[Katie] Wilson stood in front of a makeshift podium for her first speech as the official Mayor Elect.
“Hello, Seattle,” she said. “I am so happy to be here on this quintessentially Seattle rainy day in November, to say to the people of Seattle: this is your city, and I am delighted to be your next mayor.”
She listed what she wanted to accomplish: universal child care, K-8 summer care, “world class” transit, safe public spaces, affordable housing, & social housing, to name a few.
Over the weekend, Steve Held, Unraveled Press reporter, was detained by agents while covering a protest outside of the facility. A Chicago-Sun Times reporter was also tear-gassed and pelted with “rubber projectiles”, according to the outlet.
Reporter Asal Rezaei, was attacked by an Ice agent who shot a pepper ball into her car from about 50ft away & was exposed to chemicals on her face. She said that after the incident, she was “puking for two hours”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/04/ice-chicago-extreme-force-protesters-journalists
Amy McGrath, a retired navy fighter pilot & former Senate candidate, described Hegseth’s comments about women as disparaging.
“He claimed the military needs to ‘return to the male standard’ in combat jobs (of 1990!), but here’s the truth: there has never been a separate male & female standard” she wrote. “When women entered combat roles, one standard was set, & we’ve been meeting it ever since. You can either do the job or you can’t. Period.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/01/pete-hegseth-generals-speech-veterans-react
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/30/diana_buttu
Well, this plan that has been put forward is certainly not a plan that is going to end the genocide. What they’re simply attempting to do is repackage it. And the reason that I say this is that what Israel wants is to be able to get the Israelis back, but there is no guarantee whatsoever that they’re going to stop the killing of Palestinians in any way, shape or form.
After a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump unveiled a 20-point peace plan for the Gaza Strip on Monday that aims to end Israel’s war on Gaza, free the remaining Israeli hostages and remove Hamas from power. Netanyahu expressed support for the deal, but he has already backed away from key elements, including a call for Israel to eventually pull its troops out of Gaza. Hamas has not responded yet to the deal. As part of his 20-point peace plan, Trump announced the establishment of an international transitional governing body called the “Board of Peace,” which Trump would head. Palestinian human rights attorney Diana Buttu says the deal is “certainly not a plan that is going to end the genocide. What they’re simply attempting to do is repackage it.” Buttu also notes that while Trump met with Netanyahu before announcing the plan, Palestinians were not consulted. Buttu asks, “Why is it that Palestinians have been forced to negotiate an end to their genocide?”
Between anti-immigrant zeal and a general disdain for any rules whatsoever, the Trump administration has shredded the constitutional order that makes government legitimate.
This is now a legitimacy crisis.
The Trump administration has aggressively rolled back efforts across the federal government to combat human trafficking, a Guardian investigation has found.
The sweeping retreat threatens to negate decades of progress in the drive to prevent sexual slavery, forced labor and child sexual exploitation…the administration’s moves are impeding efforts to prosecute perpetrators and protect survivors in the United States and around the world
On Sunday, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau expressed regret over the recent ICE raid that detained 300 South Korean workers at a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia.
On Friday, the South Korean workers landed in Seoul to cheering crowds at the airport, a week after being chained and handcuffed by ICE.
On Sunday, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau expressed regret over the recent ICE raid that detained 300 South Korean workers at a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia. Landau met with Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo in Seoul and discussed a new visa category for Korean professionals, according to the South Korean Foreign Ministry. On Friday, the South Korean workers landed in Seoul to cheering crowds at the airport, a week after being chained and handcuffed by ICE. In a post on social media, President Trump wrote, “I don’t want to frighten off or disincentivize investment.”
Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, has endorsed Zohran Mamdani in his run for mayor of New York City
Hochul said: “Since I took office, one of my foundational beliefs has been the importance of working with the mayor of New York City for the betterment of the 8.3 million residents we both represent. Tonight I am endorsing Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani.”
in the US, medical associations, local officials & individual doctors are collaborating to buy vaccines directly from manufacturers & lobbying insurance companies to continue covering the costs of those shots. Their efforts reflect a tried-and-true strategy to counter under-immunization. Before the current outbreak, Reagan-era cuts to public health caused a more widespread measles pandemic, with 27,000 cases in just 1990.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/12/trump-vaccines-measles
“Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, serving a 20-year sex-trafficking sentence meets for a second time with Donald Trump's criminal lawyer turned Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to see if the FBI and the Justice Department might have also needed her to commit suicide. Maxwell's lawyer, David Oscar Marcus, saying after the interrogations, Ghislaine Maxwell gave up 100 persons of interest.” -David Feldman
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/david-feldman-show/id321997239?i=1000719063480
