Portland isn’t the crisis. The troops are the distraction. 💥RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES💥

Nothing happening at ICE processing facility on S. Waterfront in Portland. Only five people on corner protesting Tesla at nearby dealership. Hearing nothing happening at Justice Center downtown as well.

WA, CA, OR, and HI need more than just a West Coast Health Alliance. We need a West Coast Treaty Organization to pledge mutual defense against federal aggression.

Trump is launching an authoritarian takeover of Portland hoping to provoke conflict in my hometown. I urge Oregonians to reject Trump’s attempt to incite violence in what we know is a vibrant and peaceful city. I will do everything in my power to protect the people in our state.

What they're doing is lawless and unconstitutional.

“We have been provided no information on the reason or purpose of any military mission,” Kotek said. “There is no national security threat in Portland. Our communities are safe and calm." www.opb.org/article/2025...

"The push for #Cascadia autonomy must be a non-violent movement, no matter what violence the right-wing brings down upon us in retaliation." cascadia-journal.ghost.io/cascadia-and...

This kind of rhetoric sure hits differently during Trump's second administration, something these councilmembers don't appear particularly attuned to. Saying you'll fight against the Trump administration while attacking the equitable development initiative is some real cognitive dissonance.

Good afternoon! Here's your roundup of news and arts from across the #Cascadia bioregion, including health care costs soaring 75% if Congress doesn't extend Obamacare subsidies, Portland residents joining a flotilla for Gaza, and art by Dao Strom: cascadia-journal.ghost.io/cascadia-tod...

And Karen Attiah was re-hired by the Washington Post, right? Right?

Katie Wilson says she'll sit out a debate aired on KOMO unless they reinstate the Jimmy Kimmel show, and reiterates her support for public funding of local journalism...

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

Congrats to the Seattle Mariners! Plus, tribes in #Cascadia face huge cuts in federal funding, and Seattle's mayor wants even more money for cops: cascadia-journal.ghost.io/cascadia-tod...

The last story I edited before Monday's news was @laureldemkovich.bsky.social's excellent examination of Bob Ferguson's first 8 months as governor, a tenure marked by low public approval, decisions baffling to Dems and Republicans, and reduced press availability. www.cascadepbs.org/politics/202...

Good. Now release the rest of them.

An LNG facility in BC is poisoning residents, WA state tax revenue is half a billion below estimates, Charlie Kirk's legacy of hate in Spokane, and how Indigenous paddlers possess pride and activism: cascadia-journal.ghost.io/cascadia-tod...

Crosscut closes, Seattle screws over renters, feds delay cleanup of toxic PFAS, and a surreal wildlife artist based in central Washington. This and more news from #Cascadia: cascadia-journal.ghost.io/cascadia-tod...

The move, attributed to the loss of federal funding for public media, marks the layoffs of 17 staffers and the creation of three new positions.

Hey, if you haven't followed @cascadiajournal.bsky.social or signed up for my daily newsletter of news, environmental reporting, and arts from across #Cascadia, please take a moment. It's free! cascadia-journal.ghost.io

More than ever, independent outlets for journalism need your financial support. @publicola.bsky.social is one. In the next few weeks, I'll be looking at ways Cascadia Journal can perhaps do longform journalism in addition to the daily roundup and opinion pieces I'm currently offering.

At the risk of staying the obvious ... If you sign this, you are in no way a journalist.

Glacier Peak on track to longer have glaciers, thanks to climate change. This, and other news from across the #Cascadia bioregion: cascadia-journal.ghost.io/cascadia-tod...

Hey, here's some good news for a change! I wrote about a Seattle company turning diapers into climate-friendly biochar...

The United States Soviet of America kindly orders you all to watch.

This week for @cascadiajournal.bsky.social I wrote about how the US descent into fascism has made me think of myself as Cascadian rather than American: cascadia-journal.ghost.io/why-i-no-lon...

Cascadia Journal is free y’all…

#Cascadia offered its resident evidence-based advice on COVID vaccines, gov Ferguson says he'll backfill Planned Parenthood cuts, and the Lummi Nation tours a totem pole to draw attention to the feds' attempts to destroy wildlife habitat: cascadia-journal.ghost.io/cascadia-tod...

In the wake of the firing of MSNBC analyst Matthew Dowd and WaPo columnist Karen Attiah, as well as Jimmy Kimmel's show pulled off the air indefinitely by ABC, all due to the journalists' comments about Charlie Kirk's death, funding independent media is CRITICAL.

Antifa is not in the Epstein files.

"I look forward to the day when I might travel north to Vancouver without a passport, or to Paris as a human being who identifies as a resident of #Cascadia." cascadia-journal.ghost.io/why-i-no-lon...

The Seattle Police Department has informed me that they will not follow the policy they agreed to in a settlement with the Seattle Times on public disclosure when dealing with my records requests. Instead, they are "grouping" all of my requests and responding to them, in full, one at a time.

We are witnessing a swift and sweeping consolidation of media (traditional and social) into the hands of a small number of billionaires who are actively aligned/aligning (both via free will and coercion) with Trump and his right wing political party. This is (I’ll say it) a fascist project.

This story, of a woman forced to give birth in her car on the one-hour drive to a hospital in eastern Oregon, is bananas. And things like this are only going to get worse as GOP cuts to Medicaid threaten rural hospitals' ability to remain open.

Will BC offer asylum to #Cascadia 's trans people? ICE disappears more people in Portland, hospitals east of the Cascades are in crisis and WA Book Awards announced: cascadia-journal.ghost.io/cascadia-tod...

This is why they’re deleting studies

British Columbia is all in with climate-killing LNG ports, Seattle students protest cuts to lunchtime, fucking ash boring beetles are killing Oregon ash trees, and listen to a new PDX punk act. This and more news from across #Cascadia: cascadia-journal.ghost.io/cascadia-tod...

The people of Oregon and Washington have lost patience with the US descent into fascism. That's why some of us are now actively talking about peaceful separation from the US.

Hey #Cascadia! Here's your round up of news and arts, including OR cutting homeless prevention programs, Seattle mayor Bruce Harrell killing a pedestrian safety project, and a literary horror novel from Vancouver author Jen Sookfong Lee: cascadia-journal.ghost.io/cascadia-tod...

Environmentalists are again filing a lawsuit against the feds over dams on the Lower Snake River after the Trump administration scuttled a deal made in 2023. Plus, Portland is ramping up confiscation of RVs used by homeless people. cascadia-journal.ghost.io/cascadia-tod...

Good afternoon! Here's your round-up of news from across #Cascadia, including reactions to the Charlie Kirk assassination, rural hospitals at risk from GOP cuts and how Seattle art galleries are for everyone: cascadia-journal.ghost.io/cascadia-tod...

Need a little distraction from the United State's continued descent into political violence? You bet you do! So here's a little something about the best books I read during Seattle Public Library's Summer Book Bingo: cascadia-journal.ghost.io/my-best-of-s...

Seattle voted to increase surveillance of its residents, #Cascadia is in a severe drought, a new biography of a staunch liberal senator from Oregon, and more news from across the bioregion: cascadia-journal.ghost.io/cascadia-tod...

Wow, this article from the CBC about the merger the Vancouver-based mining firm Teck is entering into says absolutely NOTHING about its awful environmental record in British Columbia nor its impact on it neighbors in #Cascadia: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Of course it's not fake. This is a man who was recorded saying you can just grab women by the pussy.

Oregon prepares to oppose a Trump invasion in court, a BC-based mining company with a toxic legacy agrees to a merger, a Seattle group supporting Muslim girls who like to skate, and more news from across #Cascadia: cascadia-journal.ghost.io/cascadia-tod...

Um, WTF @daveweigel.bsky.social? Did a little too many shrooms before your talk? #Cascadia

An independent #Cascadia will uphold constitutional human rights and protect its residents from unjust search and seizure.

It's time for #Cascadia to assert its autonomy and divert federal tax dollars to universal health care in Oregon & Washington.

Hey #Cascadia! He's your news roundup from across the bioregion, including WA allowing residents to get COVID vaccines, the Oregon transportation bill nobody likes and Joe Fedderson's contemporary twist on Colville Indigenous art: cascadia-journal.ghost.io/cascadia-tod...

Boosting this because I always keep looking for this post.