Daily Digest: Fight Fascism on May Day, BC fails climate goals, and go read a poem!

Happy May Day! Go fight fascism 🌹 Today is May Day – not, as some in the US would have you believe, a Hallmark card holiday – but a day of international action supporting rights and fair wages for working people. Hundreds of protests across the country will take the opportunity to speak

Thinking Cascadian

At the westernmost point of what we now call Washington State, I like to sit and think about the past. Cape Alava is magical place where forests of Sitka spruce meet the rocky shores of the Pacific. It's a landscape where deer wander into the surf, tide pools

Daily Digest: Trump hates preschoolers, First Nations fight mine dam & Black Belt Eagle Scout is rad

OR and WA sue feds to fund Head Start OPB reports that Oregon and Washington are part of a lawsuit aimed at stopping the Trump administration from ending the Head Start preschool program, which provides early learning services to some 800,000 children and low-income families across the US. The

Daily Digest: Liberals win in Canada as left loses ground in BC, WA passes rent control

Liberals win in Canada as leftist parties lose ground in BC In a stunning reversal from its position in the polls a few months ago, Canada's centrist Liberal party won Canada's federal election last night, selecting Mark Carney to lead the country as he took aim

Daily Digest: Vancouver's "darkest day", WA legislature completes budget, Canada votes today

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Daily Digest: Will NDP leader lose his BC seat? Homeless funds in crisis and support indie bookstores!

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Daily Digest: Universities in Cascadia grow a spine, BC a battleground in Canada election

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Daily Digest: Children's Hospital denies surgeries to trans youth. And what the hell is Bob Ferguson doing?

Children's Hospital is denying gender-affirming care The Stranger reports that Seattle's Children's Hospital isn't providing affirming gender care surgeries to trans people younger than 19, for fear of retaliatory budget cuts from the Trump administration. Activists say that's wrong, and

Ferguson and legislature failing to protect Washington residents

Sign up for a free subscription Washington state is a crossroads. And governor Bob Ferguson and the legislature have chosen to take the path that dead ends in noxious weeds. Ever since the second Trump administration took power in January, they've engaged in a merciless onslaught of illegal

Daily Digest: Happy Earth Day from Cascadia! 🌎

Happy Earth Day! Celebrate by not taking a cruise Today is Earth Day, and if you're looking to celebrate, volunteer, or speak out against the Trump administration's evisceration of budgets for the EPA, climate science, and renewable energy here are some events in the Seattle area,