Comfortable Tuesday: Did you catch some showers this morning? For these of you who hate what the rain does to your hair (mine will get soooo flat), relaxation assured you doubtless received’t see any sprinkles previous 8 am. Simply clouds and temperatures within the mid 60s. Good!
Tim Walz: Kamala Harris’s operating mate, Tim Walz, landed in Seattle final evening forward of a non-public fundraiser occasion at Hunts Level Tuesday morning. Teams reminiscent of Cease the Sweeps, Resist US-Led Warfare Seattle, Bayan, Worldwide Migrants Alliance, Samidoun, South Asians Resisting Imperialism, and plenty of extra plan to protest exterior the fundraiser. Some noticed Harris choosing Walz as an olive department to progressives, however after Walz stated that “the growth of Israel and its proxies is a necessity for the US” in a current debate, the honeymoon section has worn off.
ICYMI: The Stranger’s very personal Vivian McCall wrote a complete takedown of the “Remedy First” mannequin to finish homelessness, which is peddled by conservatives and forty third Legislative District State Home candidate Andrea Suarez. Please ship this to anybody in your life who doesn’t assume housing folks solves homelessness. I feel I could should go it alongside to some of Suarez’s supporters on the Seattle Metropolis Council.
Cease being poor: In different Suarez information, after I complained on Twitter about my landlord mountaineering my lease, she instructed me to easily purchase a home. All my oomfies clowned on her within the feedback, and rightfully so. Certain, Suarez purchased a home in Maple Valley, allegedly whereas making $47,000 a yr. However as Twitter person James Wu discovered and I confirmed by way of on-line information, she purchased that home for $144,000, and it is now value virtually $600,000. Renters must make $191,000 to make a comparable buy. And, as Be:Seattle famous, homeowner-hopefuls want a wage of $214,000 to afford a home in Seattle.
The bottom pay for workers at The Stranger was simply raised to $70k/yr (because of organizing @NoisyUnion). It is advisable to earn $214k/yr to afford a median home in Seattle pic.twitter.com/Wqt1LPMKAK
— Be:Seattle (@BeSeattleOrg) October 7, 2024
Different options from Suarez: Okay, clearly I can’t purchase a home, however Suarez texted me another concepts final evening. For one, she stated “sufficient of the over beneficiant tenant protections.” She claimed many child boomers don’t lease out their basements as a result of it is a “ache to do away with a nasty tenant.” She stated “no trigger eviction ought to nonetheless be an choice” as a result of she believes it could open up “hundreds of proprietor occupied leases.” Let it’s recognized that the majority evictions finish in homelessness for the tenant, so it’s arduous to argue that making it simpler to make folks homeless would someway assist the housing disaster.
For a second thought, Saurez stated the state ought to lower crimson tape, reminiscent of design assessment and restrictive zoning legal guidelines, to encourage extra growth. She claimed her opponent, Shaun Scott, “would not consider in capitalism so he could be opposed to creating it simpler for builders to construct.” Scott disagrees with Suarez’s characterization. He stated he’s supported rising housing provide his complete marketing campaign, notably by way of zoning reform. “From The Urbanist to Tech4Housing to the Washington Housing Alliance Motion Fund to State Rep. Jessica Bateman, each group and elected official who’s critical about housing has endorsed my marketing campaign—not my opponent’s—due to my marketing campaign plan for a extra inexpensive Washington with housing for all,” he stated.
The answer to houselessness is housing. With lease stabilization, properly funded supportive providers, and social housing, we are able to make our communities more healthy, safer, and extra entire.
I am operating for Washington State Rep within the forty third Legislative District to assist make it occur. pic.twitter.com/GO6HmqCLPD
— Shaun Scott 🌹🤝 (@eyesonthestorm) October 7, 2024
One yr of genocide: Yesterday marked the primary anniversary since Hamas’ assault on Israel, through which fighters killed 1,140 Israelis and captured one other 240. Whereas elected officers within the US reserved most of their sympathy for Israel yesterday, Al Jazeera broke down the carnage in Gaza over the previous yr. Because the October 7 assault, Israel has killed at the least 41,615 Palestinians, or about 1 out of each 55 folks residing in Gaza. This contains at the least 16,756 kids, which units a report for the very best variety of child-killings recorded in a single yr of battle over the previous 20 years. As for hostages, Israel holds greater than 10,000 Palestinians in jail, many with out cost or trial. Israel’s assault has left 96% of Gazans going through excessive ranges of meals insecurity, 95% with out entry to wash water for months, and 75% contaminated with a contagious illness. Israel has dropped 75,000 metric tons of explosives on Gaza, leading to 42 million metric tons of particles, which quantities to an estimated $33 billion in injury. Israel has broken or destroyed about 150,000 houses, 123 colleges and universities, 206 archaeological and heritage websites, 611 mosques, all three of Gaza’s church buildings, 700 water wells, and greater than 1,800 miles of electrical energy networks.
“Jew haters:” Presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed yesterday “to take away the Jew haters who do nothing to assist our nation” in his remarks commemorating the lethal October 7 assault on Israel. In accordance with CNN, Trump didn’t specify who certified as a “Jew hater” topic to “elimination,” however he accused numerous teams of antisemitism, together with pro-Palestine protesters, notably these from faculty campuses, journalists, and members of the Democratic Celebration.
Now to cops and courts reporter Ashley Nerbovig:
Seattle Metropolis Council votes on Seattle Police Division surveillance: The council votes at 2 pm at the moment on whether or not to put in police surveillance cameras alongside the Third Avenue hall downtown, Aurora Avenue, and the Chinatown-Worldwide District (CID), in response to the Urbanist. The cameras make up a portion of Mayor Bruce Harrell’s technology-assisted crime prevention pilot, which additionally contains plans to workers up Seattle’s real-time crime heart and enhance its know-how software program. The full value of the challenge has elevated from $1.5 million when initially pitched to $4 million in Harrell’s current funds proposal. The American Civil Liberties Union of WA has strongly opposed the plan, declaring that CCTV cameras threaten folks’s proper to privateness and can doubtless contribute to the over-policing of individuals of coloration. Different organizations have additionally famous their opposition, together with Deliberate Parenthood Alliance Advocates, WA Folks’s Privateness, Chief Seattle Membership, El Centro de la Rasa, Therapeutic massage Parlor Outreach Undertaking, and the Gender Justice League. Folks inquisitive about including their voices to the dialogue can present public remark at the moment at 2 pm, or submit written public remark to all council members at the moment earlier than 10 am.
Again to me!
Ghost weapons: Right now, the Supreme Courtroom will hear a problem to the Biden administration’s regulation on ghost weapons, that are arduous to hint as a result of they don’t have serial numbers. Cops have recovered a rising variety of these weapons in recent times. In 2018, cops reported discovering fewer than 4,000 ghost weapons, however in 2021 they discovered virtually 20,000. You’ll be able to be taught extra within the 5-4 Pod’s preview of the court docket’s 2024-2025 time period.
Fuuuuuck: The Georgia Supreme Courtroom restored its ban on abortion to think about the state’s enchantment on a decide’s current transfer to overturn the ban final month.
As an alternative of a tune, please get pleasure from this interview 60 Minutes did with presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Her critics flamed her for not speaking to the press, and with this interview, her look on Name Her Daddy, and extra coming this week, she appears to be making an attempt to fight that narrative. Nonetheless, she says the identical shit in each interview, and, although it isn’t her fault, the modifying on this video makes it tough to observe. So I’m not likely feeling extra connection or transparency lol.