Mechanical Freak

Greg, Brian, Cassidy, and Colin dredge through the developments in the ongoing uncoupling of Bill and Melinda Gates, then discuss the recent revelation that texts from Durkan, Best, and Scoggins from last summer, a period suspiciously overlapping with the abandonment of the East Precinct and subsequent creation of CHOP, are…missing (?!), and Interim police Chief Diaz quickly undoing a decision from the Office of Police Accountability.

Read “The Separate Worlds of Bill & Melinda Gates” in the New York Times, and “Melinda Gates Warned Bill About Epstein” in the Daily Beast

In this episode liberated from behind The Paywall, Greg, Brian, Munya, and Colin talk about recent local election results in Texas, the horrible working conditions in retail pharmacies tasked with administering Covid vaccinations, and a preliminary legal victory for delivery drivers who worked at local pizza chain, Pagliacci.

Read “COVID-19 Vaccinations Are Pushing Pharmacists to a Breaking Point” from Vice, and “CVS, Walgreens have wasted more Covid vaccine doses than most states combined” from NBC News.

Greg, Brian, Munya, and Colin briefly learn about the moral failings of the Youth from mayoral candidate Spruce Bruce Harrell before diving into the conscious uncoupling of Bill and Melinda Gates, and the heroic refusal by a rogue employee to serve police officers at the Wallingford Chocolati.

Watch Bruce Harrell talk about litter (thanks to @MaxOnTwitter)

You hear the gentle thump of the helicopter blades before the strings come in. Before you know it, your small town of Marfa is filled with “Ride of the Valkyries.” A man comes over the PA, “This is your friend Lyndon Johnson.” You see your mom faint in the West Texas sun. It’s 1948, and Lyndon Johnson is now your new dad.

Show theme music provided by Bjørn

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Brian, Munya, and Greg are joined by Diamond Coal and Justin Ward of Divest SPD (@DivestSPD) to talk about uncovering the deeds of Seattle’s finest pigs, as well as the Chauvin verdict and the overall quest to defund the Seattle Police Department.

Learn about the six SPD cops at the capitol riot

Watch the State of the Defund event

Cost of Police

Justin and Brian are back to talk about the early life and career of one Lyndon Baines Johnson. Did you know that LBJ was so petty that he once rigged a pretend junior-Congress election amongst Congressional staffers? Or that he convinced his mistress’s husband to pay for his hotel rooms? Remember Pappy “Pass the Biscuits” O’Daniel and his Light Crust Doughboys? We cover all that and more as we talk LBJ and the mystery of Box 13.

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Greg, Brian, Munya, Justin, and Colin talk about Historical Mechanicalism’s latest series on President Lyndon Johnson, Jumbo Rising, before discussing the possibilities of the Chauvin Trial, the backdrop of continued police shootings, Lori Lightfoot’s evasive maneuvering in the face of scandal and how it relates to our own Jenny Durkan, and Jeff Bezos’ parting plan to make Amazon warehouses more humane with an algorithm.

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Read the tweets about police using photos of children as targets at the gun range (here, here, and here), and the thread on the murder of a 17 year old in a high school bathroom in Knoxville by a police officer

Read about Jeff Bezos’s latest algorithmic scheme in Vice

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