Cascadia Journal
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An opinionated email newsletter about politics, the environment and culture across the #Cascadia bioregion, Written by @andyengelson.bsky.social.
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by Andrew Engelson, Drew Alcosser, and Brandon Letsinger
Earlier this month, there was a pivotal moment in Donald Trump’s four-month attack on demo...
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"We believe it’s time to consider something that would have seemed radical only a few months ago: Washington and Oregon need to talk about how to peacefully achieve more independence from the United States of America." #Cascadia
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Drug safe supply activists in Vancouver challenge their conviction, judge orders Coast Guard to return helicopter to Newport, Idaho measure to repeal abortion ban moves forward, and a dance piece celebrates #Cascadia 's ocean & rivers: www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...
Cascadia today: Helicopter returned to Newport + drug supply activists appeal conviction + a dance about rivers and oceans
Judge rules Coast Guard helicopter must return to Newport
A few days after residents of Newport filed suit over the Coast Guard removing a rescue helicopter from the coastal town, a federal judge rul...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Drug safe supply activists in Vancouver challenge their conviction, judge orders Coast Guard to return helicopter to Newport, Idaho measure to repeal abortion ban moves forward, and a dance piece celebrates #Cascadia 's ocean & rivers: www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...
🚨 Alert for #Cascadia Bluesky friends in Vancouver. Now is not the time for austerity.
It's our last chance to stop Ken Sim's plan to slash city services to give a hand-out to the super-rich.
Send a letter to City Council to join your neighbours in fighting back:
votecope.ca/stopsim
Send a letter to City Council to join your neighbours in fighting back:
votecope.ca/stopsim
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
🚨 Alert for #Cascadia Bluesky friends in Vancouver. Now is not the time for austerity.
That was quick. 🚁
The U.S. Coast Guard must immediately return a rescue helicopter to the city of Newport as a court case challenging the aircraft’s removal gets underway, a federal judge has ruled.
US Coast Guard must return rescue helicopter to Newport, judge rules
The temporary order comes just three days after a lawsuit challenging the removal. The U.S. Coast Guard has stationed a rescue helicopter in Newport since 1987, not long after three fishermen died when their boat capsized roughly 20 miles off the central coast.
www.opb.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
That was quick. 🚁
This is very good news. Melody was a key player in Ferguson's legal fights against the first Trump administration.
Gov. Bob Ferguson makes his pick for a Washington state Supreme Court seat: Colleen Melody, who leads the civil rights division at the state attorney general’s office, will succeed Justice Mary Yu, who is retiring. washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/11/24/g...
Gov. Bob Ferguson makes his pick for WA Supreme Court seat • Washington State Standard
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson on Monday named Colleen Melody, a senior assistant attorney general, to the state Supreme Court.
washingtonstatestandard.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This is very good news. Melody was a key player in Ferguson's legal fights against the first Trump administration.
ACLU of Oregon sues Trump over response to ICE protests, Seattle city attorney promises pushback against federal overreach, Douglas squirrels return to a Seattle park, and an expansion at Portland Art Museum opens. This and more news from #Cascadia: www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...
Cascadia today: ACLU or OR sues Trump + Seattle city attorney promises pushback against feds + new pavilion at Portland Art Museuem
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November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
ACLU of Oregon sues Trump over response to ICE protests, Seattle city attorney promises pushback against federal overreach, Douglas squirrels return to a Seattle park, and an expansion at Portland Art Museum opens. This and more news from #Cascadia: www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...
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This is the way, #Cascadia
““If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.”
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
New Jersey may stop paying federal taxes under new governor
Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill said on a podcast with Jon Stewart it's a "great idea."
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This is the way, #Cascadia
There have been several bills introduced in the past several years to create a Washington State Bank, most recently SB 5754. Contact your legislators and let them know you support re-introducing and passing this legislation: www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2025/...
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
There have been several bills introduced in the past several years to create a Washington State Bank, most recently SB 5754. Contact your legislators and let them know you support re-introducing and passing this legislation: www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2025/...
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Happy weekend, Seattleite!
If you would like to spend your Sunday afternoon with some cool universal healthcare folks, discussing the 2026 Washington State Legislative session, meet us at Stoup Brewing Capitol Hill (1158 Broadway) at 3PM.
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Look forward to meeting you all! 🥳
If you would like to spend your Sunday afternoon with some cool universal healthcare folks, discussing the 2026 Washington State Legislative session, meet us at Stoup Brewing Capitol Hill (1158 Broadway) at 3PM.
PleasE RSVP below.
Look forward to meeting you all! 🥳
November 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Happy weekend, Seattleite!
If you would like to spend your Sunday afternoon with some cool universal healthcare folks, discussing the 2026 Washington State Legislative session, meet us at Stoup Brewing Capitol Hill (1158 Broadway) at 3PM.
PleasE RSVP below.
Look forward to meeting you all! 🥳
If you would like to spend your Sunday afternoon with some cool universal healthcare folks, discussing the 2026 Washington State Legislative session, meet us at Stoup Brewing Capitol Hill (1158 Broadway) at 3PM.
PleasE RSVP below.
Look forward to meeting you all! 🥳
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Seattle is a union city. Don’t forget we are organizing for a general strike. Next meeting is on November 25th (first day of the nationwide black out the system) at 6:30PM. Location: Washington Labor Council office. 321 16th Ave S, Seattle. #seattle #generalstrike #union #solidarity
November 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Seattle is a union city. Don’t forget we are organizing for a general strike. Next meeting is on November 25th (first day of the nationwide black out the system) at 6:30PM. Location: Washington Labor Council office. 321 16th Ave S, Seattle. #seattle #generalstrike #union #solidarity
Socialism for the win.
Put it in The Louvre of US political history. The look on Mamdani's face is priceless.
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Socialism for the win.
The real surprises here are Schrier and Strikland. What a waste of everyone's time. Probably would have voted against the New Deal back in the day, I suppose.
WA Democrats who voted with Republicans to condemn socialism:
Marie Glusenkamp Perez
Kim Schrier
Marilyn Strickland
(Rick Larson and Suzan DelBene did not vote)
Marie Glusenkamp Perez
Kim Schrier
Marilyn Strickland
(Rick Larson and Suzan DelBene did not vote)
Not two weeks after a democratic socialist is elected mayor of New York City, 86 Democratic House members vote to 'condemn socialism.'
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The real surprises here are Schrier and Strikland. What a waste of everyone's time. Probably would have voted against the New Deal back in the day, I suppose.
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“The FBI gained access to conversations in a ‘courtwatch’ Signal group that helps coordinate volunteer activists who monitor public proceedings at three New York federal immigration courts. The US government has repeatedly been accused of violating immigrants’ due process rights at those courts.”
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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OK, hear me out. I think crypto currency might be helpful in the path toward #Cascadia autonomy. My latest for Cascadia Journal: www.cascadia-journal.com/hear-me-out-...
Hear me out: crypto & Cascadia
Like most progressive, socialist-leaning folks, I have no tolerance for the hype and bubble-just-waiting-to-burst frenzy around cryptocurrency. The industry is rife with con artists and corrupt associ...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
OK, hear me out. I think crypto currency might be helpful in the path toward #Cascadia autonomy. My latest for Cascadia Journal: www.cascadia-journal.com/hear-me-out-...
The latest news from #Cascadia: $70 million to help rebuild Portland's Black community, OR economy is sinking, and a amazing poem by Ally Ang:
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Cascadia today: Huge project supports Black Portland + OR economy is slumping + poetry by Ally Ang
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Hope you're enjoying Cascadia Journal, an opinionated newsletter that chronicles what's happening in the Pacific Northwest and how our bioregion is pushing back against rising authori...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The latest news from #Cascadia: $70 million to help rebuild Portland's Black community, OR economy is sinking, and a amazing poem by Ally Ang:
www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...
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This is horrible. #Cascadia stands with California in making sure there's NO drilling off the west coast.
The plan allows drilling off AK, CA, and the Gulf of Mexico. Pacific Northwest waters would not be opened to drilling.
www.boem.gov/oil-gas-ener...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This is horrible. #Cascadia stands with California in making sure there's NO drilling off the west coast.
The only thing missing from @thestranger.com 's fabulous list of local products and experiences you can give for the holidays is the selection of locally-made sex toys (including geoduck dildos and hand-crafted spanking paddles!) at Dog House Leather in Seattle www.thestranger.com/november-202...
15 Gifts You Can Make, Buy Locally, or Find in a Drawer, So You Don’t Have to Give Money to Billionaires This Holiday Season
We’re done passing meaningless tokens back and forth to fill some arbitrary holiday obligation.
www.thestranger.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The only thing missing from @thestranger.com 's fabulous list of local products and experiences you can give for the holidays is the selection of locally-made sex toys (including geoduck dildos and hand-crafted spanking paddles!) at Dog House Leather in Seattle www.thestranger.com/november-202...
Confusion over the status of Oregon National Guard deployment, a pipeline spill in Everett, BC farmers attempt growing saffron, and where to buy local #Cascadia stuff for the holidays. It's your daily news roundup! www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...
Cascadia today: Confusion over National Guard deployment + spill shuts pipeline + buy Cascadian for the holidays
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November 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Confusion over the status of Oregon National Guard deployment, a pipeline spill in Everett, BC farmers attempt growing saffron, and where to buy local #Cascadia stuff for the holidays. It's your daily news roundup! www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...
Trump is demobilizing the National Guard in Oregon. When #Cascadia pushes back, they back down.
All Oregon National Guard members will return home after the Trump administration’s ill-fated attempts to deploy them to Portland under federal orders, Gov. Tina Kotek announced Wednesday.
All Oregon National Guard troops to return home from federal orders • Oregon Capital Chronicle
All Oregon National Guard members will return home after the Trump administration’s ill-fated attempts to deploy them to Portland under federal orders.
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Trump is demobilizing the National Guard in Oregon. When #Cascadia pushes back, they back down.
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Banned since 1948, fish traps return to the #ColumbiaRiver. Can they catch hatchery #salmon while protecting wild, endangered species?
columbiainsight.org/banned-since...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Banned since 1948, fish traps return to the #ColumbiaRiver. Can they catch hatchery #salmon while protecting wild, endangered species?
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The Trump administration, working hard to kill state laws that protect working people in our region. Fed up yet? #Cascadia
Just months after Gov. Bob Ferguson signed a Washington law to keep medical debt off consumers’ credit reports, the Trump administration is looking to block such policies. washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/11/17/w...
WA’s new ban on medical debt in credit reports at risk of federal override • Washington State Standard
Just months after Washington passed a law to keep medical debt off credit reports, the Trump administration is aiming to block such policies.
washingtonstatestandard.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The Trump administration, working hard to kill state laws that protect working people in our region. Fed up yet? #Cascadia
Still more federal over-reach and conditions attached to funds. This is OUR tax money, let us manage our cities' homeless crisis as we see fit.
I wrote earlier this week about the new federal rules that will guide funding that flows to local nonprofits providing housing and services to people experiencing homelessness. Here's a slide from @naehomelessness.bsky.social laying out the batshit new "public safety" criteria for recipients.
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Still more federal over-reach and conditions attached to funds. This is OUR tax money, let us manage our cities' homeless crisis as we see fit.
The feds hate a WA law that bans medical debt from credit reports, no Oregon universities have signed on to Trump's "DEI for Conservatives" compact, how fish traps could save wild salmon and more news from across #Cascadia: www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...
Cascadia today: Feds hate WA limits on credit reports + fish traps to protect wild salmon + a history of concert posters
Feds oppose WA law banning medical debt from credit reports
In its ongoing war on anything that helps working people, the Trump administration announced it wants to override a Washington law that ban...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The feds hate a WA law that bans medical debt from credit reports, no Oregon universities have signed on to Trump's "DEI for Conservatives" compact, how fish traps could save wild salmon and more news from across #Cascadia: www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...
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While "Train Dreams" is slated for a streaming release via Netflix on Nov. 21, this is not a movie that pairs well with scrolling through social media on your phone. "Train Dreams" requires your full attention.
Why you shouldn't scroll through 'Train Dreams'
www.kuow.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
While "Train Dreams" is slated for a streaming release via Netflix on Nov. 21, this is not a movie that pairs well with scrolling through social media on your phone. "Train Dreams" requires your full attention.
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If the President can impose his own taxes and use the proceeds to spend on his own projects, all without Congress, we have a dictatorship not a constitutional republic.
BREAKING: Deputy White House Chief of Staff James Blair said the administration is eyeing ways to give millions of Americans $2,000 dividend checks from tariff revenue without congressional approval, per Bloomberg.
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
If the President can impose his own taxes and use the proceeds to spend on his own projects, all without Congress, we have a dictatorship not a constitutional republic.