Weather: Commenters have noticed I like whining about the rain. I’m sorry, but I can’t change for you people. I am who I am. So I’m a little bummed about the showers and thunderstorms rolling in around 5 p.m. on the summer solstice. Expect rain on and off through the weekend.
Seattle Police Negotiating With Barricaded Suspect: Police say when they responded to the call of domestic violence at a home in Washington Park this morning, they found a woman shot in the front yard. When they tried to take her from the scene to a hospital, a man fired from inside the house. Officers shot back, say police, who have closed off Madison Street between 32nd and 33rd Avenue. This is a developing story.
My Favorite Cocktail: Mary Ann Bliesner, 83, of Sunnyside was sentenced to three years probation and she and her former company, Vally Processing, ordered to pay a judgement of more than $742,000 for selling some seriously rank grape juice. In 2018, a Food and Drug Administration investigation of her facilities found visible mold, animal pee, animal poop, and rotting animal corpses in juice products. One inspector photographed a juice tank with a moldy crust so thick a rat was walking on top. The company admitted to blending the old juice and concentrate it stored outside for years with fresh stuff and selling that tainted product. It went to school lunch programs and elsewhere around the world for almost five years.
Don’t Try This: Investigators believe a 42-year-old man in Oak Harbor was killed by his own homemade fireworks on Tuesday. According to The Seattle Times, Mark Fakkema had been dismantling commercial fireworks in his kitchen to make his own in a workshop next to his parent’s. Fakkema didn’t have a license to do this. The explosion that killed him and reduced his shop to smoking ruins only took 1.5 to 2 pounds of pyrotechnics. He had 25 more pounds of “illegal explosives” at his house.
ICE’s New Rules For Congresspeople: Immigration and Customs Enforcement wants 72 hours notice before they visit ICE facilities. Under federal law, members of Congress can drop in for a site visit whenever they want to. Nevertheless ICE persisted. It’s already turned away Democrats from field offices in California, Illinois, and New York. Sen. Chuck Schumer accused Trump of a “fear of accountability” and says that Dems will keep showing up “whatever Secretary Noem and her lackeys scribble on a piece of paper.” Strong language. For sure. Works every time.
Dodgin’ ‘Em: Federal immigration agents wanted access to the parking lot outside Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles Thursday. The Dodgers said no. The team said the agents were with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but ICE denied being there. Sources familiar with the matter told NBC News the federal agents arrived with detainees in their vehicles, who they processed just outside the parking lot. Homeland Security said the agents were riding in Customs and Border Protection vehicles, but that the “incident” had “nothing to do with the Dodgers.”
Appeals Court Rules that Trump Still Controls the National Guard in LA: The decision halts a lower court ruling that found Trump broke the law when he activated the guard against the wishes of California Governor Gavin Newsom. According to the AP, this could have unspecified “wider implications” for the President’s power to deploy soldiers within the US. Not good.
He’s Trying to Find the Guy Who Wanted This: President Donald Trump seethed about Juneteenth on Truth Social yesterday. “Too many non-working holidays in America. It is costing our [sic] Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all these businesses closed. The workers don’t want it either!” Totally, man. Cool cool cool. So in 2020, Trump promised to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. He also honored the holiday all four years of his first term and bragged about that. In addition to being an authoritarian threat to our democracy, Trump is such a fucking dick who is really showing off his commitment to racism here.
Seattle Celebrated: People gathered in Seward Park, at the Northwest African American Museum’s annual “Juneteenth Skate to Freedom Party” in Judkins Park, and the Africatown Community Land Trust’s annual Summer of Soul celebration at Jimi Hendrix Park, and elsewhere. Our own Marcus Harrison Green talked to KUOW about the celebrations and the cultural significance of the holiday. Juneteenth celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the US and marks the day in 1865 that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned they were free, more than two years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Big Think: President Donald Trump says he’s going to mull over this whole war with Iran thing for a minute, but we can expect him to decide whether we will fight with Israel sometime in the next two weeks.
One assumes that he issued his complaint about working Americans having too many holidays just after sinking a putt on the sixteenth green.
I’m sorry but the graphic “The Jungle” level description of the former grape juice processing company and their now convicted felon-of-an owner has basically left me sick to my stomach.
“Seattle Police Negotiating With Barricaded Suspect: … at a home in Washington Park …”
Meanwhile this was posted at the ST at 0823, with the SLOG posting at 0914.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/police-searching-for-south-seattle-shooting-suspect-say-stay-put/
So much for Vivian and the SLOG’s commitment to reporting things of impact to marginalized community.
The morning violence in white, affluent Washington Park gets a SLOG mention and link.
The morning violence in one of the City’s poorest and most diverse neighborhoods gets no love from the SLOG.
Also change “Don’t try this at home” to “Another Local Darwin Award Recipient”. But that will never best Mr Hands out of Enumclaw.
When referring to the current POTUS about something he has done, refer to him Trump.
When referring to the current POTUS about something he is contemplating, or plans to impose at a future date, he should be referred to as TACO. E.g. He is having a “big think,” about forcibly stopping Iran from getting nukes. The whole on-again, off again tariff debacle.
A information leak out of Iran indicates that they have named the nuclear weapon they should be able to produce and test by early Fall. It has been designated the TACO in a nod to DJT.
@3 why don’t you create your own blog, report on whatever you want, and leave everyone here alone
No reporting from the armed robbery that happened yesterday between 3:45 pm and 4 pm on Broadway and Harrison? It was reported on the Citizens App and the security guards at the
security guards at the Broadway Market QFC were made aware of the armed robbery
5 wouldn’t be a complete day on slog without a 10 watt bulb in the comments complaining about the lack of live reporting from a morning news curator
@7, @8 would be correct.
@5, Just questioning whether Vivian and The Stranger have been co-opted into abandoning previously stated commitments to, and reporting to draw attention to, the plight of marginalized communities.
More changes in editorial focus and priorities by Noisy Creek?
Vivian forgot a music video at the end.
9, It’s a blog that shares a curated news post in the morning and little else ever since the pandemic, try to keep up
barth calls Neale a 10-watt bulb, and in the next comment Neale notes that he’s correct in that assessment. If anything I suspect barth may have overestimated the wattage in that bulb.
Americans need MORE holidays, you privileged, evil clown. How about another one between July 4th and Labor Day?
Considering the history of Chavez Ravine, having ICE stationed there seems like a perfect metaphor for Trump’s America.
Unfortunately, another holiday is yet another day that a lot of contractors don’t get paid and can only claim 32 hours that week.
TACO = 2 Weak / 2 Decide / In 2 Weeks
(What else could one expect from the Fortnight Fuhrer?)
@13:
True. Many other countries, particularly in Europe, have far more federal or statutory (as they call them up in Canada) holidays than we do. But then (to Phoeb’s point) they also treat their workers – including independent contractors – much better than we do here as well, and many require employers to pay for federal/national holidays regardless of employment classification.
@12, @8, Complaining about a lack of live reporting is unreasonable. Nor did I complain about that.
The Stranger can, and did, link to a King 5 story about an armed stand-off in a well-to-do white neighborhood. The King 5 story appeared before the 9:12 a.m. self-imposed publishing time of Vivian.
Yet Vivian had almost an hour between that time and when the ST went to press about a Rainier Beach shooting and police pursuit of an armed suspect, in a poor community that’s racially diverse. Yet a couple of sentences about that, and a hyper-link, was too heavy a lift and too many resources to use to highlight security problems and equity for a poor neighborhood.
So it had nothing to do with demands that The Stranger engage in live reporting, but rather their disregard for a marginalized community.
Well done Vivian. Well done Noisy Creek. Are they selling out? Trying to become more focused on wealthy white neighborhoods than Nextdoor.com or the Seattle Times?
“Mary Ann Bliesner, 83, of Sunnyside was sentenced to three years……”
God bless Trump, all business people, and the profit motive!!
Forget ‘Let them eat cake!’ Let them eat shit is much more profitable!!!
“Dems will keep showing up “whatever Secretary Noem and her lackeys scribble on a piece of paper.” Strong language. For sure. Works every time.”
Fuck you, Ms McCall & fuck all the far left that keeps screaming that Dems are doing nothing: There is nothing to do……unless you have the balls to start shoo**ng all these unbadged, un uniformed, ersatz police running around these days. When Trump ran for his first term I was already writing for the people who said he couldn’t do anything: “What will happen when Trump sends US Marshals or Military Police down the street to arrest the Supreme Court & Congress? What will you do then?” After Trump was elected the first time I began writing, “It’s now too late to fight. It’s now time to sit back & watch Trump & the Rich screw their millionaire wannabee ‘business people’ supporters so bad that they finally begin voting democratic.” I’m still sitting back waiting…..3.5 more years to go.
@2, That’s the whole point. You should feel sick that there is not MORE inspection & regulation.
@4, Amen & amen!
@5, and again his big balls opinion heard from, after all the spewing from thirteen12 sitting in front of the BoobTube. Only he should have opinions.
“President Donald Trump seethed about Juneteenth on Truth Social yesterday. “Too many non-working holidays in America. It is costing our [sic] Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all these businesses closed. The workers don’t want it either!””
The mantra of the businessman: Complain & cry poor all the way to the bank.
We do need business people. But they are monomaniacal. They have only one goal: To make money. And they must. Corporations are required by law to maximize profits for shareholders. And that’s why we need extensive regulation (food, drug, safety, union labor) and 90+% marginal (MARGINAL) tax rates. That would give us the the best of both worlds….prosperity and social justice.
I’m shocked by how normalized Trump’s obvious mental decline is, and how little the media discuses it. This after months of talking about every slip of Joe Biden. Joe is still more mentally agile than Trump!
Max Solomon @13: “Americans need MORE holidays, you privileged, evil clown. How about another one between July 4th and Labor Day?”
Hey, I’d be up for another holiday between Juneteenth and the Fourth of July. May I suggest Canada Day on July 1? We can consider it a day to honor the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our neighbors to the north.
Of course, I’m also someone who believes that, because there are four Canadians playing in this year’s NBA Finals (that’s two players from each team including MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander), we should really be including “O Canada” in the pregame national anthem routine.
Somehow half the counties in the world basically take 3-4 months a year off and still make a living. There’s a 3 month period of the year where we basically can’t work with anyone in Europe because they’re all out of office and aren’t available. But oh no… Juneteenth is gonna lose us all the money.
countries
Canada Day! Yay! Canada Dry and poutine for everyone!
@19 “Fuck you, Ms McCall & fuck all the far left that keeps screaming that Dems are doing nothing: There is nothing to do”
Corey Booker demonstrated his ability to talk for a full day straight. Unfortunately he chose to do so when nothing would be disrupted, but he (and others) could instead do so when nominees are being approved, or Big Beautiful Bills are being passed, or anything else Trump wants done. At any point they can take off the kid gloves and take action rather than just talking, but they choose not to. And, inexplicably, instead of being mad at them you’re mad at the people who call them out for their lack of action. Pathetic all around.
@3,
You do know that Vivian doesn’t write, then immediately publish these round ups don’t you? It’s a back and forth, collaborative process with an editor, replete with necessary and suggested re-writes and revisions.
[cue a bunch of clever & funny commenters making “the stranger has editors!?!” jokes, a la Statler and Waldorf]
My guess is that the initial AM was being worked & submitted for review sometime before your pet story was widely reported. You constantly make a shitload of arbitrary and judgmental assumptions, post them as factual, and then declare victory in some sort of strange war of editorial guidelines that exists entirely in your head. The parallels between you and Donald Trump in this regard are disturbingly noteworthy. I’m just thankful you’re a nobody trolling a tiny local publication, and so not a risk of doing actual harm to people’s lives with your petty, nonsensical idiocy the way he is.
@27, I totally get that. It’s still not hard to take a quick glance around for more appropriate SLOG round-up material 30 minutes before publishing, and add three sentences and a link.
Journalism has a long tradition of working and tweaking copy on a story, or round-up of stories, right up to the last second, particularly on a Friday, when by Monday the Rainier Beach story will be old news.
So much for a consistent commitment to people of color and marginalized communities.
You are projecting. The parallels are between Trump and The Stranger, and the Progressive left. Not intellectually consistent (that gives Trump too much credit or having and intellect), and when evidence shows one’s position needs to change, just double-down on the original position and to hell with being evidence-based. Make the facts conform to one’s presuppositions, rather than having facts confirm some, and repudiate others, changing one’s conclusions accordingly.
Max @13…
I would suggest August 1 in honor of Jerry Garcia’s birthday. Election day is another, but it’s not before Labor Day…
😉
@28… Dude really?
Oh my goodness
One can debate the value/methods/purpose of TS entries such as Slog, but this is beyond dispute – the publication is very influential in 206 when it comes to voting time. Their “cheatsheet” is often followed verbatim by residents in a way that other rags simply don’t compete. How they get that paydirt is by offering up a kind of content that convinces readers that they have street cred.
“Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges. Legally your researchers are free, but they are conditioned by the fashion of the day.”
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
TS is just one popcorn kernel in pan receiving a certain kind of heat. In a weird feedback loop, people will project and absorb and then feel themselves as masters of knowing the moment, despite actually mastering nothing more than a few arbitrary kabuki dance steps. The confidence of the knowing is social and requires constant primate back slaps of reinforcement. That is chiefly why interrupting the process with dissenting comments garners such fury. There are only high elves or lowly trolls in the garden.
Well, I thought we would be calling he Iranian Nuclear Bomb the TACO, after the President that chickened out from bombing Iran’s enrichment facilities.
I was wrong.
You are wrong all the time, but it’s cute that you think otherwise. Poor thing.
Just jumping on here to give my appreciation to the thoughtful comment by thekossack @31. I don’t know if that comment was in the context of some discussion on this thread, but it stands on its own.
@25 Swiftress: +1 Yes–yay–Happy Canada Day!
Fuck Trump, indeed.
My only comfort during this tragically dystopian neofascist nutzi regime is that I didn’t vote for this shit.
The brainless idiots who did deserve what they get, and worse.
@33, Then engage in a factual refutation.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/police-suspect-shot-and-killed-by-a-security-guard-after-a-shooting-at-a-church-in-michigan/
@21, What mental decline?? He’s the same old shit for brains he was when he ran the first time. You can’t get any lower than the bottom.
@26, and just what did Corey Booker accomplish? Or for that matter, what would he have disrupted had things been other than they were? My point is that there is absolutely NOTHING CONCRETE the Dems can do. They don’t have the votes to adjourn for lunch. NOT ANYWHERE. The Republicans control THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT. Not just the three branches, but also all the agencies. No one has mentioned, but the reason they are firing so many people has nothing to do with the deficit or DOGE. It’s because they were hired by sane, reasonable people to do a good, economical job for the American People. Proj 2025 is setting up the entire government to be replaced by Der Dicke Herman (Göring), Goebbels , Himmler, Bormann, Dönitz, Eichmann, Höß. It’s done. It’s over. The beer hall putsch is finished. The Reichstag has not only been burnt to the ground, it’s no longer even smoking or even warm. Do you think Trump’s mental state even matters? Do you think Trump is really running anything? Do you think that’s air you’re breathing? I’ll be very surprised if there’s anything like a fair presidential election in 2028. There will be an election. But the USA is already being run by Putin, Xi Jinping, Kevin Roberts, and Bibi Netanyahu……or at least the parts they care about.