Reaaally want to know the story here

New excuse unlocked

Really good company to be in, right here. Proud as hell that @rangemedia.co is worker-owned.

Journalists are only as good as their sources and we got great sources. Thanks @katebitz.bsky.social

🧵 At RANGE, we love our stats and data. Here’s a bit about Spokane’s Spiciest Candidate Forum, held at The Guardian this weekend: - 150+ people in attendance - 5 out of the 6 city council candidates took the Hot Seat - candidates + RANGE reporter Erin drank over 1 full gallon of milk

There's also a laundry list of people we need to thank for their role in making this spicy dream a sweaty reality! First, Chef Tony Brown, who designed some downright dangerously delicious wings + a delicious menu for the crowd (ft. a potato salad editor @lukebaumgarten.bsky.social is addicted to)

These people are sick and it seems like the horrors will never cease. But you change one element and …

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

If they’re freaking out over this Shaolin monk, wait until they hear about RZA, ODB and, perhaps especially, Ghostface. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Lol www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/n...

I fear the answer is simple: This is cuck shit. When institutions like @apnews.com decided journalism should be “objective” — training writers & eds to ignore (or worse, mistrust) their own subjectivity — they were choosing to stop vaccinating against bullshit. /1

Not sure he has any power left on the contemporary right, but hearing “defund ICE” and “defund DHS” from the lips of Bill Kristol is wild

Please, God: let him prevail. deadline.com/2025/07/jere...

Anyone know if Natalie or Rachel are still kicking around Spokane? I’d love to talk to them at length about KEZE Rock 106. I was partial to KZZU the Zoo, myself, but respect. www.newyorker.com/teen-agers-i...

Couldn’t agree more, @sanders.senate.gov. Since starting @rangemedia.co, we’ve had two twenty-something colleagues able to buy homes. I don’t know for sure, but I bet those numbers for would rival all other Spokane newsrooms combined since 2020. Cooperatives reverse inequality. Period

Next on the film pod I've never mentioned here before: middle-aged Spokie beer-leaguers joined @benjiwade.bsky.social and I to talk Eephus & the joy of gathering to play a game you love, even when the field's gonna be bulldozed. YT: youtube.com/watch?v=7mdJ... + anywhere fine podcasts are streamed

I just saw a different survey that broke housing down by units built, and by that measure, cities like Boise are still way ahead of us, but they aren’t on this list. That suggests we might be building smarter, not harder (that 12% drop is the 6th biggest rent decline in the US):

It's so glaringly obvious just talking to people what they're looking for from elected leaders right now, but the stats back it up, too. Kitchen table issues are galvanizing, across difference.

At some point working people are just going to completely swear off the Democratic Party and it will be 100% Democrats’ fault.

Organizers like Forral told me they thought federal charges were a possibility, but the arrest of Jac Archer — who was not arrested on June 11 — was truly surprising. It's also a potential escalation in how federal authorities are retaliating against organizers engaging in civil disobedience.

I’m not expert on NYC politics but doesn’t this just help Mamdani? Further splinters the anti- vote? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/n...

I’ve heard about this blog from a few people, but I hadn’t seen it until just now. Folks are calling it a hit piece, but I think they just made me sound really cool. Probably cooler than I am. The quote’s accurate, though, so you be the judge.

Agents of the state hiding themselves is something no one in a free society should tolerate. These people are authorized by the state to do violence. They take public paychecks. We gotta demand public scrutiny. freedom.press/issues/ice-w...

It’s always the workers who suffer.

Beautiful skeet with beautiful replies

Not much more to say except that: If you see people speculating — wether the speculation is that the shooter was trans or that they were a nazi — those people aren't doing journalism.

Seems like a recipe for stability

Seems truer with every passing day

Holy shit!

Our team’s taking the day off, and we’re going to rerun this interview during our show on KYRS today at 3. Posting as a podcast tomorrow.

This comic was *such* an important part of my development.

I will be live over on @rangemedia.co's Instagram at 12:30 (pst) for an exclusive with Ben Stuckart, who kicked off Wednesday's unrest. He was able to speak with Cesar from ICE detention for the first time late last night. We'll talk about all of it in ~ 3 hours www.instagram.com/rangemedia4a...

So we’re saying the post-war prosperity didn’t even last a full generation beyond the one that created it. Do I have that right?

It was surreal as hell being at the staging area of Pride and getting the call that Justice Forral had been arrested again, this time as they tried to attend pride with their friends. Here’s a picture of @merrywanderer.bsky.social and I reporting as we walked through the parade staging area.

So we’re doing this again?

Photos and additional information coming, but we’ve seen video of Justice Forral being arrested by Spokane Police as they were on their way to Pride. Charges originated with the Sheriff

Early word is that Justice Forral and Erin Lang, the other person given over a half-dozen felony charges, are both being released. Seemingly on their own recognizance.

Tonight Chief Hall of @spokanepd.bsky.social said the cops under his command only used smoke and pepper balls tonight, not tear gas. My friend Barry characterizes this cloud as smoke, but a couple other friends at the game said they felt like they and their kids had been tear gassed.

As the charges of those arrested shake out tonight, The @rangemedia.co team and I are going to be paying attention to who got charged by @spokanepd.bsky.social and how severely.

Proud of our team and this community

Atta kid. For as much ended up on the page, there was even more reporting behind it. Congrats @merrywanderer.bsky.social you deserve it

Well that’s ridiculously heart-warming

The idea that AI will solve the loneliness crisis is deranged, but it's the natural outgrowth of specific first principles: Users aren't people, they're profit centers. Relationships aren't viewed by depth of connection and meaning, but as a quota. Quantity is the focus. Quality isn't considered.

I know we’re in a new era of tolerance and interpretation, but I wonder how ppl will feel about the new pope starting communion with “This is my dish, which was deepened for you”

The new pope is a damn Yankee?!

Anyone wanna go in on this? www.vulture.com/article/bill...

Homeland not so secure

Brutal story. Imagine being a flight attendant on a plane where you're required to pretend the passengers aren't people. www.propublica.org/article/insi...

Wautauga is in this crescent — that’s where the kid of one of Matt Shea’s associates lived while palling around with the founder of Patriot Front (who lived in Grapevine, also in the crescent). Both men were later arrested in Coeur d Alene. My piece from 2022 rangemedia.co/patriot-fron...

Damn. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/m...