South Park endured a 7 week, fart-like attack on the senses. Between September 19 and November 7, the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency received 110 reports of an egg-like, sulfurous stench lingering in the neighborhood, causing headaches, itchy eyes, runny noses, difficulty breathing and, of course, displeasure. The area dutch oven is a bit of a mystery, but a PCAA inspector zeroed in on Gypsum to Gypsum, a company removing a giant, years-old pile of, you guessed it, gypsum (drywall), from the property. Old drywall stinks like this, a general manager admitted to the inspector, but he said he didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary. The agency would not grant an interview about the smell, The Seattle Times reported. The smell has not been dealt, or at least reported, since November 7.

Found It: BP found the leak in the Olympic Pipeline. There’s still no timeline for a fix. But at least there’s a path. The Attorney General’s Office said in a statement that it’s too early to assign blame, but that the upcoming legislative session is an opportunity to enhance corporate accountability for environmental crimes.

More Light Tap Than Spanking: Yesterday, the state fined the company $3.8 million for spilling 21,000 gallons of gasoline from the same pipeline near Conway in December 2023. The pipeline leaked in 2020, too. While it’s enough money ruin you or me, it’s pocket change for a company that posted $2.2 billion in profits last quarter. Cleanup for the 2023 spill took 3 months, cost the state $820,000, and killed animals.

Our Oil-Soaked Turkey: Because the pipeline carried jet fuel down the coast from the Salish Sea, BP’s leaky pipe may cause flight “schedule changes” before and on Thanksgiving. Those leaving on a long haul flight between now and November 28, should “frequently” check their flight status.

Not You, if BP Can Help It:

Weather: Not a lot to celebrate. It’ll be rainy, mainly after 9am. The high will hit 44. Tomorrow, it’ll be rainy too, but at least we’ll hit a balmy 49. Time to drag out the SAD lamp.

SeaTac shooting: Police are investigating a shooting that killed one person and injured another in the Angle Lake area last night. Police don’t know what’s behind the shooting. Detectives in the King County Sheriff’s Office’s Major Crimes Unit are leading the investigation.

UW saw a 9 percent decrease in the number of students from China and India this year. On account of President Donald Trump temporarily halting student visa processing and the administration’s promise to further scrutinize student applications. It mirrors a national trend.

For Sale, Big Boats, Sailed Often: If you need a nice place on the water for your 87 or 144 cars, the state has the decommissioned Washington State ferry for you. The Hyak and Klahowya have been on the market for over a year without any serious buyers, because it turns out, it’s a lot of work to own a giant boat. RIP Kalakala.

A Thai woman was found alive in her coffin. She was bedridden for two years before she appeared (key word here) to stop breathing over the weekend. Her brother didn’t get a death certificate (key action), but knew she wanted to donate her organs, so he tossed her in a coffin for the 300 mile journey to Bangkok. Though the organs would’ve been illegally fresh, the hospital didn’t accept her organs because there was no death certificate. The brother then took her to a temple for free cremation, but they didn’t accept her either, again, because he had no death certificate. Then, temple staff heard her knocking. The temple is covering the woman’s medical expenses.

Those pesky technicalities! A federal judge threw out two criminal cases against Trump’s political enemies—New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey—because the Virginia prosecutor who brought the charges, Trump’s former personal lawyer, Lindsey Halligan, was illegally appointed to the job. Not to be Mayor of Obvioustown, but this was always going to happen.

Fasc-y Shit: According to a memo obtained by the AP, the Trump administration plans to review all 200,000 refugees admitted to the US when Joe Biden was president.

More Fasc-y Shit: The Pentagon is investigating Senator Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) for a “serious allegation of misconduct” less than a week after he and five other Democratic lawmaking military veterans made a video telling troops to defy illegal, unconstitutional orders from the President. Maybe like those illegal strikes on boats in the Caribbean.

The Result of Fasc-y Shit: The majority of American Latinos disapprove of Trump, according to a new poll from Pew. Of the 5,000 respondents, 55 percent say they strongly disapprove of Trump. About 78 percent rated economic conditions as fair to poor. Two thirds say he’s overdoing deportations, up 15 points from March. More than half worry that the government will deport them, a close friend, or family member.

Genesis Schmenisis: Trump signed an executive order to boost AI research and development. The White House called it the “Genesis Mission” and likened it to the Apollo program that put humans on the moon.

One of the Last Survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre Dies: Viola Ford Fletcher died at 111. She was just a 7-year-old child when, in 1921, a white mob attacked her thriving Black Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She spent her later years spreading the truth of those two violent days.

Vivian McCall is The Stranger's interim Editor-in-Chief. In her private life, she is a musician and Wii U apologist. If you’re reading this, you either love her or hate her.

21 replies on “Slog AM: The South Park Fart Cloud, BP Finds Leak in Pipe, Federal Judge Throws Out Cases Against Trump’s Political Enemies”

  1. This ain’t Olympic Pipelines first big spill. Is this spill acceptable this time since they didn’t kill a bunch of children playing in the creek?

  3. Olympic Pipeline spills are bad enough. An equally explosive topic is PSE methane (aka “natural” gas) pipes everywhere. It is backwards that methane pipe expansions by law must be paid for by all users yet water pipes, even in urban areas, are the sole responsibility of the end user. The public is forced to subsidize dangerous methane pipes everywhere yet squashes in-fill projects in the city due to lack of basic water pipes. No water and lots of nasty, toxic, explosive gas in homes. Brilliant!

  4. @1, No method of transporting energy is safe and spill free.

    Of the available methods, pipelines have the best safety rate. They pill far less than rail and truck tankers. They kill and injure far fewer people.

    No energy source or use is without environmental trade-offs and costs. E.g. To develop enough battery and transmission capacity to electrify just the transportation sector would require 68 times the copper mining we do now. We would turn much of the world into open pit copper mines with the resulting impact on ground and stream water. You have an even greater impact with rare earth minerals.

    That doesn’t mean staying with fossil fuels is better or worse, just that whatever we do it will have environmental impact and we will consume faster than the earth produces whatever minerals or recycled dinosaurs we choose.

  5. A link to a shooting report completely devoid of any context? Never let it be said The Stranger doesn’t respond to customer complaints and suggestions in the SLOG comments.

  6. @5, There likely isn’t any context to report. Other than what what SPD put out, which is that they responded to a 911 call where someone was shot, and they found _ when they got there, and POSSIBLY stating that witnesses reported (unless that needs to be withheld for investigatory purposes), there is likely no additional reporting by any other source.

    The Stranger, Seattle Times, King5, Kiro, et. al., don’t have the staffing resources left to respond to a scene, talk to witnesses, and view video from businesses and bystanders. The best hope you have is a Sinclair-shaded, if it bleeds it leads, report from KOMO.

    Since SPD’s mission, budget, etc. is to gather facts and evidence that can be admitted in court, you aren’t going to get any of the social, cultural, mental health, or other broader context that lead people to a violent encounter.

    Unfortunate.

  9. re

    old af

    drywall:

    ‘a general manager . . . 

    said he ‘didn’t notice’ 

    anything out of the ordinary.’

    in Other Words, welkome 

    to Korporate Amerika, LLC (lol!), 

    making The Stinky “ordinary” as fuck.

    oh and

    speaking of 

    trumpftopia and

    ICE stormtroopers:

    “if you’re

    Brown, get

    Outta Town!”

    –Actual Quote

    speaking of Big Ass (ferry!) Boats:

    Colin Jost, Pete Davidson and 

    the Staten Island Ferry Fiasco

    Nearly four years

    after they bought an

    out-of-service ferryboat for

    $280,100, their plans for a float-

    ing event space may be running aground.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/style/colin-jost-pete-davidson-staten-island-ferry.html

    and: Thai woman was found alive in her coffin.

    I’m Not Dead Yet! tats

    flying off shelves

    in Thailand

    lastly,

    ‘More than half [of Latinos polled]

    worry that the government will

    deport them, a close friend,

    or family member[s].’

    when our

    Far Fucking

    Right OWNS AM

    Radio, & convinces Latinos

    to vote for a draft-dodging felon-

    ious Traitor to America, this should,

    really, come as no surprise. ‘Maybe next time’?

    oops!

    too ‘late’!

  11. Shorter @10: “I can’t find any local stories to rage about Slog not covering, so I’ll just randomly bring in some Portland shit!”

  12. @12

    it’s called

    flooding the

    Zone & its purpose

    is to drive away readers

    and comments. this is the ‘right’

    wing playbook personified by ol’ Sharpie

    taking a battle ax to The Stranger.

  13. @10 Holocaust denial and Antisemitism are hallmarks of the far right. I know this has been confused by people who want to pain any criticism of Israel’s far-right Likud government as Antisemitism, but actual Antisemitism is usually far right.

  14. @9, of all the bizarre decisions of the Zizian cult, the most inexplicable to me was Ms. LaSota naming herself after an obscure minor nickname, of a side character, of the great Wildbow web serial “Worm”. For anyone willing to read through a 6680 page ebook, there are many more fun and notable characters.

  16. @16

    Jews

    aren’t

    ‘getting it’

    Here at the Stranger

    regardless of our far Far

    ‘right’ propagandists demanding

    Otherwise; the latter’s Unrelenting Support

    for Israel’s Genocide and their Calls for an Unending

    supply of Weaponry to be rained down upon Palestine

    IS However, making it exceedingly Dangerous for Jews Everywhere.

    tho

    of Course

    they’ll Deny this

    and Twist facts to make

    the Opposite true. see: wormmy and

    his ai sokbott, the Dynomitiest Duo of AIPAC Defenders.

  20. @11 & @13, kristofarian and @12 boatgeek: Thanks for the warnings. I just scrolled past @9 & @10 anyway, knowing it was MAGA trolling.

    @18: Whatever were you doing in South Park, Calvin dear? Jeezus, stop chugging the KKKool-Aid!

    Wean yourself off cheap beer, pork rinds, and stale Twinkies, and add some fiber to your diet! Eat some fruit and veggies. Gas leaks and pipeline explosions are not funny.

    Seriously, dude—pull your head out and breathe, already, before you go over the side with the rest of the MAGA lemmings.

    @19 kristofarian: And without any natural resources but their own pompous, self-serving hot air.

  21. Happy Thanksgiving, all.

    It’s sad about South Park and the BP pipeline.

    @18: Calvin, I hope you knew I was just kidding (@21).

    I could not resist the barb.

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