Yet one more for the blue: After a neck-in-neck race, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez formally received re-election to the Home within the third Congressional District, beating out far-right challenger Joe Kent. Her win is one other step ahead for Democrats as they attempt to take again the Home and retain a shred of energy within the coming administration from hell. About two dozen races nation-wide nonetheless have to be determined.
Please spare us, H5N1: The Facilities for Illness Management need extra testing finished for chicken flu after blood exams on 115 of dairy staff confirmed 7% had chicken flu antibodies, that means they’d already contracted the illness sooner or later. Beforehand, we solely confirmed 46 instances of chicken flu leaping from cows to farmworkers. This new research means that chicken flu has contaminated many extra individuals than the confirmed instances. Consultants say this means the H5N1 viruses are a better risk than we realized. Nice! One other flu simply in time for the vaccine-doubters to take workplace.
Moist weekend—after which week—forward: Friday will doubtless be our final dry day for some time. Get your galoshes prepared. The rain begins Saturday and it will proceed at the least all through the week.
I hope you want rain this weekend! 🌧️
It may very well be moist for the State H.S. soccer event video games throughout the Puget Sound area. #pnw pic.twitter.com/JAvPx7hegV
— Jake Whittenberg (@jwhittenbergK5) November 8, 2024
That is good: Boeing mentioned it is going to pay the staff the cash they misplaced whereas being furloughed throughout the machinists’ strike that began in September.
Egyptian flooding: A pipe leak on the historic Egyptian Cinema on Capitol Hill shut down the 108-year-old theater for the “foreseeable future.” Repairs will likely be costly and take months. The universe doesn’t need me or my individuals (progressives, artwork home film lovers) to be comfortable this week.
INBOX: The SIFF Cinema Egyptian goes to be closed for “the foreseeable future and the Tremendous Arts constructing management anticipate that it’s going to take a number of months of constructing closure to evaluate, restore and reopen.” Unhappy information particularly throughout what’s a giant time of the 12 months for movie. pic.twitter.com/v2ItPx5Lpi
— Chase ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson (@EclecticHutch) November 7, 2024
One other hit whereas we’re down: Do not forget, 5 gentle rail stops will shut this weekend. Beginning at 10 pm on Friday by 5 am Monday, Westlake, Symphony, Pioneer Sq., Worldwide District/Chinatown, and Stadium stations will all be closed and inaccessible. Trains will run between Lynnwood and Capitol Hill and between Sodo and Angle Lake. Shuttle buses will likely be obtainable to bridge gaps between open and closed stations. It’s all a part of the crawling effort to attach Line 1 to the Eastside line.
Signal of the instances: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Story rocketed to the highest of Amazon’s bestsellers listing this week.
Racist texts: Within the days after the election, Black and Brown individuals throughout the nation acquired spammy, racist texts telling them that they had “been chosen to choose cotton on the nearest plantation” and that the senders’ “govt slave catchers” would decide them up. State lawyer generals say they are going to root out who despatched these texts. A second Donald Trump time period means the masks masking the depravity in America are nicely and actually off. Racists are emboldened.
No person panic: Forty-three monkeys escaped from a medical lab in South Carolina. “There may be nearly no hazard to the general public,” a neighborhood police chief mentioned. No hazard? Is not this how Planet of the Apes began?
Israeli soccer followers attacked in Amsterdam: Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv and Dutch’s Ajax confronted off in a Europa League soccer sport Thursday. After the sport, individuals attacked Israelis in hit-and-run scooter assaults. 5 Israeli followers went to the hospital, however have since been launched. Round 20 to 30 different Israelis sustained gentle accidents. Police arrested 63 individuals, and ten are nonetheless in custody. Context, as all the time, is necessary. Within the days main as much as the match, social media movies confirmed Maccabi followers “chanting anti-Arab slurs, praising Israeli army assaults in Gaza, and yelling ‘fuck the Arabs,'” in response to CNN. Ajax received the sport 5-0.
And now, one thing from Ashley concerning the cops:
Fill’er up: The King County Jail formally lifted misdemeanor reserving restrictions for the Seattle Police Division (SPD) permitting officers to lastly lock up all these pesky Goal shoplifters and individuals who tried to make use of the lavatory at PCC one too many instances and ended up trespassed. I wrote about how SPD Deputy Chief Eric Barden advised officers in a division vast electronic mail Tuesday that they need to ebook individuals into jail each time a public security curiosity existed and solely present extra discretion when the division neared their misdemeanor mattress restrict of 135 individuals per day. Most individuals charged with misdemeanors spend lower than every week in jail, so may very well be lots of people biking by, which King County Division of Public Protection Interim Director Matt Sanders mentioned will finally make it tougher for individuals to carry down jobs, keep housing, and safe behavioral well being remedy, finally undermining public security within the metropolis.
Did you hear about San Francisco’s new mayor? He is a centrist Democrat and he is the inheritor to the Levi’s fortune. Daniel Lurie received the ranked-choice voting election with 56.2% of the vote. Incumbent London Breed solely acquired 43.8%. San Franciscans made clear they’re sick of seeing poverty and being confronted with crimes of desperation. Sadly, as we all know very nicely in Seattle, electing a centrist could conceal the issues for a bit, however it is going to do nothing to repair them.
A porn gorge: North Korean troopers deployed in Russia have unrestricted web entry for the primary time of their lives and so they’re utilizing it to observe mountains of porn and jerk themselves foolish. Boys will likely be boys!
Want one thing to do tonight? The world is bleak. Why not chortle just a little at an improv present? The improv theater I wrote about for my column is having a battle of the star indicators present tonight adopted by an open-to-all improv jam. I will be acting on the Scorpio workforce regardless that I am not a Scorpio (do not inform anybody).
A track to your Friday: This simply feels just like the sound of my psyche proper now.
