[KIRKLAND] – (MTN) Snow fell on Kirkland for over 24 hours, covering the city with six to nine inches of snow. The snow-covered streets brought out sledders, urban skiers, and pedestrians, who enjoyed the cold air and satisfying crunch of powdery snow. More snow is expected to fall Saturday night and Sunday.
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Malcontentment Happy Hour: February 11, 2021
Our live webcast from the Seattle Anarchist Jurisdiction
The show from February 11, 2021, featured David Obelcz and our co-host Jennifer Smith.
- Winter Storm Watch in place, winter is coming, all in one week
- King County warming center controversy and location
- Malcontented Minutes
- Chad Wheeler update and an interview of his victim Alleah Taylor
- Tragedy in Central District – two dead, one wounded in an officer-involved shooting
- Black History Month
- Life in a bubble and why impeachment won’t bring an end to Trumpism
Brother and sister team up to help people find COVID vaccinations
From Malcontentment Happy Hour, February 8, 2021
FindACOVIDShot.org helps vulnerable populations navigate the maze to get a COVID vaccination appointment
Sharla (she asked for her last name to be withheld) is in a vulnerable group for contracting COVID and suffering serious symptoms, and she was excited to learn vaccinations would be available. She quickly learned that the path to finding an appointment was full of challenges and barriers. Instead of getting frustrated, Sharla and her brother Steve got motivated. They created a Facebook Group, Find a COVID Shot WA, and assembled a group of volunteers to help others find appointments
A week later, the group had over 10,000 members and is serving the people of Washington state in 10 different languages. The group doesn’t exist to provide insider information or help those not eligible for a shot to find one, but to help those who can’t navigate the system, find an appointment.
The effort to vaccinate Washington state residents is very complicated. There is no central website or location to make an appointment. Each hospital system, pharmacy chain, and medical clinics have their own appointment systems that use different software. Available slots aren’t posted at a set time and can be filled faster than a person can input all the required information. For people who don’t speak English, lack technology, or don’t understand technology like the elderly, the barriers make finding a shot impossible.
Steve and Sharla now have over 15,000 members and have been featured on NPR and local news affiliates. Their success is getting noticed, and they are considering expanding their efforts to other states.
Ethan Nordean’s family claims they don’t support him, court records challenge that
[SEATTLE] – (MTN) Yesterday, Magistrate Judge Brian Tsuchida or Seattle caused a stir when he issued a court order that would release Proud Boy Ethan Nordean, also known as Rufio Panman, from federal custody to await trial. An emergency stay by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell kept Nordean in custody. The self-proclaimed Sergeant of Arms for the Proud Boys will be held in custody, awaiting transfer to Washington D.C.
Ethan Nordean’s family owns Wally’s Chowder House in Des Moines, Washington, a local icon for seafood in the South Sound. After Ethan Nordean was arrested, his father Mike Nordean released the following statement, “We have tried for a long while to get our son off the path which led to his arrest today – to no avail. Ethan will be held accountable for his actions.” In June of 2020, the elder Nordean released a statement indicating they had fired Ethan from Wally’s Chowder House and ended supporting their son. However, court records paint a different picture.
In arguing against the release of Ethan Nordean, federal prosecutors indicated that he lives rent-free in a home provided to him by his parents and has no financial obligations that would keep him in Puget Sound. Given his connections and documented role in the insurrection, the move to release Nordean becomes more puzzling. Ethan was witnessed leading a contingent of Proud Boys down Constitution Avenue while Donald Trump was finishing his speech, and leading the charge against the pedestrian barricades at the Capitol.
Ethan Nordean will have his next hearing in Washington D.C. on February 15, 2021.
Malcontentment Happy Hour: February 8, 2021
Our live webcast from the Seattle Anarchist Jurisdiction
The show from February 8, 2021, featured David Obelcz and our co-host Jennifer Smith.
- Winter weather is coming and King County has told local communities not to open warming centers
- Find a COVID Shot WA at www.findacovidshot.org is helping Washington seniors and BIPOC communities get on vaccination lists
- Malcontented Minutes – our new speed round of news
- Michigan man killed by baby shower cannon explosion
- Amanda Gorman becomes the first poet to open a Super Bowl game
- Black-owned eTailers are creating a one-stop-stop for BIPOC founded beauty products
- Seattle based Magistrate Judge releases Ethan Nordean – US District Judge says not so fast
- Queer artists of color are dominating 2021 LGBTQIA art exhibitions
- Fiona the Cincinnati Zoo hippo turns 4-years old
- Ten-years old BIPOC Bellevue girl builds a website to share positive COVID news
- Virginia and Nebraska push to advance bills striking unenforceable gay marriage bans from state constitutions
- The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Subversion & the Art of Slavery Abolition
- Florida man in Florida stadium runs onto the field during the Super Bowl
- Black History Month
- Bothell protest car attack goes unpunished
Malcontentment Happy Hour: February 6, 2021
Our live webcast from the Seattle Anarchist Jurisdiction
The show from February 6, 2021, featured David Obelcz and our co-host Jennifer Smith.
- Olympia homeless protest and direct action leaves everyone unhappy
- Malcontented Minutes – our new speed round of news
- Jenoah Donald shot by Clark County Sheriffs
- Seattle student helps seniors sign up for COVID vaccine
- Florida man with Florida forehead tattoo arrested in Florida
- Louisiana library turns down grant for program on Black history and civil rights
- Police officer fired for taunting fellow officer over COVID fears
- J Lo and A-Rod reality stars in reality drama
- New York State repeals “walking while trans” law
- Biden Administration signs memorandum to advance LGBTQIA rights globally
- Man buys every tamale he can find in Chicago to give to homeless
- Kansas City Chief’s mascot causes grumbles as Super Bowl arrives
- COVID-19 Five Fast Facts
- Reading recommendations for Black History Month
- David and Jennifer provide their insurrection update
- Commentary on transphobia in our community
Insurrection update – pre-impeachment edition
From Malcontentment Happy Hour, February 1, 2021
A summary of events from January 29 to February 1, 2021
The fallout from the January 6, 2021, Insurrection continues
- Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Facebook post about the 2018 California wildfires being started by the Rothchilds who funded Jewish space lasers comes to light
- Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene is interviewed by British neo-Nazi Katie Hopkins on January 7, 2021
- Donald Trump’s entire legal team quits over the weekend after differences emerged on strategy and payments
- Donald Trump to now be represented by David Schoen and Bruce Castor Jr, lawyers who both have questionable pasts with their legal connections to sex offenders
- Portland streamer “Behind Enemy Lines” outs one of his moderators in an interview where “Ryan” discusses entering the Capitol during the insurrection
- L Lin Wood has been asked to take a mental health evaluation by the state of Georgia as disbarment continues
- Brian Williams played a “fake” news segment mocking the meeting of former President Donald Trump and House minority leader Kevin McCarthy
- State GOPQ Representative Shawnna Bolick of Arizona introduced legislation that would enable the legislature of Arizona to reject the vote of the Arizona people
- Michael Flynn is trying to cash in on the QAnon money ramping up his own website Digital Soldiers and selling Q merch
- Open Secrets has connected the dots on campaign contributions and donations to January 6, 2021, insurrection, listing the people and agencies involved
- Nebraska Catholic priest Rev. David Fulton did an exorcism outside the Capitol during the insurrection and is facing backlash
- John Revlett of Island, Kentucky, and a fourth-place winner in a “sexy farmer” contest was arrested for his involvement in the insurrection after outing himself on Snapchat
- Couy Giffin of New Mexico (also reported as from Texas) and the founder of Cowboys for Trump was arrested for his involvement in the insurrection and has been placed into solitary confinement for his actions after his arrest
Local Proud Boy arrested for involvement in Capitol insurrection
Five Fast Facts
- Ethan Nordean, also known as Rufio Panman, is a well known Proud Boy leader with local ties to the Puget Sound area – local photographer Nate Gowdy witnesses Nordean with the Proud Boys in Washington D.C. on January 6 and spoke with him
- His family owns Wally’s Chowder House in Des Moines, Washington, and Wally’s Drive-In in Buckley, Washington – Ethan was fired from Wally’s in June 2020
- Wally’s Chowder House has been used as a location for Proud Boy meetings but his parents have denounced Ethan’s connection to the Proud Boys
- Des Moines, Washington Mayor Matt Pina has refused to remove Wally’s Chowder House from the Des Moines EATS Program, a city program that buys vouchers from local restaurants so seniors and veterans have meals during the COVID pandemic lockdown
- Nordean has frequently been accompanied by Enrique Tarrio, Joe Biggs, Eddie Block, and Zach Rehl
The Justice Department says a member of the Proud Boys has been arrested in Washington state in connection with the breach of the nation’s Capitol.
Ethan Nordean, also known as Rufio Panman, was due to make an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Seattle on Wednesday afternoon, after he was charged in Washington, D.C.
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Rochester, New York police officers suspended after violent arrest of 9-year old
From Malcontentment Happy Hour, February 1, 2021
Outrage over the pepper-spraying of a restrained 9-year old grows in upstate New York
WARNING: This report shows violent actions against a child, domestic violence, and abuse. Viewer discretion is advised.
[ROCHESTER] – (Malcontent News) Accusations of domestic violence and child abuse flew in Rochester, New York on January 29, as police arrested, and then pepper-sprayed a restrained 9-year-old child in the back of a police cruiser. Police were called about an incident involving the child, where she initially reported to officers that her mother had stabbed her father.
During the incident caught on multiple police body cameras, the mother of the child verbally and physically assaulted the restained juvenile, before police ordered her to go into her home. They attempt to take the child into custody, after telling her she wasn’t in any trouble, and then wrestle her to the ground and handcuff her. The child refuses to put her legs into the police cruiser and begs for a female police officer on video.
As a female officer attempted to deescalate, the other officers involved only made the situation worse, until the female officer also joined in, and ultimately pepper-sprayed the handcuffed 9-year-old in the face. She was then locked in the police cruiser while begging for her eyes to be wiped.
The police union on Sunday, January 31, 2021, attempted to defend the actions, stating policing is a hard job, labeling the pepper spray as an “irritant,” and talking about the trauma of day-to-day police work. The mayor and interim police chief could find no word to defend the actions.
On Monday, February 1, 2021, it was announced an unknown number of officers have been suspended, with pay, pending an investigation. The mayor of Rochester indicated that this was the only action they can take due to the police union contract and New York state law. Despite allegations of assault and child abuse and the abuse caught on camera, after taking the nine-year-old child to the hospital, she was released back to her family. The child is black, all 9 officers who were at the scene were white.
Malcontentment Happy Hour: January 28, 2021
Our live webcast from the Seattle Anarchist Jurisdiction
WARNIING: This episode includes videos of violence, protest, and discusses domestic violence in detail – viewer discretion is advised.
Editor’s comment: At the start of the show we had a software issue that resulted in about 15 to 30 seconds of no audio. We thank you for your understanding.
The show from January 28, 2021, featured David Obelcz and our co-host Jennifer Smith.
- Update on the Tacoma Police Department officer who drove through a group of people on Saturday with a new day-of video
- Malcontented Minutes – our new speed round of news
- The Echo Project is turning a former Klu Klux Klan museum into a place for BIPOC to meet and a history exhibit
- Colleen Echohawk becomes the first prominent candidate to announce she is running for mayor of Seattle
- Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, a key figure in the identification of AIDS, passed away
- 14 states are looking to pass anti-LGBTQIA bills targeting the transgender community
- Phil Collins (yes that Phil Collins) has turned into “Florida man” with a bizarre story about his ongoing divorce woes
- Pam Anderson announces she is quitting the Internet (if a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it…)
- Jason Collier, a former police chief is in hot water for falsifying multiple documents to keep multiple wives and girlfriends from knowing about his bizarre world
- A man from Afghanistan is attacked by a racist at a Portland convenience store, forcing the terrified man to lock himself in the cooler as he waits for the police
- The Chinook Nation is going to receive monetary compensation and could be taking the first steps to be recognized as sovereignty again by the federal government
- In Portland, Oregon the lumber baron and the cattle baron make up after a spicy incident over the weekend
- COVID-19 Five Fast Facts
- Chad Wheeler a now-former player of the Seattle Seahawks was arrested after a violent domestic violence attack – the NFL and Seahawks reaction leaves a lot to be desired
- David and Jennifer provide their insurrection update