The Stranger’s major election endorsements have dropped: After months of grilling candidates, yelling on the ones who refused to point out up, scrutinizing private and non-private statements, and bickering with ourselves over who to endorse, the Stranger Election Management Board’s picks for the August, 6, 2024 major election are right here. King County Elections will begin mailing ballots on Thursday, so yours needs to be in your mailbox by Monday. Till then, learn up and inform us how you’re feeling. In the event you’re not into studying, then bookmark the Cheat Sheet.
Seattle Metropolis Gentle price hikes coming: The utility estimates electrical energy prospects will see their prices climb by 5.4% per yr for the subsequent two years and by 5% per yr by means of 2030, in line with the Seattle Instances. That is increased than Metropolis Gentle beforehand predicted due to a mix of inhabitants development, our rising reliance on electrical energy for automobiles and buildings, droughts, and better prices of labor and supplies.
SPD deputy chief will not face DV costs: After an investigation by a Pierce County sheriff’s detective, prosecutors in Pierce County won’t cost Seattle Police Deputy Chief Eric Barden, whose former associate stated he slapped and pushed her final yr. The Seattle Instances reviews that courtroom data “reveal a bitter back-and-forth breakup between Barden and the lady, with allegations of abuse on each side,” and that prosecutors counsel the lady made the actual allegations in query this spring “with a purpose to injury his profession and get even for being jilted.” The detective who investigated reported no witnesses or bodily proof of harm. A Seattle Workplace of Police Accountability investigation stays open involving allegations that Barden requested a Pierce County deputy to lie on a police report and never arrest the lady.
Pierce County Sheriff’s deputy fatally shoots man: The sheriff’s workplace says at the least one deputy shot a person in Graham following a car pursuit. The division says deputies recognized the person as a “suspect of curiosity” in an unspecified case and tried to cease his car earlier than “photographs have been fired” and the person hit a deputy along with his car, inflicting minor accidents. A chase ensued, the person bought out of his automobile and ran, and deputies shot and killed him, Q13 reviews.
Taking pictures.
On July fifteenth at 2:45pm, officer’s tried to make contact with an individual of curiosity from a earlier crime in a car. Deputies reported photographs fired and a pursuit adopted.
Go to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Blotter for full story. https://t.co/qCN8ZkcT7m pic.twitter.com/8r7TX5kvcv
— Pierce Co Sheriff (@PierceSheriff) July 16, 2024
Former SPD chief threatened to sue Publicola: Erica C. Barnett reviews that former SPD Chief Adrian Diaz threatened to sue the native information web site (and Barnett herself) after a put up relating to Diaz’s interview with Jason Rantz during which the previous chief got here out as homosexual following allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination. Diaz claimed defamation; Publicola referred to as bullshit however made some minor adjustments to the put up. Barnett says the entire thing pressured the positioning to “spend many hundreds of {dollars} on attorneys’ charges.”
DeSantis is coming to WA: The nation’s most socially awkward bigot will communicate in Clyde Hill early subsequent month for a Trump fundraiser. Who’s main fundraising for Trump in our state? An condo developer.
Day 1 of the Republican Nationwide Conference: You may be shocked to study that the loudest applause strains on the primary day of the RNC in Milwaukee got here not from criticism of excessive inflation (which is down) however from “harsh criticisms of transgender folks,” notably surrounding the “challenge” of Transgender Visibility Day falling on Easter this yr, the Related Press reviews. Although the day aimed to deal with financial coverage, nothing fairly unites the GOP like bigotry. That stated, it’s possible you’ll be genuinely shocked to study that Teamsters President Sean O’Brien closed out the conference with a speech about labor unions not being “beholden to any social gathering.” Which may be true of members who like voting towards their financial pursuits, however the Republican social gathering is definitely not beholden to unions, and making an attempt to enchantment to them is plainly fucking silly.
Trump picks Vance for Vice President: The primary-term US Senator from Ohio will turn out to be the primary and worst millennial to run as VP with a serious social gathering. Vance rose to fame with the publication of 2016’s Hillbilly Elegy, a poorly written libertarian manifesto disguised as a memoir about rising up in Appalachia that performed on the sympathies of city liberals in search of an evidence behind Trump’s political success. He rode that By no means Trump wave, hurling dozens of insults on the former president. In a dialog with a former roommate, he even in contrast Trump to Hitler. Vance modified his tune when he reportedly apologized to Trump for getting into “media lies” as he sought the previous President’s endorsement for his senate race. Trump’s determination to choose Vance means that he is feeling good about his possibilities of successful and needs to double-down on the racist, xenophobic revanchism that unites the social gathering:
“Are YOU a racist? Do YOU hate Mexicans?”
– your 2024 GOP vice presidential nomineepic.twitter.com/wFNDC8oENx
— Lakshya Jain (@lxeagle17) July 15, 2024
Three thousand folks protested the conference: Regardless of the shortage of any proof that imply political rhetoric or protests meaningfully contributed to the failed try on Trump’s life, the Washington Submit used that premise to border their complete write-up of the long-planned Republican Nationwide Conference protest, whereby, like most protests, no violence occurred. As many on the protest identified with their indicators and in interviews with the Submit, it isn’t “heated rhetoric” or an “opinion,” it’s a matter of incontrovertible fact that Donald Trump is an “existential risk to democracy,” and that the election is a “matter of life and loss of life for working folks.” The three reporters who contributed to the story did embrace a humorous trade between a non secular protester who held an indication studying, “Homo Intercourse is a sin,” and one other protester who replied, “It’s enjoyable, it’s best to strive it!” So, kudos there.
On the RNC protest march. A mixture of teams right here, some fairly mainstream feminist, LGBT, unions, together with some fringier teams. Loud speeches however the folks I spoke to should not very involved about unrest at present – they’re very involved about Donald Trump’s plans although. pic.twitter.com/P7ese18QMV
— Mike Wendling (@mwendling) July 15, 2024
Elon Musk pledges $45 million a month to Trump PAC: The richest man on the planet plans to spend large on the dumbest man on the planet. Different tech vampires, together with the Winklevoss twins and Peter Thiel’s Palantir, additionally plan to spend large on Trump, the Wall Road Journal reviews.
Nothing to see right here: President Joe Biden continues to wave off issues about his age, telling NBC’s Lester Holt Monday that the race between him and former president Donald Trump is “basically a toss-up” and that his psychological acuity “has been fairly rattling good.” The interview amounted to Biden’s newest try to quiet issues about his age following his horrible debate efficiency final month. Though he defended his health, Biden additionally struggled at some factors within the dialogue, together with not remembering whether or not he spoke to former President Barack Obama earlier than or after the talk, Politico reviews.
Holt: You gave the impression to be confused.
Biden: Lester, look. Why do not you guys ever discuss in regards to the lies that he informed. The place are you on this? pic.twitter.com/hhC2HWyr7m
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 16, 2024
The interview was additionally an opportunity for Biden to answer right-wing assaults claiming his criticism of Trump has heightened the danger of political violence, just like the tried assassination of the previous president over the weekend. Biden informed Holt: “It issues whether or not or not you settle for the result of elections, it issues whether or not or not you, for instance, discuss the way you’re going to take care of the border as an alternative of speaking about folks being vermin. That’s the type of language that’s inflammatory.”
Trump assassination try replace: Folks “frantically” warned regulation enforcement a few shooter on the roof of a constructing two minutes earlier than Thomas Matthew Crooks fired off his photographs, in line with video analyzed by the New York Instances. That video additionally exhibits law enforcement officials parked close to the constructing, strolling across the constructing, and likewise one cop turning his again after the primary gunshot rang out. CBS reviews that somebody “hoisted” a cop onto the roof, however then “the shooter pointed his rifle towards the officer, who let go and fell off.” The Feds unlocked Crooks’s telephone, however they discovered nothing telling. They already knew he was in a gun membership, and {that a} highschool rifle membership rejected him. Transnational funding agency BlackRock briefly featured Crooks in a 2022 industrial. The corporate determined to tug the advert Monday, CNN reviews.
Noticing that native Pittsburg media has repeatedly discovered former classmates confirming the shooter was a right-winger and clearly a loner and for some cause nationwide media retains omitting this. pic.twitter.com/sDXe9TkE9e
— Darrell Owens (@IDoTheThinking) July 15, 2024
Aberdeen mayor apologizes for questioning if Trump taking pictures was staged: Douglas Orr, town’s mayor, wrote on Fb after the taking pictures that he hoped “they verify to verify it wasn’t only a self inflicted scratch.” Orr later deleted the put up and informed KOMO his remark was “actually silly.”
First the hospitals, now the faculties: Within the final eight days, Israel has bombed 5 colleges, killing “dozens,” Al Jazeera reviews. Since Oct 7, Israel has attacked “greater than 400 colleges in Gaza, that are among the many few locations displaced Palestinians can flip to for shelter, destroying 88 p.c of all academic services.” Along with 38,600 lives, the full destruction contains “60 p.c of the enclave’s properties, 80 p.c of its industrial outlets, and 60 p.c of its roads,” in line with the outlet.
Brazilian influencer accused of human trafficking: Tapping into the explosion of wellness influencers on-line, self-proclaimed “guru” Kat Torres constructed a big following of younger ladies, promising “love, cash and vanity that you just at all times dreamed of.” However a few of these ladies say Torres remoted them, pressured them to work with out pay, or pressured them into intercourse work. Greater than 20 ladies say they have been “scammed or exploited,” the BBC reviews. A Brazilian decide lately sentenced Torres to eight years in jail for allegedly subjecting one of many ladies to human trafficking and slavery. Torres has appealed.
I discovered the place we will all go: Scientists have discovered proof of a “sizable cave” on the moon and “suspect there are a whole bunch extra that might home future astronauts,” in line with the Related Press. Feels like PLENTY of coze zones.
I go away you with ML Buch’s “Excessive pace calm air tonight”: In the event you like, they’re enjoying Madam Lou’s on Sunday.
