Not bad: Today, Seattleites can expect mostly cloudy skies with temperatures peaking in the high 60s, maybe 70 degrees if you hold your thermometer just right. That kind of weather should stick around for at least the rest of the week. 

Harris v. Trump: Presidential nominees Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will face off tonight at 6 pm Pacific Time in the second debate of the election—well, if you count the one that killed Joe Biden’s campaign. Good times! Block out some time afterward to watch the gubernatorial candidates debate at 8 pm. Don’t wanna watch alone? Join a bunch of gays at Massive for Drag the Debate, or stop by Rough & Tumble Pub to watch with the WA State Democrats.

The genocide wages on: Israel launched airstrikes on a tent encampment inside a designated safe zone in Khan Younis, killing at least 40 Palestinians, according to Gaza civil defense officials. Israel’s strikes injured another 60 people, set 20 tents on fire, and left craters 30 feet in the ground. For months, the Biden administration has had the moral obligation to broker a ceasefire, enact an arms embargo, whatever it takes to stop the genocide.

Justice for Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi: Palestinians in the West Bank held a funeral for Seattle activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi after Israeli forces shot and killed her last week. Meanwhile, the White House hasn’t even spoken on the phone with Eygi’s family as of a press conference yesterday, and officials also appeared to reject calls for an independent investigation into her killing. 

Tomorrow: You can pay your respects to Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi at a vigil tomorrow night at Alki Beach.

Hey, cut out this racist shit: Yesterday, Republicans woke up and decided to spread baseless and straightforwardly racist rumors, accusing Haitian immigrants of killing and eating pets in Ohio. Sen. Ted Cruz, VP nominee JD Vance, and a Trump campaign account all tweeted racist bullshit about immigrants eating pets to try to energize the xenophobes and racists in their base.

Hello, Neighbors! The Seattle City Council Public Safety Committee votes today on whether to send Council Member Cathy Moore’s prostitution loitering law to the full council for a vote. Ashley trailed a group of canvassers this weekend who found that many of Moore’s constituents hadn’t heard about the bill, and those who had didn’t like what they heard. If you want to share what you think of the bill, public comment happens today at 9:30 am, but if you want to go in person then it genuinely may be too late.

My two cents: The public safety committee will also discuss and possibly vote on the Stay Out of Drug Area (SODA) zones, which let judges banish criminal defendants from a bunch of places around town. If the City can even enforce it (and don’t let them justify another dime to cops to do so, btw), these zones will only spread out people that the City deems unworthy of certain public spaces, which include light rail stations, parks, and social services essential to those navigating the criminal punishment system, substance abuse disorder, and homelessness. I live just outside of the proposed Capitol Hill SODA zone and I’m against it! Vehemently. 

More garbage takes from the Seattle Times: The Seattle Times Editorial Board wrote a really shoddy op-ed about I-137, which would tax employers who pay anyone more than $1 million to pay for the newly established social housing developer. I should really go point by point, but the gist is that the Board promoted an idea straight from the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce to make the social housing developer compete with affordable housing developers for money from the housing levy. Pitting affordable housing against social housing does not help homeless people or renters—it would only limit housing development in both categories and perpetuate the regressive taxation scheme that overburdens individual homeowners, all just to save big business some cash. Yawn.

Strike incoming: Boeing Machinists union leader Jon Holden told the Seattle Times yesterday that he expects rank-and-file union members to reject the tentative agreement the bargaining team reached with bosses on Sunday and instead will strike later this week. Solidarity! 

Speaking of: Noisy Union (not a typo, we voted to cut “creek,” and we can argue about that later) will start bargaining our very first contract for workers at The Stranger, the Portland Mercury, Bold Type Ticket, EverOut, and Noisy Creek in general. Woohoo! Let’s see if the new owners make good on their big promise in the press to bring “more resources.” Follow our Twitter account for updates.

Tyreek Hill: Newly released police body-cam footage shows a Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) officer pulling Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill out of his car before pushing him to the ground on Sunday. 

Ukraine: In its biggest drone attack to date, Ukraine struck Moscow today, killing at least one person, destroying dozens of homes, and diverting about 50 flights in the area. 

Need feedback: Okay, I’ve been in search of a new karaoke song. What do you think about this one? Do people know it? I don’t want to pull out a deep cut that the crowd would rather skip.

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45 replies on “Slog AM: Presidential and WA Gubernatorial Debates Tonight, Israel Airstrikes Safe Zone, and Boeing Machinists May Strike”

  3. Parts falling off planes in flight.

    Starliner malfunction stranding astronauts in space for 8 months.

    Yeah. Sounds like a great time for these highly skilled and detail oriented workers to strike.

  4. @1, Pennsylvania v. Mimms.

    “Held:

    The order to get out of the car, issued after the respondent was lawfully detained, was reasonable, and thus permissible under the Fourth Amendment. The State’s proffered justification for such order — the officer’s safety — is both legitimate and weighty, and the intrusion into respondent’s personal liberty occasioned by the order, being, at most, a mere inconvenience, cannot prevail when balanced against legitimate concerns for the officer’s safety.”

    https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/434/106/

    The 1977 Supreme Court Case makes it the law of the land that you must step out of the car solely at the officer’s option. .

    What we don’t know from the Miami video is if officers ordered him out and he refused.

    Hopefully there is bodycams or police car video to provide the missing information needed to evaluate what went down.

  5. @3:

    Striking is always a last resort, used when management adamantly refuses to bargain fairly. Maybe if the corner office crowd at “the lazy B” was more concerned about maintaining a skilled workforce to build its products properly rather than it is about appeasing shareholders and padding their own portfolios, this kind of action wouldn’t be necessary.

  6. @5 I don’t know how you can say management didn’t bargain fairly when union leadership agreed to this contract. It’s the rank and file that is rejecting the offer their leadership negotiated. From the ST

    “Union members had hoped for a 40% pay hike and were disappointed by the contract’s 25% increase. But Holden said that’s the largest general wage increase for all members “in our history.” In addition, he said, a change to the system whereby an employee’s pay escalates over time means that about 1,500 Machinists would immediately go to the maximum pay scale, their wages rising at least 40%, while 2,000 others would find their wait for that maximum pay jump substantially shortened. Although the contract abolishes the Machinists’ annual bonus program, he said the guaranteed general wage increase that compounds over time is much more valuable. Some Machinists were set on getting back their traditional pension, given up in 2013. Holden said no company has ever restored such a pension after taking it away, and Boeing wouldn’t budge on that. The offer instead includes substantial new Boeing contributions to employee 401(k) retirement plans.”

    So the largest increase in pay in the history of the union and substantial retirement contributions but its being rejected because they want their pension back and an even larger pay increase. Maybe they’ll win additional concessions but I don’t think it’s fair to pin this on Boeing management.

  9. @4 Way to bury the lede.

    “It was totally legal to order him out of the car!”

    “Uh, we don’t know if the cop actually gave that order or not.”

  11. I’m sympathetic to Boeing’s workers giving the amount of time this has taken and their last bargaining experience, but if they’re going to strike over things like bringing back a pension plan, their leadership hasn’t done a good job managing expectations. The SPEEA strike of 2000 and the IAM strike of 2008 guaranteed that the 787 was going to South Carolina, and the same will happen from any stoppage this time. Boeing has $53 billion in debt, they simply can’t find all of the quality improvements they need to make, supply chain insourcing, and every labor demand.

  12. Biden could have stopped the genocide before it began. No money and no weapons to Israel means no ability for Israel to do what they have been doing for nearly one year now.

    Biden doesn’t want Israel to stop. Biden is a Zionist. He has taken $4 MILLION (that we know of) from AIPAC. He has, throughout his political career (long before he became POTUS) been a loud and proud rabid Zionist. He has been a part of the United States sending hundreds of BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars to Israel over decades (tens of BILLIONS over the last year).

    Biden spent another few hundred MILLION on having a pier built to “deliver aid” to Palestinians, a pier that lasted 5 minutes and delivered no aid (and was just a big PR stunt and fooled no one).

    Imagine what $320 MILLION could have paid for in the United States, let alone $300 BILLION.

    $42 BILLION from Oregon alone (where I live): a state that could use that money to house the unhoused, feed the hungry, educate people (because the educational situation here in Oregon is abysmal and only getting worse), deal with communities destroyed by wildfires, etc. etc. etc.

    Israel is a terrorist state and the United States is the largest terrorist in the world, arming and funding terrorists worldwide. It doesn’t matter if Democrats or Republicans have the power, the terrorism exists either way – the only difference being WHICH terrorists get the support.

    Fuck Biden. Harris will do the same. Congress has no desire to stop Israel. Every single person in power in the United States who continues to support the arming and funding of Israel is not only breaking the laws of the United States in doing so (given Israel is committing genocide), they are also breaking international law.

  13. @4, Kind of hard for you to argue with the plain language of the U.S. Supreme Court:

    @9

    A) It’s legal to order him out of the car under Mimms and has been since 1977. Since they don’t teach civics anymore, or make it a question on the driver’s test, people mistakenly think they don’t have to get out if directed to do so.

    B) Re-read @4. Mimms makes the only question a factual one, not a matter of law. Did the officer order the guy out of the car and he didn’t comply? As indicated in @4, the video we have doesn’t answer that question. Hopefully there is audio of the interaction from another source.

    Until there is, we can’t make any conclusions about the legality of the police actions in question.

    The Miami player filing a lawsuit would be helpful. It would force discovery of any police audio, video, and other evidence the police may possess. Being a high-profile sports entertainer for a living makes it less likely he will do so. Remember what happened to Colin Kapernik? The League and public don’t like sports entertainers that make waves.

    My guess is that everyone has an incentive to move on, including the understaffed press, so this will quietly face away and we will never know. That is unfortunate.

  14. It’s not based on a stereotype though anyone could guess his gender and sexuality with 100% accuracy based on his stereotypically obnoxious behavior, maybe even his age.

  15. @13 No, they aren’t violating U.S. law. No, they aren’t violating international law. Good luck with prosecuting everyone for their violations. I suppose after your glorious revolution and purge, none of that will be needed. Eh, comrade?

    No one takes you seriously because you write utter nonsense. Go write your daily letters.

  17. @13, It is U.S. law that Israel get the military aid, in the billions prescribed. Biden can’t repeal the law, only Congress can.

    There is another U.S. law that says aid appropriated under other law can be withheld if there are violations of humanitarian standards listed in that law; however, it is required to be done on a unit-by-unit basis, targeting the smallest unit. E.g. The 3rd Platoon (32 men) of “C” company, of the 1st Regiment, of the 95th Division, of the IDF, or the Counter-terrorism squad of the Jenin Police. There is a bunch of due process for each case.

    Assuming that the U.S. could withhold U.S. aid on blanket, non-unit-by-unit, case-by-case basis, Israel would not go bankrupt or stop. Its on the order of 1 to 2% of the Israeli Government’s annual budget and a tiny percentage of their economy.

    Israel, as they did in 1948, when they, and the Palestinians, were under an arms embargo, will just turn to other sources in the international arms market. That is what you do when you are facing an existential enemy, or if you are the existential enemy? How well did the arms embargo against Gaza and Hamas due in preventing 10/7, and the over 10,000 rocket attacks from Gaza to Israel since? How well have sanctions stopped Putin from getting arms to attack Ukraine. It’s slowed Russia down, but ask a Ukrainian Soldier how its working. Ask a citizen in a city how well its stopping the missile and drone attacks.

    Nor would not having the Nakba stopped Hamas. It, and other groups like them, have opposed any Jews or other infidels in the Holy Land, and have been willing to take any measures, including martyrdom, to achieve that aim. As long as the rest of Palestinians are willing to look the other way at such groups and not police them on their territory, these conflicts are inevitable.

    If we care about civvies in Israel or Ukraine, we need to put our thumb on the scale so one side decisively wins so that hostilities cease.

  18. Elon completely destroyed Twitter’s revenue stream so he could eliminate the hate speech policy and reinstate a bunch of nazi accounts — over 40 billion dollars down the shitter to give racists and conspiracy cranks a platform, the very kind of people now using his site to fabricate a racist hysteria that could very easily get people killed. Not sure what you expected from him but he’s always been this awful.

  19. I love the unintentional irony of “Follow our Twitter account for updates” – nothing like a union movement putting money into the pockets of an avowed union buster (sometimes I think the ethos of the union was transferred to Keck’s second act).

    TS, stop supporting those who are actively working against the best interests of most humans.

  20. @13: “Biden could have stopped the Genocide before it began.”

    Laughable. He may be a “rabid Zionist” (he’s not), but Likudniks and the ultra-Nationalists in their coalition don’t like US Dems AT ALL (far too sympathetic to Palestinian aspirations). They would prefer Motherfucker back in office.

    There won’t be a ceasefire until Harris wins.

  21. @16 The Leahy Law is U.S. law and the Biden administration (which has gone around Congress 3X that we know of) and Congress have both violated every time they arm and fund Israel. Oh, you won’t so here you go:

    The Leahy Laws or Leahy amendments are U.S. human rights laws that prohibit the U.S. Department of State and Department of Defense from providing military assistance to foreign security force units that violate human rights with impunity.

    The Biden administration has ADMITTED that Israel is violating International law, so by default, in arming and funding Israel and doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to stop Israel (something as simple as not arming and funding Israel), they are admitting the United States is violating International law.

    But by all means continue to live in your bullshit bubble.

  24. I’ve been watching the debate too, for about an hour even though this slog post says it doesn’t start until 8 PM? The parts about escaped mental asylum patients stealing our jobs and eating our pets have been my favorite so far.

  27. So how you all got it scored? I thought she was great. Not perfect, but she landed a couple pretty devastating blows. And he honestly wasn’t awful. I mean, he’s inherently awful and repugnant, but he pretty much just did his thing, which is all he’s even capable of doing. Just denigrating immigrants and immigration policy relentlessly.

    She definitely and undeniably “won” though I’ve no idea what impact such a win has on her chances come November, and it feels pretty and unfortunately minimal somehow. I can’t imagine how one targets a still undecided voter at this point, and such people are so insanely stupid, I’ve gotta figure he’s gonna have an easier time making inroads with them, though I’m skeptical he managed to do so this evening. The ABC pundits seem to think she did freaking great, FWTW.

  28. I can’t say who won because I don’t usually watch these debates, but I was disappointing because I wanted to see trump falter more. He deflected blame, dodged questions, aired grievances, and lied a bunch as expected. I think Harris did a decent job of citing specific policies that could improve the lives of Americans, by which I mean tax credits for small businesses and parents. I only wish there was more talk about what policies they would push for and less talk about fracking or Israel, which are not going to be affected by this election.

  30. @23, The Leahy Law also requires unit by unit determinations and unit by unit sanction.

    It it.is administratively cumbersome, and inapplicable in the manner you desire.

  32. like the previous

    and upcoming Elections

    eltrumpfster STOLE oodles

    more Time from Kamala whilst

    ABC Mostly allowed it. his Overruns

    and they were Quick to head off Harris

    shouldda been added up her’s too and sub-

    tracted from his time on mic. Harris shouldda de-

    manded equal time — for her to let it slide was regretful

    she sounded quite Presidential at times

    and if she can get past some of the

    Formality & relax into a vernacular

    more Comfortable for her she can

    likely Run Away with this thing.

    eltrumpster

    certainly provided

    the Harris Campaign

    with Plenty enough Ammunition.

    omg:

    that

    Smirk

    of his Deserves

    its own Place on a

    mountain. my vote’s

    gotta be on Mount Doom

    and on buses

    Everywhere.

  34. I watched the debate for almost an hour and then had to leave the room.

    74 million people voted for that piece of shit who does nothing but lie and lie and lie and lie.

    And his cult will follow him until the end of time, truly believing we are living in a country where hundreds of millions of immigrants are being allowed into the country, committing every possible crime there is, eating people’s pets, taking people’s jobs, and all people who support women having full human rights are murdering babies as soon as they are born if they didn’t have an abortion in the ninth month.

    He did not speak one truth. He did not answer one question. He truly believes everyone is dumber than he is and he can say and do whatever he wants and this country will follow him into his fascist fantasy because there is no way this country will vote for a woman, let alone a non-white woman.

    I hope he loses by at the very least 150 million votes and then I hope he is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. And then, just like his good buddy Jeffrey Epstein, I hope he kills himself.

  35. @35,

    Yeah, holy shit that obnoxious-assed smirk might somehow emerge as the enduring image from tonight. If you were to place me in front of him & Hitler and told me I only got to deliver one punch, I’d obviously send it to Dolph. But if he was standing there right in front of me and posing with that smirk, I might accidentally and reflexively send it his way. What a total and complete fucking ass.

  36. @xina

    I appreciate

    the sentiment

    of your final sentence

    if Only

    eltrumpster

    wasn’t madly

    deeply in Love

    with Himself he

    might Epstein his

    ample fascist arse

    & that’d be Justice

    btw

    it was

    remarkably

    easy to mute

    what’s ‘is name.

    Wish I’d begun Sooner.

  37. newsflash:

    Taylor Swift’s

    onboard w/

    Kamala.

    so Sorry

    donOld.

    at least you’ve Still

    got the Hannibal

    Lecter vote

    & probably

    maybe Dave

    Sheriff Reichart’s

    who stumbled over

    the Green River Killer for

    Decades before FINALLY

    ‘catching’ him. What took

    you so dang Long?

  38. newsflash:

    Taylor Swift’s

    onboard w/

    Kamala.

    so Sorry

    donOld.

    at least you’ve Still

    got the Hannibal

    Lecter vote

    & probably

    maybe Dave

    Sheriff Reichart’s

    who stumbled over

    the Green River Killer for

    Decades before FINALLY

    ‘catching’ him. What took

    you so dang Long?

  42. What is the point of mocking an endorsement? It only takes a few thousand votes to swing the election and she has a lot of young fans with a lot at stake who might not otherwise pay attention to politics. Their votes count just as much as yours, or any of Elon’s 197M followers for that matter. At least she’s not posting racist memes about immigrants eating cats.

  43. It would be an incredibly stupid “experiment” and yes I would absolutely assume she could sway enough voters to Trump if she were so inclined. She only needs to persuade a minuscule fraction of her followers to vote to make a difference.

  44. @41

    oh

    so you’re

    Butthurt over

    my Non-endorsement

    of The Sheriff? what were

    you expecting? Hannibal the

    Cannibal to pop outta a cake

    during the Debate with Fergy

    & give dirty Dave the nod? no

    Wonder you’re so

    Disappointed.

    Go, Fergy!

    GO!

    “Swift signed her endorsement,

    ‘Childless Cat Lady.'” wait’ll

    jdvance gets ahold of her

    adorable pussy and eats

    it too. And the dog. &

    then Blames ‘Haitian’

    Immigrants. Why do

    you Hate Taylor

    Swift so bad?

    your Jealousy

    is as Revealing

    as it is Disgusting.

  45. “Meanwhile, by 2:00 this afternoon [9/11], Taylor Swift’s endorsement had prompted 337,826 people to start the process of registering to vote.” –Heather Cox Richardson, noted Historian

    yeah

    Taylor’s

    irrelevance

    is Substantial.

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