loved producing this one! for your weekend listening consideration.

looking for new music! something similar to 2010 Wavves/2013 Speedy Ortiz to push through the winter, maybe. But I'll take anything! Send recs?

Unionized Starbucks employees are on strike today, demanding a labor contract with the company to include higher pay and more staffing. Today's nationwide strike coincides with the popular Red Cup Day. A Starbucks spokesperson told me these workers represent a small percentage of the company.

Local media is calling it: Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle. Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger. Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.

my convo with @susierantz.bsky.social about the @seattlereignfc.bsky.social omny.fm/shows/sounds...

2b) you could say all three had the same strategy, which was “running the campaign that works in your jurisdiction.”

@susierantz.bsky.social hey Susie! I'm a producer w @kuow.org's Soundside, hoping to reach you for a story next week? Could we connect? I'm at ghealy at kuow dot org, or LMK where I can reach you. Thanks for considering!

We interviewed Jatee on Here and Now last year! www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Yuval Abraham of @972mag.com reports: "Google and Amazon submitted to highly unorthodox “controls” that Israel inserted into the deal, in anticipation of legal challenges over its use of the technology in the occupied West Bank and Gaza." www.972mag.com/project-nimb...

not labor day but came across these words today!

Congress has cut federal funding for public media, putting your access to local news and programming at risk. This is the moment to join our community of supporters. You’ve depended on KUOW and NPR across the decades. Today, we’re counting on you. bit.ly/3UgOIc9

My interview with @kuow.org about my novel, “Storybook Ending,” went live this week! Many thanks to Libby Denkmann and @gabriellehealy.bsky.social for a lovely chat. omny.fm/shows/sounds...

A growing crowd of New Yorkers is protesting outside the immigration court where NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was seized by masked men in plainclothes working for ICE. Other officials and candidates are speaking. Someone in the crowd heckled Andrew Cuomo

and finally, I am legally obligated to remind you all that Eric Adams won in the EIGHTH ROUND of ranked choice voting in 2021 by about 7,000 votes. YOUR VOTE MATTERS. fill out that ballot with as many candidates as you find acceptable!

🌊 Seattle, I am finally here! Looking for all the recommendations, story pitches, books and movies about the PNW, hidden gems. 🏔️

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

The daughter of a woman killed by the Northwest’s extreme heat wave of 2021 is suing the oil industry over her mother’s death.

Here's a picture that a @kuow.org photographer took in Seattle yesterday, showing the ICE officers masked up in the hallways as they waited to arrest people coming out of their hearings.

one thing the Dem establishment doesn’t understand is that Rogan is *downstream* of the right-wing misinformation machine. he doesn’t originate reactionary conspiracies, he absorbs them, and that’s why he turned toward Trump

idk who needs to hear this but both New Bedford and Worcester, Massachusetts are cities! Not towns.

The shifting cultural understanding of the Menendez brothers, who were mocked at the time for saying their father abused them, is an interesting synecdoche for the larger threat that treating children as though they have emotional lives and agency presents to the project of the American right.

Some personal news: I finished The Power Broker.

Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0

It will surprise few people that this claim is untrue. "According to some supremacist groups, white farmers are being murdered at higher rates than the rest of the population. This claim, however, is contradicted by the facts." www.lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-...

based on some reading i'm doing at the moment, there is a book to be written — if it already hasn't been — on defense of apartheid south africa as the great international cause of the american right

word choice is key here. DHS detained & almost deported many citizens during the 1st Trump admin, too -- just like Obama & others before them A GAO report estimated 70 "potential" citizens were removed 2015-2020. It's hardly as impossible as it's painted www.propublica.org/article/more...

I wrote my newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/gabriell...

this image is the pride and prejudice hand thing for the 2020s

“There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy…None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.” via @gothamist.com gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

I grew up in this town and visit regularly. About 16,000 people live here, and I’ve never seen/heard of a protest of this size before. Anecdotes only, but seems like the questions/worries about “where are the protests” have quieted somewhat.

Working with researchers at Yale’s Investigative Reporting Lab, Sarah Stillman studied more than 40 lawsuits involving claims of starvation, dehydration, and severe neglect, filed against more than a dozen correctional entities and county governments. nyer.cm/FQy2L3n

From The New Bedford Light: newbedfordlight.org/lawyer-feder...

Here we go. Support your local public radio station www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/b...

14-year-old Palestinian American Amer Rabee was one of 3 teenagers shot by the IDF this weekend. Two other American teens were killed last year in the West Bank and their cases remain unresolved. wapo.st/42J659F

🚨 SCOOP 🚨 DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records. It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation. IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.

The Justice Department’s latest filings make it abundantly clear that it is creating a black site for migrants in El Salvador that’s worse than Gitmo. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Frengel Reyes Mota was supposed to be dealing with his ongoing asylum case as he fought for his chance to stay in the United States. Suddenly, he instead found himself locked up in a mega prison thousands of miles away.

Hossam Shabat, a journalist for the Al Jazeera Mubasher channel, was killed in northern Gaza on Monday. Witnesses told the network that his car was targeted in the eastern part of Beit Lahiya. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...

Lot of folks learning for the first time that criminal & immigration civil systems are interrelated but separate. This means: - criminal contact like arrest can trigger deportation *even w/o* conviction - deportability requires no criminal contact at all - immigrants not provided lawyer in imm court

“The study highlighted a common trend among these AI models: rather than declining to respond when they lacked reliable information, the models frequently provided confabulations—plausible-sounding incorrect or speculative answers.” arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/a...

NO LAYOFFS AT THE @chicago.suntimes.com!!!!!!!!! Dozens off our @cstguild.bsky.social colleagues are taking buyouts. Now, Chicago Public Media is threatening to lay even more people off. We're at the CPM board meeting to say NO MORE JOB CUTS. We did our part — it's time for them to do theirs.

A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

the ACLU just released video of ICE arresting Mahmoud Khalil, taken by his pregnant wife. note the plainclothes officers

“This is an extraordinary arrest and detention simply because the U.S. government dislikes [Mahmoud Khalil’s] activism.” -Baher Azmy Produced this interview with one of Khalil’s lawyers yesterday for Here and Now, from @npr.org + @wbur.org www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

📣 D.C., our truck is back. Today at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, fired workers were given just 15 minutes to pack up their desks. As always, we're here to listen and meet people where they are. 👉 Reach out at propublica.org/tips or on Signal at 917-512-0201.

i’m sorry, i’m tired of this shit. there was no pronoun policing. i have encountered exactly three or four land acknowledgments in like ten years, and the most you’ll hear about “intersectionality” is in liberal nonprofits. this is just freefloating resentment masquerading as analysis.

38,000 workers didn’t die building the Panama Canal, and the 5,000 who did die were almost all Afro-Caribbean workers who toiled in segregated conditions under white American supervisors.

SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

a) who is on the aux at the park slope food coop, I just want to talk b) is today the day I request they stock simply natural cheetos

This part. White journalists love to discount the expertise we have living in a white supremacist and transphobic (hate the term. They’re not afraid of me. They ~hate~ me.) society. It’s an expertise they’re can’t obtain. So they call it activism to protect the white supremacist power structure.