Cosmic Crisp apple shows up in stores; ’60 Minutes’ airs its Seattle-homelessness story; Northgate’s lonely last holiday; more WTO protest memories.

Lessons & legacy of the World Trade Org. protests; a judge stops I-976 for now; Gordon Sondland accused of sexual misconduct; Seattle’s Watergate hero Bill Ruckelshaus RIP.

Local military vets sing for Seattle Opera; why didn’t Shaun Scott get more progressive campaign $?; Rep. Denny Heck foresees GOP budging on impeachment; our city’s the ‘gloomiest’!

City Councilmember Kshama Sawant rises again; Sounders make winning the MLS Cup look easy; Congress members have another ‘concern’ over the 737 MAX; the Centralia Massacre a century later.

Young activists’ ideas become an art exhibit; the local CEO inside the Ukraine affair; Boats Afloat Show floats away to Everett; Seattle’s biggest ‘soot polluter’ is a recycling plant.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal on why impeachment’s time is now; the private ICE jail in Tacoma tries ‘rebranding’; more on how Boeing’s 737 MAX mess likely started from the top down; Microsoft’s original Redmond buildings have been razed.

Locals make a kung fu comedy film their own way; Sounders FC tries to make nice with anti-fascist fans; a minimum wage for rideshare drivers; Seattle’s hottest new restaurant (OOPS: already closed).

Microsoft interns revive an obscure music sub-genre; Amazon workers plan a climate walkout; Frances Bean Cobain designs Kurt-sploitation clothes; ‘blue’ people DO live in ‘red’ counties.

Paul Allen’s ultra-mega-yacht’s for sale; remembering a master of altered lit-forms; local students of color state their grievances in a DIY book; a new ‘Blob’ threatens Pacific marine life.

The downtown ferry terminal will go bye-bye; pork farmers halted a big health probe; robots potentially threaten lots of jobs; a ‘hot, nasty summer election campaign’ is almost over.

A state court nixes Seattle’s wealth tax but suggests a possible fix; Prime Day protests; WSDOT touts high-speed rail’s promise; developers’ plans for the Lava Lounge site don’t look very ‘funky’.

An anarchist protester is shot (perhaps wanting to be) outside the ICE jail; a mild earthquake shakes things up; MS backs off from a new corporate-software pricing plan; would Rapinoe accept an Inslee cabinet post?

Bill Gates on US socialists; the water’s getting too loud for orcas; Durkan lauds homeless-camp ‘sweeps’; our first cute-animal pic in a long time.

(The link to a Boeing-related article in the newsletter was mis-given. Here’s the correct link.)

Local May Day events stayed on-message (sorry, news media); the yearly SIFF onslaught approaches; more hate-talk from Matt Shea; is this any way to teach science?

Howard Schultz’s local campaign kickoff and its discontents; don’t look but the non-Viadoom’s over; facing ‘casual’ racism at Roosevelt HS; can drinking red wine help you lose weight?