I spoke to @shaneburley.bsky.social about my book Strange People on the Hill for truthout and we got into an important question -- what happened to the hate groups? When the government is a hate group with fascist ambitions, you don't need them as much. My answer: truthout.org/articles/whe...

The Spokane Complex Fire has destroyed hundreds of homes and displaced thousands of people. Our communities are jumping in to help. Here are a few resources for where to locate resources and how to pitch. If you think of anything we missed, let us know at team@rangemedia.co.

Where wildfire victims can find resources, how neighbors can help

An evolving resource directory for people affected by the disaster and people who want to lend a hand.

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@yongyuhuang.bsky.social reported the snot out of this story.

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As the spotlight of the World Cup passed briefly over Spokane — with crowds gathering at watch parties and the Egyptian team training for the World Cup at GU’s Luger Field — the lights had already gone out on the city’s own professional women’s soccer team.

@danieltwalters.bsky.social, @yongyuhuang.bsky.social and Sandra Rivera rallied during @rangemedia.co’s vacation to put together this very human-animal story. Nice work team.

RANGE Media@rangemedia.co · 3d ago

Some returned home, but dozens remained in limbo. Folks who stayed slept in the barn area; others sought solace in the parking lot outside. People caught naps behind their wheels as pets paced nervously in the backseat. Others took turns walking the horses in the stables.

The Spokesman is doing incredible reporting on this story. Follow them for critical info. @alexdugganreports.bsky.social www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

'Never seen it this bad': Thousands evacuated in north Spokane as wildfire crosses river into city

A wildfire driven by high winds jumped the Spokane River Saturday afternoon, burning homes and quickly moving into the Indian Trail Neighborhood.

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Traffic in the evacuation vicinity is very dangerous. If you aren’t running for your life, stay home.

this is incredibly abnormal and scary. always a possibility this decade, extremely bizarre to experience in real time. we’ve got important stuff loaded in the car, not going anywhere at the moment because by all accounts traffic is already very bad www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Thousands evacuated in north Spokane as wildfire crosses river into city

A wildfire driven by high winds has jumped the Spokane River and is threatening neighborhoods near and within the city of Spokane.

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Recent perimeter for the Old Trails #SpokaneFire. Please note that just because a building is inside the fire perimeter doesn't mean it has burned. This perimeter doesn't account for structure protection efforts. (official perimeter data, map by me)

Couldn’t catch it live? Spokane’s Spiciest is now available to stream for free at the link below, thanks to our media partners KSPS-PBS and Midnight Waffles! Working on this with those folks and @washingtonbus.org was such a good time! 🌶️🌶️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=fUtv...

Candidate Survivor: Spokane's Spiciest Candidate Forum

YouTube video by KSPS PBS Public TV

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Spokane’s Spiciest is a hit and I’m so proud of @merrywanderer.bsky.social and @rangemedia.co for pulling this amazing event off for the second year!!

Much as I want to, we don’t use AI to generate content @rangemedia.co. www.rangemedia.co/commissioner...

Commissioner Al French on data centers: ‘Spokane County is not closed for business’

Developers are eyeing Spokane County for new places to plant; French has been quietly tilling the field.

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Today's the day! You can find us tonight from 5 to 9 pm at Overbluff Cellars in the Washington Cracker Building for Candidate Survivor: Spokane's Spiciest Candidate Forum. There will be spicy wings, spicier questions and a whole host of candidates ready to take the hot seat and face the fire.

Why is Erika Kirk here today? Stranger contributor and Christian extremism-understander @katerqburns.bsky.social explains. www.thestranger.com/news/erika-k...

Erika Kirk's TPUSA Tour Lands in Kirkland Today - The Stranger

Since TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University last September, his widow Erika Kirk has taken over as the right-wing, youth-focused organization’s CEO and spiritual voi...

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Debuting a Christmas movie on Thanksgiving and marketing it by invoking a character by their last name as a stand in for their first — and played by an actor desperately trying to overcome DV accusations — really puts a fine point on our age.

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w ago

First poster for ‘EBENEZER’, a new film based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring Johnny Depp. “Before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer”

NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /

Three cheers to my friend and police accountability activist extraordinaire @jdleighty.bsky.social for doing the work here!!

RANGE Media@rangemedia.co · 3w ago

Justice Forral, a Spokane activist, suspects they were targeted for reasons beyond their participation in last year's June 11 protest. A police report obtained from a publics records request shows Forral may have been right, and that they were flagged with a “T3” code.

Project Hail Mary = better Interstellar. Sorry Chris, I know you had a big week.

I cannot stop laughing at this. They were so close to cracking lmao #InfoWars #MAJA

This definitely cements him as the gayest defense secretary in history right? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...

Hegseth Plans to Screen All Troops, Including Women, for Low Testosterone (Gift Article)

Pete Hegseth, as defense secretary, has sought to cultivate an image as a manosphere-friendly leader.

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new metaphor just dropped

Climate change choking out 250 celebrations is peak capitalism.

The Republican-only forum featured the 5 candidates looking to win 1 of 2 positions in the statehouse representing much of the rural — and consistently conservative — territory north and east of the more liberal Third Legislative District that covers most of Spokane proper.

At statehouse candidate forum: ‘Yes’ on Jesus and guns, ‘no’ on trans health care and government

Republicans vying to fill the 6th district seats of Reps. Jenny Graham and Mike Volz told conservative voters they’d slash homelessness response, bulk up police and courts budgets and restore ‘parental rights.’

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The American Right is literally debating whether or not we need an American Caesar, which is the the title of my book - appearing in 2 months. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

American Caesar

A chilling and urgently needed exposé on the forces pushing American politics and religion toward a post-constitutional autocracyFrom Silicon Valley boardro...

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David W. Congdon@dwcongdon.com · last mo.

Love to see @bradleyonishi.bsky.social getting all this free publicity.

Smacked your last god.

Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · last mo.

Lad, I'm afraid you've raged against your last machine

You’ve tamed your last impala.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · last mo.

You've beastied your last boy

The Spokane 3 case gets more and more crazy, and this story in @motherjones.com reveals another wild turn: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Public records show FBI secretly extracted data from ICE protesters’ phones

Previously unreported documents reveal “extractions” from at least 13 devices after a Washington state protest last June.

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NEW PODCAST EPISODE! Aaron Hedge spoke with Tracy Simmons (of FāVS News) about the history of FāVS and how it came to be, Tracy’s work and involvement with FāVS, the religious beat in journalism, and why religion reporting is important right now, in this current moment.

The POD: Why religion? Why journalism? Why now?

A conversation on religion reporting with FāVS News

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What’s remarkable about all this stuff is the stolen valor. You didn’t build shit, you won a birth lottery. You are a podcaster not Emperor Vespasian. bsky.app/profile/just...

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · last mo.

9 years ago, NBC gave this woman $20 million a year to host a morning talk show and be one of the top faces of its news division.

Today, the board voted to axe all nine programs, even though faculty recommended only four and the president and provost recommended only seven. Read some contextual pieces below.

RANGE Media@rangemedia.co · last mo.

Faculty in the Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) program received letters late last month which essentially said: prepare to lose your jobs. GWSS is one of nine programs at Eastern Washington University that may be cut during a June 25 Board of Trustees meeting.

This is a story about hope. This is a story of three daring escapes. It’s May 2026. Jeremy Root, Seamus Galligan and Joseph Sampson are alive. And none of them are homeless:

Stabbed. Frostbitten. Overdosed. Sheltered. Sober. Saved.

In 2023, I interviewed three unhoused men at the Spokane library. Over the next three years, all of them escaped homelessness

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