Chalk it up to wardrobe failure: Fletch Fletcher, a language arts teacher at Dimond High School in Anchorage, made social media this week, with his name and physique featured in the “Libs of TikTok” channel on X/Twitter.
In a video apparently shot by a student, a teacher wearing a dress appears to have his hardened penis tenting out of the fabric, right at eye level where a student under his watch is working on a computer. The distance between the erection and the student’s hand is mere inches. That teacher is identified as Fletcher, although not verified by Must Read Alaska as such.
Meet Fletch Fletcher. A male teacher at @ASDschools who now identifies as nonbinary. He likes to wear tight dresses to school so his bulge sticks out. I’m told he also wears very tight pants and it makes the students extremely uncomfortable.
According to the Libs of TikTok account, Fletcher also wears tight pants that show his bulge and make students uncomfortable.
Students of Dimond High School who are familiar with the situation may contact Must Read Alaska in the comment section below and ask that their names be kept private if they have information that is pertinent to this report.
Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan, speaking immediately after President Joe Biden’s fourth State of the Union address late Thursday night, called the speech partisan and divisive.
“It’s really hard to understand the president when he’s yelling, mumbling, and speaking real fast,” Sullivan said. Sullivan said it was a bad practice to yell at Congress if Biden wants a good relationship with the legislative branch. Watch Sullivan’s immediate reaction to the speech — completely unscripted — here:
Tonight was a missed opportunity for @POTUS to unite the country on pressing national security issues. Within minutes, his speech became one of the most partisan and divisive SOTU speeches I’ve ever heard in the Senate. pic.twitter.com/5ZpQ8lo56S
Before the State of the Union, Sullivan sent a video message: “56: That is the number of times this administration has chosen to side with Lower 48 extremists over Alaskans. Tonight, I hope President Biden announces a cease fire in his war against Alaskan working families. Unfortunately, that appears unlikely.”
Sullivan was right. Instead, Biden repeated his goal of cutting the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, heralding is as the “most significant action on climate ever in the history of the world.” It appears unlikely he can achieve that in six years.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski made brief official comments on the speech, calling it the most partisan political speech she had heard in years.
“He had lots of energy going on and I know that was part of the show, but I kind of felt it was a set up to be a campaign rally and I guess I’m enough of a traditionalist to not want to hear that level of politics injected into the State of the Union speech, so I was disappointed,” she told reporters.
Rep. Mary Peltola had no comment on the speech. Peltola, who wore a white kuspuk in solidarity with the Democrat women lawmakers in the House chambers who were dressed in their pro-abortion theme, pivoted from the spectacle of the incoherent president whom she endorses for reelection. On Friday morning she posted on X/Twitter a picture celebrating National Women’s Day through the lens of Native women.
Murkowski posted a selfie with Sen. Susan Collins and Sen. Lindsey Graham.
Michael Hart of San Diego was arrested March 4 and charged with smuggling greenhouse gases into the United States from Mexico and selling them for profit. The U.S. District Attorney said this is a violation of regulations meant to curb the use of greenhouse gases and slow climate change. She said this was the first instance of such an arrest, but won’t be the last.
Hart, 58, violated the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act of 2020, which prohibits the importation of hydrofluorocarbons, commonly used as refrigerants, without specific permits allowances by the Environmental Protection Agency. He is accused of hiding the tanks of coolants under tools and a tarp in his truck and not declaring them at the border.
Hart posted the refrigerants for sale on OfferUp, Facebook Marketplace, and other sites, and sold them. In addition to greenhouse gases, the indictment alleges Hart imported HCFC 22, an ozone-depleting substance regulated under the Clean Air Act.
“This office is at the forefront of environmental prosecutions, and today is a significant milestone for our country,” said U.S. Attorney Tara McGrath in San Diego. “This is the first time the Department of Justice is prosecuting someone for illegally importing greenhouse gases, and it will not be the last. We are using every means possible to protect our planet from the harm caused by toxic pollutants, including bringing criminal charges.”
“The illegal smuggling of hydrofluorocarbons, a highly potent greenhouse gas, undermines international efforts to combat climate change under the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol,” said David M. Uhlmann, EPA Assistant Administrator for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. “Anyone who seeks to profit from illegal actions that worsen climate change must be held accountable. This arrest highlights the significance of EPA’s climate enforcement initiative and our efforts to prevent refrigerants that are climate super pollutants from illegally entering the United States.”
Hart made his first appearance in federal court this week and pled not guilty. His next hearing is before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey T. Miller for motion hearing/trial setting on March 25, at 11 a.m.
The EPA, HFCs are potent greenhouse gases that cause climate change and are used in applications such as refrigeration, air-conditioning, building insulation, fire extinguishing systems, and aerosols.
“The use of HFCs has been rapidly increasing worldwide due to the global phaseout of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) and increased demand for refrigeration and air conditioning,” the government said.
The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is a treaty adopted in 1987 and ratified by virtually every country, the federal government said. The Montreal Protocol required the gradual phase out of ozone depleting substances, with different timetables for developed countries like the United States, and developing countries like Mexico.
In the United States, the Montreal Protocol was implemented in 1990 by an addition to the Clean Air Act, which covers Stratospheric Ozone Protection.
That addition identified HCFC 22 as a regulated ozone depleting substance. Before 2020, EPA regulations that governed ozone-depleting substances made it illegal for anyone to import a regulated ozone-depleting substance in an amount exceeding that individual’s consumption allowance, subject to certain exceptions. On January 1, 2020, consumption allowances for HCFC 22 were eliminated and it became illegal to import HCFC 22 for any purpose other than for use in a process resulting in their transformation or their destruction, the U.S. Attorney said.
The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol is another international agreement designed to phase down the production and consumption of greenhouse gases such as HFCs, which are commonly used alternatives to ozone-depleting substances and are already controlled under the Montreal Protocol.
The Kigali Amendment seeks to phase down the production and consumption of HFCs by 80 to 85 percent by 2047. The AIM Act authorized the EPA to phase down the production and consumption of HFCs in a stepwise manner. As part of the AIM Act, Congress added an additional list of regulated substances, which include HFC 32, HFC-125, HFC-134, HFC-134a, HFC 143 and HFC 143a. Refrigerants marketed as HFC 404a, 407a, 407c and 410a contain these regulated substances. The listed HFCs are some of the most commonly used HFCs and all are saturated, meaning they have only a single bond between their atoms and therefore have longer atmospheric lifetimes.
Beginning on January 1, 2022, EPA regulations prohibit any person from importing bulk regulated HFCs, except by expending, at the time of import, a consumption or application-specific allowance issued by the EPA. No person may sell or distribute, or offer for sale or distribution, any regulated HFC that was imported illegally.
Editor’s note: The images that have emerged that are allegedly of the teacher are too “diverse” and “inclusive” to show at this website.
A Dimond High School teacher whose image was reportedly shown on the X/Twitter account ofLibs of TikTok, with a distinct bulge beneath his dress while he hovers over a student, was the subject of a school memo sent to parents on Wednesday. The teacher had given new meaning to the phrase “tent dress.”
The original Must Read Alaska report is at this link:
But the principal’s memo didn’t make it into inboxes of parents before even more disturbing photos emerged that allegedly portray language arts teacher Fletch Fletcher on an “Only Fans” porn website, where the person said to be him is engaged in lascivious behavior with another adult, including images of bondage, anal penetration, and oral sex.
The photos are too graphic to post on this website, but are being circulated widely in Anchorage among parents and students and have been sent to Must Read Alaska from multiple sources.
Also on Wednesday, the Dimond High School X/Twitter account was locked down to “private” mode, in response to the online uproar as the photos are circulated worldwide and parents express outrage. The Dimond High School student government X/Twitter account was also locked down to private mode.
Libs of TikTok posted the new photos on X/Twitter. The account has over 2.9 million followers.
An Instagram account that is an Anchorage School District gossip page has posted several photos that have private areas of bodies redacted, but where the “only fans” link can be seen at the top of the image.
Fletcher apparently describes himself as non-binary (neither man nor woman) and several commenters have linked him to his former role in Homer, Alaska, where he once taught.
The memo from Dimond Principal Tina Johnson-Harris said, “We are reaching out to inform you about a situation involving a member of our Dimond High School staff. We want you to know that the matter is being addressed.
“Unfortunately, this employee is the subject of focus on social media and other media platforms. We have reviewed the relevant information and found that the communications are malicious and harassing in nature, and were taken out of context. We will continue to monitor the situation. We encourage everyone to refrain from communicating falsehoods, misinterpretations, innuendos, and/or bias,” she wrote. She said the staff and students have a right to privacy.
Libs of TikTok, which exposes culturally significant situations ignored by the mainstream media, responded to the memo:
“Principal of @DimondStudGov where Fletch teaches sent this email to parents calling LoTT ‘malicious’ and claiming we took things out of context. In what context would a man wearing a tight dress which outlines his crotch to teach be okay? They say “students have a right to safety” yet students reported being uncomfortable. How is having a man with a f*tish teaching students making students safe??”
Fletcher has a Facebook page under the name Alder Rye, in which he describes himself as a “Pokémonsplainer they/themsbian.” He has a lot of content at that page that celebrates Pokemon and other video games, and although he appears to love taking photos of himself, there’s nothing overly provocative. At school, he insists on being referred to as “Mx. Fletcher.”
A commenter on Must Read Alaska alleges that the original video that started the uproar was actually filmed in Homer.
“I went to Homer High School (which is where the video shown was taken) and I actually sat in that exact classroom of that video, and I recall one time he was wearing white dress pants that were far too tight and far too revealing, I’m all for being yourself and dress how you want but that crosses the line, When he was wearing those pants it’s all our class was talking about instead of doing our work because it was OBVIOUS and just out there. Lots of jokes were made too, he’s a very nice guy just wrong environment to be wearing that kind of stuff,” she said.
The situation is reminiscent of the male Canadian teacher who was allowed to teach shop class while wearing grotesquely large prosthetic breasts, known to be sold for fetishists.
It is the kind of attire and behavior supported by Rep. Andy Josephson, who have been trying to get bills passed to allow teachers to dress however they want to at school.
Must Read Alaska has reached out to the Anchorage School District for comment.
An Anchorage woman who conspired with others to murder her friend in June of 2019 has been sentenced in another aspect of the case: Her role in a conspiracy to produce child sexual abuse material and pornography. She received a sentence of 30 years from the U.S. District Court on March 4.
Brehmer is already serving a 99-year sentence for the murder of Cynthia Hoffman at Thunderbird Falls near Chugiak.
According to court documents, Denali Brehmer, 23, and co-conspirator Darin Schilmiller conspired to murder Hoffman in June 2019 while Schilmiller was living in Indiana. While they were conspiring to commit Hoffman’s murder, they also conspired to coerce a minor victim to produce sexually explicit images, which Brehmer took and sent to Schilmiller via text message.
Brehmer and Schilmiller pleaded guilty to production of child pornography in U.S. District Court in July 2023. Schilmiller is awaiting sentencing. He also is serving 99 years in prison his role in Hoffman’s murder.
In delivering the sentence, the court ordered Brehmer to serve a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison on the child porn charge and the rest of her life on supervised release.
“The harm Ms. Brehmer has caused to the victims and their families through the course of her conduct is unfathomable,” said U.S. Attorney S. Lane Tucker for the District of Alaska. “My office will continue our unwavering commitment to work with our law enforcement partners to protect Alaska’s children and seek justice against perpetrators who choose to commit these reprehensible crimes.”
“Denali Brehmer’s actions are beyond heinous,” said Anchorage Police Chief Michael Kerle. “Overcoming the trauma the victim suffered due to Brehmer’s actions will be a life-long journey. This case is an excellent example of why various law enforcement entities working together through the FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force is so vitally important. Hopefully today’s sentencing will aid the victim in their healing process.”
In Anchorage municipal elections, conducted by mail-in ballots, there have long been reasons to be suspicious. In recent elections, observers have noted all kinds of irregularities and brought forward complaints about instances that concerned them, such as thumb drives being inserted into vote-counting machines without first being wiped clean.
Their complaints were so annoying to the leftist-dominated Anchorage Assembly that it has passed ordinances that put a chill on election observers, threatening them with subpoenas and criminal charges. The Assembly has even sicced the city’s Ombudsman on election observers.
The last municipal clerk — in charge of elections for nearly a quarter century — was Barbara Jones.
She retired in June and is now the volunteer coordinator for the Suzanne LaFrance campaign for mayor.
Jones, during her years as the chief and architect of the election process in Anchorage, ran elections in which LaFrance was a candidate for Assembly. Now, she’s LaFrance’s tie-in to the Anchorage Division of Elections. It is a huge advantage for the extremist candidate who is endorsed by the Alaska Democratic Party.
Critics have noted that Jones is the one who designed an election observer system that suppresses the ability of observers and adds a fear factor into anyone who might want to watch the ballots being counted.
In fact, one previous observer has wondered why Jones reported that her office sent out 201,000 ballots, but also said it sent out 199,000 ballots. Daniel Smith has a public records request that has languished for months with the municipality. He has asked for all communications between the municipal election office and the printer in Washington state. For some reason, the Clerk’s Office, which reports to the Assembly, won’t give those emails over to Smith, even though he has paid the $400 demanded of him for the request.
Smith has written, “The Anchorage Assembly gave us the universal vote-by-mail system out of the kindness of their hearts. There was no problem with the previous voting system. We did not vote for the change-over. The assembly simply decided to fix something that was not broken. “
This was the same Assembly to which Jones reported for 24 years.
LaFrance first ran in 2017, and again in 2020. She served six years, including two as Assembly chair, the person to whom Jones reported.
While it’s not illegal for Jones, now a private citizen, to work on a campaign, it does demonstrate the tough campaign ahead for Mayor Dave Bronson, who is once again faced with the Jones Factor — the person who designed the system, defended the system, and tweaked the system to work in ways that conservatives have criticized, but not been able to reverse.
The Anchorage Municipal election for 2024 is underway, and ballots will be mailed to all eligible, and a number of ineligible voters on or around March 13 from the printer in Washington state. On the ballot, LaFrance is running for mayor against other major candidates, including Mayor Dave Bronson, former Rep. Chris Tuck, Bill Popp, and others. It appears that LaFrance has a leg up on the other candidates by having an apparent inroad into the city’s election center, due to her longtime tenure and relationships with election personnel.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s threatened veto of the current education bill,, SB 140 is precisely the response Alaska needs to awaken a Legislature that is out of step with Alaskans and wholly unresponsive to the modern crisis of non-education.
Education is the greatest equalizer known to mankind. It elevates people of every race, socio-economic status and creed like no other force in history. How did this egalitarian force of such immense power become so tainted by politics?
Education is compromised in the same way our freedom itself is undermined: through the slow erosion of our freedom to choose. This is the root cause of the decline in K-12 public education everywhere. Those who seek to monopolize and control K-12 education by restricting our choices, while at the same time promoting increased funding designed to perpetuate their control, are the problem. Conversely, those who seek to expand educational options are the solution.
There are endless examples of how expanded choice in education is succeeding everywhere. Charter schools are flourishing nationwide. Florida and other states have implemented transportable education credits that respect an individual’s right to choose among alternative schools. Platforms for advanced learning abound.
The subject of educational reform lacks precisely what is missing from education altogether: an unceasing quest for knowledge and truth. Our Legislature ignores approaches with proven track records and instead chooses to increase funding for NEA- and union-backed solutions, which carry zero accountability for improved outcomes, all under the guise of supporting students.
Ask your legislator to identify the root causes of our low nationwide standing in basic proficiency. Too often what we hear reveals a self-serving lack of interest in facing the truth.
The problem is a system monopolized by a single government agency that is increasingly estranged from – and distrustful of – the parents charged with raising these same K-12 children. The solution is expanding local options within a publicly managed system that encourages competition for improved outcomes, benefiting youth, parents, and taxpayers.
Improved outcomes in education will only come from expanding our ability to choose – just as it has throughout history in virtually every field of human endeavor. Increasingly, Alaskans feel they are being forced to fund an enterprise that is failing their children, that is insensitive to parental values, and that rejects accountability.
If increased compensation for teachers is needed, why is Governor Dunleavy’s bonus initiative that is targeted at the most critical need – recruitment of rural educators – rejected? Efforts to streamline administration, to privatize maintenance, or downsize our schools to re-direct money to teachers are all within the Legislature’s purview to enact – and yet they don’t. Why?
The answer is a political one. Well-meaning candidates for office adopt platforms of educational reform to win elections, and yet the tactics employed by unions to kill real progress are effective. Alaska’s two-term governor was elected to challenge this impasse. Yet every year, the Legislature foils the governor’s agenda. Every cycle, voters send Republican majorities to Juneau, only to witness coalitions forming around defending the educational status quo and calls for greater funding. Some high-profile legislative leaders who claim the Republican party label in practice have little in common with their party leader (Gov. Dunleavy) and their party’s education platform.
Increasingly, parents are fed up with low proficiency in basic academic fields, absenteeism and low graduation rates, erosion of cultural autonomy and values, and fewer students aspiring to higher academic pursuits.
The left argues so many points in opposition to school choice that it’s hard to track them all: that school choice victimizes the poor and “special needs” youth, that it syphons resources from public schools, and that charter schools steal role models from peers who learn better when they have someone to admire or emulate.
These arguments protect a broken sinkhole of spending, which keeps going up while enrollment and results decline. The inconvenient truth for the Left is that more money is being spent per pupil now than ever, but with little progress to show for it.
Anti-choice arguments do nothing to break the historic downward trends in outcome. Schools were never charged with replacing parents. Expanding the view of public education as having a broader mandate than pure learning is merely a tactic to increase budgets. School administrators who complain about lack of funding are the first to expand the mission of education beyond its core public mandate.
Competition among educational options is not the problem, but rather the solution. Competition produces improved outcomes in virtually every field of human endeavor and evidence abounds that it works in education. Today’s students, from our inner-city poor to the suburban privileged, all thrive in an atmosphere where public funding is managed by the individual in a manner that supports their self-interest, within a system where competition and choice are ever-present.
Public schools are suffering from revenue declines due to reductions in enrollment, and it will continue. If we continue down the path of NEA-controlled curriculum, partisan rancor will spoil education and ruin opportunities for our youth for years. Taxpayers will be forced to pay increased costs for a system they do not benefit from. Our schools own this outcome, after years of failing in their basic mission.
Freedom, ultimately, is humanity’s most equalizing concept, one uniquely enshrined in our institutions and the American dream. Core to our understanding of liberty is the freedom to choose among options afforded to us, which right is based on an abiding respect for each individual’s dignity, privacy, and aspirations. It is time to exercise our freedom and our ability to choose how we educate our youth.
Jon Faulkner is the president of Alaska Gold Communications, parent company to Must Read Alaska.
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The worst-idea-of-the-year award goes to legislators who want to do away with the Permanent Fund dividend so even more money can be squirreled away or spent on more government.
Let’s look at the books and discover where the “spare change” ($18 billion) is hidden. But first, let’s look at the Alaska Constitution.
Dedicated funds are barred by the Alaska Constitution, and yet we have many unconstitutional special funds. All those special funds should be liquidated before asking Alaskans to forego their dividend. The darkest day for Alaskans would be to wake up to a reenacted income tax while we have billions hidden away from the voters.
The Alaska Constitution, Article Nine, Finance and taxation, section 7 states:
“The proceeds of any state tax or license shall not be dedicated to any special purpose, except as provided in section 15 of this article or when required by the federal government for state participation in federal programs. This provision shall not prohibit the continuance of any dedication for special purposes existing upon the date of ratification of this section by the people of Alaska. (Amended 1976)”
In non-legalist language, what does that mean? It means that Alaska Housing Finance Corporation does not get to keep its accumulated surplus of $1.6 billion. It means that the Power Cost Equalization Fund should be netted to the State’s General Fund at the end of each fiscal year and not immediately reappropriated. Am I against these programs? Not by a long shot. I’d love to see AHFC spend our money on housing. But that doesn’t give the Legislators or the senior leadership of state-owned non-profit organizations the right to violate the Constitution of Alaska. Why doesn’t the Legislature take the money back from the bureaucrats who are hoarding it?
Constitutionally, there are only three ways to dedicate funds.
1. The fund must be in operation prior to our vote for statehood.
2. The fund must be set aside to meet the state’s obligations in federal programs.
3. The Constitution must be amended by a majority of the voters dedicating these Special Funds. All other Funds default to the General Fund at the end of each fiscal year.
So why is this so important? Because voters could buy the argument which has been floated for years that we’re broke and therefore must cut the dividend or do away with it all together. Fortunately, the federal government passed a bill a couple decades ago requiring any town, city, borough, state or state entity to file a comprehensive annual financial report so that the public can separate reality from political posturing. Just google CAFR 2023 Alaska and you’re in the hunt. Here’s a cursory look at what you will find:
Alaska Community Foundation Fund Balances (CBRF Market Value $167,386,768)
Alaska Energy Administration, (TNP $1,381,934,000)
Alaska Higher Education Fund (AHE Market Value $388,200,000)
Alaska Housing Finance Corporation (Total Net Position, TNP, $1,600,000.000)
Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (TNP $1,474,920)
Alaska Municipal Bond Bank Authority (TNP $55,483,692)
Alaska Permanent Fund (Realized Earnings $5,240,347,000)
Constitutional Budget Reserve (CBR Market Value $2,760,000,000)
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Investment Fund (EVOS Market Value $100,500,000)
General Fund (GeFONSI Market Value $3,370,000,000)
Public School Trust Fund (PSTF Market Value $779,000,000)
Retiree Health Insurance Fund (RHIF Market Value $834,800,000)
Unless my math is off, that is $18 billion in the bank. It seems to me, we should be celebrating our largess instead of crying in our beer. Factually, there is no state in the United States that has our kind of wealth.
The senators have decided that they get to spend 75% of the earnings of the Alaska Permanent Fund on more government instead of the 50% we originally agreed upon. The governor is holding out for the full dividend. The House Majority supports the governor’s position.
What’s missing here is the consent of the governed. How do we advise those elected to represent us?
Excuses abound why the full dividend cannot be paid. But, when you look at the books, it appears that our elected members of the Legislature are looking for reasons to spend our money on more government rather than pay the dividend originally promised.
They hope you are not paying attention. Let’s prove them wrong with retirement as the reward for those who would vote against us.
Jim Crawford is a third-generation Alaskan entrepreneur who resides in Anchorage with his bride of 41 years, Terri. Crawford, known as the Permanent Fund Defender, was a member of the Investment Advisory Committee, appointed by Governor Jay Hammond to plan and execute the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation.
