Jeong Park

Thank you @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social for making me Google search "UCLA Nazis"

www.ugeducation.ucla.edu/2025/05/23/u...

Oh my god… Humpy just earned a win in the Mariners Salmon Run.

#TridentsUp #SeizeTheMoment #Postseason

MUNGIA, J. (concurring)—I concur with the majority’s opinion.1 And yet I dissent. Not from the majority’s opinion, but I dissent from the racism embedded in the federal case law that applies to this dispute. FEDERAL INDIAN LAW IS A PRODUCT OF THE RACIST BELIEFS ENDEMIC IN OUR SOCIETY AND OUR LEGAL SYSTEM While it is certainly necessary to follow federal case law on issues involving Native American tribes and their members, at the same time it is important to call out that the very foundations of those opinions were based on racism and white supremacy. By doing this, readers of our opinions will have no doubt that the current court disavows, and condemns, those racist sentiments, beliefs, and statements.

Since the founding of our country, the federal government has characterized Native Americans as “savages”: They were “uncivilized.” They had little claim to the land upon which they lived. At times, the federal government attempted to eradicate Native Americans through genocidal policies. At other times, the federal government employed ethnic cleansing by forcibly removing children from their parents’ homes to strip them from their culture, their language, and their beings.2 Federal Indian case law arises from those racist underpinnings. The majority correctly cites to Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. (5 Pet.) 1, 8 L. Ed. 25 (1831), which is one of the foundational cases involving tribal sovereignty. That opinion is rife with racist attitudes toward Native Americans. Chief Justice John Marshall, writing for the majority, describes a tribe’s relationship to the federal government as one of “ward to his guardian.” Id. at 17. In effect, the opinion presents tribal members as children, and the federal government as the adult. That theme would follow in later opinions by the United States Supreme Court—as would the theme of white supremacy. Cherokee Nation began with the premise that Native American tribes, once strong and powerful, were no match for the white race and so found themselves “gradually sinking beneath our superior policy, our arts and our arms.” Id. at 15. The white man was considered the teacher, the Native Americans the pupils:

Meanwhile they are in a state of pupilage. Their relation to the United States resembles that of a ward to his guardian. Id. at 17. This characterization of superior to inferior, teacher to student, guardian to ward, was repeated in later United States Supreme Court opinions. In Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 187 U.S. 553, 23 S. Ct. 216, 47 L. Ed. 299 (1903), often characterized as the “American Indian Dred Scott,” 3 the Court used that rationale to justify ruling that the United States could break its treaties with Native American tribes. These Indian tribes are the wards of the nation. They are communities dependent on the United States. Dependent largely for their daily food. Dependent for their political rights. . . . From their very weakness and helplessness . . . there arises the duty of protection, and with it the power. Id. at 567 (quoting United States v. Kagama, 118 U.S. 375, 383-84, 6 S. Ct. 1109, 30 L. Ed. 228 (1886)). Our court also carries the shame of denigrating Native Americans by using that same characterization: “The Indian was a child, and a dangerous child, of nature, to be both protected and restrained.” State v. Towessnute, 89 Wash. 478, 482, 154 P. 805 (1916), judgment vacated and opinion repudiated by 197 Wn.2d 574, 486 P.3d 111 (2020). 3 See A

Returning to Cherokee Nation, Justice William Johnson’s separate opinion was less tempered in how he considered the various Native American tribes: I cannot but think that there are strong reasons for doubting the applicability of the epithet state, to a people so low in the grade of organized society as our Indian tribes most generally are. Cherokee Nation, 30 U.S. at 21. Native Americans were not to be treated as “equals to equals” but, instead, the United States was the conqueror and Native Americans the conquered. Id. at 23. In discussing Native Americans, Justice Johnson employed another racist trope used by judges both before and after him: Native Americans were uncivilized savages. [W]e have extended to them the means and inducement to become agricultural and civilized. . . . Independently of the general influence of humanity, these people were restless, warlike, and signally cruel. . . . . But I think it very clear that the constitution neither speaks of them as states or foreign states, but as just what they were, Indian tribes . . . which the law of nations would regard as nothing more than wandering hordes, held together only by ties of blood and habit, and having neither laws or government, beyond what is required in a savage state. Id. at 23, 27-28. This same characterization was used by Justice Stanley Matthews in Ex parte KanGi-Shun-Ca (otherwise known as Crow Dog), 109 U.S. 556, 3 S. Ct. 396, 27 L. Ed. 1030 (1883). Justice Matthews described Native Americans as leading a savage life.

Washington Supreme Court Justice Mungia has an extraordinary opinion condemning "the underlying racism and prejudices that are woven into the very fabric" of SCOTUS opinions about Native people.

"We must clearly, loudly, and unequivocally state that was wrong.”
www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf...

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

What the hell was that?

NBC developing Wordle game show hosted by Savannah Guthrie "Tonight" host Jimmy Fallon is producing a pilot based on the popular New York Times word game.

Sir, this is called Lingo

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Man, props to all the work. Y'all been doing some amazing work

Worth noting for WA, BTW:

"House Bill 1321, sponsored by Rep. Sharlett Mena (D-Tacoma), requires the Governor’s permission for National Guard troops from other states, territories or districts to enter Washington, unless they are mobilized by the president."

governor.wa.gov/news/2025/go...

Notable -> "And Portland is not the same city it was five years ago, according to officials’ open letter last week. Tourism there is at a post-pandemic high, and gun violence and homicides have plummeted in recent years."

Portlanders face familiar sensation of watching their city be maligned by Trump Portland's protests are becoming more intense since President Trump tried to call in the National Guard, a move temporarily blocked by a district court judge.

Here's our dispatch from Portland today -- As residents face the familiar sensation of watching their city be constantly maligned by the president. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

they’re forming a bike buttallion

Just realizing we weren't too far off from Oregon Governor Nick Kristof facing off against President Trump

“War ravaged Portland”

wapo.st/4pL60N2

How did 12,000 bottles of award-winning WA whiskey disappear? In July, 12,000 bottles of whiskey went missing from a warehouse operated by Seattle’s Westland Distillery. The Skagit County sheriff's office is investigating.

@edsbs.bsky.social Flagging a heist story www.seattletimes.com/life/food-dr...

This city is something special, man

No. 60!!!

the seattle mariners baseball team (playoff edition)

Mariners, man

Seahawks and Sam Darnold through 3 games are both leaning left. Here’s why. Darnold’s ability to run to his non-dominant side and throw across his body coincides to where Seattle’s two best offensive linemen are.

How Seattle of Seahawks to do this

www.thenewstribune.com/sports/nfl/s...

Yes, Cascade PBS is our (Seattle Times's) "competitor," so to speak, but also its journalists and their work has pushed us to do better ourselves -- When a region loses a journalist, its impact goes far beyond just a single job.

I also remain very puzzled as to how Cascade PBS will expand its news show from one to five days a week while laying off journalists.

Today was a sad day in Seattle journalism. As someone who read and followed Cascade PBS's work every day (for my job), they produced unique and compelling work week in and week out. This will be a big loss...

You don't have to live every moment of your life trying to engage in The Discourse or whatever!

To be honest, this isn't even about how much I like BlueSky. It's much more of "my life and mental health has improved since I started to log off, go out more, work out, touch grass and get into a relationship" kind of a thing

I arguably jumpstarted my career because of Twitter but deleted my account a few months ago (I do have a burner account to monitor but never tweet).

I have not regretted deleting my Twitter for a second

Boo Alaska forever for getting rid of TVs on planes

Just sold my car -- Here's to car-free lifestyle in Seattle

Dang, that's crazy.

Anyway, we moved our annual refugee resettlement fundraiser to Bluesky this spring, after running it entirely on Twitter for over a decade, started with ZERO followers, took our "shrunken" audiences and beat last year's total by $200,000 in a time of massive economic upheaval

The team is down 8-0 in the top of the second and boos have broken out.

(The team has clinched the first place... and it's a minor league game so stakes are pretty low)

At the Tacoma Rainiers game