17-year-old lifeless after taking pictures exterior Garfield: A lunchtime taking pictures within the Garfield Excessive College car parking zone struck a scholar a number of occasions within the chest and stomach. After being transported to Harborview Medical Middle, the coed later died from his accidents. In response to police, the coed tried to interrupt up a battle after which his assailant pulled a gun on him, taking pictures him at shut vary. That is solely the most recent in shootings round Garfield within the final calendar yr. In March, a bullet struck a woman ready for her bus exterior the varsity. In a single occasion final October and a number of other occasions final June, shootings by the varsity, which didn’t contain college students, put Garfield and its group on excessive alert. Police are nonetheless trying to find the suspect in Thursday’s taking pictures, who they consider to be high-school aged. Garfield won’t have lessons on Friday or Monday on account of Thursday’s occasions. Friday occurs to be Gun Violence Consciousness Day.
Dave Reichert’s coy little nod: The previous King County Sheriff and present Republican candidate for governor has averted saying publicly whether or not or not he’ll vote for Donald Trump for president, since he desires to seize undecided moderates but in addition Republicans who would see not voting for Trump as social gathering betrayal. Reichert gave his reply at a personal Republican occasion again in March. When requested if he’d vote for Trump, he mentioned Trump has nicknamed him “Sheriff,” and that he has a signed MAGA hat at house, after which he nodded. A Democratic operative within the viewers recorded Reichert’s statements and reported the nod, which the Seattle Instances confirmed with different individuals who have been current. Bob Ferguson’s marketing campaign for governor despatched the recording to the Instances. “Behind closed doorways, Dave Reichert unmasks who he actually is—simply one other MAGA hat carrying Trump lover,” Ferguson mentioned.
Excellent news for mountain lovers: All you sick fucks who love Mount Rainier are going to be so jazzed these subsequent few days.
Sure, it’s.
Everyone knows the query. Extra mountain viewing the subsequent couple of days with highs within the mid 70s to decrease 80s for the inside. #wawx pic.twitter.com/k3vLOWh0cf— NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) June 7, 2024
No Pleasure flag for Newcastle: The town council for the suburb of Bellevue and Seattle voted 4-3 Tuesday to not increase a Pleasure flag for the month of June. Mayor Robert Clark primarily argued that the Metropolis’s assist for Pleasure would disservice bigots. And, in addition to, the American flag is already flying, which is the “most unifying image within the historical past of the world,” he mentioned. “That is numerous sufficient for me. That features everyone locally, everyone. No person is not noted with the American flag.” Clark additionally mentioned that elevating the Pleasure flag would result in a slippery slope of getting to lift different flags, akin to MAGA flags or Hamas flags. Fairly the cognitive leap to attach Pleasure, a celebration of LGBTQIA+ individuals’s existence, with excessive politics.
Prepare for the most recent Seattle Dealer Joe’s: In response to allow plans, the chain’s latest retailer can be in Greenwood within the backside flooring of an residence constructing at Greenwood Avenue North and North 87th Road.
Bye, Pat Sajak: The Wheel of Fortune legend is retiring after 41 years of telling individuals to spin the wheel. Friday’s episode can be his final. And, like, good. Take a break, Pat. Let your cheeks relaxation after 41 years of smiling that perpetual sport present smile. Ryan Seacrest will succeed Pat as Wheel‘s host.
Good for them: A Seattle couple, Larry R. Dalton and Nicole A. Boand, donated $10 million to the College of Washington College of Nursing. Dalton is a former UW chemistry professor and Boand is a former registered nurse. Look, we’ve 54,200 millionaires on this metropolis, I believe all of them needs to be funneling a few of these tens of millions again into their group, particularly if town or the state refuses to tax their wealth.
I’ll take credit score for this: Sound Transit lastly (largely) fastened its elevator/escalator breakdown issues. Logically, I do know they have been most likely engaged on the problem earlier than I wrote about it, however I’ll inflate the significance of the appropriately dramatic exposé on damaged escalators I wrote again in 2018 and say that journalism pressured them into fixing this.
Noticed some unimaginable knowledge at @SoundTransit Rider Expertise Committee simply now. Over the previous few years, the variety of hours that elevators and escalators are out of service within the mild rail system have plummeted from 17,100 hours/month to 2,500/month. Actually nice pattern. pic.twitter.com/uMf8gOQ2Aw
— Girmay Zahilay (@GirmayZahilay) June 6, 2024
School essay materials: Three boys—two brothers and their cousin—found fossilized stays of a younger Tyrannosaurus rex whereas climbing in North Dakota’s Badlands. Younger T-rex fossils are uncommon finds. See what occurs if you put your telephones away, youngsters?
Get your ass to jail, Steve: Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon wants to start out serving a four-month sentence by July 1. Bannon defied a Home committee’s subpoena for an investigation into the Jan 6 revolt, and he was convicted by a federal decide Thursday for contempt of Congress. Bannon shouldn’t be going quietly. He’ll doubtless “search a keep of the decide’s order,” the Related Press reported. He instructed reporters, “There’s not a jail constructed or jail constructed that may ever shut me up.”
Jobs: Hey, I do know you’ll be able to’t get employed wherever regardless that you’ve got utilized to 1,000 jobs on Certainly, however the jobs report is definitely higher than forecasted. Employers added what CNN has dubbed “a blockbuster” variety of jobs final month—272,000 of them—and unemployment dropped from 4% to three.9%.
Report Finds Encouraging Rise In Jobs That Contain Torturing Someone https://t.co/uezS0mPDdC
— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 7, 2024
Extra comeuppance for dangerous guys: Alex Jones lastly agreed to liquidate his property in order that he can begin paying again the households of the Sandy Hook bloodbath who he unfold lies about and to whom he owes a cool $1.5 billion in damages for his defamatory feedback. Jones has but to pay the households any cash regardless of being discovered liable in 2022. With this liquidation of property, Jones will not personal InfoWars, his conspiracy idea empire.
The US is doing effectively within the *checks notes* cricket World Cup? The USA’s cricket workforce simply upset the cricket powerhouse Pakistan on this yr’s Twenty20 World Cup. That is all I am going to say about that as a result of I do not know anything about cricket regardless of studying the foundations in center faculty health club class and watching the Vox Defined episode on the game a number of occasions.
Chicken flu watch: Chicken flu has made its means into cows. Alarming! Most of the contaminated cows—although we do not know the precise quantity—have died from chook flu infections or have been slaughtered after they didn’t get better from chook flu signs. Much more alarming! In South Dakota on a 1,700-cow dairy farm, 12 contaminated cows died after being contaminated, and the farmer slaughtered one other 12. A Michigan farm killed 10% of its 200 contaminated cows after they did not get better. Michigan has probably the most cow infections and is the place two of three human dairy employees contracted chook flu.
ICYMI: My latest “Play Date” column got here out, and this time it is also in print! Horny! I discovered the way to cheerlead for this one.
Is not this the land of the free? A Phish fan has been banned from the Las Vegas Sphere after he filmed what he dubbed the primary ever bong rip contained in the venue. This pioneer, named Acid Fartz, will not have the ability to attend this summer season’s Lifeless & Firm present on the Sphere. Free Acid Fartz! Let him drop acid on the Lifeless present on the Sphere! Scorching field the sphere with a thousand bong rips till Acid Fartz’s good identify is cleared, rattling it.
A music to your Friday: Charli XCX’s new album, Brat, simply got here out. Here is a music off of there. I am unable to inform how a lot I prefer it but, however some albums are growers not showers.
