It's Horrible: Fifty people are still in critical condition.

Suicide Bombing Killed 300 in Iraq on July 3: In case you missed that. It was the deadliest bombing since the Iraq invasion.

In Better News, Gravity Employees Buy CEO a Tesla: Remember Gravity, the company whose CEO leveled salaries to $70,000 across the board? The employees returned the favor, kinda, by saving up together and buying him a brand new car. Price recently defeated a lawsuit brought against him by his own brother, who had once been involved in the company. “Dan: Thank you for always putting the team before yourself," the employees wrote, the Seattle Times reports.

City Council Member Lisa Herbold Prevails in Fight to Preserve Green Space: Mayor Ed Murray had said he wanted to sell the property to fund homelessness shelters, but he reversed himself yesterday. "It's fantastic news," Herbold told KING 5. "I think there is a really good sound case, and that property serves a really important function." Council Member Tim Burgess disagrees.

Go Cougars: "A new study by the University of Washington says bringing back wild cougars to the eastern United States could save scores of lives by thinning the deer population,"
KOMO reports, "which causes more than 1 million vehicle crashes each year."

Bald Eagles In Washington Are Doing Great: Wildlife biologist Joe Buchanan tells KUOW bald eagles are no longer endangered or "sensitive"—far from it. "We have a population that's continuing to increase, both in Washington and across most of the country, and that increase is expected to continue for, at least nationally, for another two decades,” he said.

Bellingham Police Wearing Body Cameras Already: "We can walk through the video with them," a lieutenant tells KOMO, in reference to misconduct complaintants. "We can have them point out where they felt like the officer fell down in their communications or in their conduct."

Seattle Police Arrest 204 Alleged "Johns" in Prostitution Sting: After the SPD's Vice Unit shut down an alleged brothel in the University District, they opened a new one in the same space using undercover female officers. Police say they arrested "two bus drivers, six architects, dozens of technology employees, construction workers, two surgeons, a dentist, a nurse, a journalist, a couple of attorneys, an executive with a sports-management company and an aspiring law- enforcement officer." They'll be charged with sexual exploitation.


In Other Police News: Resigned Seattle Police Officers Guild president Ron Smith isn't staying on until the end of the month, as he intended. The union's board has kicked him out on a unanimous vote. And chief Kathleen O'Toole testified in a case where she is alleged to have unfairly retaliated against a group of officers.

Community Police Commission Co-Chair Praises SPOG: This is a bizarre strawman argument from verified smart person Lisa Daugaard: "It’s not as simple as the labor union being the problem, tempting as that idea is, and true as it may have been in the past." The union is a big problem, and certainly a key part of what Sheriff John Urquhart has called the SPD's "good ol' boys network." That doesn't mean it's the only problem. Praising the union for not being even worse is a surefire way to set the bar for reform low—well below where it needs to be.

This Week on Blabbermouth: Eli Sanders talks to the South Seattle Emerald's Marcus Green and our very own Jen Graves about Black Lives Matter, hopelessness vs. hopefulness, and that one stunning photo from Baton Rouge. Listen here.

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