Our climate map seems to be so scary proper now: Good morning and batten down the hatches, we’re about to be coping with a bomb cyclone. The Related Press stated heavy rain and excessive winds are set to “pummel” Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. Whereas a lot of the bomb cyclone will pound that candy spot between Portland and San Francisco, the climate folks on the Nationwide Climate Service nonetheless count on a number of rain and wind right now in Western Washington, with some gusts as excessive as 22 miles per hour. So, you recognize, keep protected and dry on the market.
Seattle Metropolis Council votes on price range, JumpStart right now: After an arduous and opaque course of, the Council is scheduled to vote on the 2025 price range this afternoon in addition to whether or not to loosen up rules on the place it could possibly spend JumpStart {dollars}. If you do not know something about JumpStart, that is okay. Principally, it is a tax on huge Seattle companies meant to be spent on reasonably priced housing. However Mayor Bruce Harrell desires to make use of it to plug the Metropolis’s deficit as a result of the tax is so efficient. Which means taking cash initially meant to assist folks afford to dwell on this tech-ridden expensive-ass metropolis and spending it, partially, on a bloated cops price range slightly than passing one other progressive tax equivalent to a capital features tax. The Seattle Occasions wrote a very good little explainer on it right now. Additionally, comply with Hannah right now for price range vote stuff. Now you can discover her on X and BlueSky.
A cop on each crosswalk: The Mayor always talks about policing and crime, however in line with the Seattle Public Security Survey, folks in Seattle think about stuff equivalent to a automobile hitting them to be the largest public security risk of their lives. Agree? Disagree? Nice, take the survey and inform Harrell your ideas. As KUOW stories, the survey is open till November 30.
Talking of visitors and cops: Have I discussed currently how a lot I despise carceral urbanists? They’re individuals who act like they’re progressive as a result of they assist a protected bike lane, however then in addition they assist cops harassing folks out of their 15-minute cities. Or, within the newest iteration, they advocate for policing the shit out of people that cowl their license plates. A random urbanist from Philadelphia shared his perspective that we might someway repair the variety of folks killed by harmful drivers by impounding all automobiles with lined license plates. Truthfully, everybody needs to be allowed to cowl their license plates—particularly when parked—and particularly in Seattle with its proliferation of Automated License Plate Readers. We’re now all the topic of mass surveillance in Seattle, a harmful prospect contemplating the incoming Trump administration.
Police use computerized license plate readers to trace automobiles (occasions, areas, and so forth) Information is pooled into huge, unregulated databases, with these instruments disproportionately goal Black, Brown, Undocumented communities. https://t.co/Ep1gZILLDt https://t.co/BJwcK42t54
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Not All Urbanists: Earlier than too lots of you yell about how you are a good urbanist who hates mass incarceration, I do know, I do know. Don’t fret, I really like an urbanist who simply desires town to construct road automobiles and enhance visitors security. A latest argument from The Urbanist sort of turned me round on how I really feel about Seattle’s streetcar system. We truly ought to have a metropolis line. It might join South Lake Union to Capitol Hill, one thing that, as somebody who lives on the fallacious aspect of I-5 from Capitol Hill, I might personally actually get pleasure from.
Gaetzgate: Two ladies informed the Home Ethics Committee that they witnessed former Florida Consultant Matt Gaetz have intercourse with an underage woman at a celebration in 2017, in line with the lawyer who represented the ladies. The ladies additionally stated Gaetz paid them for intercourse a number of occasions in a number of areas. Politico reported that quite a few Senate Republicans hope Trump chooses another person to be his Lawyer Normal.
Talking of being above the legislation: Trump’s sentencing listening to in his hush cash case was right now, besides the choose adjourned the court docket. The sentencing is paused till additional discover. Since sitting presidents can’t be prosecuted, the choose should resolve whether or not to delay sentencing till after his second time period or dismiss the case completely. Man, penalties actually slip off this man like water off a duck’s again.
Trump anticipated to ramp up deportations instantly: The incoming Trump Administration plans to start its crackdown on immigrants beginning on his first day in workplace, in line with Politico. Which means ending parole for folks from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, undoing deportation constraints, in addition to contemplating a bunch of government actions to dam folks coming into the nation. Whereas authorized challenges to his actions could also be laborious to win, contemplating the 200 federal judges he managed to nominate in his final time period, the challenge nonetheless raises critical logistical questions.
Much more alarming: Trump confirmed on Reality Social that he desires to make use of the navy to hold out his sick mass deportation desires. We do not have many particulars from the publish since all he did was publish “TRUE!!!” to a conservative commentator’s assertion that Trump would “declare a nationwide emergency and use navy property” to drive the deportations, in line with the BBC.
That Monsignor espresso: Catholic church officers stripped the priest who let pop begin Sabrina Carpenter movie her music video for “Feather” at a New York Metropolis church, in line with The Guardian. The video performed a task within the investigation of New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams earlier this 12 months when an inquiry into Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello’s determination permitting Carpenter to movie on the church led to the invention of “unauthorized monetary transfers to a former prime aide in Eric Adams’s administration,” in line with the Guardian piece. Simply girly issues.
And with that, I depart you with the Feather video that, arguably, helped nail Adams on fees of bribery and corruption.
