must Read Alaska ..read more

By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE During President Joe Biden’s address to the American public Wednesday night, he said his administration secured the border. Without discussing border policies in his 10-minute address, he touted his efforts in two sentences, saying, “We are also securing our border. Border crossings are lower today than when the […] The post Fact check: Border crossings are not down to Trump-era levels, as Joe Biden claims repeatedly appeared first on Must Read Alaska ..read more

By FRITZ PETTYJOHN As soon as he became President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for any crimes he may have committed as President. President Kamala Harris could pardon not only Joe, but the whole Biden crime family. The resignation would be best done before the November election. If Biden resigned after losing the election, and […] The post Fritz Pettyjohn: Will Kamala pardon Biden Crime Syndicate? appeared first on Must Read Alaska ..read more

It’s another flip-flop for Alaska’s famously flipping representative in Congress. Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola this week voted against an appropriations bill that would block the Biden-Harris Administration’s lockup of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s areas — sections that were specifically set aside in law for oil leases. She voted to keep the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska’s oil […] The post Flipping off Alaska: Peltola votes to lock up ANWR, NPR-A, then against Native justice, health, education appeared first on Must Read Alaska ..read more

Attorney General Treg Taylor said the Department of Law will take no action in prosecuting Anchorage Police officers involved in the use of deadly force that ended the life of a gun-wielding man who reached for his weapon after being commanded to stop. Taylor, in the summary of the June 3 incident, wrote, “the three […] The post Report: June 3 officer-involved shooting in Anchorage was justified appeared first on Must Read Alaska ..read more

Although a widely circulated news photograph shows the astounding moment a bullet whizzed by Donald Trump’s head on July 13, while he spoke at a rally in Butler, Penn., the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation cast a doubt on whether that bullet actually struck the edge of Trump’s ear. It could have been […] The post Is F.B.I. Director Chris Wray a bullet denier? appeared first on Must Read Alaska ..read more

By SUZANNE DOWNING In newspaper jargon, the expression is “if it bleeds, it leads.” Apparently, the reporters, editor, and editorial page staff at the Anchorage Daily News decided to take it literally and go after Gov. Mike Dunleavy for a veto. The Blood Bank of Alaska was the supposed victim in this attempted tabloid crime […] The post The curious case of ADN’s blood bank smear on Gov. Dunleavy appeared first on Must Read Alaska ..read more

As pro-Hamas riots outside the U.S. Capitol faded into the night Wednesday, Alaska’s U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola joined all other House Democrats in voting against moving forward with a resolution “strongly condemning the Biden Administration and its Border Czar, Kamala Harris’s, failure to secure the United States border.” The resolution passed 210 to 202, along […] The post Peltola votes against condemning Biden-Harris border failures, then flips her vote and condemns appeared first on Must Read Alaska ..read more

NORAD detected, tracked, and intercepted two Russian TU-95 and two People’s Republic of China H-6 military aircraft operating in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone on July 24. NORAD fighter jets from the United States and Canada conducted the intercept. The Russian and Chinese aircraft remained in international airspace and did not enter American or […] The post NORAD reports four Russian, Chinese military jets patrolling Alaska coast hours before Biden Oval Office address appeared first on Must Read Alaska ..read more