RFK Jr.’s spam texts to Bill Nye; ‘improved survey method’ means higher homeless count; Tacoma school shooting injures one student; Amazon CEO predicts AI will cost more corporate jobs.

Huge ‘No Kings’ protest crowds here and nationally; ICE removals cause empty seats at graduations; more 787 India crash fallout; bee-colony collapse threatens WA crops.

Cory Doctorow on online monopolists; Redhook BrewLab closing; Roosevelt football broke recruitment rules; anti-ICE protesters return in big numbers to Federal Bldg. as officials and others prepare for bigger rallies Saturday.

Spokane fundamentalists rally again, SPD arrests only counter-demonstrators again; school district budget balanced (for now); wildfire season starts; ‘thousands of jobs disappear’ in the region.

Right-wingers rally at Cal Anderson, cops only arrest counter-protesters; Burien camping ban upheld in court; Sea-Tac officials ‘concerned’ about ICE actions; George Floyd killing’s aftermath after 5 years.

Light rail expands into Redmond; a lot fewer Blue Jays fans showed up in town; man jumps to death from I-5 bridge while running from cops; Ken Jennings defends Seattle’s honor.

Rally defends suspended UW activists; ICE spying on Spokane immigration activist; Bill Gates plans to donate his fortune, wind down Gates Foundation in 20 years; the all-American (and apparently anti-MAGA) new pope.

Tacoma Art Museum’s modern takes on old Japanese art; King County warned of a ‘federal government that doesn’t exist anymore;’ UW suspends 21 student protesters; what ‘Victory in Europe’ 80 years ago means in the present day.

SIFF short depicts Native Hawaiians economically exiled in the NW; protesters accused of $1 million damage to UW building; two more City Council candidates announce; MAGA claims a Seattle housing project’s too ‘woke.’

Tessa Hulls’ graphic novel ‘Feeding Ghosts’ wins Pulitzer; state sues feds over massive HHS cuts; Rite Aid/Bartell returns to bankruptcy; pro-Palestinian UW students take over engineering building.

Thousands at May Day rallies in Seattle, Tacoma; seaports, Fred Hutch feel economic crunch; Expedia slashes jobs while paying CEO millions; my new li’l book gets a li’l launch party tonight.

Tariqa Waters’ SAM solo show explores yesterday’s tomorrow; study says we’re ‘overdue’ for a ‘big one’ earthquake; feds to ‘investigate’ WA allowing trans school athletes; a May Day call to action.

More protests here, around US; state Sen. Bill Ramos suddenly dies, as state budget moves go on; FBI questions Oak Harbor punk band over ‘anti fascist’ lyrics.

More national press praising KEXP; Gov. Ferguson aide quits amid ‘hostile workplace’ claims; why Black Coffee Northwest still hasn’t opened at 23rd & Jackson; Rep. Adam Smith thinks other Dems are the real problem.

First post-election protest march; advice on living in these times; ex-SPD chief of staff quits amid allegations of lying to investigators; Cathy Moore proposes city capital-gains tax.