The police department in Tacoma is being sued by the ACLU over surveillance practices.
The police department in Tacoma is being sued by the ACLU over surveillance practices. Tacoma/Shutterstock

Tacoma Police Are Being Sued Over Surveillance Technology: "By over-riding local cell phone towers, stingrays are capable of capturing voice conversations, emails and text messages from devices up to half a mile away."

Last Night in Everett: "A terrified woman says she thought she was about to die late Thursday when a hit-and-run driver plowed into her car and sent it crashing into a natural gas pump" that "had started to leak and was spewing fumes." She was fine; nothing blew up; the hit-and-runner got away.

On a Bus Near Olympia: "An intoxicated passenger on a Grays Harbor County Metro bus was arrested Thursday after he assaulted four other passengers who asked him to stop drinking and smoking on the bus."

Meanwhile in Mountlake Terrace: "The search for a missing Mountlake Terrace woman entered its fourth day Friday as loved ones spent the early morning handing out fliers to community members asking for help."

Hey, the State Senate Finally Made It Legal to Make a Hemp Bracelet! "The Washington Senate has passed a bill that would allow people to grow industrial hemp as an agricultural product, but only as part of a research program." Oh. Just kidding. Okay, so, no hemp bracelets. Hemp bracelets are still dangerous contraband.

The star of last nights debate was this guy.
The star of last night's debate was this guy. David Peterlin / Shutterstock.com

This Was Hillary Clinton vs. Bernie Sanders Last Night: "I like Barack Obama more than you do." "No, I like him more than you do." "No you don't, no you fucking don't, ME and HE are fucking besties." Watch the whole thing—or read Matt Baume's liveslog—here.

Highlights? Well, Bernie went after Hillary for being friends with Henry Kissinger—here's that exchange:


And Hillary Tried to Go After Bernie as a Single-Issue Candidate: While painting herself as someone with more breadth.


What Would Republican Candidates Do on Their First Day in Office? As Tim Egan writes in the New York Times today, "From violating the Geneva Convention on war crimes and torture, to becoming a renegade nation on climate change and trade, to kicking millions of people off health care, it’s a hefty list of first-day promises."

This Rebecca Solnit Essay Is Amazing: "In the current extremes of anti-abortion advocacy and enforcement... women have no value in relation to the fetuses in their wombs, though about half of those fetuses will turn into women who will, in turn, be assessed as having no value in relation to the next potential generation of fetuses. Women may be worthless containers of containers of containers of things of value, namely men. Embryonic men. Or perhaps children have value until they turn out to be women. I don’t know. It’s a mystery to me how these people think."