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Amazon said its data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water worldwide last year, or about 5% of the amount metro Seattle consumes annually

Amazon said its global data-center operations withdrew about 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, as data center companies around the world face growing scrutiny over the environmental impact of artificial intelligence. The company disclosed the figure in a blog post Thursday outlining its water-efficiency efforts. Amazon said water use at sites it owns and …

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Seattle is opening $16k “tiny homes” to hide the homeless for the World Cup. Drug use WILL be allowed:

These $16,000 boxes built for junkies are already doomed to become ruins. Taxpayers foot the bill so tourists never see the real chaos Seattle created. So just to be clear… Seattle is going to concentrate addicts, criminals, drug dealers, untreated mental illness, into one taxpayer-funded zone… …what could possibly go wrong? — Matt Van Swol …

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Blazing Bagels chain collapses overnight in Seattle

🚨 SOCIALIST SEATTLE MAYOR CRIES as Largest Bagel Franchise OFFICIALLY Shuts Down For Good! 🔥 👉 After 25 years and serving over 7 million bagels, Blazing Bagels — Seattle’s iconic local chain with 5 locations — has collapsed. Employees were stunned when they received a sudden email Thursday night: effective immediately, all locations closed, no …

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Seattle mayor cheers Starbucks exit after pushing boycott then backpedals hard

Starbucks ships 100 million dollars and thousands of jobs straight to Tennessee… Mayor giggles bye on camera then scrambles once the tax money and payroll disappear… This mayor played tough girl against a giant company then cried when they actually left… Seattle's socialist mayor told residents to boycott Starbucks the day she got elected. When …

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Seattle mayor-elect Katie Wilson wants universal care, social housing, and community control of land.

DEVELOPING: Seattle mayor-elect Katie Wilson is going viral after announcing her wants: Wilson: “I want everyone… to have a roof over their head. I want universal child care, free K-8 summer care… I want social housing, I want much more land and wealth to be stewarded by communities instead of corporations…” I'm sure she has …

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Seattle elects its own ‘white female Mamdani’ as mayor…who’s a college drop out and still lives on her parents’ dime

Seattle has elected its first democratic socialist mayor, echoing the recent victory of Zohran Mamdani in New York City’s mayoral contest. Katie Wilson, 43, had a nearly 2,000-vote lead over incumbent Bruce Harrell as of Wednesday, making it impossible for him to close the gap with just over 1,300 remaining votes to be counted. Like …

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Seattle jail admits to hiring illegal migrants to guard citizens, will fight state ban to keep them.

BREAKING: Seattle jail admits to hiring illegal migrants to guard citizens, will fight state ban to keep them. — Leading Report (@LeadingReport) October 24, 2025 In a major escalation of the scandal reported exclusively by The Jason Rantz Show on Seattle Red 770 AM, the King County Department of Adult & Juvenile Detention (DAJD) has …

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Seattle Reeling Over Tech Layoffs, Especially Microsoft

Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk, Prospects dwindle for tech jobs. The Tech Layoff Tracker has a nice set of tools and charts that track layoffs. The latest layoffs across all tech companies. So far in 2025, there have been 533 layoffs at tech companies with 144,926 people impacted (549 people per day). In 2024, there were 1,115 layoffs at tech companies w/ 238,461 people impacted (653 people per …

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Renting now 38% cheaper than buying across all major U.S. cities with record gaps in San Francisco and Seattle

The latest housing data paints a sharp divide. In 2025, renting is now significantly cheaper than buying in every major metro. Bankrate clocked the gap at 38% nationwide. That spread is the widest recorded in the past two decades. Mortgage payments on a median-priced home run $2,768 a month, including taxes and insurance. The average …

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Seattle is confronting a funding shortfall of nearly $350,000 for its Pride Month events

Seattle Pride is confronting a substantial funding shortfall of nearly $350,000 for its Pride Month events, attributed to recent rollbacks in diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and political challenges facing the LGBTQIA2S+ community. https://t.co/N6G7WiSqcG — KOMO News (@komonews) April 27, 2025 MS-13 Added To LGBTQ Acronym https://t.co/v0qNg60VZu pic.twitter.com/O81L8q7lYP — The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 26, …

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A Japan Airlines jet has collided with parked Delta jet at Seattle Tacoma International Airport… ‘I’ve travelled in a lot of airports and never seen this.’

🚨#BREAKING: A Japan Airlines jet has collided with parked Delta jet at Seattle Tacoma International Airport ⁰⁰📌#Seattle | #Washington Watch as footage captures the moment a Japan Airlines jet collides with a parked Delta Air Lines aircraft at Seattle-Tacoma International… pic.twitter.com/qaoak9oT34 — R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) February 5, …

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Seattle will no longer dispatch police officers to alarm events without verification such as video footage

An operator is going to have to confirm there is an actual crime event taking place before dispatching police, starting October 1st. This is being done to cut down the amount of times an officer is dispatched when an alarm goes off and there is not an emergency and to increase surveILLance capabilities. https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/soon-seattle-police-wont-respond-alarm-calls-without-evidence-crime/GFFSN3VCQJCMRDIDSTACHLR6SU/

Downtown Seattle at night worse than ever

Thursday morning, City Attorney Ann Davison unveiled legislation to address the drug madness on some of Seattle’s most notorious streets. This is what 3rd Ave & Pike St looked like around 2am. It’s really do or die time for this city.

Homelessness is big business in Seattle

THE MORE MONEY YOU SPEND ON HOMELESSNESS, THE MORE OF IT YOU BUY:  “That’s the equivalent of spending… $1,137,256 per person to exit homelessness.” Despite spending over $1.1 million for each of the only 126 people who transitioned out of homelessness, Washington Democrat Governor Jay Inslee claimed that his initiative for removing encampments from state land and getting …

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Black students 4 grades behind Asians, Seattle Public Schools official calls gap acceptable and provides space for reflection

Seattle Public Schools official in 2021 stated that the significant achievement gap between black and Asian students should not be closed but rather seen as an opportunity for reflection and growth, despite the 3.5-grade-level difference between them in 8th grade. https://twitter.com/eyeslasho/status/1786757702611333545

Homeless in Seattle, billions spent and it only gets worse.

Democrats are playing a dangerous game with public health by objecting to drug contamination testing in homeless housing. It’s a baffling stance that could keep addicts in toxic conditions. Why? Because they falsely claim there’s no clear evidence that drug contamination is harmful. This head-scratcher of a policy comes as the county uses taxpayer dollars …

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Illegals take over Garfield Park in Seattle.

This is all being orchestrated by far-left activists with Stop The Sweeps Seattle and various "mutual aid" groups. They are the ones who guided the migrants to this location. pic.twitter.com/NKrl0dTO9i — Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) April 3, 2024

Seattle closes gifted and talented schools because they had too many white and Asian students

I thought Asians were a minority, and “people of color?” Many come from other countries….blacks are generally born in America…what gives? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13266205/Seattle-closes-gifted-talented-schools-racial-inequities.html “Seattle has shuttered its gifted and talented programs because the school board determined they had too many white and Asian students. The district began phasing out its Highly Capable Cohort schools and classrooms …

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