Which 20 Seattle public elementary faculties will shut? We don’t know, and SPS received’t launch the complete record till fall. Superintendent Brent Jones stated he plans to current the record in September–three months earlier than the board votes on the plan in December. He claims that summer season break isn’t an excellent time to have interaction folks for enter. So I assume leaving them in suspense is healthier? Sorry, Mr. Jones, I’m not seeing your argument, particularly when dad and mom anticipated to listen to about this plan at in the present day’s board assembly. As an alternative, they’ll get a presentation explaining the rationale behind SPS’s choice. I wager they actually simply need that secret record.
Washington performing extra abortions after Dobbs choice: At a Tuesday press convention with US Senator Maria Cantwell, a bunch of Washington abortion suppliers stated they’re performing much more abortions within the two years because the US Supreme Courtroom issued the Dobbs choice that struck down Roe v. Wade. Final 12 months, out-of-state abortions elevated 36%. Throughout that very same time interval, abortions carried out on sufferers from Idaho climbed 56%. Washington medical doctors are offering 18% extra abortions total.
Seattle’s Residing Computer systems Museum + Labs is done-zo: The establishment, created by the late Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen, received’t reopen. It closed at the beginning of the pandemic 4 years in the past. The museum’s web site and social media accounts have gone darkish, and the property confirmed to Geekwire that Allen’s assortment of pc artifacts can be auctioned off for charity.
Somebody smashed home windows on the Freedom Socialist Get together workplaces: A Palestinian flag and signal studying “Finish US navy assist to Israel” hung within the home windows. Final Friday, an individual or individuals hurled two bricks via these home windows, inflicting about $2,000 in harm, KING 5 studies. The celebration didn’t file a police report as a result of it didn’t suppose the cops would be capable of discover whoever was accountable.
Android customers can add their ORCA Card to their Google Pockets now: Neat! Now do iPhone :).
ORCA Press Launch: ORCA Card now accessible in Google Pockets, Android Customers can Pay for Transit with Cellphone and Put on OS gadgets. https://t.co/TY1Jka0TgD pic.twitter.com/f24XfGUxFr
— The ORCA Card (@TheORCACard) June 24, 2024
Launch the names: Yesterday the Washington State Supreme Courtroom heard oral arguments in a case about whether or not the Seattle Police Division should launch the names of the cops who attended Trump’s Jan 6 rally. The justices might want to resolve whether or not the general public information regulation protects the officers’ names, and whether or not companies should think about an individual’s constitutional rights earlier than releasing public paperwork. A decrease court docket created that latter (and new) commonplace on enchantment, which may gradual the already glacial tempo of doc launch. Should you’re curious, DivestSPD recognized the cops again in 2021.
UN might droop assist in Gaza: Senior UN officers advised Israel that they may droop assist operations in Gaza until the nation begins defending its humanitarian staff. The UN demanded in a letter that Israel should present a means for assist staff to immediately talk with troopers on the bottom in Gaza. There’s been no ultimate choice about suspending assist operations, and as of yesterday talks with Israel nonetheless continued.
GI Joe: President Joe Biden pardoned former US navy personnel convicted of violating the now-repealed consensual gay-sex ban, opening a pathway for them to regain misplaced advantages. The transfer affected probably hundreds who will now be capable of apply for documentation that proves their conviction has been expunged. It will change lives broken by homophobic coverage, however I’d wager many lefty voters will see it as a rainbow-colored try to garner their help earlier than the election.
#Oyez: The US Supreme Courtroom threw out a declare that the Biden administration illegally coerced social media corporations to take away content material, and in doing so overturned an injunction that might have restricted contact between the businesses and authorities officers. The Republican Attorneys Common of Louisiana and Missouri and 5 social media customers who filed the go well with stated the federal government went too far when it pressured the businesses to restrict misinformation about COVID-19.
DC metropolis council approves cash to check reparations: Earlier than any cash may go to the Black descendants of enslaved folks or to folks impacted by racist Jim Crow legal guidelines, the Metropolis is forming a activity power so that they’d be capable of hit the bottom working if (or when) the council advances a reparations invoice. 9 council members co-sponsored a invoice to determine the fee, making passage of a invoice like that fairly possible.
Lauren Boebert received her major: Colorado Rep. and MAGA fiend Lauren Boebert, who evaded defeat by swapping Home districts this 12 months, received a packed congressional major within the state’s conservative jap plains. She’s one of the annoying folks in Congress, and final September this household values, glock-hipped, anti-groomer conservative was ejected from a Denver efficiency of Beetlejuice: The Musical for allegedly vaping indoors and fondling her date. Dems hope to select up the seat she left behind, however they most likely received’t beat the institution Republican lawyer who received the first final evening.
Jamaal Bowman misplaced his major: In 2020, Bowman received a shock progressive victory within the New York suburbs, and final evening he turned the primary member of the “Squad” to be knocked out of workplace, largely due to criticism of Israel. Progressives dumped cash on his marketing campaign, however they couldn’t outspend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC, which threw $14.5 million into the most costly Home major ever. Even Dem moderates typically supportive of Israel advised Axios they noticed the spending as “overkill.”
It’s not a leftist conspiracy concept that AIPAC fairly actually spent extra money than ever earlier than to unseat Jamaal Bowman for his stance on Israel. New Yorkers have been drowned in advertisements smearing Bowman—that coupled with the redistricting of his district value him the seat. https://t.co/vKAypwKwGL pic.twitter.com/gFLjhJ9M2S
— Olayemi Olurin (@msolurin) June 26, 2024
Robert Eggers is BACK, child: The darkish, gothic trailer for Eggers’s (The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman) Nosferatu is out. The movie is scheduled for launch this Christmas, greater than 100 years after the sensible F.W. Murnau unique. I am so stoked.
He’s coming. NOSFERATU.
A Robert Eggers image. Solely in theaters this Christmas. pic.twitter.com/21PAzxCKz1
— Nosferatu (@NosferatuFilm) June 24, 2024
