This is what a partisan hit piece looks like. @KING5Seattle hopes to be Seattle's woke local news network. They frame news through race.
Despite Dems gerrymandering to gut almost every Republican district out of existence in WA, they focus on a complaint from one Dem activist.
The complaint is that one district map submitted by a Republican on the commission, @paulgraveswa, is racist for "cutting essentially Black and Brown neighborhoods out of the map."
Except all it does is make a previous district more diverse, which makes it more competitive.
Graves and the other Republican commissioner have tried to make almost all districts actually competitive. Democrats have said they want to do to the opposite. That's abuse -- the kind that progressives used to claim to be against.
WA is preparing to lose up to 5% of hospital staff next week (approx. 7500 people). One hospital will lose half its physical therapy dept. Services will be postponed.
The folks labeled heroes, working unvaccinated for 18 months, suddenly pose a COVID threat & must be fired.
I said this at the start, I'm willing to bet that Gov Inslee will rescind his order at the last minute and claim enough people were vaccinated.
He'll pretend he didn't force thousands into a decision they weren't ready for or wanted... all under threat of job loss.
One of the two hospitals in Grays Harbor County has already been forced to close an entire floor because of a lack of staff, according to Dr. Julie Buck, the Grays Harbor County Emergency Medical Services Program Director. -KIRO 7 TV
BREAKING: WA Dept of Children, Youth, & Families sent out a letter today to terminate unvaccinated workers. It says they will lose their jobs on October 18.
As of 9-20, the vaccination rate at @waDCYF’s main department office was only 50.21% (of 4,075).
As of that same date, they rejected most of the requested religious accommodations — they only deemed 87 of the 260 requests they reviewed (out of 318 total) coming from truly religious people.
They judged the rest as liars but are not qualified to do so.
At their Echo Glen, Green Hill, and Naselle locations, they’ve so far refused to accommodate any religious exemptions.
Roughly 70-75% of those employees were unvaccinated as of 09-20.
Here's a good example of bias from @NeilMacFarquhar in the NYT on the historic homicide spike: "The significant rise in homicides has roughly coincided with the 18 months of the Covid-19 pandemic."
No mention of the defund police movement, which also coincided with the surge.
He doesn't want you thinking Dems or BLM have anything to do with it.
Instead: "There is no simple explanation for the steep rise. A number of key factors are driving the violence, including the economic & social toll taken by the pandemic & a sharp increase in gun purchases."
But Neil will use *someone else* to bring up unnamed "social justice protests" as maybe having played a role.
He does, however, personally tie the spike to COVID and guns. Lost your job during COVID? Well, you apparently murdered people. Gangs? No direct mention either.