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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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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · 4d

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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Reposted by Alleen Brown

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🧠 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 · 28d

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 · 29d

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

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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 · 29d

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 · 29d

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 · 29d

Victor Pascual from Digital Navajo did our cool ass artwork.

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · 29d

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 · 29d

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 · 29d

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 · 29d

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 · 29d

(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 · 29d

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 · 29d

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 · 29d

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 · 29d

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 · 29d

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 · 29d

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
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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

For more documents and extras, check out the SLAPP’d reading list I put together for Eco Files, my newsletter. If you want to support my work, you could consider a paid subscription.

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Who Is Envelope Man? Plus a SLAPP'd Reading List

Fall has begun and 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 share a few last thoughts about my experienc...

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 8

(Episode 5 gets into Energy Transfer’s claims about sacred sites – and how the Greenpeace trial was a sideways attack on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.)
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SLAPP’d Episode 5 | Sacred Sites

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 8

Shout out to Will Parrish, journalist, academic, and public records icon who years ago obtained a document that included a lot of the security guard testimony from the day of the dog attack, which also showed up in the doc I got

www.willparrishreports.com

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 8

(7) A police report that shows that hours after Energy Transfer learned of the sacred sites, a security dog company was contacted in the middle of the night... which led to this incident, as ET bulldozed the area

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Standing Rock Special: Unlicensed #DAPL Guards Attacked Water Protectors with Dogs & Pepper Spray

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 8

(6) All kinds of records that poked holes in Energy Transfer’s stories about the day they bulldozed an area where a Standing Rock leader had identified sacred sites, including maps and depositions from archaeologists
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SLAPP'd Episode 5: Documents undermine pipeline company's claims about sacred sites

Please consider a paid subscription so I can keep doing this work in a flailing media economy. Click Here and Become a Paid Subscription This week Drilled published episode 5 of SLAPP’d – it’s the c...

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