Seattle’s largest supplier for homeless youth is in bother: Publicola reported that YouthCare will shut two shelters, two housing applications, and reduce workers as a part of a “strategic realignment to make sure long-term monetary stability and improve the effectiveness of our providers.” YouthCare informed stuff it’d shut the Catalyst Transitional Residing Program and House of Hope Bridge Program on the finish of subsequent month, plus youth facilities within the College District and in South Seattle on the finish of the yr.
WSP shootout: The Washington State Patrol mentioned a suspect who fired at WSP troopers yesterday is “not a menace” (translation: shot lifeless). In response to police, the suspect fired from his shifting automobile yesterday morning at a trooper who was conducting an unrelated site visitors cease in Lakewood. That trooper referred to as in an outline of the automobile, and different troopers noticed it on Freeway 507 in Spanaway. WSP mentioned a chase ensued, and the suspect fired on the troopers in pursuit. WSP mentioned the suspect exited their automobile in a residential space and continued to shoot on the officers. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned its deputies fired pictures and confirmed the suspect died from a gunshot wound.
SCOTUS ruling gained’t change how Seattle sweeps: Final week, the Supreme Court docket determined it was a-OK for Grant’s Move, Oregon to effective and jail homeless folks sleeping in public, even when they’ve nowhere else to go. In response, Mayor Bruce Harrell informed the residents of Seattle to not fear, he wouldn’t change the best way we do issues round right here, which isn’t reassuring. We’re horrible at this. Hannah has extra right here.
ICYMI: I witnessed a heist on Capitol Hill, and I wrote about it. Yeah, certain, the heist was in a Dungeons & Dragons sport for queer youngsters at Seattle’s LGBTQ+ Middle and it wasn’t “actual,” nevertheless it was a heist.
Gap-digger damages freeway: Somebody dug a tunnel and broke a part of Freeway 529 yesterday, shutting down passage between Everett and Marysville for half the day. Staff with the Washington State Division of Transportation seen harm and a person they thought accountable for the outlet strolling close by. The person’s spectacular gap measured a foot throughout on the floor, and it bottomed out 4 ft down. Fairly a gap! Crews reduce the pavement to create clear edges, after which crammed that huge gap. No phrase on the outlet man, however WSP is investigating as a result of the repairs price 1000’s.
Kill the owls: Federal wildlife managers have determined they’re sick and bored with invasive barred owls threatening the survival of the PNW’s native noticed owls. After 15 years of research and collaboration, they’ve provide you with a plan to blast them away with shotguns. If the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) carries out the plan, skilled professionals would kill lower than one p.c of the North American barred owl inhabitants and presumably give the noticed owls a preventing likelihood. Nonetheless, that might be 500,000 birds over the subsequent 30 years. Earlier than coaching owl neutralizers, USFWS would want to acquire a allow below the Migrant Chook Treaty Act. Washington Commissioner of Public Lands Hillary Franz has expressed skepticism in regards to the plan.
Is the Biden or bust dam … busting? Cracks are definitely inching up the wall. We simply don’t understand how huge they’re but. Puck reported on a leaked Democrat polling memo that instructed help for Biden cratered in key battleground states after final week’s traditionally depressing debate efficiency, placing beforehand uncompetitive states like New Hampshire, Virginia, and New Mexico in play. Biden not solely polled worse than Trump, however he polled worse than Kamala Harris, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigeig, and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in one-on-one matchups towards Trump. Forty p.c of 2020 Biden voters surveyed needed the president to drop out. In the meantime, a CNN ballot discovered most voters believed a special nominee would have a greater likelihood at conserving Dems within the White Home. In fact, these are simply two polls carried out shortly after the controversy. Time will inform if voters keep freaked.
Some Dems are talking up: Yesterday, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) turned the primary Democrat in Congress to name on President Joe Biden to bow out. Doggett mentioned Biden did not defend his accomplishments within the debate and that the chance of a Trump presidency was too nice to say nothing. He’s not the one one. Senior Democrats needed to intervene to maintain West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin from publicly breaking with Biden on a Sunday information present. Former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a high Democrat who propped up a declining Dianne Feinstein within the months earlier than she died, mentioned it was legit to query Biden’s health on MSNBC. Huge donors are turning on Biden. Officers informed the New York Occasions his lapses have gotten more and more widespread. Opinion writers on the Occasions, the Atlantic, and the New Yorker have referred to as for Biden to go. However will he go willingly? The Occasions reported that Biden informed a key ally he is aware of his candidacy is unsalvageable if he cannot persuade the general public he is capable of do the job. Seven senior sources on the Biden marketing campaign informed Reuters Harris is the highest various candidate if he does.
Pelosi dismissed considerations about Feinstein’s well being till actually days earlier than her demise. Pelosi was additionally one of many witnesses who signed off on Feinstein being of “sound thoughts and reminiscence” when she gave energy of legal professional to her daughter
So uh this Pelosi quote is not what you need https://t.co/ylR4S4zqjX
— Alex Shultz (@AlexShultz) July 2, 2024
What are our native electeds saying? On Friday, they didn’t inform the Seattle Occasions a lot. However in an interview with Portland’s ABC station KATU, Washington Democratic Congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez mentioned all of us noticed what occurred on that debate stage, we will’t unsee it, and he or she thinks that Trump goes lick Biden within the normal. “I do know that’s tough, however I believe the harm has been finished by that debate.” She didn’t name for Biden to drop out, although, and mentioned Democrats ought to settle for the outcomes of the first.
They really don’t should. The Democratic celebration didn’t depend on major elections to select a candidate till 1972. Time is working out quick, however an open conference is feasible. In case you’re considering what that might seem like, the newest episode of Ezra Klein’s podcast was very informative.
Bernie Bros and KHive unite: In maybe the primary second of collective levity on nationwide politics Twitter, some lefties are having enjoyable on the considered a Kamala Harris/Bernie Sanders ticket, and it is type of candy.
I am a KHiver now as a result of it is someway each the soberly right stance and the humorous irony-poisoned stance.
— David Klion (@DavidKlion) July 2, 2024
“You are taking the malarkey tablet, you keep up in Biden-land and imagine no matter you wish to imagine. You are taking the coconut tablet… and I present you ways deep the context goes” pic.twitter.com/Jar6fGMycM
— Michael (@having__trouble) July 3, 2024
ironic khive posting is unironically essentially the most energized the twitter Dem voters has been in a few yr and I believe there’s most likely one thing optimistic in that. name your self ‘coconut-pilled’ or no matter. declare yrself a context fan. we’d truly twet via this one
— Kelly Weill (@KELLYWEILL) July 2, 2024
RFK Jr. and the barbecued canine: What within the fuck is mistaken with this man? Vainness Honest’s new article about Kennedy uncovered two significantly terrible tales about him. In 1998, he allegedly sexually assaulted the 23-year-old girl who babysitted his kids. There’s additionally a photograph that exhibits Kennedy clutching the charred stays of a canine and pretending to gnaw at its ribs.
Right here’s a photograph of @RobertKennedyJr fortunately posing with a barbecued canine.
New reporting in @VanityFair reveals a good friend has warned RFK Jr.’s marketing campaign might trigger him to “go down as one of many nice villains in American historical past.”
I believe that’s already occurred… pic.twitter.com/iBMNVjuCwJ
— Matt Corridoni (@mattcorridoni) July 2, 2024
They’re not even hiding it: Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Basis, celebrated the Supreme Court docket’s presidential immunity choice with a daunting remark: “We’re within the strategy of a Second American Revolution, which can stay cold if the left permits it to be.” Is {that a} menace? It seems like a menace. Roberts is correct about current courtroom choices serving to their trigger. Since taking on the conservative think-tank in 2021, Roberts has shifted the group’s focus towards one aim: institutionalizing Trumpism. It is among the principal architects of Mission 2025, a plan to dismantle federal companies, consolidate government energy, and hearth federal staff who would resist Trump’s plans.
The NIH is creating a nasal COVID vaccine: The federal company is sponsoring the primary human medical trials for a shotless COVID-19 vaccine administered up the schnoz. The proposed vaccine makes use of a live-weakened model of MPV, a virus that causes pneumonia in mice however doesn’t sicken folks, to ship a stabilized model of COVID-19’s spike protein. That spike protein permits Sars-CoV-2 to penetrate and infect our cells. Universities are recruiting 60 adults, 18 to 64, in Texas, Georgia and New York.
Google not assembly local weather targets: Three years in the past, Google mentioned it’d be carbon impartial by 2030. However a Tuesday report from the corporate exhibits it is not even shut. Emissions have truly grown 48% since 2019 as a result of the corporate determined to give attention to AI tech, which consumes a large quantity of electrical energy.
Georgia (the nation) strikes to restrict LGBTQ rights: Georgia’s parliament gave preliminary approval to a set of sweeping anti-LGBTQ payments that just about ban homosexual life past non-public relationships. The payments would outlaw “propaganda” about same-sex relationships, which incorporates classes about queerness or depictions of homosexual relationships on tv, public occasions selling same-sex relationships like Delight, gender-affirming surgical procedure, adoptions by same-sex {couples}, the flexibility to vary your gender on ID paperwork, and the rainbow flag itself. Launched by the socially right-wing Georgian Dream celebration, the payments should cross two extra readings to develop into regulation. In the event that they cross, it’ll be hell for homosexual and trans Georgians.
