Good morning! Stunning cooler day anticipated at present, with a lightweight wind, and somewhat solar. Excessive of 68 levels.
Good riddance, Goodwill: Goodwill claimed that crime drove them from South Lake Union and College Avenue as they introduced the closure of two of their retailer areas. They appear blissful to give attention to that, relatively than the truth that rising wages and rents additionally pushed them out. They do not wish to have a dialog about not eager to pay employees increased wages.
Time for back-to-school procuring: Whereas some mother and father, academics, and college students head to numerous massive field shops to purchase pencils, folders, and people ridiculously costly calculators, advocates and academics have already began speaking about what the Washington State Legislature ought to begin to purchase our training system. Within the South Seattle Emerald’s back-to-school sequence, Oliver Miska laid out the “Huge 5” priorities that advocates need our Legislature to develop consensus round this session: Rising particular training funding, fulfilling Okay–12 transportation wants, adjusting supplies and administrative prices for inflation, growing equitable allocation of funds from the state to higher-poverty districts; and passing progressive income so our college funding doesn’t proceed to return from a regressive tax construction.
Talking of the youngsters: Regardless of the King County Exec’s dedication to shut the Choose Patricia H. Clark Kids and Household Justice Heart by 2028, the County Council unanimously handed a non-binding movement of the Council’s intent to maintain youngster jail open and in use on Tuesday. The movement was initially introduced by Councilmember Reagan Dunn, who claims that it’s wanted to handle a “main league juvenile crime downside.” Even King County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay, a longtime critic of youth incarceration, voted in favor of the measure, although he helped add language that made it clear he’d favor alternate options to incarceration. Nonetheless, all of them needs to be shamed for passing a movement that feeds into the 90’s-esque narrative that children needs to be locked up, particularly as situations on the youngster jail proceed to worsen. Among the rhetoric from yesterday’s public commenters was disgusting, together with a eugenics argument about how some youngsters do not inherit the gene for empathy.
Additionally listening to this, and a few public commenter simply mentioned we have to maintain the kid jail open as a result of we can not management the genetic traits a toddler will inherit, corresponding to empathy and kindness. Wilddddddd take https://t.co/lgCQCN16sj
— Ashley Nerbovig (@AshleyNerbovig) August 27, 2024
Pink Elephant Automobile Wash revamp: Whereas its not Mayor Bruce Harrell’s fault that the large pink elephant not guards the doorway to downtown Seattle from Aurora Avenue, it’s fairly poetic that his administration selected to rejoice the creation of a brand new skyscraper, the 45-story Sloane constructing, to tower within the elephant’s place. Goodbye Seattle icons, yay Seattle actual property pursuits. The challenge belongs to Holland Associate Group, who’s high executives maxed out marketing campaign contributions to Harrell, as DivestSPD identified.
When it’s being constructed by a cartel member utilizing AI to repair costs after which paying off council members and the mayor to dam Social Housing, sure. pic.twitter.com/m8d5OyDAyA
— DivestSPD (@DivestSPD) August 27, 2024
Boeing tire blow out: A tire on a Boeing 757 exploded in Atlanta on Tuesday, killing two employees and leaving one other significantly injured. The tire blew out whereas the employees have been performing upkeep. Genuinely form of unclear to me if that fault for the explosion lies with Boeing, Delta, another group, or simply unhealthy luck. However regardless, the Each day Beast put collectively a run down of each different “eye popping” incident associated to Boeing prior to now 12 months.
Trump staffers sq. off at Arlington Cemetery: Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump visited Arlington Cemetery Monday to pay their respects to the buried troopers there, and speak some shit about Democratic Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris and her involvement within the U.S.’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. Throughout the marketing campaign go to, two members of Trump’s group “verbally abused and pushed” a cemetery official who tried to stop the staffers from filming within the cemetery, in line with NPR. Solely cemetery workers members have authorization to movie or take images within the cemetery.
Talking of Trump: New indictments simply dropped towards him. U.S. Division of Justice Particular Counsel Jack Smith has filed a brand new indictment towards Trump over accusations that Trump tried to overthrow the 2020 election, in line with CNN. Smith narrowed his allegations towards the president after a U.S. Supreme Courtroom ruling that declared presidents immune from most legal prosecution.
Turning into a guardian sounds really terrible: A brand new report reveals that folks undergo from “stress, cash woes and loneliness greater than their childless friends” and almost half “can barely perform, Politico writes. The U.S. Surgeon Common Vivek Murthy recommends a parental bailout. Actually the federal government ought to give mother and father extra governmental support within the type of youngster tax credit, early childhood education schemes, and extra paid go away.
Texas Legal professional Common Ken Paxton raids Democrats: Texas AG Paxton has directed regulation enforcement officers to raid a number of Latino Democrats’ houses whereas claiming to be investigating voter fraud, in line with CBS. Regulation enforcement officers raided the houses of members of the League of United Latin American Residents (LULAC), the nation’s oldest and largest Latino civil rights group. The group has known as the searches unlawful. I name them authoritarian and fucked up.
Lastly, The Accident: If you have not but watched any of The Accident on Netflix, I can not essentially advocate it, as a result of I additionally haven’t but watched it. However the present’s premise revolves across the mother and father of a number of kids who nearly float away in a poorly tethered bouncy fortress. Please benefit from the comedic horror of the titular “accident” scene.
Its even funnier than I might have imagined 🌬️🎈 https://t.co/7pJ6xHODaY pic.twitter.com/0AWJBMJAMv
— Nick Walsh (@NICKWALSH) August 27, 2024
