Gonna Be a Hot Pride: "The Puget Sound area is sizzling its way toward its warmest June on record, with weekend temperatures forecast to reach the low 90s," the Seattle Times reports. "High temperatures predicted for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport are 85 Thursday, 88 Friday, 90 Saturday, and 88 Sunday." The Stranger's comprehensive list of Pride events is right here.

Developer Sues over Tenant Relocation Assistance: "The developer behind a West Seattle apartment project has sued the city, hoping to avoid paying off low-income tenants currently living in a building slated for demolition," SeattlePI.com reports.

Washington's Drought Would Make a Government Shutdown Worse: "This year’s drought is affecting Washington in all kinds of ways," KUOW reports. "It’s even threatening to make a potential government shutdown more painful. That would happen on July 1 unless a budget agreement is reached. Jeff Marti, the Washington Department of Ecology’s drought coordinator, says the state won’t be able to grant emergency permits to access water if your well dries up or if river." And that's only the beginning of the list of water-related things that wouldn't get done during a shutdown.

Seattle Has a Lot of Fortysomething New Parents: "In 1980," says the FYI Guy, "just about 11 percent of Seattle dads with small kids were 40 or older — about on par with the national average. Since then, Seattle’s percentage has nearly quadrupled. Seattle women also matched the national average in 1980 — but since then, the percentage of older moms in the city has increased sixfold."

Rehearsing for a Cascadia Megaquake: "In the megaquake scenario this exercise simulates, the Washington coast is completely cut off by landslides, collapsed bridges and buckled roads," KUOW reports. "Helicopters might be the only way to get around. More of them will be needed though."

Seattle's Best Spray Parks: A list of the top five.

Towering Footwear Approved for Downtown: "Is it a platform shoe?" asks the Seattle Times. "A giant teaspoon? An ice-cream scoop? Whatever you think of the shape of the new Rainier Square tower, a proposed 58-story complex at 1301 5th Ave. in downtown Seattle, a city review board mostly signed off Tuesday on the structure’s final contours."

The Afterlife of Seattle's Failed Public Toilets: "KPLU's Gabriel Spitzer wondered, 'What ever happened to Seattle's expensive, public sanitation mistake?' And here's what he found near a dirt race track in Thurston County on the property of Butch Behn, a former garbage hauler."

Hillary Clinton's "Equal" Video: It's a good one.

After Local School Shooting, No Police Review of Their Response: "They left multiple youngsters dead and wounded, unleashed widespread panic, prompted split-second deployments of scores of first-responders and drew national attention," writes Lewis Kamb. "But neither of two deadly shootings that erupted at schools in Washington state last year have resulted in any sort of comprehensive police analysis that could serve as a blueprint for responders facing similar high-stakes emergencies in the future."

Why Reason Magazine Is Speaking Out About a Federal Request for Information on Its Commenters: "Is there anything more likely to make you shit your pants out of a mix of fear and anger than getting a federal subpoena out of the blue?" asks Reason's Nick Gillespie. "Well, yes, there is: getting a gag order that prohibits you from speaking publicly about that subpoena and even the gag order itself."

Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare Subsidies: As Dan already noted, there were some big decisions from the US Supreme Court today, including one relating to Obamacare. "The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that President Obama’s health care law may provide nationwide tax subsidies to help poor and middle-class people buy health insurance," the New York Times reports. "Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote the majority opinion in the 6-to-3 decision. The court’s three most conservative members — Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. — dissented."