A 24-hour ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’ settles in without police; lawsuits filed over SPD violence; coming state budget cuts could be massive; my own earliest memories of whiteness and its problems.

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.

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.’

Mayor Durkan and Police Chief Best stop curfews, promise to listen to protesters; city won’t seek to end federal police oversight; a black Tacoma man was fatally choked by police in March; King County seeks a modified “modified phase 1.’

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.

Remembering comix creator Noel Franklin; more poignant demonstrators and more police (over) reaction; 85 COVID cases on one Seattle-based factory trawler; suburban ‘communities of color’ have lost the most jobs in the lockdown.6/2/20:

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.

How local indie film could come back after the shutdown; we’re not even close to the state’s official “phase 2” target; more UW Medicine staff furloughs; motels help the homeless better than mass shelters.

Portraits of mask-bearing women by a home-care worker; Memorial Day remembrances past and present; Sawant goes it alone at a ‘Tax Amazon’ hearing; a really big plan to preserve and expand Seattle’s arts scene.

More overhead civic still-lifes; more encampment sweeps; how undercounted are WA COVID deaths?; Amazon shareholders to press for worker safety.

Seafair’s major events axed for this year; record-high state unemployment rate; Portland OKs ‘tax the rich’ measure; what Washington’s big counties need to show before further reopening (and could nursing-home infection rates hold them back?).