International District stabbings: On Friday, someone stabbed five people in what appears to be a random, unprovoked attack in Seattle’s Chinatown International District. The same person is believed to be responsible for other stabbings in the neighborhood that occurred between Thursday and Friday. In total, police believe the suspect stabbed nine victims in two days. Police arrested the suspect on Friday. His bail was set for $2 million.

Back at it: Around 300 people gathered over the weekend at the Space Needle for a rally against Donald Trump’s re-election. It feels like we were protesting Donald Trump’s presidency just yesterday. Time is a flat circle when your country keeps electing a fascist.  

Wet, wet, wet: The rain is here. I hope you like it. 

Income tax when? According to 2023 census data, the median wages for tech workers in the Seattle area last year was about $157,200. That’s a $14,000 increase from 2022’s tech-worker wage estimate, according to the Seattle Times’ FYI Guy. Meanwhile, the median income for non-tech workers in Seattle was about $81,100 and only bumped up a measly $2,800 since 2022. 

Vaccinate your kids: Stop being stupid and get your kids their shots. Whooping cough is on the rise with nearly 1,200 cases documented statewide. Of those cases, over 80% are in children. “This is just the tip of the iceberg. We’re starting to see the impact of waning immunization,” Dr. James Lewis, a health officer with the Snohomish County Health Department, told KIRO7. 

Help SIFF staff out: Go see a secret staff pick on Wednesday and throw a few bucks in the kitty to help support SIFF workers who are out of a job now that the Egyptian Theater out of commission. 

Analysis suggests Gaza dead are mostly women and children: New analysis from the United Nations Human Rights Office found that 70% of those killed by Israel in Gaza were women and children. The UN verified the details of 8,119 people killed in Gaza from November 2023 to April 2024. Of them, 26 percent were women. Around 44 percent were children, most commonly between five and nine years old. The report said the data indicates “an apparent indifference to the death of civilians and the impact of the means and methods of warfare.” 

Wildfire to the East: Dry, windy conditions are to blame for a brush fire in New Jersey that now covers 39 acres. The blaze is currently 30% contained. Meanwhile, at least six more fires are burning in the state. And at the same time, two acres burned in the middle of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, killing a teenage park ranger. Wildfires have increased in east coast states thanks to historic droughts. Boston to New York City and Philadelphia to Washington, D.C are under red flag warnings. The bad news is everything is going to get worse thanks to who we elected president. 

Meanwhile: A California blaze tearing through Ventura County is 31% contained and still covers 32 square miles.

Trump chooses UN ambassador: New York Rep. Elise Stefanik has been chosen to fill the role. Stefanik, who serves as House Republican Conference Chair, is a Trump loyalist with little foreign policy experience. Trump called her a “strong, tough, and smart America First fighter.” 

Bird flu in Canada: The first presumptive case of bird flu in a human has been identified in British Columbia. The infected person is a teenager who likely contracted the illness from contact with animals. So far, the virus hasn’t spread from human to human. 

Another abortion horror story: A woman in Georgia was 18 weeks pregnant with her second child when she miscarried. Despite her bleeding and her risk of serious infection, doctors could not perform a routine dilation and curettage due to abortion laws. They had to wait 24 hours or until the woman seemed like she might die unless she received the surgery. Sure enough, they waited until her hemoglobin levels were perilously low and then operated. While she survived, the pain and fear she went through was not medically necessary. Her pain was legislated.

Wicked whoopsie: Mattel released special dolls for the new Wicked movie. On the bottom of the packaging, Mattel listed “Wicked.com” to drive people to the movie site. Only Wicked.com is a porn site that makes parody porn movies. Mattel said sorry. 

A song for your Monday: You like to groove, right?

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60 replies on “Slog AM: Stabbings in the International District, Seattle Tech Wages Grow, Mattel’s Wicked Porn Mishap”

  1. @43 and since that time we’ve also had 8 years of Clinton (presiding over what was probably the best era of growth and prosperity in this country), 8 years of Obama and 4 years of Biden not to mention there are solidly blue states like CA, IL, NY and even here in WA. So why haven’t any of these community centers been set up? Here in WA we had Western State lose their federal funding due to chronic mismanagement by the state

    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/western-state-hospital-loses-federal-funding-after-failing-inspection/

    Is that Repbulican’s fault as well? Not to mention one of the outcomes of the Carter decision is you can’t force people into care so even if you were to build all these centers how do you compel people to go get care?

    @45 Congratulations on your piety and moral righteousness. Clearly you have the moral high ground and no one can debate your altruistic intentions. The only gap in your plan is what do we do with the guy you stabbed nine people randomly or the kids that went on a high speed joy ride in a stolen car and killed three homeless people while we are waiting on your investments to come to fruition?

  2. @43 Didn’t deinstitutionalization begin well prior to Carter? I thought it began as far back as Johnson. Like, wasn’t “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest” a kind of lib sentiment, not Goldwater agit prop. Didn’t the number of folks living in mental facilities have its sharpest decline prior to Reagan swearing in?

  5. as we treat Palestinians

    eltrumpfester’ll treat ‘the

    least’ of Us & plenty soon

    enough there’ll be millions

    or Tens of millions more tos-

    sed upon Ameria’s rubbish piles

    will you still be cheering

    him on from the

    rubbish pile?

  7. @56

    well why dontchya

    Tell us wormmy:

    what Would

    Sawant*

    do?

    we’re

    all Dying

    to hear the

    sociopathic pov

    *your

    Fixation’s

    becoming

    pathological

    at least you’ve

    got your little

    ChatterboX

  8. @57: Ok, given Sawant wanted Trump elected, and she loves having people cheer at her command, I’d say Sawant’s answer to your question, “will you still be cheering

    him on from the

    rubbish pile?” would be a resounding “Yes!”

    You’re welcome.

  9. oh wormmy

    your ‘sense’ of

    humors is sorely lacking

    but there’s

    More Good News!

    even your Championing

    of bibi’s little Massacre and

    helping Elect tfg tNg djf’t may have

    its Silver Lining.

    from prolly my Fave

    NPR show & host:

    From high tariffs to isolation,

    what a 2nd Trump term

    might mean for

    foreign policy

    Heard on Fresh Air

    –by Dave Davies

    November 13, 2024

    With wars raging around the world and high tariffs looming, Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes says Trump’s agenda may be chaotic — but she remains optimistic about possible good elements.

    44-Minute Listen

    https://www.npr.org/2024/11/13/g-s1-34010/from-high-tariffs-to-isolation-what-a-2nd-trump-term-might-mean-for-foreign-policy

    mofo! there May just be some

    Good to come outta a

    thousand-yr Eltrump-

    fster Dynasty. there’s

    Plenty of Wrongs to

    be Righted – if we

    could Distract el-

    trumpfster like

    ol’ wormmy

    distracts

    Schlogg

    make tfg tng him Focus

    on the shite Dems’re

    Too Timid to Do

    but’re Right

    There ripe

    for the

    Fixin’.

    good show.

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