This cat could be next.
This cat could be next. NiseriN / Getty Images

Portland police under review for Patriot Prayer protest response: Counter protesters clashed with the far-right activists in Portland on Saturday. Police response seemed more focused on the counter protesters. The line between allowing free speech to persist and intervening when things become violent is becoming blurrier and blurrier. However, the police’s use-of-force seemed unequal, local media and local chapters such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations said. Side note: did you know Portland’s police chief’s name is Danielle Outlaw? Her last name is Outlaw. I found that cool. She's ordered a review of her officers' conduct.

No reprieve for agricultural labor shortage in Washington: That’s because the solution to allow immigrants to receive temporary visas to work on Washington farms is fucked up. It would give workers temporary legal status but require them to leave the country for 60 day periods so they don’t “get settled”—god forbid. The bill wasn’t voted on in the summer legislative session despite plans to do so in July. It may be tough to get a vote in the fall session with the November election looming. Washington fruit farmers are desperate for tens of thousands of workers if anyone reading this needs a job.

Cat killer on the loose: Seven cats in Washington state have turned up dead and brutally mutilated. Someone is nabbing cats, slicing them open, and displaying them in public places for people to find. An animal cruelty services investigator is on the case. She’s like a homicide detective for animals, a real Ace Ventura meets Gil Grissom. (Those are both dated references.) These mutilations have been happening around Olympia and larger Thurston County. Anyone ever read Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami? This reminds me of that book, in case you were thirsting for another reference.

Whoever said the heat was gone is a dirty liar: We’re going to break 90 again this week. No fires, please. We’ll get enough smoke in our air from other fires this week.

But did you get a load of that sunset last night?


After prompting, Amazon removes white supremacist items: Swastika pendants, baby onesies with burning cross logos, and whatever other Nazi-themed goods were all available on Amazon dot com. It took complaints from advocacy groups to get Amazon to take down the products and potentially ban the sellers. Amazon executives will say that they were in the process of doing this on their own. Amazon executives are full of shit.

A hydroplane flipped during the Seafair final: Poor Oberto.

Check out this viral video from this weekend:


More on the violinist: His name is Wuilly Arteaga and he’s famous for playing his violin in the middle of violent protests against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. He was jailed and tortured for protesting, and then moved to New York City.

An attack was made on President Maduro’s life this weekend: During a speech and a parade, an assassination attempt via drone was executed. After the first blast, the president was surrounded by his guards. Then, a second blast sounded. The TV feed did not cut to black. It filmed the chaos. The national guardsmen who were performing in the parade fled, abandoning the president. According to the government, “six terrorists and a hit man” were arrested, reports the New York Times.

MoviePass tries to stay alive: The Golden Age of MoviePass is dead and gone. In an effort to stay alive, the movie subscription service toyed with the idea of a price hike. To customers’ dissatisfaction, the service was going to up the price from $9.95 to $14.95 a month. But, after complaints, a different solution was found—customers can only see three movies a month now. We tasted Eden and, yet again, it was yanked away from us. How is the fall from grace this time, society?

Donald Trump changes his story about that Trump Tower Russia meeting: The president has changed his tune about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with his campaign aides and a Kremlin-connected lawyer. It turns out it wasn’t a meeting about adopting Russian children, Trump’s original explanation for the meeting, but a concerted effort to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. That’s illegal!

Volcanic eruptions with a side of hurricane in Hawaii: Hurricane Hector could make landfall in Hawaii in the middle of this week. If it does, it will likely directly hit the Kilauea volcano, which has been spitting out lava since May. Nobody is too sure about what will happen if that goes down.

Apple shuts down Infowars podcasts: In the largest action taken by a technology site to remove conspiratorial news content, Apple has removed the entire library of five of Infowars six podcasts from its apps. Facebook and Spotify have followed suit. Apple says Infowars—and its founder, Alex Jones—violates its hate speech guidelines.

Is this headline suggestive to anyone else? Mariners hoping Kyle Seager has found his missing stroke. It looks like the Seattle Times has changed the headline since I first saw it at 5:30 a.m. this morning, but you can still see the original one in the url.

Amish man launches Uber service: He’s using his horse and buggy. Uber is so hot right now that the Amish are getting in on the game. In Colon, Michigan you can take a ride in Timothy Hochstedler's buggy, but not with an app. You’ve got to flag him down. I guess this is really just a taxi service but let's go with Uber.

Tonight's best Seattle entertainment options include: A grilled rib feast at Delancey's St. Louis Style BBQ, a reading with Iraqi American poet Dunya Mikhail (who will share her latest piece of nonfiction about women who survived and escaped ISIS), and a breakdown of cured meat, smoked fish, and pickled eggs with food writer and preservation expert Karen Solomon.