Please vaccinate your youngsters: Measles is operating rampant amongst unvaccinated youngsters in Texas and New Mexico. The outbreaks have seen a complete of 300 instances and two deaths to this point. Remoted measles instances are popping up throughout the nation, even in Seattle. You’d suppose this is able to be sufficient to sway the anti-vax dad and mom, but in response to information the Washington State Division of Well being measles vaccination charges in kindergartners declined in 36 of 39 Washington counties. The one county with a kindergarten vaccination price above the herd immunity threshold of 95% was Yakima County the place 96.4% of scholars are vaccinated.
Go Dawgs: The College of Washington’s ladies’s basketball group will head to the Huge Dance, in any other case generally known as the 2025 NCAA Match, for the primary time in eight years. They’re going to sq. off towards the Columbia Lions on Thursday.
Not useless but! Elon Musk and his group of doofuses on the so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) imagine useless individuals are receiving Social Safety advantages. They’ve devoted an entire group to rooting out these deceased freeloaders. Besides, in response to the Seattle Instances, the other simply occurred. Leonard Johnson, an 82-year-old very a lot alive Capitol Hill resident was primarily erroneously declared useless by the Social Safety Administration (SSA) final month. His spouse acquired a discover from his financial institution explaining the SSA requested the return of Johnson’s Social Safety funds after his loss of life. The financial institution had pulled $5,201 in funds Johnson acquired for December and January. He hasn’t acquired funds for February or March. He is been making an attempt to resurrect himself by convincing the SSA he is alive. After unsuccessful calls, Johnson went to a bodily workplace, waited for hours, and eventually proved he had a pulse. The financial institution returned the cash it took from his account, however these different month-to-month funds from the SSA have but to indicate up. The entire thing is like this Monty Python sketch:
Bear in mind the teenager killed throughout CHOP? Antonio Mays Jr., 16, was shot and killed inside a stolen Jeep in 2020’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest Zone when the “autonomous” space took a darker flip. But, 5 years later, police have filed no prices in his loss of life, stories the Seattle Instances. They will not reply questions on it both. Mays’ household is embroiled in a wrongful loss of life lawsuit towards town and lately despatched a letter to the U.S. Home Committee on Oversight and Authorities Reform urging Congress to probe into CHOP and the Seattle Police Division’s murder investigation.
The climate: We’ve a real Seattle week forward of us. Rain, rain, rain, and—you guessed it—extra rain. So, put on a raincoat at present.
Storms kill 39: Extreme climate occasions together with “unusually vicious and damaging” tornadoes, mud storms, and wildfires killed at the very least 39 individuals throughout a number of southern states.
Public transit continues to be kicking: Knock on wooden, however issues are trying good for Seattle-area transit ridership. Native transit companies noticed a 12% improve in ridership between 2023 and 2024. Everett Transit had the largest leap with a 32% improve in ridership—the one native company to report extra transit ridership than its pre-pandemic ranges. What’s their secret sauce? Frequent ridership. Take notes, different companies.
Give her again: French Socialist member of parliament Raphaël Glucksmann stated if the USA embraces dictators then it ought to give the Statue of Liberty again to France. The present goings ons in America are opposite to the values that led to France bestowing Girl Liberty upon us 140 years in the past. “We gave it to you as a present, however apparently you despise it. So will probably be simply high quality right here at dwelling,” she stated.
Exhibit A: The Division of Protection eliminated a Black Medal of Honor winner from its web site. US Military Main Common Charles Calvin Rogers acquired the award after being wounded thrice whereas defending a base within the Vietnam Conflict. Rogers was the very best rating Black particular person to obtain the award. Now, the Division of Protection’s web page on Rogers leads to a “404 – Web page Not Discovered” error. The URL to his web page on the positioning was modified, too: “medal” was changed with “DEI medal.”
Appears dangerous: The US inventory market misplaced over $5 trillion in worth in simply three weeks.
Immigration will get messier: A British Columbia girl’s household says she has been detained for 10 days after “trying to cross the [US] border with a job provide and visa paperwork in hand.” Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a health care provider and professor at Brown College, returned to the US after a visit to Lebanon. Customs and Border Safety deported her again to Lebanon regardless of her having a sound US visa. The deportation occurred regardless of a court docket order demanding Alawieh not be eliminated. A German inexperienced card holder and New Hampshire resident was detained at Logan Airport in Boston and is being held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a facility in Rhode Island. He informed his spouse ICE brokers had “pressured him to surrender his inexperienced card” and described inhumane therapy.
El Salvador deportations might violate court docket order: Over the weekend, the US authorities deported tons of of Venezuelan immigrants to a jail in El Salvador after Trump signed an government order Friday invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to “quickly arrest and deport” individuals he labeled as “gang members.” The regulation permits the deportation of these from nations at battle with the US. Unsurprisingly, since all of this occurred with out authorized oversight, Choose James E. Boasberg of the Federal District Court docket in Washington D.C. issued a short lived restraining order to dam these deportations. Nonetheless, the deportation occurred despite the court docket order. Whether or not or not the administration violated the order will depend upon when the flights took off.
Completely happy St. Patrick’s Day! All of this deportation information and hostility towards immigrants makes celebrating St. Patrick’s Day—a celebration of the Irish—really feel just a little off. Nonetheless, kiss an Irish particular person at present. Gorge your self on Guinness. Eat corned beef and cabbage for dinner. Remind your self that we’re a rustic of immigrants.
A music to your Monday: Sticking with the Irish theme, here is U2.
