Social Housing Is Successful!: After final evening’s poll drop, practically 20 p.c of Seattle’s ballots have been counted in February’s particular election. Sure for social housing is passing with a formidable 68 p.c, and the Stranger-endorsed Proposition 1A has obtained practically 58 p.c of the vote. Individuals need extra money for colleges, too, with greater than 70 p.c of the voters selecting sure for each Proposition No. 1 and No. 1. We’ll hold you posted because the remaining votes are counted, however as Tiffany McCoy mentioned, it’s trying like a “resounding victory” for social housing, and if we’re being sincere, a rejection of the Mayor, Metropolis Corridor, and their BS. Yay!
SPD Will get Blast Balls Again: Yesterday, the Seattle Metropolis Council handed a invoice to permit the Seattle Police Division to make use of blast balls, which have been banned after, in 2020, “officers precipitated a lady’s coronary heart to cease, precipitated one other particular person to endure listening to loss, and basically bloodied and bruised individuals with their indiscriminate use of blast balls.” Tobias Coughlin-Bogue has extra right here.
Elon Musk Is a Harmful Menace: I dunno. Crashing a press occasion on the White Home to insist that you just’re not plotting a hostile takeover of the US authorities certain sounds rather a lot like one thing somebody plotting a hostile takeover of the US authorities would do.
This Is Snot Good: It seems like Elon’s child picked his nostril and put boogers on the Resolute desk hahahahahhahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Critically, Although: At yesterday’s press occasion, Trump “signed an order giving Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity (Doge) extra authority to chop the federal workforce.” Musk intends to do exactly that, describing federal staff as an “unelected, fourth, unconstitutional department of presidency” that has “extra energy than any elected consultant.”
Projection: professional·jec·tion, noun “the attribution of 1’s personal concepts, emotions, or attitudes to different individuals or to things
particularly : the externalization of blame, guilt, or accountability as a protection towards anxiousness”
Booger Boy’s Mother Is (Sort of) Mad: Grimes, mother of Elon Musk’s four-year-old snot-wiping human defend, didn’t know Musk was going to take their baby to the press convention. After somebody despatched her the clip on X, she responded, “He shouldn’t be in public like this. I didn’t see this, thank u for alerting me. However I’m glad he was well mannered. Sigh.”
Ceasefire Underneath Hearth: On Monday, Hamas accused Israel of violating the ceasefire settlement and, in consequence, they are going to delay the discharge of hostages till additional discover. Netanyahu responded yesterday, saying that if Hamas “doesn’t return our hostages by Saturday midday” he’ll finish the ceasefire in Gaza. He has already “ordered Israeli forces to amass inside and round Gaza.”
Don’t Fear, Trump Has an Concept: He mentioned Israel ought to cancel the ceasefire “and let hell escape.” Trump additionally mentioned in his Sunday interview with Fox Information that he desires to “personal” Gaza, bar Palestinians from returning to what’s left of their properties, and switch the land into the “Riviera of the Center East.”
The Gulf of Amerikkka: The Related Press says two of their reporters have been banned from two separate occasions on the White Home Tuesday after Trump demanded “the information company alter its type on the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump has ordered renamed the Gulf of America.” AP’s government editor, Julie Tempo, wrote in a press release, “Limiting our entry to the Oval Workplace based mostly on the content material of AP’s speech not solely severely impedes the general public’s entry to impartial information, it plainly violates the First Modification.”
Mark my phrases: Not less than one of many January 6 assailants pardoned by Trump can be again in jail by the tip of the yr for brand new asshattery.
lol take a look at this fucking fool: On Tuesday, Georgia Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter launched the “Pink, White, and Blueland Act of 2025,’ which might “authorize the President to enter into negotiations to accumulate Greenland and to rename Greenland as ‘Pink, White, and Blueland.'”
Did Drake Survive Sunday’s Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present? Kendrick Lamar’s halftime present was the most-watched Tremendous Bowl halftime present of all time, in accordance to Roc Nation and Fox Sports activities. Greater than 133 million individuals watched Lamar sing “a minorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.” 💀 Is Drake okay? Sure, apparently. He’s on tour in Australia and through a live performance on Monday, he modified a lyric in his track “Knife Speak” to substantiate he’s, in reality, alive.
The Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame 2025 Nominees Are: Unhealthy Firm, the Black Crowes, Mariah Carey, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Billy Idol, Pleasure Division/New Order, Cyndi Lauper, Maná, Oasis, Outkast, Phish, Soundgarden, the White Stripes. I, like Liam Gallagher, don’t give a shit in regards to the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame. However congrats!
Talking of Music: Bumbershoot is providing two-day weekend passes for $100 for a restricted time. They haven’t introduced any of the lineup but, however seeing as how each 2023 and 2024’s installments have been a fuckload of enjoyable (LUV U TED LEO), likelihood is you’ll have a great time, and that is seemingly the most affordable tickets can be all yr.
Lyric of the 12 months: Yesterday, the very nice Laura Jane Grace launched the brand new track “God’s Dick,” with the lyric, “Does your god have a giant fats dick? / ‘Trigger it appears like he’s fucking me.” Lyric of the yr. I’m calling it proper now. Laura Jane Grace & the Mississippi Medicals will play Neumos on April 24. Let’s all go and scream alongside to this track. Will probably be very therapeutic.
