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Slog AM: Gig Worker Minimum Wage Repeal Still in Limbo, UW President to Step Down, UN Inquiry Finds Israel Committed Crimes Against Humanity
The Stranger’s morning news roundup.
by Hannah Krieg
Weather: Today will not be as nice as yesterday, so I’m really sorry if you didn’t drink prosecco outside with your dear friends in the sunshine. I sure did! But you can definitely still spend time outside this fine Thursday— we’ll get a high of 68, we’ll just have a little more cloud cover than Wednesday. Not too bad!
Florida’s not so lucky:
Sunrise revealed ongoing water rescues one day after catastrophic flooding in South Florida. 20″ of rain fell between Miami and Fort Lauderdale the last two days. Another 3-6″+ of rain is expected today with the next round of downpours only a few hours away. #FLwx pic.twitter.com/4JCJajTCMO
— Brandon Orr (@BrandonOrrWPLG) June 13, 2024
Hold up: Remember Council President Sara Nelson’s big hurry to repeal the gig delivery driver minimum wage ordinance? Well, the council was supposed to vote on it May 28, but now the council won’t even tell the Seattle Times when they will get around to it. Council Member Joy Hollingsworth will host a stakeholdering meeting today to talk about the amendments she’s working on. She may meet with the competing parties again next week, too. Her amendments need to be pretty strong if she wants to help Nelson pass some version of this repeal. They really don’t seem to have the numbers to pass this thing anymore.
FBI: A woman came into the Seattle FBI building yesterday afternoon with a gun pointed at her chest, according to KIRO 7. No one got hurt, but she’s in custody now.
VIDEO | Footage of police surrounding the FBI building in Seattle at gunpoint
They have shut down the roads#breaking #seattle #washington
— Bobby Ellison (@BobbyEllisonKY) June 12, 2024
So long: UW President Ana Mari Cauce announced yesterday that she will step down at the end of her term next June. Cauce claimed she planned all along to call it quits after her second term in the role, but I think if I were a student from the recently disbanded encampment protest, I would take some credit for giving her a little hell the past few weeks.
Contempt: All but one Republican voted yesterday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over audio recordings of President Joe Biden’s interviews as part of a probe into his handling of classified materials. Garland said it was “deeply disappointing” that the House “turned a serious congressional authority into a partisan weapon” that “disregards the constitutional separation of powers” and undermines the Justice Department’s responsibility to protect its investigations. Besides, Congress already has access to a written transcript of the Biden interviews.
Breaking: The Supreme Court unanimously agreed that the morons who sued the Food and Drug Administration for approving a widely used abortion pill did not have the right to sue, and so they rejected the case. That’s nice for now. In another case, a majority of the justices sided with Starbucks, which means it will now be more difficult for courts to protect the jobs of workers fired for organizing. Boo.
Ceasefire now: Hamas proposed changes to the US-backed ceasefire deal. According to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, some of those changes are “workable” and others are not. Blinken didn’t give much detail, but in general he expressed frustration that Hamas had not accepted. Meanwhile, Hamas says they haven’t heard Israeli officials saying they’d accept the deal, they’ve only heard the US insisting that Israel would accept the deal, so they don’t think they are the ones slow-rolling the situation. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to insist the war will only end once they “destroy” Hamas and free the hostages. As for the amendments, Hamas spokesman Jihad Taha said that they “aim to guarantee a permanent ceasefire and complete Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza,” the AP wrote.
Crimes against humanity: A United Nations inquiry found that Hamas committed war crimes in its October 7 attack. This includes torture, murder, outrages upon personal dignity, and inhuman or cruel treatment. The report also found that Israel did all that shit and used starvation as an act of warfare, which amounts to a crime against humanity. The report notes the scale of Israel’s actions: “The immense numbers of civilian casualties in Gaza and widespread destruction of civilian objects and infrastructure were the inevitable result of a strategy undertaken with intent to cause maximum damage, disregarding the principles of distinction, proportionality and adequate precautions.”
Get fucked, Putin: At the Group of Seven summit, the US and some European countries agreed to a lil scheme where they’ll lock up about $300 billion in Russian assets and use the windfall profits to pay for a $50 billion loan for Ukraine.
End of an era: Twitter (I know it is called “X,” but I just can’t say that without compromising my morals) just made “likes” private, so we can no longer catch Ted Cruz liking porn clips on main. Some people seem to be taking advantage of the change.
Now that twitter likes are private, there’s a man who is currently scrolling through my media tab and liking every boob selfie. He just reached 2021. Huge day for him. pic.twitter.com/doD5oTQLfr
— cinnamon bun (@notsofiacoppola) June 12, 2024
ICYMI: Did anyone notice that the City took down the chain-link fence in the middle of Cal Anderson? Parks and Rec put up the fence after it demolished the Black Lives Memorial garden at the end of December, presumably to keep gardeners from replanting. It really cramped my style for several months. Like, why is the lawn in jail? Libs really only have one strategy to handle shit they don’t like, huh? Anyways, super glad I got to sit in that space again.
PANIC: Ashley sang this song at karaoke on Tuesday btw.
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Important Steps If Your Dog Has Marijuana
Important Steps If Your Dog Has Marijuana
Sometimes things happen and you have to act…here are the important steps if your dog has marijuana.
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The One Thing To Remember About Cooking With Cannabis
The One Thing To Remember About Cooking With Cannabis
Want to make your own, delicious edibles? Here is the one thing to remember about cooking with cannabis!
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The Basic Things You Need To Know About Cricket
The Basic Things You Need To Know About Cricket
It is becoming almost as big a game as pickle ball, so here are the basic things to you need to know about cricket.
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Urine Trouble
by Anonymous
With a lack of publicly available bathrooms in Seattle, many City employees, delivery drivers, and service workers use Volunteer Park restrooms. Unfortunately, sometimes Volunteer Park completely closes all bathrooms and doesn’t provide any other restroom service to replace it. This can be hard on many workers who use the park as a rest stop.
Are we supposed to pee in bottles because the City can’t keep restrooms open for the public?
If the bathrooms are closed for extended periods, then Volunteer Park should consider putting out porta-potties for Seattle’s service workers who keep the city running.
Sincerely,
A Seattle Worker Who Just Needs to Pee!
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Stranger Suggests: I Saw the TV Glow, MadArt’s Final Exhibition, HUMP! at Home, Merylthon, and Khushbu Shah with Lauren Ko
One really great thing to do every day of the week
by Charles Mudede
(FILM) You will always remember where you were when you saw I Saw the TV Glow, the latest from the exciting director Jane Schoenbrun. It tears open the mind and soul to lay bare what it means to be alive in all its transcendent yet terrifying detail. Telling the story of two teens—perfectly played by Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine—who connect over a show known as The Pink Opaque, I Saw the TV Glow is a stunningly evocative experience about culture, transness, and exploration that feels like it is creating its own cinematic language. It’s not only the most inventive work of modern independent horror since We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, Schoenbrun’s previous feature, which was also outstanding, but it’s the type of film that feels like it will only worm its way even further into the recesses of the mind the longer we have the honor to reflect on it. (Now playing at several local theaters including SIFF Cinema Uptown, Northwest Film Forum, and the Varsity Theatre) CHASE HUTCHINSON
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(VISUAL ART) As former Stranger staff writer Jas Keimig wrote back in 2022, “To be an arts writer in Seattle is to be continually in awe of the site-specific works dreamed up by artists-in-residence at MadArt Studio.” Sadly, MadArt’s final exhibition is upon us, and the group show will pay tribute to the organization’s 15-year legacy. All past MadArt artists were invited to “propose works that referenced, extended, or resonated with their original MadArt creations,” leading to a whopping 51-piece showcase that incorporated lesser-visited areas of the MadArt space, like the mezzanine office and the kitchen. It’s a fitting final tribute to MadArt’s immersive art ethos. (MadArt, 325 Westlake Ave N, through July 13, free, all ages) LINDSAY COSTELLO
The Merylthon – A Weekend-Long Marathon of Meryl Streep
(FILM) If you haven’t visited the Grand Cinema, the only nonprofit cinema between Seattle and Olympia, make this week the time you give it a spin—they’re currently in the middle of a massive capital campaign, aiming to raise funds to purchase Tacoma’s Merlino Arts Center. What’s a theater in need of dough to do? Host a Meryl Streep marathon, of course. Three packed days of Streep screenings will include extra goodies like drag queen hosts, a costume contest, a “Merylthon museum,” and special appearances by a cardboard Meryl. Who knows—maybe there will be actual people named Meryl there, too. It’s reason enough to make the drive. (Grand Cinema, 606 S Fawcett Ave, June 14–16, $20–$90) LINDSAY COSTELLO
Sean Wolcott’s Lady Swordfighter Listening Party
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(MUSIC) Seattle-based composer/multi-instrumentalist Sean Wolcott is one of the few musicians in the region who focuses on soundtracks and library-music recordings. His latest score for an imaginary film, Lady Swordfighter (which he calls “a psychedelic revenge odyssey”), homages the music heard in the type of Japanese action thrillers that have fired the imagination of Quentin Tarantino, as evidenced in his Kill Bill films. With utmost skill and respect, Wolcott has captured the rich elements of this genre’s sonic vocabulary with amazing attention to detail: trilling and tranquil shakuhachi, languid koto and shamisen, resonant taiko drums, fuzz-toned guitars, anguished female vocals, and soaring horns. The funky, David Axelrod-esque rhythms are a major bonus. The first single from Lady Swordfighter, “Nine Lives Are Not Enough,” begins streaming on June 16. The LP hits streaming services on June 21, with vinyl pre-sales available then at listentoclockwork.com. (The Beacon, 4405 Rainier Ave S, 4 pm, free. RSVP with your name and desired number of tickets to listentoclockwork@gmail.com. First come, first served. Capacity is 50.) DAVE SEGAL
Stephanie Syjuco: After/Images
Block Out the Sun (detail), 2019. PHOTO: STEPHANIE SYJUCO
(VISUAL ART) In her series Block Out the Sun, Manila, Phillippines-born and San Francisco-raised artist Stephanie Syjuco makes the visible Filipinos in archival black-and-white photographs invisible with her hand. The exploitation, the humiliation (those, for example, performing Filipino village life during the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904 for white gazers) are made invisible. You can’t see them. You see instead their setting (the “living exhibit’s” fake village) or their superiors (white Americans). This simple intervention unexpectedly makes those we do not see more visible. And here we find the strange power of Syjuco’s invisibility. It’s the right to be seen and also not seen. The Filipinos in the images Syjuco found in the archives did not have this right. They were forced to be seen. And so, in this sense, visibility was not empowering. It was violently oppressive. And this is the genius of Syjuco’s Block Out the Sun series—a genius found in her other projects, such as the textual “Blind Spot”—she can recode by the direct act of un-coding. Read the full feature from our Spring A+P issue here. (Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave, Wed-Sun through Sept 8, free, all ages) CHARLES MUDEDE
(HUMP!) On-demand streaming passes for Dan Savage’s HUMP! 2024 Part One are now available! Whether you missed out on the in-person screenings or just want to see it again (and again and again), these passes provide weeklong, on-demand access to the first half of this year’s incredible lineup. No pants? No problem. It’s the only clothing-optional way to watch this first batch of films, which includes Human Chandelier (“flesh, sweat, and wax”) and Table Top Tango (“involving fruit, tools, and other objects”). And while you’re at it, why not share the fun? We’ve heard from one HUMP! fan who will be streaming Part One at their annual Porn & Waffles brunch, and another who will be hosting a “HUMP! d’oeuvres potluck,” with guests encouraged to bring “sexy and silly dishes, like a cockcuterie board.” We LOVE it. Getting together to watch HUMP! kinda sounds like the beginning of the next great HUMP! film, too… Get a $25 streaming pass for the week of your choice RIGHT HERE. Happy HUMP!ing! THE STRANGER’S PROMO DEPARTMENT
Khushbu Shah with Lauren Ko: Culture & Cuisine
Cookbook author Khushbu Shah will be at Town Hall Tuesday, June 18. Author Photo by Alex Lau
(FOOD/BOOKS) With her debut cookbook Amrikan: 125 Recipes From the Indian Diaspora, Food & Wine writer and editor Khushbu Shah asks the question, “What is Indian food in America?” She delves into the answer not only with irresistible-sounding recipes I’m eager to add into my rotation, like saag paneer lasagna, achari paneer pizza, spinach tadka dal with rice, panipuri mojitos, and masala chai Basque cheesecake, but also with images and essays that meditate on the connection between food and identity. As Shah told the New York Times in a 2019 interview, “Food is undeniably intersectional. It’s impossible — it’s irresponsible — to deny it.” She’ll chat about the release with local baker, artist, and Pieometry author Lauren Ko, whose mind-bending pastry creations have earned her hundreds of thousands of followers on her Instagram account @lokokitchen. (Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave, 7:30 pm, $5-$25 with optional $35 book purchase, all ages) JULIANNE BELL
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Slog AM: No New Rules for Denny Blaine, Gaza Death Toll Hits 37,200, Chiquita Held Liable for Paramilitary Killings
The Stranger’s morning news roundup.
by Vivian McCall
Trust the process? After months of meetings with queer activists and neighbors to hash out a policy that works for everyone, Seattle’s gay nude beach, Denny Blaine, isn’t getting new rules after all. They tried, but the proposal for nude and clothed areas went over poorly. (If you want a recap, I wrote the whole story in our recent Pride issue.) Still, something could come from all this. In a blog post, the Department of Parks and Recreation wrote that they’re planning to improve the park’s staircases in the near future, and that it may study long-term improvements such as restrooms and additional parking.
That ransomware attack hit the library hard: Systems are still not a ‘go‘ more than two weeks after someone cyber-attacked the Seattle Public Library. The library won’t give details on the attack but said it is working with outside organizations specializing in forensics and recovery. Digital materials and services, including e-books and audio-books, remain unavailable. The Wi-Fi still isn’t working, either.
Just so we’re clear: Whether or not the US Supreme Court soon rules that federal law requires hospitals to provide emergency abortions, Washington already ensures that they do. Gov. Jay Inslee explained at a Tuesday news conference that our state laws around emergency services pertain to abortion, and he’s directing the state Department of Health to write a rule clarifying that fact.
Cop who hit guy once bragged about how hard he hits: Sergeant Nathan Patterson, one of the two officers caught on video late last month beating an arson suspect, has a history of complaints and lawsuits. Back in 2012, Patterson was videotaped whacking another person with his baton so hard that it broke, and when asked if he was proud of that, he said he was. Ashley wrote more on Patterson here.
This is huge. Sgt. Nathan Patterson is like the poster child for police brutality at SPD, and he supervises officers in the city’s most diverse precinct. https://t.co/zNAvaiYMY3
— DivestSPD (@DivestSPD) June 11, 2024
New leopards just dropped: Snow leopard parents Marai, 7, and Aibek, 6, welcomed three adorable little cubs into the world on Memorial Day, and we’re just finding out about it. Because they’re born eyes-shut and helpless, they’ll be penned in with their mom Marai in a private but camera-monitored maternity den for the next few months. They’ll be introduced to solid food and the outdoor exhibit at the end of summer. While it’s pretty heteronormative of the snow leopards to gloat about their straight family during Pride month, we’ll let it pass because they’re cute and there are only between 4,000 and 6,390 wild snow leopards in the world.
Shameless self-promotion: If you do go to the zoo to see the cubs in three months or so, you might as well throw some fish at Woodland’s hungry, hungry penguins while you’re there, or try one of The Stranger’s 98 other suggestions for How To Seattle before an earthquake rends the PNW to pieces.
Bruce Harrell spoke to parents at Garfield High: Garfield students returned to school yesterday morning, days after someone shot and killed their classmate, 17-year-old Amarr Murphy-Paine, in the parking lot. The Mayor joined Principal Tarance Hart for a special early-morning orientation to reassure parents they’d keep their kids safe for the last nine days of school. Harrell said the City was devoting additional resources to “get to the bottom of it.” No one has been arrested for the killing.
The Sandy Hook shooting survivors are graduating high school this year: Nearly twelve years ago, 60 of the 330 seniors graduating from Newtown High in Connecticut lived through one of the deadliest school shootings in US history. A man with a gun stalked the halls of their school, killing 20 of their classmates and six teachers. The Associated Press spoke to five of them about leaving the “bubble” of their hometown, which has protected them from the outside world. It breaks your heart to know what they live with, and it’s even worse knowing we’ve done almost nothing to stop it from happening again.
The sandy hook survivors graduating high school this year is such a head fuck. Nothing has changed ever since they had to witness that senseless carnage.
— Ashley Reese (@offbeatorbit) June 12, 2024
Gaza death toll hits 37,200: This is according to the latest figures from the Gazan Health Ministry. Thousands more uncounted dead are believed to be buried underneath the rubble of destroyed buildings. The number of wounded rose to 84,932. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said there’s no guarantee the pending ceasefire deal will come through.
ICYMI: A jury found Hunter Biden committed three felonies when he lied about his drug use on a background check form and possessed a gun while addicted to said drugs. He could face 25 years in prison and a $750,000 fine at sentencing, but he likely won’t receive the maximum penalty as a first-time offender.
Speaking candidly: A woman posing as a Catholic conservative caught Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito saying on a surreptitious audio recording that compromise between the American left and right may be impossible at this point. He then agreed when she said the nation should instead return to a place of godliness. Chief Justice Roberts didn’t take the bait, and he pushed back when she said the court was obligated to lead our “Christian nation” on a more “moral path.”
We’re at the COVID shot, we’re at the flu shot, we’re at the combination COVID-flu shot: Data shows that Moderna’s combined flu-COVID mRNA vaccine not only works but works better for older adults than separate shots. While promising, this information should be taken with a grain of salt, as the results of Moderna’s clinical trial have not been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.
Chiquita held liable for Colombian murders: A jury in South Florida says the multinational banana grower is liable for the deaths of eight farmers and civilians killed by a far-right paramilitary group the company helped finance from 1997 to 2004. The company has faced hundreds of suits like it, but this is the first time Chiquita has been found culpable. The company plans to appeal, but experts say it’s significant. In cases where a corporation is held liable for deaths in the politically destabilized regions in which they operate, juries rarely side with victims.
Hundreds of US cops have abused children: A Washington Post investigation revealed that 1,800 state and local law enforcement officers were charged with sex crimes involving children between 2005 and 2022, and the criminal justice system enabled them every step of the way. Police and sheriff’s departments botched background checks and mishandled investigations. Cops used their knowledge of the legal system to stall cases and evade convictions. Prosecutors offered generous plea deals to admitted child rapist cops. Judges let cops off easy, allowing them to avoid prison time. You can read all about it right here.
Orcas could have done the funniest thing for Pride: Unfortunately, they’re very rare that far down the Atlantic coast.
‘Harry Potter’ author J.K. Rowling’s yacht anchored off James Island https://t.co/Rshz6RJvzA
— The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) June 10, 2024
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Key Information For The 60+ About Marijuana
Key Information For The 60+ About Marijuana
Will Boomers join Gen Z in embracing weed? Here is key information for hte 60+ about marijuana.
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Grow award-winning autoflower seeds strains at home with Fast Buds
Fast Buds autoflower seeds are well on their way to redefining what you can expect from autoflowering strains worldwide.
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