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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 25d

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

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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 29d

Just leaving this here

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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · Oct 3

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...

Opinion: Trump is setting the national parks up to fail

Workers say the real crisis is happening behind the scenes.

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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · Sep 29

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.

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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · Aug 26

Please email me @ [email protected] with some details & I'll look into this

Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · Aug 24

I'm more interested in (stream) diversion programs

Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · Aug 24

Found in the yard. I assume the authority is transferrable with the badge.

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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · Aug 24

I'm sorry that happened. Until we stop slashing safety nets & get serious as a country about our health crises, the city will continue to manage a problem it's not designed to be able to solve alone.

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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · Aug 22

Are you saying that if we had more student housing, we would have fewer homeless students?

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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · Aug 22

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.

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Welcoming Neighbors Network @welcomingneighbors.us · Aug 19

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! 🏆

As Progressive Elected Officials, We Choose Both Economic Populism and Abundance

The abundance agenda makes progressive populism more effective.

www.thenation.com

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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · Jul 14

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.

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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · Jul 12

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.

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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · Jul 7

* Knik Arm Bridge, lol

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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · Jul 6

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.

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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · Jun 29

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.

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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · Jun 17

And, there's the liquidation sale of public assets that we saw coming.

Outside Magazine @outsidemag.bsky.social · Jun 16

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

Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · Jun 14

This isn't the country I thought we live in, but it is the country we live in right now.

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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · May 20

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.

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · May 16

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

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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · May 10

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.

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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · May 10

Economic stability & growth requires stable, functioning government.

Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · May 10

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

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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · Apr 28

I wonder this often. Definitely has gone up and down, but still a lot. Especially if there isn't enough regulation of scams, in one way or another.

Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · Apr 24

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.

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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · Apr 18

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

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