"Love reacts only," Big Tech says about Donald Trump Credit: SEAN GALLUP / GETTY IMAGES
Love reacts only, Big Tech says about Donald Trump
“Love reacts only,” Big Tech says about Donald Trump SEAN GALLUP / GETTY IMAGES

We won at baseball: The Mariners won the season opener against the Indians 2-1. Hernandez pitched a shutout up until the sixth inning. Nelson Cruz hit a two-run home run in the first inning. For a team typically racked with bad luck, this is an optimistic beginning to the season.

Seattle judge allows thousands to apply for asylum: U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez found that the Department of Homeland Security had often failed to notify immigrants of their deadline to file their application for asylum. After asylum seekers are interviewed by officials they are told they’ll have to appear in immigration court. What they aren’t told personally is they have a year to apply for asylum. Many show up for their court date only to find their deadline has passed. Martinez ordered the government to come up with a uniform way of accepting applications and that asylum seekers should be notified personally.

Silicon Valley’s Trump hypocrisy: The tech industry was upset with Trump’s 2016 presidential victory. They consoled their employees and demonstrated the appropriate levels of shock and horror. Now, they’re okay with the guy. Social issues aside, he’s been pretty good for business. With corporate tax breaks, development of new 5g technologies, and a tougher stance on China that could stymie competition what’s not to love?

More on those two girls killed in Burien: They were 14 and 19. Police are still searching for whoever killed them. It is believed to be gang related. There have been three shootings in Burien this month.

Good news! We have a quake warning system! Shake Alert will give the public advanced warning (depending on where they are and where the epicenter is) that could save lives.

Bad news! There aren’t any funds left to teach people how to use Shake Alert! Oregon and Washington released a strategy to train people how to use the system and to educate the public. That would cost between $500,000 and $1.2 million. That money just isn’t there.

Convention center expansion could face obstacles: The project to expand the Washington state convention center costs more than all of our stadiums combined. The cost stands at a whopping $1.7 billion. It’s funded by the state and carried out by a public development authority. However, the city of Seattle owns some of the property that it needs to expand. The City Council holds the fate of the convention center in its hands. Specifically, CM Mike O’Brien’s support is not guaranteed and he wants guaranteed public benefits from the expansion before he casts his vote.

Minimum wage not universal for airport workers: Some are earning 20 cents below the $15 minimum wage. Others are getting paid a comparatively meager $11.74. There’s an exemption for direct airline employees under the minimum wage ordinance. That allows Alaska Airlines to pay a starting wage of $11.74 to about 75 ramp workers. There’s another built in exemption for unions.

It’s curtains for the consulate: On Thursday, the Russian consulate packed up their space at One Union Square. Two Russian reporters were present. They recorded a sequence featuring Wednesday’s Seattle Times that detailed the history of Russian espionage in the Pacific Northwest. Russia announced it would expel 60 U.S. diplomats and shut the U.S. consulate in St. Petersburg.

Want to see what lightning looks like from space? Shut up, of course you do.

Scott Pruitt paid $50-a-night for D.C. apartment rental: The Environmental Protection Agency chief rented the single bedroom from a lobbyist. He paid $6,100 for the room over six months. Pruitt is already known for being a spendy little troll and a glutton for first class air travel on the taxpayer’s dime.

Trump tax overhaul a boon for most, a bane for Oregon: Projections for states like New York, Maryland, Minnesota, and others show increases of a quarter-billion dollars with Trump’s new federal tax plan. For Oregon, it creates a $217 million loss. Oregon takes federal deductions into account when it calculates its residents’ taxes. With the new U.S. deduction, some residents would benefit twice with deductions on their federal taxes copied over to their state taxes. Those tax changes would take millions from Oregon.

Famous animator had relationships with underage girls: John Kricfalusi, the creator of the 90s cartoon Ren & Stimpy, had multiple relationships with underage girls. It was a widely-known and ignored secret in the industry. Kricfalusi promised young girls, aspiring animators themselves, career guidance. Then, he developed friendships with them that soon developed a sexual nature. At one point, he had a 16-year-old girlfriend while he was in his 30s. Two of these women have come forward. Several people close to Kricfalusi said he posessed child porn.

Family of Stephon Clark to file federal lawsuit: Clark, 22, was unarmed when he was shot by Sacramento police in his grandmother’s backyard. He was holding a cellphone. Police shot at Clark 20 times. His family will be filing a lawsuit over his death.

Laura Ingraham is losing her battle with a 17-year-old: Ingraham, a Fox News host, mocked Stoneman Douglas survivor David Hogg, 17, for not getting into four colleges. First of all, what the fuck? Second, Hogg responded by asking the Internet to boycott Ingraham’s show and to lobby her sponsors to cut ties with her. Ingraham, sensing a turn in public opinion, apologized with an apology so sincere she promoted her show at the end.

Now, TripAdvisor, Hulu, and Nestle are some of the companies who have ended their advertising relationship with Ingraham. Hogg responded to Ingraham’s apology:

Headline of the week: Vatican scrambles after pope appears to deny existence of hell

Fun fact for your Friday: A pig was hanged for sacrilege in France in 1394 for eating a communion wafer.

Your best Seattle entertainment options for this weekend include: Dina Martina: Cream of the Drawer, the Georgetown Bites spring food walk, and the famed, secular Pastor Kaleb’s Sunday Service on Easter.

Nathalie Graham covers anything she finds fun, weird, or interesting. You can find a lot of that in her column, Play Date. Her work has also appeared around town in The Seattle Times, GeekWire, and the...