Good morning! Cloudy and sizzling right this moment, not my favourite combo. We’ll see a excessive of 74 levels and a really slight probability of rain later tonight. Additionally, right this moment is the final 7 pm sundown. RIP vitamin D.
College closure plan halts: After a bunch of oldsters rallied in opposition to Seattle Public Colleges’ (SPS) plan to shut between 17 to 21 elementary and Okay-8 faculties, Superintendent Brent Jones has backed off, based on the Seattle Occasions. The plan would have addressed a few third of the district’s finances deficit. Jones mentioned he plans to retool his proposal and return with a plan that includes a number of the indignant suggestions he is gotten over the previous couple weeks.
Macklemore mentioned one thing cool: At a pro-Palestine competition in Seattle over the weekend, Macklemore mentioned, “Fuck America,” based on KOMO. After a right-winger received mad about it on Twitter, the Seattle Kraken and the Seattle Sounders FC launched an announcement saying they’re “evaluating our collective choices” about how one can reply, as these feedback didn’t “align with the values of our possession teams.” Proper-wingers additionally need the Mariners to cease enjoying Macklemore songs through the seventh inning stretch. Fucking dumb.
Macklemore’s feedback got here as Israel started killing girls and youngsters in Lebanon over the weekend whereas claiming they sought solely to destroy Hezbollah weapons caches that Israel mentioned the group had hidden in residential neighborhoods, based on CBS information. In the meantime, the US continues to ship weapons to Israel for them to make use of of their “genocidal wars” as US Consultant Rashida Tlaib, D-Michigan, mentioned on-line Monday, based on the Intercept. However, yeah, KOMO, the issue it is best to deal with is how Macklemore mentioned, “Fuck America,” not that we genuinely ought to inform the US authorities to chop this shit out.
US sends extra troops to Center East: Because the combating within the area escalates, the US plans to ship in additional troops, although it will not say what number of, based on the Related Press. The State Division additionally began warning People to evacuate Lebanon.
Biden’s final UN Common Meeting as President: President Joe Biden spoke to the US Common Meeting Tuesday in what CNBC framed as one among Biden’s ultimate alternatives to border his presidency as one which resulted in optimistic international coverage. Robust to do given *gestures at Ukraine, Center East, Sudan* every thing. New Yorkers most likely loudly honked and yelled on the ensuing gridlock attributable to this huge inflow of diplomats and politicians to their metropolis.
Metropolis council advances plan to extend cop hiring bonuses: At a listening to by Council President Sara Nelson Monday, her Governance, Accountability & Financial Improvement Committee voted by means of a proposal to make everlasting the Metropolis’s recruitment bonuses for cops program whereas rising bonuses from $35,000 to $50,000 for already skilled cops. Nelson acknowledged this system had beforehand accomplished nothing to extend the variety of officers the Seattle Police Division (SPD) employed, nevertheless it did improve the variety of candidates. Completely definitely worth the $1.5 million the Metropolis plans to allocate to this system.
Let’s test in on that bonus program: The Metropolis additionally gave out bonuses to lateral officers in 2019, which benefitted SPD Officer Kevin Dave, who hit and killed Jaahnavi Kandula along with his patrol automotive in 2023. SPD employed Dave regardless of a sketchy driving historical past, based on Publicola. Dave acquired a visitors ticket for hitting Kandula along with his automotive, which he has continued to contest, and seems in court docket this morning on that infraction. Replace: The choose continued the listening to.
Additionally, the Seattle Police Officers’s Guild endorsed former Republican US Consultant Dave Reichert. Reichert needs to be actual proud that the group is greatest identified proper now for its vice-president, Officer Daniel Auderer, laughing after an SPD officer hit and killed Kandula.
I really like a listing of lunches: Eater put collectively a listing of one of the best lunches in Seattle, and I really like them for it. I wish to strive a bunch of those locations. I additionally actually wish to go to Ken’s Market in Greenwood for his or her Tuesday and Thursday smash burger factor. However for those who’re on the lookout for one of the best eating places in Seattle, then look no farther than The Stranger’s record of the highest 15 proper right here, contemporary from our new A+P quarterly.
Kroger-Albertsons nonetheless attempting to make it work: CEOs for the grocery conglomerates Kroger and Albertsons testified in a Seattle court docket Monday attempting to justify the necessity for a merger of the 2 companies, based on the Seattle Occasions. Kroger owns QFC and Fred Meyer, and Albertsons owns Safeway and Haggen. The 2 corporations mentioned that Walmart, Costco, and Amazon undercut them they usually want the merger to stop retailer closures. The state argues the businesses stay loads worthwhile and the merger would scale back competitors and drive up costs. Largely I simply love when this story is within the information as a result of I can drop this hard-hitting piece of journalism:
Talking of fuck, marry, kill: I am attempting to determine what the following fuck, marry, kill immediate needs to be for a video. I assume relationship apps? Hinge, Bumble, Tinder? IDK… pitch your concepts.
Good riding-the-bus music: Dolores Eternally’s tune, “Break up Lip Acoustic,” evokes gentle head bopping.
