Former ‘MAD’ cartoonist draws Jenny Durkan as a Garbage Pail Kid; Mary Kay Letourneau RIP; south King County is a rising COVID hot spot; Inslee warns: wear masks or go back to the March restrictions.

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)?

Amazon pays to give new hockey arena a ‘climate’-theme name; Black drivers and mechanics allege racism at Metro; COVID cases soar in parts of the state; ‘Real Change’ vendors now have their own brand of hand sanitizer.

Seahawks and TV-news legend Steve Raible retires; so does P-I survivor Joel Connelly; Durkan’s initial police budget-cut proposal is a LOT less than activists want; King County could remain in ‘phase 2’ for ‘a while.’

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.

A live-stream benefit gala for the Pike Place Market; King County Labor Council expels Seattle Police Officers Guild; the state reported more negative COVID tests than it got; the West Seattle Bridge ‘can be fixed,’ but should it?

Over 60,000 join Black Lives Matter’s Silent March; Capitol Hill protest gets new acronym, attracts ridiculous Fox ‘News’ lies; artist Charles Krafft’s bizarre journey (from ‘alternative’ artist to alt-right supporter) ends.

‘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.

Umbrellas as the next big activism icon; protests continue without (much) over-reaction; Staten Island warehouse workers sue Amazon; the Seattle ‘progressive’ mindset as ‘American exceptionalism squared.’

Scenes of what the protests are really about (as well as accounts from the latest police over-reaction); Durkan promises to listen to police-violence claims; marches as potential ‘spreader events;’ nobody knows how many Seattle students are in distance learning.

Serious talk about facing systemic racism and violent police; plus the looting and such; plus the COVID news (no ‘phase 2’ for King County yet).

Reunited Alcohol Funnycar’s tribute to meeting people and going places; Snohomish County (and parts of King County) want into “phase 2′ already; the mask haters of 1918; could what happened in Minneapolis happen here?

Cinerama, Living Computers Museum to stay closed as Vulcan drops ‘Arts + Entertainment’ division; City Council defers vote on sweep ban after 5-plus-hour meeting; 6,500 more Boeing layoffs; we still don’t know when we’ll get to ‘phase 2.’

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.