Let’s ignore at present’s climate, which is able to expertise a excessive of 74 and no clouds, no “merveilleux nuages.” Let’s as an alternative look towards Saturday, which will probably be cool and cloudy. That stated, right here is the visitors report. Right now, like yesterday, and the day earlier than, there will probably be tons and plenty of it. Anticipate distress particularly on Denny Means, as each automobile a nightmare may ever produce tries to squeeze into I-5 abruptly. As a consequence, anticipate the Metro’s 8 bus to run manner behind time. Tomorrow’s visitors report will probably be precisely the identical as at present’s.
Town does not need homeless individuals, and, in accordance with an AP report posted within the Seattle Occasions, nor does the forest. The U.S. Forest Service will quickly sweep “dozens of homeless individuals” out of “a federal forest in central Oregon.” Now, we have heard quite a bit about how timber have one thing like a social community within the floor (mycorrhizal fungi join their roots). Do these timber even have a sort of Secure Seattle? Do they drone on and on about how horrible the homeless are? When will somebody do one thing? The forests are dying? However, severely, what’s flawed with individuals dwelling with timber? Whose woods these are? They’re all people’s. The homeless should not needed inside or exterior town. These are the breaks.
For causes that even baffle me, MyNorthwest, which often sides with the wealthy on nearly all points, posted a narrative that discredits the concept that tax will increase ship these with more cash than “a sucker may ever spend” packing. A research performed by the Institute of Coverage Research (IPS) decided that the “millionaire class” really “grew by 38.6% in Massachusetts regardless of a wealth take and 46.9% in Washington regardless of a capital beneficial properties tax.” Additionally, the wealth of those sky-high individuals “grew by greater than $580 billion in present {dollars} in Massachusetts and $748 billion in Washington state between 2022 and 2024.” In brief, Jeff Bezos was all drama when he left our state for climate-prone Florida.
What’s it that our governor has threatened to kill if it even reveals its face in Washington’s finances? A wealth tax that is “aimed on the state’s richest few thousand residents.” Dems typically.
Talking of sophistication warfare, at present is Might Day. And if in case you have it in thoughts to let the person know that we’re the individuals who rule the world, you may attend a number of of those occasions.
Talking of Might Day, what did the good Japanese Marxist Kozo Uno should say about wages? They don’t seem to be the identical “as revenue, hire, and curiosity.” That is his Doctrine of Distribution, which will get to the core of the “capitalists-versus-workers relation.” Wages don’t accumulate just like the types of revenue loved by capitalists.
Each time I learn concerning the Skagit Valley Tulip Competition, which has been prolonged to Sunday, Might 4 (it often occurs between April 1 to April 30), I immediately recall the world’s first bubble, the Tulip Mania that gripped the Netherlands in 1637. That is the mom of the dot-com bubble, the housing bubble, and the current AI bubble. You’ll be able to’t have capitalism with out booms and busts. The Tulip Mania crashed in February 1637. And all that remained was numerous unsold tulip bulbs and nugatory paper.
One thing else to fret about: an act of God. A research revealed by the Proceedings of the Nationwide Academy of Sciences on April 28, 2025, gives a grim image of what the Huge One will do to the Pacific Northwest when it hits (tomorrow? 100 years from now?). The quaking could be highly effective sufficient to trigger coastal areas to sink by as a lot as 6.5 toes. That is quite a bit. And it will get worse. This sinking, coupled with “climate-driven sea-level rise,” would, within the worst situation (excessive subsidence), improve the scale of floodplains by 186 miles. The final Huge One occurred 425 years in the past.
The oceans may flip purple sooner or later. It was, in accordance with investigators at Nagoya College, inexperienced through the Archean Eon (4.0 to 2.5 billion years in the past). It is presently blue as a result of Nice Oxidation Occasion attributable to the primary masters of photosynthesis, cyanobacteria (their kinfolk now conceal within the leaves of crops—chloroplast). However our oceans may lose their current look due to “intense volcanic exercise and low oxygen within the environment.” If that had been to occur, if the oceans turned purple, then we must change the title of the one and solely pale blue dot from Earth to Prince.
What’s new on the President Trump Present? Dolls. Sure, dolls. (Nothing is secure within the age of MAGA, not even “America’s solely metric freeway”—kilometers are unAmerican or woke or one thing) Yesterday, Trump admitted that his tariffs will make shopper merchandise dearer and tougher to seek out. However this is able to be a minor inconvenience. His excellence: “They made a trillion {dollars} with Biden promoting us stuff. A lot of it we do not want. Anyone stated, ‘oh, the cabinets are gonna be open.’ Effectively, possibly the youngsters may have two dolls as an alternative of 30 dolls, and possibly the 2 dolls will value a few bucks extra.” Dolls are for ladies, anyway. That is what he is actually saying. However what a couple of packet of Sizzling Wheels for boys? Would additionally they value extra? Or would the typical American be diminished to 2 packs of toy vehicles as an alternative of the standard 30? Come what could, you rely on this: Wages falling as the price of elevating kids skyrocket.
So, Trump is now attacking American materialism? Youngsters and their dad and mom have manner an excessive amount of stuff? It is time to reduce and be sensible. Would not all of this sound just a little like Jimmy Carter’s 1979 “malaise speech”? The religious disaster in America; the “rising doubt concerning the that means of our lives.” Thirty dolls is not going to make you cheerful.
variety of Israeli reservists, the BBC stories, have change into war-exhausted. They now need Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to close down the death-machine “and focus as an alternative on reaching a deal to carry again the remaining 59 hostages being held by Hamas.” Not one a part of my life has ever seen peace within the Center East.
How else can we finish AM however with this music by Gap:
