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Anna 🐝 Brawley

@spurnagain.bsky.social
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Anchorage, AK. Personal account. You were born, and so you're free. So Happy Birthday. ~ Laurie Anderson

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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Social media is like the stock market but for attention
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NPR @npr.org · 14/09/2026
The visionary costume and fashion designer was known as the "Sultan of Sequins" for his eye-catching celebrity looks. n.pr/3SNUvcl
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Bob Mackie, designer who dressed Marilyn Monroe, Elton John and Cher, dies at 87
The visionary costume and fashion designer was known as the "Sultan of Sequins" for his eye-catching celebrity looks.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month. It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger.
The front page of The Onion's September edition from September 2001 featuring the headline "U.S. Vows to Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With."
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Exactly what I was thinking, esp. since APOC heard from both Taylors on this issue (and clearly wasn't convinced). I will note, Columbia Sussex owns Anc Hilton & Marriott. H.A.P. is probably Holland America Princess, who owns several cruise lines. Room blocks for staff? Guess we'll never know...
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I mean, she filed an LOI in April & has been campaigning. The real question is who else files, esp. after state cycle.
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scams 101 is a pre-requisite too (along with 201 Advanced Filmflammery)
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I can't help but notice the community's revelation that zoning has a valid purpose & can address impacts of land uses. Big if true
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Prediction markets are a cancer on the economy & society
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Alaskans sure do not like to hold landowners accountable for what they cost their neighbors or the public.
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The food supply does kinda feel too big to fail, and already trending to oligopoly. So maybe we should go back to sustainably subsidizing it, and making sure the private sector food distribution system is feeding people who would otherwise rely on other social programs to survive.
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Pull out enough federal funding threads, and the rest of the economic fabric unravels. We need to stop pretending that the private sector and public sector are separate - in fact they are totally interdependent, that's how all of this works.
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The unrelenting heat of Valdez on a sunny day
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Well, those of us subject to OMA & having to establish clear legal grounds for entering executive session wouldn't know anything about any of that
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Worked with @bobjherman.bsky.social on the data for this piece. Here’s the chart I think is the showstopper: Over the last 40 years, the amount of money spent on employer-sponsored insurance premiums skyrocketed by nearly 1000%, well above baseline inflation.
Image of a line chart it shows that from 1987 to 2024 the amount of money that employers and employees spent on employer sponsored health insurance premiums increased almost 1000%. This is compared to an increase of 176%, which would be the 2024 equivalent of the 1987 spending total.
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Just an aside to this particular issue, on the subject of gambling but on the Internet, it's rather concerning how one of the fastest growing industries in the entire economy is scams & unregulated gambling targeting children, fomented thru parasocial relationships & teaching mechanics of betting.
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
It's connected to this alley that actually is paved. Strawberry Patch Lane has 1 mailbox on it, so it must have gotten named (and paved). This is all very confusing. More later
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
OG Berry Patch!
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Someone drove down it, see dust cloud I'm asking my Assembly members about this
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The gravel street connects to another tinier paved street segment halfway in. It's got storm drains. It's in ARDSA. The rest of the streets around here are paved. It's not marked "No Muni Maintenance." I just, whyyyy
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I found a whole ass gravel street in the middle of Sand Lake? Wut. Not an alley, it is an Ave in the grid & has mailboxes.
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The historian's job is to not let those in power write the final draft of their story.
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Every policy, regardless of content, must have an equal & opposite reactionary political response (science)
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Economic forecast: the economy is steadily turning into a third rate carnival of scams and gambling (a close relative of the scam).
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This is vintage Save Anchorage (the person and the conspiracy theories)
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
When do I get to pay less money for anything? I'd even go for the price staying the same.
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David Reamer @anchistorian.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Celebrate the equinox this Saturday (21st) and support one of the very few politicians I like without reservations. Plus food and drink. I'll be there, and if you find me, I'll share a wild Anchorage story I've never written or posted about.
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
omg, glad I'll be there!
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Wild thought: maybe the twin strategy to kill hundreds of renewable energy projects & bumbling into an oil supply crisis is not working. We can achieve energy independence if we actually invest in infrastructure that powers itself.
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Rep. Genevieve Mina @repmina.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The Anchorage Delegation is hosting its annual town hall on March 14th @ Wendy Williamson Auditorium on the UAA campus. Delegation co-chairs Rep. Donna Mears and Sen. James Kaufman are excited to present this forum for the public to voice their concerns about our city. #akleg
Anchorage Delegation is hosting a LEGISLATIVE TOWN HALL
please join us
SATURDAY, MARCH 14
2-4pm
Wendy Williamson Auditorium at UAA
2533 Providence Dr, Anchorage, AK 99508
(pic of Anchorage skyline on bottom on blue background)
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Plus the urgent reality of actual external threats, climate & the geopolitical implications of it. We are out of time to spare and being told to pretend it's not real.
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The federal government now operates like the mob, because of the people empowered to run it, burning up taxpayer money to commit violent fits of rage against the people who are forced to paying their bloated salaries.
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Women have served and fought in wars for centuries, whether their peers & society knew about it or not. Having trouble dealing with women being in the military mostly says a lot about the men who feel that way.
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Sun sets on this year
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
She's Birdface, or Big Pig. The shadow on her face is her facebird
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
One last loaf in 2025
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Afternoon update: AK flag is❓😬
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Morning wind report: US flag at the Anchorage LIO getting frayed at the edge, Alaska flag just barely hanging on. There's a metaphor in there somewhere...
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Turns out people seem to want us to stop losing the War on Poverty.
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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 09/10/2025
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.
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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.
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Just leaving this here
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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...
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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 · 29/09/2025
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 · 26/08/2025
Please email me @ anna.brawley@anchorageak.gov with some details & I'll look into this
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
I'm more interested in (stream) diversion programs
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Found in the yard. I assume the authority is transferrable with the badge.
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Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
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 · 22/08/2025
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 · 22/08/2025
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 · 19/08/2025
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! 🏆
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As Progressive Elected Officials, We Choose Both Economic Populism and Abundance
The abundance agenda makes progressive populism more effective.
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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 14/07/2025
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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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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