Have we complained sufficient concerning the warmth but? Yesterday was the height of this godforsaken warmth wave, however right this moment is one other scorcher with a excessive of 87. Fortunately, the present warmth advisory from the Nationwide Climate Service expires at 5 pm. Our area’s new regular of sweltering summer time temperatures prices greater than sweat. In accordance with the Seattle Occasions, increasingly persons are spending a whole bunch or 1000’s to put in air con of their properties. Between 2019 and 2021, the variety of air-conditioned properties in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties elevated by 44%.
As a result of I used to be heat-addled and bored, I requested the Washington Submit’s new local weather solutions AI chatbot if local weather change will destroy Seattle, which most likely wasn’t productive given the electrical energy calls for of AI. The bot instructed me that whereas its info didn’t “particularly predict the long-term destruction of Seattle as a result of local weather change,” the acute climate occasions like this warmth wave had been in keeping with the broader patterns of local weather change. The chatbot added (condescendingly, I’ll add, because it was a pc, and I used to be nonetheless moist from a 10-second cooldown bathe and pitched between field followers) that I ought to already remember that these circumstances pose instant dangers to our well being and infrastructure.
Now to Ashley, who walked round within the warmth to deliver you this story…
Council Member Tanya Woo stories hateful graffiti to the FBI: Northwest Asian Weekly ran an op-ed final week condemning some graffiti within the Chinatown-Worldwide District (CID) that focused Woo. The unique article had just one instance of the messages scrawled throughout elements of the neighborhood, so we went out and located the remaining. Not one of the messages featured explicitly racist language, although some individuals argued that placing the graffiti within the CID and concentrating on Woo particularly might level to racist intent. Couple issues to notice: Woo submitted the op-ed on behalf of the author. She additionally stated she by no means noticed the graffiti herself and as a substitute members of the group introduced it to her consideration, however the op-ed author stated they each noticed the graffiti collectively. Woo ignored a number of requests for feedback on this story.
NEW: On Monday, Council Member Tanya Woo known as out hateful graffiti referenced in a Northwest Asian Weekly op-ed final week. Among the graffiti not described within the article stated: “Tanya Woo Hates Black Folks,” and “Tanya Woo Is [indecipherable]”https://t.co/zmN24Wd5qD
— Ashley Nerbovig (@AshleyNerbovig) July 9, 2024
Reichert watch: At present Washington State Dems launched a web site highlighting gubernatorial candidate Dave Reichert’s conservative report. If individuals kind in reichertforgovernor.org, reichertforgovernor.internet, reichertforwa.internet, or reichertforwa.org they’ll be redirected to the web site “ReichertRevealed.com,” a web page that recounts his anti-abortion views and pro-MAGA observe report. Washington State Democratic Spokesperson Hannah Kurowski stated the web site highlights what’s at stake for Washington and in addition “Reichert’s willingness to say one factor in public and one other behind closed doorways.”
Again to me!
Blurring the traces: Present and former staffers instructed the Seattle Occasions that Hillary Franz used her place as state public lands commissioner for political achieve in a previous race for Governor and in her present congressional run. Employees stated they had been pressured into organizing official DNR occasions influenced by her marketing campaign wants and inspired to attend her fundraisers.
Zapped: Regional energy planners say Washington’s booming information heart trade might push the state energy grid past its limits in simply 5 years. The facilities will eat sufficient electrical energy to energy 5 Seattles by 2029. If the trade overflows our capability, planners warn the area would want to seek out extra energy sources to maintain the lights on, which conflicts with our objectives of phasing out fossil fuels and assembly environmental mandates that defend salmon.
In a single day fires: Seattle firefighters responded to a few fires that killed two individuals Wednesday morning, KOMO reported. In Belltown, an house hearth on Vine Road killed one particular person, left one other in vital situation, and injured a number of extra. A fireplace on the higher flooring of a residence on twelfth Ave South in South Seattle killed one particular person. In Ballard, SFD shortly put out a residential hearth on twelfth Ave Northwest earlier than anybody was injured.
Ought to he keep or ought to he go? Sources instructed the Washington Submit that it appeared as if dozens of lawmakers might name on President Joe Biden to step apart this week, however that temper shifted after the Congressional Black Caucus embraced him. On Tuesday, Home Democrats gathered at DNC headquarters. As they left, most dodged reporters, and those that dared to cease gave solely meek feedback. Take Jerry Nadler (D-NY), who instructed Home management in an off-the-record name simply days in the past that Biden needed to go. He stated his considerations had been now “irrelevant.” To date, 10 Home Dems have publicly known as for Biden to step apart, in response to the Submit. This morning, former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi prompt time was operating out for Biden to decide. Seattle-area Congressman Adam Smith remains to be out right here giving him the enterprise, although:
Would another person have a greater probability at beating Trump?
‘1,000%’ says Rep. Smith.
Rep. Adam Smith joins @KatyTurNBC to debate the general public’s curiosity in President Biden’s well being and shares his outlook for the election if Biden had been to remain within the race towards Trump. pic.twitter.com/eir39g9eJo
— MSNBC Stories (@MSNBC_reports) July 9, 2024
What concerning the Senate assembly? The Hill stories that Senators had been involved and anxious about Biden’s candidacy after the woebegone debate, however they aren’t anxious sufficient to name for his substitute. Somebody acquainted with the assembly instructed the Hill that Sens. John Tester (D-Montana), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Michael Bennet (D-Colorado) assume Trump will beat Biden. A number of senators warned that the get together is in bother if Biden stays in, whereas a number of others stated Biden’s willpower had principally settled the talk for now, and that he has the pledged delegates to stave off any problem on the DNC.
BREAKING: Democratic Senator Michael Bennet tells @kaitlancollins that President Biden can not win the 2024 election.
Watch their dialog: pic.twitter.com/XrDINESLVy
— TheSourceCNN (@TheSourceCNN) July 10, 2024
Is it settled, although? If polling is to be believed, Biden is doing badly. Shortly after the Senators broke from their huddle, the nonpartisan Cook dinner Political Report confirmed Trump gaining electoral floor. The forecaster reclassified toss-up states Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada to “lean Republican.” Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District moved from “possible Democrat” to “lean Democrat.” A nationwide survey from prime Democratic pollster Bendixen & Amandi discovered that of the 86% of possible voters who watched all or a part of the talk, 61% thought Biden didn’t have the psychological acuity or bodily capability to carry energy for an additional 4 years. Solely 33% stated Biden ought to proceed because the nominee. The survey additionally discovered Vice President Kamala Harris led Trump.
biden might regain this nation’s belief with one excellent backflip
— carter hambley (@carterhambley) July 9, 2024
Thanks? To leverage this second of Democratic confusion, failed Republican presidential candidate and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley launched her major delegates and urged them to assist Trump in a present of conservative unity. It means nothing. Trump solely wanted 1,215 delegates for the Republican nomination. He has virtually twice that quantity. Haley had 97. Contemplating she wasn’t even invited to the Republican Nationwide Conference this yr, it’s embarrassing, too.
Don’t be fooled: The New York Occasions reported that the Republican get together has adopted Trump’s lead and adopted a platform that’s softener on abortion, nevertheless it looks as if a dupe. Trump is aware of abortion restrictions are a legal responsibility for his marketing campaign. Bans appealed strongly to his evangelical base however repulsed many citizens, and so he spun the problem right into a query of states rights. For Slate, Susan Rinkunas argued that Trump and the Republicans can declare they’re not for a nationwide abortion ban all day lengthy. Their “new” place nonetheless leaves the door broad open for one. As President, Trump might implement the nineteenth century Comstock Act and direct the FDA to revoke approval for the abortion drug mifepristone, and a Trump-y court docket might set up fetal personhood below the 14th Modification.
Residents close to a Bitcoin mine in Texas live a “nightmare”: Folks within the metropolis of Granbury, Texas, an hour outdoors of Fort Price, instructed Time Journal that the fixed and “boring aural hum” emanating from the close by Bitcoin manufacturing facility is inflicting their splitting migraines, vertigo, fainting spells, coronary heart palpitations, hypertension, tinnitus, and panic assaults. There’s a rising physique of analysis that reveals the noise air pollution from these digital “mines” may cause the sort of mass public well being issues one would solely count on from an actual one. In response, the trade is lobbying expeditiously to exempt themselves from noise restrictions.
🎵Pee-Pee Man 🎵 Elton John allegedly whipped out his Elton Johnson in the course of a shoe retailer in France to pee in a bottle on Monday. The shopkeeper instructed TMZ that he hadn’t identified who John was, and that he did not possess good intention.
