It is unhealthy on the market: European and Asian markets noticed sharp declines Monday morning in response to Donald Trump’s tariffs and the concern of the worldwide financial slowdown they might encourage. Wall Avenue stored slumping as properly. The Dow Jones dropped 1,200 factors. The S&P 500 is in bear market territory. Goldman Sachs elevated the chance of a US recession to 45% this 12 months. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon penned his annual letter to shareholders and stated the tariffs will damage development and drive up costs for shoppers. Oil is down. Bitcoin is down. It is unhealthy, unhealthy, unhealthy.
Excellent news. The American empire is falling. Unhealthy information. I’m an American
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Trump is not budging: Regardless of everybody with a mind saying how unhealthy these tariffs are for the US and the worldwide economic system, Trump is not altering his thoughts but. He equivocated the financial tailspin to the “medication” we now have to take to “repair” issues. In a Monday Fact Social publish, Trump wrote that different international locations had been “benefiting from the Good OL’ USA” on worldwide commerce and that “our previous ‘leaders’ are accountable for permitting this, and a lot else, to occur to our Nation.”
Quiet Quake in King County Mountains: On Sunday morning, a 3.7-magnitude earthquake shook the mountains northeast of Greenwater in King County. About 290 individuals felt the quake. No accidents. No injury. Only a reminder that the earth is transferring and in the future it may kill us all.
The Climate: Open your window. I do not assume you want me to let you know it’s wet and moist.
Do not Fear: You possibly can speak overtly in regards to the White Lotus finale. I watched it final night time. Fairly disappointing, for my part. And in others’ opinions.
New Frontier for Rocket Taco: In hyperlocal neighborhood information perhaps solely I care about, Rocket Taco on nineteenth Avenue E jumped ship from its previous location and moved… throughout the road. Rocket Taco swiftly swept into the restaurant house that is seen turnover ever since Linda Derschang’s enterprise Tallulah closed in 2019.
Did you say “Palms Off!” this weekend? Tens of hundreds of protesters marched in Washington state on Saturday in demonstrations calling for President Donald Trump and his creep-in-chief Elon Musk to fuck off. Throughout all 50 states, an estimated 1,200 rallies came about. Hundreds of thousands of individuals turned out. All we now have is our voices and our votes. Let’s stick with it.
Scenes from at this time’s Palms Off rally on the Seattle Middle.
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Sue Hen chosen for Basketball Corridor of Fame: Seattle Storm legend Sue Hen can have her title enshrined into the Basketball Corridor of Fame this 12 months alongside the likes of NBA alums Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard and present NBA phenoms LeBron James and Chris Paul. WNBA stars Maya Moore and Sylvia Fowles made the minimize, too.
Doug the Diva: Inside Secretary Doug Burgum is sort of excessive upkeep. He is making the political appointees in his workplace bake him chocolate-chip cookies commonly, prepared recent and heat on demand. They’re the store-bought form and should be “served to friends and workers in a basket.” Different complaints allege Burgum made political appointees—the individuals meant to run the division—serve a multi-course meal and do the dishes afterward. Additionally they, upon request, dispatched a US Park Police helicopter for Burgum’s private transportation. The White Home maintains that Burgum shouldn’t be a diva and is doing a stellar job.
Bruce Harrell Loves a Homeless Sweep: Based on information compiled by Seattle reporter Man Oron, Seattle performed greater than 2,000 homeless sweeps in 2024. The Unified Care Crew which conducts the encampment removals was accountable for a mean of 6.8 removals a day, Oron reviews. Of those sweeps, over 84 % had been accomplished with little or no warning. Sweeping homeless encampments is like Mayor Bruce Harrell’s entire factor. He is the king of sweeps. In his three years in workplace, Harrell directed 5,633 sweeps, a quantity that dwarfs the sweeps performed by Seattle mayors of the previous. Jenny Durkan, as an illustration, swept 1,781 encampments. At the moment that felt like lots! Folks had been protesting her commonly. The place is the outrage for Bruce the Sweep Freak?
The info displays the priorities of Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell over his first three years in workplace. In 2023 and 2024, town spent a mixed complete of $52.5 million on the Unified Care Crew, the interdepartmental company that carries out Seattle’s encampment, tent and automobile removals.
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Israel’s Gaza “kill zone:”Accounts from Israeli troopers inform of a technique to destroy all properties, factories, and farmland inside 0.6 miles contained in the perimeter of Gaza and switch the world right into a “kill zone.” Anybody who entered was killed. The aim of “The Perimeter” plan was to create an atmosphere the place it was straightforward to determine and kill “militants.” The zone encompasses Gaza’s border with Israel “from the Mediterranean coast within the north to the strip’s south-east nook subsequent to Egypt.”
Talking of Killing with Abandon: The 15 rescuers, support staff, and paramedics killed by Israeli forces in Rafah final month had been shot within the higher physique with “the intent to kill,” based on The Palestine Purple Crescent Society. Israel claimed the ambulances had been “terrorists” in “suspicious autos.” Video of the assault reveals clearly marked ambulances with their lights flashing.
Nice Nation We have Obtained Right here: Nothing merciless or uncommon occurring. Regular stuff. Feels good to be an American. Proper? Properly. Bear in mind how Trump ordered 238 Venezuelan migrants to be despatched from a Texas detention heart to an El Salvador jail on the grounds that these individuals had been allegedly gang members? Not that anybody believed Trump on the time, however now we all know for positive that was all an enormous lie. Based on a CBSNews investigation, lots of the people who find themselves now prisoners haven’t any obvious legal convictions and even legal prices.
RIP Jay North: The person who performed Dennis in “Dennis the Menace” died at 73 from colon most cancers.
One other Measles Demise in Texas: In Texas, there are 481 circumstances related to a measles outbreak. There have now been two deaths of school-age kids. Each of the youngsters who died had been unvaccinated in opposition to measles. A Trump administration official stated the most recent demise’s trigger was nonetheless being checked out. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who’s a vaccine skeptic and who has gutted the Well being and Human Providers, will journey to Texas to console the households. What would really assist is that if he stopped reversing all of the progress we have made in public well being within the final 100 years.
Music on your Monday: Could this soothe you in any case of that information.
