A little clarification here: This mailer from King County Executive Dow Constantine kinda sorta maybe makes it look like The Stranger endorsed him.

Hey Seattle, do you feel "gripped" with "angst?" The "more traditionally liberal Democrats who have dominated the city's politics for so long" think you do, or so they told some D.C.

journalist from The Hill who telephoned in to describe the state of Seattle politics.

The piece includes some empty nonsense from the likes of Seattle Chamber of Commerce President (and former Transportation Choices Coalition development director) Rachel Smith, but Seattle state Senator Reuven Carlyle really lays it on thick.

Hey, Seattle, are you hot.

90° in Seattle again.

— Seattle Weather Blog (@KSeattleWeather) July 30, 2021.

Public Health Seattle & King County recommends requiring vaccines for health care workers: King County health chief Dr.

Duchin laid down the directive today, according to the Seattle Times.

If you're looking for any more encouragement to mask up in public: The Delta variant is as "contagious as chickenpox" and "can be passed on even by vaccinated people." That's according to an internal document from the Centers from Disease Control, which also shows that "high viral loads suggest an increased risk of transmission," which raises concern that "unlike with other variants, vaccinated people infected with Delta can transmit the virus," according to Reuters.

That data about high viral loads comes from a new report out of Massachusetts, which showed that ~75% of a group of Ptown partiers infected with the Delta variant "had been fully vaccinated," according to the Washington Post.

Only a handful of people in the outbreak were hospitalized?

While the data suggests that vaccinated people can spread the disease, the extent to which they contribute is not yet clear.

A CDC internal document obtained by The Washington Post estimated that 35,000 vaccinated people a week in the United States are having symptomatic breakthrough infections, out of a vaccinated population of more than 162 million.

Hunter Biden doesn't care what you think about him selling his art: When “Nota Bene" podcast hosts asked Biden to respond to "the people accusing him of using the art to improperly enrich himself and his family," he said, "Fuck 'em," Politico reports.

That would be a lame duck President sort of casually asking the nation's top cop to overthrow the will of the people, which....should come with some kind of legal consequence, I'd hope.

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