by Alex Brown | Aug 5, 2026 | Colorado, Doug Burgum, Firefighters, News, Spokane, Trump Administration, Washington, Wildfires
As millions of acres burn across the western United States, some wildland fire veterans are fearful that aggressive fire suppression tactics ordered by the Trump administration — coupled with extreme, fast-moving blazes — could put firefighters in danger as conditions escalate this month. Those extreme weather conditions fueled disaster in Eastern Washington Saturday when a fast-moving…
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by Schuyler Mitchell | Jun 25, 2026 | FBI, First Amendment, free speech, ICE, News, Policing, Protests, Repression, Social Media, Spokane, Surveillance, Washington State
On the evening of June 11, 2025, Shailynn Bray-Waters joined hundreds of other protesters at a demonstration outside an ICE field office in Spokane, Washington. She’d learned through social media that two of her former ESL students — Cesar Alexander Alvarez Perez and Joswar Slater Rodriguez Torres, both lawful asylum seekers from Venezuela — had been detained during a routine immigration check-in.
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