Cascadia features
Here in Cascadia and across the US, the feds have put in place new rules to solve a problem that doesn't exist: fraud in vote-by-mail.
Immigrants to lose health care in WA after fed cuts Through the Static reports that up to 11,000 immigrants in Washington state may lose health insurance after the Trump regime passed massive nationwide cuts to Medicaid. KUOW also covers the cuts and Gov. Bob Ferguson's efforts to
Many thanks to Vermillion art gallery and bar in Seattle and all who attended the debut of the Subduction spoken word series last night! It was a lovely, lively evening of poetry rooted in the Cascadia bioregion. Many thanks to Ankober Yewondwossen, Rhea Melina, Nadine Maestas, and Paul Nelson for
Here in Cascadia and across the US, the feds have put in place new rules to solve a problem that doesn't exist: fraud in vote-by-mail.
The Tacoma prison camp is a grim place, situated between a maze of railroad tracks and surrounded by razor wire. It looks exactly like what it is: a concentration camp where 1,500 people are held, many indefinitely.
Seattle and Portland have become safe havens from places passing restrictive anti-trans laws.
Cascadia – Oregon and Washington together – paid $51.5 billion more in taxes than were returned back to our region in funding in 2025.
After a talk last night in Seattle by Bank of North Dakota CEO Don Morgan, I came away even more convinced that Oregon and Washington should make creating public state banks a high legislative priority.
The Trump regime is systematically destroying protections for Oregon and Washington's forests and moving to triple logging of public lands in Cascadia.
Observations on news, politics, and the arts in the Pacific Northwest.
Teacher strike averted in Seattle West Seattle Blog reports that the SEA teachers' union and Seattle Public Schools came to an agreement last night on a new contract, averting a strike. Teachers, who authorized a strike if no deal was made, had taken issue with the district's
"Promising progress" on contract for Seattle teachers West Seattle Blog reports that the Seattle Education Association, the union for the city's public school teachers made "promising progress" on a new contract with Seattle Public Schools in marathon negotiations last night that went well into
One book I read earlier this summer is the Cascadian classic, Ecotopia, by Ernest Callenbach. The futurist novel first published in 1975 was for many the first time they'd considered the idea of an independent, environmental utopian nation in the Pacific Northwest.
ICE kidnappings in WA climb The Seattle Times reports that ICE kidnappings reached a new high in Washington state last month and that seizures are increasing in the Puget Sound region and central Washington. Arrests are also up at SeaTac airport, part of a nationwide surge by immigration goons in
Rep Randall says NWDC commits "human rights violations" KUOW interviews Congressional representative Emily Randall, whose district includes Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center, and who says conditions inside the immigration prison, especially lack of adequate medial care, constitute "human rights violations." She's visited the
Cascadia Democratic Action's Cascadia Day poetry reading went so well in May we've decided to start a monthly spoken word and performance series! It's called Subduction, after the geological process in which a coastal tectonic plate sinking deep below the continent creates the volcanoes,
Trump's trade war on Canada will hurt Cascadia After a week of negotiations between the US and Canadians failed, Donald Trump has announced he'll impose 50% duties on a range of Canadian imports, and prime minister Mark Carney said Canada would respond with equal tariffs of
Hunger strike at Tacoma ICE camp ends The Stranger reports that a hunger strike by 140 detainees at the the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma has ended after GEO and ICE have said they'll improve meal quality and consistency. The strike was called by immigrants held at the
The Tacoma prison camp is a grim place, situated between a maze of railroad tracks and surrounded by razor wire. It looks exactly like what it is: a concentration camp where 1,500 people are held, many indefinitely.
Lawsuit in OR challenges feds expanding grazing Oregon Capital Chronicle reports that the environmental group Center for Biological Diversity has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Oregon opposing the Trump regime's plan to vastly expand cattle grazing on 24 million acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Member of Congress visit Tacoma ICE camp Oregon Live reports that two Democratic members of Congress from Cascadia, Maxine Dexter of Portland, and Emily Randall, whose district includes Tacoma, paid an unannounced visit to ICE's Northwest Detention Center this past weekend. The ICE detention camp was the focus
Tribe works to save endangered sunflowers stars KUOW reports on work wildlife biologists and the Samish tribe are doing to breed and release sunflowers stars, which have been devastated by a bacterial pandemic that has wiped out 5 billion of the Pacific coast creatures. Members of the Salish Sea tribe
