Our live webcast from the former Seattle Anarchist Jurisdiction
The show from May 13, 2021, featured David Obelcz and our co-host Jennifer Smith. Patrons at the $5 and above level get access to our show notes and research documents.
Georgia Man busted after drilling holes in a U-Haul truck gas tank
Does Seattle have the 7th best BBQ in the United States?!?!
Acting Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz dismisses OPA use of force findings on June 1
Malcontented Minutes
Kentucky Derby Scandal deepens
Two Texas police officers shot and killed, one city worker wounded
Police hold press conference on the body of missing Indigenous found on Turtle Mountain
Black man beaten and robbed in Pennsylvania bar in racist incident
Government issues warning not to put gasoline in plastic bags
Florida woman arrested for pretending to be a high school student chasing Instagram clout
Levi’s is championing pronoun use
Evangelical Lutheran Church elects first openly transgender bishop
A mare and foal find comfort in shared grief
Two new mothers, one a gorilla, one human, bond at a Boston Zoo
Houston furniture store owner Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale has turned his showrooms into shelters.
Anyone is welcome to use the beds and sofas in his showrooms, take in a movie or basketball game on his big-screen televisions and sit down to a hot meal
Food trucks are on-site to provide food and sanitary stations have also been provided.
Since Tuesday, about 350 people a night have taken him up on the offer at two of his three stores.
He and his employees made sure that everyone had masks and were safely distanced from each other, then McIngvale passed out blankets and sweatshirts
Houston furniture store owner Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale is known for his showmanship, even airing television commercials in which he’s actually wearing a mattress to draw attention to his stores. But McIngvale is becoming more famous for something else: turning his expansive showrooms into lifesaving shelters. He opened his Gallery Furniture stores to people who fled Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Hurricane Harvey in 2017, and Tropical Storm Imelda in 2019. Now he’s doing it for those who have been hit hard by a deadly winter storm that has left more than 3 million Texans without power and running water in record-setting freezing temperatures.
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