Boeing’s unhealthy yr continues: The corporate pays $487 million and plead responsible to defrauding the Federal Aviation Administration for its half in two deadly airplane crashes that occurred in 2018 and 2019. Whereas that looks as if some huge cash, Boeing averted paying the $24.8 billion desired by the households of the 737 MAX 8 crash victims. Boeing will now have to function underneath a government-appointed unbiased monitor for 3 years.
Yikes! Seattle Police Deputy Chief Eric Barden is underneath investigation for allegedly asking a deputy to lie on a police report to guard a former home companion who was accused of violating a protecting order. Barden, who’s the second in command at SPD, additionally faces fees for doable home abuse. Whereas taking a look at these fees, Pierce County prosecutors have been tipped off about this incident of alleged interference. Oh, is not it enjoyable to see how rotten our little police division is after which to recollect how a lot cash we give them yearly?
SPD nonetheless paying ousted chief: In Could, after being accused of sexual harassment and gender discrimination by six girls, SPD Chief Adrian Diaz resigned as chief and opted to say within the division by engaged on “particular initiatives.” Nonetheless, Publicola discovered that Diaz continues to be chopping a verify for his chief wage of $338,000. In reality, inner payrolls nonetheless checklist him as chief. These payrolls additionally checklist his alternative, Sue Rahr, as interim chief with an annual wage of $349,000. So, is SPD actually spending over $687,000 of metropolis cash on two police chiefs?
It is too fucking scorching: The solar baked us this weekend. It scorched our pores and skin, turned our flats into ovens, and bleached all of the grass throughout the town from inexperienced to brown. The warmth will proceed, and it’ll worsen. Tuesday might see temperatures flirt with triple digits within the Puget Sound space. Temperatures are 15 to twenty levels hotter than regular for this time of yr. Drink numerous water, do not mild something on fireplace, and keep cool when you can. Having bother staying cool? This is a listing of the Metropolis’s cooling facilities.
Temperatures on Monday will probably be a level or two hotter than Sunday. Widespread 80s to 90s are anticipated throughout Puget Sound, with cooler temperatures alongside the rapid coast. #WAwx pic.twitter.com/CvHNhqrcBG
— NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) July 8, 2024
It is scorching throughout: The entire West is sweltering. An extreme warmth warning is in place for 36 million individuals, which quantities to 10% of the US inhabitants. A lot of the warmth is breaking data, like Redding, California reaching 119 levels and Las Vegas reaching 120 levels, or the actually lethal warmth in Demise Valley at 128 levels, which killed a vacationer over the weekend.
Extra damaged data: Breaking temperature data is changing into a damaged document. That is local weather change, child. We’re the frog in boiling water.
We have got a pair extra days within the 90s developing for Seattle. If we do, that will make 4 consecutive days of 90°+. What number of stretches of 4+ of 90° have we had every decade since 1960?
1960-1969: 1
1970-1979: 3
1980-1989: 1
1990-1999: 0
2000-2009: 2
2010-2019: 3
2020-2024: 2— NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) July 8, 2024
Drones down: Town of SeaTac paid $40,000 for a Fourth of July drone present over Angle Lake. For some motive, 55 of the 200 drones fell out of the sky and into the lake. Every drone value $2,600, so the full harm was $143,000. It is unclear who will foot that invoice. The drone firm would not know what went fallacious, nevertheless it believes exterior interference reminiscent of a cell tower or somebody with a “drone jamming gun” might be responsible. No matter it was triggered the drones to lose contact with their GPS so that they “did not know the place house was.” Poor little drones.
Learn the room! Joe Biden has no intention of leaving the presidential race. Regardless of the inflow of elected officers asking him to step apart, Biden nonetheless believes he is the very best individual to beat Donald Trump. He stated as a lot in a letter he wrote to Congressional Democrats. To date, Congressman Adam Smith is the one member of Washington’s delegation to ask Biden to step down.
BREAKING: President Biden sends prolonged letter to congressional Democrats defending himself. “Regardless of all of the hypothesis within the press and elsewhere, I’m firmly dedicated to staying on this race, to working this race to the top, and to beating Donald Trump.” pic.twitter.com/MyI1BO3Dpk
— Matt Viser (@mviser) July 8, 2024
France’s scrambled Parliament: France’s snap election, which might have seen the far-right occasion acquire a majority, concluded Sunday. The excellent news is the far-right didn’t acquire a majority, however neither did any occasion. In reality, the leftist alliance received probably the most votes, dealing a success to the precise and to President Emmanuel Macron’s centrists. So, the French parliament is closely divided. As Reuters put it, “the election will depart parliament divided in three huge teams… with vastly totally different platforms and no custom in any respect of working collectively.” No matter. Something is best than being dominated by a far-right majority. Conserving spitting within the face of fascism, lefties. I want our legislators would take some notes.
“No Pasaran”
Unimaginable scenes in France this night because the left unites to ship the fascists packing.
— Rachael Swindon #WeAreCollective (@Rachael_Swindon) July 7, 2024
NASA astronauts emerge from Mars simulation: The four-person crew from NASA spent over a yr—378 days—in a simulated Mars surroundings to see what doable circumstances might seem like for an eventual mission on Mars. The crew lived and survived collectively in a 1,700 sq. foot area. They simulated spacewalks, grew their very own greens, and communicated with anybody not within the simulation by a 22-minute delay, just like the one they’d really expertise on Mars. On Saturday, they have been lastly in a position to depart their 3D-printed enclosure.
Russia bombards Ukraine: Based on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia fired 40 long-rage missile strikes throughout Ukraine. One strike hit a kids’s hospital in Kyiv.
Fined for a kiss: French bicycle owner Julien Bernard was fined for stopping to kiss his spouse whereas competing within the particular person time trial stage of the Tour de France. UCI, biking’s governing physique, stated Bernard engaged in “unseemly or inappropriate habits in the course of the race and harm to the picture of the game.” I feel it is romantic. Bernard wrote on Twitter, “I’m sorry for having broken the picture of the game, however I might pay 200 CHF ($220) every single day to relive this second.”
A music in your Monday: One thing a few non-dissipating delirious warmth makes me need to take heed to this music.
