I’m probably too close to the material, but this NYT framing suggests that the Mercury’s endorsement process is new and small-scale. Untrue: I was on the endorsement committee when I worked there years ago and the Merc’s endorsements have been similarly influential to The Stranger’s over the years

The bad news is I no longer have a job. The good news is I always have a job at Burbank Industries, and I'm using my current downtime to go all-in on my newsletter. Here's my latest—on One Battle After Another's Comrade Josh, the Weather Underground, and the importance of annoying side characters.

sometimes the New York Times is good

our long national nightmare* is over

*watching CNN’s coverage without Steve Kornacki

At the end of the #nokings march - there were two bands including one featuring drummers in frog costumes. People are now walking thru the market with their signs as the protest disperses

“Born to dilly dally. Forced to fight fascism.”

More shots from earlier

There are so many people here that the march was basically just standing still to start - now moving along Denny

Another view

No Kings Seattle is huge and loud (audible all the way up the hill to Queen Anne) and there are frogs

getting laid off has been good for my writing I fear open.substack.com/pub/meganbur...

One of the things I do in my new job at Cascade PBS is writing a politics newsletter, and this week I wrote about arrowleaf balsamroot blooms in the Methow Valley, and the rural protest movement blossoming in Twisp, a town of just over 1,000 people. This is what the flowers look like btw

The word cloud is a rich text

this is from the executive order re: gender but at conception we're all on track to be female so instead of imposing two sexes I guess everybody in America is a girl now???

it's crazy how when you try so hard to impose the gender binary you simply reveal how slippery and complex it actually is!

today’s inbox hell (and no I will never write about GLP-1s)

please do your research it is so easy to NOT do this