Things to Do in June: This & That

Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That. DubSea Fish Sticks Home OpenerJune 6This…

Pride and resilience in Seattle’s LGBTQ+ spaces

This week, the team brings you stories of people overcoming obstacles to serve youth, to preserve history, to find refuge in Washington state, and still…

Jesmyn Ward: Can a Divided Nation Find Hope?

Jesmyn Ward discusses her new book "On Witness and Respair."

June 1, 2026

Oren Libermann; Jan Egeland; Ivy Meeropol; Jesmyn Ward

Monopoly Round-Up: After SpaceX Goes Public, Does the Stock Market Finally Fall?

Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO is a very scary moment for the stock market. And AI is getting repriced in an ugly way as corporate America…

Anti Fascist Book Club | Surviving Autocracy, Final Chapters 07/10/26

The Mystery Gasoline Surcharge: How Oil Incumbents Are Trying to Maintain Fossil Fuel Dominance

Potential 2028 candidate Gavin Newsom is fighting with Chevron about high gas prices. But the real stakes are about whether the U.S. will remain locked…

U.S. Supreme Court declines request to block Texas’ app age verification law

A federal appeals court had allowed Texas to require app stores to verify users’ ages and seek parental consent before a minor can download apps…

North South or East West? Senator Murphy | Choice Words with Samantha Bee

City Councilor Angelita Morillo’s Chief of Staff Files Discrimination Complaint

Andre Miller, the chief of staff to Councilor Angelita Morillo, filed a discrimination complaint against the councilor last week.

Monopoly Round-Up: Private Equity Blocked from Buying Homes. Mostly.

Big business lost this fight, and a battle over railway safety and labor conditions. It's a shocking moment, as Wall Street titans start to see…

“Where’s all the f&$*#ing money going?” The Waste and Costs of American Utilities

NextEra's $67 billion takeover of Dominion shows the problem with utilities. We spend a lot, and get little in return. Why? Utility monopolies profit from…

“Jump Up / Hello Goodbye” Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Jon Batiste, Louis Cato & Stephen Colbert

Ex-CIA Officer Breaks Down Spy Movies

Special election set to replace Texas Sen. Brian Birdwell, who resigned for Pentagon post

The longtime state legislator, who announced in June 2025 he wasn’t seeking reelection, vacated the seat to serve as a U.S. assistant secretary of defense.

Monopoly Round-Up: The Rage of the Billionaires Is Coming

As students boo commencement speakers touting AI, and communities reject data centers, billionaires are getting nervous and angry. It's going to get worse.

The Efficiency Moat: Why China Is Beating the U.S. on AI… And Everything Else

From electric vehicles to drones to solar to AI, the Chinese are doing what the U.S. used to - investing and competing. Chinese strategy is…

Hollywood coalition plans to conduct its own homeless count, citing flaws in official tally

Hollywood 4WRD says it will release the results of the neighborhood count later this month

Monopoly Round-Up: What Challenging a Bowling Monopoly Says About America

Lots of monopoly news, as usual.

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