This doesnt have to be you anymore. Not until next year.
This doesn't have to be you anymore. Not until next year. tommaso79/ Getty Images

Wave goodbye to the heat wave: The National Weather Service, known for its accuracy (and sense of humor), is saying that we’ve made it through the gauntlet—the worst of the heat is over for this year in Seattle. Nothing can feel as hot as the stifling July heat because, from now on, the days will be shorter and sunlight is going to strike Earth at a lower angle. Expect a cooler week, especially on Thursday, when a delicious marine layer of clouds will plant itself over us. Smother me, marine layer. Smother me.


Washington wildfires are wildin’: Governor Jay Inslee has declared a state of emergency in the entire state of Washington. There are already several fires burning here, but everything is hot and dry statewide. This move means the Washington National Guard can help out now.


Spokane GOP praises James Allsup at event, denies it after backlash: You remember James Allsup? He attended the alt-right rally in Charlottesville last summer and I spoke with him during the UW Patriot Prayer this February. Spokane GOP Chair Cecily Wright invited him to an event in July called “Label Lynching.” Essentially, she defended Allsup and said he had “been lynched by the media.” She had a whole slide show about it. She thanked him for being there and said she admired him. After the fact, and after the backlash, Wright denied these things. Too bad they’re on video.

Deal reached for $200 million Hanford cleanup: That’s what it will take to finish the eight-mile groundwater restoration at the site. This section of the Hanford site cleanup, near the Columbia River, has been under way since the 1990s. The cleanup as a whole is much larger (we’re talking 586 square miles and billions of dollars).

Bellevue grants its residents a downtown bike lane—maybe: The three-quarters-of-a-mile bike lanes are the first spanning the length of the downtown corridor. The city celebrated. But the lanes may not be permanent. Bellevue is testing them and may take them away depending on the results of “vehicle-travel delays, traffic volume, on-street parking, and the number of bicycle trips,” reports the Seattle Times. Let them have bike lanes!

There might be a parasite in your Trader Joe’s wrap: It may also be found in any salad and wrap product sold at Kroger and Walgreens—wait, people buy wraps at Walgreens? Well, they should stop while the Cyclospora infection is afoot. It’s infecting beef, pork, and poultry. Unrelated but equally tragic, Heinz has recalled its Taco Bell Salsa con Queso mild cheese dip.

Sodo’s two-mile stretch of murals is the longest in the world: There are more than 50 murals in the contiguous street art corridor. The work is from 62 artists who hail from right here in Seattle to all over the world. All the murals follow the theme “Motion, Speed, and Progress.” It’s one of the coolest stretches of the light rail route and it can be seen on the light rail and certain bus routes. It's the longest of its kind in the world.

Boeing is going to college: Freshman year is tough, so maybe we should give Boeing some pointers before its move into a lab space at MIT. The space, 100,000 square feet, is a bit larger than your typical dorm room. There, Boeing is committing to research on the autonomous aircraft. Move in is at the end of 2020.

Let’s all go here: Who’s booking our tickets?


This was the solution to stopping the Mueller investigation all along: Finally, Trump nailed it.


Did a child die in a Texas detention center? Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent out a tweet that said no and that those claims were false. However, an immigration lawyer was alerted by an attorney who was friends with the alleged victim’s family. According to her, a child died in the Dilley facility from a respiratory infection.


Facebook identifies digital influence campaign to disrupt the midterms: The company found and removed 32 accounts that were fake and revolved around social issues. There isn’t enough definitive information to say whether Russia was behind these accounts, but there are strong links to the Internet Research Agency, or, the Kremlin-linked group at the center of the indictment this year. The campaign Facebook uncovered was meant to meddle in the midterm elections this November.

A plane carrying 103 people crashed in Mexico: Don’t worry, everyone survived. The plane was hit by a sudden gust of wind and it caused a sudden descent, BBC reports. The left wing broke off and then both of its engines followed suit. No one died, but 97 people are injured.

Chinese crime author tackled writer’s block by actually committing murders: He and an accomplice killed four people two decades ago. He used the experience as writing fodder. Who can blame him, really? Writing is hard. But he was sentenced to death for murder. What’s the real crime here? Lying to his audience about what was real or the murders? Funny enough, this was the same plot as a community theater murder mystery I saw in Greenwood for my birthday.

Tonight's best Seattle entertainment options include: A reading with futurist short fiction writer Brenda Cooper, an all-ages show with R&B icon Freddie Jackson, and the Can Can/Prom Queen collaboration about the life of Mata Hari, Femme Fatale.

Now, what you're eating for breakfast:

Breakfast didn't pan out as Nicole wanted it to. Water will be cool, she says.

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Tonio: "Berry delicious." Then he wrote *dabs* because he was proud of his joke.

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Ellis starts the day off right.

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