Sacha Baron Cohen takes over Olympia militia rally; CHOP stays but shrinks; how the 6/1 Capitol Hill march ‘went from peaceful to violent in 60 seconds;’ could an NBA team be available to ‘poach’ (but should we do so)?

A venerable Capitol Hill pizza place won’t reopen; is or isn’t CHOP disbanding?; Seattle Schools end ties with police; COVID makes economic and racial inequality even more dangerous.

A sunset ‘Moon Dance’ marks an interrupted Solstice; Juneteenth perspectives; Yakima has more COVID cases than it can care for; emerging CHOP shooting details imply a personal, not a political, crime.

Meet one of the Black photographers of Black Lives Matter; Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda proposes a ‘payroll tax lite’; CHOP protest site gets a little more official; there’s no Comic-Con or PAX this year.

Dumb/false rumors about the Capitol Hill ‘AutoZone’ debunked; Black Lives Matter’s first official local march is today; UW modelers predict a national ‘second wave’ of COVID cases; ‘Seattle’s early embrace of LGBTQ rights.’

‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’ digs in, issues demands; City Council to re-examine SPD budget; Amazon suspends facial-recognition sales to police forces; state auditor to investigate unemployment-payment SNAFUs.

Voices from the protests; Pine St. police barricades removed and East Precinct partly cleared out; should one of Seattle’s biggest shelters stay closed?; what does ‘Defund the Police’ really mean?

On the fifth birthday of MISCmedia MAIL (and the 25th birthday of MISCmedia online, and the 63rd birthday of me): The gallery-bar at the heart of help for the protesters; more over-reaction at the Capitol Hill barricades; Sawant, others want Durkan out and/or SPD budget slashed; state Employment Security Dept. sued.

A local collage artist brings the present to the past; WA’s ‘patient zero’ probably wasn’t; Amazon holds its first virtual shareholder meeting; a maker of high-tech home-brew kits goes flat.

Remembering filmmaker Lynn Shelton; remembering Mount St. Helens; Convention Center expansion needs a whole lot of money; is an international criminal plot after your unemployment benefits?

‘Twin Peaks’ diner’s new caretakers; a dance director says we should preserve artists, not just arts institutions; there’s a backlash to the state’s ‘contact tracing’ program before it starts.

Legendary DJ/performance space won’t reopen (at its current spot); King County counts its 500th COVID death; more anti-quarantine protests, lawsuits; Pramila Jayapal wants a Paycheck Guarantee Act.

More amazing storefront murals; could a new Works Progress Admin. help save the arts?; is Seattle’s grim budget estimate not grim enough?; recalling the war against not just the Nazis but the ‘Nazi idea’.

Public art comes to a front yard near you; the Seattle Art Fair’s canceled for this year; beware an “infodemic” of cheats and liars; a major local record store won’t reopen.

“Ballard’s Opera Man” sings out nightly; most state restrictions will likely go on after next week; the areas where bus ridership’s dropped most/least; microbreweries could face macro-trouble.