Preserving it within the household: Sounders FC, with the assistance from funding agency Carlyle, purchased the Seattle Reign from the workforce’s French possession group, OL Groupe, for a cool $58 million. Now the Seattle males’s and ladies’s soccer groups will probably be owned by the identical group. Sounders management will take the reins (pun not supposed) for all issues Reign. This might be a neat evolution for the Seattle soccer world in addition to the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League as a complete. This sale already is a sign of the speedy development of girls’s sports activities; when OL Groupe purchased the Reign again in 2019, they solely paid $3.5 million for the workforce.
We’re no dummies, we take the bus: Seattle is a bus city. That is what new ridership numbers from King County Metro present. On Might, 15, 2024, Metro broke a milestone: 303,000 individuals took the bus that day, which is a 22% soar from a yr in the past and a 156% improve from 2020. Metro thinks these numbers will develop as they add extra bus service within the fall, together with extra weekend and night choices and the introduction of the RapidRide G Line, which is able to join Madison Valley and downtown Seattle. Yay, maintain driving the bus, Seattle. And, Metro? Please give the individuals all of the buses they need.
Belltown Hellcat reaps what he sowed: Miles Hudson, 21, the motive force of the souped up, bengal-tiger-striped muscle automotive, is in authorized warmth for not solely disturbing downtown’s streets and for non-compliance of the court docket order to cease disturbing downtown’s streets, but in addition for alleged stalking and assault. A lady filed a safety order towards Hudson in Might for harassment and sending “revenge porn” of her to different individuals. His mother additionally lately filed a home violence incident towards Hudson, saying he “pulled over the chair she was sitting in.” So, it doesn’t appear as if the Belltown Hellcat is a superb man. Who would’ve thought?
The climate: My sources (aka googling “Seattle climate right now”) inform me it will likely be cloudy and funky right now. Get pleasure from that! Or do not. Solar returns tomorrow. By Wednesday, it will be full summer season once more.
COVID continues to be a factor: Lest you overlook, the COVID-19 virus hasn’t gone away. The truth is, infections in King County are ticking up because the summer season will get underway and folks begin touring and gathering extra. We’re nonetheless not at emergency ranges, however docs are noticing an uptick in emergency room visits. Plus, an infection is probably going even larger than the numbers present since individuals aren’t actually testing themselves for COVID today. To keep away from catching it your self, take precautions. Masks up. Get your up to date vaccines—you could find out the place to do this right here. And, keep in mind, 400 individuals have died from COVID in King County since January. The menace from this virus continues to be very actual.
Do not fuck with the bikini baristas: A person patronizing Style of Heaven Espresso in South Seattle tossed his drinks at proprietor, Emma Lee, who responded by hitting his windshield with a hammer. “Girls are allowed to reply when there may be hazard in methods aside from crying,” Lee stated. “That is one thing different girls within the business know occurs.” Good for her. The drink-throwing and hammer-smashing occurred on the finish of a 15-minute argument the place the client threatened Lee and refused to go away after changing into upset over the price of the drinks. Lee caught the entire thing on surveillance video.
Bikini-clad barista takes hammer to buyer’s windshield after he threw espresso at her. On this scene, who’s flawed and proper once more? I think about the motion of the barista espresso store worker to be the appropriate motion. pic.twitter.com/bjvBMhBrlQ
— hirae4b (@Hermione1234556) June 17, 2024
Greek coastguard kills migrants: Based on witnesses and a brand new BBC investigation, the Greek coast guard is liable for the deaths of no less than 43 migrants on the Mediterranean. The coast guard is believed to have killed these individuals by throwing them off boats into the ocean and to their deaths.
A warning label for social media: United States Surgeon Basic Dr. Vivek Murthy stated he would push for slapping a warning label on social media platforms advising mother and father that their use may impression youngsters’ psychological well being. The label can be just like those used for tobacco and alcohol merchandise. Murthy penned an essay within the New York Instances saying social media hadn’t been proved protected. He likened its results to automotive crashes and contaminated meals.
Questioning why we’ve not had as many car-free Lake Washington Boulevard days this yr? Blame Mayor Bruce Harrell.
Brazil’s wetland blaze: Brazil’s Pantanal, a novel and biodiverse place, is the biggest tropical wetland on earth—and it is an inferno proper now. Researchers have counted 733 fires within the Pantanal biome thus far in June. The earlier document for fires within the Pantanal was set in June of 2005, when 435 blazes burned. The dry season in Brazil is barely simply starting.
An unprecedented wildfire in Brazil’s Pantanal has alarmed native residents because the fires on the planet’s largest tropical wetlands have surged virtually tenfold this yr https://t.co/8sOwkrPujr pic.twitter.com/myf9laSsJo
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 13, 2024
ICYMI: Publicola reported that Kevin Dave, Seattle Police Division officer who mowed down and killed 23-year-old pedestrian Jaahnavi Kandula in 2023, didn’t have a sound Washington driver’s license on the time of the collision. Dave, a transplant from Arizona, was utilizing an Arizona license and seemingly had been far past the 30-day restrict transplants have to modify over their licenses. It is enjoyable when legal guidelines are meaningless to those that implement them.
Netanyahu disbands conflict cupboard: Two of the reasonable members of Israel’s five-member conflict cupboard resigned. In response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved the cupboard, which was shaped in October after Hamas’ assault on Israel. The selections on the conflict will probably be put to a broader vote and undergo a separate safety cupboard, a gaggle that features two notable far-right Israeli figures who’re stalwart of their perception that the Israeli offensive in Gaza ought to proceed.
A sobering learn to your Monday: The Related Press compiled a report about Palestinian households who’ve misplaced 25 or extra relations on account of Israeli assaults from October to December. They recognized sixty households with that quantity of loss, 1 / 4 of whom had misplaced 50 or extra relations in that brief span of time. This can be a onerous learn, however it’s a piece of journalism that touches on the actual, tangible lack of life on this battle.
Who will probably be Trump’s running-mate? Donald Trump is looking for “a fighter” as his vice chairman. Does preventing embrace killing your helpless canine since you did not wish to practice it? As a result of then South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem may have the job.
Lastly, progress: Waffle Home introduced it will likely be making the “single largest further funding in our workforce” and can give employees a elevate. Beginning in June, employees will obtain a base pay of $3. That’ll improve to $5.25 by 2026.