Truly the scariest Halloween costume.
Truly the scariest Halloween costume. ALEX WONG / STAFF

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. It’s 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 money—which comes from the hotel-motel tax—could 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! That’s 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. It’s at 411,360 ballots now in 2018, according to KING5. I don’t know about you but I’m 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!:


Multiple Jeffs protest The Jeff outside of Jeff’s Balls: Protesters dressed as Jeff Bezos gathered outside of Amazon HQ today to protest Bezos’s 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:


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!


Trump and Paul Ryan are in a tiff: Ryan, the retiring House Speaker, said that Trump can’t do away with birthright citizenship with an executive order. Trump didn’t 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 don’t have the scooters in Seattle. Lime has pulled 2,000 of these scooters from LA streets.

Happy Halloween! What are you dressing up as? I’m 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. Here’s some of the costumes we saw on the internet:

A DMV worker rolled with the Zootopia punches :


Ted Cruz doesn’t quite get the Zodiac Killer joke: If you don’t 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.


Meanwhile we have mini-Beto: He would have my vote.


This Slack costume will give anyone in the know nightmares:


Teresa Mosqueda is the Seattle City Councilmember of our dreams: Her office dressed up as the cast of Parks and Recreation.


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? He’s a tabby and has black rings on his tail with a black tip. He’s from the Central District and went missing near Cherry Fellowship Hall. He likes to jump up on his owners' backs when they’re 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! She’s done everything (even hired a pet detective) to get Cairo (who her husband calls Captain for some reason) home!

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One tip of his ear is missing! Have you seen Cairo??
One tip of his ear is missing! Have you seen Cairo??

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