Anna 🐝 Brawley
@spurnagain.bsky.social
Anchorage, AK. Personal account.
You were born, and so you're free. So Happy Birthday. ~ Laurie Anderson
You were born, and so you're free. So Happy Birthday. ~ Laurie Anderson
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Anna 🐝 Brawley
@spurnagain.bsky.social
· Dec 29
I guess I'll be on here now
Turns out people seem to want us to stop losing the War on Poverty.
November 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Turns out people seem to want us to stop losing the War on Poverty.
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A powerful fall storm hitting a swath of Alaska’s coast triggered evacuations in several communities including Kotzebue, where officials urged residents to relocate to a shelter before conditions worsened.
Major fall storm prompts evacuations in Northwest Alaska communities, including Kotzebue
A strong storm bringing high winds and coastal flooding and erosion concerns to coastal communities is expected to peak, according to forecasters.
www.adn.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
A powerful fall storm hitting a swath of Alaska’s coast triggered evacuations in several communities including Kotzebue, where officials urged residents to relocate to a shelter before conditions worsened.
Just leaving this here
October 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Just leaving this here
Basically, running all the carnival rides as the support structures rust through & the bolts rattle out. "Come & have fun before it all collapses!"
Except these are our public lands, wildlife, ecosystems, life that has a right to exist and thrive.
www.adn.com/opinions/nat...
Except these are our public lands, wildlife, ecosystems, life that has a right to exist and thrive.
www.adn.com/opinions/nat...
Opinion: Trump is setting the national parks up to fail
Workers say the real crisis is happening behind the scenes.
www.adn.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Basically, running all the carnival rides as the support structures rust through & the bolts rattle out. "Come & have fun before it all collapses!"
Except these are our public lands, wildlife, ecosystems, life that has a right to exist and thrive.
www.adn.com/opinions/nat...
Except these are our public lands, wildlife, ecosystems, life that has a right to exist and thrive.
www.adn.com/opinions/nat...
Price spikes in health insurance premiums mean more people just won't buy it, because they can't afford it. That means more uninsured people. That means more bankruptcies due to medical emergencies & expensive treatment. And that means more misery.
September 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Price spikes in health insurance premiums mean more people just won't buy it, because they can't afford it. That means more uninsured people. That means more bankruptcies due to medical emergencies & expensive treatment. And that means more misery.
Found in the yard. I assume the authority is transferrable with the badge.
August 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Found in the yard. I assume the authority is transferrable with the badge.
What we all spend time and energy on, whether creating it or responding to it, is so far from what our actual urgent problems are, like to the whole planet. Plenty of people know that, and we're all stuck in the same circus. Unserious.
August 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
What we all spend time and energy on, whether creating it or responding to it, is so far from what our actual urgent problems are, like to the whole planet. Plenty of people know that, and we're all stuck in the same circus. Unserious.
Reposted by Anna 🐝 Brawley
From Cambridge to Seattle and Anchorage to Austin, leaders know "abundance policies and our safety-net policies are part of the same comprehensive strategy and policy vision."
@burhanazeem.bsky.social, @cmtmosqueda.bsky.social, @zoforaustin.bsky.social, & @spurnagain.bsky.social getting it done! 🏆
@burhanazeem.bsky.social, @cmtmosqueda.bsky.social, @zoforaustin.bsky.social, & @spurnagain.bsky.social getting it done! 🏆
As Progressive Elected Officials, We Choose Both Economic Populism and Abundance
The abundance agenda makes progressive populism more effective.
www.thenation.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
From Cambridge to Seattle and Anchorage to Austin, leaders know "abundance policies and our safety-net policies are part of the same comprehensive strategy and policy vision."
@burhanazeem.bsky.social, @cmtmosqueda.bsky.social, @zoforaustin.bsky.social, & @spurnagain.bsky.social getting it done! 🏆
@burhanazeem.bsky.social, @cmtmosqueda.bsky.social, @zoforaustin.bsky.social, & @spurnagain.bsky.social getting it done! 🏆
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Alaska’s three biggest cities have the highest health care costs among the nation’s urban areas, with costs that are about 50% higher than the U.S. urban average, a state analysis shows. via @alaskabeacon.com
Health care takes big toll on cost of living in Alaska’s cities, report shows
Medical costs in urban Alaska also rose more than the costs in almost all other sectors, the analysis found.
www.adn.com
July 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Alaska’s three biggest cities have the highest health care costs among the nation’s urban areas, with costs that are about 50% higher than the U.S. urban average, a state analysis shows. via @alaskabeacon.com
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Floods are swallowing their village. But for them and others, the EPA has cut the lifeline, reports Ames Alexander for @floodlightnews.org, via @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/07/11/f...
Floods are swallowing their village. But for them and others, the EPA has cut the lifeline. | Alaska Beacon
On May 2, the U.S. EPA canceled a grant to the Alaska village of Kipnuk to protect the bank of the Kugkaktlik River.
alaskabeacon.com
July 12, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Floods are swallowing their village. But for them and others, the EPA has cut the lifeline, reports Ames Alexander for @floodlightnews.org, via @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/07/11/f...
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the induced demand principle of traffic means the Kink Arm Bride as a daily commute would be worse & more congested. More attractive in theory, but 1 exit point, crawling to the bottleneck.
July 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the induced demand principle of traffic means the Kink Arm Bride as a daily commute would be worse & more congested. More attractive in theory, but 1 exit point, crawling to the bottleneck.
Imprisoning/institutionalizing the poor for being poor is an old strategy: debtors prison, exploited labor in the workhouse. Most of 20th century U.S. history is about deciding to not accept so many people suffering & dying, doing something about it.
And people who lead us want those prisons back.
And people who lead us want those prisons back.
June 29, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Imprisoning/institutionalizing the poor for being poor is an old strategy: debtors prison, exploited labor in the workhouse. Most of 20th century U.S. history is about deciding to not accept so many people suffering & dying, doing something about it.
And people who lead us want those prisons back.
And people who lead us want those prisons back.
And, there's the liquidation sale of public assets that we saw coming.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate added a mandate to the budget bill to sell enormous swaths of public land managed by the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management.
The Newest Plan to Auction Off Public Lands Would Impact Millions of Acres in Western States
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate added a mandate to the budget bill to sell enormous swaths of public land managed by the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management
www.outsideonline.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
And, there's the liquidation sale of public assets that we saw coming.
This isn't the country I thought we live in, but it is the country we live in right now.
June 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This isn't the country I thought we live in, but it is the country we live in right now.
Reposted by Anna 🐝 Brawley
Alaska lawmakers voted Tuesday morning to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a $180 million increase to the state’s $1.2 billion education budget.
Alaska lawmakers override Dunleavy’s veto of education bill
The vote means that Alaska’s education funding formula will be permanently and significantly increased for the first time in nearly a decade.
www.adn.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Alaska lawmakers voted Tuesday morning to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a $180 million increase to the state’s $1.2 billion education budget.
Reposted by Anna 🐝 Brawley
Filipino organizations in Alaska have worked to bring a documentary to Alaska called "Nurse Unseen." The film was shown at the Anchorage Museum Wednesday to spotlight a group of immigrants whose service and sacrifices are often overlooked.
Film about Filipino nurses resonates in Alaska
A documentary on how Filipino nurses were among the unsung heroes of the pandemic comes to Anchorage.
alaskapublic.org
May 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Filipino organizations in Alaska have worked to bring a documentary to Alaska called "Nurse Unseen." The film was shown at the Anchorage Museum Wednesday to spotlight a group of immigrants whose service and sacrifices are often overlooked.
It's sad that we're all held hostage politically & economically by small men with big egos, who would rather break the world than admit what they're doing is stupid, actually.
May 10, 2025 at 4:57 AM
It's sad that we're all held hostage politically & economically by small men with big egos, who would rather break the world than admit what they're doing is stupid, actually.
Economic stability & growth requires stable, functioning government.
Alaska small-business owners’ financial and economic outlook swung sharply negative this year amid political uncertainty as President Donald Trump sets high tariffs on major trading partners, according to a recent survey.
Survey of Alaska’s small businesses shows ‘dramatic’ confidence drop as political uncertainty grew
It was the “highest level of economic pessimism” recorded by the survey, the Alaska Small Business Development Center said.
www.adn.com
May 10, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Economic stability & growth requires stable, functioning government.
It's magical thinking to believe society, complex economic relationships, cultural beliefs, and individual behavior will just be different, suddenly how *you* want them, if you shout out official demands onto paper.
We're just being conned.
We're just being conned.
April 24, 2025 at 5:29 AM
It's magical thinking to believe society, complex economic relationships, cultural beliefs, and individual behavior will just be different, suddenly how *you* want them, if you shout out official demands onto paper.
We're just being conned.
We're just being conned.
Gee, it's almost like not wanting to pay the local property taxes in a community, while still wanting to access their services, the largest of which is schools... 🤔
FiScAl ReSpOnSiBiLiTy
FiScAl ReSpOnSiBiLiTy
April 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Gee, it's almost like not wanting to pay the local property taxes in a community, while still wanting to access their services, the largest of which is schools... 🤔
FiScAl ReSpOnSiBiLiTy
FiScAl ReSpOnSiBiLiTy
Reposted by Anna 🐝 Brawley
An eruption at Mount Spurr, the closest volcano to Alaska’s population centers, is now less likely, researchers said Thursday.
Likelihood of Spurr eruption decreases, researchers say, but uncertainty remains
Researcher Matt Haney says the decrease in likelihood is due to a drop in a few indicators of volcanic unrest, namely shallow earthquakes and inflation of the volcano’s surface.
akpub.io
April 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
An eruption at Mount Spurr, the closest volcano to Alaska’s population centers, is now less likely, researchers said Thursday.
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“…members of the DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks behind them, turning off monitoring tools and manually deleting records of their access…”
What kind of shady s**t is going on here??
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
What kind of shady s**t is going on here??
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
“…members of the DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks behind them, turning off monitoring tools and manually deleting records of their access…”
What kind of shady s**t is going on here??
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
What kind of shady s**t is going on here??
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
Apparently, the general human project to keep the species alive & able to maintain a civilization for a long time without instability & collapse, not a thing anymore. Everyone before us struggled much more. Truly tragic.
(Also, seeing a trend of calling opinion pieces "articles" in a news source 😬)
(Also, seeing a trend of calling opinion pieces "articles" in a news source 😬)
A good article explaining the senseless destuction of one of the US's most critical research institutions www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...
Opinion | What Is Actually the Point of Treating the N.I.H. Like This? (Gift Article)
Efficiency is not being enhanced, nor is waste being eliminated at the N.I.H. Scientists are just left to wonder: Why?
www.nytimes.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Apparently, the general human project to keep the species alive & able to maintain a civilization for a long time without instability & collapse, not a thing anymore. Everyone before us struggled much more. Truly tragic.
(Also, seeing a trend of calling opinion pieces "articles" in a news source 😬)
(Also, seeing a trend of calling opinion pieces "articles" in a news source 😬)
An increasing part of the economy is theft and scams. There was the New Deal, now we need the Honest Deal for the people.
April 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
An increasing part of the economy is theft and scams. There was the New Deal, now we need the Honest Deal for the people.
Fresh snow & longer days totally threw off my sense of time & season this evening - 8pm April looks like 3pm February.
April 8, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Fresh snow & longer days totally threw off my sense of time & season this evening - 8pm April looks like 3pm February.