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What a strong showing yesterday for the Hands Off movement.

Membership card for ACLU

Just resumed my donations and it feels good. #ACLU

Tribal elder speaks out for civil rights. I joined the resistance and marched forth on March 4th. Join the resistance.

@50501movement.bsky.social

Thank you Senator Patty Murray of my great state of WA for being such a forceful and thoughtful leader.

Headed to my state capital (Olympia, WA) today in support of sanity. Please join me.

On this day, we honor all presidents, past and present, from George Washington to Elon Musk.

Bellevue College apologizes after administrator alters mural depicting Japanese American incarceration The art installation “Never Again Is Now,” created by Seattle artist Erin Shigaki, includes an 11-foot-tall mural of two children who were photographed at a California incarceration camp. The project was brought to Bellevue College last week as the school...

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Vandalism of public art in Seattle’s Japantown ‘a punch in the gut’ An art installation in Nihonmachi Alley commemorating the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was smeared with black ink over the weekend.

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WA bans commercial net-pen fish farming More than 80% of public comments received by the Department of Natural Resources before Tuesday's hearing supported the ban, according to the agency.

WE DID IT! Washington State Makes history with permanent ban on Commercial Net Pens!

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#OurSoundOurSalmon #SaveOurSalmon

Washington officials weigh where to relocate 9,000-pound Marcus Whitman statue • Washington State Standard Plans are in the works to move a statue of the controversial 19th-century missionary but the logistics involved are complicated.

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Image of frosty mug of beer with caption Everyone needs something to believe in.. I believe I'll have another beer.

Lunch at Big Time. Been 35 years since I quaffed here. The beer is even better today. But it ain't $4 any more.

To clarify, you are not the complainer I refer to. Twitter/X has morphed into a huge platform of disgruntled, highly toxic complainers. And that is why I am now giving Bluesky a go. And why I decided to start replying to positive posts like yours.

#quinalt

Agreed. Looking for Bluesky to be engaging and focused on things that matter to me. Complaining about things has gotten really old.

Agreed. I loved the 24 words or less.

#nature #hiking #Washington

#nature #tree #sitkaspruce #Quinault #precolonial

#nature #olympicpeninsula #mushroom

I see mushrooms.

Big tree. Keep it safe.

Goodbye Elon

@heatherota.bsky.social