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A wild revelation from @theurbanist.org:

Seattle Public Library’s new head of security is a former cop who is on the Kitsap County Brady List*

My "hot take" on the tariff decision is that Justice Alito would never stay silent amid a full-on SCOTUS food fight (which the many squabbling concurrences & dissents reflect), unless he was busy cooking up something else nefarious & genuinely awful in which he is writing for the majority.

Sorry.

“As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that.””

I will never forget how wealthy elite universities like Northwestern took the opportunity to squash DEI and public school districts largely reliant on federal funds told Trump to go fuck himself and kept doing DEI (and won)

Incredible. A "successful" use of the "Grappler" in Thurston County only latches to one wheel, causing the vehicle to swing across the road

It somehow doesn't cause a massive pileup by sheer luck, and these KOMO News bozos are oohing and ahhing over it.

Today's transportation committee agenda was preempted by a long "double click" from Rob Saka on how the super bowl parade went. Saka is very happy to report that there were no arrests and only "minor" traffic incidents.

No mention from Saka of the preventable tragedy in Capitol Hill Monday.

Reports that National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya will now lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on an acting basis.

Unacceptable. Bhattacharya has spent his career undermining infectious disease prevention measures and spreading health and science disinformation.

ahem, cough, couch, AHEM: "Guardian Media Group announces strategic partnership with OpenAI" www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...

Screenshot "I was at the ICE Tukwila office today and saw three full double decker truck loads of unmarked SUVs being unloaded and parked inside of the ICE facility. that's around 24 vehicles. One can safely assume that more vehicles = more agents = more enforcement coming our way."

I received a report today from a community member who spotted approximately 24 new unmarked SUVs. outside the ICE facility in Tukwila, WA, just south of Seattle.
It’s hard to say for certain what this means, but it could indicate a greater deployment of personnel in the region in the near future.

The person hit by a driver at Bellevue and Pine earlier tonight has died, according to the Seattle Police Department.

FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY: Derek Hayden was shot by Seattle police at the Port of Seattle during a mental health crisis.

Officers Cassidy Butler and Willard Jared created a situation where they “feared for their lives” and shot him in 9 seconds.

SPD recruit caught cheating using AI glasses A Seattle police recruit was caught using augmented reality glasses to augment his grades at the police academy, according to a complaint obtained by DivestSPD.

Another Seattle police recruit was caught using AI to cheat — this time with a pair of Ray-Ban smart glasses.

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ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

😂 still I dohope it doesn't stick, I don't like seeing ⚪️ Zionist incursions interfering with solidarity among the colonized

Hope Kevin Dave is having a bad day in whatever QFC he's guarding now.

Guppy is always needing a pie in the face

The OIG released its report on SPD's violent response to counterprotests last May. Zero mention of Matthew Didier's "Fuck people up" comments or POET Lt. Larry Longley's "Trantifa" remark.

None of these would've come to light without this "trust" being broken.

We're still about $30 away from meeting this goal. Please chip in if you can. venmo.com/divestspd

😂 Interesting how modern redevelopment here threatens the interests of the Freeman and Case family inheritors of the adjacent Bellevue Square/Lincoln Square blocks. One hand washing the other in the guise of "preservation."

I love reading how facts you reported helped form the basis of the claim that led to this result for the surviving family. The measure of justice your journalism helped bring is a bright point in a horrible situation where vulnerable Seattleites really needed it. Thank you. 💯

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.

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By Julianne Le

U.S. Southern Command @Southcom X.com On Feb. 9, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two narco-terrorists were killed and one survived the strike. Following the engagement, USSOUTHCOM immediately notified U.S. Coast Guard to activate the Search and Rescue system for the survivor. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED

We murdered two more people in a boat today. One apparent survivor.

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

Rewatching Noah's Arc until halftime, ep 2 Wade angling for the mmf 3some has me remiNIScing how I missed a Latinx cutie's hints. He put his lithe girlfriend cuddled in his new bed with me and when he climbed in I got out to give them room WHYYY was I undiagnosed so long.

plus endless ads encouraging you to bet on the game? It’s definitely the "fall" portion of "decline and fall" today.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

The Olympics, welcoming Israhelli teams with open fuckin arms, says THIS to ayiti the fuck

No discipline for cop who pushed two women to the ground from behind at June ICE protest The Office of Police Accountability found that the officer used "non-reportable" force to "guide" protesters back, but video shows a forceful push in at least one of these cases.

A riot cop pushed two women down from behind at the ICE protests last June.

The OPA found the force wasn't even "reportable." We disagree.

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