I miss the solar: Anticipate a cloudy day with a excessive close to 50 levels. There’s a 40 p.c likelihood of rain close to midnight, which is able to possible carry into tomorrow morning till round 10 am. Take that noon stroll when you can. The solar units round 4:18 pm tonight.
Be careful on your immigrant neighbors: The Edmonds College District cancelled an immigrant know-your-rights occasion with the Mexican Consulate of Washington after receiving a flood of threats and hostility impressed by a put up from the far-right account Libs of TikTok. The varsity wished to assist put together immigrant households with kids for Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan, however cancelled for security causes. Libs of TikTok has been linked to threats of violence earlier than, together with bomb threats in opposition to gyms, kids’s hospitals, docs, drag exhibits and extra. The district says it remained dedicated to serving to households put together for enforcement. It did not say how, however the district encourages undocumented dad and mom to submit up-to-date emergency contacts to care for his or her kids if Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detains them.
Bye, bye Spotts: Seattle’s head of transportation, Greg Spotts, resigned yesterday, asserting his final day can be February 12. Spotts took the job somewhat over two years in the past, promising to assessment the Metropolis’s security insurance policies, passing a brand new property tax, and dashing alongside division tasks. He obtained a $1.55 billion levy, streamlined some tasks, banned proper on pink at many intersections, however couldn’t revive a now lifeless dream: the First Avenue Streetcar. He loves buses, too.
Seattle is Lovely pic.twitter.com/4c1qBBlmn2
— Greg Spotts (@Spottnik) September 14, 2024
Alaska Airways so as to add direct flights from Seattle to Tokyo and Seoul: This rocks when you’re planning a visit to Tokyo or Seoul, and perhaps sucks when you’ve already booked your connecting Alaska flights. (Alas, poor moneyrichbags. A fellow of infinite flights, of most inconvenienced holidays). Flights will run every day beginning Might 12.
Unusual automotive: A “suspicious” car parked on the Crossroads Mall in Bellevue prompted a bomb squad investigation that closed just a few shops yesterday. Police say mall safety known as them round 8 am Tuesday to report an odd deserted automotive with notes on the dashboard and cameras mounted in and out. The investigation discovered no risk, however Bellevue police say they’re on the lookout for the Colorado man who owns the automotive.
$$$: Sonic Guild dropped ten $10,000 no-strings-attached grants on ten fortunate Seattle-area musical artists as a part of its Tour Assist grant program I wrote about in September. Sonic Guild will have fun this yr’s recipients at an award ceremony at The Triple Door on Saturday, February twenty second.
Israeli strikes on Syria: Israel has struck Syria greater than 350 instances since Bashar Al-Assad fled the nation Sunday, and encroached on the demilitarized zone alongside the Golan Heights that’s separated the nations since 1974. Israel claims it’s destroying navy infrastructure to maintain it from “falling into the fingers of extremists.” In a video message, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the principle insurgent group that ousted Assad, it will “reply forcefully” in the event that they allowed Iran to “re-establish itself in Syria.”
The person on everybody’s thoughts: Police dragged Luigi Mangione right into a courthouse in Altoona, Pennsylvania yesterday, the place the folks hero/heartthrob/again ache sufferer/Goodreads person suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is preventing extradition to New York. In accordance with the Related Press, Mangione was carrying a brief handwritten observe expressing his anger towards “parasitic” insurance coverage corporations and company greed. “Delay, Deny, Defend,” the title of a 2010 ebook which impressed the inscription on three of Mangione’s bullets (“deny,” “defend,” “depose”), soared to quantity two on Amazon’s nonfiction bestsellers checklist so quick it ran out of copies.
officer frye patrolling the mcdonalds. was deputy mcnugget there https://t.co/KQiWAM7umO
— adam’s ribs (@dirkdelacroix) December 10, 2024
Eye roll: Just a few of Mangione’s mates informed NBC that it was ironic that the man they performed the online game “Amongst Us,” with through the pandemic turned out to be a killer amongst them. The reporter described Mangione as belonging to a bunch of “Ivy League players who performed assassins.” Different shops copied this framing, as if a well-liked, cartoon-y spin on the Factor many guys his age performed throughout lockdown means something when it’s barely a coincidence and definitely not ironic. Ironic can be Mangione and his mates being tremendous into “Murderer’s Creed” or “Hitman.”
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— Amongst Us 🚀 (@AmongUsGame) December 10, 2024
Monarch butterflies could also be listed as threatened species: US Fish and Wildlife says it plans to place this attractive bug on the threatened checklist after a prolonged public remark interval subsequent yr. The proposed itemizing would ban purposely killing a monarch and designate greater than 4,000 acres throughout seven coastal California counties as crucial habitat.
Pete Hegseth’s probabilities wanting higher: Trump’s choose for Protection Secretary, a former Fox Information host and present liar accused of sexual assault who guarantees to cease consuming if the Senate simply lets him management the world’s strongest navy, appeared an extended shot nominee every week in the past however now seems to be again within the sport after key Republican senators have indicated they may endorse him. Previous his fetish for the crusades, it’s exhausting to emphasise how unqualified and harmful Hegseth is.
“How do you want that, enterprise dorks?” is what I might say if I had been the Oregon federal choose who blocked the $25 billion merger between Kroger and Albertsons, the fifth and tenth largest retailers within the nation. It’s not an ideal comeback, however is a victory for individuals who don’t desire a hypothetical “Krogersons” jacking up costs and decreasing wages. The businesses claimed the deal was an try to merge their mostly-unionized workforces to beat again non-union corporations like Walmart, Amazon, and Costco. Good strive, fits, however unions didn’t need this, and neither did Lina Khan’s merge-blocking, massive tech-suing Federal Commerce Fee (FTC). In a twist ending, Albertsons pulled out of the deal and sued Kroger.
Talking of Khan: President-elect Donald Trump needs to interchange her with FTC member Andrew Ferguson. Former solicitor common of Virginia, and chief counsel for long-running worst man in America contenders Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell and Sen. Lindsey Graham, Ferguson is well-liked with Republicans. Not like Hegseth or RFK Jr., Trump can appoint him and not using a Senate affirmation as a result of he’s already a part of the FTC.
Talking of McConnell, too: He tripped and fell throughout a Senate Republican lunch yesterday, reducing his face and spraining his wrist when he hit the bottom. He’s “high-quality,” however he doesn’t appear high-quality, typically talking. Final yr, McConnell was out for six weeks after a fall at a Washington DC resort. A {couples} months later, he twice froze in entrance of tv cameras. As a reminder, McConnell is 82 years previous.
Chief McConnell’s accidents after his fall earlier right now. (AP Photograph/ J. Scott Applewhite) https://t.co/G0VMkVMP2y pic.twitter.com/1K0SyrVF9X
— Farnoush Amiri (@FarnoushAmiri) December 10, 2024
2+2=hen: The Ohio Supreme Court docket denied a request to rethink its daring ruling that “boneless” hen wings can have bones. In so many phrases, the court docket informed a person who might have died after the lengthy skinny bone in his boneless wings tore his esophagus that his dumb ass ought to have identified hen has bones in it “simply as an individual consuming ‘hen fingers’ would know that he had not been served fingers.”
Get able to rock, people:
For $1 billion, Trump says you possibly can keep away from environmental laws pic.twitter.com/1fo795a0I5
— Sam Stein (@samstein) December 10, 2024
