The Newsweek Navy food photos published April 24, 2026, claim to show food shortages on the USS Abraham Lincoln during active military operations against Iran. The chain of custody breaks down at every link. The original sailor is anonymous. The intermediary, Gerald D. Givens Jr., is described in Newsweek’s own copy as a vocal critic…
Who really runs Seattle? Not Bruce Harrell. Not Katie Wilson. The mayor’s office has changed hands twice in five years. The corporate-real estate machine and the labor-progressive machine spend millions fighting each other on stage. Behind them, the same 18-member appointed boards, the same three or four political consulting firms, the same 60-plus revolving-door lobbyists,…
The Sound Transit failure is now officially a $185 billion boondoggle with a $35 billion cost overrun and a $20-30 billion affordability gap through 2046. Every man, woman, and child in the three-county tax district now owes roughly $55,000 toward a rail system most of them will never ride. Pierce County voted against ST3 and…
Pierce County voters rejected ST3 in 2016. They lost the regional vote, and have paid the Sound Transit tax for a decade. Now Sound Transit is proposing to terminate the long-promised Tacoma Dome Link Extension at Fife instead of completing the line to the Tacoma Dome — citing a $34.5 billion funding shortfall. Pierce County…
On April 19, 2026, King County Parks cut the ribbon on Black Panther Park Skyway — a public park at Renton Avenue South and 75th Avenue South dedicated to the legacy of the Black Panther Party. The project was funded through the King County Parks Levy, a property tax every county homeowner pays. One of…
TL;DR: The Portland homeless industrial complex spends more than $700 million a year. That is roughly 10 times what Portland and Multnomah County spent in 2017. Yet the metro area’s homeless count has climbed 61 percent in two years. The Portland homeless industrial complex funnels that money through a tangle of 50-plus nonprofits. Lobbying rules…
By The PNWindependent Investigative Team April 23, 2026 FEDERAL WAY, WA — The long-awaited KCRHA forensic audit was released this week, confirming a catastrophic fiscal collapse within the agency. According to the KCRHA forensic audit, the King County Regional Homelessness Authority is currently facing a $44.7 million deficit and has failed to account for $13…
