“Nefarious characters” could also be behind the Sea-Tac cyber assault: Authorities on the Port of Seattle haven’t defined who or what’s past the Saturday cyber assault hampering day-to-day airport operations. The one clue to date comes from Sea-Tac spokesperson Perry Cooper, who stated at a Monday information convention that “nefarious characters” might have been in its system early Saturday morning. (I’m picturing a tall, lanky man with a skinny zagging line of mustache, shoulders draped with a cape, and identification obscured with black domino eye masks.) Airport safety is working as regular, however Wi-Fi continues to be out and baggage providers are disrupted. The airport tweeted final night time that these touring internationally ought to arrive additional early.
Civil trial for BLM protester killed on freeway started Monday: The query within the civil case introduced by the household of Summer season Taylor, a 24-year-old Black Lives Matter protester killed on I-5 in 2020, will not be whether or not a tragedy occurred, however who’s accountable. The Taylor household blames the state’s transportation division and Washington State Patrol for not closing a freeway exit off Stewart Road. The open exit allowed driver Dawit Kelete to enter up the off ramp and by accident plow into protesters, placing and killing Taylor. The state’s lawyer assigned blame to each Kelete, sentenced final 12 months to six ½ years in jail, in addition to Taylor for being on the freeway in any respect.
Hand recount begins in Washington’s land commissioner race: Earlier than that is over, state election officers will depend about two million votes by hand, and conclusively decide if Democrat Dave Upthegrove or Republican Sue Kuehl Pederson will advance to the final election this November and face former Republican congresswoman Jamie Herrera-Beutler. On the final poll drop, Upthegrove led Pedersen by solely 52 votes. As of two p.m. yesterday, King County had recounted 52,000 of its 560,000 ballots with out discovering an error.
Sue Chicken will get a avenue: On Monday, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell renamed a small stretch of 2nd Avenue North exterior Local weather Pledge Area “Sue Chicken Courtroom” (ha). In her 21 years and 19 seasons with the Seattle Storm, Chicken grew to become the staff’s all-time chief in factors and steals; set additionally league information for many assists and video games performed. Chicken attended the ceremony along with her accomplice, the soccer star Megan Rapinoe, who was additionally honored over the weekend when her former staff retired her jersey at Lumen Area.
Town of Seattle renamed a avenue “Sue Chicken Courtroom” in her honor 🙌#WNBA pic.twitter.com/J5fLUqF3eD
— PlayersTV (@ThePlayersTV) August 27, 2024
Particular person shot, killed on King County bus in Des Moines: Native police stated a combat was a taking pictures Monday afternoon on a bus close to Pacific Freeway South and South 216th Road. Authorities didn’t present an outline of a suspect they stated is on the unfastened, and the King County Medical Examiner’s workplace has not publicly recognized the sufferer.
Israel allegedly detained and tortured Palestinian healthcare employees: A brand new report from Human Rights Watch particulars the alleged torture, rape threats, and denial of medical care from Israel that docs, nurses and different medical personnel stated they’ve skilled for the reason that struggle started in October. One paramedic stated he was chained to the ceiling and shocked with electrical energy on the Sde Teiman detention facility. One other stated he noticed a person bleeding from “his backside” after three troopers allegedly raped him with the muzzles of their assault rifles. Human Rights Watch stated the medical employees have been held with out expenses or clarification for wherever between per week and 5 months. Human Rights Watch stated the “arbitrary” detainment of 310 employees exacerbated Gaza’s well being disaster. Within the final 320 days, Israel has killed 40,000 individuals in Gaza.
Go forward, burn it: In a Monday speech, Donald Trump stated the US ought to limit the primary modification and throw individuals who burn the American flag in jail for a 12 months. “‘They are saying, Sir, that’s not constitutional.’ We’ll make it constitutional,” he stated. They are saying that for a purpose! In 1989, the Supreme Courtroom dominated 5-4 in favor of a protester arrested for burning the American flag exterior the Republican Nationwide Conference in Dallas, and towards the Texas state legislation banning the desecration of the US flag. Congress tried banning flag burning with a constitutional modification in 2006, however the vote failed by a single vote.
Trump: “You burn an American flag, you go to jail for one 12 months. Gotta do it. You gotta do it. They are saying, ‘sir, that is unconstitutional.’ Effectively make it constitutional.” pic.twitter.com/qM7oNCQxQk
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 26, 2024
Democrats sue Georgia election board: The lawsuit challenges two guidelines the state’s board just lately adopted. They require election officers to conduct a “cheap inquiry” into election outcomes earlier than certification and permit particular person members of county boards to take a look at “election associated documentation created through the conduct of elections.” The plaintiffs declare the insurance policies allow native election officers to chase any perceived election irregularity, introducing chaos and “substantial uncertainty within the post-election course of.” Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump, who as you possibly can keep in mind promoted lies a few stolen Presidential election, praised the three board members who finally backed the principles as “pit bulls combating for honesty, transparency and victory.” (Victory for whom?)
$$$: In keeping with The Washington Publish, the nation’s 50 largest political donors dropped a collective $1.5 billion into this 12 months’s election cycle, with many of the cash coming from Republican-leaning elites and going to political motion committees. Railroad magnate and inheritor Timothy Mellon gave greater than anybody in America. He donated $125 million to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN INC. to assist Trump, and wasted $25 million extra on AMERICAN VALUES 2024, an excellent PAC supporting RFK Jr’s foiled marketing campaign.
Courtroom guidelines Florida can ban and limit trans care: Two Trump-appointed Judges on the Courtroom of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit lifted an injunction towards Florida’s gender-affirming care legislation, permitting the state to ban take care of minors and limit it for adults whereas Florida appeals its loss in District Courtroom. The judges, Britt Grant and Robert Luck, dominated that the Florida legislature acted in good religion when it handed SB 254 and was not primarily based on “invidious discrimination towards” transgender individuals. The lone dissenter, Decide Charles R. Wilson drew the alternative conclusion, writing that the decrease court docket had adequate proof that the legislation was motivated by anti-trans discrimination. Grant and Luck’s seven web page temporary primarily reversed US District Courtroom Decide John Hinkle’s 105-page ruling that discovered the legislation unconstitutional.
This is my full report at Regulation Dork on the Florida anti-trans legislation order: https://t.co/ZkTEfQf7JW
— Chris “Regulation Dork” Geidner (@chrisgeidner) August 27, 2024
A tragic day for Mariah Carey: The singer’s mother Patricia and sister Alison each died this weekend, on the identical day. Carey has stated that her mom, an opera singer skilled at Juilliard, had been each an inspiration to her and supply of ache. Alison, largely estranged from Carey, had died at 63 from liver failure. In an announcement to Folks, Carey stated that she was heartbroken.
