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4/1/26: 'HINT,' RECALLED - https://mailchi.mp/75b8d93ed053/4126-hint-recalled Seattle Times vet John Hinterberger RIP; state auditor reports ‘questionable’ child-care payments; county plans to expand shelters, related services; Aurora Ave’s newest hostelry is just for cats.

4/1/26: 'HINT,' RECALLED There’s no need for “April fool editions” of college or alt weekly papers (full of “funny” fake news stories) any more. The real news these days, especially that emanating from DC, is already insanely ridiculous (or ridiculously insane).

1/8/25: ‘GET OUT OF EVERYWHERE’ - https://mailchi.mp/71e6879a7428/1825-get-out-of-everywhere Anti-ICE protests follow Minneapolis shooting death; police trainers accused of harassing female recruits; development plan's breakup might save Wedgwood Broiler; UW star quarterback enters transfer portal.

1/8/25: ‘GET OUT OF EVERYWHERE’ That means the MAGA regime is out-and-out lying, concocting a false narrative for its media supplicants and its online comment trolls to dutifully repeat without questioning. Because reality is MAGA’s worst enemy.

1/7/25: WHAT IS A LOCAL HERO? - https://mailchi.mp/ed0247b0fe2b/1725-what-is-a-local-hero County Council honors Ken Jennings; state retracts carbon-reduction claims; juvenile detention sex-abuse suits could bankrupt Pierce County; five years since the attempted domestic coup.

1/7/25: WHAT IS A LOCAL HERO? Yesterday was five years since the biggest act that should have disqualified the White House occupant from any further political life (or any further public life). (Politico)

1/6/25: DON’T FREEZE UP - https://mailchi.mp/7750039e1a7a/1625-dont-freeze-up 'What to Do When ICE Shows Up' cartoon; Wilson fights back against false 'soft on crime' claim; Ferguson proposes all cuts-and-bonds state budget, with 'millionaires tax' pushed to '29; UW prof says Maduro capture 'forces global reckoning.'

1/6/25: DON’T FREEZE UP And the backlash has already begun. SPOG chief Mike Solan sent out a claim that, under new mayor Katie Wilson, “Seattle is ending arrests for public drug use.” 

12/30: I (DON’T) HEAR A ‘SYMPHONY’ - https://mailchi.mp/5368f1e328ef/1230-i-dont-hear-a-symphony Ode to a favorite rail station; migrant farmworkers face 'fear and uncertainty;' Ferguson's mostly-cuts budget plan and its discontents; the intersection of politics, religion, and AI.

12/30: I (DON’T) HEAR A ‘SYMPHONY’ Item: “A growing wave of AI-powered religious apps now allows users to ‘text with Jesus,’ ‘talk to the Bible,’ and even hold conversations with AI versions of Mary, the apostles, angels—or the devil itself.” (Barbara Reynolds)