This week, Nora and I talk with attorney Laura Marquez-Garrett, fresh off major wins against Big Tech. She exposes how platforms are built to addict and harm kids, and how families are starting to hold them accountable. A sharp look at power, profit, and pushing back.

The U.S. spent $12 billion on the Iran war in just its first two weeks. Meanwhile, 32,000 veterans are homeless. I spoke to three veterans who know war’s real cost, the nightmares, the broken bodies, and the poverty draft, ask the question those in power won’t: Why do we keep choosing this?

How much are we supposed to tip these days? Listen in as @janehu.bsky.social, @mhgreen3000.bsky.social, and @bretthamil.bsky.social ponder that question and more on today's episode.

This week on the podcast, we let the abstractions of war fall away and sit with what it actually costs. Nora and I talk with Gina Baskin, fresh out of the military, on the weight of being asked to kill in a war you don’t believe in, and who gets protected, used, or deemed expendable.

This week @mhgreen3000.bsky.social and I sat down with Nilu Jenks, Iranian-American democracy advocate, for a deeply personal conversation about war, diaspora grief, authoritarianism, and the deadly lie of "liberation" through violence. It’s a must-listen. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

For the pod, Nora and I spoke with Iranian American democracy advocate Nilu Jenks about war, diaspora grief, authoritarianism, and the myth of “liberation” through violence. We had a powerful conversation on social memory, resistance, and what real solidarity demands, at home and abroad.

South Seattle has buried too many of its children. But it has also raised generations of them against impossible odds. An arrest was made in the recent Rainier Beach shooting, but what does it mean? My latest column...

If you’re in Seattle this Thursday (March 19), join me for a timely conversation: Immigrant Rights Are Human Rights at Town Hall Seattle. At a moment when our rights are being tested, we’re asking: what can communities do, right now, to protect one another?

This is dope.

Stay until the end for a Grey's Anatomy easter egg!!!

This week, Nora and I sat down with Ijeoma Oluo for a conversation about movement work, harm, belonging, and the radical choice to stay. We talk about the cost of speaking truth, and why the world we’re fighting for has to be built through how we live, love, and show up for each other now.

Thank you to Marcus Harden and Matt Halverson for inviting me to honor my father in a Black History Today profile. Telling his story and lifting up his legacy is a true privilege!

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Tune in next week to see if @mhgreen3000.bsky.social and I still have jobs after this episode… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

On our latest episode, Nora and I turn to the Epstein files, and the very powerful name still floating above consequences like a billionaire-shaped life raft. Tim Schwab (The Bill Gates Problem) joins to discuss Gates, Epstein, billionaire mythology, and Seattle’s “Bill Chill.”

Seattle’s most celebrated billionaire is getting a campus wake-up call. A UW student is asking whether philanthropy can keep insulating power from accountability.

Today on the podcast: it's the 40th anniversary of King County changing its name to honor one King over [email protected] explains, and @mhgreen3000.bsky.social and @janehu.bsky.social also discuss Bill Gates's ties to Epstein and how Seattle could respond megaphone.link/CC5911123495

As we round out February, I’m so, so grateful for @mhgreen3000.bsky.social’s deeply wise and committed words this week on why black history is essential for this moment. Give it a listen (and make sure to grab your tissues) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

This week on In The Meanwhile, Nora and I speed-ran the week that was, including the part where public health might be guided by vibes and Mercury retrograde. Then I shared a speech reframing Black history not as a highlight reel of achievements, but a survival manual for our present.

Thank you to Arte Noir for inviting me to reflect on the full weight and complexity of being a Black journalist. It was an honor to be in the same issue as Aaron Dixon, Daudi Abe, Vitamin D, and Remy Styrk!

@mhgreen3000.bsky.social has written an essay that ripples thru the heart. He concludes “Keep hope alive, yes. But let it be hope wide enough to hold all of us without exceptions or asterisks.” 💯

Today on the podcast, @mhgreen3000.bsky.social and Eula Scott Bynoe talk to Jane about which billionaire should buy the Seahawks, what Marcus learned in his week of reporting from Minneapolis, and their recommendations for what to do this weekend.

This week on the podcast Nora and I are joined by Emily Galvin Almanza, author of The Price of Mercy. We talk about how people get criminalized before arrest, how poverty becomes probable cause, how bail is a “pay-to-sleep-in-your-own-bed” fee, and how plea deals warp the meaning of choice.

"As we mourn Jackson’s passing, I want to name this quieter legacy: that in a country, and a church culture, where cruelty often masquerades as conviction, he chose to insist on the full humanity of queer people."

I'm better for having listened to this #podcast. Follow along for the people and for your souls!

“You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes, but don’t stop with the way things are. Dream of things as they ought to be. Dream. Face pain, but love, hope, faith, and dreams will help you rise above the pain.” Rest in beloved memory, Rev. Jackson

Thank you to Westside Unitarian Universalist Congregation for inviting me to speak about the continued importance of Black History.

This week on In The Meanwhile, Nora and I talk with Jelani Cobb, Dean of Columbia Journalism School and author of Three or More Is a Riot, about the throughline from Trayvon Martin to George Floyd, Ferguson to Jan. 6, and protest to backlash.

Wish I could say I ghostwrote this speech 🤣

A very thought provoking piece by @mhgreen3000.bsky.social at my congregation's Black History Month service.

This week, Nora and I unpack my reporting trip to Minneapolis, where vigils for Alex Pretti and Renée Good highlighted grief and resistance, and neighbors are building real-time community protection. We reflect on people moving from “How are you?” to “What are you doing?”

This week on @inthemeanwhile.bsky.social, @mhgreen3000.bsky.social and I talk with @brsoucek.bsky.social about academic freedom, the impossibility of institutional neutrality, and why turning campuses into corporate training centers undermines democracy. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Today on the podcast, @janehu.bsky.social is joined by @mhgreen3000.bsky.social and @benkeenan.bsky.social to discuss what Seattle's looking for from our political leaders right now. They also cover Starbucks' new AI "ordering companion", and what to do this weekend. 🎧

I spent time with partners and families supporting loved ones impacted by incarceration. Together, they’re building community, making art, and modeling how we keep our humanity in inhumane times.

This week on In The Meanwhile, Nora and I speak with Angelina Godoy of the UW Center for Human Rights about the accelerating cruelty of ICE. We unpack secret-police tactics, the weaponization of Washington state data, and why immigrant rights are an urgent legal battleground.

Thousands packed Garfield HS for Seattle’s MLK Day celebration, and it felt anything but symbolic. With civil rights under attack, people reflected on what honoring Dr. King means now: showing up, organizing, and continuing unfinished work.

Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

This week on the pod, Nora and I spin the news-cycle roulette wheel and land on America’s favorite coping mechanism: militarism. Joined by Michael McPhearson, U.S. Army veteran and head of Veterans for Peace, on how forever wars abroad get redeployed at home, and why being anti-war is pro-veteran.

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When politics feels like a full-body stress test, we ask the real question: how do we defend democracy now? Nora & I talk with Hannah Fried of All Voting Is Local on how voter suppression actually works, and how people fight back.

@mhgreen3000.bsky.social explains: we all know what’s getting twisted in the narrative around the Minneapolis killing of Renee Good. Listen to the full episode at podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Minneapolis knows this script because America’s run it a thousand times: decide the story first, drag in the “facts” later, and let the truth talk only as long as it doesn’t threaten power. Same playbook. Different victim.

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2025 felt endless, but it wasn’t empty! On this week’s show, we spoke with Alex Gallo-Brown about Seattle’s scrappy, people-powered mayoral campaign that beat big money, doomscroll despair, and establishment politics, and what it says about solidarity, democracy, and hope in the year ahead.

Trump ordered a massive military attack on Venezuela and the abduction of President Maduro. Let’s be clear: these strikes are illegal. The President does not have the authority to declare war or undertake large-scale military operations without Congress. Congress must act to rein him in. Immediately

Incredibly proud of my mother Cynthia who spoke at Mayor Wilson's swearing in yesterday, and who is quoted at the end of this article.

2025 felt endless but it wasn’t empty. On this week’s show, Nora and I spoke with Alex Gallo-Brown about Seattle's people-powered campaign that beat big money and establishment politics, and what it says about solidarity, democracy, and hope in the year ahead.

Just got out of the Stranger Things finale…and I’m pretty sure it just filed an official challenge to Return of the King’s world record for endings that absolutely refuse to end.

The podcast I co-host with @mhgreen3000.bsky.social is entering its second year with a slate of amazing guests and conversations. Somehow we’ve done this for 30+ weeks straight so far, and this project brings so much joy and purpose to my weeks. www.inthe-meanwhile.com

From the latest episode of the @inthemeanwhile.bsky.social podcast: Heather Cox Richardson on the quiet engine of American democracy, and how those pushed furthest from opportunity have again and again pulled this country closer to its promises.