Ex-local singer-raconteur Gary Heffern RIP; another Palantir protest in Seattle; RV parking ban up for City Council vote; fake Uber driver tries, fails to abduct woman.

Queercore band Team Dresch’s new album; protesters (and Mayor Wilson) denounce Gaza siege; state may tighten developmental-disability services eligibility; Boeing as an example of the ‘financialization’ of everything.

A trans artist’s look at perimenopause and other craziness; judge rules White House can’t fire local US Attorney; Boeing engineers OK new contract; Seattle libraries way outpace national borrowing rates.

Rick Rizzs’ last Ms game; SPD not satisfied with getting more money in city ‘austerity’ budget; nationwide ICE arrests ‘reach record highs;’ Bill Gates joins the AI ‘doomers.’

Remembering a Capitol Hill painter of the human drama, who was rather dramatic himself; Seattle schools may or may not be on strike today; whistleblower says mail-ballot restrictions are being enacted anyway, despite court ban.

WA State Book Award nominees include a ‘Dumb Birds Field Guide;’ court blocks federal retaliations against King County; another sexual harassment suit against an SPD officer; city, world say ‘Goodbye Dolly.’

‘What the Funk?!’ burlesque fest is back; Wilson recall drive goes to court; Chamber of Commerce poll says folks want CCTV cams, activists disagree; Uber Eats paying $4.4M in gig-worker settlement.

Nonprofit roller rink opens in an ex-Bartell’s; White House wants to end ‘roadless rule’ in National Forests; Costco to offer Medicare Advantage plans; visiting one of the 56 (so far) data centers near the Gorge.

New Netflix doc on Boeing whistleblowers; cars coming back on Pike Place (some days); Amazon AI lab caught buying, destroying rare books; Olympic Peninsula forest bought, saved from logging.

Roberta Gregory’s ‘Bitchy!’ comix collection; Council nixes free school lunches for all; ICE still accessing WA driver’s-license data; two ex-Dem governors bashing ‘tax and spend’ as if they were Republicans.

Amanda Knox monologue show; Mayor Wilson praises World Cup’s impact; state pushes back on claims of ‘foreign election interference;’ Megan Rapinoe says anti-trans legislation’s about ‘distracting us.’

Local filmmaker’s tale of WWII incarcerations; reactions to birthright-citizenship decision; City Council OKs more barricades on Aurora Ave side streets; it’s the 3000th MISCmedia MAIL!

Alexandra Lozano’s empire of false hopes to immigrants; Eddie Vedder (and Chicago kids) perform at Obama Center opening; SAM workers vote to form union; Seattle’s greatest spectacle ever?

Memoir by Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil; the World Cup’s here (along with more ICE agents); WA sues feds over demands for voter lists; Benihana to open where Hooters used to be.

Bush Garden karaoke bar reopening after a decade; Sound Transit board approves big project delays; Denny Blaine nudity foes claim proof of public sex acts there; more bodies found at Longview paper-mill blast site.