Murrays address will begin at 9:30 a.m.
Murray's address will begin at 9:30 a.m. HG

The State of the City: Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and City Council President Bruce Harrell will hold the address at Idris Mosque in North Seattle at 9:30 a.m. "We're doing this to send a message of resolve and inclusion," Murray said in a video statement. "As the Trump administration targets the Muslim community through an unlawful travel ban, we are taking a different path as a welcoming city. We've experienced shameful, state-sanctioned discrimination of an entire people before and we're not going back." Follow Stranger reporter Heidi Groover on Twitter for live updates from the event. The address will also be live-streamed on the Seattle Channel and Murray's Facebook page.

"Not Going Back" to What? To incarcerating thousands of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans at internment camps, as mandated by Executive Order 9066 75 years ago. The racist executive order tore apart Puget Sound's Japanese business community, including a robust farming industry. The infamous order was openly supported by Bellevue businessman Miller Freeman, grandfather of NIMBY developer Kemper Freeman, writes Alia Marsha for The Seattle Globalist. Go read Marsha's whole story in which she documents the Ito family's history.

Speaking of Which: Go watch Lauren Frohne's gorgeous video about Lincoln "Linc" Beppu's family and their fishing supply store, Linc's Tackle, which will close next month after nearly 70 years of serving the Seattle community. Beppu was one of many Japanese Americans who was incarcerated as a result of executive order 9066. Check out the video, below:

Somali Refugee Struggles to Reunite with Family in Seattle: Mohamed Rashid Mohamed has lived in a Kenyan refugee camp for nearly 30 years. His biggest hurdle: Trump's travel ban. He tells KUOW: “They were vetting us extremely and now we have suffered under the Trump administration. ... We are asking the government of USA to be very kind for us. We are refugees who are peace loving, who have been in this camp for 26 years.”

A Very Seattle Idea: For President's Day, Justin Carder of Capitol Hill Seattle made a modest proposal: Rename Jackson Street...Jackson Street. The current street is named after Andrew Jackson, the slave-holding seventh U.S. president, who spearheaded the Trail of Tears. (Trump is, apparently, a huge fanboy.) Similar moves have been made before, Carder wrote. So why not rename the street after Joe Jackson, the first president of Seattle's Urban League?

The "Kennewick Man" Is Finally Laid to Rest: After 20 years of fighting with the federal government, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation were able to bury the remains of the Ancient One, a 8,400 year old skeleton. He was buried at an undisclosed location over the weekend, KOMO reports.

Representatives of the Umatilla, Yakama, Nez Perce and Colville tribes and the Wanapum Band met at the University of Washington's Burke Museum in Seattle on Friday to claim the remains of Kennewick Man stored there by the Army Corps of Engineers.

"This is a big day and our people have come to witness and honor our ancestor," said Armand Minthorn, of the Umatilla tribal board. "We continue to practice our beliefs and laws as our creator has given us since time immemorial."

A Woman Was Found Dead in her Mill Creek Apartment This Morning: She was fatally stabbed. Her husband, who was found "bleeding from a laceration on his hand in the parking lot", was taken into police custody, KING 5 reports.

A Reminder: Toxic masculinity kills.

Jewish Community Centers Across the Country Received Bomb Threats: From NPR: "In total, there have been 69 threats at 54 JCCs, in 27 states, the [JCC Association of North America] reports — including previous threats on Jan. 9, 18 and 31, as well as 11 threats by telephone on Monday." In Missouri, "dozens of headstones" were vandalized and toppled at a 100-year-old Jewish cemetery, St. Louis Public Radio reports.


Wondering What Italians Think of Trump? Look no further than "Bang Bang," a float designed for a parade in Viareggio, Italy in the video, below. Yes, that is a (stereotypical) indigenous person in a cage and bullseyes on caricatures of Black and Latinx people.