Garfield Football Team Protests National Anthem: The team collectively kneeled as the song played before their game against West Seattle High School on Friday night. Their action blows the Seahawks' much-criticized arm-linking non-statement right out of the water. "This came from the kids. Now don't get me wrong, I support it 110 percent and that's where my mind and heart was, but this is what they wanted. And I think that's what makes this so special. This is student driven," Garfield football coach Joey Thomas told KING 5.


Seattle Reign Midfiedler Megan Rapinoe Also Took the Knee in Protest: Rapinoe, who is white, received a shitstorm of criticism after kneeling during a U.S. women's national soccer exhibition match against Thailand last Thursday. Despite calls from U.S. Soccer to stand during the national anthem, Rapinoe gave no fucks and kneeled once again during a game in Atlanta yesterday. She explained her decision to protest to ESPN:

"We need to look at all the things the flag and the anthem represent and all the things it means, and is it protecting everybody?" Rapinoe said. "There are people who don't feel as protected as I do every day. I know it's a time-honored tradition. Especially in a sports environment, it's something the country is very passionate about, but there is a bigger conversation here that is more important than sports."

As for Our Wishy-Washy Football Team: The the Los Angeles Rams trampled the Seahawks 9-3. L.A. football fans seem stoked to have their own team again.

Seattle City Council to Take Full Vote on Secure Scheduling Today: "If passed, it would require companies with more than 500 employees to give workers at least two weeks' advance notice of their schedules and to pay them extra for last-minute changes to those schedules or for on-call shifts," Heidi Groover reported last week. Stayed tuned to Slog for more updates.

Understanding "Safe Consumption": Last week, the Heroin and Opioid Addiction Task Force recommended Seattle and King County pilot two safe consumption sites for people who both smoke and inject drugs. Just one will be within city limits. But as writer Erica C. Barnett details, the pilot would make more of an impact if the sites were actually in neighborhoods most heavily impacted by the drug epidemic, rather than the University District or Capitol Hill, where it will likely end up. "It also means we won’t get a sense of what the true impact a network of safe consumption spaces would have, and could instead create a situation where the worst-case scenario of concentrated drug use does come true, because every drug user who wants to use the site will flock to a single spot. This could lead the city to declare failure prematurely, before more sites can open," she writes. In a follow-up story, Barnett also dives into the cyclical nature of drug epidemics.

West Seattle Residents Want Neighborhood Kids to Stop Racing Their Cars: To combat a rise in street racing, residents living south of the Alki Point Lighthouse worked with city officials and Seattle police to install three new speed bumps along Beach Drive Southwest, KOMO reported.

Airbnb Study Finds that Millennials Aren't the Only Ones Using Its Platform: "The company says the number of hosts [in Seattle] ages 60 to 90 grew 75 percent from 2015 to 2016," KING 5 reported.

A Suspicious Package in Capitol Hill: Seattle Police officers deployed a robot to investigate a mysterious black suitcase that appear out of their precinct on Pine Street and 12th Avenue. It is unclear what was in the suitcase, reports Capitol Hill Seattle.

Dumpster Bomb in New York's Chelsea Neighborhood Injures 29: NYPD officers are searching for Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, who they identified in surveillance video near the sites of where two bombs were placed, The New York Times reported. One bomb went off in Chelsea while another device did not detonate. Authorities also connected Rahami to another explosion in New Jersey, which occurred early Saturday morning just before a charity race. No one was injured. Government officials don't believe Rahami, who is a naturalized citizen of Afghan descent, has any international terrorism connection. NYT reporters appear to be posting updates here as the story develops.

Libertarian Gun-Humper Gary Johnson Was in Town: During his rally at the Seattle Sheraton hotel, Johnson apologized for "that Aleppo gaffe" and eagerly discussed the Uberization of everything and why we should continue doling out corporate tax breaks. "Washington is an interesting site for Johnson's anti-tax message, a place with massively wealthy corporations getting tax breaks and, simultaneously, serious public funding needs like basic K-12 education and homelessness services. But Johnson and his supporters are free market true believers, public services be damned," Stranger reporter Heidi Groover reported from the trenches.


Did You Miss The Stranger's Eli Sanders on KUOW? Listen to him discuss homeless encampment sweeps and how protesters worked to #BlocktheBunker with Stranger contributor Ijeoma Oluo, Zaki Hamid of Humanities Washington, and Sen. Mark Miloscia. The whole conversation is here.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus Makes History: On Sunday night, the Veep star took home her sixth Emmy for lead actress in a comedy — the most awards ever won in the category. Louis-Dreyfus won another award the same evening for her work as a producer on the show, the Los Angeles Times reports.