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Alleen Brown

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Independent Investigative Reporter Write about environmental crisis, criminalization Editor at Drilled Labor organizing with: https://freelancesolidarity.org/ Newsletter (Subscribe!) http://alleenbrown.ghost.io Tips [email protected]

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 8

When I started reporting out a podcast on the Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace trial, accusing GP of fueling the Standing Rock movement, I had no idea the twists & turns the reporting would take. Here are some key documents I uncovered as I worked on SLAPP'd (THREAD)

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SLAPP’d

The story of an Indigenous nation fighting for its water, an environmental nonprofit facing extinction, and an energy giant using the courts to punish protestors.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 1d

there's a secret domestic terrorism watchlist if anyone cares
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Senator Warns of Trump's Secret Watchlist for Americans

NSPM-7 finally gets Congressional attention

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Remember COINTELPRO? Or the FBI infiltration of AIM?

The ex-director of Richard Nixon's presidential library says that Trump's vows to investigate leftist organizations + a Republican-controlled Congress + a cabinet of loyalists make Trump more dangerous than Nixon

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · 1d

40 faculty fired since the Charlie Kirk assassination. So much for free speech I guess!

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US professors facing threats, firings and harassment over Charlie Kirk posts

As many as 40 academics have been dismissed in aftermath of shooting, allegedly without due process

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · 1d

An anti-protest law in Australia that was first used to go after climate activists is being used to go after pro-Palestine protesters

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Pro-Palestine protesters locked up under strict ‘draconian’ laws

Protesters may have to miss national rallies under strict bail conditions.

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · 2d

The attorney general of Texas is publicly announcing that he's launching undercover investigations to "infiltrate and uproot" leftist groups.

The criminalization of trans people that this press release promotes is terrifying.

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“Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people,” said Attorney General Paxton. “The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America. There can be no compromise with those who want us dead. To that end, I have directed my office to continue its efforts to identify, investigate, and infiltrate these leftist terror cells. To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming.”

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · 8d

My latest Eco Files post features work by @whitneybauck.bsky.social @dell.bsky.social @katiesurma.bsky.social @josephvlee.bsky.social @sumauma.com @ninalakhani.bsky.social @globalwitness.org & Jia Zhang-ke

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Eco-Roundup: Could climate conspiracy theories be doing the work of divide and conquer?

Every month, I assemble a round-up of stories I’m following and issues I’m covering, with palate cleansers at the end. Please consider a paid subscription so I can keep up my independent reporting. C...

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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 10d

🧠 The Psychology of Misinformation: Why Does It Work So Well?

The latest episode from @drilledmedia.bsky.social explores how misinformation spreads, why our brains fall for repeated falsehoods, and what makes people so vulnerable to manipulation online.

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S14, Ep3 | The Psychology of Misinformation: Why Does It Work So Well?

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 10

A judge says he’s throwing out COP City rico charges against 61 defendants on a technicality. He’s still deciding about domestic terror charges against 5 but says he thinks they still stand. (Money laundering for bail fund organizers is already dead.)

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Georgia judge to toss landmark racketeering charges against 'Cop City' protesters

A Georgia judge says he's going to dismiss racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of trying to stop the construction of a police and firefighter training facility known as “Cop City."

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 9

Miss these guys and feel so grateful to have worked with such solid and talented humans!

Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 9

And Maggie Taylor killed it on marketing www.maggietaylor.co 14/

Grow Your Podcast | Maggie Taylor Creative

M. Taylor Creative is an expert podcast marketer. I specialize in strategic partnerships, content strategy and marketing, social media, PR, growth strategy, media buying, data analysis and more.

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 9

Lindsay Crowder impact produced and was just generally a wonderful human to work with.

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Lindsay Crowder on the Global Impact Producers Alliance network

The Global Impact Producers Alliance (gipa) is a community-led network, nurturing impact producers and amplifying their work.

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 9

Peter Duff crucially stepped in to do additional sound mixing for us. peterduffmixing.com 12/

Peter Duff Mixing

Peter Duff is an Atlanta-based mixing engineer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and composer with twenty years of experience playing music and a decade of experience working as a professional audio ...

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 9

Victor Pascual from Digital Navajo did our cool ass artwork.

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 9

The band Deerlady's album Greatest Hits was the source of our theme music. I love it and them and you're dumb if you don't listen.

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Gallery 1 — deerlady

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 9

And our other fact-checker @jindia.bsky.social is a lawyer AND a reporter. She’s published some good pieces lately on the crackdown on Palestine-related speech.

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Freedom from Dissent | Shilpa Jindia

In both red and blue states, legislators and university administrations are cracking down on free speech in the name of making campuses “safe.”

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 9

One of our fact checkers, @sarasneath.bsky.social, has done killer reporting on fossil fuel companies funding university research.

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Revealed: how a US public university courted the gas industry despite climate impacts

McNeese State University in Louisiana building a liquefied natural gas center, prompting fears of ‘corporate capture’

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 9

A lot of the sound mixing for the pod was by @martinaustwick.bsky.social. Check out this story he did with @helenzaltzman.bsky.social about "two rival Edwardian font makers and the rocky waters of their friendship."

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Souvenirs

In late 19th century Hammersmith, two titans of the printing scene, Emery Walker and Thomas Cobden-Sanderson, form a deep friendship. They hang out at the same printing events and socialist meetings,

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 9

(Also @raypang.bsky.social and Audrey happen to work on the @leakeyfoundation.org's Origin Stories podcast together, and their most recent episode asks the eternal question, "Can a Human Outrun a Horse?")

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Can a Human Outrun a Horse?

Podcast Episode · Origin Stories · 08/06/2025 · 39m

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 9

Our producer & sound designer was @raypang.bsky.social. Ray made this super cool short "that imagined the life of a single tree over the span of 200+ years, as its surrounding world transformed into a dense cityscape dominated and shaped by humans."

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A Tree Is Not A Forest — Ray Pang

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 9

The editor of the print version of this project was @tahtone.bsky.social for @grist.org He's great as an editor, but his own investigative work is killer. His Land Grab Universities investigation is a classic and if you don't know it, get with it, and read it.

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Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 9

Our story editor was Audrey Quinn. She offered me up a bootcamp in audio storytelling. She also edited Suave, which won a goddamn Pulitzer + a season of Stolen, an excellent podcast hosted by @conniewalker.bsky.social

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'Suave' from Futuro Studios and PRX Wins Pulitzer Prize - The Futuro Media Group

The Pulitzer Prizes announced the winners of the 2022 awards, naming the podcast series “Suave” from Futuro Studios and public media organization PRX as the winner in the Audio Reporting category. “Su...

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 9

The executive producer of the show was @amywestervelt.bsky.social & she's also a killer investigative journalist. I actually love the newsletter Amy puts out, and subscribing is a great way to follow and support @drilledmedia.bsky.social
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Drilled

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 9

Fall has begun & the entire season of SLAPP’d, the podcast I worked on for the past year, is out. Before I start sorting through what’s next, I wanted to shout out all the baddies that worked on the project + some of the cool stuff they have their hands in (THREAD)

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SLAPP’d

The story of an Indigenous nation fighting for its water, an environmental nonprofit facing extinction, and an energy giant using the courts to punish protestors.

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 8

Search Drilled, then go to season 12!

Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 8

And to listen to the whole podcast, check out this link. You can also find SLAPP’d wherever you listen to podcasts – just search for Drilled and navigate to season 12
drilled.media/investigatio...

SLAPP’d

The story of an Indigenous nation fighting for its water, an environmental nonprofit facing extinction, and an energy giant using the courts to punish protestors.

drilled.media