Andrew Engelson

" #Cascadia – Oregon and Washington together – paid $51.5 billion more in taxes than were returned back to our region in funding in 2025." www.cascadia-journal.com/as-feds-hold...

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Please join La Resistencia and friends at the King County Council Meeting tomorrow October 27 to let authorities know safety rules must be enforced for King County Airport's deportation flights. We're asking folks to dress up for Halloween to show our voices will be heard regardless of holidays.

Without faster-than-expected housing growth in Seattle since 2019, the broader Puget Sound region would be behind on an overall goal of adding around 620,000 new units of housing through 2044. www.theurbanist.org/most-puget-s...

The one endorsement that really matters.

The PDC just handed more influence to rich and powerful special interests with nearly no warning. Control of the state Supreme Court is on the line. Initiatives attacking fundamental rights are on the ballot. This is a travesty.

This needs to stop now. @governorferguson.bsky.social are you going to enforce some no-mask laws any time soon?

Conservatives pummel the the centrist NDP in BC provincial elections, feds plan to poke around in King county election counting, and remembering Seattle-based movie star Tom Skerritt. It's your roundup of of news & arts from across #Cascadia: www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...

King county has one of the most efficient, safe and secure voting systems in the US. This is intimidation and nothing else.

Turns out calling a snap election was a disaster.

Quite something to call an election and then lose to a MAGA-style party at the moment when Canada is intensely anti-American.

The speed and reliability of Seattle’s Route 8 bus

"Poetry has the power to express the depths of our experience with honesty and vulnerability. It's the antidote to the AI-generated slop and fake kitsch that authoritarians love because fake art ignores the reality of lived experience."

What are they waiting for? They're waiting for thousands of people to tell them to do their job. Democratic Governors Can Order the Arrest of ICE Agents. What Are They Waiting For? https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/democratic-governors-have-the-legal

I wrote something about how poetry is absolutely essential to the Cascadia movement: www.cascadia-journal.com/poetry-is-es...

With Wildwood, Laika has transcended what a stop-motion animation film can be and proven the form once more. Believe the hype!

OK fine.

I believe Skerritt hosted the first private fundraiser in Seattle for then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in his home, along with a couple of book launch parties for local authors. I saw him out at arts events pretty frequently around town. He made Seattle better by being a good neighbor.

Look, I hate America's gun culture, but what Kaylub did was necessary and heroic. Hate that it's come to this.

A Canadian woman from Point Roberts who feared to cross the border has died, plus an interview with BC Green leader Emily Lowan and the new animated film Wildwood has deep roots in Portland. It's your #Cascadia arts & news roundup: www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...

Former council member Sara Nelson keeps on failing.

Trans rights organizations are sounding the alarm over what they say is anti-trans rhetoric coming from the Conservative Party of BC. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports. #BCPoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...

Horrible. For this regime, the cruelty is the point.

PGE is trying to cut down 20 acres of Forest Park to expand electrical transmission for Data Centers. We need leaders ready to meet this moment & defend our forests and waterways from uninhibited Data Center Expansion. That’s why I’m running for Portland City Council on a 4 Year AI Data Center Ban.

In the coming century, there will be very few people who have seen a coral reef or a glacier.

It’s important not to understate how few homeless RV residents will likely be able to obtain a permit under this regime. Also, the council made it clear that it doesn't see RV/trailer living — including by folks who aren't homeless — as a legitimate form of housing in Seattle.

Republicans in Washington State have placed a measure on the ballot requiring that EVERY girl who participates in sports must first undergo a genital exam. That's right. To "protect" young girls, Republicans want to poke their vaginas. That reminded me of something from the Epstein files.

Cascadia Journal is unequivocally a supporter of @electioncheatsheet.org, a fantastic aggregator of left-leaning endorsements in Seattle-area elections. Plus, it's got a nifty feature that lets you quickly see campaign spending data. 🏆

Doin' the voting thing.

Our endorsements for WA state supreme court races!

“Too many people who voted NDP their whole lives are watching rents climb, being sent to the picket lines and are wondering who is still fighting for them,” Green Leader Emily Lowan said in an interview with The Tyee. thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...

The federal government has rescinded billions of dollars toward climate action and government shutdowns have impacted funding to help low-income families pay for their energy bills. But this project is using money from Portland’s climate action fund to keep renewable energy investments flowing.

Under Emily Lowan’s leadership, the BC Greens have undergone a radical brand refresh and the party has worked to engage a young audience. Will these efforts pay off at the voting booth? Hugh Chan writes. #BCPoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...

Guess which BC party is best for the environment? Plus, a WA tribe gains lands back after Elwha river dam removal, a solar power site on a former Portland garbage dump & an evil Halloween Jimothy. It's your daily roundup of #Cascadia news: www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...

Please join La Resistencia and friends at the King County Council Meeting on Tuesday, October 27 to let authorities know safety rules must be enforced for King County Airport’s deportation flights. We’re asking folks to dress up for Halloween to show our voices will be heard regardless of holidays.

I am APPALLED. What a craven, hateful piece of legislation. People in difficult situations need HELP, not to be held to higher standards and more draconian punishments than their wealthier neighbors.

“It cannot be overstated how thoroughly COPE steamrolled ABC Vancouver.” @vancolour.bsky.social dives into how the Vancouver municipal party’s ground hustle resulted in an historic win. #VanPoli thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Alberta isn't part of Cascadia, but its vote yesterday on secession has implications for the movement for Cascadia autonomy.

Make no mistake. They're planning to leave NATO and ally with Putin. Yet another argument for a free #Cascadia.

Vancouver democratic socialist party @copevancouver.bsky.social, which won four of 10 city council seats, "ran an unapologetically left-wing platform that emphasized housing affordability, tenants’ rights, and expanded public services."

Implementation of Brian Heywood’s 645 would indeed cut funding for K-12 schools, higher education and healthcare Washington’s four-year budget framework requires lawmakers to plan for future tax collections, and repealing an enacted revenue source would have real, devastating consequences for…

America now has second-generation school shooting survivors nypost.com/2026/10/17/u...

TLDR (and actually it's five!) Colleen Melody, Jamie Hawk, Ian Birk, Theo Angelis, & Debra L. Stephens.

Amazing results in Vancouver elections, with progressives routing the center-right ABC party!

The generation that got to buy cheap houses thanks to a postwar construction boom, then blocked new housing construction to juice their asset values is now whining that they have to pay taxes on their unearned wealth. Just breathtaking selfishness.

It is really fucked up that we cage people for decades— especially if that person did the same thing today, we wouldn’t. A person who didn’t physically harm anyone and has changed shouldn’t spend 95 years in prison and should be let out early, Gov. Ferguson. 1/ www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...