Redmond startup powers all-electric first flight of a Cessna turboprop It's a step toward MagniX’s future vision of all-electric, flights as the norm for small commuter aircraft - but that won't materialize for a while seattletimes.com/business/boein…

The scene between Uvillage alley and Safeway. via The Seattle Times #seattleprotests

Plaintiffs say Amazon - Provides workers misinformation - Sets “oppressive and dangerous” quotas & discipline - Tells workers to avoid informing others if they get infected - Has said its contact tracing consists only of reviewing surveillance footage bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Covid-19 has swamped Amazon HR. Workers are struggling to get paid for quarantines or take leave to care for kids at home. Hours on hold, weeks waiting for answers. The crisis is testing Amazon’s automated, just-in-time approach to caring for its people: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

No way, Jose

If you're not reading Jerry Brewer right now, fix that. washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/06… washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/06…

Amazon reopened its photo studio in Williamsburg claiming a warehousing exemption. It's essential business? Fashion. It closed the studio this month after we started asking the state if that was allowed. (It wasn't.) 1/ w/ Vanessa Friedman nytimes.com/2020/06/12/tec…

in this story: a surgeon who wants physicians to use clout for good, the only Black ballerina at Pacific Northwest Ballet, a tech worker who marched on a whim & wept, a mother whose view of policing was altered by flash bangs — all worth listening to seattletimes.com/life/america-b…

NEW: Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda unveils her own proposal for taxing Seattle’s big businesses seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p…

Nearly two-thirds of Americans want more aggressive federal action on climate change, and "clear majorities say they would prefer that climate initiatives be funded by increasing the taxes on wealthy households and on companies that burn fossil fuels." washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Seattle, what are we doing with Climate Pledge Arena? The CPA? The CliPled? The 'Mate? seattletimes.com/sports/hockey/…

Meet me at the Pledge!

1st day of online class for my 1st grader. Teacher read a story online about a character named Echo the Owl. It kept triggering peoples’ Amazon Echos. One of the Echos asked if anyone wanted to buy a bible.

"This commitment to social justice is real for the WNBA. These women are used to having to fight for their own right to exist in a pro-athlete world that constantly tells them they aren’t as important as their male counterparts." / by Maggie Mertens southseattleemerald.com/2020/08/27/wnb…

A huge congratulations to #IWMFfellows Corinne Chin and Erika J. Schultz, whose story "Disappearing Daughters" is a finalist for Online News Association's Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling award! We're so honored to have helped bring this story to life! awards.journalists.org/winners/2020/

"Thanks in part to Sue Bird’s consistent greatness, even with less attention, less investment, and less hoopla than any male athletes in town, the Storm’s reputation has only continued to grow over the years." - writes Maggie Mertens southseattleemerald.com/2020/10/08/wit…