Stranger senior staff writer Rich Smith contributed to this post.

It's a metaphor.
It's a metaphor. Rich Smith
Happy Overtime Day! This Slog PM is brought to you by this incomplete pie from Pagliacci. Today the communications staff at Civic Ventures, Nick Hanauer’s think tank, surprised journalists at newsrooms across Seattle with most of a large pizza and a note. “Missing two slices? The average salaried employee is missing two months’ worth of pay,” read a short note. “But we’re working to change that in Washington.” The note refers to the group’s support for the state’s new change to its overtime rules, which will ultimately increase the number of workers who qualify for overtime pay, returning to a standard originally established during the late 1930s. Currently, as the note suggests, Washington workers are getting hosed. If bosses were actually paying us for our time, today would be the last day we would have to work this year. 😊


“It’s called surplus value,” Mudede said, as he grabbed a slice of pizza. “The line hasn’t changed since the 1840s.” He then embarked upon a long critique of Civic Venture’s use of the pizza as a metaphor for this “value,” arguing that the pizza actually represents “wealth,” which is matter, rather than “value,” which is a kind of worth determined by a given culture. He then admitted to owning eight or nine dead iPhones, and asked if anyone else in the office had issues with surplus wealth in the house. Nathalie then realized Hanauer’s people left a whole notebook in the pizza box and took it.

Speaking of iPhones: Trump's number one concern is tweeting.

Back to pizza! Quote of the week from Rep. Tom Malinowski, who offered comment to Buzzfeed on Republicans storming the impeachment hearings on Wednesday: “It’s a bunch of Freedom Caucus members having pizza around a conference table pretending to be brave. All they basically did here was to storm a castle that they already occupied.”

California wildfire update: As Nathalie mentioned this morning, it's wildfire season in California. California Governor Gavin Newsom visited the wreckage of the Kincade fire near Santa Rosa, which was only around 5% contained this afternoon. Newsom described the area as looking like a "war zone." The Guardian has a slideshow of the wildfires.

Three years ago, Kamala Harris received the "Bipartisan Justice Award." This year, Trump is the recipient: Harris isn't having it. She's pulling out of a related upcoming criminal justice forum in protest. Trump is, obviously, thrilled to accept the award. It's given by the 20/20 Bipartisan Justice Center, which was only founded in 2015. It's made up of 20 Black Republicans and 20 Black Democrats. The award is "the highest honor given annually to a public servant who has demonstrated the ability to work across the aisle to achieve meaningful progress in reforming our criminal justice system," reports WCIV. He's receiving the award for the passage of the First Step Act, according to the Center.

Arriving in South Carolina to accept the award, the President was greeted by this:

Boeing's richest employees won't get bonuses this year: I wonder why.

Where's Republican outrage over the deficit? The deficit has ballooned under Trump, apparently GROWING 26% IN THE PAST YEAR. From the Washington Post:

Republican policymakers have made little noise about the deficit under Trump, a contrast with their dire predictions about rising red ink under President Obama.

In 2013, when federal debt totaled $16.7 trillion, Trump tweeted: “Obama is the most profligate deficit & debt spender in our nation’s history.” The federal government is now more than $22 trillion in debt, according to the White House.

Rudy Giuliani butt-dialed NBC (TWO TIMES): Real news. He rambles something about Turkey and a man named Robert and then: "The problem is we need some money." "We need a few hundred thousand."

Cloud War update: Microsoft beat out Amazon in earning a $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract. Amazon was "seen as the most likely winner" of the contract, reports Bloomberg. An Amazon Web Services spokesperson told GeekWire that they are "surprised about this conclusion.” What's this expensive-ass contract officially called? The JEDI cloud computing contract, because boys will be boys. Tonight, Jeff Bezos is certainly crying because the Pentagon won't let him be a Jedi.

Port of Seattle commissioner arrested on suspicion of domestic violence assault: Port of Seattle Commissioner Ryan Calkins was booked into the King County Correctional Facility jail yesterday morning and released today. Crosscut has more here.

Have a good weekend: May you have to try no harder than this cat.