Congratulations to the National Rifle Association on numerous mass shootings this weekend. The worst tragedy of the weekend was in Buffalo, where police arrested a man who livestreamed himself killing 10 people and wounding 3. He left an essay dripping in white supremacy that echoes many of Tucker Carlson’s talking points about “displacement;” he also appears to have experienced an exceedingly gentle arrest. Here is a list of ways you can help the community impacted.
Congrats to the next unionized Starbucks. Workers in Mesa, Arizona are the latest to unionize, and they surely won’t be the last. The vote was 25 to 3, and the labor-advocacy group More Perfect Union says they have audio that proves the company lied about the firing of one of the organizers in Buffalo. Meanwhile, Crossroads workers (whose union election starts today) say management threw out all their stuffed animals and birthday cards, which as.
There’s going to be a rally in support of unionizing Starbucks workers at 4:30 pm today outside the roastery at 1124 Pike St. Even if you can’t make it, here are some ways to support them. So, everything’s back to normal at local hospitals, right? Hahaha no, beds are pretty full and staff are pretty busy. Though infection rates are going down, now there’s a bunch of catching up to do on care that was.
So, about that train fiasco… Sound Transit has released a full accounting of what went wrong on November 26 when a train stopped in a tunnel and passengers were left to escape on their own with no information. The short version is that there were a bunch of failures: The trains weren’t tested with heavy post-game loads, the tracks had sticky-outy bits that Sound Transit knew were causing damage but didn’t fix, and staff didn’t.