Boeing Machinists to vote on contract: Voting started at 8 am and closes at 5 pm. The Machinists union will announce the outcomes on the firm’s South Park headquarters after 9 pm. In the event that they settle for, the corporate would bump base pay for the 33,000 Machinists simply shy of 40 p.c over the subsequent 4 years. Within the final 10 years, union members solely obtained an 8 p.c wage improve.
That awkward second while you spend money on racist pseudoscience: Look, tech entrepreneurs like Andrew Conru, an rising native arts funder who based Grownup FriendFinder, have a lot of cash to sling round. Who can fault them for *checks notes* unintentionally investing in scientific racism that promotes the genetic superiority of sure ethnic teams? Final week, the Guardian uncovered Conru’s $1.3 million donation to the far-right Human Variety Basis in alternate for a 15 p.c possession stake within the group. He advised the Seattle Occasions he didn’t help hateful ideology and acknowledged that his vetting course of may have been extra thorough, a world-class understatement. However Conru wouldn’t say if he’d offered off his possession stake.
ICYMI: Mayor Bruce Harrell has proposed laws to place blast balls, that are basically little gas-filled grenades the cops use for crowd management, again into the fingers of the Seattle Police Division. We took away their “much less deadly” toys after their careless use throughout 2020 protests towards racist policing stopped a girl’s coronary heart, broken an individual’s listening to, and bloodied others. Ashley has extra on the attainable rollback.
Soothsayers in our midst: In response to KING 5, Clallam County, which is northwest of Seattle, is the one county within the US to vote for the profitable Presidential candidate each single time within the final 40 years. Since 1920, it is solely gone for the loser twice. Of the 19 different bellwether counties since 1980, all picked Trump in 2020 besides Clallam.
Invoice Gates throws down fats stacks for Harris: The Microsoft founder privately donated $50 million to Future Ahead USA Motion, a nonprofit supporting Vice President Harris’s marketing campaign, in response to the New York Occasions. The donation was meant to remain beneath wraps, however because you’re studying it right here, and I learn it in The New York Occasions, clearly that didn’t occur. Individuals accustomed to the matter advised the paper that Gates is privately apprehensive about cuts to world well being and household planning if Donald Trump is elected. In a press release to the Occasions, Gates didn’t tackle his donation or who he was supporting however mentioned “this election is totally different.”
A technique it’s totally different: An NPR assessment of Donald Trump’s rallies, speeches, and social media posts since 2022 present the previous President has made greater than 100 threats to analyze, prosecute, and jail his enemies, together with political opponents, journalists, and different personal residents. We’ve to cease being shocked by fascism in America. If Trump wins, we’ll have a president taken with the advantages of dictatorship who needs he had the sort of generals Hitler had, and whose former chief of employees thinks he meets the definition of a fascist. If Trump loses, we can not want away the ideology that has contaminated his get together, or his lasting impression on what’s morally acceptable—and even attainable—to say and do in politics.
The Russians went after Tim Walz: US Intelligence officers say pretend movies claiming that Walz abused college students as a instructor and coach had been a Russian try to disrupt the upcoming election and encourage political violence earlier than and after November 5. Reuters stories that, along with Russia, China and Iran are intent on spoon-feeding American voters divisive, rage-inducing, violence-enticing bullshit. Talking of Walz…
Walz: Look, I will not waste the entire time. I’ll speak about his working mate. His working mate, Elon Musk. Elon is on that stage leaping round skipping like a dipshit. pic.twitter.com/9beOlUedHA
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 22, 2024
Not good: Secretary of State Lloyd Austin has confirmed what South Korean intelligence reported final week: There’s proof North Korea has dispatched troops to combat Ukraine simply 5 months after it signed a treaty of mutual protection and cooperation with Russia. Austin known as the deployment a “very severe” escalation. Though South Korean intelligence says 3,000 troops have arrived and seven,000 extra are anticipated to reach by December, Austin didn’t verify these numbers. Moscow and Pyongyang denied the claims, and as of immediately there’s no arduous proof of North Korean troops on the battlefield. With 1.2 million troopers, North Korea has one of many world’s largest militaries, however the nation has not fought in a serious battle because the Korean Struggle.
Antony Blinken met with Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday: Al Jazeera reported the US Secretary of State urged Prime Minister Netanyahu to “capitalize” on Israel’s latest killing of chief Yahya Sinwar and finish its battle in Gaza. Blinken additionally pressed Netanyahu to revive the circulate of humanitarian help to Palestinians. In the present day, Israel carried out a number of airstrikes in Tyre, a port metropolis in southern Lebanon. The UN’s Workplace of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs arrived at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza to evacuate crucial sufferers after Israeli authorities reportedly denied their request to produce the hospital with gas, meals, blood, and medication.
Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO arrested on intercourse trafficking fees: Mike Jeffries, a person who made a fortune sexualizing youth, allegedly lured younger males to druggy, coercive intercourse events together with his standing and the prospect of profitable modeling contracts. Prosecutors say that Jeffries, his associate Matthew Smith, and worker James Jacobson paying males to journey to cities world wide for intercourse after which working to maintain it secret amounted to intercourse trafficking and interstate prostitution. In response to the indictment, males weren’t advised prematurely what sort of intercourse they’d interact in, and a few itineraries resembled extraordinary modeling shoots. Jeffries’s attornies deny the claims.
Arghh: Researchers within the US and elsewhere say scurvy, an historic illness of mariners and scallywags, is making an sudden, very low-level comeback in susceptible teams unable to entry recent vegetables and fruit. Like worm-infested salt pork, hardtack, and conscription into the British Royal Navy, scurvy could be higher left up to now. The results of continual Vitamin C deficiency, which our our bodies want to take care of immune techniques and heal wounds, scurvy could cause pores and skin lesions, unfastened tooth, inner bleeding, and in the end demise. Circumstances are in no way exploding—researchers in a single examine solely discovered 265 cases in 20 million sufferers—however some docs argue it might be under-diagnosed.
New plane simply dropped: The Federal Aviation Administration issued a closing rule for how one can function and practice pilots to make use of electric-powered air taxis, which take off vertically after which fly like fastened wing prop planes. FAA head Mike Whitaker mentioned the “powered-lift” air taxis are the primary new class of plane in almost 80 years.
Joby Aviation unveiled a mannequin of their all-electric futuristic plane at Grand Central Terminal because it prepares to take flight in New York Metropolis. The air taxi may launch within the metropolis as quickly as subsequent yr. pic.twitter.com/OcL7a3A2ji
— CBS Saturday Morning (@cbssaturday) October 5, 2024