They county basically pinky-promised not to do any of that shit anymore.
The county basically pinky-promised not to do any of that shit anymore. MIVPIV/GETTY

King County has been sharing inmate information with ICE: This despite a law passed by the King County Council in 2018 that prohibited sharing personal information with immigration officials without a warrant. ICE has peeped at an online inmate database more than 1,000 times. They could see everything from photos and addresses to aliases and physical descriptions. The sheriff's department even willfully handed over two dozen unredacted case files to ICE.

Fifth homicide in North Seattle: A 27-year-old man was shot in Licton Springs on Tuesday night. He died. It's the fifth homicide in North Seattle so far this year.

Japan city's wild deer are dying: From plastic. The city of Nara is well-known for its wild deer population. I know this because I have Instagram and am subjected to happy tourist pictures of Nara's deer annually. It's fine. I'm not bitter. Also, this isn't about me. It's about the deer. WHO ARE DYING because they are INGESTING PLASTIC BAGS. Damn it. Nine of 14 dead Nara deer SINCE MARCH had plastic products in their stomachs.

Eat some roasted pig in a parking lot this weekend: Canlis, Seattle's (probably) fanciest restaurant, is bringing its service to you, the people who can't typically afford it. This weekend, Canlis is hosting a summer party in their parking lot. It's a luau complete with a pig roast. In the parking lot. The Seattle Times article about the event says that the goal is to "attract a younger, hipper crowd." There will be no parking so walk or rideshare, Canlis says. I guess those are the only options.

There they go: Mountain goats took to the skies on Tuesday. They were relocated from Olympic National Park to the Cascades because they threaten native species and their salt craving goes unsatisfied, so they have to slurp up human piss all the time. They can get natural salt in the Cascades.

Federal Way gets some federal cheddar: Sound Transit's Federal Way extension is getting $100 million from the Federal Transit Administration. The project is expected to be completed by 2024, and this $100 million is a good sign that it will get the full $790 million of a funding grant agreement later this year. I love building transit with daddy's money.

Good news for Wheel of Fortune diehards: I'd make a joke about my dead grandma, but she didn't fuck with Wheel of Fortune. She was a Jeopardy! bitch through and through. Either way, I'd still love to meet Pat Sajak and his alabaster white teeth one day. We might all get to if we make it through the Wheel auditions that are coming to Tacoma's Emerald Queen Casino I-5 showroom on July 17–18.

It's wet out there: This amount of rain won't keep up all night. I hate to be one of those Seattleites, but I'm writing this on the couch next to an open window and the sound of falling rain is getting me, man.

The US Women's National Team's victory parade is this morning: New York City better turn out en masse to support our ladies new presidents.

Four white high-school students pull "senior prank" that's actually a fucking hate crime: This shit, unfortunately, happens all the time. It happened at my high school, but not to this degree. On the last day of school in 2018, Glenelg High School in Maryland was littered with racist and homophobic slurs and desecrated with penises and swastikas. It's a long read, but it's worth it.

Tech companies want to disrupt blue-collar work: And it might be in a good way. Microsoft is already making leaps and bounds. Microsoft's Hololens can train "frontline" workers. The high-tech headset can scan barcodes, show visuals like arrows and how-tos on the job with its augmented reality features, and more. That will take some time to roll out. In the meantime, Microsoft has made a version of its messaging app, Microsoft Teams, for frontline workers specifically. Other companies like Google and Salesforce are looking to break into the market as well. Who needs robots when you can automate the humans, right?

Epstein faces another accuser: Jeffrey Epstein, the hedge-fund investor who Donald Trump once called "a terrific guy," is accused of having a network of underage girls that he paid to give him massages and perform sexual acts with him. Another woman has stepped forward with her story about how Epstein started grooming her, paying her, and assaulting her when she was 14 years old. He raped her when she was 15, she told the Today show.

Trump threw a party for just himself and Epstein at Mar-a-Lago once: In 1992, Trump requested that his associate George Houraney arrange girls to come to Mar-a-Lago for a "calendar girl" competition. Houraney got 28 girls to come to the party before he knew Trump and Epstein would be the only attendees. According to Business Insider, he recalled telling Trump, "Look, Donald, I know Jeff really well, I can't have him going after younger girls."

This suspect nearly squeaked by: But he was sniffed out. Authorities in Missouri were searching for a suspect wanted for possession of a controlled substance. He was so close to getting away when he let one rip. His toot wasn't silent-but-deadly as he probably thought, but a fart loud enough to alert the pursuers to his whereabouts. He was arrested.

The future we deserve: I guess we know what we have to do to avoid facial recognition technology.

Tonight's best Seattle entertainment options include: Opening night of Christine Deavel and J.W. Marshall's Vicinity/Memoryall: A Play, and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial in Concert.