04-25-2025 - #OlympiaWA - Luminary Procession

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Need a stress break? Maybe improv is just the thing. If you're in Olympia, WA, come to recruitment rehearsal 3/26 for new family-friendly troupe forming now! Is it Improv-OH-lee or im-PROV-uh-lee? Yes, yes it is! https://www.improvoly.com/recruitment-rehearsal

03-08-2025 - #OlympiaWA - International Women's Day

Hundreds attended an International Women's Day protest in Olympia yesterday where the clear majority of energy was in response to the #Trump administration. Protest signs and chants contrasted Trump policies on women's rights, equality and human rights across the board. The peaceful yet vocal #protest had one or two anti-abortion Trump supporter counter-protesters, one of which was relatively known. Overall the Capitol lawn has taken a beating lately from #protests so we might advise boots for those attending future events.

#Democracy at stake
America Has No Kings Rally
#OlympiaWa Tuesday 3/4 3pm-5pm
organized by #EvergreenResistance (state org of #50501Movement )

Includes march from Heritage Park on 5th Ave

Let's turn out, #Tacoma
I'm working but hope y'all will represent me
@tacoma @justin @350tacoma #TacomaForAll

02-17-2025 - #OlympiaWA #OlyWA - Presidents' Day, 5051 Fifty Protests, Fifty States, One Day - Washington State Capitol

Thousands of #protesters showed at the Capitol on Monday in response to orange man and his crony friends. #Antifascist #protest signs were in abundance with non-stop references to Donald #Trump and Elon Musk. Large crowds gathered at the side of Capitol Blvd, in a circle on the lawn of the Capitol and at the Capitol steps.

An interesting trend seen in the #PNW #Washington #Oregon lately includes "Pro-America, Anti-Trump" protesters with an effort to "take back the flag". Other more classically right-wing representations such as #constitutional t-shirts, constitutional protest signs, references to supporting "law and order" and "rule of law" were seen.

Excerpt from February 13th "Governor Bob Ferguson Press Conference" (seen on TVW.org):

REPORTER: "With regards to your 100 million dollar proposed state grant program for local #police departments, what would you say to bystanders, #journalists and demonstrators who sustained permanent and serious injury during racial #justice #protests in 2020, in which police departments namely the #Seattle police department were found in violation by #federal courts with regards to failing to respect peoples constitutional rights" (CLIPPED)

FERGUSON: "I hear your question but, I'm also aware that we rank last, per capita, the number of law enforcement #officers we have, in the united states, and so I hear your thoughts and what's in your statement, but we need to move forward on making sure that #Washington is a safe place for all Washingtonians" (CLIPPED)

@ 40:30 - https://tvw.org/video/governor-bob-ferguson-press-conference-2025021318/

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01-18-2025 - #OlympiaWA - #OlyWA - People's March

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The salmon are running! The salmon are running! #PNW #OlyWA #Olympia #salmon #nature #OlympiaWA #Cascadia #autumn

PSA for #OlyWA Folks: There’s a new bagel joint in town and it’s totally worth braving the ridiculous lines. Go early. They sell out. (6th Borough Bagels in the West Oly.) #OlympiaWA #bagels #PNW

What crazy weather for an airshow! It started pouring and then we got thunder and lightning at the #OlympicAirshow at #KOLM today, but it was gorgeous before the storm blew in. #OlyWA #wawx #pnwwx #aviation #flight #planes #OlympiaWA #airshow

My neighbor got too many #SpoonerStrawberries and just gave me two pints. I love my neighborhood so much. #PNW #iykyk #OlyWA #OlympiaWA

Keep thinking we might see a power outage today. This wind is not messing around. #wawx #pnwwx #pnw #OlympiaWA

So I just saw this beetle for the first time ever and learned via #SeekApp that it is called a Rustic Sailor Beetle and I just may have never been so charmed in my whole bug watching life. #beetles #insects #bugstodon #PNW #OlympiaWA #nature #photography #NaturePhotography

PSA: The first cherries (Sweet Chelan) have arrived at the #OlympiaWA farmers market! #FarmersMarket #OlyWA #PNW #cherries #FreshFruit

I feel so inordinately lucky that I live in a community that has a cheese CSA. I can even get fresh eggs as an add on! #CommunitySupportedAgriculture #cheese #CSA #PNW #OlyWA #OlympiaWA #EatLocal

I cannot fucking believe how amazing this is. #auroraborealis #nothernlights #aurora #pnw #OlympiaWA #OlyWA

Today was the first #ProcessionOfTheSpecies in #OlympiaWA since the pandemic began. And it was MARVELOUS. I love my community so incredibly much. #OlyWA #Procession #ArtsWalk #PNW