Wind Weary: Speedy gusts swept by way of Western Washington Monday and Tuesday, toppling bushes, downing energy traces, leaving a whole bunch of hundreds of residents at the hours of darkness. Early Tuesday, 150,000 households had been with out energy. By Tuesday evening, 61,000 remained powerless—the bulk had been Puget Sound Vitality prospects, about 1,000 had been Seattle Metropolis Gentle. For now, the wind has died down and the rain appears to have abated.
Market Stalemate: Keep in mind how Pike Place used to have that park at its north finish overlooking the Puget Sound? You possibly can go sit within the grass with a sizzling piroshky and watch jugglers and dancers and vacationers consuming their very own piroshky. The park, referred to as Victor Steinbrueck Park, has been closed for renovations since 2019. Although the development has been finished, the grass overlook is locked behind a chainlink fence. Why? A standoff. Its unique, iconic totem poles—the sources of their very own controversy about indigenous artwork—are present process restoration by the Seattle Parks and Recreation. Parks is right down to reopen the Victor Steinbrueck Park with out the poles, for now, however the Pike Place Market Historic Fee refuses to let that occur. We simply need our piroshky bench again.
Seattle Decide Blocks Trump Refugee Ban: U.S. District Decide Jamal Whitehead briefly blocked Donald Trump’s government order freezing refugee arrivals and federal funding for organizations who serve refugees. Whitehead’s preliminary injunction stops the chief order from happening nationwide, till the court docket case ends, or till the injunction is overruled by the next court docket. Whitehead mentioned the injunction was warranted as a result of the plaintiffs are more likely to present that Trump’s order “has crossed the road from permissible discretionary motion to efficient nullification of congressional will.” He mentioned Trump’s “authority isn’t limitless.” That is the second time {that a} Washington state decide has blocked one among Trump’s immigration orders.
Capturing at Renton Transit Middle: A person was shot yesterday afternoon exterior of the Renton Transit Middle. The gunman allegedly pulled out a gun, shot the sufferer within the stomach, after which jumped on a King County Metro bus and traveled one mile north. Police arrested the suspect. The sufferer is in crucial situation.
Wanna See One thing Scary? Try this AI video Trump posted on Fact Social about “Trump Gaza,” which appears like a model of Gaza that is additionally a Trump resort and Elon Musk is there consuming quite a lot of bread.
Full batshit lunacy on the president’s Fact Social account. Sure, he actually posted this.
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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Unhealthy Information on the CDC: Mass firings on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention might be unhealthy information for confronting infectious illness threats. Fowl flu retains spreading across the nation, there is a measles outbreak in Texas, tuberculosis is en vogue once more in Kansas, in the meantime polio, mpox, and ebola are circulating in different nations and we have thinned the ranks of the individuals who will defend us towards these threats. Plus, the specter of extra cuts and the impacts of an anti-vax secretary of HHS have made the work tradition hell. It is onerous to save lots of lives when your job is a pit of despair and with the sword of Damocles hanging over your head.
Not So Anti-Vax Now, Huh? That measles outbreak in Texas has contaminated round 124 folks, most of them infants and youngsters. One particular person has died—an unvaccinated little one. Almost all of these contaminated are unvaccinated or hadn’t completed their vaccines towards measles. The specter of the illness is altering anti-vax mother and father’ tunes—they’re lining as much as get their unvaccinated children vaccinated. “About half of the roughly 100 doses of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR) given on the well being division final week had been to children who had been unvaccinated,” in keeping with a Texas public well being official. You already know what, good for them. I assist anybody who can cease being a fucking fool for a second to save lots of their children. Now, let’s examine if their newfound perception in science and details will stick.
Home Passes Framework for Trumps “Large, Lovely Invoice”: Spoiler alert: It isn’t stunning. In truth, it’s horrible. The “large stunning invoice” is Trump’s funds, which accommodates $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and calls on the federal authorities to cut back its spending by $2 trillion over the subsequent decade. The funds plan narrowly handed yesterday in a 217-215 (vote with all Democrats and a singular Republican voting towards it) after conservatives raised hell to attempt to enhance the spending cuts. The plan ought to easy the method of passing Trump’s large fiscal plan “by utilizing a course of known as reconciliation, which permits such payments to keep away from a filibuster and move the Senate on a simple-majority vote,” in keeping with the New York Occasions. The funds shall be disastrous. These $2 trillion in spending cuts will imply the gutting of Medicaid and SNAP advantages amongst different federal funding priorities.
Bezos makes adjustments at WaPo opinion web page: The Washington Submit‘s opinion editor, David Shipley, has resigned after Jeff Bezos introduced a brand new imaginative and prescient for the part. The change comes after Bezos stopped the opinion part from endorsing Kamala Harris for president, ending presidential endorsements on the paper within the course of. Bezos solely needs opinion items that fall beneath the “two pillars” of “private liberties and free markets” and anything shall be printed “by others.” I am not completely clear what Bezos’s objective is right here, however I can solely think about it as one thing sinister and unhealthy for democracy.
SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails workers a couple of change to Submit Opinions: “We’re going to be writing on daily basis in assist and protection of two pillars: private liberties and free markets.”
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Talking of the Press: Trump introduced yesterday that it might begin handpicking which media shops had been allowed to take part within the presidential press pool. The pool is a small, rotating group of reporters who cowl the president’s day-to-day actions, and for many years, the pool has been chosen by the White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation. “No politician ought to get to resolve which journalists get to cowl them, not to mention probably the most highly effective politician within the nation, however President Trump retains opening new fronts in his conflict on the press,” Reporters With out Borders mentioned in an announcement. “On the finish of the day, freedom of the press is about each American’s proper to entry details about their authorities and their society, so the White Home’s assaults towards press freedom will not be simply directed towards journalists, however towards each American’s First Modification rights.”
A minimum of the oligarchs have not taken the celebrities from us but. They’re attempting, after all. For now, although, you possibly can look skyward and know that nobody owns house. Do it on the finish of this month, and also you could possibly see the entire planets lined up without delay. Astrologers, is that this a great factor or a nasty factor?
Promote Your Tesla and Your Tesla Inventory: Tesla shares dropped 8 p.c Tuesday. It is market cap is now under $1 trillion, the bottom its been for the reason that November election.
Republicans Cower from Constituents: Home Republicans are afraid of holding city halls after crowds of rightfully-angry constituents have flocked to the occasions and yelled at their lawmakers for being complicit pushovers. Now, celebration leaders are suggesting solely doing tele-town halls or pre-screening attendees for in-person occasions. Hopefully, Democrat challengers for these seats can seize upon this second.
Lifeless Air: After a passenger handed away throughout a flight from Melbourne to Doha final week, Qatar Airways flight workers determined to place her corpse within the seat subsequent to an Australian couple. They really requested the the person to maneuver over a seat and put her useless physique in what was his seat. He sat subsequent to her physique for 4 hours. “It wasn’t good,” he mentioned.
A track in your Wednesday: Singer and musician Rhiannon Giddons introduced she will not carry out on the Kennedy Middle this yr after Trump’s takeover of the group. This is her NPR Tiny Desk Live performance:
