Man Breaks Into State Capitol, Breaks Shit: A 29-year-old Auburn man broke into the Capitol Building in Olympia Sunday night. The former minor league basketball player lit fires, tipped statues like cows, and broke glass with a hammer. The man is facing felony charges for first-degree burglary, first-degree arson, and first degree malicious mischief (that last one sounds a bit silly doesn’t it?). It’s unclear why the man did this. Lt. Governor Denny Heck told the Washington State Standard that he took the man’s “family at their word that there are mental health considerations.” The man had reportedly left notes and gifts for Heck for months.
Redmond W: Plymouth Housing broke ground on 100 units of permanent supportive housing in downtown Redmond last week. It’s been a journey. The building was supposed to be in Kenmore. Its City Council even approved the project in 2022. But in 2023, opposition ramped up, according to the Urbanist. Some Kenmorons were anxious about the building’s proximity to the city’s business district. Others had been duped by the false claim (reinforced by reporting from KOMO) that the city was building a homeless shelter. The Kenmore City Council ended up rejecting the plan in December 2023. Leadership in Redmond stepped up in a 5-1 vote last February. The expedited process was dragged out by a series of appeals, but they were dismissed by July.
Shaun Scott Holding “Tax The Rich” Town Hall This Saturday: The 43rd District Rep said it’s a chance for “community members to gather, get loud, and voice their support for progressive revenue before the January 2026 legislative session,” according to Capitol Hill Seattle Blog. The meeting at Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave., is scheduled for October 11 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm.
King County Metro Wants Our Money: In the lead up to King County’s budget process, King County Metro and its transit union asked the County Council to invest $115 million to improve the safety of its fleet, including additional security and safety barriers on buses. The ask comes a less than a year after bus driver Shawn Yim was stabbed and killed at work in the University District.
Trump Could Shut Down UW’s Science Monkey Jail: UW says the Primate Research Center advanced our understanding of COVID transmission, led to the development of cochlear implants, and helped test PrEP, a groundbreaking HIV prevention medication. But animal rights activists can’t stomach that sweet, intelligent monkeys should suffer for our benefit. Trump, who by all accounts adores human suffering, isn’t about animal testing either. In his second term, he has cancelled $28 million in funding for animal labs. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced a “dramatic reduction in animal testing” at the Food and Drug Administration. So, as KUOW reports, the future of UW’s monkey lab is unclear. As the old saying goes, to save some humans, you’ve got to break some monkeys, scientists argue.
WA’s Carbon Market Safe For Now: The US Supreme Court won’t hear a challenge to Washington’s Climate Commitment Act. In 2022, Invenergy, the Chicago-based owner of a natural gas plant in Grays Harbor County, sued the then-head of the Washington Department of Ecology. It claimed making a privately-owned gas plant purchase pollution allowances for its emissions when public utilities received the allowances for free was unconstitutional. In 2023, a US District Court Judge dismissed the case. The company appealed, but the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the US District Court Judge. Apparent sluts for rejection, the company appealed again to SCOTUS. The Justices didn’t even publish a written justification for their decision.
Small Rose, Large Thorn: This morning, the Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to Colorado’s ban on mental health professionals engaging in conversion “therapy” that attempts to change a child’s sexuality or gender. More than 20 states have banned the practice, which A) doesn’t fucking work, B) attempts to “fix” something that isn’t broken C) is condemned by every major medical association in the US, and D) is considered torture by the United Nations. The suit argues torture—sorry, therapy—is free speech, actually. The Spanish Inquisition is greasing the rack in anticipation.
Illinois and Chicago Sue to Block National Guard Deployment: President Donald Trump is lying about Democrat-led cities being lawless, “burning hell hole[s]” under the control of “domestic terrorists” so he can deploy federal troops to support his state-sanctioned ICE kidnappers. The suit comes after a judge blocked troop deployment to Portland, Oregon.
Is That a Threat? Not one to let the courts stop him, President Donald Trump suggested he may just invoke the Insurrection Act if those damned federal courts keep getting in his way. In the Oval Office Monday, Trump told reporters he didn’t see an immediate need to invoke the Act, but “if I had to enact it, I’d do it, if people were being killed and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up.”
Trump Has Said This Shit Before: During his first term, Trump toyed with the idea of invoking the Insurrection Act to crush George Floyd protests. He asked former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper if the 10,000 Guard troops he wanted to deploy could “just shoot them? … Just shoot them in the legs or something?” Esper wouldn’t do it. In Senate hearings, Secretary of WAR!!!!! Pete Hegseth wouldn’t say whether he’d give the order to arrest or detain unarmed protesters, according to PBS, which Trump has defunded. Oh, and when the President lost the 2020 election, his allies called on Trump to invoke the law to hold onto power as a very real insurrection happened at the Capitol.
Doesn’t Make It Normal! It’s not reassuring that the President says he doesn’t see an immediate need to invoke the Insurrection Act, or that we didn’t tumble into authoritarianism after President George H.W. Bush invoked the Insurrection Act during the LA Riots in 1992. Trump’s Cabinet members have called the ICE protesters “insurrectionists.” Stephen Miller, the man with the deportation plan, called the Oregon judge’s ruling “insurrection.” These comments, along with false assertions about Democrat-led cities, are all a bullshit pretext to invoke the insurrection Act when the government has no actual justification to do so.
$$$: According to a study from Brown University’s Costs of War project, the US has given Israel at least $21.7 billion since the Hamas attack that killed about 1,200 people. In the two years since, Israel has leveled Gaza and killed about 68,000 Palestinians. Another study from the Costs of War project found the US has spent about $10 billion more on security aid in operations in the Middle East in the same period, according to the AP. The State Department had no comment. The White House referred the AP’s questions to the Pentagon, “which oversees only a portion of the assistance,” the AP writes.
@46: You gotta be kidding me – as @49 noted, that’s not at all what they’re referring to.
I was a gay tot who played with dolls and got kidded for it. No big deal, I survived. Thank God I didn’t have to reconcile my feelings with parents and teachers conflating gender dysphoria with same sex attraction. It’s quite homophobic actually, to have kids at a young age try to discern the nuances between the two.
@50: Speaking of defending it on the merits, peep tensorna with the full-throated Zionism! 😄 I only wish there were two Israelis, so we could back both them! 😃
@52: lol that’s “two Israels” obvs
@47 “I know you’re being deliberately obtuse”
After thumpus explained your error to you twice, much more patiently than I could have managed, if you continue to die on this hill I’ll be forced to conclude you are authentically obtuse.
@51 “I was a gay tot who played with dolls and got kidded for it. No big deal, I survived. Thank God I didn’t have to reconcile my feelings with parents and teachers conflating gender dysphoria with same sex attraction”
Is this whole thing about you being scared gay kids are gonna get tricked into being trans by their elementary teachers? Do you suspect you could have been?
51 no on has ever been transitioned against their will because their teachers saw them playing with opposite gendered toys
@55: No, but who knows – maybe I would entertained it had it been a subject being discussed. After all, kids may not be something they actually are but pretend just to get the approval of adults. Ever wonder about multiple “trans” kids in the same family? It gets messy fast.
@50
speaking of
the Glorification
of Israel’s Genocide
& OUR FUNDING OF IT:
The ruin of Gaza: how Israel’s two-year assault has devastated the territory
The majority of those killed by Israel’s
offensive in the strip have been civilians,
and the overall total now exceeds 67,000.
Entire families have been wiped out in a single airstrike.
Sometimes, only a single individual, frequently a child,
is left alive. There are also nearly 170,000 injured.
In all, casualties amount to roughly 10% of
Gaza’s pre-war population of 2.3 million.
There may well be many more dead
uncounted in the rubble that now
covers much of Gaza.
[100,000? 200,000?
[WHO Knows!?]
Those killed by untreated illnesses,
poor nutrition, suicide or other causes
linked to the conflict are more numerous still.
Thousands of people have simply disappeared –
lost, incinerated or blown apart by explosions,
or held in secret detention by Israel.
The war, triggered by a Hamas raid into Israel on 7 October 2023
which killed approximately 1,200 people and took a further 251
as hostages More than 67,000 Palestinians have been killed
inside Gaza by Israeli attacks, has devastated Gaza,
in physical and human terms.
Almost all Palestinians in the territory have been displaced, usually many times.
Entire cities have been reduced to dust and broken concrete.
Witnesses of attacks, or victims of the violence
around some food distribution sites, or medics
in overwhelmed hospitals describe “post-a-
pocalyptic landscapes” or “hell on earth”.
More than 67,000 Palestinians have been
killed inside Gaza by Israeli attacks.
Most are civilians. At least 20,000
are children – about 2% of
Gaza’s child population.
But in September the former Israeli army commander
Herzi Halevi said more than 200,000 Palestinians
had been killed or injured in the war in Gaza.
Leaked Israeli military intelligence data
on casualties until May this year
suggested that more than 80%
of the dead were civilians.
[well -what the Fuck did Hamas* expect?
after all, they Did Kill 1,200 Israelis]
[out of a population of 10,000,000]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/oct/07/the-ruin-of-gaza-how-israel-two-year-assault-has-devastated-the-territory
as nutnyahoo is allowed to go
so too will Cadet Bonespurs
given enough Rope
and Time
*did Palestinians elect Hamas?
A. Yes. they Did.
in 2007.
before MOST
Palestinians
were even
Born
and
have NOT
had an Election since.
“The pallets of aid dropped from the plane,
their parachutes popping as they fell to the
battered and hungry people of Gaza below.”
What a ridiculous waste of money.
Gaza is easily accessible by road and sea.
The only reason why air drops are “necessary,”
is because Israel will not allow food into Gaza
through those land and sea borders. Imagine that!
Israel, credibly accused of genocide, gets to tell the world,
“No, humanitarian aid
can only be done by inefficient,
insufficient, and wasteful airdrops.”
And at the same time,
Israel has its hand out to the US,
demanding more and more cash and weapons.
And, as JD Vance might note, they don’t even say
“thank you.” Shockingly, the Israelis get their payments.
You really have to wonder who is the client state and who
is the superpower here. It’s honestly embarrassing how Israel
gets American politicians to do its bidding. Both trump and Biden,
Democrats and Republics, are weak
and unable to stand up to mighty Israel.
But the tide is changing on American public opinion
about Israel (finally), even with all the sympathetic
American media. Too bad it took the deaths of
10’s of thousands of children to
get American’s to wake up.
Politicians who ignore this change do so at their own electoral peril.
–Shocked and Appalled; NYC Oct.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-war.html
@52, @53: I’m actually not a Zionist; Israel is a democracy, and a staunch ally; that’s really all I care about. Israel’s identity as a Jewish state really doesn’t matter to me in the slightest. (If other humans simply behaved better, the Jews would not need their own state.) In my mind, the closest analogy comes from our support of another, much different country, at the other end of Asia, one which also has some seriously bad neighbors: Japan, bordered by China and N. Korea.
@56: You have a habit of trying to make your case in an argument by twisting and extrapolating what you think the other person is saying into absurdities. It doesn’t work.
“If killing and crippling jihadi terrorists,
and the governments that supported them,
was all that $21.7B bought us, it would have be-
en money very well spent. But wait, there’s more!”
tensorna on October 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
that’d be a Bingo,
see: @58 & 59.
THIS is how you
Earned the nickname
of ‘the Wormtongue’ and I’m
pretty Certain JRR Tolkien Agrees with me
@61 ???? We’re literally talking about a lesson plan about toys, tailored for “tots”. These lesson plans aren’t just for trans kids because lots of boys play with dolls, including you, and not all of them are trans or even gay — my cousin played with barbies and he is 100% straight — but they are less likely to be bullied for it if their peers learn at an early age that there is nothing wrong with it.
You are the one making weird “extrapolations” because there is no mention of gender identity or sexuality in the materials. It’s just an age appropriate lesson about gendered toys. Later lessons plans for older kids may build on these concepts but they’re not introducing kindergarteners to high level concepts like gender or sexuality. They are just teaching them to be cool with each other.
“they’re not introducing
kindergarteners to high level concepts like
gender or sexuality. They are just teaching them to be cool with each other.”
–@barth
in the Age of the Fascist
Cadet Bonespurs, children’re
to be taught Fear Hate & Loathing
or, more Likely, to
BELIEVE The UN-Believable
it makes them So much
EASIER to Manipulate.
63: “Later lessons plans for older kids may build on these concepts but they’re not introducing kindergarteners to high level concepts like gender or sexuality.”
Yes, the agenda starts slowly at a young age and builds throughout the years. I knew that.
63: There are trans and non-binary children books for children. Whether or not kindergarten and elementary schools use them in class, I don’t know.
lol, Kristofarian out there fighting the ZOG on October 7! 😆 Bruh even the Palestinian Authority says Hamas needs to disarm, exit government, and release the hostages 😋 This could have been over 20 months ago but for that! 😄
@65 really because you seemed to be under the impression they were teaching 5 year olds about homosexuality and gender identity a few comments ago
I learned about gay and trans people in my first sex ed lesson plans in the 5th grade and that was many moons ago. There is nothing wrong, new or unusual about teaching kids different kinds of gender expression exist. You would be doing them a disservice by denying it of them.
68: We’re not talking about a deficit of teaching respect or good manners to kids for all other kids, no matter who they are. That’s always been there. You know that. That’s totally different from gender ideology and teaching that male and female are not immutable. Leave that for college.
@67
This Couldda
Been OVER DECADES
AGO had only bibi nutnyahoo
not done EVERYTHING IN HIS POWER
to Legitimize fucking Hamas
for FUCKING DECADES
but you
already KNEW
this thumpfsorna
only it Fucks
with Y’all’s
Narrative.
lofuckingl
infuckingdeed
grinningidiotemoji
@70: “EVERYTHING IN HIS POWER to Legitimize fucking Hamas for FUCKING DECADES”
Ha ha ha, it’s the return of MIHOP LIHOP! 😂😂😂 And you’ll never guess who the puppet masters turned out to be this time! 🤣🤣🤣
@48/54 you both are not addressing the point over semantics. It doesn’t matter if the housing is supportive, subsidized or something else entirely, what matters is its low barrier. That is what drew the ire of people in Kenmore and what Plymouth tried to sneak by them. TS makes it sound like Kenmore didn’t want to house anyone but there are other projects in Kenmore to help people. The issue is they don’t want drug use and the issues/costs that go with it.
@67: I don’t know which is funnier: concerning Gaza, that the Stranger and the (rapidly dwindling number of) supportive commenters here simply Will. Not. Criticize. Hamas. or that they whine so hard when we call them out for their support of terrorists.
For two solid years, we’ve constantly heard their condemnations of Israel’s behavior in this war. But the moment the world dared call jihadi terrorists out as the cause, the Stranger’s supposed enormous concern for Gaza evaporated immediately, and the Stranger’s pearl-clutching over what jihadi terrorists might feel suddenly took precedence even over starving children (who magically disappeared from the headline posts here a week ago).
After all of their many loud words, the Stranger and supportive commenters now learn their thunderous silence has spoken far louder.
@thumpsorna
Precisely what
you accused me of
for almost TWO Years
in Spite of my
Protestations
that I’d done
Otherwise
your Comments
have No fuck-
ing Merit.
69, ????? teaching kids to be accepting has nothing to do with gender identity being mutable because those are each self-evidently age-appropriate subjects that do not go together
Sheltering older kids from sexuality and gender until college is not only laughably uptight, it’s impossible because kids live in the real world. What are you afraid of anyway, if you’re not worried teachers are pushing kids to be trans by teaching them trans people exist starting by teaching them it’s ok for boys to play with dolls?
@72: “It doesn’t matter if the housing is supportive, subsidized or something else entirely, what matters is its low barrier.”
No, you’re wrong yet again. 😄 Alder Flats was not low-barrier housing. You had to have money to rent there. Alder Flats was a 65 percent AMI affordable housing project, which for a single-person household would be an annual income of $68,510, using last year’s AMI figures. Rent for a one-bedroom 65 percent unit would be capped at $1,835, again using last year’s AMI figures. That ain’t a low barrier, pal you are totally out of your depth here 🤣
@73: They’ve always been in favor of a peace plan in which Hamas wins. A peace plan in which Hamas loses is more of a struggle for them. 😁
@75: Not teaching gender ideology is hardly sheltering. Kids are already living in the real world with their phones. We used to talk about the innocence of childhood. Now that seems old fashioned.
We’ll have to agree to disagree on this one.
“I don’t know which is funnier:
concerning Gaza, that the Stranger
and the (rapidly dwindling number of)
supportive commenters here simply Will.
Not. Criticize. Hamas. or that they whine so hard
when we call them out for their support of terrorists.”
tensorna, above, on October 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
@74 — TWO FUCKING YEARS
see if you
can fucking
Fathom this:
“And I want to say something very, very clear and very, very blunt.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, justify — can justify
or legitimize the carnage that Hamas carried
out in the towns and kibbutzim and the
villages in the southern of Israel.
Nothing can justify it.
It is appalling. And even
the occupation crimes, the
crimes that Israel is guilty of,
crimes of occupation, apartheid,
ethnic cleansing and the Nakba,
those, either, cannot justify such carnage.
At the same time, nothing,
and absolutely nothing, can
justify the massacre that the
Israelis carries out now in Gaza,
not even the crimes of Hamas.”–Ofer Cassif
this is what you Get
when you Occupy
another People
& when your generations-olde
open-air concentration camp
squeezes and mashes its oc-
cupants til there’s damn
little to actually Live for
& steals their Homes
and so now Isreal
shows it’s horrific powers
of Retribution. to what End?
kristofarian on October 10, 2023 at 5:25 AM
slightly reformatted
no words were
added or
omitted
further addressing my comment @74, above:
@44 [*] — from my comment @41:
“Nothing, absolutely nothing, justify — can justify or legitimize the carnage that Hamas carried out in the towns and kibbutzim and the villages in the southern of Israel. Nothing can justify it. It is appalling.”
fuck off
with your
False Equivalencies
@43 — again with your usual strawman
my non-comment on your
Every Issue is Not Now
and will never BE
Endorsement
irregardless
of Your
wishes.
kristofarian on October 10, 2023 at 6:58 AM
https://www.thestranger.com/users/25419161/kristofarian
*addressed to @44, wrongly
but most likely to the
Wormtongue
@77
fuck
Hamas
and Fuck
YOU thumpfsorna
your Lies are trumpfian
in both number and nature.
If Hamas accepts the deal, you can bet Netanyahu will find an excuse to weasel out of it the moment the hostages are freed. Like Trump, he never changes.
@76 I think you’re gonna have to move D13 down your list some
@67 – you ranked me as one of the “stupid ones”, but you actually read kristofartian comments hahahaha
@80 — bibi likely goes to
prison two months
post-hostilities
but Cadet Bonespurs’ last-dash
shot at a Nobel Prize is
Likely Doomed from
Day fucking One:
from Amy Goodman’s brilliant ‘Democracy Now!’
Well, it’s not a peace plan.
It’s many things, but not that.
Look, the most important component is whether this can bring an end to the Israeli assault, ceasefire, the release of Israelis, the release of Palestinians held in Israel,
the Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza, and the entry of massively needed humanitarian assistance, which Israel has been preventing in its starvation policy, and the entry of that on scale.
Now, on those things, the 20 points are extremely light on detail, hence the need to flesh those out to make sure that there will actually be a withdrawal, that there will actually be massive ramping up of assistance that’s allowed in.
The pressure is on to
simply~and ridiculously~say,
“You know what? Trust America.
All those good things will happen.”
The rest of what’s in those 20 points — and, in fact, more of those 20 points — are devoted to the details of some kind of bizarre throwback to the Dutch East India Company, some kind of colonial administration, non-Palestinian, led by Trump, former prime minister here, Tony Blair, and others.
My assessment is that they would then try and impose such a model in the West Bank, where you currently have nominal, if deeply unrepresentative and co-opted, Palestinian Authority leadership.
And there is nothing, other than a few throwaway words, about what would happen eventually in terms of the decolonization, deoccupation of Palestinian land.
There is no reference
in the whole bloody thing
even to the words “West Bank.”
So, the idea that this is going
to set aside 3,000 years, or whatever
the president wants to call it, is patently absurd.
–Dan Levy
oodles:
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/6/ceasefire_talks
@81: Yes, today was not an “upper quartile” performance on the part of D13. The Stupid List is a dynamic document, so he better watch out! 😂
@82: Racism and rage are your twin undoings. Who knows how high you might rise without them? 😁
@82 willful ignorance’s
as Powerful as Fuck and ren-
ders its practitioners sitting ducks
for thedjt’s simple-minded “christo”fascism:
Welkommen
to Mein Kult
stand Back
and stand
By~that’s
a Good
boy!
@80: One of the sadder sights of the past two years has been uncritical acceptance of hostage-taking as a legitimate tool of conflict. Once again, Hamas has always had the ability to release the hostages and surrender, and Hamas’ refusal to do so has turned Gaza into piles of corpse-strewn rubble.
Of course all parties should honor whatever deal they make, but your uncritical acceptance of the abduction and continuing illegal imprisonment of civilians doesn’t say anything positive about you.
‘Hamas’ refusal to do so has
turned Gaza into piles
of corpse-strewn
rubble.’
Nevermind the
War Crimes:
once Again
Israel is
Blame-
less:
thus
AIPAC
Israel
can NEVER be
Held Accountable
so
Until the Last Hamas is Dead, four of the five
genocidal acts defined under International
law Will be carried out against Palestinians.
This is about as
Holocaustic as
it can fucking
g
e
t
.
the World’s New
Justification:
But Hamas.
This Couldda
Been OVER DECADES
AGO had only bibi nutnyahoo
not done EVERYTHING IN HIS POWER
to Legitimize fucking Hamas
for FUCKING DECADES:
but.
hamas.
Gaza Riviera – make Palestinians rich!
@77
They’ve always been in favor of a peace plan in which Hamas wins. A peace plan in which Hamas loses is more of a struggle for them…
If someone wins in war, the other surrenders.
A peace plan requires the sides to negotiate, in good faith. So neither lose or win.
@41. ‘Understand that there is no such thing as “girl things” or “boy things.”
Things in the english language do not have a gender. Things are just things. Unless you are referring to penises and vaginas. Kids, when older, will spend a lot of time trying to share those particular things…
“There are such things. The evil is in saying they’re not.”
Nope. Except penises and vaginas, which, in context, makes you sound very uptight.
@92: Uptight? Nah. You’re the angry one.
Gaza Riviera – make Palestinians rich!
Coolidge dollar on October 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Whilst
Buried Under
30 Feet of Rubble?
Un. Fucking. Likely.
but, funny!
@85 – Reality/Nature itself is “racist”
deal with it
@95: See? Stupid List! 😂🤣😂🤣
@91: When the world demanded Israel make all of the concessions, the welfare of the Palestinians was your only topic. Nothing was more important.
Now the world demands Hamas admit it’s over and stop fighting, so the welfare of Hamas is your only topic. Nothing is more important.
Thanks for the laughs.
@97: It’s weird, I heard them calling for an arms embargo against Israel over and over, but now I don’t hear them calling for Hamas to disarm even though disarmament of Hamas is Point 13 of the 20-point peace plan. What could possibly explain this mystery? 😂