Good morning: Welcome to a different gloomy day in Seattle. This morning, you possibly can count on cloudy skies and temperatures within the excessive 40s. Issues ought to heat up barely within the afternoon, peaking at 52 levels at 4pm earlier than the showers roll in for the night. As lots of chances are you’ll know, I’m extraordinarily devoted to strolling 10,000 steps a day (don’t inform me it is an arbitrary quantity. I take heed to Upkeep Part, I do know), however I’m actually struggling to succeed in 70,000 by Saturday on this wet climate. Time to fireplace up the strolling pad!
The revenge of Adrian Diaz: Former Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz filed a $10 million tort declare towards the Metropolis, Mayor Bruce Harrell, and Deputy Mayor Tim Burgess, in accordance with the Seattle Instances. Diaz claims that they “wrongfully discharged and discriminated, harassed and retaliated towards” him after he got here out as homosexual to Harrell and Burgess in February. Months later, in Could, Harrell eliminated Diaz from his place amid a number of harassment allegations from ladies inside the division. Diaz appeared to brush the ladies’s allegations apart in an interview with conservative commentator Jason Rantz in June the place he publicly got here out. However bear in mind: You will be homosexual and harass ladies! Occurs on a regular basis really.
Get your bag, I suppose: The bundle does embrace amendments to reverse among the Mayor’s most outrageous cuts. If handed, it might save the Seattle Channel, restore funding to the Workplace of Labor Requirements, and partially restore funding for tenant companies. It additionally contains the road merchandise under, which made me chuckle solely as a result of it is so shameless, no matter Council Member Tanya Woo’s intention.
CM Tanya Woo proposes funding so as to add what may very well be a great job for her after she loses the election subsequent week. She should actually see the writing on the wall! pic.twitter.com/dGrC9Jbi9t
— Hannah Krieg (@hannahkrieg) October 30, 2024
Poll field: Cops revealed extra details about the suspect within the current assaults on the poll containers in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington. Apparently they consider he’s a skinny, balding white man in his 30 to 40s with a background in welding. Be careful as a result of the cops assume he is more likely to strike once more.
Now Ashley has one thing to say…
Blame it on Antifa: Proper-wing journalist Andy Ngo reported that the incendiary units used to blow up the poll containers in Clark County earlier this week included a word with the phrase “Free Gaza.” The Stranger has not independently verified this. However take into account, in accordance with paperwork obtained by Property of the Individuals, on September 10, the Division of Homeland Safety warned that among the individuals plotting to explode poll containers mentioned they’d try to keep away from detection by pinning the assaults on leftist actors. So let’s wait to place weight on this till they catch the man who did it.
Neck-and-neck: New polling from USA TODAY/Suffolk College exhibits Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are deadlocked in Michigan, an important battleground state. Cannot fucking watch for this election to be over!
Talking of: When you have not voted but, there’s nonetheless time! Your poll ought to be in your mailbox or on no matter floor you let your mail pile up on in your house. Rip that factor open, fill it out the way in which we let you know, after which put it in a poll field by 8pm, November 5. You’ll be able to take a motorcycle!
You will get a free shared e-bike or scooter experience to drop off your poll.
Lime (@limebike) affords two free 30-minute rides: use the code VOTE2024 of their app.
Chicken (@BirdRide) affords two free rides: use the code RockTheVote2024 of their app. pic.twitter.com/2Z0Za1W3xA
— Seattle Division of Transportation (@seattledot) October 30, 2024
Completely happy Halloween: Here is among the celeb Halloween highlights as informed by some man on my FYP this morning.
@louislevanti im OBSESSED with these costumes #halloweencostume #celebritynews ♬ Cooking, bossa nova, adults, mild(950693) – Children Sound
North Korea + Russia = BFFs: The Related Press experiences that as many as 12,000 North Korean troops sporting Russian uniforms and carrying Russian weapons are en route for Ukraine. Bringing in North Korea might additional destabilize the area and result in broader warfare, in accordance with U.S. and South Korean officers.
Rubbish truck Trump: Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s newest marketing campaign stunt concerned driving a Trump-branded rubbish truck, presumably in effort to attraction to the working class he barely pretends to care about. Or maybe to push down search outcomes for the racist feedback that comic made about Puerto Rico being an pile of rubbish at his current rally. Trump bashed President Joe Biden to reporters for his controversial remarks calling Trump supporters rubbish (to be truthful, I feel he meant to name their racism rubbish, however studying is tough). Trump mentioned, “I can let you know who the true rubbish is however I cannot say that.”
Hm, attention-grabbing selection to position the rubbish within the entrance of the truck.pic.twitter.com/CdQzp4fycZ
— Mary L Trump (@MaryLTrump) October 30, 2024
SCOTUS? Extra like suck ass: See what I did there? Very humorous for 6am! Anyway, the USA Supreme Court docket dominated yesterday that Virginia doesn’t have to revive voter registration for 1,600 voters faraway from their rolls. The choice responds to a lawsuit from the Division of Justice and civil rights teams towards the Republican governor’s current government, which directed the state to run day by day checks for non-citizens on its voter registration rolls. The teams say the order violates a federal regulation prohibiting systematic removals of voters inside 90 days of election. Appears fairly minimize and dry, however go away it to SCOTUS to greenlight voter suppression! I might let you know why, however the justices didn’t clarify, as is customary with expedited choices like these.
ICYMI: Didn’t make it to the Local weather Pledge Area for Maggie Rogers earlier this week? No sweat. Be part of The Stranger’s personal Audrey Vann for a spiked Shirley Temple on the indie pop girly’s first enviornment tour. Principally like being there!
From Maggie: I’m not so acquainted with Maggie Rogers — like, I don’t have a favourite tune — so, right here’s her newest, I suppose.
