Slog PM: It’s Seattle Audit Day; You Are Not a Horse, You Are Not a Cow; and Hey Kids, Jane Fonda Is Calling! – Slog

“Give me a sec, I have to call those kids in Idaho.” Photo by Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images

The Seattle Storm visited the White House today, where Biden said many nice things about her: The president called these hometown heroes and four-time WNBA champions the “force of change.” Trans youth and and and and

Breanna Stewart on the storm’s visit to the White House: “It was a special day for us.” Pic.twitter.com/Wh9k7MymEH
– Percy Allen (@percyallen) August 23, 2021

The Seattle Community Police Commission has canceled its upcoming mayoral debate because candidate mayoral and former council president Bruce Harrell declined her invitation to attend. We need to find another forum to discuss this suggestion from Bruce: “I want every sworn police officer in Seattle to watch the 8 minutes and 46 seconds of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis and to voluntarily sign an open letter saying: Inhuman treatment of fellow human beings is not tolerated in Seattle. “

Sponsored

We know this week feels like pumpkin season: But put your knitted sweater back in the closet; summer is not over yet. September can be full of surprises, do you remember?

Average high temperature in Seattle …

August 1st to 15th … 83.6 ° (5.0 ° above normal)
August 16-22 … 72.1 ° (5.3 ° below normal)

The cooler weather continues this week, with the possibility of showers on Thursday and Friday. At the weekend, the temperatures warm up again above normal. #wawx pic.twitter.com/zXv2VibrqR
– NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) August 23, 2021

The King County’s coroner’s office identified the three victims of the Tukwila apartment fire last week: Roberto Sellem, 41; Alixzandra Chalcraft, 22; and 3-year-old Elliott Chalcraft died of smoke inhalation. The cause of the fire is not clear.

Army weapons get the Jabby Jab: After the FDA Comirnaty fully approved the Pfizer vaccine, the U.S. military announced that all service members must receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The schedule for compulsory vaccination comes “in the coming days,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said this afternoon. The US Department of Defense, which claims to be the largest employer in the country *, reports 1,077,981 soldiers are currently fully vaccinated. (* Walmart is nearby.)

29 SPD employees have tested positive for coronavirus since August 4th. according to new data from the department. Perhaps the employees are experiencing breakthrough cases; maybe the staff are not vaccinated … hard to say …

In the meantime: “Mississippi health officials are asking residents not to use cattle and horse medicine as an alternative to the COVID-19 vaccine.”

You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, all of you. Stop it. https://t.co/TWb75xYEY4
– US FDA (@US_FDA) August 21, 2021

The children are our future and Jane Fonda paid for a group of Boise High School students to study climate change at Boise State University. BHS student Shiva Rajbhandari wrote a letter to Fonda asking if the celebrity could financially help a student attend the course. Surprisingly, Fonda called him and said she would sponsor the whole group – with one condition:

“That was the craziest” [Rajbhandari] said the statesman from Idaho. “Jane Fonda called me on my cell phone. She said, ‘I want to pay.’ “

However, it had one condition: the students had to do more than just learn about climate change. You had to act. She asked for a Greenpeace petition to be presented to Rep. Mike Simpson’s office urging the federal government to end fossil fuel subsidies.

“So I thought, ‘Well, let’s do this,'” said Rajbhandari. “We are professionals in organizing. Let’s do it. “

It took nearly 24 hours for the Portland Mayor’s office to respond to yesterday’s far-right rampage in downtown Portland. and his statement … um … is not that good.

Netflix’s live-action remake of the classic anime Cowboy Bebop will be released on November 19th: IGN has the first pictures from the series here. The pictures are multiple, but the original composer Yoko Kanno is making new music for this series, which gives us some hope.

Oh damn they gave cowboy bebop bisexual lighting https://t.co/BW8z9Y607E
– Bible Prophecy Updates (@noisepromoter) Aug 23, 2021

The leader of the Proud Boys, Henry Tarrio, has been sentenced to more than five months in prison Burning of a Black Lives Matter banner stolen from a black church during a pro-Trump rally in December.

After the terrible decision to hire Mike Richards to host Jeopardy and his humiliating fall from grace, until a permanent host can be chosen (AHEM, Levar Burton), the part-time employee Mayim Bialik will step in.

We know where we’ll be on Labor Day weekend …

Scarecrow has a parking lot sale! Saturday, September 4th from 12pm to 6pm. There are great deals on loads of books, posters, DVDs, Blu-rays, VHS tapes and laser discs – CHEAP! Do not miss. pic.twitter.com/uKQKcwiuo8
– ScarecrowVideo (@ScarecrowVideo) August 23, 2021

Also these:

The city of Seattle’s $ 3 million contract to launch the Black Brilliance Research Project has been legally awarded. Washington State Auditor Pat McCarthy’s office announced this afternoon, but (and it’s a big but) “the city has shown a minimum of accountability and transparency during the process”. The state auditor reviewed the contract as part of the city’s annual accountability audit.

The Black Brilliance Research Project, originally spearheaded by King County Equity Now but signed through the Freedom Project due to a 501 (c) (3) complication, resulted in a nearly 1,300-page report *: The report examined how Seattle can set up a participatory budgeting process to vote on spending priorities, as well as questions such as, “What creates real security in the community? What creates real health in the community? What do you need to be successful?” (* While the report is nearly 1,300 pages, “the vast majority of the report, more than 1,100 pages, consists of older publications or reports from subcontractors that are reprinted as attachments,” notes the Seattle Times.)

This pretentious hurricane is pulling back to sea: Where it belongs. No deaths were attributed to Hurricane Henri, NPR reports, but the big boy left state-declared disasters in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont and Connecticut. In Tennessee, the number of missing people has fluctuated after the historic flood.

Rudy Giuliani’s co-worker Igor Fruman will likely plead guilty In front of a federal court in Manhattan tomorrow for allegedly pouring foreign money “into the US election coffers,” CNN reports. Fruman originally pleaded not guilty. The core of it:

It is not clear whether Fruman’s confession of guilt will include a cooperation agreement. A Fruman’s attorney did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment.

Any assistance from Fruman to prosecutors could threaten Giuliani, whom the Manhattan prosecutors have been the subject of a separate ongoing criminal investigation for more than two years.

Giuliani has denied wrongdoing. A Giuliani attorney did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment on Monday.

Let’s end with a little Yellow Magic Orchestra: If you like YMO, cheer up: 2019 documentary No Smoking, a retrospective of YMO’s Haruomi Hosono, is currently streamed online as part of JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24bRSUEITXc