Tracy Banaszynski

Tracy Banaszynski

@tracyforkenmore.bsky.social

She/Her 🙋‍♀️ 🏳️‍🌈 Fierce advocate for healthy habitat for salmon and affordable housing for people. City of Kenmore Planning Commission Chair. 🐟🏡🪑

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Northwest Treaty Tribes
@nwtreatytribes.org

Data centers and dams are among emerging and legacy threats to Northwest salmon populations. “Real, big monsters in the world threaten to eat and consume all of us,” said renowned actress Lily Gladstone. nwtt.co/ps

nwtreatytribes.orgDams, data centers, climate change: Northwest tribes confront major threats to salmon - Northwest Treaty TribesAs tribes in the Northwest work against the current to restore habitat and rebuild salmon populations, more threats to the…
Tracy Banaszynski
@tracyforkenmore.bsky.social

This is mostly a reminder to myself to make a comment. But you can, too! Healthy shorelines are necessary living infrastructure for humans and our other-then-human neighbors.

Futurewise@futurewise.bsky.social

Take action to protect Washington shorelines! 🌊 As part of HB 1181, the Dept. of Ecology is required update its shoreline master program guidelines to address the impact of sea level rise & increased storm severity on people, property, & the environment. 1/2

bit.lyAction Alert: Comment on Shoreline Master Program guidelines - FuturewiseIn 2023, many of you worked with Futurewise to get the legislature to pass an important bill requiring counties and cities to address climate change in their
Tracy Banaszynski
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Fuck ICE

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com

MAJOR UPDATE: Shortly after this published, I obtained another document confirming this will be a removal flight only. If carried out, it would be the largest third-country removal to Africa so far: 25 people to Eq. Guinea, 30 to Burundi + 100 to Central African Rep. prospect.org/2026/10/21/i...

prospect.orgIt Should Be a Rescue Flight; Docs Show It Will Be Another Immigrant Expulsion - The American ProspectDocuments show an ICE flight is expected to land in the African country where immigrant Ahmed Soliman, who a federal judge ordered to be returned, is currently imprisoned.
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Tracy Banaszynski
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ecent rainfall has improved flows enough to allow some salmon to resume upstream migration, but low-water conditions persist in the region and continue to raise concerns about Chinook and coho migration patterns and escapement.

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Factors that support this decision include fishery monitoring data and environmental conditions. In-season fishery monitoring in both basins shows that coho harvest is substantially lower than anticipated, suggesting that the 2026 return is lower than preseason projections.

Tracy Banaszynski
@tracyforkenmore.bsky.social

Additionally, below-average summer precipitation in the Hoh and Quillayute watersheds has contributed to low river flows, delaying salmon migration and causing Chinook and coho salmon to hold in lower river reaches rather than continuing upstream to their spawning areas.

Tracy Banaszynski
@tracyforkenmore.bsky.social

THIS. Also, if you have the time, click on the original post to read a most excellent thread. It is a sad fact that advocating for these things will likely get you attacked and feeling gaslit, but I am here to tell you that you are the sane one and far from alone. Together we keep going.

pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼@pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social

Tapping the sign again. We are fighting fascism. Everything politically has moved to the right. We have a responsibility to pull left, to demand progressive taxation, to insist on the rights of the unhoused and the working poor.

Tracy Banaszynski
@tracyforkenmore.bsky.social

The best people visiting the best fish! Please join us!

EcoCity Action@ecocityaction.org

Join us for our final event of the salmon see-son at Carkeek Park on Nov 21! We'll be there during Carkeek's Annual Salmon Celebration & it will be a super fun, family-friendly time. :) Unfortunately, it is very difficult to get to the heart of Carkeek by transit, so...

forms.gleEcoCity Action's Carkeek Salmon Viewing - November 21, 2026Join your friends at EcoCity Action to see salmon spawning in Piper's Creek within Carkeek Park! Learn about their journey and habitat restoration/stormwater management in the Piper's Creek watershed....

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EcoCity Action
@ecocityaction.org

Paired with buying up private property, this would also be one of the best things we could do to boost local salmon runs & therefore food for orcas. With public ownership of our beaches & shorelines, we could make a concerted large-scale effort to restore nearshore marine habitat for baby salmon.

Gordon Padelford@gordonofseattle.bsky.social

I would love to see one of the state-wide public lands organizations take up the fight to regain public access to all of Washington’s beaches. #RightToRoam

Tracy Banaszynski
@tracyforkenmore.bsky.social

Very exciting!

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social

Get the full scoop this morning at @theurbanist.org, though I expect a few more details will trickle out during this event. www.theurbanist.org/seattle-soci...

theurbanist.orgSeattle Social Housing Developer Advances First Construction ProjectA 7,800-square-foot site along E Yesler Way, which belonged to former House Speaker Frank Chopp, will become 20 units of social housing following a unanimous vote of the Seattle Social Housing Develop...

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EcoCity Action
@ecocityaction.org

Re-meander our rivers and give the little salmon comfy and calm places to rest

HistoryLink.org@historylink.bsky.social

#OnThisDay in 1913, the straightening of the Duwamish River into the Duwamish Waterway began. historylink.org/File/2986

Tracy Banaszynski
@tracyforkenmore.bsky.social

Land back!

Northwest Treaty Tribes@nwtreatytribes.org

The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe is waiting for the federal administration to approve the transfer of 1,100 acres of federal lands back to the tribe, lands that include the tribe's creation site, plus old fishing grounds and village sites. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

seattletimes.comElwha River dam removal project nears capstone with land transfer to tribeThe return of more than 1,000 acres of federal land to the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe is a major milestone in the Elwha River's restoration.
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Tracy Banaszynski
@tracyforkenmore.bsky.social

letter to the county council rather than sign off on these garbage amendments. The Sassquatch encourages our dearest cinnabuns in Snohomish County to check out the nonpartisan and non-California-billionaire-funded League of Women Voters guide to the charter amendments:

lwvsnoho.orgVote NO on proposed amendments to the Snohomish County Charter - League of Women Voters of Snohomish CountyThe Charter is like a constitution that describes how the county is governed and organized. Five proposed amendments to the Snohomish County Charter are on the November 3 ballot. The League of W...
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Tracy Banaszynski
@tracyforkenmore.bsky.social

Imagine being so sure you can't win you that try to subvert the game for yourself? And attempt to change the actual county CHARTER to do it? Desperation isn't cute, and wasting public money with a commission stacked to do the bidding of an ideological minority is even less cute.

Tracy Banaszynski
@tracyforkenmore.bsky.social

The five proposed amendments are, like the commission "supermajority" F42 bragged about electing last fall, absolute crap. Sassquatch's condolences to the four commissioners who didn't come from F42 and ultimately signed a dissent

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out of his county council seat that they might support next year? Maaaybe someone that F42 already has on board as their "Snohomish County Director" - LOL, guys, it's our friend Nate Nehring, who was never elected to a single thing before he was appointed to the county council in 2017.

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Tracy Banaszynski
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charter commission. The over $80,000 in independent expenditures in 2025's commission elections came from PACs Heywood contributed to, like "Concerned Taxpayers of Washington," which sent out mailers across the county. F42 took credit for electing their supermajority last fall, which kinda

Tracy Banaszynski
@tracyforkenmore.bsky.social

spilled the coordination beans (but thanks for the tip, Brian!). Now that the commission work is done, we see F42's framing in their cute attempt at a voters' guide: they want to elect a "pro-business and pro-public safety" county slate. Who, I wonder, might be a Republican about to term

Tracy Banaszynski
@tracyforkenmore.bsky.social

Oof, how embarrassing. 😳 Snohomish County has never elected a Republican executive, so ahead of the new one the county will elect next year, ANOTHER bunch o' Brian Heywood groups (Future 42/Project 42/League of our Own/etc.) put thousands into electing a li'l ol' supermajority to the county

Tracy Banaszynski
@tracyforkenmore.bsky.social

This is the way

No Hate in WA State@nohateinwastate.bsky.social

The Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians passed a resolution opposing harmful initiatives I-001 and I-638. Seeding Justice Executive Director Se-ah-dom Edmo said, “These measures do not reflect our values, and we will not stand by while our young people are used as political targets."

Tracy Banaszynski
@tracyforkenmore.bsky.social

Why are we starving the people who feed us? Oh yeah. Corporate greed. People over corporations, always. We have to fight for this, friends.

United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social

In WA State farm workers are harvesting Granny Smith apples. Hector says, "I feel very unhappy about what they're paying us. Last year, we were paid $33/900lb bin. This year they are only paying us $30/bin. It's increasingly difficult to cover my family's expenses. #WeFeedYou

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EcoCity Action
@ecocityaction.org

Shade at bus stops, street trees for all, and more parks near you so you don't have to drive somewhere to touch grass/sit under shady trees with friends - let's go!!!!

Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social

Absolutely amazing piece by Nithya

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