“We come together to witness a sacred moment: the return of salmon to waters where their ancestors once traveled freely. Our people have always known that salmon are much more than a resource,” Tanna Engdahl, spiritual leader for the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, told the crowd.
Thank you Cowlitz Tribe 🐟❤️
COLDWATER LAKE — For the first time since the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, spring chinook salmon are once again swimming above the sediment retention dam on the North Fork Toutle River.
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Siphoning nearly $3 million of regressive sales tax from Seattleites to subsidize building roads in wealthy suburbs like Medina, Bellevue, Yarrow Point, and Beaux Arts is unacceptable.” —Seattle Street Alliance
Furious agreement.
It is shameful that we are doing this. Fuck ICE.
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They've known for decades that their industry was going to cause mass suffering. Divest in any way you can.
Tracy Banaszynski
Undamming Klamath debuts this year!
"The indigenous-led campaign to un-dam the Klamath took about 25 years, and the deconstruction of all four dams was completed in roughly 18 months. Remarkably, just three days after the removal was finalized, salmon began swimming past the former dam sites."
Habitat connectivity matters. Thank you @wsdot.wa.gov for fixing your fish passage barriers! 🐟❤️
Tracy Banaszynski
Climate change is making it increasingly hard to have fun in the sun—and the leading fossil fuel corporations have long known this was going to happen.
2,559 likes, 54 comments - swiftwaterfilms on November 1, 2024: "The Klamath River was once the third-largest salmon river in the United States, but over the last century, salmon populations have decl...
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43K likes, 384 comments - wsdot on June 11, 2026: "Removing fish passage barriers = a healthier ecosystem. Since establishing a fish passage program in 1991, we have corrected hundreds of these barrie...
Imagine being elected to represent these little bumbling balls of joy and instead of watching and protecting them you'd rather lose a war. 🪶 🐣
Most of the people we observed being taken away at BWI Thursday evening were in gray jumpsuits, implying they'd been detained for more than a day. But a few, including at least one man and several woman, were in plainclothes, implying they'd just been captured.
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Should Seattle sales tax be increased to subsidize wealthy suburban road building? No! But that's what the King County Council is proposing to do this Friday. Tell them to treat Seattle fairly, and not siphon $3 million sales tax for Bellevue etc.
Take action now! actionnetwork.org/letters/8415...
A fight is brewing at the King County Council tomorrow over whether a new 0.1% sales tax measure will arbitrarily limit the amount of funding that gets sent to Seattle, diverting it elsewhere. This week city leaders started pushing back.
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A 0.1% countywide sales tax hike is on deck for later this week, largely to fund road improvements outside cities and towns. Seattle city leaders are arguing that a proposed cap diverting several mill...
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ICE agents detained two adults on public school property Thursday in a chaotic scene caught on video.
Huge private equity firms have started to control every part of our lives—from your kid’s little league team to the house you live in.
We need to put people first. I’m focused on breaking the grip of private equity—taking back the housing market and taking back our lives.
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli
Dear King County Council, Siphoning nearly $3 million of regressive sales tax from Seattleites to subsidize building roads in wealthy suburbs like Medina, Bellevue, Yarrow Point, and Beaux Arts is un...
