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#NoKings 2.0
Saturday, October 18th, 2025

#NoKingsWashington (State)
(Part 8 of 9)

#SedroWoolleyWA
#SequimWA
#SheltonWA
#ShorelineWA
#SnohomishWA
#SpokaneWA
#TacomaWA
#TukwilaWA
#UnionGapWA
#VancouverWA

Link:
https://www.nokings.org

Map showing locations of the “No Kings 2.0” protests to be held in Washington State on Saturday, October 18th, 2025.

Iiiiiiii should've linked to the shop's website!!

https://shelfindulgence.shop/

#Tacoma #TacomaWA #Bookstore #BrickAndMortar #GrandOpening #romance

My haul 😎

#Tacoma #TacomaWA #Bookstore #BrickAndMortar #GrandOpening

Photo of three novels on a restaurant table: The Assassin and the Libertine, The Agent and the Outlaw, The Doctor in the Devil. This is a trilogy (or maybe the first three of a series?) by Lily Riley. Vampires in Versailles sound fun to me.

WE'RE IN

#Bookstore #Tacoma #TacomaWA #romance #BrickAndMortar #GrandOpening

Big crowd milling around in a cool bookstore

Big crowd milling around in a cool independent bookstore in Tacoma, WA, USA

We've been standing in line more than two hours but we're closing in on the entrance at last. 📚💘

#Tacoma #TacomaWA #BookStore #romance #BrickAndMortar #GrandOpening

Photo of an A-frame sign on a sidewalk celebrating the opening of Shelf Indulgence in Tacoma, WA, USA. Cartoon face one says "This escape room is really hard" and cartoon face two says "...? This is the opening of Shelf Indulgence"

Beneath: "Welcome to Tacoma's First Romance Bookstore"

Tacoma solidarity for Global Sumud Flotilla

Tacoma, WA – On September 22, community members gathered around the Federal Courthouse in solidarity with the 50-vessel lotilla heading to Gaza to deliver aid. The rally, a coalition effort of Democratic Socialists of America, Jewish Voice for Peace, and Freedom Road Socialist Organization stood together to call for an end to the Israeli genocide of Palestinians.

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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/tacoma-solidarity-for-global-sumud-flotilla

Has #ICE renewed #TacomaWA #DetentionCenter contract? It won’t say

By Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks, Sep. 25, 2025

Excerpt: "The 10-year contract for the private company operating the #NorthwestICEProcessingCenter in Tacoma is set to end this month, but secrecy shrouds whether it’s been extended.

"#Immigration advocates and legal experts have heavily criticized the lack of transparency over the expected renewal of the contract between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and #GEOGroup, which owns and manages the 1,575-bed, jail-like facility.

"Neither GEO Group nor ICE officials have released information about a new contract for running the detention center. The current contract, inked in 2015 as a one-year contract with an option to renew each year for nine years, is set to expire Sept. 27. The contract awarded GEO Group a minimum of $700 million over 10 years.

" 'It not only puts a veil over people’s eyes, but also prevents people inside the detention center from knowing what the future of this detention center is going to be,' said Josefina Mora-Cheung, director of organizing at #LaResistencia a local #activist group advocating for the end of #MassDeportations and the closure of detention centers.

"GEO Group and ICE officials did not answer emailed questions about whether a new contract was signed or whether the existing contract has been extended. Officials did not respond to reporters’ requests to provide copies of the new contract, should it exist.

" 'We cannot confirm pre-decisional contract selections, but we can confirm that ICE is exploring all options to meet its current requirements,' said ICE spokesperson Chrissy Cuttita in an email Tuesday."

#USPol #DetentionCenters
#ICEDetainees #ICESucks #PrivatePrisons #PrisonState #IndefiniteDetention #WashingtonState

Waiting for our sandwich order and picked up The Weekly Volcano for the first time in forever aaand flipped right to an advice column illustrated with an AI generated "cartoon." 😠

#Tacoma #TacomaWA #BreathtakingDisappointment

#Tacoma! I have a plea: if you are a pizza person and haven't been yet, you gotta check out Chicago Pizza Kitchen in UP. I need this place to thrive forever. I didn't think I liked deep dish until I tried theirs (and I went to college in actual Chicago!)

https://chicagospizzakitchen.com/

#TacomaWA #UniversityPlace #UniversityPlaceWA #LakewoodWA #PierceCountyWA

if you've ever been driving HWY12 out to the coast and noticed the enormous cooling stacks and idly wondered what the story was, here's a great video talking about some of the history.

#Washington #NuclearPower #TacomaWA #Tacoma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kkgg494Ifc

Tacoma honors 55th Chicano Moratorium anniversary with educational panel and banner drop

https://fightbacknews.org/articles/tacoma-honors-55th-chicano-moratorium-anniversary-with-educational-panel-and

This Mary Bridge news has me livid. Gonna spend my lunch break trying to figure out who may already be organizing around this—something I would probably already know if I'd done more work over the last few months and years to get plugged into existing networks. Not trying to beat myself up here, just memorializing the truth: I wish I'd done more, sooner.

#Tacoma #TacomaWA

The Venardos Circus was in town #Tacoma. Was a wonderful show. We had a great time!
#TacomaWA

Family posing with the cast of Venardos Circus

WA rally for the release of Zahid Chaudhry

Tacoma, WA – On August 24, standing in intense heat, over 200 supporters rallied outside of Tacoma’s Northwest Detention Center in response to the detainment of Zahid Chaudhry.

https://fightbacknews.org/articles/wa-rally-for-the-release-of-zahid-chaudhry