Welcome to hell week: By some means, it is right here. The 2024 election is tomorrow. If you have not mailed yours in but, do it at the moment. Higher but, drop your poll in a poll field. Please don’t drop any incendiary units in poll containers. Inform your mates to vote. Inform your enemies to vote. Vote like your life is dependent upon it. Vote like another person’s life is dependent upon it. Then, take a nap or one thing.
Scene setting: Wind and climate are turbulent at the moment. All the pieces is astir.
⚠️The following storm system will transfer into western WA Monday into Tuesday, bringing gusty winds, lowland rain, mountain snow, & excessive surf to the area. Particulars are highlighted beneath!
— NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) November 3, 2024
To make the whole lot worse: The solar is useless. It is not coming again till spring. Say goodbye to lengthy days. Go to an vintage retailer and purchase a lamp. I went to the Vintage Mall of West Seattle this weekend and acquired myself one. It is saving me. All of us deserve delicate, buttery heat gentle this winter.
Beginning tonight, the solar will set within the 4 pm hour each night time till Jan. 25.
Seattle space vampires, rejoice! 🧛
— Seattle Climate Weblog (@KSeattleWeather) November 3, 2024
Iowaaaaat? Cross your fingers and maintain your breath for this subsequent half. The ballot by revered pollster and doable soothsayer Ann Selzer commissioned by the Des Moines Register/Mediacom reveals Vice President Kamala Harris main Donald Trump 47% to 44% in Iowa. The state has voted staunchly pink and resolutely for Trump. Again in June, Trump led President Joe Biden (earlier than he determined he ought to lay down and take a nap as a substitute of operating for re-election) by 18 factors. At the same time as just lately as September, Trump led Harris in Iowa by 4 factors. Apparently, the tables are turning and girls are those doing the spinning. Notably, older and impartial girls voters. Abortion is soooo on the poll and Iowan girls are usually not taking their futures flippantly. If this ballot is correct, Harris would not simply win Iowa, she’d win it in a landslide.
Trump says “truly, no:” Well-known fact-lover Donald Trump says the Iowa ballot is mistaken and we’re all mistaken. In line with Trump, the really correct ballot is the one from Emerson Faculty that reveals him up 53% to Harris’ 43%.
Somebody who won’t get to see if the Iowa ballot is correct: Music legend Quincy Jones died on Sunday. He was 91.
Do not look a present ballot within the mouth: The knock-on-wood-worthy polling is not only for nationwide politics. In native information, a Northwest Progressive Institute ballot discovered that within the Seattle Metropolis Council Place 8 race, Alexis Mercedes Rink leads incumbent Tanya Woo 52% to twenty-eight%. Keep in mind how U2 slipped its album “Songs of Innocence” into everybody’s iTunes libraries again in 2014? That is principally the way it feels having the council-selected Woo, who is aware of nothing about something, ready of energy. Appears as if Seattle is rejecting Woo the identical manner everybody rejected “Songs of Innocence”—transferring her straight to the trash the place we hopefully won’t ever should take heed to her once more.
Not fearful in regards to the election? Have to be good. However, additionally perhaps you need to be. Gov. Jay Inslee clearly is. He signed a letter activating the Nationwide Guard within the occasion of civil unrest after the election.
Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee is activating the state’s Nationwide Guard, directing personnel to make preparations in case they want to reply to “civil unrest” associated to the election. pic.twitter.com/26JGFkv03a
— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) November 2, 2024
Unhealthy information for Peanut: Tragedy struck the squirrelly saga of Peanut, the social media sensation plucked from his proprietor’s care final week by the New York Division of Environmental Conservation (DEC). Apparently, after eradicating Peanut, the DEC then euthanized him to “check for rabies.” The squirrel who usually donned tiny cowboy hats will solely achieve this now from heaven. Relaxation simple, Peanut.
Roaming police: Metropolis officers mysteriously positioned Tacoma’s police chief on a short administrative depart again in September. Now, we all know why. Chief Avery Moore was gabbing an excessive amount of whereas on trip. Moore racked up a $1,082 invoice on his city-issued cellphone whereas he was in Sweden. Many of the expenses seem like worldwide utilization expenses, however I prefer to think about Moore could not cease gossiping on the telephone whereas touring fjords.
Work stoppage for NYT tech guild: The “over 600 software program engineers, product managers, information analysts, and designers” conserving the New York Instances web site up and operating went on strike at 12:01 this morning, within the newest try and win a union contract with the media firm. The work stoppage comes at a pivotal time for the NYT; Election Day protection on the ~newspaper of report~ requires a whole lot of tech. Possibly this squeeze will give these employees the contract they’re asking for. Within the meantime, do not cross the digital picket line. No Wordle. No Connections. Simply solidarity.
Have you ever seen this prayer wheel? Capitol Hill Himalayan restaurant Annapurna wants serving to discovering the handmade Tibetan prayer wheel that usually sits exterior its entrance entrance. Somebody nabbed the prayer wheel final week. Final time a enterprise’s prayer wheel went lacking, somebody discovered it in Lake Washington.
WA GOP’s sexist, racist, anti-LGBTQ textual content marketing campaign: In Washington’s 14th legislative district, the texts are getting out of hand. The Spanish texts unfold lies about Latina Democratic candidates, saying they “assist chemical castration of kids in school,” they wish to “get rid of the Spanish language,” they usually “hate your loved ones, they hate God, they usually hate the reality.” Washington GOP chair Jim Walsh confirmed the group footed the invoice for these texts. The Democrats are pissed and consider these texts are defamatory and broke marketing campaign finance legal guidelines. They’re going to be taking authorized motion.
The Washington State GOP is sending out these texts in an more and more Latino state senate district (14), per a supply who despatched these alongside.
(I communicate French, not Spanish, so these translations are usually not my very own).
Demographic information on the district right here, which is held by 3… pic.twitter.com/ZLy0TCf3As
— Jake Lahut (@JakeLahut) November 2, 2024
Volcanic eruptions in Indonesia: Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki erupted at round midnight Monday. The recent ash shot as excessive as 6,500 toes into the air and hit a number of villages, burning down a number of homes, together with a convent of Catholic nuns. Ten individuals are useless to date.
South Africa’s Steve Irwin died: Dingo Dinkelman, 44, was a wildlife content material creator and a conservationist. Dinkelman died from a venomous snake chunk after spending a month in an induced coma.
One thing to take your thoughts off the election: Make this chili.
