Anna 🐝 Brawley

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.

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.

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.

Sun sets on this year

She's Birdface, or Big Pig. The shadow on her face is her facebird

One last loaf in 2025

Afternoon update: AK flag is❓😬

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...

Turns out people seem to want us to stop losing the War on Poverty.

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.

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.

Just leaving this here

Opinion: Trump is setting the national parks up to fail Workers say the real crisis is happening behind the scenes.

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.
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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.

Please email me @ anna.brawley@anchorageak.gov with some details & I'll look into this

I'm more interested in (stream) diversion programs

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

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.

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

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.

As Progressive Elected Officials, We Choose Both Economic Populism and Abundance The abundance agenda makes progressive populism more effective.

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! 🏆

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.

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

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.

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...

* Knik Arm Bridge, lol

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Film about Filipino nurses resonates in Alaska A documentary on how Filipino nurses were among the unsung heroes of the pandemic comes to Anchorage.

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.

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.