False Alarm: Police responded to reports of a shooting at Southcenter Mall in Tukwila on Saturday. However, police found no evidence of shots fired. A group of teens fighting in the food court prompted the call; they knocked over chairs and metal divider poles which caused “loud bang sounds” that people may have thought were gunshots. The mall went into lockdown. So, blame our collective trauma response as a nation where at the first loud sound in a public place we assume gunman.
Charred Cybertrucks: Four Tesla Cybertrucks parked in a Tesla storage lot in SODO caught fire late Sunday. It’s unclear what caused the fire. Hopefully the cars’ future owners like them extra crispy.
Shakeups at the Seahawks: I know we don’t really care about sports on this blog, but local news is local news. Quarterback Geno Smith got traded to the Las Vegas Raiders where he’ll be reunited with Coach Pete Carroll. Wide receiver and Eastside real-estate agent Tyler Lockett was released. Now, wide receiver DK Metcalf is going to the Steelers. Is this what they call a rebuilding year?
Tragedy at Washington Middle School: Last Thursday, an unattended SUV rolled down a hill outside the Central District school and struck and killed a 12-year-old girl. Other students witnessed her death. The school hosted a memorial walk and vigil on Friday. Currently, people have donated $15,000 to the girl’s grieving family. The driver of the SUV wasn’t arrested and didn’t show any signs of impairment.
The Weather: No rain today. Enjoy it. We have a very soggy week in store for us.
Trudeau’s Successor Elected: Economist and technocrat Mark Carney, who ran the Bank of Canada during the 2008 financial crisis and then became the first noncitizen to run the Bank of England in 2013 during Brexit, was chosen by the governing Liberal Party to be Justin Trudeau’s replacement. He’ll be the guy who sees Canada through this era of Trump tariffs and friction with their strongest ally: the U.S. New prime minister Carney will likely call a federal election soon since he doesn’t hold a seat in parliament—Carney has never been elected to office. He’ll face Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party, in a federal election.
Canadian Prime Minister–designate Mark Carney:
“The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country. If they succeeded, they would destroy our way of life. In America, healthcare is big business. In Canada, it is a right.”
— Adam Schwarz (@adamjschwarz.bsky.social) March 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Cheating Ski Jumpers: Two Norwegian ski jumpers were disqualified from an event at the 2025 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships after the discovery that they illegally modified their ski jumping suits with a reinforced thread. The general manager of the Norwegian Ski Federation admitted to the cheating: “This was done knowing that this is not within the regulations, but with a belief that it would not be discovered by FIS’ equipment controller. The way I consider this, we have cheated. We have tried to cheat the system. That is unacceptable.” The skiers maintain they didn’t know their suits had been manipulated.
Rubio Confirms USAID Cuts: On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the Trump administration canceled more than 80 percent of all the programs run by USAID. Previously, Trump had placed USAID programs on a 90-day “pause” while his team of ne’er-do-wells reviewed whether programs aligned with his “America First” program. Now, 5,200 contracts are canceled and only approximately 1,000 remain and now will be overseen by the State Department. Rubio thanked the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Collision Between Cargo Ship and Oil Tanker: In the North Sea off the English coast, the two vessels crashed. The crash caused a “massive fireball.” So far, one person is hospitalized, but all the crew is thankfully accounted for. This is a developing situation.
So Much for the First Amendment: U.S. immigration authorities arrested and detained Palestinian activist and Columbia University grad Mahmoud Khalil because of his role in leading last spring’s pro-Palestine protests at Columbia. A Homeland Security Department spokesperson said the arrest supports Trump’s presidential orders to prohibit anti-semitism. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Khalil despite his holding a green card and being a permanent US resident. His pregnant wife, an American, did not know where he was taken. A detention tracker shows he’s being held at a facility in Louisiana. In a commentary about Khalil’s arrest, Marco Rubio wrote on X: “We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.” Khalil has not been charged with a crime. He is being detained because those in power do not like him exercising his freedom of speech—a right he has under the Constitution. This arrest should send shivers down your spine. If we do not have our right to free speech, then we are not the country these people claim to love. This is fascism.
Meanwhile: Trump pulled $400 million in grants and contracts from Columbia University, claiming the school failed to stop anti-Semitism on campus.
Hey, College Students? Now is the time to get angry. College campuses are where movements begin. They are central to discussion, debate, and progress. This government will try, but they cannot take that away. They are scared of you. If you are not at risk—or at least less at risk—of being targeted by this administration (aka if you are a citizen and if you are white), now is the time to organize.
A Song for Your Monday: Sorry, I can’t get this one out of my head unless I get it stuck in your head.
It’s March 10, voting has opened for the 39th World Zionist Congress! 🎉 Remind all your Jewish friends to vote for the 152 delegates who will represent American Jewry during the five-year congress to be held in Jerusalem this fall! 🔥🔥🔥
The World Zionist Congress appoints governors and determines policy for the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish Agency for Israel, the Jewish National Fund, and others. These organizations control a billion-dollar annual budget for education, resettlement, land reclamation, and social services programs in Israel for the benefit of Jews from around the world, as well as social services for Israelis of all nationalities. 😇
There are twenty-one slates running for the American Jewish seats at the 39th World Zionist Congress, representing Jews from across the political and religious spectra, but there are no winners and losers in this election. Participation is a victory in and of itself! Three thousand years and counting! 🔥🔥🔥
John Schneider has gone full DOGE.
RE: Khalil, you wouldn’t hold a green card and be a U.S. citizen, green cards are basically just indefinite residency/ work authorizations which you no longer need after becoming a U.S. citizen. I’m guessing that’s an error and Khalil is only a green card holder, detaining a U.S. citizen would be challenged immediately.
Kind of a slim AM Slog today
@3: Yeah, she journalism’ed that one. 😁 Khalil is not a US citizen, he is a lawful permanent resident, aka a green card holder.
Even for a LPR, ICE can only detain on probable cause of an offense that would lead to revocation of LPR status. Misrepresentation is such an offense. My guess is the government’s case against Khalil will be something along the lines of misrepresenting links to terrorist groups, which is a question they ask applicants. Whether there’s anything to it will depend on the facts, which we don’t yet have. I’lll be interested to read the government’s affidavit. 😊
Both the Seahawks and Kraken blew up their teams this weekend. Why not?
re the ship collision: “One person hospitalised. The other 36 mariners across both crews are safe and accounted for,”
There, fixed it for you… question; does TS have a fact checker/editor anymore (that’s if they ever did in the first place).
@7, Do they even read their own link, which contains the exact language you quoted.
I imagine Nathalie is feeling stressed out this morning, as we all
Ironic that a publication that endorses Kshama Sawant and her minions who worked so hard to tank the Harris campaign are upset about what Trump is doing. These Stranger news reporters are the embodiment of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Cybertrucks spontaneously combust all the time, it’s just not widely reported.
@6
Maybe the teams will be sold, and then move to Oklahoma City.
Hopefully the Cybertrucks internal cameras were able to get adequate video of the Antifa terrorists who torched them. In a Trump administration they had better expect a 20 year sentence if caught.
I’m sure the CIA is scheming for another method to re-allocate US tax dollars to their black ops now that USAID is in ruins. President Trump and SoS Rubio have stabbed it (The Deep State) with their steely knives but they just can’t kill the Beast. Yet.
Admittedly I’m confused over the controversy regarding the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. I thought the Democrats supported prohibitions against hate speech.
I guarantee you the Trump administration is not the least bit scared by Campus Hamas cosplayers. Nathalie sounds like a silly little girl writing that.
Mahmoud Khalil needn’t worry. Maybe Macklemore can swoop in and appropriate the moment with a timely protest song.
Why would anyone expect someone to fact check a news blog. She didn’t write the story, she linked to it. The whole reason anyone would know her 2 sentence summary is partially incorrect is because they clicked on the link she posted.
@15: To … make sure that the news blog is actually blogging the news? 😂 This morning, Nathalie Graham reported that a US citizen had been arrested by immigration authorities and that dozens of sailors had died in a maritime disaster. Those would both be big stories, but neither of those stories was true.
I see Graham has now updated the blog to remove the erroneous reports. When Vivian McCall corrects gaffes like this in her posts, she flags the corrections at the bottom. Graham simply made the changes without acknowledging the errors. 😅
@13, I thought you’d be off watching your stock portfolio dropping like a cinder block.
It seems that someone didn’t appreciate news coverage of the Cybertruck immolation, and it doesn’t sound like your typical antifa loonie: https://mynorthwest.com/local/tesla-cybertruck-burn-seattle/4060501
You’re a master at subtle sarcasm, barth (@15).
@16 so what
Dictators
GOTTA Steal
the Lingo. equating
anti-Genocide, anti-Fascism
with PRO-Hamas may be Okay
for tS’s Reich-Wing contingent, huge
Supporters of America’s love for Fascists.
Thedonolde’s gonna start his dictator tour
with whatever he can Sell to Middle
America & 2 or 3 of his Biggest
Supporters here @tS’re gon-
na lend that fucking Fascist
Every available Hand
“This arrest should send shivers down your spine. If we do not have our right to free speech, then we are not the country these people claim to love. This is fascism.”
for how Long
will tS coddle
its Fascists?
@19: lol, got a crush, do ya? 😄
@21 no i just find it strange that people expect a blurb about someone else’s reporting to be vetted by a fact checker, esp since multiple people come here daily to do this work for free
@22: This was ChatGPT-level hallucinations, though. Graham was inventing dead bodies and civil rights violations that did not exist. Honestly, the actual ChatGPT probably would have done a better job summarizing the news this morning. 😅
@22: Readers got used to doing it for free because writers at the Stranger frequently post bad information which can be inflammatory, e.g. claiming a U.S. citizen was detained by federal authorities without being, or having been, charged with a crime.
It is funny how all the protestors who screamed “Gaza!!!” under Biden have gone and crawled under a rock now that Trump is in, even though Trump has openly green lighted full ethnic cleaning as policy now.
I wonder where they all went? They lose their camping gear? Or maybe it was never really about “Gaza!!!”.
@25: Could the ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon possibly have anything to do with it? 🤪
@24 “inflammatory” is a little dramatic but I still find it concerning that anyone of any citizenship status is being detained without charge over speech
@27: As @5 noted, we do not currently know why the feds detained Khalil. If it was for his saying he had no connection to Hamas, but they have since obtained evidence he actually had a connection, then the feds may be able to make a case for his deportation. The legal case wouldn’t have anything to do with his speech at Columbia, but over false claims made during his application for entry to the U.S.
@26 You mean the one that already fell apart? Israel just cut off electricity and food inbound. The one where there has been increased annexation of the West Bank? The one where our Givt has openly declared a policy of “move em out to the other arab states”? That one?
Please.
@29: lol, it’s still a ceasefire so long as the parties choose to cease fire. Talk to me when the shooting starts. 😂
A judge just prohibited Khalil’s deportation, https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/ice-arrests-palestinian-activist-green-card-columbia-university/story?id=119616144
So, we’ll see if anything the administration has claimed about Khalil will stand up in court. Hopefully they know by now that he has a green card, not a student visa, but under Trump, who knows? Maybe they can get that little detail wrong in front of a judge, too.
@31: Khalil’s attorney just filed a declaration that she spoke by phone with one of the immigration agents during the arrest, who told her they had an “administrative warrant.” But this arrest occurred inside Khalil’s apartment! An administrative warrant (in this case, an immigration warrant) wouldn’t authorize forcible entry into a private residence, that would require a warrant from an Article III court. Unless Khalil or his wife were foolish enough to allow the immigration agents entry into the apartment, or unless the immigration agent misidentified the type of warrant he had, this might turn out to be an unlawful arrest.
And that’s before we even get to the LPR/visa confusion, which might supply its own grounds to challenge the arrest. If the government only has a visa revocation case queued up against Khalil, they might not be able to assemble an LPR revocation case on such short notice. Arresting Khalil under the wrong type of case might also render this an unlawful arrest.
And that’s before we even get to the merits of the government’s case: whether Khalil in fact misrepresented any terrorism connections in his immigration application materials or subsequently acted as “representative of … a political, social, or other group that endorses or espouses terrorist activity.”
This might turn out to be a real king-sized fuckup for the government. Depending how badly they screwed up the warrant, the arrest, and the LPR/visa issue, they might be open to a Bivens lawsuit by Khalil … thus turning the tables on his tormentors! 😂😂😂
@22, It would be nice if the person actually read what was in the link they are providing and quoted what it said, instead of characterizing it the exact opposite of what it said. Big difference between the “32 dead” summary of the link initially provided and all 37 sailors living with only one injury.
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thirty
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PTSDs so f’g Bad they may NEVER
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what’s a little
Mass Murder
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https://youtu.be/xRPjnVwYysQ
More on the allision between the U.S. flagged, Crowley managed, AMO/SIU crewed, M/V Stena Immaculate and the M/V Solong.
@25 all the protestors “crawled under a rock” huh?
https://www.amny.com/news/manhattan-protest-ice-arrest-mahmoud-khalil-03102025/