Appears a bit of cozy: In personal group chats with Seattle Police Division leaders, Federal Monitor Antonio Oftelie (the particular person accountable for federal oversight to the division) described a disconnect between what the apparently ignorant public wished to see from the division (accountability) and the “systemic studying” he wished to see (no accountability however someway issues get higher?). He additionally replied “Sigh 😖” to a Seattle Instances article a couple of former SPD detective’s tort claims of racial and sexual harassment. The Division of Justice declined to say whether or not or not these conversations with SPD’s Chief Authorized Counsel Rebecca Boatright, Chief Working Officer Brian Maxey, and former SPD Chief Technique Officer had been acceptable. Ashley has extra right here.
Now to Hannah with information from the fetid chambers of Metropolis Council…
There’s been a complete lot of discuss disinformation right now, let’s break it down what’s true and what’s false 🧵
— Puget Sound Sage (@PugetSoundSage) June 5, 2024
Rivera made enemies: I don’t assume insulting the intelligence of BIPOC organizers will win you any favor, Rivera, nevertheless it seems the harm is finished. Anti-displacement organizations together with Puget Sound Sage, Africatown Group Land Belief, and El Centro de la Raza held a press convention at Metropolis Corridor Tuesday morning demanding that the Mayor and the Metropolis Council shield EDI, the JumpStart payroll tax, and to seek out new progressive income so different vital applications don’t face the same destiny whereas the Metropolis tries to stability the finances with a quarter-billion-dollar deficit.
Kent did not sweep the migrants: The King County Sheriff’s Workplace stated it would not assist town sweep the encampment, and the Metropolis stated it wasn’t going to comb on land it did not personal, so the sweep did not occur:
No sweep right now! pic.twitter.com/YwaJoDvfvy
— Hannah Krieg (@hannahkrieg) June 4, 2024
Again to me!
New unions are born <3: Staff on the seventh and Westlake retailer filed for election with the Nationwide Labor Relations Board Tuesday, together with staff at 17 different US areas. The filings come days after Starbucks Staff United wrapped a second spherical of nationwide bargaining with the corporate. The union says it made vital progress towards establishing a foundational framework for retailer contracts.
.@SBWorkersUnited says one other Starbucks in Seattle has filed for an union election & vital progress is being made concerning contract negotiations pic.twitter.com/jFYeh8xWRk
— Lilly Ana Fowler (@LillyAFowler) June 4, 2024
Latest WSU grad goes lacking at Sea-Tac: KING 5 stories 21-year-old Nadia Erika Cole of Port Angeles was final seen leaving the airport at 3 pm on Could 29. She wore a black North Face jacket, sage hoodie, black yoga pants, white converse, and carried a tan shoulder bag. If authorities know what could have occurred, they’re not saying. Authorities in Fife say she “could” have been seen there after she left Sea-Tac.
Stealing would not pay, youngsters: A federal jury awarded $81 million in damages to the founders of the failed electrical airplane startup Zunum final week after ruling that Boeing stole their know-how. Again in 2017, Washington and Boeing invested in an bold plan from Zunum to design a hybrid-electric plane for brief city-to-city flights. The corporate spent $282,000 of our tax {dollars}, by no means constructed an airplane, and fell aside. Zunum alleged Boeing had engineered its collapse to entry its commerce secrets and techniques and construct an electrical airplane of its personal. As a result of the jury discovered Boeing’s actions had been “willful and malicious,” the choose may triple the damages.
Nice, we’re making an attempt to sanction the ICC now? Almost each Home Republican and a few Democrats voted to sanction the Worldwide Prison Courtroom over potential arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and different Israeli officers for conflict crimes. It’s unlikely to go far as a result of despite the fact that Biden known as the ICC’s indictments “outrageous,” he doesn’t help this.
Israel focused US lawmakers with an affect marketing campaign: In line with officers who spoke to the New York Instances, Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs organized a $2 million social media marketing campaign final 12 months to persuade American lawmakers and the general public to help the conflict in Gaza. Final October, the Israeli authorities started posting ChatGPT-generated, pro-Israel feedback from lots of of faux accounts on X, Fb, and Instagram.
Evanston, Illinois sued for paying reparations: In 2021, the Chicago suburb’s metropolis council voted to create the primary government-funded reparations program within the nation. This system paid Black residents with household ties to Evanston between 1919 and 1969 (or those that’d skilled housing discrimination since) as much as $25,000 every. Final week, the conservative advocacy group Judicial Watch filed a class-action lawsuit claiming reverse racism. The six members of the class-action swimsuit declare they’d be eligible for $25,000 in reparations if not for a “race-based eligibility requirement.” I’d say they’re eligible to get a fucking grip.
F-: Any pupil is aware of to show of their assignments or else fail, which is form of what occurred this week to Keith Posley, the Superintendent of Milwaukee Public Colleges. He forgot to submit important monetary stories to the state, threatening thousands and thousands of {dollars} in funding for the biggest district in Wisconsin. He resigned the day after a public assembly the place greater than 100 freaked mother and father and academics stated they wished him gone. His final day is June 29. I’ll be stunned in the event that they don’t chase him away with pitchforks.
Means too scorching: A sweltering warmth wave is melting parts of the West. Temperatures from Texas to Nevada to California are hovering to over 100 levels. Yesterday, Texas cities San Antonio, Abilene, Del Rio and San Angelo neared data. Phoenix may break them, which is absolutely saying one thing when you’ve ever been to Phoenix. Such warmth might be deadly. Even usually scorching locations battle to deal with it. In Maricopa County, the place Phoenix is situated, practically 650 folks died of heat-related sickness final 12 months, a 52% improve over 2022. About 32 million persons are on alert for life-threatening temperatures right now.
It is a no: Scientific advisors to the FDA voted 10-1 in opposition to recommending that the regulator approve MDMA (aka ecstasy and molly) to deal with post-traumatic stress dysfunction. The panel targeted on a supposedly murky or tainted dataset from a latest scientific trial that left extra questions than solutions in regards to the drug’s effectiveness and security. The Institute for Scientific and Financial Evaluate and the American Psychological Affiliation additionally discovered there was inadequate proof to help MDMA’s therapeutic utility. The FDA doesn’t must take the panel’s recommendation (nevertheless it normally does and doubtless will) and can make a ultimate name in August.
Pipe dream: Pissing in American cities sucks, however New York is trying to make it higher. Mayor Eric Adams introduced a plan to construct 46 new public restrooms, renovate 36 current halls of aid, and launch a brand new Google Maps layer indicating the place all of them are. They name the plan “Ur in Luck.” Charming. (Years earlier than town launched this initiative, New Yorker Teddy Siegel created got2gonyc, an unbelievable map of two,000 such services).
And George Costanza will create an app known as iToilet ranking the most effective public bogs and make a fortune… pic.twitter.com/VOZE2vBeYo
— jellin76💙🟧🟦patriotism=caring about others (@jellin76) June 4, 2024
