#tacoma — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #tacoma, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.edctips.com/584013/ram-appears-to-be-using-ai-to-design-its-merch-and-is-selling-a-48-inch-banner-with-a-toyota-tacoma-on-it-also-thinks-america-is-losing-ten-states/ Ram Appears To Be Using AI To Design Its Merch And Is Selling A 48-Inch Banner With A Toyota Tacoma On It, Also Thinks America Is Losing Ten States #AI #AISlop #embarassing #Featured #Merch #Ram #shirts #slop #STELLANTIS #Tacoma #Toyota #ToyotaTacoma
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https://www.edctips.com/584013/ram-appears-to-be-using-ai-to-design-its-merch-and-is-selling-a-48-inch-banner-with-a-toyota-tacoma-on-it-also-thinks-america-is-losing-ten-states/ Ram Appears To Be Using AI To Design Its Merch And Is Selling A 48-Inch Banner With A Toyota Tacoma On It, Also Thinks America Is Losing Ten States #AI #AISlop #embarassing #Featured #Merch #Ram #shirts #slop #STELLANTIS #Tacoma #Toyota #ToyotaTacoma
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https://www.edctips.com/583775/toyota-to-spend-3-6-billion-to-move-tacoma-truck-from-mexico-to-u-s/ Toyota to spend $3.6 billion to move Tacoma truck from Mexico to U.S. #Autos #BreakingNews:Business #Business #BusinessNews #Environment #GeneralMotorsCo #SanAntonio #Tacoma #Toyota #ToyotaMotorCorp #ToyotaTacoma #Transportation
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https://www.edctips.com/583775/toyota-to-spend-3-6-billion-to-move-tacoma-truck-from-mexico-to-u-s/ Toyota to spend $3.6 billion to move Tacoma truck from Mexico to U.S. #Autos #BreakingNews:Business #Business #BusinessNews #Environment #GeneralMotorsCo #SanAntonio #Tacoma #Toyota #ToyotaMotorCorp #ToyotaTacoma #Transportation
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https://www.edctips.com/583707/toyota-to-shift-some-tacoma-output-to-texas-from-mexico/ Toyota to shift some Tacoma output to Texas from Mexico #Mexico #Tacoma #Texas #Toyota #ToyotaTacoma
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https://www.edctips.com/582543/borderlands-mexico-toyota-bets-big-on-texas-moves-tacoma-line-to-san-antonio/ Borderlands Mexico: Toyota bets big on Texas, moves Tacoma line to San Antonio #BajaCalifornia #Mexico #ProductionLine #SanAntonio #SquareFeet #Tacoma #TacomaProduction #Texas #Toyota #ToyotaTacoma
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2/2 On my ride, I saw construction of the future spuyaləpabš Trail between Puyallup and Tacoma, can’t wait for it to be completed.
(FYI for those wondering, this will connect to the Interurban Trail in Milton, not the one running between Pacific & Tukwila)
@seabikeblog #seattle #tacoma #puyallup #pnw #BikeTooter -
1/2 Had some fun biking a 15 mile route from the Federal Way Downtown light rail station to Tacoma City Hall. The extension of the 1 Line farther south has made it much easier to access Tacoma
#seattle #tacoma #pnw #BikeTooter #bikeTransit -
Spanish-inspired tapas restaurant in Tacoma closes 9 months after opening https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/22139/ #MiróTapas #Spanish&TapasBar #Spanish&TapasBars #SpanishRestaurant #SpanishRestaurants #Stocker #Tacoma #TheTacomaNewsTribune
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Gig Harbor barbecue restaurant has closed, but new owners will also smoke meats https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/17241/ #7707 #BarbecueJoint #BarbecueJoints #bbq #BBQJoint #BBQJoints #BBQSundae #Brix #Brix25 #Doherty #GigHarbor #KatieDoherty #Lyman #My4Sons #PNW #Tacoma #ThadLyman
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Hey #Tacoma #SouthSound!
Your city 'manager' wants to axe the HOPE team that was set up to respond to #MentalHealth crises so our #police & #FireDepartment #workers aren't expected to be #SocialWorkersYes, the budget is tight. No, the HOPE team hasn't been properly used - there's need for reform of the dispatch process. Let your reps on the council know you support effective crisis response with a letter. Easy at this link:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tacoma-city-council-dont-cut-hope-team
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Anyone in Tacoma or South Sound interested in this bed for free? I threw it up on Craigslist but no one was interested so figured I would see if anyone here would like it for free. Great bed, my partner just wanted to get an all wood bed.
If so feel free to respond to the CL post below and mention you saw it here. (Mastodon DM's are not private is why)
https://www.craigslist.org/view/d/tacoma-west-elm-king-size-upholstered/9Kr4k6SwVozvNaKbAqetes
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Wild. Federal cops kept the wrong guy in jail for a month even after knowing it was the wrong person in the first minutes
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article316956488.html
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#Tacoma, Washington is considering changing their current flag (left) to one designed by Tacoma artist Chandler O'Leary, who died unexpectedly in 2023 at age 41. #vexillology #Tacoma
Sign the petition www.change.org/p/adopt-chan...; learn more about Chandler's flag chandleroleary.com/raise-the-fl... -
@tinker
My #Tacoma #Episcopal parish got a grant from #ECUSA (the national church) & now has 4 raised beds full of produce where there used to be lawn to mow.Parishioners do the work in teams. They raised 100s of pounds of fresh veggies the first year, & amounts are going up as they learn from experience.
#Unhoused folks who shelter on our grounds & passersby can take what they want, the rest goes to the Food Banks
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Another Ace of Swords, huh?
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@www.thenation.com.subject.politics
I grew up in #Milwaukee with a #Socialist mayor - Mayor Maier was beloved & our longest-serving mayor
Go #Hong!
Solidarity from #Tacoma!
:BLM: :af: :ai_free: :better_pride: :iww:🕊🇵🇸 -
Has the "cats on an abandoned Tacoma boat" news story hit the mainstream yet?
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Walking amongst the ghosts #tacoma #cemetery #landscape #photo #photography #celtic #cross #720project #infrared
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#FreeThemAll petition started by a neighbor detained at #NWDC
#AbolishICE #Tacoma #LaAllianza
#FreeFelixhttps://actionnetwork.org/petitions/free-felix-vladimir-ponce-alvarez
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@nullagent
💔 Holy f
Solidarity from #Tacoma #LaAllianza:BLM: :af: :ai_free: :iww: :better_pride:🕊🇵🇸
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Meow!! Sabot has a #mutualaidrequest for his #cat comrade in #tacoma #solidaritynotcharity
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It is so emotionally challenging to visit #MultiCare #Tacoma
On the one hand, they do great work and provide a shitton of care for a shitton of people.
On the other hand, #MultiCare completely abandoned their trans patients over government posturing.
Stay salty friends.
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#FreeFelix rally & vigil at #NWDC
THIS SUNDAY 2:30p#ICEOUT #ShutdownNWDC
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Great News, #Tacoma #Housing Advocates!
#TacomaForAll #SafeHomes Initiative clears hurdle to be on #NovemberMidterms ballot codifying:
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I live in #Tacoma, where folks regularly stand vigil outside the #NWDC #ConcentrationCamp
A =~40m drive from #Seattle, where they're hyping #WorldCup in a 100 mile radius
It's a stench in God's nostrils. My profile icon says it all about what I think.
If you wouldn't have gone to the Olympics in #Nazi Germany, you shouldn't be coming here either
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05-01-2026 - Tacoma WA - GEO Group “CERT” employees hiding in NWDC parking lot.
Background: The Northwest Detention Center, also known as the Northwest ICE Processing Center (NWDC/NWIPC), is for-profit owned and operated by GEO Group, located in Tacoma, Washington.
“CERT Teams are SWAT-Like units meant to surveil and repress detained people at NWDC”. “Every time I see that uniform with CERT, I have a panic attack, think something is going to happen to me. I got assaulted once CERT staff. When I see them, I stay away from them” - NWDC detainee, 04/28/2025, La Resistencia
On September 1st 2025, we attended a protest at the NWDC in Tacoma WA, and took a photo of a GEO Group employee in a black uniform wearing a black tactical vest with a unique patch. We researched the patch at the time, but didn’t find anything conclusive. *If you have a better photo, specific insight, or design-identifying information on this patch, let us know.*
“I have been a subject of sheer retaliation by GEO (officer Berame) and his CERT gang due to my grievances. They have been retaliating with bogus write up, biased hearings, and solitary confinement with the blessing of higher management and ICE. Subsequently, i submitted a couple of grievances against Berame he told me, I’m ‘just an immigrant. Nobody is going to believe (me).’ He is right about that because no one does anything about these dehumanizing and abusive behaviors. They can do anything with impunity, including sexual harassments.” – 02/20/2024, La Resistencia
During a May 1st 2026 protest at the NWDC, we noticed (2) GEO Group employees hiding behind a tinted, black 4x4 Ford F150 truck. Both kept peering over the back of the truck bed off/on. One of them was wearing a black “CERT” hat. Once they decided to stop hiding and go inside, both appeared to be wearing “CERT” hats along with (the now-identified) “CERT” patches on their uniforms.
According to a 2023 PDF on geogroup.com, “C.E.R.T.” is cited as an acronym for “Correctional Emergency Response Team”. However, according to a later 2024 PDF on geogroup.com, “C.E.R.T.” is listed as “Community Emergency Response Team”. This slip-up in the 2024 document is not entirely an accident.
Both 2023 and 2024 documents detail separate instances of CERT directing up to (50) middle school students (in Folkston GA, from a Junior Sheriff’s Academy) in use-of-force demonstrations. In 2023 and 2024 photos, middle school students are pictured “in full riot gear” handcuffing people.
https://geogroup.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GEO-World-Q2-2023.pdf – (Page 11)
https://www.geogroup.com/media/d4nfxbbz/2q-geo-world-2024_final-resize.pdf – (Page 19)
“GEO Prison sent their CERT Team to demonstrate the importance of their rapid response to unruly prisoners!” - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10222593249916209&set=pb.1120666873.-2207520000&type=3
NPR’s 2025 article on GEO Group and ICE in Folkston GA is worth the read: https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/nx-s1-5538441/ice-detainees-folkston-georgia
“How awful for carceral facilities to co-opt the term CERT! The COMMUNITY Emergency Response Team program (in contrast to the correctional Emergency Response Team program), has a history of outstanding support during times of distress and duress during natural disaster, mobilizing citizens and residents to aid in emergency communications and service to anyone regardless of status.” – social media response.
This comment highlights the “CERT” acronym being widely understood and utilized for purposes quite different than instilling fear within a privately operated detention center. A quick Google search for “Community Emergency Response Team” returns a variety of local and federal services across the U.S.
https://www.google.com/search?&q=Community+Emergency+Response+Team
When the (2) GEO Group employees exited from hiding behind the truck, they weren’t just wearing “CERT” gear, they were also wearing name tags. One of the name tags was “Berame”. It would seem certain there’s only one Tacoma GEO Group employee with that name. See quotes from “La Resistencia”
Berame is mentioned 15x in graphic detail within a recent 02/12/2026 article on prospect.org:
“The three plaintiffs, all Black men in Tacoma, Washington’s Northwest ICE Processing Center, say that the assaults reflect a “recurring pattern by a group of guards,” especially defendants Justin Berame and Kobe Suafoa.”
https://prospect.org/2026/02/12/ice-immigration-prison-geo-group-trump/
So, that’s why GEO Group “CERT” employees were hiding in the parking lot.
“The guard was also involved in the alleged assaults on the two other plaintiffs, and he carried a mug adorned with a sticker of the Proud Boys, the right-wing extremist group, according to the suit. The filing, noting each plaintiff is Black, alleges that GEO Group “determined it appropriate to allow openly racist employees substantial power over non-white incarcerated persons.”
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article314608363.html
Assaults and sexual assaults are not new topics at the NWDC. Last year, the University of Washington Center for Human Rights released a detailed report on assaults at the NWDC, largely pinning inaction on the Tacoma Police Department, ICE, and GEO Group. In 2024, TPD erroneously reported the privately run for-profit detention center was “Not TPD jurisdiction” and to “let staff know they can handle the complaint in house”
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#Tacoma #TacomaWA #ICE #GEOGroup #NWDC #NWIPC #ShutdownNWDC #ShutdownNWIPC
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05-01-2026 - Tacoma WA - May Day + NWDC
Photos from Tacoma's May Day Rally & March to NWDC
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Had another tour of the #StadiumHighSchool in #Tacoma. They found the autograph of #HeathLedger, you know, the actor of the movie #10ThingsIHateAboutYou. And the oldest autograph, probably from a worker in 1906. The view is great at night.
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For awareness:
GEO Vans, or GEO Group vans.
- From Washington State
- As pictured from April 2025 at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) aka Northwest ICE Processing Center (NWIPC) located in Tacoma Washington
Typically with "GEO Transport" on the side, US DOT # and standard (non-exempt/non-XMT) WA license plates.
#Portland #PortlandOR #PDX #Oregon #ICE #NWDC #Tacoma #TacomaWA #TacomaWashington #GEOGroup #ShutdownNWDC #NWIPC
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Iiiiiiii should've linked to the shop's website!!
#Tacoma #TacomaWA #Bookstore #BrickAndMortar #GrandOpening #romance
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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
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09-01-2025 - All Out for Migrant Defense, Northwest Detention Center
Immigrants make America great and this labor day supporters from all over the state, #PDX and even #California came to one of the worst places on earth, the NWDC.
The #NWDC is a terrible place right in our backyard and we stand in solidarity with anyone and everyone who showed.
We wanted to show our support for @laresistencianw for another well organized event, along with @tanggolmigrantemovement and @imapnw - (INSTAGRAM) - They are on the front lines of dealing with this cesspool of a place. NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL.
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@jeffjarvis
Gritty, Pretty #Tacoma has a chancre on its ass
