Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking Californians to take actions in their daily lives to help combat climate change — from composting to taking public transit to avoid driving.

Diagnosing 'Stage One Alzheimer's Disease' based solely on biomarkers is potentially dangerous to patients.

Sony Music Group is sending more than 700 letters to tech companies and music streaming services, calling on them to not use its music to train AI without authorization from the label.

Former President Trump is scheduled to headline fundraisers in San Francisco, Beverly Hills and Newport Beach next week after his felony convictions.

A new poll shows that California voters are increasingly moving to social media, such as TikTok, for election information.

X, formerly Twitter, released a formal global transparency report Wednesday for the first time since Musk took over the social media platform.

The locker sat empty in the happy clubhouse, its contents packed away and its occupant gone. Danny Espinosa has been a key contributor to the Nationals since his first promotion from the minor leagues late in the 2010 season. He has played 390 games for Washington, most of them at second base. But on Tuesday he was absent, a glaring void next to his normal spot alongside teammate Ian Desmond’s stall. Around the room loud music blasted from the stereo system after a thrilling 3-2 comeback win over the New York Mets on Tuesday night. Espinosa wasn’t there to enjoy it.

Nationals second baseman Danny Espinosa underwent MRIs on both his left shoulder and his right wrist on Wednesday.

KinectAir, an on-demand private air travel company, is now booking budget-friendly private planes.

California will ticket a driver for violating the rules of the road, but for driverless vehicles, there is reportedly no mechanism to ticket the person responsible because of a loophole in some jurisdictions.

The Washington Commanders owner lived a twisted version of every supporter’s dream, ascending the owner’s box only to discover he loved a thing he couldn’t fix, a thing that was actually worsened through his care.

Progressive newcomer Alexis Mercedes Rinck absolutely bodied Council appointee Tanya Woo in the August primary, scoring a cool 50.2% to Woo’s 38.4%. Rinck has every reason to measure drapes for the new office in City Hall she will probably move into, and it looks like the deep-pocketed outside spenders who got Woo’s buddies elected last year are counting her out too. Proportionally, Woo’s Independent Expenditure (IE) has spent 90% less this year than a similar IE did in her initial council bid. by Hannah Krieg

Progressive newcomer Alexis Mercedes Rinck absolutely bodied Council appointee Tanya Woo in the August primary, scoring a cool 50.2% to Woo’s 38.4%. Rinck has every reason to measure drapes for the new office in City Hall she will probably move into, and it looks like the deep-pocketed outside spenders who got Woo’s buddies elected last year are counting her out too. Proportionally, Woo’s Independent Expenditure (IE) has spent 90% less this year than a similar IE did in her initial council bid. 

Woo’s campaign has raised $453,000 from 7895 donors, averaging approximately $57 per contributor, according to the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission. Her contributors include the real estate industry, CEOs, lawyers, retirees, and some of the conservative council colleagues who appointed her such as Council Members Bob Kettle and Maritza Rivera.

But typically, big IEs spend an ungodly amount of money in the last few weeks of a race on mailers, TV ads, and other strategies to get their preferred candidate's name and face in front of voters before the election. Last year, IEs backed by business or labor or both spent $1.6 million across the seven City Council elections. The candidate with the most outside spending through IEs won in every race besides Woo's failed bid for District Two. Between her campaign and IEs, she outspent her opponent, incumbent Tammy Morales, two to one. 

But IEs don’t seem as interested in burying progressive competition with their cash this time around. 

Many of the same donors who backed Woo in 2023, funded the victorious conservative slate that appointed her, and the previous three mayors. They collectively contributed more than $130,000 to Woo through the Friends of Seattle. This includes the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, Seattle Hospitality for Progress PAC, R.C. Hedreen Company, Goodman Real Estate, and HomeStreet Bank. 

But they don’t seem to be trying as hard this go round. 

A 2023 IE, Friends of SE Seattle, spent $168,000 on her bid for the District 2 seat where she had to win over a majority of the 67,000 registered voters. That’s an investment of $2.50 a voter. Now, in 2024, for her citywide campaign, she’s trying to capture the majority of 485,000 voters. A $130,000 investment from the current IE shakes out to about a quarter spent per voter. That means IEs, who successfully bought every seat besides Woo’s last cycle, have spent 90% less on Woo than they did in her last election where she lost despite spending twice as much as her opponent.

This marks a shift in behavior from corporate donors when compared to the last time Seattle voted on citywide council seats in 2021. An IE called Change Seattle pooled $414,000 for Council President Sara Nelson’s bid for a citywide seat or about three times as much as they are spending on Woo. 

What does any of this mean? Well, it could mean those conservative donors are stretched thin funding the awful, Republican-backed Let’s Go Washington Initiatives, the Republican candidate for governor, or maybe even President Donald Trump’s third shot at the White House. Or, it could mean these corporate donors are saving up to support their darlings, Nelson, City Attorney Ann Davison, and Mayor Bruce Harrell, when they go up for re-election next year. 

Either way, progressives aren’t really beating conservatives at the fundraising game. Rinck's campaign has raised $460,790 from 8,637 contributors, averaging slightly more than $53 per contributor Her contributors include unions, labor organizers, every progressive politico you can think of, and politicians including King County Executive Dow Constantine, Woo’s old foe Morales, and many state lawmakers representing Seattle.

Rinck also found support in a new IE, Progressive People Power (P3), that spent more than $190,000 this cycle. P3’s donors include SEIU 775, which made up more than half of the pot, some other unions, several failed left-lane candidates, and King County Democrats Chair Carrie Barnes who gave more than $42,000 herself. Didn’t know you had it like that, Barnes!

But as P3 Board Chair Ry Armstrong said at a fundraiser last month, progressives don’t need as much money to win — their ideas are just better. A recent poll by the Northwest Progressive Institute found only 28% of respondents voted or will vote for Woo, while 52% voted or will vote for Rinck.

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— Hannah Krieg (@hannahkrieg) November 3, 2024

Seattle's only news roundup. by Charles Mudede

We wake up today with this certainty: None of it mattered. The secret documents, the sky-high covid deaths, January 6, racist statement after racist statement, the economic crash, the sexual assault allegations, the pussy grabbing, Moscow,  Roe v. Wade, the conviction, and what have you. All of it amounted to a hill of beans. And there will certainly be more outrages in years to come; and once again, they still will not matter one dot. If we, on the left, come to this understanding, we can move on by simply asking: What, then, does matter? What truly counts in American politics? What is its actual ground? This kind of clear thinking might prove to be invaluable.

We also have to accept the fact that California no longer represents the future of America. In the past it did, but not anymore. The future is now found in Texas. Elon Musk knew this. He relocated himself, Space X, and X to what has become our whole country: the Lone Star State.

Kamala Harris only won deep blue states: And Trump is going back to the White House because millions of people decided to "sit this one out." And the Senate returns to the GOP. As for the House, its final composition is yet to be known. Now, how are we to read all of this, and, particularly, the outcome of the presidential race? Well, Trump's first term in office is something like the first book in Octavia Butler's Parable series, Parable of the Sower, which was published in 1993 and features a Trump-like president who basically strips America of its economic assets. The second term will be like the second book, Parable of the Talents, which was published in 1998 and features an out-and-out Christofacist president who promises to “Make America Great Again.” Butler never completed the third book in the series.   

"Welcome to how our only world ends. It will be like this every summer: getting worse, and worse, and worse until there’s nothing worse left."https://t.co/vs5HAmUloY

— The Stranger ???? (@TheStranger) July 23, 2024

Florida and South Dakota gave abortion access the middle finger. But Arizona, Colorado, New York, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, and Nevada protected reproductive rights. However, with the Senate, and possibly the House, under GOP control, the whole states’ rights business might turn out to be worth no more than the salt you put in greens.

The Stranger Election Control Board had a good night. Alexis Mercedes Rinck is going to beat incumbent Tanya Woo for Seattle City Council Position 8. The same goes with Democratic Socialist Shaun Scott. He will certainly beat Andrea Suarez in the race to represent Washington’s 43rd Legislative District. And the man who did not catch the Green River Killer isn't going to Olympia. Bob Ferguson handily defeated Dave Reichert for the governor seat. Sen. Maria Cantwell gave her opponent nothing but the boot. And, altogether, it seems Washington became bluer, saner, a little world, a precious stone, set in the reddest of seas.   

Now that the whole country is basically Texas, Seattle might consider not staying in bed with conservative council members. Now is the time to get up and go hard to the left.   

Voters showed Washington State Ferries (WSF) some love this time: The Prohibit Carbon Tax Credit Trading initiative  went down in flames. This means WSF will get electric ships and some badly-needed government cheese. However, the Ensure Access to Natural Gas measure , which wants to decelerate Puget Sound Energy’s departure from carbon liberation and protec the buyers and sellers of natural gas statewide, left the gate in the lead: 51% to 48%.

Joe Kent is facing a second round of wound licking. His opponent in Washington's 3rd Congressional District race, Congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is, at this point, ahead by 4 points.

The sun will be out today. That's something.

A termite mound that's been around for something like 34,000 years was recently discovered in South Africa. Of course, termites haven't called this mound home for thousands of years. And this is a shame, because termites are really delicious. You catch them during the rainy season; this is when termites take to the sky with lots of fat in their bodies (they are trying to start a new colony—the circle life, that sort of thing). A little cooking oil and a few minutes on the burner turns these brown critters into a tasty snack.

Let us end with this scene from Downtown 81. Ronald Reagan is president. Hip-hop is emerging. And Jean-Michel Basquiat is getting his groove on in the ruins. What I want to point out is the way he moves. So smooth. So cold. So internal. This is being with others to be by yourself. This is exactly how I feel today. Dancing to the aftermath.    

A new collection of crochet thigh highs with vinyl top, by MusicLegs®.

Unstretch pothole size 14x14mm.

A new collection of wristband by Greenyarn®.

Besides being anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and anti-odor, Greenyarn wristbands absorb and emit far-infrared radiation to help in cell activation, promotes blood circulation and metabolism.

Stitched with fine gauge 200 needle count "3-D" knitting system, they contain a high percentage of Eco-fabric, a nano-technology material.

A new collection of knee guard by Greenyarn®.

Greenyarn knee guard helps to relieve joint pains, as they are known to reduce the arthritis and other joint pains significantly. Besides being anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and anti-odor, Greenyarn knee guard absorbs and emits far-infrared radiation to help in cell activation, promotes blood circulation and metabolism.

Stitched with fine gauge 200 needle count "3-D" knitting system, they contain a high percentage of Eco-fabric, a nano-technology material.

A new color added to the collection of yoga socks by Greenyarn®.

Greenyarn yoga socks helps to relieve joint pains, as they are known to reduce arthritis and other joint pains significantly. Besides being anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and anti-odor, Greenyarn yoga socks absorbs and emits far-infrared radiation to help in cell activation, promotes blood circulation and metabolism.

Stitched with fine gauge 200 needle count "3-D" knitting system, they contain a high percentage of Eco-fabric, a nano-technology material.

A new collection of garter belts from Elegant Moments®.

Vinyl garter belt.

Features:
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- Adjustable garter band on the back with snap-on clip.
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A new collection of g-string tongs from Elegant Moments®.

Tie side thong back.

Onesize (90 to 160 lbs, 41 to 73 Kg)

A new collection of garter belts from Elegant Moments®.

Satin garter belt.

Features:
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- Flower patterned lace on the lower side.
- Satin ribbon on the front.
- Adjustable garter band on the back with 3 levels of eyes and hooks.
- Four non-detactable, adjustable, elastic garter straps with plastic garter clips.

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A new collection of Eco-fabric Green Feet Insole from Greenyarn®.

The Greenyarn Greenfeet is the most advanced insoles in the world, using space age materials.

The perfect insole that admits air, drains moisture, and fights microbes. Durable enough for athletes, yet comfortable enough for daily wear.

Greenyarn uses two of the latest and most advanced materials in the world - Poliyou® and Eco-fabric®.

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Golden metallic shiny footless tights from Music Legs®. Pull on stretch leggings with no zip for a skin-tight fit and wet look.

Onesize (5'~5'10", 100~175lbs).

I started blogging in the late 90s and posted regularly for many years. But then a few years ago I decided it was too much work and moved that daily activity over to Google+. Which obviously wouldn't go anywhere ever. Poop. So now it's gone and I'm restarting my blog. I looked around for some OG bloggers from the 90s and early 2000s. And found..... only Kottke???

15 minutes of Yo-Yo Ma sitting by a river in the Great Smokey Mountains, playing Bach. That's it. That's the post. Previously.

Panhandle Door Inc. started 25 years ago as a small mom-and-pop cabinet business in Naples, Idaho, about 6 miles south of Bonners Ferry in Boundary County…

Crammed in a narrow canyon of North Idaho's Silver Valley, in perhaps one of the most inconvenient but also beautiful places for a hub of human habitation, are the rusted remains of a once-lively mountain mine town…

The first time that pianist Sara Davis Buechner felt what she calls "the real spiritual power" of George Gershwin's music, she was 23 and building a reputation for virtuoso playing on the international concert circuit…

Allan didn't know it was fentanyl…

In Spokane County, a single person died of a fentanyl-related overdose in 2018, according to official records…

The Great Hall of St. John's Cathedral was abuzz on a recent Monday evening, as musicians chatted, arranged their music stands just so and tuned their instruments in a pleasant cacophony…

State Rep. Jenny Graham (R-Spokane) called me on my cellphone the day the Inlander published my story about her unwittingly linking to conspiracy theory posts on Facebook. I called her back immediately — while she was still leaving a voicemail — and was greeted with two blasts of profanity. "You cocksucker!…

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Sharing details about the alleged incident, the reality TV star says, 'People were interested in putting me down, dragging me down and showing me who is the queen bee.'

A new promo for 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' also sees Khloe Kardashian considering to follow in Kim's steps by having a baby No. 2 with Tristan Thompson via surrogate.

In the music video, the 'Girls Trip' actress joins the 'Paranoid' rapper to celebrate her freedom after not getting any love in return from her male love interest.

The 'We Got Love' singer refuses to make new music at G.O.O.D Music because she felt 'underappreciated' at the record label owned by the 'Gold Digger' rapper.

The 'Deepwater Horizon' actress has decided to sever ties with a Taiwanese company after a number of employees accused bosses of sexual and physical abuses.

Getting serious about prepping for her future family with boyfriend Common, the former 'Kids Say the Darndest Things' host says that she is currently enrolled in parenting classes.

The 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' co-stars exchange insults on Twitter after Kenya makes a shady comment about Drew's financial state and even calls her 'broke b***h.'

The 'Pirates of the Caribbean' actor is selling the love poem he wrote for former fiancee as a non-fungible token in an auction with a portion of the proceeds going to charity.

The 'Power' co-creator and producer announces on his Instagram and Twitter account that he now lives in the Texas city while teasing his new crime anthology series.

The 'Girls Trip' actress, who is planning to become an adoptive mother, admits the online sessions she had taken have really opened her eyes to the pitfalls of motherhood.

The 'Deepwater Horizon' actress has decided to sever ties with a Taiwanese company after a number of employees accused bosses of sexual and physical abuses.

While words have spread that the studio is developing another Captain America movie with Malcolm Spellman as the screenwriter, Mackie reveals he first learned of the news from a stranger in a grocery store.

The 'Justice League' director plans to host a viewing party for 'Man of Steel', 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice', and 'Justice League' to raise money for good cause.

The 'Green Lantern' actor puts together his reactions to fans' speculation that he will be taking on the role in the sequel and his cellular service provider Mint Mobile beating out its competitors in one tweet.

On the 'Life is Short with Justin Long' podcast, the 'Army of the Dead' director additionally suggests that Aaron Sorkin could write the script and Mark Ruffalo would play John 'D.J.' Des Jardin.

The '12 Years a Slave' actress says the sudden passing of her co-star is 'still extremely raw' for her and she can't imagine returning to the movie set without him.