Arson in Paris: Forward of the Olympics’ opening ceremony in Paris on Friday, coordinated arson assaults on three completely different high-speed rail traces disrupted transit service into the town for 800,000 passengers. The disruptions will seemingly proceed by means of the weekend, too. What had been the assaults? Authorities say “fires had been set in pipes carrying cables used for signaling.” They had been detected round 4 am.
Talking of blazing up in Paris: Snoop Dogg carried the Olympic torch. Unclear if at any level he mimed smoking the torch as if it had been an enormous joint. I hope he did. You’ll be able to watch the Opening Ceremonies at 10:30 am Friday, or await the encore, prime-time broadcast airing at 4:30 pm. To hype your self up for the Video games, why not dive into the world of Olympic athlete TikTok?
Snoop Dogg carrying the Olympic torch is a vibe pic.twitter.com/ZP5fUVDvav
— Bastien Fachan (@BastienFachan) July 26, 2024
Monsanto forks over a bit of change: Seattle will obtain the largest payout to a single metropolis from the evil agrochemical and agriculture firm Monsanto after a near-decade-long authorized battle. Again in 2016, then-Metropolis Legal professional Pete Holmes sued Monsanto for contaminating the 20,000 acres of land that drained into the Decrease Duwamish River with poisonous polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. Monsanto can pay Seattle $160 million. That money could also be too little too late, because the price ticket for a full Duwamish River cleanup sits at an estimated $342 million.
Bottle service: A gaggle of Polish divers discovered a Nineteenth-century shipwreck 20 nautical miles south of the Swedish island of Öland. After they dove all the way down to discover, the workforce discovered a treasure trove “loaded to the brim” with 100 bottles of old-ass champagne. Cheers!
Unhealthy information for that treasure: “Champagne gross sales down worldwide in 2024, business executives cite ‘lack of cheer'”
Excellent news for wonky wolf hearts: The Woodland Park Zoo implanted a pacemaker right into a 14-year-old grey wolf named Shila. Zoo scientists consider it is the primary such repair of its variety as a result of who actually is placing pacemakers in wolves? Thus far, a month after implantation, the surgical procedure is a hit. Shila is appearing younger and spry once more. Nonetheless, as this KING 5 article factors out, your complete remainder of her pack is lifeless. Studying that, I am unable to assist however surprise if possibly Shila would have most well-liked to die.
Restaurant rumors: The Capitol Hill Seattle Weblog stories that the Ethan Stowell Eating places group could also be trying to put a Mexican restaurant on fifteenth Avenue East within the area that used to accommodate The Canterbury bar. Nothing has been capable of survive in that constructing because the Previous English-themed pub closed in 2022.
One other excellent day on deck: Sunny, breezy, highs within the mid-70s, and air high quality stays good regardless of a rash of wildfires.
A smoky state: Do not be fooled by the dearth of smoke thus far throughout this Seattle summer time, fires are occurring statewide.
You’ll be able to see on this forecast for near-surface smoke focus, the a number of energetic wildfires which can be the supply for the smoke many within the western parts of the nation are coping with at the moment/tonight. Air high quality alerts are in impact for a lot of. See in case your space is impacted at… pic.twitter.com/xBxpTYyZaY
— Nationwide Climate Service (@NWS) July 25, 2024
Oregon’s big-ass fireplace: In Oregon, the Durkee Fireplace within the japanese a part of the state is the largest fireplace within the US at present. The blaze, fueled by 60 mph winds, has turned 419 sq. miles into tinder. Regardless of per week of combating the hearth with a crew of 500 folks, the hearth remains to be 0% contained.
Oh no: In case you forgot, SeaFair is across the nook. Cannot we get one yr the place we do not have to hearken to the fucking Blue Angels?
The Obamas endorse Harris: Barack and Michelle Obama gave Kamala Harris a name.
Earlier this week, Michelle and I referred to as our buddy @KamalaHarris. We instructed her we expect she’ll make a improbable President of america, and that she has our full assist. At this crucial second for our nation, we’re going to do every little thing we will to verify she wins in… pic.twitter.com/0UIS0doIbA
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 26, 2024
A bucket of chilly water: Harris signaled Thursday that she’s going to toe the pro-Israel celebration line when she launched a press release condemning the Washington DC protests in opposition to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s go to to Congress. Nonetheless, in a press convention, Harris did name for the warfare to finish, saying it was “time for this warfare to finish, and finish in a means the place Israel is safe, all of the hostages are launched, the struggling of Palestinians in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian folks can train their proper to freedom, dignity and self-determination”.
Learn my full assertion on the protests in Washington, D.C. yesterday. pic.twitter.com/zJpZvdQDt9
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) July 25, 2024
An Olympic scandal: The Olympic Video games have not even began and there is already an enormous, juicy scandal. One of many six coaches for Canada’s girls’s soccer workforce was arrested for allegedly flying a drone over the New Zealand girls’s soccer workforce’s practices and spying on them. He was faraway from the workforce and despatched again to Canada.
Eargate: Donald Trump and his workforce nonetheless have not launched the previous president’s medical information from the assassination try. FBI Director Christopher Wray prompt Trump’s ouchie ear, which has change into a bizarre proper wing image, wasn’t sliced by a bullet however by shrapnel. If it wasn’t a direct bullet hit, Trump’s narrative loses a little bit of oomf. Saying a bullet whizzed by him and narrowly missed killing him is way sexier and Divine-Intervention-y than saying a chunk of his shattered teleprompter gave him a boo-boo.
Newsom says begin the sweeps: The ink is barely dry on the Supreme Courtroom ruling permitting bans on homeless folks sleeping outdoor, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued an order for state businesses to take away encampments on state land. “There are merely no extra excuses. It’s time for everybody to do their half,” Newsom mentioned. Different public officers in California are anticipated to challenge related sweeps-focused orders within the coming months. The place will all of the swept homeless folks in California—residence to one-third of the nation’s homeless inhabitants—go? Unclear!
Life on Mars? The Mars rover found a cool rock that will point out microbial life existed on the planet billions of years in the past.
A track to your Friday: I wrote most of this round-up whereas mendacity on my lounge ground this morning. I do not know why. This track felt becoming:
