Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98% Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4% Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5% Just thought I should point that out.

This Thursday, join me at Lucy’s Bottle Shop for an evening of readings from writers refusing numbness, easy answers, and looking away. Come for a night of community, conversation, and storytelling that cuts through the noise and reminds us what it means to stay human. Doors @ 5, Readings @ 7

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Facts... "Never mind the fact that Microsoft, Amazon, and Starbucks had all recently laid people off before this tax was signed [...] layoffs in Washington are the second highest in the country, with over 11,000 workers losing jobs between May 2025 and now. That isn’t the result of the new tax."

Nearly a year into In The Meanwhile [email protected], and I’m still grateful for the wisdom, humor, and moral courage she brings every week. This retrospective is about surviving history in real time without surrendering the most human parts of ourselves. Enjoy!

Of all the people to complain about businesses being “forced” to leave Seattle….

Spot-on piece by @mhgreen3000.bsky.social "We underinvest in the conditions that actually produce safety, and then we overinvest in the systems that respond to its absence." www.thestranger.com/news/how-fea...

I had a conversation with a journalist the other day who was telling me how great Palantir and Alex Karp are and how surely he didn't mean that stuff about some cultures being superior, and...yeah. This is the context

What if we’ve mistaken being watched for being safe? In my latest piece, I explore how grief becomes policy, why surveillance gets sold to neglected communities, and what's lost when we confuse documentation with prevention.

Amazing how some people have endless energy for protecting billionaires from paying taxes and contributing back to the society that made them rich. But when it comes to protecting trans people? Suddenly, it’s crickets. Fascinating allocation of moral urgency.

Huge thanks to policy powerhouse Maggie Humphreys for joining us on In The Meanwhile for a sharp and deeply human conversation about motherhood, caregiving, childcare, paid leave, misogyny, and the invisible labor quietly holding this country together.

How do we know the US is becoming a kleptocratic oligarchy Over the past six months or so, Amazon has laid off about 30,000 workers But Jeff Bezos still has so much money that he can spend $10-20 million, without even thinking about it, so he and his wife can be honorary co-chairs at the Met Gala

In honor of May Day, Seattle U law prof Liz Ford explains Seattle’s growing unionization efforts and where to get help with questions about fair pay — plus @mhgreen3000.bsky.social & Jas Moultrie discuss the Seattle Black Film Festival, which runs through the weekend! megaphone.link/CC4395250608

This week on In The Meanwhile, we sit down with Peter Beinart for a searching conversation on identity, power, and moral reckoning after Gaza. What does it mean to confront complicity and rewrite the stories we inherit?

This week on In The Meanwhile, Nora and I talk with linguist Emily M. Bender for a much-needed reality check. AI won’t save or destroy us: it mirrors us, flaws included, without understanding anything. If you care who’s shaping this tech and where it’s headed, start here.

What a thrill to speak with 🔥@equalityalec.bsky.social🔥 for the pod this week—a timely, necessary conversation about how media misinforms us about crime, policing, and surveillance…and what we can actually do about it! Listen in. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... @mhgreen3000.bsky.social

For the pod, Nora and I sit down with @equalityalec.bsky.social to ask what if our ideas about crime and safety are being shaped, not reflected? He unpacks how media and political power construct fear, expand surveillance, and define which truths we see. and which we don’t.

A good start...

Let's go, Storm!!!!

The Storm watch party went crazy when they announced that the Seattle Storm have traded for Flau'jae Johnson. It was a bit quiet up until that point. #WNBADraft

Journalism is infrastructure. Ours just happens to come with pancakes. For 12 years, the South Seattle Emerald has been doing real, community-powered reporting with zero billionaire babysitters. Join us May 9 at The Royal Room for our fundraising brunch. Come hungry, leave informed.

This week @mhgreen3000.bsky.social and I got to speak with rockstar legislator Brianna Thomas about finally getting the wealthy to pay their share: it’s a truly inspiring story of how WA passed the millionaires’ tax, and what it says about our political moment. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

This week on In the Meanwhile, Nora and I cut through a feral news cycle and find something rare: clarity. Rep. Brianna Thomas breaks down Washington’s “millionaires’ tax” with zero patience for billionaire myths. Today's episode is a sharp, necessary gut check on inequality.

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.