Boeing lays off greater than 400 union members: As a part of the the aerospace firm’s 10% discount in staffing, Boeing has lower 438 positions held by Society of Skilled Engineering Workers in Aerospace members, the skilled aerospace labor union (distinct from the machinists union that was on strike this fall). Boeing expects to chop round 17,000 jobs to cut back labor prices.
TERFs on the library: An anti-trans group has rented the Central Library auditorium for an occasion this Sunday, and a few staff plan to protest on the library’s plaza. Girls’s Declaration Worldwide USA (WDI USA) is the non-catchy title for the American chapter of a trans exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) group based in the UK. Like all TERF teams, WDI works below an outdated feminist framework to restrict the civil rights of trans individuals and painting transgender id as ideology. The Southern Poverty Legislation Middle considers WDI to be a part of a anti-queer pseudoscience community, whose “Declaration on Girls’s Intercourse-Primarily based Rights” has change into a mannequin for anti-trans laws. The WDI panel is the third anti-queer occasion on the library in three years, and the second hosted by a TERF group. SPL wrote on its weblog that it helps the rights of transgender girls, but it surely rents its assembly room to anybody, even these they disagree with. When you really feel like disagreeing, loudly, and supporting trans individuals at a time of rising hatred, you possibly can be part of Seattle Public Library staff for a protest outdoors the Central Library Plaza on Sunday at 6 pm and/or communicate on the SPL Board of Trustees assembly subsequent Thursday, November twenty first.
Suspect charged in Worldwide District stabbings: Roland Jerome Lee, 37, was charged within the stabbings of 5 individuals final Thursday in Seattle’s Chinatown Worldwide District. All 5 of the victims had been males. Two of them required surgical procedure. Lee, who has 9 prior felony convictions, allegedly stabbed one man within the again, by the spinal wire. The assaults thus far appear unmotivated and utterly random. Lee can be a suspect in 4 different stabbings that occurred within the neighborhood earlier within the week.
Vandals at UW president’s dwelling: This week, a bunch of masked people went to UW president Ana Mari Cauce’s dwelling and spray painted phrases like “Free Palestine,” “blood in your fingers,” and “Ana Mari is complicit in genocide” on her property. The vandalism comes within the wake of the settlement UW administration reached with pupil protesters again in Might. The college dedicated to funding scholarships for Palestinian college students and being extra clear about funding, however didn’t agree to chop ties with Boeing or cease a research overseas program in Israel, as protesters demanded. A video of the vandalism circulating on Instagram included the phrases “you’ll not know peace till you meet the calls for of our motion.” A UW spokesperson mentioned the vandalism “is not going to affect college coverage.”
BREAKING: Pres Cauce’s dwelling was vandalized final evening with vile graffiti and posted on Insta with threatening language: “You’ll not know peace till you meet the calls for of our motion”
We unequivocally condemn this despicable conduct, and look to @SeattlePD and incoming AG… pic.twitter.com/vewG2mOIW7
— UW_JewishAlumni (@UW_JewishAlumni) November 14, 2024
Solar right this moment? Okay, earlier this week I used to be sure we would not see the solar once more till not less than February. In the present day, I am consuming crow. The skies will probably be clear right this moment. Hopefully, they will keep clear sufficient to identify the beaver moon tonight, the final tremendous moon of 2024.
Please, undertake a pooch: The Humane Society for Tacoma and Pierce County is drowning in canine. There are such a lot of canine within the shelter they’re having to accommodate them in places of work and hallways. To repair the overcrowding and get a few of the 200 canine they’re caring for out of the shelter and into houses, the Humane Society is waiving adoption charges from Nov. 14 by Nov. 17. Canine consumption has elevated exponentially this 12 months. The shelter says it is taken in 400 extra canine this 12 months than final.
Do not let this man have a pooch, although: A Sheriff’s deputy in Tennessee misplaced his job and is dealing with animal cruelty prices after he killed seven canine whereas responding to an animal welfare examine.
Suspected fowl flu on the zoo: A valuable goose on the Woodland Park Zoo is now a goner. Zookeepers discovered the uncommon red-breasted goose useless earlier this week. Assessments returned constructive for avian flu. Now, the zoo is in pandemic mode. Solely animal keepers and veterinarians will work together with the zoo birds now. Penguin feeding experiences are canceled, as are non-public excursions and fowl ambassador reveals. The free roaming peacocks have been put indoors. The water within the swimming pools at open-topped fowl reveals has been drained to stop wild birds from touchdown there and probably catching any germs. The geese are in quarantine.
Fuck: Donald Trump has formally chosen Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to steer the Division of Well being and Human Providers. A former appearing director of the Facilities for Illness Management informed the New York Occasions that this appointment, “would pose unimaginable dangers to the well being of the nation.” Washington’s Sen. Patty Murray referred to as it “catastrophic” and mentioned RFK Jr. at this put up “couldn’t be extra harmful.” RFK Jr. is an anti-vaxxer, a uncooked milk fanatic, a fluoride conspiracy theorist, who believes that poppers trigger HIV, trans healthcare for minors consists of “castration medication (puberty blockers) and surgical mutilation” and far more. Public well being staff and officers are terrified.
the worm in RFK’s mind on his method to day one as deputy well being secretary pic.twitter.com/Kz9mJWFqt5
— Russell 🏳️🌈 (@Medic_Russell) November 14, 2024
Vaccine shares take a tumble: Within the wake of the RFK Jr. information, shares fell for Moderna, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Novavax, and different vaccine firms. RFK Jr. needs to implement a vaccine “research” to see how secure they’re. Public well being officers fear how rigorous the research could be and what the messaging could be. The likeliest end result is that any form of research helmed by this mad tin foil hatter would solely enhance vaccine skepticism and destabilize our public well being system.
Canary within the coal mine: Whooping cough instances in Oregon are set to succeed in an all-time excessive because of a dip in vaccinations within the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
When you care: Conan O’Brien will host the 97th Oscars.
Bear assaults had been truly simply insurance coverage fraud: 4 individuals claimed a bear obtained into their automobiles in California’s San Bernardino Mountains and wreaked havoc. They submitted video alongside their insurance coverage declare of a bear shifting round in a Rolls Royce and two Mercedes. They needed $142,000 for his or her damages. One firm reviewing the footage suspected it wasn’t truly a bear. When the corporate requested a biologist to try the footage, they mentioned it was “clearly a human in a bear go well with.” Certain sufficient, detectives discovered a bear costume within the suspects’ dwelling. The 4 individuals had been arrested for defrauding three insurance coverage firms.
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