Two stories and a conversation

Apr 22, 2026

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A chatty magpie, foraging for new nesting material in west Spokane

Hopes against the plague of MAGA hallucinations

For reasons I won’t delve deeply into I’ve been off-rhythm for the past couple weeks. Let’s just call it a spring tide of predictable complications.

I have felt, at times, we’re living in a David Byrne song, where the dust devils of ordinary …