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WA Democrats are hangry for a changing of the guard in Olympia where Laurie Jinkins could be losing her grip on the Speaker's gavel. 🫏 Several progressives are throwing their names in the hat and blame her leadership for sinking needed reforms. 🗳️#waleg bit.ly/4wTPON6

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Some veteran NPR journalists depart in buyouts & layoffs in aftershock of elimination of federal subsidies for public media. Editor in chief Tommy Evans: "Today has been incredibly heavy." Cuts amount to 4% of content division. My story: npr.org/2026/05/27/nx-…

Reporter @KelseyT98 was awarded first place for her reporting on Washington family courts, while Moe Clark and Andy Nystrom of @MIReporter received third for exposing failures by the Mercer Island School District to respond to teacher sex abuse. investigatewest.org/washington-a-m…

Gov. Bob Ferguson pats himself on the back for keeping corporate cash out of his campaign, but the numbers tell another story. 💰🗳️ You may not see companies throwing money at Team Ferguson, but folks from Big Tech reached into their wallets for him. 🫏 washingtonobserver.substack.com/p/about-fergus…

Seattle-based sustainable clothing company Filium has a new CEO: Bruce Harrell.

Learn how this year’s A-Mark winners uncovered wrongdoing in our fair state from classrooms to prisons. Thurs., May 28 @ 7 pm! 📰🎙️📸

Teddy Roosevelt called them muckrakers. Watchdog journalists. The reporters who only stared at the ground and raked through the muck. They helped usher in America’s Progressive era. Today, Washington is home to some of the best. eventbrite.com/e/inside-the-i…

Gets at the idea alt-weeklies capitalized on for years: influencers talk TO their audience rather than AT them. Case in point, standup comedians v professors.

A family farm’s enduring feud with the state Department of Ecology spilled into Olympia where the Supremes may rewrite how it polices water rights. 🫧🌄 #waleg washingtonobserver.substack.com/p/the-supremes…

The Puget Sound Business Journal reports AI company Anthropic, makers of Claude, is in talks to lease the north tower of the Dexter Yard campus in South Lake Union.

This has everything to do with investor-driven Big Business models hollowing out newsrooms. Where the gains are siphoned out of the business rather than being put back into it. Journalism can and will survive wherever the journalists happen to own the business.

We’re at this weird impasse where, technically, there’s never been more good journalism on the planet than right now. It’s also the worst time ever to try to make a living off of it. You can apply that same paradox for film, TV, books, etc.

Washington Democrats have their work cut out for them on the Kitsap Peninulsa where MAGAs and progressives keep the 26th LD a shade of purple. 🫏🐘 Enter the three-way race for a state House seat that the left expects to break the bank. 🗳️💸 #waleg washingtonobserver.substack.com/p/a-three-way-…

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The Seattle teachers' union just elected a new president who is currently on leave as the district investigates allegations she abused a student. seattletimes.com/education-lab/…

Life in the majority has been good for WA state Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon. The Burien Democrat and climate champion flipped the switch on greener energy to Big Oil's chagrin.🗳️ This fall, a total unknown is out to rattle his cage as gas prices soar.🫏⛽️#waleg washingtonobserver.substack.com/p/an-unknown-c…

WA homeowners, farmers say their land is being stolen for data centers Grant County Public Utility District has filed lawsuits to claim portions of homes and farms to build electric transmission lines. And this is likely only the beginning. seattletimes.com/seattle-news/c… ✍️ Greg Kim

The Grand Old Party went to court this week to redraw a Central WA legislative district where Latino communities now live in political limbo. 🗳️ This is only the latest flashpoint in the continuing war on majority minority districts. 🫏🐘 #waleg washingtonobserver.substack.com/p/a-legal-dust…

Journalists at McClatchy newspapers, including The Miami Herald and The Sacramento Bee, are refusing to let the chain use their names on summarized articles generated by a new A.I. tool nytimes.com/2026/05/01/bus…