Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Social media is like the stock market but for attention 010
Reposted by Anna 🐝 BrawleyNPR @npr.org · 14/09/2026The visionary costume and fashion designer was known as the "Sultan of Sequins" for his eye-catching celebrity looks. n.pr/3SNUvcln.prBob Mackie, designer who dressed Marilyn Monroe, Elton John and Cher, dies at 87The visionary costume and fashion designer was known as the "Sultan of Sequins" for his eye-catching celebrity looks. 927044
Reposted by Anna 🐝 BrawleyBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Hey 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. 19073561295
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Exactly 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... 040
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I mean, she filed an LOI in April & has been campaigning. The real question is who else files, esp. after state cycle. 120
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Scams 101 is a pre-requisite too (along with 201 Advanced Filmflammery) 030
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I can't help but notice the community's revelation that zoning has a valid purpose & can address impacts of land uses. Big if true 190
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Prediction markets are a cancer on the economy & society 040
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Alaskans sure do not like to hold landowners accountable for what they cost their neighbors or the public. 130
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The 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. 010
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Pull 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. 110
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Well, those of us subject to OMA & having to establish clear legal grounds for entering executive session wouldn't know anything about any of that 040
Reposted by Anna 🐝 BrawleyJ. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Worked 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. 114372
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Just 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. 150
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 26/06/2026It'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 010
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Someone drove down it, see dust cloud I'm asking my Assembly members about this 110
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 26/06/2026The 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 110
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I 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. 240
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 24/05/2026The historian's job is to not let those in power write the final draft of their story. 010
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Every policy, regardless of content, must have an equal & opposite reactionary political response (science) 010
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Economic forecast: the economy is steadily turning into a third rate carnival of scams and gambling (a close relative of the scam). 010
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 23/04/2026This is vintage Save Anchorage (the person and the conspiracy theories) 030
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 17/04/2026When do I get to pay less money for anything? I'd even go for the price staying the same. 030
Reposted by Anna 🐝 BrawleyDavid Reamer @anchistorian.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Celebrate 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. 1104
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Wild 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. 031
Reposted by Anna 🐝 BrawleyRep. Genevieve Mina @repmina.bsky.social · 05/03/2026The 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 274
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Plus 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. 010
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 17/01/2026The 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. 010
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Women 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. 070
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 01/01/2026She's Birdface, or Big Pig. The shadow on her face is her facebird 020
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Morning 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... 180
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Turns out people seem to want us to stop losing the War on Poverty. 040
Reposted by Anna 🐝 BrawleyAnchorage Daily News @adn.com · 09/10/2025A 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.adn.comMajor fall storm prompts evacuations in Northwest Alaska communities, including KotzebueA strong storm bringing high winds and coastal flooding and erosion concerns to coastal communities is expected to peak, according to forecasters. 0227
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Basically, 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...adn.comOpinion: Trump is setting the national parks up to failWorkers say the real crisis is happening behind the scenes. 093
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Price 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. 020
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Please email me @ anna.brawley@anchorageak.gov with some details & I'll look into this 000
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 24/08/2025I'm more interested in (stream) diversion programs 000
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Found in the yard. I assume the authority is transferrable with the badge. 1222
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 24/08/2025I'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. 120
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Are you saying that if we had more student housing, we would have fewer homeless students? 170
Anna 🐝 Brawley @spurnagain.bsky.social · 22/08/2025What 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. 000
Reposted by Anna 🐝 BrawleyWelcoming Neighbors Network @welcomingneighbors.us · 19/08/2025From 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! 🏆thenation.comAs Progressive Elected Officials, We Choose Both Economic Populism and AbundanceThe abundance agenda makes progressive populism more effective. 0156
Reposted by Anna 🐝 BrawleyAnchorage Daily News @adn.com · 14/07/2025Alaska’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.comadn.comHealth care takes big toll on cost of living in Alaska’s cities, report showsMedical costs in urban Alaska also rose more than the costs in almost all other sectors, the analysis found. 053