The Virginia Inn Isn’t Closing This Sunday: The oldest restaurant in Pike Place acquired a final minute eviction reprieve from the Pike Place Market Preservation and Growth Authority (PDA) and can resume “enterprise as traditional,” the Inn posted on Fb. The PDA informed King 5 that the present tenant will function the restaurant till September whereas working with the PDA to seek out somebody to take over.
ICE Arrested Kennewick Meals Truck Operator Married to US Citizen: In keeping with Gabby Cerdio, ICE took her husband Sergio Cerdio Gomez into custody throughout an interview about his pending citizenship software. Shortly after marrying in 2022, the couple filed a I-130 petition, which permits US residents to ask that their family members can keep within the nation whereas pursuing a inexperienced card (after which citizenship). Collectively, Cerdio and Gomez have three kids and personal a hibachi meals truck in Kennewick. Gomez has not but appeared earlier than a choose, in accordance with the Tri-Metropolis Herald.
Irish Girl with Inexperienced Card Held by ICE in Tacoma: ICE first detained Cliona Ward, 53, on the San Francisco airport. She’d simply returned from Eire, the place she and her stepmother had visited her sick father. They questioned her a few 2007 drug conviction for easy possession of methamphetamine after which launched her to gather proof that it had been expunged. However at an administrative assembly, she was detained and despatched to the Tacoma Northwest Detention Heart. “When she obtained off the aircraft in Tacoma, officers handcuffed, shackled her, and escorted her by the airport like a hardened legal,” her sister wrote in a GoFundMe. “She was mortified, shamed, and demoralized.”
Lethal crash blocked I-5 in each instructions this morning: The semi-truck crashed right into a barrier in Tacoma, rolled over and burst into flames. The driving force died, in accordance with the Washington State Patrol. The Washington State Division of Transportation didn’t say when lanes would reopen.
Trump Tracker: Sen. Patty Murray and Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro launched a brand new tracker exhibiting the $430 billion in federal funds that President Donald Trump has frozen, cancelled, illegally impounded and “slow-walked” within the final 100 days.
Trump Indicators Three Govt Orders on Immigration and Policing: One directs Lawyer Common Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Safety Kristi Noem to publish a listing of sanctuary cities that aren’t cooperating together with his deportation plan and pursue “all mandatory authorized cures and enforcement measures” in opposition to them. A second directs his administration to offer authorized assets to law enforcement officials accused of wrongdoing, take restraints off regulation enforcement like federal consent decrees, additional militarize police departments, and throw the e book in opposition to native officers “unlawfully prohibiting regulation enforcement officers from doing their obligation.” A 3rd order would require industrial truck drivers to move English literacy assessments.
Liberals Win in Canadian Elections: Mark Carney continues to be Prime Minister and his rival, Conservative Get together chief Pierre Poilievre, misplaced his seat in rural Ottawa. Whereas the Liberals gained, it’s nonetheless not clear in the event that they’ll maintain an outright majority in Parliament. Only a few months in the past, the conservatives have been 27 share factors forward. Then Trump began speaking tariffs and annexation and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped down.
Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a propaganda briefing completely for “new media,” or a bunch of pro-Trump influencers who requested good questions and clapped like kids on the finish. When America First Coverage Institute ambassador Kambree Nelson requested Leavitt what she ought to cowl, Leavitt thanked her for being an unbiased voice.
The EPA Says It Will Restrict “Ceaselessly Chemical substances”: At the very least PFAS (aka per- and polyfluoroalkyl) chemical substances are dangerous. They make our issues stain resistant and non-stick, however sadly could give us most cancers and in all of our blood (a sticky and stain-y factor). What this ban means materially nobody is aware of. This administration by no means spoils a very good shock, particularly on coverage. Environmental teams need to know if the administration will implement a Biden-era regulation tasking utilities with eradicating PFAS our water. It appears to give extra of a shit about chemical substances in straws than the water they’re sitting in, however we’ll see! Final week, the New York Instances reported on Trump admin plans to cancel tens of thousands and thousands in grants to scientists finding out environmental hazards to kids in rural America, together with the buildup on PFAS in our meals.
Taking the Simply Out of Justice: Civil rights attorneys are operating in a screaming mass from the Justice Division’s civil rights division, which was created particularly to guard civil rights and has pivoted laborious from the idea (too woke). The deadline for federal employees to resign and receives a commission by September ended late final evening, and resignations got here flying in. We find out about this exodus partly as a result of the division’s new chief Harmeet Okay. Dhillon informed Glenn Beck on his podcast this weekend. Dhillon, a Republican activist, has pivoted away from foolish issues like racial discrimination to give attention to what’s vital: anti-Christian bias, transgender athletes, and ridding this world of DEI (can’t spell Satan with out it). The division’s civil rights division all the time swings when one other social gathering takes over, however this shakeup has been extra “excessive” than traditional when you can consider that.
Am I so out of contact? No, it’s the pollsters who’re flawed. Every thing sucks, so President Donald Trump’s approval score is sliding like an unattended, drunk child down a black diamond slope. It have to be “election fraud,” says Trump. Polls from the The New York Instances, ABC Information, and The Washington Publish have been the work of “damaging criminals” affected by “Trump derangement syndrome” who should be investigated for mendacity to their readers when anybody can see he’s successful so tremendously bigly. “THEY ARE SICK, virtually solely write damaging tales about me regardless of how properly I’m doing.”
Trump Admin Releases “Truth Sheet” About its Work Outlawing Gender-Affirming Take care of Youth: It declares that each one proof for trans healthcare is bunk and that companies ought to cull all references to the World Skilled Affiliation for Transgender Well being’s requirements of care. The report additionally notes that Well being and Human Companies will publish an “evidence-based” evaluation of the literature (that can actually be top-notch science) and that Lawyer Common Pam Bondi has already ready steerage to prosecute docs who deal with trans youngsters.
I’m Listening to Yakety Sax: On April 22, rescue employees airlifted a 27-year-old man with altitude illness from the highest of Japan’s Mount Fuji. 4 days later, he went again to get his telephone and obtained so sick he needed to be rescued from the mountain AGAIN, this time carried down. It’s not against the law to hike within the low season, however folks on social media in Japan are calling for this man’s head. I hope he does a really humorous factor.
