Y’all scared Durkan: Basically since all the scary protesters took to the streets last summer, Mayor Jenny Durkan has taken threats very seriously with now over a year of round-the-clock security. Rich wrote about the cops guarding her house in January if you're curious. According to this new piece by the Seattle Times, since 2017, Durkan's received five separate death threats. Sometime after the first protest that passed her house in the summer of 2020,.
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Amazon has partnered with Virginia Mason to run a pop-up vaccination site at the Amazon Meeting Center in South Lake Union from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Sunday:Bless its heart.
President Biden (aaaaah), after sadly noting that the nation s COVID death toll will probably top 500,000 next month, announced his “full-scale wartime effort” plan to get the country s pandemic under control: The plan includes invoking the Defense Production Act, as well as asking for more workplace protections, requirements for masks on planes, trains, and buses, and quarantines for international travelers coming into the United States. It s a plan!
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Mikaele Andrew Baker dresses in their ‘antifascist catgirl’ persona An Antifa militant who publicized a hit list of Seattle business owners has been identified as a trans nonbinary furry and children s camp counselor who has been arrested multiple times at violent protests.
Mikaele Andrew Baker, 23, of Seattle, tweeted an extensive list of local business owners last week who signed a petition in support of the dismantling of a growing autonomous zone in Seattle s Capitol Hill neighborhood. The business owners were subsequently doxed and received threats.
Baker was born male but now identifies as trans nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns.
Congress is close to finalizing a year-end $900 billion stimulus deal: It looks like the compromise is expected provide a new round of [~$600] direct payments to millions of Americans as well as additional unemployment benefits [~$300/week], food assistance and rental aid. It would prop up sputtering businesses with federally backed loans and provide funding for schools, hospitals and the distribution of a just-approved vaccine, reports the
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has noted that Georgia incumbent senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are getting hammered in their runoff elections for not providing another round of stimulus checks. The PR of Trump signing new checks could help their reelection chances. (That said, early voting in GA has already kicked off.) Seattle s Rep. Pramila Jayapal, co-chair of the Progressive Caucus, has made her stance on a potential stimulus package clear: