Goooood morning: Boring climate at present. Principally cloudy with a excessive close to 45 levels. Actually, if the clouds need to keep related they need to take into account freshening up their fashion a bit.
Interim Seattle Police Chief Sue Rahr fires cop: The Stranger broke the information yesterday that Rahr fired Seattle Police Division (SPD) Officer Kevin Dave for hitting and killing 23-year-old faculty scholar Jaahnavi Kandula in January 2023. Dave remained on payroll for nearly two years as first the felony investigation into Davve befell, and thru the following inside disciplinary investigation by the Workplace of Police Accountability. Kandula’s demise induced outrage not solely as a consequence of Dave’s driving 74 miles per hour in a 25 mile per hour zone—and the truth that SPD had employed him regardless of a sketchy driving historical past—however due to former Seattle Police Union Vice President Daniel Auderer’s feedback about Kandula’s “restricted worth” which have been caught on physique digital camera and later made public. Rahr fired Auderer final 12 months.
Seattle doubles pace cameras at school zones: The Metropolis plans to put in 19 new pace cameras throughout Seattle college zones to catch and penalize speeders, based on KOMO. Take a look at the complete listing of locations the Seattle Division of Transportation plans so as to add the suckers.
Seattle cops union making an attempt to cover stuff: The Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG) has appealed a choice in a lawsuit it filed in opposition to DivestSPD to forestall the Metropolis from revealing the title of an officer concerned in a number of complaints—regardless of successful the lawsuit. That is ‘trigger SPOG desires a choose to rule that the Metropolis of Seattle shouldn’t be allowed to launch the names of officers accused of a complete host of unhealthy habits. SPOG desires a categorical injunction. The ask from SPOG is ridiculous, particularly as a result of the police union contract units such a excessive bar for proving cops dedicated sure offenses, together with mendacity and bias, and this could additional shroud the disciplinary course of in secrecy.
Metropolis Yr program supervisor arrested for little one rape: King County Prosecutors charged a Metropolis Yr program supervisor at South Shore PreK-8 and Aki Kurose Center College with little one rape after he allegedly had intercourse with a 13 12 months outdated who he tutored, based on the Seattle Instances. Seattle Public Colleges is reexamining its affiliation with Metropolis Yr, an AmeriCorps-funded program that assists academics and sends extra employees to varsities.
Ballard Excessive graduate Jean Sensible wins a Golden Globe: The star of “Hacks” received a Golden Globe Sunday night time, and we’re so happy with her. Genuinely, I all the time thought Sensible was born and raised within the South or one thing, I really like that she’s from right here.
All the one males: In line with the newest numbers from FYI Man, in 2023 Seattle had one of many highest ratios of single males to single ladies among the many largest US cities. The ratio half is form of meaningless, as a result of you realize, homosexual folks exist, as do bi and pansexuals, so who is aware of what this truly means for the courting scene. However nonetheless, good to know that in case you are rejected by a random tech bro, simply know, there are loads extra single ones the place that one got here from.
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– c¡s lady that lives along with her mother in lynnwood— OCDoll (@CISFAKER) November 29, 2024
Meta switches to neighborhood notes system: Fb CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to shift away from third-party reality checkers to a neighborhood notes system throughout Meta platforms. Zuck known as reality checkers “too politically biased.” Although, he admitted that with this transfer away from content material moderation extra dangerous content material will make its approach onto Meta platforms. The plan comes as President Donald Trump’s return to workplace date creeps ever nearer, and as CNN factors out, Trump has by no means been an enormous fan of reality checking, which tends to mirror unfavorable on him when he says false stuff equivalent to, “I received the 2020 election.” Whereas that is probably politically motivated, I truthfully suppose it is positive. It isn’t like in life now we have reality checkers. I believed numerous dumb stuff for approach too lengthy, like that factor the place for those who hand is larger than your face you could have most cancers. Pushes your hand into your face. Fucking received ’em.
The CDC pronounces first US demise from chicken flu: An individual in Louisiana died of chicken flu on January 6 (severely cursed day, everybody). The illness nonetheless has not made the leap to spreading person-to-person, which might be very unhealthy. To date there have been 66 confirmed instances of chicken flu in people since 2024, and the price of eggs is skyrocketing. Right here is an effective reality sheet from the CDC about this illness.
Pardoning Proud Boys: The previous chief of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, requested Trump to pardon him. Tarrio faces 22 years in jail for seditious conspiracy associated to his position orchestrating the January 6 assault on the US Capitol, based on the Guardian. Trump has promised pardons for January 6 rioters to begin the primary hour he takes workplace.
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