We'll be buying and delivering these this weekend, please help out if you can! 🙏

There's a city council budget meeting today, April 21 starting at 9:30 am: www.portland.gov/auditor/coun...

Cascadia today: Portland mayor slashes programs in budget + gray whales are starving + OR book award winners Good morning from Seattle! It was great to be traveling by train and transit across Cascadia this past week, saying hi to folks in Bellingham, Olympia, VanWA, Portland and Eugene. But it's also good t...

Portland mayor proposes slashing funds for shelter beds & unarmed public safety responders to balance budget, gray whales are starving off the #Cascadia coast, and winners of the Oregon Book Awards announced:
www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...

Really great reporting on how ICE is getting its hands on surveillance data despite Portland and Oregon's strong sanctuary laws.

Cascadia today: ICE getting Portland surveillance data + DRIPA is crucial to First Nations + how wolves impact ecology Good morning! I'm on the Amtrak Cascades headed home to Seattle from Eugene. It's been a fabulous trip across western Cascadia. I've been spreading the word about Cascadia Journal and Cascadia Democra...

ICE is obtaining surveillance cam data in Portland despite sanctuary laws, why DRIPA is critical to BC First Nations, how wolves impact #PNW ecosystems, and murals taking inspiration from the eruption of Loowit. It's your roundup of news from across #Cascadia www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...

If and when there's an independent #Cascadia, we should definitely nationalize the BNSF rail line from Eugene to Vancouver BC. Give priority to passenger trains. We're sitting here waiting for a broken freight train to get fixed. 🙄

Oh look more fascist garbage to waste our tax dollars on. Time to leave. #Cascadia

Cascadia today: WA has a public defender crisis + Trump attacks ranked-choice voting + BC First Nations push for grizzlies in WA Good morning, friends! I'm leaving Portland this morning and headed south to Eugene as my train + transit tour of western Cascadia continues. Know anything I shouldn't miss while I'm in town? Comment ...

In today's news from across #Cascadia, WA faces a public defender crisis, BC First Nations push for grizzly reintroduction in WA's north Cascades, and longtime #PNW journalist Joel Connelly has died: www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...

Portland's effective pushback againt ICE The ICE facility in Portland is a surreal place. Tucked in a gentrified neighborhood full of apartment towers, a bike trail along the Willamette River, and on Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant, the gra...

Learning lessons from Portland's pushback against the feds will be critical as #Cascadia prepares to resist the regime's next fascist crackdown. My latest for Cascadia Journal: www.cascadia-journal.com/portlands-ef...

Portland's effective pushback againt ICE The ICE facility in Portland is a surreal place. Tucked in a gentrified neighborhood full of apartment towers, a bike trail along the Willamette River, and on Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant, the gra...

I'm in Portland, and decided to reflect on the city's successful pushback against ICE -- an effort built by folks in chicken suits, everyday neighbors, activists, and attorneys. www.cascadia-journal.com/portlands-ef...

Cascadia today: Trial of Spokane 9 goes forward + coexisting with beavers + Seattle sumo wrestling Trial of Spokane 9 protesters moves forward RANGE Media reports that judge Rebecca Pennell refused to dismiss charges against three of the nine protesters who are being charged with felony conspiracy...

The felony trial of the #Spokane9 protesters moves forward, learning to coexist with beavers in Oregon, and a Seattle sumo wrestling club. This and more news from across #Cascadia in today's newsletter: www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...

What are folks saying about resources for victims of police violence? They’re saying its time to do the right thing and listen to those most impacted and create permanent resources for victims of police violence and their families.

Support victims. Sign the letter.
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Cascadia today: Trump slashes Hanford cleanup + fatal fungus killing Cascadia bats + Seattle's punk rock flea market Good afternoon from Olympia, the city where you can't be discriminated against in housing or employment if you're polyamorous! (I talked about this recently on the CityCast Seattle podast this week – ...

Bats are dying all over #Cascadia 😢🦇 Plus, Seattle bans cars on a lakeside road on summer weekends, and Trump slashes funds for Hanford cleanup. This and more news from across the #PNW: www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...

Sounds good to me, and that'll be nice for all those French-speaking New Yorkers. 😂

Cascadia today: Closing research stations bad for PNW + WA ponders new housing department & a chemical in car tires kills salmon Good morning from the Amtrak Cascades train from Bellingham to Olympia! I'm traveling around western Cascadia this week, meeting folks and spreading the word about Cascadia Journal and Cascadia Democr...

In today's news from across the #Cascadia bioregion, the closure of forest service research stations will be a disaster for the #PNW, WA considers creating a department of housing, and a chemical found in car tires is extremely toxic to salmon www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...

Oh HELL no.

With low snowpack, our hydro is becoming less reliable. Behind-the-meter power nearly always means gas. And for what? The suicide advice/porn-making/job-killing machine?

Just: no.

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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

And yeah, it's this piece, out this morning. "The federal government that serves us is being starved while the federal government that serves the Trump agenda and the oligarchy is glutting itself on taxpayer money...."

I liked his line, "if you aren't living on the edge, you're taking up too much space."

So the feds want to slash Hanford cleanup funds by $400 million. How you feeling about that, central Washington? Want to join us as we build a free #Cascadia that actually funds the things we need here? www.kiro7.com/news/local/s...

Boise stepping up the resistance to Idaho's bigots! #Cascadia

An older man wearing a fleece and t-shirt stands in front of a well-appointed kitchen

In today's news from across #Cascadia, famed climber Jim Whittaker dies, another lawsuit challenges WA millionaires tax, OR holds public meetings on logging when feds fail to, and standing up for a neglected future light rail station in Seattle:
www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...

This is racist and bonkers. Ready to leave, #Casdadia?
www.bbc.com/news/article...

This week at @cascadiajournal.bsky.social I wrote about how the Trump regime killed the US Forest Service and why #Cascadia should take local control of federal lands in the #PNW

In today's news from across #Cascadia, US Forest Service cuts will hammer #PNW trails, Spokane protesters seek dismissal of charges, and WA rule change puts co-op preschools at risk:
www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...

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Now do automatic voter registration while you're at it.

Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids

Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids theonion.com/once-adventurous-salmon-...

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

In addition to my essay at CJ, you should definitely read Jim Pattiz's great in-depth article at Hatch magazine detailing how the the Trump regime killed off the Forest Service: www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

As Trump burns down the Forest Service, Cascadia should take control of our federal land Lost in recent news of violence by ICE goons, an apocalyptic war in Iran, and a refusal to make public the Epstein files, the Trump regime last week quietly killed the US Forest Service. As Jim Pattiz...

After Trump's regime burned down the US Forest Service last week, it's time for Oregon and Washington to support shifting management of federal lands in #Cascadia to state control in order to prevent a return to destructive clear cut logging: www.cascadia-journal.com/as-trump-bur...

Cascadia today: Challenging ICE tear gas use + WA gov subject to recall + Cascadia could expand fossil gas pipelines for data centers Good morning, friends. US ruler Donald Trump decided not to annihilate Iran's civilization and likely will agree to let Iran charge up to $2 million for every oil tanker sailing through the Strait of ...

In today's news from across #Cascadia, lawsuits challenge ICE tear gas use in Portland, a company wants to expand fossil gas pipelines to fuel more data centers in eastern WA, and people in south Seattle come together for community and free haircuts: www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...