Tacoma special needs bus drivers keep calling out sick: Today is the third day that students with special needs were stranded without bus drivers. For the third day in a row, 22 Tacoma bus drivers called out sick. Itâs a protest for better work conditions and pay.
Referendum against the Safeco Field deal dies: King County voted to give the Mariners $135 million for stadium repairs to Safeco Field. Everyone was pissed because that moneyâwhich comes from the hotel-motel taxâcould be used for other things like housing and the arts and tourism in South Seattle. But, alas, those cries fell upon deaf ears. And then there was a glimmer of hope! A referendum was filed to put the issue on the next ballot. But! Thatâs dead now, too. There is no hope and probably no god.
King County projects a 60 percent voter turnout: So far, with the election just under a week away, there has been a 26.6 percent turnout in King County. Election officials expect this number to grow. At this point in 2014, the county had collected 212,728 ballots. Itâs at 411,360 ballots now in 2018, according to KING5. I donât know about you but Iâm fucking PUMPED to vote. I have my ballot in my backpack and will be dropping it off after work tonight right before I get on the light rail home.
See? Look!:
Ballots continue to roll in! As of this morning: about 411,000 ballots returned. For comparison, there were about 420,000 ballots returned at this point in the 2016 General Election. đ± Keep it up, King County! #Midterms2018 pic.twitter.com/bmG6Kbxg9S
â King Co Elections (@kcelections) October 31, 2018
Multiple Jeffs protest The Jeff outside of Jeffâs Balls: Protesters dressed as Jeff Bezos gathered outside of Amazon HQ today to protest Bezosâs continued relationship with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Amazon has many cloud computing contracts with Homeland Security. Most recently, Amazon tried to sell facial recognition software to ICE. The protesters are affiliated with Latinx rights groups Mijente and NWDC Resistance.
Tut, tut, looks like rain:
Moisture continues to stream our way from down near Hawaii! You might say the atmosphere over the eastern Pacific dressed up as a đ Express for #Halloween? #wawx pic.twitter.com/8LZ2AZcTHD
â NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) October 31, 2018
There are calls for a Yemen ceasefire: Mike Pompeo, our lovely Secretary of State, and his British counterpart, called for a ceasefire today in Yemen. Pompeo wants to end the three-and-a-half year man-made conflict and replace conflict with compromise.
Speaking of fires: Climate change is still bad!
Hundreds of cars â including Maseratis â went up in flames after sea water caused their batteries to explode, sending part of port of Savona ablaze. The vehicles were in port awaiting shipment. https://t.co/y9Ux1TVlBp pic.twitter.com/ef0rujfmxK
â ABC News (@ABC) October 31, 2018
Trump and Paul Ryan are in a tiff: Ryan, the retiring House Speaker, said that Trump canât do away with birthright citizenship with an executive order. Trump didnât like that. He added this issue to his portfolio a week before the midterm election and is now inciting fights within his own party over it. Ah, to be the leader of the free world.
Lime scooters or death traps? Apparently a model of Lime scooters has a small glitch where they BURST INTO FLAMES. Regardless, I still feel left out that we donât have the scooters in Seattle. Lime has pulled 2,000 of these scooters from LA streets.
Happy Halloween! What are you dressing up as? Iâm going as one half of the Mythbusters. Or, I will be if I can cobble a costume together in the time between writing this and night fall. Hereâs some of the costumes we saw on the internet:
A DMV worker rolled with the Zootopia punches :
Someone at the Utah DMV office dressed up as a sloth đđ #HappyHalloween2018 pic.twitter.com/g4ISBqeEr3
â SuccessIntheMakingâš (@XoPinkHellooX) October 31, 2018
Ted Cruz doesnât quite get the Zodiac Killer joke: If you donât get this one, people have been saying for years that Ted Cruz is probably the Zodiac Killer, the terrifying serial killer who wrecked Northern California in the '60s and '70s.
âHere is an amusing tweet that pokes fun at the fact that when people see my face they think about one of the creepiest serial killers in American historyâ https://t.co/HrcV2664yO
â Ike Barinholtz (@ikebarinholtz) October 31, 2018
Meanwhile we have mini-Beto: He would have my vote.
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â Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) October 31, 2018
This Slack costume will give anyone in the know nightmares:
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â Alex Octoberg đ (@aengelbro) October 31, 2018
Teresa Mosqueda is the Seattle City Councilmember of our dreams: Her office dressed up as the cast of Parks and Recreation.
Welcome to the greatest City Council Office ever! During this hectic budget season #TREATYOSELF @parksandrecnbc pic.twitter.com/Yv1iB8Sups
â Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda (@CMTMosqueda) October 31, 2018
This woman has our vote for best costume: Whoever you are, we are grateful for you.
Can you guess what my friend's costume is? A lot of people learned something new at work today.
Have you seen Cairo? Heâs a tabby and has black rings on his tail with a black tip. Heâs from the Central District and went missing near Cherry Fellowship Hall. He likes to jump up on his owners' backs when theyâre kneeling or squatting and climb onto their heads and hold on as if he's a helmet. He's not afraid of dogs or construction equipment and has a low and sort of odd meow as if he feels unwell or nauseous. If you see Cairo, or have taken him in by mistake, please contact Eve! Sheâs done everything (even hired a pet detective) to get Cairo (who her husband calls Captain for some reason) home!
Introducing Pet Watch: Youâve seen telephone polls and all those lost pet fliersâyou know there are too many missing pets these days. And what are pet owners to do about it? Easy. From now on, you, the owner, will submit your missing pet ad to Pet Watch at The Stranger (petwatch@thestranger.com) and we will find your pet for you for free.* All pets matter and all pets can be lost! Send us your lost pet ads! Let us help locate your lost loved one!
*we do not guarantee we will find your pet but we will do our best.