Colin is back for good as we talk with special guest Alycia Ramirez about her recent column in the South Seattle Emerald on police propaganda and their willing enablers in the media. We also talk SPD’s latest atrocities and their efforts at winning hearts and minds.
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Greg, Brian, and Colin are reunited for the 100th (public) episode to talk about domestication during the pandemic, the promising start of the Seattle Public School District’s online learning program (powered by Microsoft Teams), code bootcamp child soldiers, flatlines and brain implants, Loren Culp’s tepid gubernatorial platform, and The State of Things (sorry, it’s still bad).
Greg reads a very special letter to the show from a Bothell listener. With Brian back from his bomb shelter in the mountains outside of Boise, Greg catches him up with all the awful news from when he was gone.
Seattle Times article on SPD’s overtime scheme
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There are fire tornadoes, arctic blazes, and inland hurricanes. Now another sign of the end-times has been revealed, the 2020 Democratic National Convention (DNC). Greg and Brian talk about all the fun they had tuning into the DNC and each make a case for which boomer protest anthem is the best.
Charles Mudede’s article on Boeing
Our interview with Charles Mudede on EP 79 - Meeting Nobody is Easy
Billy Porter and Stephen Stills performing “For What It’s Worth” at the DNC
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In part two of this two part interview, Brian continues his talk with China historian Matthew Van Duyn about America’s strange cultural relationship with China. We discuss the US’s diplomatic history with China and get to the bottom of the Facebook group “Libertarian Guys with Asian Wives.” Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes, and early release of episodes of Mechanical Freak Presents. patreon.com/seattlesucks
Do you want to know more? Part one of this interview can be found here and our previous interview with Matthew about China & Covid 19 can be found here. A bibliography for this episode can be found here on the Mechanical Freak.
Greg and Brian speculate about which party convention Best will be speaking at while discussing the pro-cop woke take to her retirement. Then Greg spills the tea about his life as a College Democrat in the wake of the attempted honey-potting of Alex Morse. We’re podcasting locally and complaining nationally.
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In part two of this two part interview, Brian continues his talk with China historian Matthew Van Duyn about America’s strange cultural relationship with China. We discuss the US’s diplomatic history with China and get to the bottom of the Facebook group “Libertarian Guys with Asian Wives.” Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes, and early release of episodes of Mechanical Freak Presents. patreon.com/seattlesucks
Do you want to know more? Part one of this interview can be found here and our previous interview with Matthew about China & Covid 19 can be found here. A bibliography for this episode can be found here on the Mechanical Freak.
In this new Mechanical Freak Presents, China historian Matthew Van Duyn (@vanduyn0) is back on the Freak to hunt down the American left’s lost Albanian gold and maybe talk a little China in the process. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes, and early release of episodes of Mechanical Freak Presents. patreon.com/seattlesucks
Follow Matthew on Twitter @vanduyn0, and read his recent article "Communists Around Every Corner" on Mechanical Freak
Do you want to know more? A full bibliography for this episode is available on Mechanical Freak
Greg is forced to move and is as surly as ever. Brian gets a new soundboard and breaks Greg’s stranglehold on foley artistry. Oh, and some elections and police stuff happened too.
Volunteer for Sherae Lascelles’ campaign
Washington Sucks Voter’s Guide
Video from the Everyday March to Carmen Best’s house
Thread about family being tormented by vigilantes in Forks back in June
Learn more about Snohomish Sheriff Adam Fortnoy here
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In this new Mechanical Freak Presents, China historian Matthew Van Duyn (@vanduyn0) is back on the Freak to hunt down the American left’s lost Albanian gold and maybe talk a little China in the process. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes, and early release of episodes of Mechanical Freak Presents. patreon.com/seattlesucks
Follow Matthew on Twitter @vanduyn0, and read his recent article "Communists Around Every Corner" on Mechanical Freak
Do you want to know more? A full bibliography for this episode is available on Mechanical Freak
We are joined by the Seattle Sucks official hockey correspondent Marena (@MareshkaEvanova) to talk all things Kraken and the sport that we all call “the sweet science.” We also talk about some other less important things going on in Seattle like the effect Covid 19 restrictions are having on service workers and the continuing police crackdown in the city. Also, Greg debuts his new theory about fascism. All this and more on Seattle Sucks!
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In this episode liberated from behind The Paywall, we are joined by friend of the show and our Washington state politics correspondent Cassidy (@babycornobi). We talk Covid in WA state, Jay Inslee’s political future, and we take bets on whether the situation has finally gotten bad enough for Tim Eyman to stand a chance in the governor’s race. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. patreon.com/seattlesucks
Check out friend of the show Matthew Van Duyn’s article on Mechanical Freak about how the US uses China and anticommunism to justify repression of left movements like Black Lives Matter at home and imperial policies abroad in his new article “Communists Around Every Corner”
Follow Cassidy on Twitter @babycornobi, and read her "Washington Sucks Primary Voters Guide" on Mechanical Freak
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Greg and Brian are back on Naiad to talk about the passion of the Durkan and the disturbing new developments in Portland. Then we look at two new plans for defunding SPD, one from Carmen Best and one from Decriminalize Seattle. I wonder which one will be better?
Decriminalize Seattle Online Teach-in
Decriminalize Seattle’s Blueprint for Police Divestment/Community Investment
The quarantine host-hang moves into its fourth month and Greg and Brian celebrate by reading another Seattle Times’ editorial on Kshama Sawant. Has the Times’ ed board seen the light regarding the city’s longest serving council person? You won’t be surprised by the answer. Also, they discuss the coming eviction apocalypse and give out free legal advice to renters.
The Intercept, “Backed by Police Unions, Legislators Stand by Laws to Protect Drivers Who Kill Protesters”
Mechanical Freak, “Sheriffs Gone Wild”
Washington Post, “Evictions Likely to Skyrocket This Summer”
SLOG, “A Massive Wave of Evictions Will Probably Hit Washington Next Month”
Donate to King County Equity Now, Northwest Community Bail Fund
In this action-packed mega-episode we interview Sherae Lascelles who is running to unseat Frank Chop in the 43rd LD. Sherae is a long-time organizer with Seattle area sex workers and talks with us about housing, decriminalizing sex work, and de-policing generally. Then we talk with friend of the show Munya about the march to Jenny Durkan’s house last Sunday and her subsequent heel-turn.
Follow Sherae Lascelles @SheraeforState, and see how you can help the campaign here
Follow Munya @raadzzi
Windermere’s 1919 Racial Covenant
Mayor Jenny’s Letter to the Seattle City Council
Mayor Jenny’s Presser from her Bunker