On October 22, the federal government sued Alaska to block the state from certifying the votes next month in the U.S. Senate race. U.S.A. v State of Alaska, 3:26cv-376. The basis for the lawsuit is that two candidates named Dan Sullivan are on the November ballot for U.S. Senate.
The federal government’s Complaint admits that the Alaska Supreme Court already told the Alaska Elections Division that it could not exclude Daniel J. Sullivan from the ballot. The Alaska Supreme Court said it would explain its reasoning later, but has not done so yet. The new federal case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason, an Obama appointee. Here is the Complaint.
The incumbent U.S.Senator, a Republican, is on the ballot as Dan S. Sullivan, and his party label is shown as “Republican.” The other Sullivan is on the ballot as Daniel J. Sullivan, with no party label, even though he is also a registered Republican.
There have been many instances in history when two candidates with the same name, or almost the same name, ran against each other. States handle this problem in various ways. Some states give each candidate a number, which is placed on the ballot next to the candidates’ name. California prints the occupation of each candidate on the ballot. Many states put “incumbent” on the ballot if one of the candidates is the incumbent.
Sigh. I thought we (supporters of minor party and Independents’ right to run for office) had dodged a blow earlier this year when the Alaska Supreme Court had seemingly settled this controversy, but I guess I didn’t factor the Trump regime’s desperation into the mix. If the regime wins this case, they’ll set a precedent of booting minor party, Independent, and even non-Establishment major party candidates off the ballot for being “frivolous candidates” or for “trying to take votes” from one of the two major parties’ candidates. The Democrat appointed judge might just rule in the regime’s favor precisely to set such a precedent, given the so-called Democratic Party’s hostility towards minor parties such as the Greens.
On the one hand, state elections should not be a federal matter. On the other, federal congressional elections are very much a federal matter, particularly but not only when control of the US Senate may well hang in the balance.
The first step towards fixing this may well be to dissolve the USA into its constituent states, before dissolving those further.
Alaska is at least as well positioned as any state or better to go its own way as an independent nation, and one of the few that may not be too big to remain as a single nation state. It has under a million total population, which I would say is the upper limit for a sane nation.
Because of its physical size, it would still be ideal to dissolve it somewhat further, perhaps along Borough lines.
On the merits:
Blocking the Alaska results would be the right thing to do regardless of who wins in any case because not nearly enough was done to ensure marginal voters know which Can Sullivan they are voting for.
That’s the result of allowing far too many people to vote and then having unreasonable, out of touch with real world evidence expectations of how much they will study their voting choices and how well or correctly they will retain whatever they think they know when they are actually voting.
It’s also the result of having printed ballots, voting by candidate rather than party, multiple different offices voted on separately in one election, and many other proven bad idea’s, including having government units and numbers of people voting that are way too large for most of the people voting to personally know everyone who is running in real life.
Incremental moves in the directions I posit are welcome. We keep getting moves in the opposite directions, with predictably escalating negative outcomes.
Trump is correct here. Seating Peltola would promote tyranny rather than help stop it. For multiple reasons which are both process and outcome based,
Joshua H
“the regime wins this case, they’ll set a precedent of booting minor party, Independent, and even non-Establishment major party candidates off the ballot for being “frivolous candidates” or for “trying to take votes” from one of the two major parties’ candidates.”
Only if and when they intentionally confuse marginal voters with the name game. Hopefully that won’t be very often, particularly in federal elections.
Bear in mind my proposal would fix all that by having voters cast exactly one vote per election by standing with the people they most want to stand with, thus creating the parties on the spot, with the winning party appointing officeholders immediately after that until the following year’s election and substituting them at will during that time.
Ummm Stanley, every election is a state election. There are no federal elections. Congress is a deliberative body of the several states, not a separate legislature removed from the states. It’s called federalism for a reason.
That’s a nice theory, but not current reality. For that reason, among others, I’d do away with federalism and have a single, local level of government.
The USA was already too high in population at its founding to succeed, and at this point has several times more federal employees alone than any sane nation should have in total population.
To the extent that it was ever true, it stopped being true with the uncivil war, the 13th-15th improperly adopted constitutional amendments, the 17th amendment, various previous and subsequent court rulings, et tedious cetera.
The USA federalism experiment has failed miserably, particularly recently, and ever increasingly so, at an accelerating rate.
Indeed, at least some US founders foresaw this, although I doubt the utter extent thereof; see for example Thomas Jefferson:
“god forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. the people cannot be all, & always, well informed. the part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive; if they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. we have had 13. states independant 11. years. there has been one rebellion. that comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. what country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms. the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. what signify a few lives lost in a century or two? the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it’s natural manure”
That would have been over a dozen revolutions ago. Instead we’ve had devolution to something far worse than the 18th century British empire.
If anyone still seriously believes that in reality and not just theory the current members of congress represent primarily their States, more so than their federal parties and large contributors and organized special interest lobbies, such people are divorced from reality.
I hope no one here is that delusional.
“The incumbent U.S.Senator, a Republican, is on the ballot as Dan S. Sullivan, and his party label is shown as “Republican.” The other Sullivan is on the ballot as Daniel J. Sullivan, with no party label, even though he is also a registered Republican.
There have been many instances in history when two candidates with the same name, or almost the same name, ran against each other. States handle this problem in various ways. Some states give each candidate a number, which is placed on the ballot next to the candidates’ name. California prints the occupation of each candidate on the ballot. Many states put “incumbent” on the ballot if one of the candidates is the incumbent.”
Alaska hasn’t handled this well, this time. It could have very large consequences not just for Alaska, but for all States. Therefore, federal intervention is justified in this particular case.
IF AK WAS AN INDEPENDENT NATION –
HOW MANY SECONDS UNTIL PUTIN RUSSIA AND/OR XI RED CHINA WOULD ATTACK/INVADE/ CONQUER IT —
ESP TO GET MORE $$$ OIL ???
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ANTI-DEMOCRACY MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDER REGIMES IN ALL 50 STATES – SINCE DAY 1 IN 1775-1776
RESULT – MANY DE FACTO TYRANTS IN STATES/LOCALS.
MUCH WORSE USA MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDER SYSTEMS IN USA REGIME — H REPS [ABOUT 30 PCT] — SENATE [ABOUT 10 PCT- MANY SMALL BELOW AVERAGE STATES] — PREZ/VP [ABOUT 28 PCT]
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PR
APPV
TOTSOP
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/10/23/alaska-lawsuit-justice-department-dan-sullivan/92401858007/
TYRANT TRUMP CASE RE 2 SULLIVANS IN AK
SEE ALSO FULL ELB POST BY PROF HASEN
Alaska has a nuclear deterrent, so it’s highly unlikely any country would invade it if it were an independent nation.
Antidemocracy minority gerrymandering is not why.de facto tyranny takes place. It would be much worse with AZ SPAMBOT “solutions.”
It is, however, true that the federal government is much worse, which is why I would break it up first, along with other overgrown nation states like China and the RF. A world of micronations would be much better for almost everyone.
Unlike the AZ spambot I have real solutions which would actually prevent them from becoming tyrannies.
Proportional representation and approval voting are terrible ideas. Why has been eXplained ad nauseam previously.
If anyone other than AZ spambot wants to know why, just ask and I’ll explain yet again. I’m open to being convinced I’m wrong, but not easily, if anyone shows an equally open mindset.
Total separation of powers is good in theory, but bad in practice, because complicating government makes it worse and the separation doesn’t end up achieving what it’s supposed to.
Instead, I propose government that is greatly simplified and reduced in both scale and scope, with strong protections to keep it from ever expanding outside of that very limited scope.
The AZ BOT doesn’t ever learn anything from explanation, and I don’t know if anyone who does is reading and hasn’t already seen it, but if you are, please ask. I’ll endeavour to respond at least as respectfully and with at least as much of an open mind as you exhibit. It can go on for one round or several, or, as seems more likely given past experience here, not at all.
The US Senate could handle any election contest. There is no reason for the executive branch to be involved.
If I were an Alaska voter I would write in
Mary Sattler
Daniel A. Sullivan
Albert James Scott
Gilbert Andrew Sullivan
Robert Falcon Scott Sullivan
Eric Hafner
Daniel S. Sillyvan.
Danny Sullivan
Dan-Boy Sullivan
Daniel S.J. Sullivan
Daniel Sarah Sullivan
Lisa Sullivan
Daniel S. Murkowski
NOTA
RON
USSR YESTERDAY AND PROFESSOR HASEN AT ELb ARE COMMIE PROPAGANDISTS (FAKE NEWS)
The US Senate would handle any conflict, when? During the lame duck session or after the new congress is sworn in?
Q,
It wouldn’t matter.
There are enough Rhinos in the current senate that the commie peltola would get seated.
And that’s especially true given all the senators who will not be coming back in January and will have basically or completely checked out after the election.
What point is Jim Riley trying to make with the list of write in names or very long name/
@Q,
In the 1922 Texas Senate contest, the contest was filed in February 1923, before the beginning of the term on March 4, 1923 (this was prior to the 20th Amendment), The first session did not begin until December, when Earle Mayfield was sworn in. The contest was not formally resolved until 2025, though Mayfield was permitted to vote and participate in Senate proceedings.
There was a similar result in the 1968 of election of Henry Bellmon from Oklahoma. Bellmon was seated and participated prior to official resolution,
In the 1974 New Hampshire senate election, Republican Louis Wyman had apparently won by 355 votes. A recount gave John Durkin a 10 vote “victory”. Neither was seated and eventually the seat was declared vacant, triggering a special election. In that case there was not a clear resolution of who won (ballots were examined for hanging chads on the Senate floor).
In Alaska there will likely be a clear result, and Sullivan will complain that voters were confused.
@RF,
Mitch McConnell has not already checked out?
I think he checked out some time ago. He still has aides telling him how to vote or if necessary pushing his hand towards the correct button. After November 3 they will probably be more focused on job searches, moving, and related matters.
Green Party activist Joshua Hellman of Carbondale area, Illinois is not Robert Stock.
If I didn’t deduce that by 2025 you meant 1925, I’d ask: wouldn’t they all have been long dead by then?
My 6:16 pm comment is out of place with the comment it replied to having been deleted.
@Q,
Yes, 1925.
It was actually an interesting ballot access case. Earle Mayfield was supported by the KKK, if not actually being a member. He won the Democratic primary runoff against P.A.Ferguson a controversial figure who was the only Texas governor to be impeached and removed from office. In Texas, a candidate removed from office may not hold state office. US Senator is not a state office. In other elections, his wife M.A.Ferguson ran for office, pledging that her husband would be her main advisor.
George Peddy sought to run in the general election. The Republicans sought to nominate him. But in implementing the 17th Amendment, the legislature forgot to permit nomination by convention. Since the Republicans nominated by convention, they could not replace their original nominee since he had not been properly nominated.
Peddy ran as a write-in candidate and received about 1/3 of the vote. He then contested the election in the Senate. All the ballots were sent to Washington. Despite a large number of discrepancies, it could not be shown that they were sufficient for Peddy to win, and so Mayfield was permitted to serve.
Is Real Facts 5:16 pm substantially correct? If yes, does it matter?
Last August, I phoned the Election Division of Alaska as to why and who authorized the Alaska Primary Ballot to be published flawed that was notlegal because they did not list Decoy Dan as an affiate of the Alaska GOP on the ballot. IT has been months
With no valid answer from the Election
Division of Alaska. The Alaska State Ombussman made that request. Here in the 40th House District the General Election Sample Ballot shows the following for the United States Senator race:
Sullivan, Dan S. (Registered Republican) Incumbent
Heikes, Gerald L. (Registered Republican)
Peltola, Mary (Registered Democrat)
Sullivan, Daniel J. Jr.
Write-in
The event took place as follow: Decoy Dan was Registered as Alaska Independent Party like myself in 2025.
The Alaska Independence Party ended in 2025, so the Election Divdirected Decoy Dan to pick another party affiliation for the ballot, so he reaffirmed as Alaska GOP. Yet the Election Division would not place by Decoy Dan that affiliation of Republican Party on the ballot to give Daniel J. Sullivan, Jr. an advantage by sight on the ballot. For the elector looking at the ballot that understands ballot design it is clear said design would give an advantage to
Sullivan, Daniel J. Jr [with no party affiliation following his name]
in the design standard as taught at Stanford Jr. University Law School.
To: Jim Riley. Please explain why the names you suggest to be added to the ballot under write in?
To: Stanley, When I was State Chairman of the American Independent Party of California we had three people with the same name running for the same office in a county in California. I then visited the garage of my friend Judge Eric Younger [who watered died in 2022 at 79 years of age] to look at the legal papers his father prepared for the 1954 California State Senate race in Los Angeles County.
In that 1954 race incumbent Senator Tenney for all of Los Angeles County ran in the Republican Party Primary against two persons named Younger. one was a “decoy” that Senator Tenney paid the filing fee out of his own campaign funds. The other was Mildred Younger the mother of the Hon. Eric Younger, Judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. Mildred Younger in 1952 made a nomination speech for Ike Eisenhower at the GOP convention. She ran against Senator Tenney because he ran for VPOTUS against Richard Nixon in 1952. My friend Goodwin Knight told me the details in 1966 when I was active in CYRCF at Los Angeles City College. Knight was a former Governor of California and my father’s banker at the time. Tenney was the song writer that wrote the song “Mexicali Rose”.
To: any headed what is the details of this lawsuit so I can read it to see if I want to join in.
It was Goodwin Knight that told me that Senator Jack Tenney ran for VPOTUS in both Missouri and Texas in 1952, which prompted the GOP to run Mildred Younger to run in 1954 for California State Senate in 1954.
The California Lawsuit was Younger v. Jordon.
@MS,
When you say “here in the 40th House District” does that mean you now reside in the 40th? Have you moved to Wrangel Island?
The original post has a link to the complaint. There have been three amici briefs filed. The State of Alaska might not put much of a defense. Dahlstrom has already caved.
In the amici from the Peltola campaign they point out that nobody complained about the presentation adopted by the Division of Elections.
Does Daniel J. Sullivan remind you of anyone?
Jim RILEY,
I established my residence at Rodgers Harbor, Alaska in 1995. I am a student at University of Alaska Anchorage and taking classes there at present.
It was on 17 May 1884 that Wrangell Island entered the District of Alaska.
It was on 12 August 1881 that New Columbia Land became a possesion of the USA, when a landing party from the USRM cutter Thomas Corwin at Cape Corwin took formal possession for the USA.
On 1 April 1924, the Lomen Brothers of Nome, Alaska took title to Wrangell Island which was alternative known as New Columbia Land until 29 July 1901.
On 13 May 1924, Secretary of State Charles Even Hughes met with Carl Lomen of these Lomen Brothers in Washington, D.C.and acknowledge them on title to Wrangell Island, Alaska of the Arctic Ocean. On 22 May 1924, Hughes wrote to POTUS Cooledge and explained how private persons can take title to islands like Wrangell Island.
Then on 19 August 1924, a Soviet Ice Breaker lands at this Wrangell Island and on 20 August 1924 they kidnap at gun point the 14 Alaskans living on Wrangell Island. The Soviets then depart with these 14 Alaskans from Wrangell Island on 23 August 1924 with the 14 Alaskans from Wrangell Island.
In 1959 the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission gave the Lomen Brothers an Award against the Soviet Union for the damages that were caused on Wrangell Island, Alaska between 20 – 23 August 1924.
It was on 17 February 1868, that POTUS Andrew Johnson by Executive Memorandum informed Secretary of State William H. Seward that he wanted “Wrangell’s Land” a possession of the USA. The name was coined by Charles Francis Hall (an Arctic Explorer who on 5 September 1871 at Repulse Harbor took formal possession of Greenland for the USA with a landing party from the USS Polaris a ship of the United States Navy.
In 1880, Major Ezra W.Clark, Jr. Who was Chief of the United States Revenue Marine of the United States Department of the Treasury ordered Captain Calvin L.Hooper, USRM to take formal possession on “Wrangell’s Land” for the USA. That was done on 12 August 1881 by a landing party headed by 3rd Lt. William Edward Reynolds, USRM which included in that landing party
John Muir and Edward Nelson.
Then on December 30. 1898 at Honolulu, HI, Captain Calvin L. Hooper, USRCS informed Commander Taussig, USN of the USS Bennington of how he annexed New Columbia Land on 12 August 1881.
Then on 17 January 1899 Commander Taussig annexed Wake Atoll in the Pacific.
Note the spelling for Wrangell Island was set on 29 July 1901 by resolution of the USBGN under the authority of an Executive Order by POTUS Benjamin Harrison. Wrangel Island name went with New Columbia on 29 July 1901. It is no longer used official as the name.
I will go to the Library on Monday to read what you are telling me. I did complain in August 2016 direct to the Election Division and through the office of the Alaska State Ombudsman.
In answer to your question, yes Danuel J. Sullivan, Jr.remined me of H. Younger who ran for California State Senator in Los Angeles County in 1954.
Sorry I made a typo. It was in August 2026 and not August 2016.
JIM RILEY,
What do you mean by stating “Dahlstrom
has already caved”?
I know she approved taking “Decoy Dan” off the ballot. But the court over ruled that and he went on the ballot over the ruling by the Lt. Governor of Alaska.
That does not mean that the Lt. Governor directed that the party affilation of Daniel J. Sullivan, Jr.
of Republic Party was not place on the ballot at her call.
Are you claiming the Lt. Governor of Alaska directed that the second line showing party affication of Republican Party was directed off the ballot by her?
Sorry another typo. The 1954 lawsuit was YOUNGER V. JORDAN.
I have no idea why Mark Seidenberg directed the facts or alleged facts he did at me. They don’t address any contention I made or question I posed, as far as I know. They don’t address anything I’m remotely curious about. I don’t care at all whether they are true or not.
If they are meant to address something I said, please quote it or refer to the comment time. If you think I would be or should be curious to know that it would find it interesting, please explain why.
Good luck with your studies at Anchorage. I’m also a lifelong student, but not formally. Formal education ended with high school in a rural area of the deep south in the contentious 1960s, unless you count military service, police academy, and that sort of thing.
Just read an interesting article on this issue dated October 24, 2026. It is in Aljazeera by Elizabeth Malimopoulos and entitled: “Dan Sullivan vs. Dan Sullivan: Why is Trump’s DOJ suing in Alaska?”.
The issue as I see it is a flawed ballot design that gives an unlawful advantage to Daniel J. Sullivan, Jr. in the August primary by leaving his party affiliation of the ballot while all the other candidates show there party status.
If one has taken the ballot design class at Standford Jr. University Law School it would be clear the primary ballot was illegally flawed. Who approved the design of that ballot giving “Decoy Dan” an advantage over all the other candidates in that August primary election. It is clear that Daniel J. Sullivan, Jr. received an illegal advantage from the Election Division. Who approved that August ballot design should be the question here. The Election Division will not answer. Decoy Dan came in 3rd place because of ballot design and not by his name.
Sorry for two typo above. Please correct there to their and of to off.
Mark Seidenberg, the far more fundamental problem is that there are such things as ballots for ballot design to be a problem with, in addition to multiple elections separately for different offices with multiple candidates for many of them at the same election for voters to try to study and remember with different levels of success.
Voters would be much better served by a hand count,or at least a voice vote, and one choice per election to make, among friends and neighbors they know well, mostly outside of politics.
Barring that,the simplest problem with the ballot is that i tdoesmt say which one is the incumbent (occupation U.S. Senator) which would let the most voters know which is which.
Saying they are both Republicans could actually confuse more people, not less.
AMONG big problems I should have also said is the existence of the federal union and Alaska continuing to participate in that.
It would. be far better if the USA dissolved, or if Alaska was allowed to leave, and even better still if Alaska also dissolved into several independent nations, perhaps along Borough lines.
STANLEY,
How would you handle the unorganized borough under your view?
Ideally, it would be its own nation state. In fact I’ve hypothesized in the past that it might be an ideal place for a demonstration experiment of my* ideas if anyone ever wanted to implement them all at once.
Although, I think it’s a lot more likely different ones and combinations thereof will be tried in different places and that something like my proposed order will naturally evolve around the world before the next century rollover – I think within 50 years, maybe 25.
*(developed over several years with my friend Maxim from Russia and his long time friend and my ex Vera, both of whom have moved back to Russia, separately, many years apart. Max and Vera were both in the UK and US as Soviet citizens in the 1980s and early 90s. Max has been back in Russia ever since. Vera became a US citizen and was a Vero Beach PD officer with me. Amusingly, she chose the town because its name is similar to hers. She moved back to Russia after retirement. I wasn’t interested in living there. We’re all still friends).
Boroughs aren’t the only way Alaska might break down further when that time comes, to be clear.
Just one likely / possible way.
In other US States an equally plausible path after all the states separate might be county (and equivalent) independence, except where counties under 10k population remain consolidated with neighboring countries so the nation state is above 10k population, and counties close to or above 1 million could break down further.
In DC and Chicago wards would seem to be logical. In NYC, my beat guess is police precincts, except Central Park, which has near zero official population, all state prisoners who don’t actually currently live there. That would consolidate with a neighbor.
Only about 1/1k would be voters, so 10-1000 voters per nation, 100 on average, all well known to each other and each other’s families, mostly outside of politics, long term residents.
Votes would be in person at a meeting hall once a year, standing or hand count. People would form parties by standing together. The largest group at the end of the meeting would be the winning party and pick the office holders among them immediately after.
Looking at a population level listing of AK boroughs, some would consolidate.
While nation states don’t always have to be contiguous, it would be better if they are, in which case unorganized borough might shed non-contiguous portions.
North Slope and Kodiak are probably the lower limit populations for stand alone nations – north slope might be more ideal as a demonstration area if there is to be one than unorganized borough. Unorganized borough is closer to ideal population. North Slope is a great physical location. In Russia, Max and Vera have suggested Primorsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast as ideal.
@MS,
Alaska does not have a Secretary of State, and the Lieutenant Governor is in charge of elections, which is administered through the Division of Elections. The Director of Elections is nominally independent of the Lieutenant Governor, but it appears that Dahlstrom (or Dunleavy?) twisted to Carol Beecher’s arm.
Incidentally, the motion by the Peltola campaign notes that the ballot presentation was adopted after the Alaska courts rejected Beecher’s exclusion of Petersburg Dan from the ballot. In effect, Trump/Blanche/Sullivan are claiming that the ballot presentation is confusing.
I could not locate Rodgers Bay, Alaska. Do you know the Lat/Long coordinates?
I found a Rodgers Point, Rogers Island, Rodgers Peak, Rudyerd Bay, Rodman Bay, Rogers-Post, Rogers Park, and according to Woke Pedos at Wikipedia translated thru Artificial Stupidity “Rodgers Bay (sometimes spelled Rogers Bay) is not located in Alaska, but is instead situated on the south-central coast of Wrangel Island in the Russian Arctic.”
Therefore it’s not out of the question as yet that Mr. Heisenberg resides in the Russian Federation while taking classes at Anchorage, perhaps online or one heck of a commute.
Other likely possibilities include woke pedophiles dissembling, typographical error(s) – we all make them, Mr. Heisenberg dissembling, Mr. Seidenberg being confused (he is a well seasoned citizen of, presumably, at least one country, or maybe more than one), and AI hhallucinating.
There may be others I’ve not thought of as yet.
Google is responsible for “Heisenberg,” but my apologies nevertheless.
Definitely Russian intel psyop confirmed 100%.
Hotiti igrat, rebyata?
Most of Wrangel Island, with the adjacent Herald Island, is a federally protected nature sanctuary administered by Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. In 1976, Wrangel Island and all of its surrounding waters were classified as a “zapovednik” (a “strict nature reserve”) and, as such, receive the highest level of protection, excluding virtually all human activity other than conservation research and scientific purposes. In 1999, the Chukotka Regional government extended the protected marine area to 24 nmi (44 km) offshore. As of 2003, there were four rangers who reside on the island year-round, while a core group of about 12 scientists conduct research during the summer months. Wrangel Island was home to the last generally accepted surviving population of woolly mammoths, with radiocarbon dating suggesting they persisted on the island until around 4,000 years ago.
Is Mark Seidenberg one of the rangers, research scientists, or woolly mammoths?
Rodgers Harbor is a historic anchorage located on the southern coast of Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean, named after the 1881 U.S. Arctic exploration ship USS Rodgers.
Mark Seidenberg is clearly a survivor.
The Canadian Karluk expedition ship Karluk wrecked there in 1914. There were survivors.
Jim Riley,
“In effect, Trump/Blanche/Sullivan are claiming that the ballot presentation is confusing.”
They are correct. Almost certainly that’s how it is intentionally. Good luck to them, and thus all of us/US, in proving it and prevailing through all levels of kangaroos courts to prevent Potola from being seated, particularly with demon rat majority, and especially if its because of her fraudulent election.
“I could not locate Rodgers Bay, Alaska. Do you know the Lat/Long coordinates?”
Approximately 70°57′ N, 178°10′ W, Chukotka, not Alaska, but most likely relatively close from your perspective.
Stanley,
“In Russia, Max and Vera have suggested Primorsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast as ideal.”
LOL, ideal for what exactly???
Maybe that was some of their Soviet era humor, or perhaps you share it, or at least certainly you must understand it having been married to Vera and friends with Max for decades?
It was after all the site of the first Soviet gulag founded in 1921 on Solovetsky islands. They are huge Solzhenitsyn fans as I’m sure you know, and he wrote about it. I would lay heavy odds you must have read Arkhipelag Gulag, at the very least in translation.
There’s also all of the preceding, and even subsequent, history of the Solovetsky monastery to consider if you want to understand what they might have really meant when they said that.
It straddles Arctic circle, economy is mostly in fishing and timber. Living conditions and climate there are no joke. Survival is definitely far from assured, and there is a very long tradition of repelling invaders.
I think it may be Mark Seidenberg was pulling leg in similar fashion regarding the Wrangell Island in Chukotka? ROFLENIN
HG,
“Google is responsible for “Heisenberg,””
That seems unlikely. Google was founded in 1998 by two American Jews, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
By that time Werner Karl Heisenberg had been dead 20 years already. He was a patriotic German who never regretted his service to Nazi Germany and its nuclear program.
Perhaps you meant Googol, coined by another American Jew, Edward Kasner, and his then young nephew Milton, iirc around 1920, although I don’t see how he could have been responsible for Heisenberg. That just seems unlikely.
Wasn’t James Orlando Ogle III, also known as joogle, responsible for Google?
By way of USENET, or so he claims.
Exactly through what means did Mark Seidenberg establish residency at a (then recently ex Soviet) island nature preserve in the Arctic Sea under the control of the Russian Federation in 1995?
I, wanda,
In 1990s jn Russia (and on then new WWW) it was like the popular image of USA wild west frontier or 1920s in places like Chicago.
See Russian films Brat (brother) and Brat 2, etc;
If some American waved around money and wanted to buy something that claimed he was a resident of Wrangel island, Solovetsly monastery, the Russian portion of Antarctica, a Russian base on the moon or Mars, etc, he would have no problem acquiring such a verification, possibly even from an actual government official.
Real Facts
I’m sure you didn’t know I meant Google autocorrect. I’m equally sure Jim Riley had no idea Mark Seidenberg referred to US federal Secretaries of State, not Alaska.
52 pickup,
Nyet.
@HG,
Perhaps you were Uncertain of Seidenberg’s Principal residence.
@RS,
Those coordinates would be offshore. Is Ushakovskoye located at Rogers Bay? It was Seidenberg who suggested that he resided in the 40th House District, which is far northern Alaska. Do they refer to folks in Nome or Fort Yukon as “Southerners”.
@HG,
Mark Seidenberg knows that Nancy Dahlstrom is the Lieutenant Governor. The Division of Alaska is under the Lieutenant Governor, nominally independent, and headed by Carol Beecher. I do not believe that Beecher got a letter from RSCC suggesting that Petersburg Dan had made his website using the same colors as the Alaska flag but used a single star rather Ursa Major, and decided that Petersburg Dan’s candidacy was not in “good faith”.
That’s why I said Approximately.
Seidenberg explicitly said Wrangel island nearby to there.
I, Wanda and HG most likely have correct answers as to what underlies this claim.
I lean towards Mr. Seidenberg’s residence being primarily on the far side of the moon. However, if it is in fact anywhere within the RF, I am reasonably sure that his house must be yellow (see Russian expression zholty dom).
It’s either that or he is trying to pull our legs.
Otherwise he must be a RF park ranger, research scientist, or woolly mammoth.
Come to think of it, I’ve read that scientists are in fact working on cloning a woolly mammoth from frozen DNA. Maybe even in Wrangel island, their most recent known home.
Perhaps this research is further along than I recall having read, but I’m uncertain.
Quick search indicates that AK-40 is north slope region of Alaska..
If Wrangel was actually in Alaska and not Chukotka I would guess 8t would be in the 40th.
I don’t think the addition of four naturalized citizen park rangers would change election outcomes very often. It’s not impossible, but very unlikely.
Any part of the 40th is far from Anchorage, so online classes are at least more plausible than a commute.
Wasn’t Seidenberg a California AIP party official more recently than 1995?
Regarding Ushakovskoye
“The last permanent resident, Vasilina Alpaun, was killed by a polar bear in 2003, marking the end of the settlement’s inhabited status.”
In addition to woolly mammoths, have we as yet considered that M. Seidenberg could be a Chukchi eating polar bear?
Wrangel Island (or America Island, since 2026) is east of 180th Meridian, which is part of the basis for an American claim to sovereignty. It may be more reachable from the 39th (Little Diomede and St. Lawrence islands are officially in the 39th).
Probably typo by woke pedophiles or subpar super intelligence hallucination, then. Change W to E in above coordinates and see if they work correctly.
The American claim is hot garbage. Russian claim to all of Alaska is stronger. Incompetent stewardship by Tsar and his ministers demonstrated by selling at insanely low price due to syphillitic dementia and desperation for funds to sustain prostitute addiction, for example? Idk, just spitballing.
Generally speaking, any government’s claim to any piece of territory is best judged by the maxim that possession is 9/10 of the law, which is probably an underestimate.
I’ve worked in border protection in the USA, RF, and LNR at different times. Governments are the most organized of organized crime gangs. There is no empirical or divine right by any government that ultimately makes any such claim more legitimate than any other competing claim, despite their unending attempts to invent and prove such pretexts and justifications for territorial aggression and other kinds of conflict.
Might may not always make right, but when it comes to territorial claim conflict between countries, it does.
If Americans want “America island,” good luck with that. I’m currently American – both by birth and present residence – but would side with Russia if it ever came to that – dual RF citizen, resident in two stretches, fathers birthplace, mother from Moldova, then MoLdavian SSR, both current US citizens and residents.
I don’t think USAgov is quite that stupid yet , but I guess we’ll see who is elected next.
I’ll defer to your expertise on 39th vs 40th, but I’m still guessing that was why Seidenberg claimed to live in the 40th. Maybe he placed it incorrectly.
Ushakovskoye is on Wrangel according to Woke Pedos at Wikipedia so you or the pedophiles are mixing something up.
Are folks here saying MS might be a polar bear or woolly mammoth in the sense of gay slang for male body types, like “twink,” “bear,” “otter,” etc, or literally?
I, Wanda,
Yes.
Jim Riley is incorrect. Checking several standard references shows most of Wrangel west of 180th, although parts cross. It’s between the Chukchi and East Siberian seas of the Arctic Ocean. Looks closer to the 40th than 39th to me. More reachable, possibly.
What was MS point about the spelling of Wrangel, named after Baron Ferdinand von Wrangel?
Is there an alternative history and etymology?
Is it true that it’s called the island of polar bears in Chukchi language?
Yes, in Chukot, Umqiḷir.
It was sporadically inhabited by Siberian tribes for the past ~3.5 k years. Descendants of those tribes today are mostly Russian citizens.
Discovered by the European origin people’s by the Cossack Sergeant Stepan Andreyev in 1764.
There were British, German, USA, Canadian and Russian expeditions and explorers, occasionally some settlers, since 1849. Baron von Wrangel was Russian, despite the German name. American whaling captain Thomas Long misspelled Wrangel’s name in 1867, several decades after Wrangel failed to land in the 1820s. That’s the significance of Wrangell with two Ls.
1911, the Russian Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition on icebreakers Vaygach and Taymyr under Boris Vilkitsky, landed on the island. In 1916 the Tsarist government declared that the island belonged to the Russian Empire.
Canadian led Karluk expedition was marooned in 1914, rescued by Americans after help was summoned from Russian Siberia.
In 1921, Canadian explorer Stefansson sent a Canadian, three Americans, and an Alaska native as settlers and claimed it for Canada. He claimed it was to prevent a Japanese claim. They all died except the native, who was rescued by ship in 1923, and the ship dropped off twelve Eskimos and one American.
The following year the Soviets evicted the squatters by ship. The American died in Russia. One Eskimo was born on the island that year.
The 13 Eskimos were taken to China. The Chinese didn’t want them. The Americans didn’t want them back. The Eskimo kid died in detention in China. The 12 adult Eskimos were rescued from China by a Japanese ship, paid for by the Red Cross, went to Canada, then Seattle, then Nome.
In the meantime Stefansson sold his claim to an American who got a go ahead from the US Secretary of State and sent a ship that didn’t manage to make it there.
In 1926 the Soviets reaffirmed their claim and the USSR then RF have held it since.
The Russian claim is much more established than the American, both by history and on the ground reality.
The only way Seidenberg became a resident in 1995 was either through bogus paperwork or by being a research scientist at a Russian nature preserve. If the latter, he didn’t remain there, given that he was a California party official in the 21st century.
It’s not physically possible to take classes at Anchorage while living in the 40th except online . The same classes can be taken from, say, California.
It’s possible Seidenberg lives somewhere else in the 40th, but very few people except oilfield workers and Eskimos do, or would want to, live there, especially at his age. Most likely he believes Wtangel would be in the 40th if it actually was in the USA, maybe parlayed his phony residence there into a fraudulent voter registration in the 40th, and either takes online classes in Anchorage or lives there, unless he made that up too.
@Q,
There is also a Wrangell Island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeast Alaska which is the location of the city of Wrangell.
The spelling with two l’s is based on the German spelling. The Wrangell family were German Balts (Baron von Wrangell was born in Pskov, just east of Estonia). The spelling with one l is based on the transliteration into Cyrillic and then into English (Latin script).
The title of “Baron” was conveyed to the family by the Swedish Queen. After the Great Northern War, Russia continued to recognize hereditary titles from other countries.
One of the reasons that President Trump renamed the island America Island was to prevent confusion between the two.
Seidenberg could be domiciled in Rodgers Bay, and attend classes at University of Alaska. Kotzebue is in the 40th House district, and has a satellite campus, Chukchi Campus, in Kotzebue. I may have been in error in assuming transportation by sailing vessel from mainland Alaska. Kotzebue is closer than Nome to Wrangel Island (508 miles vs. 588 miles).
He specified Anchorage. See above Oct 24 at 10:03 pm.
Kotzebue is not commuting distance to Wrangel Island, either, LOL.
500+ Miles through Arctic sea waters each way and an international border? Good luck with that
I’m presuming that would take plane travel. Wouldn’t he be shot down by military jets on his way to or from school?
He probably has a Nazi UFO from Heisenberg. It gets him from Rodgers Bay to Anchorage in minutes and flies way below the radar. And even if military jets see him, nobody wants to fill out the paperwork that goes with shooting him down.
That’s silly. Nazis didn’t have IFOs. He must have a u boat.
https://youtu.be/D3Uxq70IAzs
GREAT Russian band Right Hook + Polar Reich song
https://youtu.be/z8b3eE2NVyQ
I could walk from Rodgers Bay on America Island to Kotzebue or Anchorage any day of the week and twice on Sunday. A lot of very smart people are saying it would be very easy for me. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but a lot of very smart people are saying that.
Jesus Trump, Mark Seidenberg has previously claimed on past exchanges here that he is a personal friend of yours – is that true? Do you guys hang out? Talk on the phone?
Wouldn’t you tell US military jets to stand down as your buddy flies his plane from America Island to school and back?
And wouldn’t you tell your other buddy Vladimir Vladimirovich, “Vova, bro, this guy is a friend of ours, you catch my drift? So do me a favor, brosephus, tell your jet pilot’s to cool it when he flies to class and back home, ok? Would you do that for me, homeslice? Remember, one hand washes the other, capice?”
My friend Mark Seidenberg is a SEAL.
Do y’all think that commute might could work via paraglider?
@RF,
He likely began at Chukchi Campus of UAF, perhaps online. It is likely simple to transfer credits between UAF and UAA.
Don, Navy SEAL or pinniped?
Jim Riley, any thoughts on likely commuting transportation methods between Rodgers Bay and Kotzebue?
Do you think the Russian Federation claim and de facto control of Wrangel and nearby airspace and ocean waters would be an issue with that?
If they were online courses, why suppose Kotzebue (135 total students currently, almost all Alaskan natives, maximum of associate degree available) rather than Anchorage?
Q4H,
Have you ever paraglided? If yes, at what distances, temperature ranges, visibility conditions, wind speeds, etc?
Jesus H. Trump,
How could you possibly not know if that’s true or not?
Don’t you know everything?
If there’s anything you don’t know, who could possibly know it?
Roman,
Is it true that Hook Sprava is a neonazi skinhead band associated with convicted domestic criminals and likely war criminals?
Going back to a meeting I had with Goodwin Knight in April,1966. Knight told me about how Richard Nixon put up Mildred Younger to run against Senator Jack B. Tenney in 1954, because Tenney ran against Nixon in Missouri and Texas for VPOTUS. Then Tenney located
Hazil Younger and paid her filing fee to run in the election and became in loggerheads with Benjamin Hites over it.
This was the same thing that Joseph Kane and Joseph Kennedy, Sr did in the 11th Congressional District in Massachusetts for John F. Kennedy in 1946, by funding DeCoy Joseph Russo to take votes from Boston City Councilman Joseph Russo.
As you can see both Democrats and Republicans do the same thing that Mary Potola has done in 2026 with Decoy Dan.
Did you see the many questions you were asked since you last posted above? You sure didn’t answer them.