Andrew Engelson

@andyengelson

Writer. Organizer with @cascadiademocratic.bsky.social Resident of Seattle and Cascadia 💙🤍💚 ️‍🌈 He/They Sign up for my daily newsletter! @cascadiajournal.bsky.social Message me on Signal @andyjourno.55

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Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· 20d

ICE is breaking the rules and putting detainees on flights at King County airport in grave danger.

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· 21d

Just a couple of US Army Blackhawks roaring over Capitol Hill and doing circles on the eastside...

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· 24d

Important to to stay hydrated after a long hike. Also important: fighting fascism.

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· 26d

Hey Bluesky friends! Have a great weekend, I'm headed out backpacking for a couple nights. Have my trail pass for #Cascadia...

A note to rangers saying that I will not butly a trail pass with Donald Trump's face on it, even though I've bought these passes every year for more than a decade

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· 29d

March for an end to ICE murders and justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guererro, Seattle.

Someone carrying a sign that reads murdered by ICE, rest in power

Lorenzo Salgado murdered by ICE in Houston

An outdoor altar with flowers and candle and a sign that reads Justicia para Lorenzo

A woman carrying a sign that simply reads: murderers

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· 29d

ICE is ramping up and out of control. If you've considered volunteering for a rapid response or observer group, now is the time.

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· Jul 3

This is a big mistake. New apartment construction and permitting has plummeted in the past two years.

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· Jul 2

Chicago.

People browsing Seminary Co-op bookstore, one of the largest academic bookshops in North America.

Robie House, a wide modernist brick home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Typical wooden back porches and staircases on a brick apartment building.

A man in aviator sunglasses hiding behind a coffee and a pastry at an outdoor cafe

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· Jul 2

Paid a visit to the Obamalisk in Chicago. (Didn't have tickets but the grounds & branch of Chicago Public Library are amazing).

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· Jul 2

Weird how all these apartment buildings next to single family homes in Chicago don't seem to ruin the "neighborhood character."

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· Jun 30

Two minute headways make a transit nerd very happy. 🙂 #Chicago

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· Jun 29

Chicago

Art deco buildings and the reflective Bean

A Rodin sculpture of two people embracing and Monet landscape

A deep blue blossoming dancer and menorah in stained glass by Marc Chagall

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· Jun 29

Chicago knows how to do housing.

A street with dense brick homes and a bike lane.

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· Jun 26

Seattle is showing off what's best about #Cascadia during the World Cup

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· Jun 25

Seattle really is a glorious city.

A pedestrian walkway with people strolling above a wide bay with a ferry and sailboat in the distance

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· Jun 24

SEATTLE, JUNE 25: Speak out for declaration of a trans civil emergency, and urge the city to come up with significant funding to help relocation trans people who've arrived in our city after fleeing hostile states. City council hearing starts at 2 pm, arrive at 1:30

A flyer asking people to attend a Seattle city council meeting on declaring a trans civil emergency, at 1:30 pm June 25 at Seattle city hall, Second floor

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· Jun 20

Yeah, I'm in co-op apartment in Seattle so no wood fired oven for me, but the pizza stone and oven at 550 does a decent job

A small oblong homemade pizza and a glass of red wine

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· Jun 19

A little outnumbered at the moment 😂🇱🇸

A person wearing a cap with the Cascadia Doug flag with a crowd of people in USA soccer team gear behind him

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· Jun 19

Brought some cold drinks to striking hotel workers amid Seattle World Cup madness! Solidarity! ✊

Striking workers carry signs that say Respect Our Work

A sticker on a light pole that says Eject Fascists

A pathetic little "designated protest zone"

Massive crowds of soccer fans in Seattle's Pioneer Square

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· Jun 16

Crowds of soccer fans at King Street station headed to Vancouver. Love to see it! (I'm headed the other direction)

A person in a cap with a Cascadia flag on it stands in an ornate train station where passengers wait in line to board.

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· Jun 7

A very #Cascadia cool and drizzly Pride in the Park today...

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· Jun 2

Get in, queerdos, it's Pride Month! 🌈

A person with a beard, white framed sunglasses and a rainbow unicorn hat stands in front of a rainbow sculpture in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· May 27

Love to see Seattle's Central Co-op representing the Doug flag! 💙🤍💚

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· May 26

The Gray Wolf river on the Olympic peninsula is magnificent.

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· May 22

What a powerful and fun event for #Cascadia Day! Thank you to our six talented poets, to Vermillion Seattle for hosting us, and to Wade Atkinson for these amazing photos. I feel hopeful and more courageous for our bioregion after this.

A man with gray hair and glasses reads into a microphone

A poet (Nadine Maestas) with glasses and pony tails reads into a microphone with a sign that reads Vermillion behind her

A poet (Rhea Melina) reads a poem from a long, narrow scroll like a grocery receipt

A poet (Robert Lashely) with a beard recites intensely with his eyes closed

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· May 19

Just got back a records request from SCORE jail in south King County about a 2025 death in custody and it's pretty much just one hundred completely blacked out pages.

An email between jail officials and a medical officer with the private contractor corporation Wellpath that is three completely blacked out pages.

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· May 17

I love tabling for @cascadiademocratic.bsky.social and chatting with people. A woman I talked to at the Capitol Hill farmers market drew a sketch of me 🙂

A pen drawing of man with a beard, earring, and ballcap

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· May 16

Don't shop at REI until they give workers a fair contract and stop union busting practices

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· May 15

Hey Seattle friends, hope you'll join us in celebrating #Cascadia Day at 7 pm Monday, May 18 with a poetry reading from some fabulous poets! And we'll be raising money for mutual aid projects providing direct assistance immigrants and trans people.

A flyer announcing a poetry reading at 7 pm, Monday May 18 at Vermillion in Seattle at 1508 11th Ave and raising money for the Migrant Survival Fund & Kawaguchi O'Connor Initiative

Andrew Engelson@andyengelson· May 13

Yesssss... but wait ... how about selling ALL the public Seattle golf courses and building housing on them?