More pix of quarantiners at home; KEXP’s widened spectrum of sounds (and voices); Durkan says she’s not responsible for SPD’s actions; COVID modelers say schools should only open if case counts go down.

Erica C. Barnett’s unflinching addiction/recovery story; Cafe Racer’s third closing; what police defunding advocates want isn’t what Durkan says they want; Rudyard Kipling views the Great Seattle Fire’s aftermath.

Luxury residential tower would have a private ‘park’ halfway up; Durkan would transfer some current functions out of SPD; 1/5 of Seattle kids are in private schools; state revises total COVID death counts down.

Is graffiti still graffiti if it’s installed in a gallery?; a sort-of City Council/’Star Trek’ crossover; differing opinions on SPD defunding; judge rules Durkan recall petition drive can proceed.

Prescient Shepard Fairey mural on a Seattle building; City Council passes big-employer payroll tax; WA has 2,000 new COVID cases in four days; KingCo sheriff’s deputy on leave after dead-protester ‘jokes’ appear online.

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?