Warren tells us how shes going to make her healthcare plan happen.
Warren tells us how she's going to make her health-care plan happen. DREW ANGERER / GETTY IMAGES

UW's illegitimate Republicans: The University of Washington College Republicans, the now-infamous group of students responsible for hosting events like the affirmative action bake sale or inviting Milo Yiannopoulos to speak on campus, have been declared illegitimate by state and national Republican leaders. The state federation had previously chastised the group for the aforementioned bake sale they held this year. The group will lose their official club status on Monday. They may have to re-register under a different club name if they want to keep the club alive. But they won't be a chapter of the College Republicans. Members are saying they are "under attack."

Truckers caused bridge collapse: The Washington Supreme Court has ruled that trucking companies are responsible in the 2013 I-5 Skagit Bridge collapse. The trucks did not adhere to state load sizes, and one trucker carrying a drill casing that was too high smacked right into the bridge. That, the state says, triggered the collapse that sent a car and pickup truck nose-first into the river below. The state is suing for $17 million.

The EPA is... helping the environment? Trump's Environmental Protection Agency isn't exactly known for its, uh, environmental protection. But as part of the National Estuary Program, the Puget Sound region will be receiving $27.5 million to help with conservation and recovery efforts.

Wait, lol, just kidding: The EPA is rolling back Obama-era regulations on coal plants that were meant to stop heavy metals from getting into the water supply. New rules expected to be released from the EPA soon will relax inspection requirements and shrug off clean technology implementation while exempting large swaths of power plants from the regulations altogether. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Totally normal. Cool.

Last night was Halloween: My house got a handful of trick-or-treaters, including the 8-year-olds who took basically all of my candy in massive grabby handfuls. Anyway, I thought I'd share some costumes I saw on social media that I liked. I will sprinkle them throughout the post. Starting with this one:

Aggressive noncompete agreements must be voided: By the coffee chain that issued them. Mercury Coffee made its employees sign noncompete agreements that forbade them from working for another coffee shop within 10 miles of a Mercury Coffee location for an 18-month period. The attorney general's office came after them and told the coffee shop to cut that shit out.

Cooke Aquaculture wants back in: The company, which farms non-native Alaskan salmon with in-water net pens, had a massive fish leak in 2017 that sent hundreds of thousands of foreign and potentially diseased fish pouring into Washington State waters. Since then, the state legislature has issued a gradual ban on farming non-native fish. Cooke Aquaculture, which still operates some Alaskan salmon farms, wants to pivot to native steelhead trout to stay in the game. Critics aren't so sure that's a good idea.

Happy No-Rain November: It's dry. I feel it in my perpetually chapped lips.

Elizabeth Warren has a Medicare for All plan: She finally released her road map on how to pay for single-payer health care in America. It will cost $20.5 trillion. This is the most complete attempt to answer the "how" to the attractive Medicaid for All idea. Liz would get the money from a variety of sources.

From Politico:

The plan relies on an expected mix of tax increases on the wealthy, deep cuts to military spending and payments to doctors, projected savings from a more streamlined national system, payments from employers who would no longer have to provide health care to their workers and — the heaviest lift — comprehensive immigration reform.

Halloween shooting in California: An Airbnb rental was the site of a deadly shooting in Orinda, California, last night. Four people were killed, four more were injured. Police are investigating.

Trump can't hang: New York has proven too tough for Donald Trump. He's moving his permanent residence from the Big Apple down to Palm Beach, Florida. That's where he'll go after his stint as president is over. He has attributed the move to the "bad treatment" city and state officials have shown him in New York.

Message in a bottle found: A researcher in Hawaii stumbled across a message in a bottle. It was sent by a North Bend, Washington, kindergarten class. In 1998. There was a picture of the class inside and a note where each of the kids asked the future bottle finder a question. One girl asked if the bottle finder liked cats.

A little Sounder conductor:

Hate to say "they told you so": But the Native people told you so. The Keystone Pipeline is leaking again. This time, the controversial pipeline has leaked 9,000 gallons of oil—its second major leak in two years. The spill has affected a wetlands area in northeastern North Dakota.

Bad news for the American men in your life: If you're American and male, I'm sorry, but your life expectancy is on the decline. For the third straight year, American male life expectancy is on a downward trend. It has gone down only four months since the latest data was available, but as of 2017, the average life expectancy is 76.1 years for men.

This might be the last costume: Turns out I didn't save that many cool Halloween costumes that I saw. All the best ones are just dogs or babies anyway.

Google knows what your pulse rate is now: Google just bought Fitbit for $2.1 billion. This is Google trying to expand into hardware and health products and services. Google ads are about to get way creepier!

A spooky fact for your Friday:

Woman finds tooth in her Chinese food, restaurant claims it's "from the onion": I mean, sounds far-fetched, but has she proven that it's not from the onion??

Someone get Kim Kardashian an Oscar: Wait, I can't tell is this Kim or the real Elle Woods???

This weekend's EverOut picks are: The Ballard Brewed Winter Beer Festival, Frankie Cosmos, and one last chance to check out the Georgetown Morgue haunted house. See more on our EverOut Things To Do calendar.