Da climate: I’m loving the autumn leaves and hating the leaf blowers. I help clearing sidewalks for security and accessibility—I’ve slipped on lifeless leaves, too, no disgrace—however garden house owners ought to embrace the fantastic thing about decay! The Nationwide Climate Service says there’s a 100% likelihood of rain right this moment. On Halloween, rain is considerably doubtless within the daylight and most probably within the night.
One other particular person dies at ICE facility in Tacoma: Tacoma and Pierce County officers haven’t stated who died on the Northwest ICE Processing Heart in Tacoma this Sunday or how they died, however we all know they’re the second particular person to die there this yr. The primary, 61-year-old Charles Leo Daniel, died of heart problems in March. From what activists and other people on the within say, the middle is a horrible place. Detainees have complained of harsh remedy and insufficient meals for years and have launched starvation strikes. No less than six have tried suicide this yr. The Inter-American Fee on Human Rights is anxious a few lack of transparency and oversight. La Resistencia will maintain vigils exterior the middle this week.
Fort Knox or Clark County? After somebody lit poll bins in Portland and Vancouver, Washington on hearth Monday, destroying a whole lot of ballots in an obvious try to disrupt the election, Clark County officers determined to submit contracted staff in any respect 22 drop bins 24 hours a day from now to Election Day. They received’t confront anybody, however they’ll preserve their eyes peeled. Police will presumably confront individuals and have stepped up patrols. The FBI stated it has linked a car to each fires, in addition to a 3rd arson within the space three weeks in the past.
Put your palms in your head and again away from the wolves: This month, US wildlife officers have discovered two lifeless grownup grey wolves in Washington, a species protected beneath federal and state regulation. US Fish and Wildlife just isn’t messing round. They’re providing a $10,000 reward for data that results in an arrest or conviction in both case.
Can’t say he’s boring: Yakima County Coroner Jim Curtice, the identical man police accused final month of stealing medication off corpses and mendacity about it, refused to implicate the county in a controversial jail dying, even after the pathologist reclassified the dying from “pure” to “negligent murder.” Hien Trung Hua, 41, died after a guard hit, shackled, and left him in a harmful place throughout a psychological well being disaster. Yakima County’s elected commissioners, the sheriff, and the Yakima Herald-Republic’s ed board need Curtice to resign. He’s been on go away for weeks and didn’t return the Seattle Occasions’s request for remark. Idk, ought to we belief him?
Kamala Harris speaks in DC: Greater than 75,000 individuals attended the Vice President’s final main speech of the marketing campaign, the place she known as Trump a “petty tyrant” out for “unchecked energy.” From Washington’s Ellipse, the identical place Trump spoke earlier than the revolt on January 6, 2021, she delivered the plain speech that finally known as for unity.
A sea of individuals alongside the monument watching VP Kamala Harris speech tonight after the rally reached capability on web site of The Ellipse. pic.twitter.com/xKqL85iXwg
— Alexis Wainwright (@AWainwrightTV) October 30, 2024
Talking of January sixth: Actor Jay Johnston of Mr. Present and Bob’s Burgers was convicted of a felony for collaborating within the revolt. A decide sentenced him to at least one yr and in the future in jail. Prosecutors had requested for 18 months, citing his clear lack of regret. Lawyer’s introduced a photograph of Johnston’s latest “QAnon Shaman” Halloween costume as proof.
Supreme Courtroom denies RFK Jr. attraction: He’ll keep on the poll in essential battlegrounds Michigan and Wisconsin. The Supreme Courtroom didn’t clarify its resolution, however state officers basically advised the Courtroom and RFK Jr. it was too late as a result of individuals are actually voting. He says leaving his identify on the poll is a violation of his First Modification rights as a result of it’s basically compelling him to mislead voters into considering he nonetheless desires to be President. Actually, I might not put it previous his supporters to vote for him absolutely unaware that he dropped out and backed Trump. This race shall be terribly tight. I’m curious if this may have an effect on the result.
Simply once I thought we’ve run out of issues to pollute: 100 area researchers despatched a letter imploring the Federal Communications Fee to pause new launches of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites as a result of we don’t know the long-term environmental implications of sending 1000’s of satellites to area annually. Even when wifi IS cool, the introduction of all these gasses and metals into the ambiance deserves environmental evaluation, they are saying. FCC, wield your energy for the individuals! Save area!
The place on this planet is Ivanka Trump? Browsing. Paris. Watching Method 1 Racing. Chilling within the scorching tub. Hanging with Kim Kardashian in Malibu. Anyplace however together with her dad, principally. She and her husband Jared Kushner advised The New York Occasions no matter occurs, they’re staying out of politics. Good for you guys. It will have been cool for those who figured that one out in like 2015 or one thing.
Hey @IvankaTrump and @jaredkushner….how do you clarify this to your youngsters? What say you? pic.twitter.com/2sewcW8AGL
— Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) October 30, 2024
