It’s Gonna Be Hot Today: Temperatures are projected to be in the high 70s, which is hotter than usual Seattle springtime. It’s also gonna be humid. Lowest Tides This Year So Far Start Friday: While today’s high temperatures likely won’t stick around for the weekend, there should be plent y of people at the beach anyway. Starting Saturday, the tides will recede to their lowest levels of the year so far, officially “Good Geoduck Tides,” according to the Washington Department of Fish Wildlife’s tidal chart. Those interested in exploring the seafloor while staying dry should aim to hit the beach around noon this weekend, with low tides continuing through Wednesday. Seattle Children Booked for Anti-Scientology Hate Crime: The viral videos of uncouth youths breaking into and “speedrunning” the Church of Scientology’s historic Hollywood building have inspired a nationwide trend of people doing the same to Scientology buildings in their local community. On Saturday, Seattle police arrested three boys on hate crime charges for allegedly doing much the same to Seattle’s Scientology building in Lower Queen Anne. Around 30 people showed up, though it sounds like only six broke in, and apparently shut off the building’s power. SPD had yet to refer charges to the county prosecutor (who is a bit of a hate crime expert) according to the Seattle Times.  ICE Says Washington Health Officials Can’t Inspect Tacoma Detention Camp: Private prison company GEO Group has denied state health inspectors access to the facility 10 times since 2023. The facility has received thousands of complaints of unsafe conditions. Gov. Ferguson sued recently to gain access, and local ICE officials responded Monday by continuing to claim they hold sole jurisdiction. FOX13 has details. West Seattle Woman Leads Far-right Attack on Gay Marriage: Seattle resident Katy Faust is the founder and president of Them Before Us, one of the groups behind a campaign to overturn marriage equality. Married to a former pastor of Grace Church in West Seattle, Faust previously ran an anonymous anti-gay marriage blog called “Ask The Bigot” until being unmasked in 2014. She’s set to speak at the Snohomish County Republican’s annual Lincoln Day dinner later this week. The Seattle Times has a full rundown. Will Washington Democrats Gerrymander Congressional Districts? That’s the question many are asking after the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act this month, empowering Southern states to redraw majority-Black districts and essentially flip a number of Democratic seats in the U.S. Congress. States with Democratic trifectas like Washington now face calls both within the party and from constituents to respond with gerrymandering of their own to maintain parity in Congress, which would mean redrawing the state’s districts to buttress Rep. Marie Glusenkamp-Perez and dilute Eastern Washington’s two conservative districts with liberal voters. It is a messy, controversial proposal, KUOW reports. Yakama Nation Protests Energy Development on Sacred Land: Known as Pushpum, the Yakama sacred site along the Columbia River Gorge outside Goldendale is targeted for development into an energy storage project, as developers call it “one of the best pumped storage sites in North America” according to NWPB. The Yakama Nation says the proposed development is just the latest example of their land being stolen, and hosted a rally at Pushpum over the weekend. Microsoft Israel Boss Ousted After Illegal Surveillance Exposed: A major investigation last year by The Guardian and other outlets into Microsoft’s work withIsrael during the Gaza genocide has led Microsoft to fire the head of its Israeli subsidy, Yahoo Finance reports. Microsoft’s Azure Cloud storage was used by Israeli intelligence to store surveillance records of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Trump Wants to Suspend Federal Gas Tax: While the Trump administration could simply end America’s illegal war on Iran to lower gas prices, the president said Monday that instead he’d like to suspend the 18.4 cents a gallon tax on gasoline. This would obliterate federal highway funding, and not do much to lower gas prices in the long term, as subsidizing demand doesn’t increase supply, and supply is the problem with the Strait of Hormuz still closed by Iran. President Trump’s friends at CBS News have a rundown of how Congress could make this happen. The Price of Gold: Sebastião Salgado’s Gold Mine photographs are images you can’t unsee. Shot in the 1980s, Salgado captured the mass human immiseration—100,000 souls—required to run the Serra Pelada mine in Brazil. Salgado died last year, and signed prints of his work were auctioned off last month. Sebastião Salgado’s haunting 1986 photo of the Serra Pelada gold mine in Brazil exposed the brutal reality of modern slavery: thousands of men climbing through mud and death for pennies in search of gold. His work made the world look at what it wanted to ignore. Rest in power. pic.twitter.com/OS5Q4kZ2ii— Jean Jacques Dessalines 🇭🇹🇵🇸🇳🇪🇲🇱🇧🇫🇨🇺 (@JeanJacquesDes7) May 10, 2026 The post Slog AM: Seattle Woman Leads Charge Against Gay Marriage, Teens Arrested for Anti-Scientology Hate Crime, Washington Democrats Face Gerrymandering Conundrum appeared first on The Stranger. ...read more read less