It's like what I tooted yesterday, but longer! And with a few more details. Basically, we had a good protest, but as big as two weeks ago but still very big, almost everyone on our side.

https://solarbird.net/blog/2025/04/20/good-turnout-in-bothell-for-saturdays-protest/

#protest #protests #bothell #northshore #seattle #cascadia #CascadiaStrong

Good turnout in Bothell for Saturday’s protest

Pretty good turnout in Bothell, counter had over 600 which is a good number given the rain in the morning and the unavoidable timing against Easter. It’s not what we had two weeks ago, but again, conflicts and worse conditions. Still a bit larger than the 2018-era protests, so I’d call that another win.

There were still people on the far downtown bridge, too. There were just gaps in the crowd between us and them.

I’d post pics but I totally forgot my phone, oops. And I actually did, not “lol no phone oops” did.

There was one (1) counter-protestor/heckler on the ground; he didn’t like my “NO KINGS” signs at all and started ranting about how Biden was the real “king” they got rid of. He didn’t have a sign himself and stayed pretty far back; I came across him accidentally while walking around testing our FRS radio range.

(As an aside: FRS handheld radios are f’real, team. Consider getting some and getting practice with them. No license needed, they’re channelised so can’t be used against you as “police scanners,” the range is shockingly good, and even with prices going up they’re super affordable. Ignore the only review on that Best Buy link; those are the exact model we bought. If you want to spend a little more you can get the T30 version, which has a headset and I think is rechargeable, but is otherwise pretty much the same radio and only comes in black. We specifically wanted replaceable batteries for extended-blackout reasons. Just remember: they are NOT private. Just relatively obscure.)

As with every other protest here, we had overwhelming support from the vehicle crowd. Hundreds to one in favour, easily, just like in person. I even got support from a presumably embarrassed Tesla driver.

I don’t know if there were more Bothell PD out this time, or if it just felt like there were. Might’ve been a difference in crowd to cop ratio, might’ve just been the escalating situation, might’ve just been where they were standing. But I wasn’t the only one who noticed.

Keep on your toes. Even here, the cops are Trump’s friends.

Anyway, that’s it for this week’s report, I hope your protests went well. Remember to save the date for May 1st, and to turn out at your local Tesla Takedown or similar before then, too. Momentum is everything, and we need to keep it.

#Bothell #cascadia #northshore #politics #protest #protests #uspol #uspolitics

#lafc Hollingshead (i thought) AND Cherundolo both shown red! Which would be far more awesome if they weren't losing to #Portscum

#fedifoot #cascadia

Pretty good turnout in Bothell, counter had over 600 which is a good number given the rain in the morning and the unavoidable timing against Easter.

I'd post pics but I totally forgot my phone oops

There was one (1) counter-protestor/heckler. He didn't like my "NO KINGS" signs at all. He didn't have a sign himself and stayed pretty far back; I came across him accidentally while walking around testing our FRS radio range.

(FRS handheld radios are f'real team. No license needed, they're channelised so can't be used against you as "police scanners," the range is shockingly good, and even with prices going up they're super affordable. E.g. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/midland-t10x3m-multi-color-pack-x-talker-two-way-radio-mutli/6581781.p?skuId=6581781 )

#protest #protests #bothell #northshore #seattle #cascadia #CascadiaStrong

A few happy accidents along the way. But I'm happy with how it turned out.

#cascadia #pacnw

So here's a list of mostly Puget Sound-area actions for April 19th, but also reserve May 1st - bigger plans are in the air.

https://solarbird.net/blog/2025/04/17/do-this-april-19th-list-of-protests

#uspol #uspolitics #protest #politics #protests #CascadiaStrong #cascadia #seattle #PugetSound

The Spokane Spokesman-Review newspaper is going nonprofit:

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/a-newspaper-dynasty-ends-in-spokane-turns-to-nonprofit/

Spokane is a big blue island in the mostly-very-low-population red part of Washington State. It's important that they haven't gone to some damn vulture fund operator or more some pink slime fascist noise machine.

Particularly if you're out on the dry side, you might throw them some support.

#newspaper #news #spokane #cascadia #WashingtonState #WaNews #nonprofit