Traffic Control Measures on Ruston Way Scheduled June 25-July 2

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thesubtimes.com/2025/06/24/traffic-control-measures-on-ruston-way-scheduled-june-25-july-2/

Tacoma’s New Weekly Destination: The UrbanWork Market is Here, June 26

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thesubtimes.com/2025/06/24/tacomas-new-weekly-destination-the-urbanwork-market-is-here-june-26/

Hilary Whittington named chief executive officer of Pulse Heart Institute

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thesubtimes.com/2025/06/24/hilary-whittington-named-chief-executive-officer-of-pulse-heart-institute/

University of Puget Sound Receives $1,050,000 Gift to Establish Endowed Fund for Crew Sustainability

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thesubtimes.com/2025/06/24/university-of-puget-sound-receives-1050000-gift-to-establish-endowed-fund-for-crew-sustainability/

A.R. Rahman Unveils Star-Studded Lineup for “The Wonderment Tour”

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thesubtimes.com/2025/06/24/a-r-rahman-unveils-star-studded-lineup-for-the-wonderment-tour/

Tribal Member’s horse wins at Emerald Downs

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thesubtimes.com/2025/06/23/tribal-members-horse-wins-at-emerald-downs/

Celebrate Tacoma’s Top Volunteers and Service Providers at the 2025 City of Destiny Awards

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thesubtimes.com/2025/06/23/celebrate-tacomas-top-volunteers-and-service-providers-at-the-2025-city-of-destiny-awards/

Downtown On the Go and Tacoma Youth Symphony Association Present TYSA Walk: A Celebration of Music and Movement Tacoma, WA. Downtown On the Go (DOTG) continues its 2025 Walk Tacoma series with a unique, artful experience highlighting Tacoma’s youth performing arts. In partnership with the Tacoma Youth Symphony Association (TYSA), the TYSA Walk will take place […]

Learning Through Nature at Oak Tree Park

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thesubtimes.com/2025/06/23/learning-through-nature-at-oak-tree-park/

“A Year To Life” to screen at Zion International Film Festival

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thesubtimes.com/2025/06/22/a-year-to-life-to-screen-at-zion-international-film-festival/

Elliot Stockstad named chief development officer

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thesubtimes.com/2025/06/21/elliot-stockstad-named-chief-development-officer/

Department Spotlight – Fleet

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thesubtimes.com/2025/06/21/department-spotlight-fleet/

Free tidepool programs teach about life below the waves this summer

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thesubtimes.com/2025/06/21/free-tidepool-programs-teach-about-life-below-the-waves-this-summer/

December to Remember to Screen at Zion Film Festival

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thesubtimes.com/2025/06/20/december-to-remember-to-screen-at-zion-film-festival/

Governor Ferguson appoints aerospace leader to Bates Technical College Board of Trustees

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thesubtimes.com/2025/06/19/governor-ferguson-appoints-aerospace-leader-to-bates-technical-college-board-of-trustees/

APCC is on the Move – And It’s Bigger and Better Than Ever

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thesubtimes.com/2025/06/20/apcc-is-on-the-move-and-its-bigger-and-better-than-ever/

There's now an extremely detailed blog post on @CrimethInc covering a lot of the events I reported on here in Seattle.

Seems like an awfully important read for folks facing ICE across the US.

https://crimethinc.com/2025/06/19/we-are-not-demonstrating-we-are-fighting-migrant-defense-in-seattle-june-9-14

#Seattle #FuckICE #ChingaLaMigra #ICECourt #MutualAid #CommunityDefense #Tukwila #Tacoma #ICE

And if you happen to be a financially stable person please consider finding individual Black Americans' mutual aid requests to support today.

Here's a friend from my local community who needs help keeping a roof over his head.

Update - Goal met, feel free to continue to donate just wanted to report back!

Venmo - @Divine-Path-Academy

#PNW #Tacoma #Seattle #MutualAidRequest #BlackMastodon

Pundits: "Lol, all these ADHD diagnoses are just people seeking amphetamines to abuse!"

Researchers:

By 2015, [...] there were 151 million excess mental disorders attributable to lead exposure, with the highest impacts found among people born between 1966 and 1986.

lead exposure doubled the risk of schizophrenia for 89 million Americans, while quadrupling the risk of attention deficit disorder (ADHD) among another 170 million U.S. adults.

“We essentially lead-poisoned the entire population.”

In Canada, long-term health surveys show that in 1978-1979, about 27 per cent of the population aged six to 79 had lead concentrations double that in Flint [Michigan, where the water is toxic] [1]

Pundits: "Ok but it's not like lead is that bad, it's a natural element!"

Researchers:

linked leaded gasoline exposure to an average loss of 2.6 IQ points per person as of 2015 [1]

[extreme, serial killer] sociopaths are exceedingly rare, representing less than a tenth of 1 percent of all murderers by some accounts. Yet in Tacoma, they were surprisingly common, [mapping to] the lead- and arsenic-poisoned plume that flowed from Asarco’s metal smelter northwest of Tacoma, which operated for almost a century and polluted more than 1,000 square miles of the Puget Sound area, the source of the famous “aroma of Tacoma.” [2]

Pundits: "fine but we've changed those laws! That;'s a thing of the past."

Researchers:

[ongoing exposure to products containing] heavy metals like mercury, cadmium and even the continued use of lead. But also phthalates used to make plastic bendable, pesticides to protect crops, and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) — the latter a group of 4,700 “forever chemicals” used in everything from cosmetics and food packaging to carpets, diapers and clothing.

Unlike in Europe, where the regulatory burden is on companies to show consumer products are safe, in Canada, many consumer products are not adequately tested [1]

[1] https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/leaded-gasoline-legacy-linked-to-surge-in-schizophrenia-adhd-and-anxiety-disorders-finds-study-9902282

[2] https://grist.org/culture/murderland-caroline-fraser-serial-killers-pacific-northwest-lead-pollution/

#lead #ADHD #Tacoma #pollution