Seattle’s first murder of 2025: A deadly capturing in Pioneer Sq. on Saturday claimed the lifetime of a 40-year-old man, marking Seattle’s first murder of the 12 months. Nevertheless, King County is presently investigating 4 lively homicide instances this 12 months. Regardless of narratives pushed by conservative media, the variety of murders within the county really declined final 12 months, totaling 120 in comparison with 141 in 2023. Seattle ended the 12 months with 60 murders, a lower of 9 from the earlier 12 months’s whole.
Seattle’s second murder of 2025: A deadly capturing in Ballard on Sunday grew to become Seattle’s second homicide of the 12 months. Police are investigating.
Open seat season: At present, the Seattle Metropolis Council will choose a substitute for Tammy Morales’ vacant District 2 seat. In the meantime, the King County Council is a step behind in filling the District 5 seat left vacant by Dave Upthegrove, who now serves because the state lands commissioner. The three candidates King County Government Dow Constantine selected to fill the opening are: “Karen Keiser, a former longtime state senator from Des Moines; Julia Patterson, a former County Council member and state legislator from SeaTac; and De’Sean Quinn, a present Tukwila Metropolis Council member,” experiences the Seattle Occasions. Whoever is chosen will oversee the lands, peoples, and considerations from SeaTac to Renton.
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Crisp and sunny: Benefit from the sunshine as we speak, Seattle! It’s going to begin off chilly, however temperatures will attain 45 levels—identical to they’ve for a lot of the month
For the previous two weeks, the excessive temp in Seattle has solely diversified by 3 levels!
From Jan. 12-25, the excessive has been between 41-44 levels.
— Seattle Climate Weblog (@KSeattleWeather) January 26, 2025
Excellent news: Friday was the final sundown within the 4 pm hour till November. Longer days are forward. Unclear if they are going to be higher days, what with the entire horrors. We’ll get into these in only a bit.
One man’s trash… In Thessaloniki, Greece, a resident discovered a marble statue of a girl deserted in a rubbish bag. Police despatched the statue for archaeological testing, although the preliminary professional evaluation discovered the statue could possibly be 2,000 years previous. “Unintentional archaeological discoveries are comparatively frequent in Greece,” the Related Press writes. “In December, employees putting in pure fuel pipelines close to Athens uncovered a Roman-era statue of Hermes.” Thessaloniki additionally discovered a trove of antiquities throughout the metropolis’s decades-long development of its metro system which opened in November. Some notable finds embody “a marble-paved Roman thoroughfare and tens of hundreds of artifacts spanning the Greek, Byzantine, and Ottoman intervals.” The town has these displayed in its subway stations.
In sports activities information: The Philadelphia Eagles will face off towards the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs within the Tremendous Bowl. To that I say, go birds. Purely for the Philly tradition, not the soccer.
Issues are very regular in Philly rn pic.twitter.com/D03Zlqnk1K
— Robert Skvarla (@RobertSkvarla) January 26, 2025
This cannot be good: Late Friday night time, Donald Trump quietly fired at the very least a dozen unbiased federal watchdogs generally known as inspectors basic (IG), by way of electronic mail. The dismissals affected a number of departments, together with State, Agriculture, Inside, Transportation, Housing and City Growth, Training, Labor, and Protection, in addition to the Vitality Division, the Small Enterprise Administration, and the Environmental Safety Company, Politico experiences. By ridding the departments of those folks, Trump rids them of a layer of accountability. Trump will seemingly insert loyalists into the positions. Nevertheless, one small glimmer of hope is that the firings look like unlawful beneath a regulation requiring a 30-day congressional notification previous to the firing of an IG. “It dangers altering endlessly what now we have traditionally valued most about IGs—their independence, objectivity, and non-partisanship,” a former IG advised Politico. “With out it, the operate can be gutted of its biggest worth and your entire system will endure.”
Canine killer confirmed: The Senate confirmed South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who killed her personal canine, because the secretary of homeland safety.
Clashing with Colombia: The US and Colombia bought into it on Sunday after Trump demanded the nation settle for two army plane of deported migrants. Colombian President Gustavo Petro rejected the flight on the grounds that Trump was not treating deportees with dignity. Trump threw a match and threatened “visa restrictions, 25% tariffs on all Colombian incoming items, which might be raised to 50% in a single week” and extra. Colombia responded by threatening its personal tariffs on US items. In the end, Petro agreed to just accept migrants and his administration even provided to fly them in his presidential airplane. Trump, in the meantime, declared victory, spelled “Colombia” as “Columbia,” and stated, whereas the tariff orders will not go into impact, they’re shut by in case he wants them. Yuck.
Palestinians head dwelling: After the passage of a “fragile ceasefire” settlement, Israel opened up Northern Gaza for the primary time because the warfare started in 2023. Tens of hundreds of Palestinians returned to their houses, although many will discover them destroyed.
Gaza’s Berlin Wall second: over 1,000,000 Palestinians returning to Northern Gaza after the collapse of Israel’s lethal “Netzarim hall”.
A month in the past, many thought this present day was inconceivable.
Netanyahu did not crush our folks! pic.twitter.com/TAtZx4ki90
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) January 27, 2025
Regardless of restricted provides, Palestinians in northern Gaza have began cleansing and adorning the streets in anticipation of the return of displaced residents heading again to their houses from southern Gaza🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/mcwSuHEI0y
— Suppressed Information. (@SuppressedNws) January 26, 2025
One other factor to fret about: A tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas is now the most important outbreak in US historical past.
Sanctuary cities in danger: As Seattle and different cities in Washington state refuse to observe deportation orders Trump has threatened to chop off federal spending and even prosecute native officers. To date, it appears Seattle and its leaders are standing robust. A slight consolation is how acquainted our new governor, Bob Ferguson, is with suing the Trump administration. Again in Trump’s first time period, Ferguson sued Trump 99 instances. His successor, Legal professional Basic Nick Brown, has already sued Trump regarding his birthright citizenship govt order. So, maybe we’re in good fingers? Although, Ferguson appears a bit extra gun-shy within the governor place.
Annnnd there goes the market: China’s new, free open-source, and way-less-expensive-to-develop AI platform DeepSeek went dwell final week. In doing so, it upended the inventory market by instilling fears that the AI spending growth to construct large knowledge facilities and chip services and energy sources is probably not obligatory since DeepSeek succeeded by doing it “sooner, cheaper, and higher with previous {hardware},” in line with Axios. The tech shares generally known as the Magnificent 7 (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla) may lose greater than $1 trillion. I’m experiencing plenty of scrumptious schadenfreude proper now.
A tune on your Monday: Since I’ve solely lately found I like Arcade Fireplace (sure, I do know, late to the get together), I’m unencumbered with any data about “how they used to sound” or no matter. That is all to say, I discovered this new-ish tune by them and it is so enjoyable. Outdated followers do not appear to jive with the “new” sound. Sucks to be them.
