Fall is Coming: Not for another 19 days, but can’t you feel the chill in the night air/the not melting into your couch like sweaty cheese?
A Spooky Twist: According to the National Weather Service, “widespread haze” will settle over Seattle around 2 p.m., and gradually dissipate when the sun comes out, with a high near 74. But the haze will return before midnight. Tomorrow and Thursday, we’ll be mostly sunny and in the mid- to high-70s. The clouds will roll in on Friday and stay for the weekend. These temperatures are pleasant, but above average for this time of year.
The Bumbershoot at Home: While my colleagues were covering Bumbershoot, I was watching anti-LGBTQ Christian supremacist superstar Sean Feucht play awful music at Gas Works Park. He’d set up all the pins for a heated, potentially dangerous confrontation, but didn’t knock them down. From a provocateur and propagandist’s perspective, it flopped. Come for the news, stay for the gay clowns, the music criticism, a fascinating “weirdo” Reverend, and a strange conversation with a “real Jesus person” named Linda.
Due to the Seattle community understanding the threat and Feucht’s playbook- this is the only propaganda they were able to cut. Folks waving their flags, holding signs and looking great doing it. Great job Seattle.
— Kate Burns (@katerqburns.bsky.social) August 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Billionaires and Nevernudes Fuck Off: Hundreds of (clothed) people gathered outside Seattle Central College yesterday to protest everything at a rally hosted by the 50501 movement (which organized the No King’s March): oligarchy, Trump, fascism, Medicaid cuts, and US support for Israel, while a handful of (naked) people protested the city’s anti-masturbation fence with a nude-in at Denny Blaine Park. Attorney General Nick Brown was at one of them, but I won’t say which.
First Hill Shooting: A 28-year-old man was shot on East Jefferson Street and Broadway last night and taken to Harborview in serious condition. The 25-year-old man suspected of shooting him was arrested and taken to police headquarters for interrogation. The victim’s current condition is unknown, and it’s unclear what led to the shooting, reports The Seattle Times, which will post updates here.
Community Leader Killed in Grocery Store: A 74-year-old woman plowed her car into a Grocery Outlet in Kirkland this Sunday, injuring several people and killing well-known community volunteer Sheila Stanton. In January, Stanton was reappointed to the Washington State Commission on African American Affairs.
Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry Update: The Pakistan-born US military veteran will remain at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma while a judge determines if she has jurisdiction to proceed with his request for bond. ICE arrested Chaudhry during a citizenship interview in Tukwila last month.
Deportation Flights at All Time High, But: Immigration monitors say airlines are hiding the flights using dummy call signs and blocking the tail numbers from tracking websites. Fascist policies aren’t “brand safe.”
Venezuela Prepared for War with US: Over the holiday weekend, Nicolás Maduro said his country was at “maximum preparedness” and ready to respond if US forces deployed in the Caribbean attacked them. The US is deploying three Aegis-guided missile destroyers to waters off the Venezuelan coast to “combat” drug cartels. They’re set to arrive soon, an anonymous official told the AP. In response, the country’s defense minister announced he’d deploy vessels to the Gulf of Venezuela and the country’s “territorial waters” in the Caribbean to “combat” drug trafficking, too. Maduro calls the US show of force “an extravagant, unjustifiable, immoral, and absolutely criminal and bloody threat.”
If you’re wondering, “what the fuck??”—this all started in March 2020, when the Department of Justice publicly charged Venezuelan President Maduro with “narco-terrorism” for allegedly using cocaine “as a weapon to ‘flood’” the United States, which is a very exciting plot for an ’80s movie. Maduro has denied the allegations. The US has not presented any conclusive evidence that Maduro is trafficking cocaine; according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Venezuela doesn’t even make it. DEA Investigators have found 84 percent of cocaine seized in the US comes from Colombia. Peru makes cocaine too, and the drug passes through Mexico, Ecuador, and Central American countries. Venezuela isn’t on that list.
To Bring Us Back to the Present: On August 7, after a lot happened in the world over several years, US Attorney General Bondi announced a $50 million reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest, a weird thing to ask for when you’ve already filed charges, but whatever. Within hours, the US deployed 7 pirate ships war ships and 4,000 military personnel to Caribbean waters. It was odd timing: Just a few weeks before, Venezuela had swapped prisoners with the US and resumed oil exports through Chevron.
Meanwhile, On the Homefront: Nine (!) former heads (and acting heads) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wrote an op-ed for the New York Times to tell Americans that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. handling of public health is “unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency and unlike our country had ever experienced” and it’s endangering us all. This is obvious to anyone who has been paying attention to RFK Jr., but most of us have not run the fucking CDC.
Mom? Dad? Can I (Not) Kill Myself? Because of a new parental consent law, kids in Idaho can’t talk to the suicide hotline (988) unless they have a parent’s permission. In most cases, they just hang up, 988 Director Lee Flinn told the Idaho Capital Sun. Operators can make an exception if the kid has a plan and “lethal means,” but really wanting to kill themselves isn’t enough to meet the law’s standard of emergency.
Da Gays: Chicago Pope Leo XIV (14th) met with Rev. James Martin yesterday, one of the most prominent advocates for queer inclusion in the church. Martin says Leo intends to continue Pope Francis’ pro-LGBTQ policies. Though a flippy flopper on trans rights who said the Vatican had a “frociaggine” (faggotry) problem (was that what Spotlight was about?), Francis was decent on gay rights for a man whose title roughly meant “the most conservative man in the world.” (Additionally, Francis had no way of knowing the joy that comment would bring TikTok twinks, specifically.)
Old Dog Bows Out: New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler is retiring next year after 34 years in Congress. He told the AP he’s reluctant to step down while President Donald Trump is threatening US democracy with “incipient fascism,” but believed it was time to change over the guard. They’re looking tired and decrepit defending this crumbling blue parapet. “I’m not saying we should change over the entire party,” he said. (I am! Go on now! Git! Pokemon GET the fuck out of here.)
Greta Thunberg heads back to Gaza: The flotilla departed Barcelona, Spain yesterday with medical supplies, food, and 350 activists. A second flotilla is expected to leave Tunis, Tunisia Thursday. The last time Thurnberg sailed for Israel, Israel intercepted the yacht Maldeen and deported everyone on board. Israel’s foreign ministry called the humanitarian vessel a “selfie yacht” for bringing a celebrity activist and a symbolic amount of food, but then again, Israel has starved 13 people to death in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to around 361. It killed another 78 in attacks since dawn.
The US Suspended Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders: They won’t be able to travel to the US for medical treatment, for college, to visit relatives or to conduct business, officials told The New York Times.
LOLS, Maduro can’t even ensure his population is fed. I’m sure the Venuzuelan military is in tip-top shape to repel the American “pirate” ships. Go ahead bro, take on the US Navy, we double dog dare you. Meanwhile, the flow of drugs must be stopped.
Perhaps if the CDC had not made incredibly stupid, non scientifically based political decisions during Covid (social distancing, masking, vaccine requirements) the American people would have more sympathy. They chose political hackery and now get to reap what they’ve sown.
55 shot, 7 dead in Chicago over the holiday weekend. Johnson and Pritzker say they don’t need the National Guard. Well, buck-up dudes, cuz you are getting them.
“Maduro
calls the US
show of force ‘an
extravagant, unjustifiable, im-
moral, and absolutely criminal and bloody threat.'”
and Maduro is Correct.
However — if we Are, In Fact
“AT WAR,” it opens the door for
Cadet Bonepsurs
our Wannabee Emperor
to Unleash Unlimited Powers
against the Citizenry
of these United States.
it’s another clever Ploy
to ensure, as he PROMISED, that
we’d NEVER Hafta fucking VOTE Again
or Get to.
shit’s
getting
fucking Real
meanwhile
baby back seeks
to Distract as per Usual
where the Hell’s
our Non-local, AIPAC
Rep to Justify Israel’s Genocide?
shouldn’t he be Here
to help ensure bibi
can Keep the Fuck
outta Prison? He’s
Late. I’m worried.
Trump’s cdc further hastening the deaths of his followers is certainly a choice. They’ve got people thinking sun screen causes skin cancer, viruses are safer than vaccines, and replacing one sugar with another kind of sugar will cure diabetes or something, all thanks to an attorney and former iv drug addict with a brain worm and no medical training. What a time to be alive, if not for long.
Bravo, Jerrold Nadler. Every Democrat in Congress aged 70 and over should follow his lead and announce that their current term in office will be their last. Democrats have to do something big and splashy to alter their widespread perception as a feeble gerontocracy whose idea of fighting back is “strongly worded letters,” and this gesture would break through the noise like nothing else I can think of.
Trantifa couldn’t get it up for the protest? Must be all that estrogen.
@9
it’s kinda Sad
You didn’t get the
Melee you were Praying
for simone — and the devil didn’t
his reams and reams of Victimizations
he was gunning for. I’d say that’s a Score!
@5 — DO what the
Fascist Commands!
& Don’t READ THIS!
@1 no the fuck they are not getting the National Guard. A judge just ruled this morning that Trump’s use of the NG in LA violated the Posse Comitatus Act. So unless he can get congress to authorize him to use the military for domestic law enforcement, his little police state experiment is dead.
Funny how he’s not interested in deploying the National Guard in STL or Memphis, both of which hold the #1 spots for murders and crime rate in the US. It’s almost like… his actions are politically motivated and he’s acting like a scorned toddler.
The Feucht event sounds like it was a success to me. No mob showed up to demolish his equipment and chase him and his followers out of town – and he’s going to be able to credibly “claim success” until that starts happening. We’re still hamstrung by redneck, right-wing police force which overwhelmingly sympathizes with Mr. Feucht.
“Attorney General Nick Brown was at one of them, but I won’t say which.”
If you can’t say but you do know means only that you’re being coy and Nick was at Denny Blaine. If you know that he was nude, it’s your duty to report it as that is skanky behavior for an AG.
re: 4,5,6, & 13: Looks like poor Vawoli finally figured out that their trans. 😉
they’re
16: Classic problem with woke pronouns.
@11 – improve your reading comprehension. The judge pre-emptively ruled that the National Guard would not be allowed to perform LAW ENFORCEMENT functions in LA. When Trump deployed the NG to LA, they were used for SECURITY purposes (protecting Federal Law Enforcement agencies such as ICE, and Federal Buildings.) Trump’s deployment of NG for Security purposes had already been blessed by the Courts.
Likewise, deploying the NG to Chicago for Security purposes is fully lawful. They can be used as mentioned above, they can also be deployed to patrol the city on an observe / report basis, wherein they are looking for unlawful activity and then report that unlawful activity to local / state / Federal law enforcement.
But thanks for putting your racism on display for all to see. After all, why should the mostly Black and Hispanic victims of these shootings have their civil rights protected by the Federal Government? Like you, Let’s Go Brandon Johnson and Fat Man Pritzker clearly aren’t interested in protecting Black and Brown lives.
re: 17, Leave it to a closeted, anti-trans ‘mo to politicize typos. But that’s the result of having desperate political positions, I guess.
Excited to see Trumps little speech or whatever now after he’s been missing for a week. Should be exciting.
It used to be that gay cliques would “expel” any member that became too open about their “lifestyle,” potentially bringing down homophobic wrath on everyone. It looks like Coolidge Dollar still longs for those days.
@22: I’m not sure what you mean. You sound exactly like another (aggressively male) commenter; the only difference is that he (“formerly he?”) uses four letter words and you don’t. That’s a minor stylistic difference at most. That’s the only point I was making.
@21
“It used to be that gay cliques would “expel” any member that became too open about their “lifestyle,” potentially bringing down homophobic wrath on everyone”
Then how come Ed Murray lasted so long or is buggering boys considered acceptable in gay cliques?
And – I always knew you were a fucking Karen beneath your blustering persona.
re: 24. I’d love to answer your question, but you’ll have to go into more detail with regard to the connection. Specifically – is there any relevance there I should be concerned about?
Regarding the photo above. Lesbians are a blessing. Gays are a blessing. Bisexuals are blessing. Trans are a blessing. Queers are a blessing. And, of course, Straights are a blessing.
God bless us all!
Of 600 NPR and PBS stations across the country, none yet are planning for closures due to a loss of public funding. They will survive with budget cuts and more pledge drives.
Thank you NPR and PBS for being so forthright about the fact that Federal Funding was not necessary to maintain these “vital services.”
And thank you President Trump for reducing our deficit by over $1 billion per year. It’s a start.
If anyone will be impacted by the closure of the cbp it will be rural stations that lean conservative and not the stereotypical urban markets that already sustain themselves on donations. Contrary to what people believe, public radio/tv stations are all independently operated and don’t necessarily license content from npr and the like.
@28
“And
thank you
President Trump
for reducing our deficit
by over $1 billion per year. It’s a start.”
cadet bonespur’s
got our National Guard
picking up litter and his ICE
agents (we Think they are, but
who really Knows?) grabbing the
Dark-complected off our streets and
his extravagant weekends at his vermin-
infested golfing “resorts”‘re costing Taxpayers
TEN MILLION PER TRIP — most of which goes right
into Eltrumpfster’s overfilled coffers, but, Yeah! how ‘Bout
all those “$aving$! I can almost Feel the Returns. Get back, Loretta.
@28
not to Mention
thedjt’s ADDING THREE
— or is it FOUR TRILLION$
to the Deficit with his TAX CUTS
for the Top Ten Percenters.
fuck off
with Your
TOTAL BULLSHIT
false “Savings.” You
are a Liar just like your hero.
Deficits aren’t bad by definition. What that deficit gets spent on is what counts: currently almost all of our deficit goes to emoluments for the billionaire class and a vast imperial enterprise – which is why the 99% has to live with austerities. If the government spent all that money on the citizens and updating the national infrastructure, there would be little to no political debate about “deficits.” Any public debate featuring duopolitan pols, regarding “deficits” or economic policy, has been pure political theater for decades. Neither of the oligarchic factions wants to spend money on us – desperately so, in fact.
I don’t know about public radio issues, but just because an infrastructural institution continues to exist doesn’t automatically signal that everything is rosy. Private agencies providing residential support for the elderly – assisted living, nursing home care, &c. – frequently fall afoul of the law due to issues stemming from systemic neglect of their clients. Since our elected officials want to spend as little money as possible on such issues, nothing ever gets done in the long term about them – they simply recur, over and over again. But, from the capitalist perspective, it’s an infrastructural model which is too profitable for certain individuals to motivate structural change.
Basically, if you fall into the trap of bipartisan whataboutisms and your-side-is-worse rhetoric with regard to federal deficits, you’re just cucking yourself to the regime.
@18 the fact that you’re fully in support of a police state to ~own the Dems~ is the most bootlicky, bullshit thing. Not to mention I know you sure as shit did not read the 52 page ruling – the President is not allowed to act as a national police chief and send out the Guard whenever he gets the itch. The Posse Comitatus Act literally (and I do mean LITERALLY) prohibits the use of the US military to execute domestic law, and applies to the National Guard when it’s in federal service. Trying to twist this on me as some sort of “omg is she racist?!?1?” shit is hysterical.
And because I know you think Wikipedia is some covert liberal psyop, here’s a link directly from the Library of Congress that provides the text of the act and a deep dive, should you actually want to do YOUR research on the matter: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R42659.pdf?inline=1
@32 – I didn’t have to read the 52 page ruling. I read a two paragraph summary provided by the AP and I clearly remember the previous court ruling where Trump was given the green light to continue in LA.
We agree on Posse Comitatus, we do not agree on the definition of law enforcement. Security is not law enforcement. Sorry, it just ain’t.
But yes, it is racist to deprive the mostly Black and Brown citizens who are frequently the victims of these shootings a comparable degree of Security granted to those in the the whiter, richer areas.
@31 – when you’ve got a deficit in your budget, I guarandamtee you think it’s bad by default. But all of a sudden budget deficits are fine and dandy when it’s the US government. Sorry, I’m not 6 any longer. That logic ain’t going to win me over. Nope, Nada, Nein, Nyet.
@32 these people want a military dictatorship, complete with concentration camps and blood in the streets
@31 do you read your comments before posting them? You can’t spend deficits. Deficits are money the government doesn’t have because they have spent too much already. When you say deficits are being spent on the rich what you are leaving out is that it is THEIR money. The government isn’t spending anything, they are not confiscating more of the wealth to give away to inefficient NGO’s like we just found out King County has been doing. Your thinking is what is so wrong with progressives and the socialists today. You think all the money belongs to the government and by the grace of God they allow the rest of us to keep some for ourselves. You also need to learn the difference between wealth and income. Most billionaires are only that “rich” because they have massive equity in something. If you forced them to liquidate that equity its value would crash (its called supply-demand) so you will never, ever be able to fully confiscate that wealth nor is it even tangible. Where you and I agree is that we shouldn’t have billionaires. Billionaires are a sign that the market is not being efficient (competition is limited for some reason). The job of the government should be to increase competition so that wealth is transferred back into the market where it can grow not to confiscate it via taxation so they can spend it how they please. That is by far the most inefficient and wasteful thing you can do to decrease wealth inequity.
“Hundreds of (clothed) people gathered outside Seattle Central College yesterday to protest everything at a rally hosted by the 50501 movement (which organized the No King’s March): oligarchy, Trump, fascism, Medicaid cuts, and US support for Israel, while a handful of (naked) people protested the city’s anti-masturbation fence with a nude-in at Denny Blaine Park.”
To paraphrase a big gay military leader from a few centuries ago, “He who protests everything, protests nothing.” Even with that entire long laundry list, on a holiday weekend, they got mere “hundreds” in one of Seattle’s most densely-populated neighborhoods. Feel the power!
(Also, psst: nudity remains legal in Seattle. Everywhere in Seattle. And your big, self-righteous story, about rich bigoted prudes hating on the innocent nudist queers, turned out to be very naked lie in open court. Now, repeat slowly: Nudity is legal in Seattle’s parks. Making a spooge-fest of a Seattle park is not. Keep repeating that until you’re sure.)
“They won’t be able to travel to the US for medical treatment, for college, to visit relatives or to conduct business, officials told The New York Times.”
Just because you have a state doesn’t mean you have a visa, I guess. Or it’s the Trump administration’s idea of recognizing a Palestinian state. Or both. Take your pick. (Remember, both parties are exactly the same, right? RIGHT?!?)
@12: “No mob showed up to demolish his equipment and chase him and his followers out of town…”
The only thing more risibly (and self-humiliatingly) pathetic than an Internet Tough Guy is an Internet Tough Guy by Proxy.
Simon says misery loves company.
“Israel has starved 13 people to death in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to around 361.”
It cannot be said often enough: food piled up at the entrance points to Gaza because the UN, and other food aid groups, boycotted GHF when GHF asked for their help in delivering the food. “U.N. agencies and other aid groups have boycotted GHF because they say it violates humanitarian principles.” (https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/gaza-palestine-food-aid-e74c68de?mod=WTRN_pos2) While the UN didn’t say exactly which of its mighty “humanitarian principles” trumped (ha!) delivering food to children, Hamas has threatened violence against anyone who dares work with GHF to deliver food, so maybe Hamas’ threats provided the UN’s moral conscience on the issue.
@38 but but the genicide…stop injecting facts and logic into the discussion.
Also Greta already got turned around due to weather so hope they weren’t counting on her. I have a better idea…release the hostages and end this tomorrow? Just a thought.
@22: Old Yella: If you want pathetic, take a look in the mirror.
@30 kristofarian: +2 For the WIN!!!!
@32 theincrediblek re: @18: Right? And thanks for the Library of Congress link.
Now, if only Babybarf and his fellow MAGA flunkies could read past the fourth
grade remedial level…
@34 barth: What will the foolishly jeering MAGA trolls do when Felon Mu$k’s Mein Trumpf
and its nutzi fascists come for them, too? And most likely when nobody else will be around
to bail their sorry asses out by then? Their pathetic cries of “Wait!…..WHAAAAAT?!” will be
too late. They’ll get their wish for the criminally insane horrors of an Auschwitz-like prison
camp first hand. They won’t like being on the receiving end of tyranny, cruelty, violence, and
mass genocide fueled by racism, misogyny, Mafia level corruption, and hatred.
That’s willfully misled MAGAs for you: they love to dish it out and rub everyone’s nose in it,
but when the exact same brutality and injustice happen to them, they’ll cry to their mommies.
Uneducated bullies always do once they get rear-ended, too.
@37 CDizzle: BINGO.