Comfortable Juneteenth! On this present day in 1865, Union troopers marched on Galveston Bay, Texas to announce that the greater than 250,000 enslaved folks within the state have been free. It’s a pleasant day forward for these celebrating in Seattle. After greater than per week of under regular temperatures, we’ll ascend to the excessive 70s in the present day and keep heat till Sunday, once we drop down once more.
Cafe Racer is closing: Simply six months after linking up with Allied Arts Basis and reopening as a nonprofit arts house, Cafe Racer is closing its Capitol Hill venue on eleventh Ave on June thirtieth. In keeping with Capitol Hill Seattle weblog, it’s going to dwell on as a “nonprofit group pushed arts group” and proceed supporting Washington-based music on-line.
Save Scarecrow video! The College-District-video-store-turned-nonprofit-video-library might shut until it raises $1.8 million by the top of the 12 months. It’s the identical story dogging all of our metropolis’s arts organizations: donations are down and prices are up. Fuck! I genuinely shouted right into a quiet, empty workplace once I learn the Seattle Occasions story about this. Scarecrow is a Seattle treasure, an establishment, one of many genuinely cool locations. Ephemeral, ever-disappearing streaming video can’t substitute their strong bodily library, one of many largest publicly out there video collections within the nation. Dropping it could imply dropping a bit of our municipal soul. Don’t let it occur!
SOS – Save Our Scarecrow
Learn our open letter to the communityhttps://t.co/rtFtMtUShl pic.twitter.com/7u7p3MQ7Zq
— ScarecrowVideo (@ScarecrowVideo) June 18, 2024
Seattle fines the Belltown Hellcat man: Miles Hudon, 20, driver of probably the most hated Dodge Charger in Seattle (which is saying one thing) is accused of racing via the town at night time and waking folks with a thunderous, coughing exhaust pipe. Yesterday, a Seattle courtroom ordered him to pay $83,000 in municipal fines for not responding to a Metropolis lawsuit in opposition to him inside 20 days. Hudson, who didn’t totally adjust to an SPD inspection of his automobile final week, arrived at courtroom sporting a balaclava and darkish sun shades.
Endorsement information: The forty third Legislative District Democrats have endorsed Shaun Scott to exchange State Rep. and Speaker Emeritus Frank Chopp within the Washington State Legislature, based on a launch from Scott’s marketing campaign. This provides to Scott’s already weighty record of endorsements, which embrace Chopp, forty third LD Rep. Nicole Macri, King County Council Members Teresa Mosqueda and Girmay Zahilay, Seattle Metropolis Council Member Tammy Morales, State Sen. Noel Body, and extra.
ICYMI: The Seattle Public Library remains to be reeling from final month’s cyber assault, which took out the WiFi, printers, Interlibrary loans, and the flexibility to return bodily media. SPL wouldn’t let our freelancer Charlie Lahud-Zaher discuss to library workers or admin, so Lahud-Zaher simply hung round as a substitute, observing how librarians have been making do.
Most Individuals like DEI: Final 12 months, the Supreme Court docket struck down affirmative motion and kicked the door down for conservative challenges to “woke” Variety, Fairness, and Inclusion (DEI) packages in the private and non-private sectors. Seems, folks like them, that means these packages are in all probability not the reeducation camp conservatives say they’re. (Nicely, it is both that or America should have already gone full communist.) Roughly 6 in 10 Individuals advised the Washington Submit and Ipsos pollsters that DEI was a superb factor, a quantity that rose to 7 in 10 when the time period was well-defined for them. Most stated the impact was both impartial or optimistic. Solely 14 % of respondents stated DEI damage them personally.
Thailand will get gayer: Thailand will turn into the primary nation in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex marriage after the dominion’s senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of marriage equality. Solely 4 members opposed the invoice. The regulation gained’t formally be regulation till the King indicators off on it, however that’ll more than likely occur. Homosexual {couples} in Thailand ought to have the ability to legally marry this 12 months.
Membership Q shooter pleads responsible to 74 prices: Shooter Anderson Lee Aldrich, who killed 5 folks and injured a dozen extra at a homosexual nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2022 accepted a plea deal in reference to federal hate crime prices. He’ll by no means get out. A decide sentenced him to 55 concurrent life sentences, adopted by 190 years imprisonment. Final 12 months, Aldrich was already sentenced to 2,000 years imprisonment.
Noam Chomsky is alive, however we thought he was lifeless for a second: Right here’s what occurred. Final 12 months, a stroke put Chomsky within the hospital. Yesterday, the medical doctors discharged him from the hospital to proceed remedy at residence. The hospital put out an announcement about it, after which rumors of his dying circulated the web. The New Statesman and Jacobin revealed obits, which the latter headlined “We Keep in mind Noam Chomsky,” earlier than altering it to “Let’s Rejoice Noam Chomsky,” which is an enthralling technique to repair a grievous journalistic oopsie. Absolutely, this occasion has prompted newsrooms internationally to arrange their obits for one of many world’s most distinguished leftist intellectuals, in the event that they haven’t acquired them within the can already. The person is 95, in any case. We want him good well being.
— Mr. Thank You (@c0mmunicants) June 18, 2024
Northern warmth wave: A heatwave is hitting an space that stretches east from Maine previous Chicago with triple-digit warmth harmful sufficient to kill folks. With projected temperatures starting from 10 to 25 levels larger than common for this time of 12 months, greater than 100 locations are anticipated to interrupt document highs via the weekend.
Rise up to this point on the conservative grasp plan for Trump’s reelection: If America is a seaside, Challenge 2025 is the tsunami wave that threatens to slam into the shore and carry off our umbrellas, chairs, and sunscreen proper together with our democracy. Individuals are speaking about it after a John Oliver section this weekend, and when you’re not up on the particulars, then there’s no time like the current to turn into horribly, miserably conversant in them. As described on this New York Occasions article, extremist conservatives are already laying the groundwork for Donald Trump’s return to workplace. Additionally for the Occasions, this man learn each web page of the behemoth. NPR did a half-hour on the plan. Right here’s Oliver’s section:
John Oliver on Challenge 2025 and a second Trump time period.
I used to be going to clip this section out into shorter sections however determined to maintain it collectively as a result of it is too vital and, frankly, it ought to terrify you. pic.twitter.com/Kaqo07lurB
— Blue Georgia (@BlueATLGeorgia) June 18, 2024
Women to the entrance: After 39 years of sidelining the sequence named for her, Zelda is lastly getting her legend. Nintendo introduced The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge at its Nintendo Direct showcase Tuesday. I’m excited for this one.