An affordability disaster: Why aren’t the folks going to exhibits? Why aren’t they going to eating places? As a result of the hire, the housing, and the price of items are too rattling excessive. In the meantime, revenue ranges—which might’t hold tempo with rising dwelling prices—are too rattling low. In Seattle, half of renters are paying 30% of their month-to-month revenue on rents, and 15% of these renters are spending greater than half of their take-home pay to maintain the roof over their head. Shopping for a home is nothing however a pipe dream, even for the rich amongst us, as housing prices proceed to skyrocket; “the median single-family residence within the Seattle space prices practically seven instances the median family revenue final yr,” the Seattle Occasions reviews. And, in case you had been contemplating high-tailing it out of state, it is a actuality that is true countrywide.
Police accountability? On this nation? A jury discovered Auburn Police Officer Jeffrey Nelson responsible of homicide and assault for taking pictures and killing an unarmed 26-year-old named Jesse Sarey exterior a grocery retailer. Nelson is the primary Washington officer “convicted of state costs for an on-duty loss of life” since 1938. It’s extremely laborious—virtually, it appears, deliberately laborious—to carry cops accountable for his or her actions. Initiative 940, which Washington voters handed in 2018, “modified the authorized commonplace used to measure whether or not police use of lethal pressure was authorized,” in keeping with the Seattle Occasions, by actually eradicating particular language that made “charging an officer virtually unimaginable.” Nelson may face life in jail for the homicide cost and as much as 25 years for the first-degree assault cost.
Teen shot, killed in Beacon Hill: At Thursday round 8 pm, police responded to calls of a taking pictures on Beacon Hill. After they arrived, they discovered a 14-year-old on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound. A police helicopter tracked a car that fled from the scene to Everett and detained three folks in reference to the taking pictures. The boy died from his accidents. That is the sixth taking pictures in Seattle in per week.
The household enterprise: To assist their star participant’s goals come true, the Lakers drafted Bronny James, LeBron James’s oldest son, onto the workforce within the fifty fifth spherical of the NBA draft. LeBron has typically spoken about how he longed to play within the NBA alongside his son—and now he could get the possibility. That is the primary time in NBA historical past a father-and-son duo have been on the identical workforce. Making issues extra fascinating—and making this transfer much less candy and extra calculating—is that LeBron will enter into free company subsequent week, so he may select to up and depart the Lakers. However why would he now, when he may play skilled basketball alongside his little child boy, who, it is value mentioning, is now one of many shortest gamers within the NBA at barely over 6’1 inches tall?
Juneary nonetheless in full swing: How’s your frigid June treating you?
With a median temperature of 60.6 levels, this June is on tempo to be Seattle’s coldest in 12 years. 🥶
— Seattle Climate Weblog (@KSeattleWeather) June 27, 2024
Shitty fucking local weather change: Southwestern Minnesota will not be dealing with a month stuffed with relentless rain very properly. The deluge flooded 17 manure pits throughout 15 farms. The pits overflowed and launched manure-flavored water into the broader surroundings. Simply whenever you assume you have discovered all of the methods the consequences of local weather change will fucking suck, the earth hits you with one thing like “livestock poop water deluge.”
Extra species face extinction: The Worldwide Union for Conservation of Nature’s Pink Listing of Threatened Species got here out and it accommodates 6,000 extra species of vegetation and animals in danger for extinction than it did final yr. The listing totals 163,040 species. Newly joined animals embody the Bornean elephant and the Gran Canaria large lizard.
“Weeks or months” till full library companies return: The ransomware assault focusing on the Seattle Public Library has hobbled the library. Officers say it will be “weeks or months” till every thing is again to regular. They will launch a restoration timeline subsequent week. It will take an identical period of time to find out whether or not the assault stole any private knowledge, and, if that’s the case, what was stolen. So, I am assuming there’s an opportunity some hackers will know simply what sort of fairy smut all of you sickos have been studying.
Debate leaves nation feeling hopeless, icky: Oh, pricey. The place can we even begin? Former president and present convicted felon Donald Trump and President Joe Biden squared off on the controversy stage final night time. Type of. Trump, stuffed with bluster, spewed unchecked lies and nonsense that exposed his true stances: he is pleased with dismantling Roe v. Wade, he defended the Jan 6 rioters, he needs to withdraw from NATO, and so on. And but someway, watching a dull, mouth-breathing, face-frozen, glitchy Joe Biden stumble by means of solutions felt even worse. It ought to have been straightforward to rebut Trump, to carry robust to Democratic values within the face of thinly veiled fascism, and to guarantee the American folks that we’re—and will likely be once more—in good fingers, fingers that can cease anybody from ripping away our human rights. However Biden did the alternative. I got here away from the controversy with a easy, hole feeling. I am going to sum it up for you: We’re so fucking cooked.
Right here, watch these two bozos discuss golf:
These dudes have been calling one another the worst President in historical past for 80 straight minutes — and neither one among them acquired actually offended till their golf expertise had been questioned. Hahaha.
pic.twitter.com/mFEI25Djh7— Gary Parrish (@GaryParrishCBS) June 28, 2024
What occurred: Whether or not true or not, the optics of the controversy confirmed the fears and rumors swirling round about Biden’s age. Whatever the statements Biden strung collectively defending abortion, immigration, the economic system, and calling out Trump as a menace to democracy, he did so in a stilted, inconsistent tone and with a comfortable, reedy voice that seemed like a tragic, damaged clarinet. America is a rustic dominated by picture, and this picture didn’t encourage confidence. In actual fact, a number of articles with the central thesis of “Is it too late for a brand new Democratic nominee?” cropped up within the wake of the controversy.
So, wait, can we get a brand new nominee? Since all of the states have already held their primaries, the one manner we may get a brand new nominee is that if Biden dropped out and pledged all his delegates to another person. He’d additionally have to drop out earlier than the Democratic Nationwide Conference in August.
It is so bleak: Listed below are humorous tweets.
Everybody watching this debate: pic.twitter.com/tNnCydHjnl
— Brian Martinez (@BrianMartinezWI) June 28, 2024
They shoulda simply performed sizzling ones and whoever lived can have it
— Akilah Hughes (@AkilahObviously) June 28, 2024
Alright, yeah, “you’ve gotten the morals of an alley cat” really goes laborious. I am going to give Biden that one.
— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) June 28, 2024
my response to the controversy? actually do not assume we’re presupposed to be seeing this, give the household some privateness please
— Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social) (@ashleyfeinberg) June 28, 2024
biden will win. along with the election there will likely be a son wrestling contest
— . (@jaboukie) June 28, 2024
Simply in case you had hope for one thing totally different: Biden not solely will not be dropping out, however he’ll topic us to watching him debate once more in September. Please, permit him entry to a fats line of stimulants beforehand. For all of our sakes.
NEW, as simply reported on @CNN: Not solely does @POTUS not plan to drop out, Biden stays dedicated to a second debate in September, an adviser tells me
— Kayla Tausche (@kaylatausche) June 28, 2024
Anyway, again to different information.
NCAA says just a little weed is okay: The governing physique for faculty sports activities eliminated hashish from the banned drug listing for faculty soccer gamers collaborating in championship video games or post-season soccer since weed does “not present a aggressive benefit.”
Supreme Court docket does one other quietly evil factor: On Friday, the Court docket launched a 6-3 resolution to kill off the judicial doctrine referred to as Chevron deference. For the reason that Reagan period, the doctrine “required judges to defer to businesses’ ‘cheap’ interpretations of ‘ambiguous’ federal legal guidelines.” This implies judges can rely extra on their very own readings of legal guidelines and so they can extra simply, as Politico put it, “upend laws on well being care, the surroundings, monetary laws, know-how and extra.” The 6-3 resolution was cut up alongside ideological traces. This ruling quantities to an enormous judicial power-grab, successfully making the 9 justices the heads of the EPA, the FDA, the FCC, and so on. This meme sums up the impression properly:
Who ought to interpret what constitutes spoiled meals or harmful particulate? The Supreme Court docket has picked a solution. pic.twitter.com/ybhj5Tw1jK
— Joe Patrice (@JosephPatrice) June 28, 2024
The Supreme Court docket did an overtly evil factor, too: One other 6-3 resolution from the Supreme Court docket got here down the pipe Friday morning. Additionally alongside ideological traces (stunning), the Court docket issued an opinion overturning the Ninth Circuit Court docket of Appeals’ resolution on Grants Move v. Johnson, a case which “invalidated” an Oregon city’s anti-camping ordinance, making it tougher to brush homeless folks. The Supreme Court docket’s resolution discovered that arresting and criminalizing folks for violating tenting bans—or, in different phrases, sleeping exterior once they have nowhere else to sleep—will not be “merciless or uncommon punishment” in violation of the Eighth Modification. The Court docket opined “that the facility to resolve methods to handle homelessness largely rests with native officers.” Nicely, there you go, American cities, you have been given license to proceed to perpetuate the cycle of poverty.
From Sotomayor’s Grants Move dissent:
“Sleep is a organic necessity, not against the law. For some folks, sleeping exterior is their solely choice. The Metropolis of Grants Move jails and fines these folks for sleeping wherever in public at any time, together with of their automobiles, in the event that they use…
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) June 28, 2024
Oh, god, one other one: In one other ruling launched at the moment, the Supreme Court docket “made it tougher to cost Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, a cost that additionally has been introduced towards former President Donald Trump.” Guess what? One other 6-3 ruling. Hahahahaha. A minimum of the ghouls are clear. However, yeah. The ruling provides a teensy element that states that any cost of obstructing an official continuing “should embody proof that defendants tried to tamper with or destroy doc,” which just a few of the Jan 6 insurrectionists did. You possibly can guess your ass this can someway profit Trump and his revolt trial. As NPR states, “The choice could possibly be used as fodder for claims by Trump and his Republican allies that the Justice Division has handled the Capitol riot defendants unfairly.”
Wow, I hate to finish it on that word: However there has merely been an excessive amount of information at the moment. You are sick of me by now. My fingers are seizing up and my coronary heart is shrinking right into a withered raisin now that it has been leached of its each day (albeit silly) allotment of hope. Right here is the one pleased story I can cleanse your palate with: The Guardian requested its readers to inform tales of their greatest mates, and so they delivered.
