Climate: Yesterday’s climate was not almost as stormy as I’d hoped for, however as we speak brings a 50 % likelihood of showers after 1 pm and a excessive of 71. Showers are anticipated to proceed into Saturday after which taper off earlier than the solar’s partial return on Monday.
A contact of fall for the following week across the space. Excessive temperatures 5° to 10° beneath regular with an opportunity of showers by means of the weekend. Seattle regular highs for the first week of fall this yr, Sept. 22-28, 68° to 70°. Colourful dawn this am with breaks within the clouds. #wawx pic.twitter.com/Zri1zQNX1X
— NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) August 21, 2024
A nail-biter DNR race: After the ultimate rely, Democrat Dave Upthegrove solely led GOP-endorsed Sue Kuehl Pederson by 51 votes, narrowly taking an unsteady second place in Washington’s major for Commissioner of Public Lands. The one-thousandth of a proportion level distinction quantities to the state’s narrowest vote margin in many years, and election officers can be recounting the votes by hand. It’ll be about two weeks earlier than we all know who faces former Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler within the common election.
Pricey Mayor Harrell: The Seattle LGBTQ Fee despatched a letter to Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell yesterday asking that he make clear his statements about Denny Blaine, Seattle’s traditionally homosexual nude seaside that may have change into a kids’s playground. In July, the Metropolis launched a textual content alternate between Harrell’s private cellular phone and Stuart Sloan, the rich philanthropist who pledged $1 million to construct a playground on the seaside. In texts, Sloan described nude bathers as “DISGUSTING,” and Harrell later expressed his shared disgust. Regardless of the forwards and backwards, and two in-person conferences with Sloan, Harrell claimed he didn’t know who was behind the donation. How mysterious!
The mayor responded: In a letter despatched yesterday in response, Harrell stated he welcomed the chance to make clear his feedback (as if there has not been months of ample alternative), and added that the Metropolis meant to enhance Denny Blaine Park, not push anybody out. Harrell stated their preliminary efforts “missed that mark” and that he understood “these feedback–blunt and inexact–might have brought about hurt to those that have interpreted them as denigrating members of the LGBTQ+ group.” Harrell emphasised that neither he, nor Sloan, nor anybody who raised considerations concerning the park talked about the queer group, and it had not occurred to him how anybody might view the plan as concentrating on anybody else.
206-289-0287: That’s the brand new quantity to name for individuals in want of meds to deal with opioid withdrawal. Along with curbing the complications, chills, sweating, and different signs, buprenorphine reduces the chance of overdose by half. Inside three days of the primary name, a care coordinator will observe up with sufferers and join them with ongoing care. Dr. Lauren Whiteside, an emergency doctor at UW who helped conceive the hotline, instructed KUOW that it sidesteps a prolonged bureaucratic course of to harness the “actual second” an individual is able to settle for remedy.
Get it collectively, y’all: Boeing, America’s little airplane and munitions producer that could not, simply can not get the grasp of this constructing secure planes factor! On Tuesday, the corporate introduced that it had paused all check flights of the 777-9, a big passenger plane designed for worldwide flights, after it found an issue throughout the engine housing. Boeing didn’t say when it could resume flights or whether or not this drawback will delay the already delayed anticipated supply of the primary 777-9 subsequent yr. In the meantime, contract talks with Boeing’s machinists are sizzling forward of the September strike deadline.
Once they go low, we additionally go low: Barack and Michelle Obama delivered headline speeches on the Democratic Nationwide Conference (DNC) in Chicago final evening. Michelle Obama stated that Kamala Harris was one of the crucial certified individuals to ever search the presidency, and she or he skewered Trump for his nepo upbringing and failed enterprise ventures. Former President Barack Obama in contrast Trump to a neighbor who runs a leaf blower outdoors your window all day. “We don’t want 4 extra years of bluster and chaos,” he stated. “We’ve seen that film. And everyone knows the sequel is normally worse.” He even made a small penis joke about Trump.
I can not consider this second occurred… pic.twitter.com/u14mY9GD9E
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 21, 2024
Lol: Stephanie Grisham, former press secretary to Donald Trump, spoke on the DNC and stated that Trump mocked his supporters as “basement dwellers” in personal, and that when, on a go to to a hospital, he was upset that the cameras had been targeted on sufferers within the ICU as an alternative of him.
Former Trump WH Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham tells the DNC that Trump “mocks his supporters” and calls them “basement dwellers” behind closed doorways. pic.twitter.com/XPxELfypCt
— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) August 20, 2024
To the home windows, to the Walz: Since Harris accepted the nomination in a digital roll name earlier this month, Democrats didn’t have any official enterprise to conduct with the in-person roll name, so that they fucked round and employed a DJ to play a particular tune introducing every state. Georgia’s visitor, Lil Jon, high-fived attendees as he carried out “Flip Down for What,” swapping within the lyrics in locations for chants of “we’re not going again” and “VP Harris, gimme the Walz.” Folks waved cutouts of Harris’s and Walz’s heads. Very corny stuff.
Lil Jon performs throughout roll name on the Democratic Conference pic.twitter.com/OYADgYt1qb
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 21, 2024
Harris’s coronation continues as we speak: Reproductive rights are anticipated to be the massive subject on the conference as we speak; scheduled audio system embody VP choose and Minnesota Governor Walz, former President Invoice Clinton, and former Home speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Protests proceed: Police arrested at the least 72 demonstrators outdoors the Israeli consulate in Chicago final evening. The vast majority of arrests reportedly occurred late after police penned protesters in a plaza and prevented them from leaving, in accordance with the Related Press. Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling denied that officers “kettled” anybody, a tactic banned below a federal consent decree that includes corralling individuals right into a confined space.
World’s oldest residing individual dies: X’s “Tremendous Catalan Grandma” Maria Branyas Morera died in her sleep yesterday on the age of 117. Born in San Francisco in 1907, she emigrated to Spain after her father’s Spanish-language journal in New Orleans folded. As an grownup, Morera survived the nation’s bloody civil warfare, the brutal reign of fascist dictator Francisco Franco, and lately, a supercentenarian bout of COVID. After her dying, Tomika Itooka, a spry 116 yr previous in Japan, grew to become the latest senior member of the human race.
El passat mes d’agost em vaig acomiadar de la Fada, pensant que ja no la veuria més. Ella havia de ser mare i jo pensava que no viuria tants mesos. Però aquí estem una altra estona juntes. És reconfortant acariciar el seu pèl amb els meus dits torts i gastats. Ella, com tots 👇 pic.twitter.com/L5OafzuXGm
— Tremendous Àvia Catalana (@MariaBranyas112) March 31, 2024
