Under the new law, cops will not arrest patients seeking abortion care or the providers who treat them based on warrants from prohibition states. Sawant leads successful charge to protect abortion refugees and providers: After 5,500 people signed a petition backing the socialist city council member's legislation making Seattle a 'sanctuary city' for abortion rights, the city council approved the bill yesterday. Įxcuse me while I vomit in outrage: My body doesn't know how else to react to the headline 'Assault Weapons Makers Pulled In Over $1 Billion as Violence Surged, Report Says' in the New York Times. So maybe think on that the next time you consider backing a politician who wants to 'create accountability' by 'getting tough' on crime:Ģ8 women held at an Indiana jail are suing after guards gave the keys to their cells to incarcerated men in exchange for a $1000 bribe, allowing the men to rape and assault the women.

Your regular reminder that we're all complicit in these assaults: As voting-age citizens of the country with the world's highest per-capita incarceration rate, we all bear responsibility for the policy choices that made possible the sexual assault of more than two dozen women in state custody. But of course, the plan focuses entirely on adaptation and mitigation measures rather than on obvious proactive steps to avoid the risks in the first place. You know what would also be a great way to reduce wildfire risk? Building more dense housing in our urban areas so fewer people are forced to live in the wildland-urban interface. Zooming out for a second: This heat wave has experts at King County worried that we're insufficiently prepared for wildfires, particularly given the sprawl of our continued population growth out into the suburbs. None of us are in the mood for weather-related sarcasm!! Some of us moved from thousands of miles away to escape this kind of glaring, unmerciful solar radiation. Enough with the snark, David: Over at the Seattle Times, in his reporting on the hottest July 26 on record, David Gutman taunts those of us who are displeased with this sweltering heat in a land devoid of A/C (but with no shortage of heat-trapping concrete) by reminding us of the pleasantly chilly days of Seattle's spring-that-never-came.

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