Sweet Seven Sacks
09.02.2026 03:00
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Sweet Seven Sacks
Something positive in the media world - Washington State University and Report for America have launched a partnership aimed at placing a reporter in every single one of the state's 39 counties: www.reportforamerica.org/2026/02/04/w...
A civic crisis: "The Metro section will be restructured, ensuring a "healthy presence for local subscribers," he said. According to a Metro staffer who was just laid off, there will be about a dozen people left on the desk. That's down from more than 40." -- www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...
I thought the LAT layoffs were brutal but WaPo layoffs take the cake
JESUS CHRIST.
Not for nothing, but it was a Washington Post article about romance fiction that pushed Jacob Tierney to contact Rachel Reid about making #HeatedRivalry.
sports coverage is not about box scores anymore. it's about power and politics and corruption and sovereign wealth and real estate and the use of taxpayer money and the most publicized labor disputes in the country and yes, sometimes about ball go in hoop
10/10 no notes needed
Climbing into the car felt too personal. Like walking into a person’s bedroom, Shoreline resident Chris Megargee said. The detritus of fatherhood was everywhere: scattered toys and a neatly packed bag of apple slices, crackers and a juice box on the passenger seat. On the floor was a bag of tamales Ivan Guzman, a local cook, had just bought for that day’s lunch, still warm. “I’m a dad. It was the stuff of family life. Of a dad,” Megargee, a local activist, said. “He should still be in the car.” Megargee was tasked with driving Guzman’s car to his workplace after federal agents detained him about 8:30 a.m. Sunday. Guzman was driving his son to day care before work when four unmarked vehicles surrounded his car, blocking two lanes of Aurora Avenue near North 163rd Street. Masked and armed federal agents emerged and arrested Guzman. They left his 2-year-old son sitting alone in the back seat for about 40 minutes, eyewitnesses said. The arrest quickly drew concern from community members and passersby. Five days before, ICE agents detained a 5-year-old boy in Minnesota. A photo of him went viral, showing his scared eyes staring out under the brim of a blue, bunny-ear hat while an agent held onto the back of his Spiderman backpack.
Federal immigration agents detained a man in Shoreline, leaving his 2-year-old son sitting alone in the back seat for about 40 minutes. Here's what the activists saw:
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Cal Anderson Park tonight
a message from the longshoremen in oakland
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Finding it incredibly depressing that we have to beg the world’s fourth richest person to spare up some change to save the sports and foreign desk at the nation’s second/third biggest paper
Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
The StarTribune live blog is paywall free:
- The man shot by federal agents this morning has died
- Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building.
- ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
BREAKING: San Francisco Giants star Jung Hoo Lee has been detained by CBP at LAX. Pelosi's office says she is working to secure his release. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...
Local authorities have cordoned off a parking lot here at Adventist Health in Portland, right by where federal agents with U.S Customs and Border Protection reportedly shot and injured two people Thursday afternoon. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Can today just like stop
confirmed katu.com/news/local/i...
We are working to update this story as soon as possible, but here is the info we have:
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/01/portland-police-responding-to-report-of-shooting-by-federal-immigration-agent.html
Rally against ICE in downtown Seattle:
Verónica García is a transgender athlete who won the girls high school 400-meter championship in Washington state — twice.
Her success did not come with any perks. Instead, she was subject to abuse from people who oppose transgender women participating in women’s sports. https://wapo.st/4qziWp7
The hed is definitely unfortunate
Not speaking for the Sports department, but we had two previous Torrent games as centerpiece for the sports section. And again, not speaking for the Sports department, but it’s not often that you get No. 1 high school basketball recruit playing in Seattle…
Kinda getting a kick out of this weirdly very dramatic Spokesman front page
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
Kinda astounds me that journalists (and media orgs, for that matter) seem to use Twitter way more than Reddit, tbh
This is innumerate nonsense. An average of 1.1 million people were watching The Simpsons throughout its entire thirty-minute broadcast according to a third-party data company contracted to measure viewership by Disney. Somebody, no way to know who, hit the play button 1.7 million times on Twitter
In October, statewide news reported that a sheriff's deputy in Texas searched thousands of Flock cameras in Washington for 'Had an abortion, search for female.’ New documents obtained by RANGE show Spokane County Sheriff's Office cameras were accessed in that search:
