washington state
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A County Attorney in Washington Resigned Due to ‘Racially Motivated Attacks’
The more I hear about the Pacific Northwest, the more I’m good on ever checking it out. Everything I’ve been told by people who live in the region just makes it sound like white liberal hell. The fact that an elected prosecuting attorney in Washington state resigned from his job due to “racially motivated attacks”…
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Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best Resigning After City Council Approves Cutting Budget and Reducing Workforce
Seattle Chief of Police Carmen Best announced Monday that she would be resigning at the start of September, after the city council voted to trim the budget of the police department and reduce the workforce by up to 100 officers. According to CBS News, Best sent an email to the department saying her resignation will…
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Developmentally Disabled Man Awarded $8 Million After Found Living Alone With Hundreds of Rats
After his caretaker mother died about 20 years ago, Vernon Gray, a disabled man, was left living in an increasingly dilapidated home overrun by as many as 500 rats. Now the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services has agreed to pay the 64-year-old man $8 million for failing to check on him.…
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Washington State Bans Free Books to Prisoners for No Logical Reason
In a move that flies in the face of more than 45 years of practice with no incident, the Washington State Department of Corrections has moved forward with a policy denying books to prisons under the guise of safety. Book Riot reports that the Washington State DOC “quietly rolled out a new policy via a…
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Washington State Football Coach Tweets Fake Obama Video and Then Proves His Ignorance by Arguing About It
Mike Leach is the head coach of the Washington State football team. He also proved himself to be a fucking idiot after he tweeted out an obviously fake, conspiracy theorist video of former President Barack Obama under the guise of civil conversation: According to SB Nation, the video was spliced together from a European Union…
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Muslim Inmates Finally Granted Meals During Ramadan After Days With No Food
Inmates in Washington state have been losing more than 20 pounds each during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan because of prison policies, according to a lawsuit brought by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR contends that during Ramadan, prison officials are refusing to provide prisoners with food between sundown and sunrise, the only time…
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Dear Rachel Dolezal: Being a ‘Welfare Queen’ Actually Makes You White
Rachel Dolezal just can’t seem to keep her name out of the headlines. She probably doesn’t want to. She gained notoriety for pretending to be a black woman and serving as president of the Spokane, Wash., chapter of the NAACP. She has done interviews defending her lie and is even the subject of a Netflix…
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Anti-Fascists Out Wells Fargo Mortgage Consultant as Tiki-Torch-Toting White Supremacist
After receiving photographic evidence that one of its employees was affiliated with some of the most notorious hate groups and marched in Charlottesville, Va.’s Unite the Right rally in August, Wells Fargo announced that the man in question was no longer employed by the company, but that the company had had no idea he was…
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Washington State Changes 30-Year-Old Law That Only Convicted Killer Cops if They Were Evil … Wait, What?
Between 2005 and 2014, police in the state of Washington killed more than 200 of their fellow citizens. Some of the deaths were deemed “justifiable,” but many crossed the boundaries of what anyone would consider “reasonable.” There was a case where police shot a drunken man through his rear window and another where they shot…
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Washington State Takes Crucial Step Toward Abolishing the Death Penalty
The Washington state Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would ban the death penalty, leading the state one step closer to ending the practice for good. As the Seattle Times reports, the bill passed the Democratic-led Senate with bipartisan support. The measure would strike the death penalty from being considered as a sentencing option for…