Students across the country protest genocide as officials uncover a mass grave at a Gaza hospital. Credit: Scott Eisen / GETTY

Gooood morning! The National Weather Services says the weather today will be partly sunny, high near 68 degrees. Expect some calming winds in the afternoon.

Texas Attorney General drops challenge of Seattle hospital: In December, a Seattle hospital filed a lawsuit against Texas AG Ken Paxton after he demanded the hospital turn over the medical records of Texas children who receive gender-affirming care from the hospital. Paxton dropped the request for medical records as part of a settlement agreement with the hospital, according to KOMO. However, the hospital also had to drop its registration to do business in Texas. That won’t affect children receiving gender-affirming care, but it may be annoying to the hospital employees who live in Texas and work remotely for the hospital.

The. Rent. Is. Too. High: People with low incomes have started to buckle under the burden of rent at supposedly “affordable” housing complexes, which should raise questions about whether that housing has remained affordable as rents shoot up. In response to a rise in nonpayment of rent cases, affordable housing companies are now organizing to pressure local lawmakers into rolling back tenant protections to allow for quicker evictions, according to the Seattle Times. 

Walmart pays fine for allegedly violating gig workers’ rights during the pandemic: Walmart must pay about $170,770 to more than 470 workers in a settlement after it allegedly failed to give them premium pay for working during the pandemic. The company also allegedly failed to inform gig workers of their rights for sick leave and benefits. Do you suspect your employer of stealing your wages, not giving you your work schedule in a reasonable amount of time, or failing to follow fair chance employment? Then file a complaint with Seattle’s Office of Labor Standards through the agency’s handy form. You can also just ask them questions if you’re unsure of something!

Cops say the dumbest shit: In a story about low staffing numbers at the Seattle Police Department, MyNorthwest quoted from some exit interviews of SPD cops who said said the City “is dying” and who talked about how people hated them during 2020 and it made them sad. Then they blamed public distrust in the department on political leaders for using “anti-cop rhetoric,” and not themselves for gassing the people of Seattle for months on end. Good riddance to the cops who refuse to take accountability for the role they played in the 2020 protests. Also, even amidst low SPD staffing numbers, crime dropped last year, and homicides this year have also declined, though shots fired numbers are still up. Yet another data point showing that the number of cops has little effect on violent crime.

Former Yakima cop suspected of killing two people, abducting a child: Law enforcement officials are searching for Elias Huizar, a former Yakima cop who they believe killed two people, including his ex-wife, before abducting his one-year-old son and fleeing Monday. The former school resources officer was due to appear in court Monday for an alleged rape of a teen girl, according to KGW8. Unfortunately, this news means the Seattle Police Department has lost another potential lateral hire. 

More than 300 bodies uncovered in mass grave at Gaza hospital: Aid workers discovered the bodies after Israel withdrew from the Nasser Medical Complex earlier this month, according to the Gaza Civil Defense director. The director said workers found some of the bodies with hands tied behind their backs and evidence of mass executions, though CNN has not independently verified that information.

Meanwhile, US college students continue to protest Israel’s aggression against Palestine. Police arrested protesters at an encampment at Yale on Monday. Police also arrested protestors at Cal Poly Humboldt and Columbia University. 

Baltimore says the owner of the ship that hit that big bridge was negligent: The City called the owner and manager of the shipping company responsible for a cargo ship that hit and wrecked the Francis Scott Key Bridge last month. The City said the company should face legal responsibility for the crash, according to the New York Times. The company had asked a federal judge in Maryland to exonerate the company from any responsibility for the incident, which also killed six people.  

Donald Trump’s hush-money trial continues: The former president is on trial over his alleged cover up of hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels. The latest update shows prosecutors calling out Trump for violating the gag order in the case by sharing updates about it on Truth Social. Honestly, rude of them not to set him up for success, he’s psychologically incapable of complying with a gag order. 

Sydney Sweeney apologizes for great tits: In an Instagram post, Sweeney shared a photo of herself in a sweatshirt that says, “Sorry for having great tits.” The rest of the sweatshirt says “and correct opinions,” but she rightly left that out of the IG post, because that’s cringe. The post comes amidst some random producer giving her shit and basically calling her untalented, according to the Daily Beast. I usually ignore Sweeney discourse, but the post was solid.  

“I cry a lot, but I am so productive:” Taylor Swift summed up the last four months of my life. Sun is back though. That helps.  

Ashley Nerbovig is a staff writer at The Stranger covering policing, incarceration and courts. She is like other girls.

16 replies on “Slog AM: Former Yakima Cop Suspected in Double Homicide, College Students Across the Country Protest Israel, Sydney Sweeney Acknowledges Having Great Tits”

  2. I’m so sick of American Universities killing innocent children in Gaza. Why can’t Yale and Humboldt State stop murdering?

  3. @1 I thought police staffing would recover if we made a change to the council and stopped with the rhetoric but more and more I’m coming to believe the protests, vitriol and riots of 2020 have fundamentally shifted the desirability of being in law enforcement (at least in major urban centers). The trend hasn’t reversed and pay/bonuses are having little impact in attracting new recruits to the job. Progressives have successfully made law enforcement a toxic occupation (as noted many times Seattle is not the only city seeing these challenges with recruitment). I don’t know what that portends for the future but we need to stop assuming the department will be able to staffed appropriately any time in the next decade due to these issues.

  4. silly Student Protesters!

    EVERYone KNOWS their

    selfish protestations will

    NEVER affect our utmost

    Dedication to WMD Man-

    ufacturers & the Congress-

    peeps Bought and Paid For

    by WMDs and Israel’s Lobby

    AIPAC! it’s just a little WAR for

    Christ’s Sake! it’s not like it’s On

    OUR Shores! besides: What Higher

    Calling IS there than keeping booboo*

    Nutnyahoo the Fuck outta Israeli Prisons?

    so Keep that

    Crackdown comin’!

    Might makes Right &

    the far Far FAR “right” are

    MIGHTY. plus — they Own the Media.

    these silly “protests”

    are merely young people

    testing out their ineffectual

    little voices who’ll soon enough

    Learn to Bow

    to the Kings

    of Power.

    *OOOPS!

    I accidentally!

    murdered and Injured

    100,000 Palestinians! 2/3 of

    them Women And Children! NOT.

    MY. Fault! blame Hamas — not booboo!

    there’s

    Gotta be

    a few of ’em in that

    staggeringly Ginormous Funeral Pyre.

    or maybe Buried

    in the Rubble?

  6. @7:

    It wasn’t Progressives that “made law enforcement a toxic occupation”, it was all the dirty cops (those perennial “bad apples” you-all hold up as exceptions, when time and again they are shown to represent the norms of police culture) who constantly abused their authority without consequences, and who, as a result brought so much scrutiny down on law enforcement potential cops started to see the writing on the wall, as the era of “bust heads first, ask questions later” began to break down during the 2020 protests, and they realized they wouldn’t have as many opportunities to engage in the former.

    After all, who wants to be a cop if they can’t bust heads with impunity and get away with it? That was always one of the main selling points…

  7. @2: the Progressive Left can’t control the Muslim protestors (yes, I said it) who are using the antisemitic, objectionable rhetoric. it’s a real problem for the Peace and Justice crowd – how to reject their hate speech but still make common cause.

  8. @10 you can believe what you want and I’m sure most progressives share your world view even though data shows none of the progressive talking points are remotely true. As noted by @12, law enforcement is made up of humans so while you will have issues the majority of officers are doing the job because they want to serve the community and help others. It doesn’t matter anymore though because we are where we are and ironically the toxicity you helped create will now drive the better officers away from service. So we are going to get to see over the next decade what a world with minimal law enforcement looks like and I have little hope its going to be the panacea of contentment you all promised.

  9. Given that the Yakima cop hasn’t been convicted of anything, they could still lateral-transfer to SPD… and given SPDs track record and desperation, I wouldn’t put it past them to make him an offer.

  10. The aid package to assist Ukraine finally overcomes the resistance from the “Moscow Marj” wing of the GOP. This is a non event for the Stranger. Better to strike up the sad violin for over privileged students at America’s elite universities, who learned they could not shut down major learning institutions shortly before they assume their post grad positions in investment houses and law firms. As arrest records become public, we learn that many of those dragged off encampments are sons and daughters of society’s A-list, people the Stranger used to disparage as “one percenters.”

    According to the Stranger, we are all Karen’s now. On with performative intifada!

  11. @17-apparently anything north of free is too much fir a certain dysfunctional part of society. The problems that LHI is having are a nice demonstration of how the City’s ordinances disincentive actually providing cheap housing.

  12. @7 strong Principal Skinner “no it’s the children who are wrong” vibes.

    On a related note, the out of control Yakima cop is a good reminder that we probably shouldn’t actually make police applicant psychological exams easier to pass despite CMs Nelson and Moore’s petulant rants.

  14. In the interest of science, I googled the tits in question so you don’t have to. And I can report they are pretty good. Not perfect, but pretty good. I’d say 8/10. You’re welcome.

  15. So it turns out that this fine Yakima officer not only raped his girlfriend’s friend, but he got the girlfriend pregnant TWO FUCKING YEARS AGO when she was 15, FFS. He should have been tossed in prison for felony child rape then.

    But because he wasn’t, he was free to go on and rape the friend as well as killing his ex-wife and girlfriend. The only good news out of this is that he offed himself so there won’t be any more victims and his kid can be raised by others without any influence from Dad. But if he’d been properly dealt with the first time, his ex-wife and the teenage girlfriend/victim would still be alive. I hope he was not cut slack two years ago because he was a cop.

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