Another Arson: At around 1:10 a.m. Friday, someone lit a fire on a porch in Mount Baker. Crews responded and snuffed out the flames out before they engulfed the house. The two residents evacuated safely. This arson is the third in the area this year. Two fires were set in the same vicinity this past July. Police haven’t said if the fires are connected. No firebug(s) caught yet. 

Kent Residents Not So Lucky: An apartment fire in Kent spread to six units and displaced 15 people. 

I Went to the Big Game Last Night: T-Mobile Park was yet again bummer city as the Mariners flopped and the dreaded Blue Jays soared—8-2, ouch. This Reuters headline about sums it up: “Mariners fans get dose of something more familiar – disappointment.” The series is tied at 2-2. All hope is not lost! Right? 

Trash Talk: At a sold-out Ms game, fans produce about 10 tons of trash. The bad baseball accounts for another several tons. That last part is a joke. Hahaha. Sorry. I’ll be positive. We’ll get ’em today. First pitch is at 3:08 p.m.

Low Tow Blow: Around 45 attendees of Wednesday night’s Mariners game had a rude awakening after they schlepped all the way north back to the Lynnwood on the light rail to find their cars missing. The parking lot they’d opted for after the 1,900-spot park-and-ride garage filled up was actually private. Its owner? An asshole. He called a tow truck on the parked cars. Drivers say the lot didn’t have any “No Parking” signs. The tow company made $18,000 in tows. Or, for you number heads, $400 per vehicle. 

And Now, The Weather: It’s wet this morning. That should clear up soon. Sun this afternoon. Rain returns Saturday. Mildness persists this fall. 

Feds Charge Clarinetist with Alleged Assault: Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old clarinetist in Portland’s Unpresidented Brass Band, spent three nights in an Clark County Jail after federal officers arrested her for allegedly interfering with an arrest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building. Korol had been performing with band across from the facility playing the Ghostbusters theme when officers chased a man through the band. Charging documents accuse Korol of kicking and biting an officer. Her  bandmates say they didn’t see anything like that. 

Oriana Korol, a clarinetist with the Unpresidented Brass Band, was arrested after a man and federal agents barreled into band members who were standing across the street from the ICE office and playing the theme from “Ghostbusters.” 

Read more: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1…

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This is Not First Time ICE Has Lied regarding an arrest. When ICE agents illegally arrested Columbia graduate and Pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil in March, ICE stated in a report that Khalil attempted to flee arrest. He did not.

Bugging the Sea: Scientists put a mile of fiber optic cable into the Salish Sea around the San Juan Islands to eavesdrop on orca conversations. The cable can function as a kind of underwater microphone, a twist on the technology known as Distributed Acoustic Sensing, or DAS that is usually used to monitor pipelines and investigate infrastructure problems. Scientists have adapted it to listen in on the ocean. The hope is to pick up the orcas’ clicks, calls, and whistles and see how they’re responding to “ship traffic, food scarcity, and climate change.” It’s worked with baleen whales, but scientists aren’t positive yet that the DAS can pick up the higher-frequency orca calls.

No Kings Returns: Another No Kings protest is set for Saturday Oct. 18. Around 2,500 rallies are planned across the country. Saturday’s Seattle march will start at Seattle Center’s International Fountain at noon followed by a march downtown. It should be wet. Show up. Laminate your signs. 

Now This Is Journalism: WIRED went to a meetup for the 53,000-person Facebook group Cybertruck Owners Only asked Tesla Cybertruck owners how it feels to own such a politically-charged car. The Cybertruck is Elon Musk’s 15th baby and is heavily associated with Trump’s return to the White House. The story rocks. There’s a guy who was flabbergasted that people consider the car political. It turns out he was arrested and charged with conspiracy for participating in the Jan. 6 insurrection and pardoned by Trump. After loving on the truck, WIRED asked one guy if there’s anything he doesn’t like about it and he said, “I can’t really see the front out of the windshield because it’s so long.” There’s so much. 

This single story is worth the cost of my year’s subscription to 
@wired.com

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— Carl T. Bergstrom (@carlbergstrom.com) October 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM

AI Recommends Heroin for Pain Relief: Reddit’s chatbot, Reddit Answers, recommended users seeking pain management solutions try out heroin or kratom, an herbal extract the Mayo Clinic calls “unsafe and ineffective.” Oops!

John Bolton Indicted: Trump’s former national security advisor, John Bolton, was indicted by a Maryland grand jury on charges of mishandling classified information. Bolton allegedly used a personal email and messaging app to share “more than 1,000 pages of ‘diary’ notes about his day-to-day activities” working under Trump, reports the New York Times. “He’s a bad guy,” Trump told reporters about Bolton. “That’s the way it goes.” While Bolton is Trump’s political enemy, and Trump has brazenly targeted political enemies like James Comey and Letitia James with criminal investigations, the Bolton investigation started during the Biden administration. Bolton pleaded “not guilty.” 

JB Pritzker Wins Big: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who is an heir to the Hyatt hotel chain and worth about $3.9 billion, won $1.4 million in a Las Vegas blackjack game, according to tax records. “I was incredibly lucky,” he told reporters.

Trump Lowers IVF Prices: Ugh, okay this is a good thing he did. But I’m still waiting for the other shoe to drop. Trump announced Thursday that employers will be allowed to offer standalone coverage for IVF treatments and one drug company, EMD Serono, would offer discounts on some of the IVF drugs. He’s somewhat following through on campaign promises to make IVF more affordable, however he’s falling far short of his assertion he would “be mandating that the insurance company pay” for the treatments. 

ICE Arrests Chicago Police Officer: ICE arrested a cop working in the Chicago suburb of Hanover Park for overstaying a tourist visa in 2015. He’s originally from Montenegro. The Hanover Park Police Department said they conducted a background check on their officer before he was hired and found he was lawfully allowed to work in the country. ICE not backing the blue? The thin blue line gets even thinner. 

SalesForce Bends the Knee: Hey, techies, your CEO is trying to make your job to staff up the Gestapo. SalesForce CEO Marc Benioff has come out as a fan of Trump and a proponent of sending the National Guard to San Francisco. Benioff has also pitched Trump on using SalesForce’s AI technology to meet ICE’s staffing needs. SalesForce has previously contracted with ICE under the Obama and Biden administrations. But, while that’s not great, the scope of what ICE is and is doing has changed drastically this year, veering into the stomach-roiling bad-for-humanity zone. At what point do you cast off your branded SalesForce Patagonia puffy jacket? 

A Few Dead People: Kiss’ original lead guitarist, Ace Frehly, is dead at 74. Susan Stamberg, who was the first woman to anchor a national news program thanks to her work at NPR, is dead at 87. Do your mourning in the comments.

For the Bandwagoners: I know I’ve linked this before, but I’m going to link it again. If you’re suddenly into Mariners baseball and you want to be even more into Mariners baseball, watch this. Also, if they keep losing, then this will be even more of a salve:

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  1. re: ICE

    Goons tackle

    assault Arrest Clarinetist:

    “If I were facing bullshit charges like this,

    I’d file a civil rights suit against the officers

    accusing them of targeting me because I’m a

    white man. SCOTUS seems really into that line

    of reasoning these days, so I’m pretty sure I’d win.”

    –@Goldy‬ — ‪@goldy.horsesass.org‬

    “She does not sound

    like a domestic terrorist to me.

    But what do I know? The people

    who lie 100 times a day say she is.”

    –@Brent Eakin‬ — ‪@brenteakin.bsky.social‬

    thank Gawd for

    Bluesky,

    eh?

  2. ‘Saturday’s

    Seattle NO KINGS!

    march will start at Seattle Center’s

    International Fountain at noon followed by

    a march downtown. It should be wet. Show up. Laminate your signs.’

    the Po-po’re gonna try and

    Provoke your Ass into

    Violence – for the

    Nightly News to

    Broadcast FAR

    and Wide so

    King Bone-

    Spurs can

    Invoke the

    Insurrection Act

    and END those stupid

    quaint Outdated things called

    “Elections.” do Not

    Let them Provoke

    your ass! like

    John Lennon

    Usta Say:

    “When it gets down to having to use violence,

    then you are playing the system’s game. The

    establishment will irritate you—pull your

    beard, flick your face—to make you

    fight. Because once they’ve got you

    violent, then they know

    how to handle you.

    The only thing

    they don’t know how

    to handle is non-violence and humor.”

    Be. Like. John.

    and Make

    FUN of

    Them.

    please.

  3. Glad Pritzker had fun, but at 4% interest $3.9 billion will net you $1.4 million in three-and-a-half days. There should not be billionaires.

  4. “I was married but I’m not anymore” is an absolutely incredible quote and the cognitive dissonance of Cybertruck owners is astounding, albeit not surprising.

    I’m the most casual of Mariners fans, and I think I’ve had enough. Back to watching the Kraken blow it in OT (and somehow being more ok with it than the M’s losing).

  7. @KkKoolie

    Too damn Many*

    could be TAXED

    at 99% & STILL

    BE a Fucking

    Billionaire

    kinda

    Weird

    don’tchya

    fucking Think?

    *a couple

    Fucking

    Dozen

  12. The owner of the private parking lot is not the A-hole! Drivers who feel they are entitled to park for free are the A-holes. Natalie, please read “The High Cost of Free Parking” and learn from parking guru Dr. Donald Shoup (RIP):

    market rate parking

    public parking fees spent on (very) nearby community improvements

    no minimum off-street parking requirements

    ST board recently voted to pay $240,000 to construct every individual parking space. An f’ing quarter million buck for a single stupid oily parking space! Kudos to these M’s fans for taking the train but they cannot turn into entitled brats when it comes to parking. Pay the market rate for your shitty oily parking space or, better yet, take transit to the train so the ST board doesn’t feel compelled to pay insanely high prices to park your damn jalopy.

  13. ICE also falsely claimed they had a warrant for Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and told him his “visa” had been revoked (Khalil is a permanent green-card resident). But I’m sure someone here will leap to their defense.

  14. According to King 5, the “parking lot” where the cars were towed from wasn’t a parking lot at all. It was the leftover floor slab from a demolished strip mall. As such, it had no parking spots marked on it, it had chain link fencing around it that people just knocked over and drove on, and there was a curb they had to drive over to get to it. If you park there thinking that is a “parking lot” then you are a fucking moron.

    Here’s google streetview showing where they were parked:

    https://www.google.com/maps/@47.8173101,-122.2944166,3a,15y,346.87h,90.22t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1skeQYc7VPkVf2ZeNQhqB8Ag!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-0.21732762759508262%26panoid%3DkeQYc7VPkVf2ZeNQhqB8Ag%26yaw%3D346.86536069243607!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTAxNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

  16. @9,

    I’m not a fan of arson per se, but I’d sure as shit not mind if someone or something were to light a fire under Victor Robles, who’s sitting at 1 for freaking 12 at the plate in this series to date.

  17. @16 that’s not unique to Robles. I would say Arozarena and Suarez have been equally punchless. It’s amazing watching Toronto hit. Even when they make outs its all solid contact and hit hard. The M’s rarely make that kind of contact. Many times they are week bloopers off the end of the bat (when they aren’t swinging at pitches out of the zone). I think the overall headline is wrong today. Saying the M’s blew it implied they were in control of the game and let it get away. They were never in control of game 3 and 4. That was a beatdown.

  18. Yeah, offenses are gonna be streaky and unpredictable and going into a team wide mini slump at the wrong time can be devastating. Kinda feel like the rotation has been among the best in baseball and having an off night from Castillo was unfortunate, especially combined with 80 year old Max Scherzer throwing like a freaking stud. Whatever, best of 3. I’m generally pessimistic as fuck, but still like their chances.

  19. If we can win today I feel really good about taking one in Toronto. I don’t know why but I have more confidence in this offense away from T-Mobile. Need Miller to show up again and hopefully get their 8-9 batters out in the third inning today. Can’t believe we have let those guys get to us two days in a row.

  20. Regarding IVF – “he’s falling far short of his assertion he would “be mandating that the insurance company pay” for the treatments.”

    Yes Nathalie, but the more nice-to-haves are insured, the more expensive our premiums are. Better to be advocating for single-payer than endless efforts for what gets insured!

  21. @20,

    There is effectively a 0% chance of us aging sloggers (I’m 50, fwiw) seeing single payer coverage here in our lifetimes. I’ll continue to advocate it in hopes of future generations not having to suffer under the same shit system that our current poor and marginalized folks currently do, but advocating for more covered services within the current system is the only realistic means by which to achieve that.

  24. Raleigh

    vs. Ohtani?

    Mariners v. Dodgers?

    getting Ahead of myself:

    Ohtani struck out Ten

    and had Three

    Homers

    but Seatown’s gotta

    Win one in Totonto

    and then

    should

    Gawd

    smile

    upon

    Seattle

  27. oK

    @tS

    Where’re

    all the Pix

    of the RIOTS

    in Seattle & Portlandia!?

    or have they

    Covered it all

    Up Already? fucking

    TERRORISTS!!!

  28. Mariners beat the Blue Jays 6-2 in Friday’s Game 5, complete with a Grand Salami in the 8th inning.

    GO, MARINERS!!

    @2 kristofarian: +1 WORD.

    @24 kristofarian: +1 I’d LOVE to see the Mariners go all the way to their first World Series and win, like the Seahawks in Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014.

  29. The biggest protest in America’s history and but five stories about the M’s (including two puff pieces) upstaged it on KOMO news at 11 Saturday, pushing it to 11:11 giving it less that a minute total coverage. I think Sinclar took advantage of the situation.

  30. when

    Billionaires

    Control your

    “news,” you Get

    what They want for you

    carefully

    Framed to

    promote THEIR

    Worldview — ‘other’

    Worldviews Need Not Apply:

    Profiteering = Good!

    Double ++ GOOD!

    HUMAN Needs = Waste, Fraud & Abuse!

    now STFUP,

    Commie!

    you’e Either on Board

    or, in the sacred, Hollowed

    Words of the Bonespurs Administration:

    YOU’RE A FUCKING

    T E R R O R I S T!

    7 million terrorists

    and counting

    count ME

    the Fuck

    IN:

    no fucking Kings.

  32. here’s one for all the

    Wormtongues thumpfnsornas d13r’s

    KkKoolie greenbachs saxmens & bippies et all @tS:

    and whilst there’s a Lull:

    “Our strategy

    should be not only

    to confront empire, but

    to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen.

    To shame it.

    To mock it. With

    our art, our music, our

    literature, our stubbornness,

    our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness

    – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that’re

    different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.

    The corporate revolution

    will collapse if we refuse to buy

    what they are selling – their ideas, their version

    of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.

    Remember this:

    We be many and they be few.

    They need us more than we need them.

    Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.

    On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”

    ― Arundhati Roy, War Talk

    so can I

    but only just

    Barely over the sounds

    of the fascists with their jackboots

    on our throats

  33. Why didn’t they call it the “No Fascists” protest. Then in disparaging the movement, Trump would be compelled to say he’s anti-fascist or “antifa”.

    Liberals are so bad at branding. Jesus Fuckin’ Christ.

  36. @32 Sure, “No Fascists” would be technically more on point but the term “fascism” has been defined so broadly and employed so often (sometimes appropriately, sometimes not) by left-leaning groups and individuals in the decades since WWII that the public mind, generally speaking, associates it with leftist agitprop and tunes it out. “No Kings” doesn’t carry anywhere near the same semiotic baggage. It also evokes the founders’ aversion to monarchical (i.e., autocratic) rule, enabling protesters to play up the patriotism angle. Hence the American flags, the signs featuring George Washington, the cosplayers in revolutionary garb, etc. While there was some of this on display in Seattle yesterday it’s especially prevalent (and potent) in more conservative areas. “No Kings” isn’t perfect branding, but for a mass movement in which sheer numbers are far more essential than ideological unity, it’s pretty good. And judging from the turnout it appears to be working.

  37. Still looking for the “Disarm Hamas” rallies, demanding continuance of the cease-fire in Gaza. Will there be a protest encampment on the UW campus?

    The Stranger, and sympathetic commenters, all support the cease-fire in Gaza, right? All those groups which demanded an arms embargo last year still believe that’s a route to peace now, correct?

    .

    .

    .

    (Crickets)

  38. @36 You’re making the mistake of thinking Netanyahu can be trusted (or if he can’t be, then Trump can be trusted to restrain him). Neither belief has any rational basis.

  39. @37: So, there’s no point in even trying to maintain the ceasefire, let alone work towards a peace, even though the Israeli government (which, BTW, consists of more than one guy) has voted for the peace plan?

    Türkiye, Egypt, and Qatar have all agreed Hamas will be disarmed as part of this peace plan. In recent memory, there’s not been a better time to push for peace than right now. Yet, all of those persons who loudly claimed to want peace are either silent, or making excuses for not pushing Hamas to disarm.

    It’s kinda tough to believe any of them ever really wanted peace.

  40. @36: “Still looking for the “Disarm Hamas” rallies”

    The only people who ever protest Hamas live in Gaza. 😛 The lucky ones merely get their legs broken. The unlucky ones get executed in the streets. 😝 Sure enough, Students for Justice in Palestine has started running a “death to all collaborators” campaign here in the US 😂🤣😂🤣

  41. the

    Onliest

    Ones Cheering’ll

    be the Wormtongues

    and thumpfnsornas, gleefully

    projecting their Joyfulness at the

    resumption of Hostilities — oh and bibi

    who can now keep tF outta Prison for Fuckingever.

    cadet bonespurs is Good at projecting Power

    but he’s Lousy at anything

    More complex than

    Giveaway Checkers

    in spite of the Wormtongue’s

    incessant Demands that

    tS’s Commentariat

    cheer for the

    Ceasefire

    it was Never gonna Last

    more than a week

    or two.

    sorry

    wormmy:

    you’ve been

    Played yet

    Again:

    there Never was a “Peace Plan.”

  42. @40: I mean, Hamas has been sending armed fighters across the ceasefire line and shooting at the Israelis with anti-tank missiles and rifles. I feel like this is kind of on them, no? 😉

  43. @39, @41: Hamas wants more war. Our friends here want more war. The people of Gaza? Not so much.

    That is why our friends here ignore the people of Gaza.

    No loss for our friends. The people of Gaza have never mattered to them anyway.

  46. Because everybody knows what Kings are.

    Not everyone intuitively grasps what is fascism in concept.

    But we all understand the consequences of both and we utterly reject them.

  47. @5 Imagine thinking that liberals care about Tom Cruise existing or not and trying to use that as some sort of gotcha. lol. God you’re so dumb.

  48. “Israel has killed at least 97 Palestinians and wounded 230 since the start of the ceasefire, and violated the truce agreement 80 times, the Gaza Government Media Office says.”

    Working like gang busters… just like everything else Trump has done.

  49. @45: But King has a quaint almost storybook air to it, a sentiment I heard from George Conway. Monarchy isn’t scary as much has fascist dictator.

  50. no longer an Existential Threat

    to Israel, Hamas is now their Sole

    raison d’etre for stealing Palestine

    which’s why the Wormtongues of the World

    and the thumpfnsornas invoke ‘BUT Hamas!’ at

    every Opportunity when Justifying their Genocide*

    *’but it’s BARELY a Genocide!’

    they always love to shriek

    praying we’ll not even

    Notice all their War

    Crimes including

    starvation et all

  52. No kings is the founding principle of this country, something every elementary school student understands, but i guess it’s asking to much of some to retain that knowledge into late-stage adulthood

  53. @47: Well, obviously the “Gaza Government Media Office,” wouldn’t lie or exaggerate about anything like that, as we can see by going to the URL and … um, where’s the URL, again?

    Meanwhile, here’s a test for the “Gaza Government Media Office”: have they reported on the extra-judicial mass executions of Palestinians, which Hamas has conducted since the IDF’s withdrawal?

  54. @48 Conway has a point. Like I said, “No Kings” is not a perfect slogan (fwiw, my own inclination would’ve been to go with “No Dictators”) but seems to resonate well enough. The American revolution is one of the few distant historical events that most people in this country have some familiarity with, and “No Kings” taps into that collective knowledge. We could’ve done a lot worse slogan-wise, and often have.

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