When one park closes… Little Saigon’s eight-month-old Hoa Mai Park will briefly shut as a result of public security considerations. It has turn out to be a gathering place for the unhoused and for drug exercise equivalent to fentanyl use, in accordance with close by residents. Sadly, because it’s on this metropolis’s nature to limit any and all locations for impoverished folks, the park will shut till additional discover. This seems like a sweep however in a special font. And, let’s be clear—the rising crime within the Worldwide District and Little Saigon is correlated with Bruce Harrell’s push to “clear up” downtown. There’s nowhere for these folks to go and there will not be a spot except the town offers one. When it reopens, Hoa Mai Park will accomplish that with a lockable gate and with decreased night time time hours.
… One other park opens: Victor Steinbruck Park, the grassy gathering house subsequent to Pike Place Market, will lastly reopen at this time after two years. A dispute over the totem poles delayed the reopening. Do not you hate it when that occurs? The March 14 opening will occur no matter totem poles. As for the poles, they will be restored now with the assistance of a Native carver and shall be reinstalled as soon as they’re good as new.
The climate: Grey. Chilly, however not too chilly. Rain returns tomorrow.
A Tesla tinderbox: An arsonist in Capitol Hill dumped gasoline onto a Tesla parked on the intersection of fifteenth Avenue East and East Harrison then lit the automobile ablaze. Nobody was injured, however that Tesla certain will not be operable any time quickly. Police apprehended the suspect.
Assist a Hoh out: The one highway to Olympic Nationwide Park’s Hoh Rainforest has been washed out with huge bites eroded away since December. Every year, the Higher Hoh Street carries 460,000 guests. With out sufficient funds within the county and with a federal authorities unwilling to assist, highway restoration hope has dwindled. However, tight-pursed Gov. Bob Ferguson introduced yesterday the state will assist. He directed $623,000 of reserve funds to assist patch up the highway. 100 particular person donors additionally contributed a complete of $27,000. Thanks, Bob!
Did you see the Blood Moon and Lunar Eclipse final night time? This was the primary complete lunar eclipse in two years. In case you missed it, you possibly can watch this time lapse from the Griffith Park Observatory in Los Angeles. I hope it is a good omen astrologically. What can we make of it, star readers?
Received dwelling in time for totality!
2nd image was taken by my daughter who’s at an observatory!
#lunareclipse #pictures #moon
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— Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal (@mubashariqbal.com) March 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Studying the tea leaves, it appears as if the omen could also be dangerous: There’s an impending federal authorities shutdown. Democrats are in a difficult state of affairs. Do they facet with the GOP ghouls and go a spending invoice that erodes a lot of Congress’s energy on authorities spending and offers that energy to Donald Trump and the chief department? Or, do they permit the shutdown to occur and doubtlessly grant Trump extra energy that method? Minority chief Chuck Schumer introduced he will facet with the Republicans and vote for the spending invoice. Why? He thinks a shutdown is the more serious possibility of the 2 evils and that it will grant Trump and Elon Musk “full authority to deem complete businesses, applications, and personnel nonessential, furloughing workers with no promise that they might ever be rehired.” Ugh, sure, however voting alongside the baddies…? There absolutely should be higher methods to withstand than to roll over and present your stomach, proper?
Dr. Oz goes to Washington: Superstar physician and homeopathic freak Dr. Mehmet Oz needs to be the man who oversees medical health insurance underneath the Division of Well being. He’ll face a affirmation listening to with the Senate Finance Committee at this time. Looks as if he’ll get it. Forward of his affirmation, Oz introduced he’d attempt to mitigate a few of his large monetary conflicts of curiosity and promote “his curiosity in additional than 70 firms and funding funds, together with UnitedHealth Group, HCA Healthcare and Amazon, which now has vital well being care ventures,” in accordance with the New York Occasions.
Some excellent news: Individuals preserve booing JD Vance.
JD Vance was booed on the Kennedy Middle.
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Go for gold: With uncertainty about tariffs and a cratering inventory market, buyers are selecting to spend money on one thing strong, one thing tangible, one thing… gold. The yellow steel broke $3,000 Friday—an all-time excessive. Gold mud or bust, child.
Dad and mom sue Trump: A category-action federal lawsuit introduced by mother and father towards the Trump administration is suing on the grounds that decimating the Division of Schooling’s Workplace for Civil Rights will result in discrimination in school. That violates the equal safety clause underneath the Fifth Modification, in accordance with the swimsuit. Dad and mom introduced the swimsuit three days after the Division of Schooling introduced it was firing 1,300 staff together with the complete staffs at seven of 12 regional civil rights places of work. The firings amounted to a 50% minimize within the division’s work drive.
Are you a possible political enemy of this administration? In case you’re studying this on this heretical weblog, then you definately in all probability are. So learn this Wired article about shield your self from digital surveillance.
Local weather change tales all over the place: Jessie Holmes, a former forged member on the fact TV present “Life Under Zero,” gained the Iditarod Path Sled Canine Race. It was the longest Iditarod ever. Why? Effectively, the route needed to change since there wasn’t sufficient snow north of the Alaska Vary. You’ll be able to’t sled canine race with out snow. The route modified and ballooned from 1,000 miles to 1,129 miles. Holmes and his workforce of canines completed the race in 10 days, 14 hours, 55 minutes and 41 seconds.
New particulars in Mahmoud Khalil case: I write “case,” however there isn’t any case since Khalil, a former Columbia College graduate scholar, dedicated no crime. He was taken from his New York dwelling in the course of the night time by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers. Based on a brand new lawsuit filed by his legal professionals, Khalil mentioned the ICE brokers by no means recognized themselves. He felt as if he was “being kidnapped” once they took him from his dwelling in entrance of his eight-months pregnant spouse to a detention facility in Louisiana the place he slept with out a pillow or blanket. “This can be a focused, retaliatory and excessive assault on the suitable of free expression,” Khalil’s lawyer Donna Lieberman. She mentioned Khalil was solely detained “for having concepts.” He’s nonetheless in custody.
Protesters demand Khalil’s launch: Yesterday, progressive Jewish protesters flooded Trump Tower, demanding the discharge of Khalil—100 have been arrested. Their message? “Battle Nazis, not college students,” and “We is not going to comply.” Khalil’s detention is trying much less like an immigration case and extra like a check run for mass political arrests.
Columbia’s federal funds ransom: Nearing closing kind fascist, the Trump administration has outlined its standards to revive $400 million of federal funding to Columbia. The calls for? The Ivy League college cracks down on protests, redefines antisemitism on Trump’s phrases, and arms extra energy to campus cops. Among the many specifics: ban most masks, centralize self-discipline, and put whole tutorial departments underneath authorities oversight. Columbia has till March 20 to meekly acquiesce or keep minimize off.
A track on your Friday: That is caught in my head this morning.
