How will Trump’s tariffs affect Washington State? This vital query is requested by Andre Bylk of the Kitsap Solar. The reply? It is present in these info: A big a part of the state’s financial system is tied to the worldwide market, which makes it weak to retaliatory tariffs that would come from Canada and Mexico. In 2024, “[Washington] exported $57.8 billion value of products to the world… making it the ninth-largest state exporter that 12 months.” The state’s fundamental purchaser is China, then Canada. Fourth is Mexico. Mixed, these three international locations, that are on Trump’s hit checklist, account for practically $25 billion value of exported stuff. That is about 5 % of the state’s GDP ($677 billion). In brief, the affect of Trump’s tariffs shall be appreciable. And since a part of what’s exported is present in Washington’s agricultural sector, deep purple districts will actually really feel it. Within the phrases of that previous Toyota jingle: “You requested for it, you bought it.”
Tariffs may be delayed a month, however the injury is already completed. Certainly, Trump referred to as Justin Trudeau a governor once more. This insult solely intensified Canada’s anti-American emotions and sense of nationwide id. Due to Trump (“name the police, there is a madman round”), Purchase Canadian is a practice that has left the station and should by no means return.
Trump is suspending navy flights for deportations as a result of it is too rattling costly. This man is the very definition of “all hat, no cattle.”
My barber had this to say whereas slicing my hair yesterday: “Trump is the form of man who can take the seeds out of a ginger cake with out touching the crust. He is that sort a thief. He do not play.” My barber can be a pastor.
What would America be like if Kamala Harris received the election? All you need to do to see this different actuality is watch Zero Day, a Netflix present that stars Robert De Niro and issues a systemwide (vitality, banking, communication) cyberattack. The particular person within the White Home throughout this lethal disaster is performed by… Angela Bassett. She is President Evelyn Mitchell. She attire like Harris, and she or he’s competent. Actuality will get a fictional president; fiction will get an actual president. That is what they certainly meant by “various info.”
Angela Bassett (as president) and Roberto DeNiro discussing vulnerabilities within the Oval Workplace on Zero Day is giving me the geekgasm I by no means knew I used to be lacking. #zeroday #cybersecurity #angelabasett
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How concerning the climate? Some clouds, some solar. And so one thing for everybody. 53 is as excessive as its anticipated to get through the day. The night time will drop all the way down to 37. There was a bit of discuss final week about snow making a go to this week, however, as you’ll be able to plainly see, that was all only a dream. We at the moment are solidly on the bridge to spring, which is the gate to summer time and its terrible solar. Do you know the San folks of Botswana actually hate our nearest star. It is a fantastic huge ball of distress within the sky of their lives. At all times harassing them; by no means slicing them some slack. It is no accident that Botswana calls its foreign money the pula, which implies rain.
The suspect in a deadly taking pictures that occurred on Tuesday at america Postal Service Processing and Distribution Middle in Tukwila was discovered useless by the police. He used a gun for his exit. The sufferer and suspect have been postal staff.
And what’s a ghost bus? It is one which by no means reveals up. You wait and wait and wait and… nothing however the late ghost of a bus passes you with out even stopping. Apparently, Metro has variety of buses of this type, ones which might be solely there in spirit; and the King County Council desires to be completed with them a method or one other. In a press launch in regards to the matter, Councilmember Claudia Balducci put it this manner: “Nothing is extra irritating than standing at a bus cease, ready for a bus that’s by no means going to return — perhaps within the rain, in the dead of night, perhaps now you’re late to work, missed a health care provider’s appointment, or misplaced time that you can have been doing one thing vital.” If we had world sufficient and time. Time is of the essence. In time, my brother, in time.
By the best way, I exploit Metro repeatedly however nearly by no means encounter ghost buses as a result of I’ve on my telephone an app referred to as OneBusAway. It reveals me the place a bus is and the way lengthy it can take to achieve my cease. The app additionally supplies real-time information for Hyperlink. No ghost trains there both. A automotive, nonetheless, can by no means be a ghost. That type of transportation can solely be demon, like Christine.
The Interim Information Editor Marcus Harrison Inexperienced knowledgeable me that Erika Evans is working for Metropolis Lawyer. Unusually, she hasn’t formally introduced but, however is listed on the Seattle Ethics and Elections web site as working. Erika Evans, who’s Assistant United States Lawyer for the Western District of Washington, began her profession as a prosecutor for the Metropolis, and is usually seen as a average.
One other earthquake! This one had a 3.9 magnitude, a depth of about 26.1 miles, and erupted close to Port Angeles at 4:18 pm.
The Bellingham Herald stories that since Feb 18, Western Washington has had 4 earthquakes “with a magnitude of three.0 or increased.” (The story appeared earlier than yesterday’s Port Angeles earthquake.) And the one which struck Orcas Island on Monday was probably the most highly effective earthquake the area has skilled since 2020. Ought to we be alarmed? The reply is: We must always all the time be alarmed and ready for the Massive One. It should occur. That is half and parcel of dwelling “out right here within the perimeter.”
First I misplaced King Cafe, the best dim sum joint within the historical past of this younger metropolis (it closed in 2004 and was changed by the Wing Luke Asian Museum). Now it is Harbor Metropolis. Its final day was Feb 28. I liked that place, the meals, and the individuals who labored there. However all isn’t misplaced. Northwest Asian Weekly stories the house owners of Harbor Metropolis opened a second location in Tacoma in 2022. It is referred to as Harbor Metropolis Tacoma. It is over right here. The Metropolis of Future ought to do that extra usually. Extra of this unvanishing beloved companies vanishing in Seattle.
Let’s finish with a dubby Nigerian/Indian beat I have been digging this week. It is “Gaani” by NDS:
