RANGE

Tenant organizer and Spokane DSA co-chair Jeremy Logan joins us to talk about his arrest at the hands of Spokane County Sheriff's Deputies on the way to a Black Lives Matter protest and the truly remarkable obsession Sheriff Ozzie seems to have now that national media took an interest in the arrest. Logan also shares the story of the last decade of his life and just how hard it is to pull yourself out of poverty, especially when you've previously been in the system. BACKGROUND Huffington Post article about Jeremy's arrest -- the one that set Ozzie off Ozzie's resulting press conference (watch at your own risk) Two big questions about the arrest of Jeremy Logan (Inlander) How local law enforcement uses social media to surveil protesters (Inlander) Ozzie's podcast about Jeremy Logan (Different from the press conference!)

In what is sure to be a collectors item for real news heads, this ep features rare journo-nerd b-sides from The Spokesman Review's Shawn Vestal. TOPICS DISCUSSED East-coast bias National correspondents helicoptering into protests (Lack of) newsroom diversity On believing the children young journalists are our future SUPPLEMENTS The Truth Does not Change According to Our Ability to Stomach It -- Leah's poppin' fresh newsletter Shawn's columns

This week’s guest is a big deal. How big? I’m just going to quote her bio in the New York frickin Times: Leah Sottile is a writer based in Oregon whose work focuses on extremist ideologies, the anti-government movement and fringe cultures. She is the host and reporter for the podcast “Bundyville,” which has been nominated twice for a National Magazine Award. I should have outlined it better in my intro, but I'll do it now: Bundyville is an absolutely essential look at extremism in the West and season two drills down specifically into our little nook of the Inland Northwest. Check it out. She’s back in Oregon now but she’s lived in Spokane on and off for a good chunk of her life. I can’t think of anyone better to help look at the Boogaloo specifically and extremism more generally, both taking the national view and pulling some of the local threads. Tremendously proud of this interview and grateful to Leah for carving two frickin' hours out of her busy schedule to hang out. SUPPLEMENTS Inside the Boogaloo - Leah's story for NYT Mag Bundyville seasons 1 & 2 - absolute required listening GOOFS So hot right now Abe Simpson is sometimes anti-fascist, always anti-Missouri

Hey y'all. Long time, no pod. Here's part one of an honest chat with Shawn Vestal about how white people can have tough conversations with themselves and others about the work we all need to do in this moment. Spurred by a column Shawn wrote about the backlash from a video posted by Catholic Charities CEO Rob McCann, which led to a sharp (and gross) rebuke from Thomas Daly, Spokane’s Catholic bishop. SUPPLEMENTS Rob McCann video The Backlash Shawn's Column

Hey! It's the second part of the conversation with Angelique Tomeo and Sabrina Ryan-Helton of the Bail Project. If episode one was about talking about the system and how it destroys people's lives and weakens the fabric of society itself, episode two is more about how we might fight back in the short term by helping bail as many folks as possible out so they can actually claim their rights and fight their cases. Just a reminder: there's a supplement to these episodes outlining what happened to crime rates when Spokane let a bunch of people out of jail due to COVID. Really gives some extra urgency to the work. If you feel moved by this work, make sure to ask to join the Bail Project Spokane's Facebook community. Lots of information and solidarity happens in that space. And at Sabrina's request: it's not too late to sign the anti-Killology training petitions. There are two. Here's the first and the second. Photo illustration by Connor Bacon SUPPLEMENTS Spokane let people out of jail; Crime went down. The story of a 72-year-old man who was locked up for 33-months pre-trial. The Bail Project website Bryan Stevenson's 2014 interview on Fresh Air about how "we have a criminal justice system that treats you better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent."

Hey y'all fascinating conversation -- part 1 of 2 -- with Angelique Tomeo and Sabrina Ryan-Helton of the Bail Project about how maybe America isn't really the land of the free after all, what with the absurd amounts of pre-trial detention going on all throughout America (and certainly in Spokane) and how, just maybe, we should totally dismantle and abolish such a horribly inhumane system all together. As a supplement to this episode make sure to check out my essay on what happened to crime rates when Spokane let a bunch of people out of jail due to COVID. Really gives some extra urgency to the work. Photo illustration by Connor Bacon SUPPLEMENTS Spokane let people out of jail; Crime went down. The story of a 72-year-old man who was locked up for 33-months pre-trial. The Bail Project website Bryan Stevenson's 2014 interview on Fresh Air about how "we have a criminal justice system that treats you better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent." GOOFS Why yes, that is a mash-up of a climactic scene from 1996 blockbuster Independence Day and the Spokane County Jail. With this one sound effect you too can make stupid Law & Order spoofs.

This week’s RANGE comes in two parts. PART 1 | A Letter to My City Council Members | Offers a little background on the soon to be voted-upon police contract as a warm up for a dramatic reading of a letter Luke wrote this week asking Spokane City Council to tear it up with extreme prejudice. PART 2 | Our Borders, Ourselves | We reach the conclusion of the awesome interview with Yakima immigration attorney Stephen Robbins, where the conversation turns toward some of the more mundane, overlooked atrocities of Trump's immigration policy and also some (infuriatingly) hilarious reflections on our dumb, dehumanizing border policy. SUPPLEMENTS Spokane City Council Directory -- has a nice map in case if you want to send directly to your district's commissioners, but I'm sure they'd ALL love to hear from you. Check out Stephen Robbins' podcast Redirect. The latest episode dives into the thousand cuts of an avalanche of a bunch of bad new Trump immigration policies Follow Robbins on Twitter GOOFS I've never seen Mr Smith Goes to Washington, but for some reason that image of Jimmy Stewart staring mournfully up at a broken system is seared into my memory. Apparently the movie was loosely based on a Montana Senator.

Immigration lawyer Stephen Robbins dials in for a WIDE ranging chat about life in Yakima -- currently the unexpected epicenter (or in Governor Inslee's words, "Eh-pee-center") of Coronavirus in Washington State. We cover the demographic and political environment in the county and how pre-existing sanitation and other abysmal conditions in the agricultural industry might be contributing to a public health crisis in a placewhere half the population sees not wearing masks as a patriotic statement and the other half works in an industry that is 50%-70% undocumented and lives very close to the edge in the best of times. So yeah, it gets a little dark in this ep, but there's a labor fight that's actually going kinda well, so it ends on a hopeful note! SUPPLEMENTS "DACA Survives" latest episode of Stephen's great immigration law podcast Robbins on Twitter Spokesman story about Luis Cortes Romero, the U of Idaho Law grad who just saved DACA Episode image of backbreaking Yakima farm labor courtesy of the Library of Congress GOOFS None because I'm perfect.

Jac Archer dials in to talk protest, big white supremacy (murder), little white supremacies (the gutting of EWU's gender and ethnic studies programs) and how you can't just support black liberation when it makes you comfortable. Oh, and Luke and Jac also talk Scandal (the show) and trade James Baldwin quotes like total badasses. This talk fired Luke the hell up, and he wanted to get it out in time for Sunday's protest so you could get fired up, too. Smash white supremacy, Rangers! LITERAL NAZI ALERT If you do attend the rally, be on the look out for this POS, a Neo-Nazi who has pledged to come to Spokane and "make history." Be safe. SUPPLEMENTS The Anti Defamation League Pyramid of Hate James Baldwin, "To be in a rage, almost all of the time" James Baldwin on the myth of outside agitators from The Price of the Ticket Citations Needed "Cops push "Outside Agitator" line, exploit fears of Far Right Violence to delegitimaze protests" This week's episode art is from an incredible photo series of last week's protest by Eugene Mu GOOFS The Girl from Ipanema, elevator edition

While much of America is on fire, and trust in police is shaken to the core, activists have discovered that Spokane law enforcement has invited Dave Grossman -- the inventor of "Killology," a widely discredited training technique -- to train our local police. His ideas are flippant, callous and more concerned with making sure cops know how to beat a shooting than how to help those in need. These are not de-escalation techniques. This episode showcases audio of Grossman's lectures and makes the case that he should not be welcome in Spokane. Among Grossman's more infamous pupils: the guy who killed Philando Castile in Minneapolis in 2016, a precursor killing that laid the groundwork for the nationwide unrest that sprang up after the murder of George Floyd. Ask Sheriff Knezovich and Police Chief Meidl to disinvite this merchant of death: [email protected] [email protected] GROSSMAN BACKGROUND "Conditioned Response" short doc 2017 "George Floyd death puts spotlight on 'warrior training' for police" 2020 "Teaching officers how to kill with fear-based warrior tactics" Insider 2020 "2 Departments Quit Controversial Police Training" CBS Minnesota "Militarizing the Minds of Police Officers," The New Yorker 2017 The “Killologist” Training America’s Cops, Men's Journal 2017 OTHER SUPPLEMENTS 2020 "Mindset Bootcamp" web page and flier ‘If I Would Have Been Here, George Floyd May Still Be Alive’ The Cut 2020 "Email reveals deep sympathies to officer convicted of excessive force," Inlander 2016 "Spokane Cops Salute Karl Thompson" Spokesman 2011

Good news Millennials: your life sucks exactly as much as you think it sucks! And that's according to journalism! Luke takes a deepish dive into a Washington Post article by Andrew Van Dam and a few other sources on income and wealth inequality and turns out -- yep! -- what we always suspected to be true is true: There is no generation more abjectly screwed than your friendly neighborhood millennial. It also seems there is but one solution. It's an increasingly common refrain around RANGE HQ. Can you guess what it is? SUPPLEMENTS "The unluckiest generation in U.S history" by Andrew Van Dam / WaPo Strauss-Howe Generational Theory -- in case you want to go where I didn't dare The Gilded Age part 1 | American Experience | PBS UC Berkeley Study on inequality 1913-2014 Income inequality fact sheet | inequality.org Episode art is from an extremely cursed essay in the failing Time Magazine CURIOSITIES Behold the first millennial | True Detective S01 Definition of Black Pill (besides the video above) A deadly new fighting style A little nibble of how much weirder and cooler protestants used to be.

An interview with cook, writer, artist & activist Tunde Wey sends Luke down a rabbit hole thinking about the place of restaurants as one of the most accessible, understandable (and delicious!) places where capital from literally all over the world collides right in front of us, and how restaurateurs -- like all small business owners -- must take this moment of crisis to be an ally of workers, not big business. All this and a couple little confessions from yours truly. EPISODE SUPPLEMENTS New Yorker Interview with Tunde Wey by Helen Rosner Wey's essay "Let it Die" Let It Die | Episode 1 | "How Much Did the Devil Pay You?" GQ Profile of Wey by Brett Martin CURIOSITIES The New Yorker hell joke is from Good Place S02E11* And of course the source of that iconic devil quote* *Yikes on all the Luciferian references. That kind of week.

Luke takes a trip down to nerd town and really digs into the data on predicted coronavirus deaths, national perceptions on how quickly to open back up, the interplay of fear of the virus and economic anxiety and finally how to win an argument against someone who calls you "sheeple" without coming off as a total cuck globalist! Then, at the end of the show (right as Luke was about to go to bed), Dr. Bob Lutz, Spokane regional health officer, drops by to break a little news. EPISODE SUPPLEMENTS Department of Homeland Security Covid Projections (May 1) The story that broke that document A whole bunch of data around people's anxieties And a bunch about their behavior pre-lockdown. CURIOSITIES An absolutely iconic piece of art In case you want to hear Rossini or Grieg without my shenanigans over top. In case you want to hear Guns & Roses cover Paul McCartney without Trump's shenanigans over top. Bill Murray is a god on earth. A little extra context for Alex Jones' cannibalism fantasy

A bad editorial in our local newspaper demanding workers use their health to grease the economy inspires a brief history of newspaper editorial boards, a deep dive into the American concept of objective journalism, an attempt to reframe the value of human life (no big deal there). Oh, and our first old-timey radio skit! Housekeeping: Here's a link to the editorial in question. Our badass theme music is by Simmentall

Starting a podcast maybe isn't the first thing you'd imagine doing four-plus weeks into a nationwide lock down, but we're all working through this in our own way, okay? It's been an almost indescribably dark time for many people across the world, and there isn't currently an end in sight. But maybe there's something to be found in this utterly brutal but also unprecedented month that can give us some hope for the future and, more importantly, a path to get there. Not a lot is clear right now, but one thing seems clear: we can't just return to normal. We have to imagine something much, much better. Writer, organizer and occasional journalist Luke Baumgarten locks himself in his attic for a week or so and emerges with ... whatever this is. NOTE: Luke is definitely a professional audio technician and natural vocal performer. You should 100% assume that any sound issues or gross/strange vocalizations are completely intentional.