Washington’s Covenant Homeownership Program provides qualifying buyers with up to $150,000 in down-payment assistance. I understand the argument for it. Washington allowed and enforced discriminatory housing practices, and those practices had consequences that could persist across generations. Covenant is explicitly designed to address that legacy by targeting people whose families were affected by it. But acknowledging historical discrimination does not automatically answer the moral question of what government should do today. Covenant does not simply ask whether someone is disadvantaged, has never owned a home, or has the financial need to buy one. Race and ancestry are part of the eligibility test. I’m from a very disadvantaged socioeconomic background. I’ve never owned a home and I have a financial need for assistance. But because I’m white, those circumstances don’t make me eligible if I don’t meet the program’s racial and ancestry requirements. That is the principle I’m questioning. If the concern is that historical discrimination created economic disadvantages that persist across generations, those disadvantages can be measured directly: income, wealth, inherited assets, family wealth, homeownership, and housing history. Instead, the program uses ancestry as a proxy. And saying “your ancestors were discriminated against” doesn’t make the underlying principle disappear. A person applying for assistance today did not choose their ancestors, just as another applicant did not choose theirs. Historical racial discrimination was wrong because people were treated differently based on race. The fact that the historical justification is different today does not make race cease to be a racial criterion. You can acknowledge the history, recognize its consequences, and still question whether the government should distribute housing benefits according to racial ancestry. Those are not contradictory positions.
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Hello! I need a knowledgeable and reputable acupuncturist. Preferably one open to working on a teenager. Do NOT want a sales pitch for medication.
anyone wanna go out tn? also how’s the nightlife here it seems so boring as a gay man.
Hey I need to send my 2 year old to daycare asap in 2027. She’ll be 2.5. She’s autistic and nonverbal. I qualify for state subsidies. Any recommendations for somewhere enriching where I can like… seriously trust that they will take good care of her? Very nervous sending my nonverbal kid off to care with strangers but I have no choice.
On September 21, conservative local vlogger Katie Daviscourt put out a video on X [with 4 million views and counting] suggesting that there was rampant fraud in Somali daycares mostly in Tukwila and High Point. Similarly to Nick Shirley last year, she knocked on doors of a few day cares (which she identified in her video by name) while accompanied by a camera man (the controversial de-transitioner "Apostate Ari" ) and when they didn't answer the door, she suggested the daycare didn't have any kids and was a scam. She later tweeted out a list of employees at the WA Department of Children, Youth and Families with Middle Eastern names, implying that these were the employees supervising the daycares she said were fraudulent. I did some digging to debunk some of this, but I'd like to request some help fact-checking some of the other claims that I don't know anything about. For example, she says that one of the daycares was getting $40K/month in DCYF grants even though it's only licensed for 10 kids - and market-rate daycare for is about $2K/kid max, so tuition-only grants should have totaled only up to $20K. But could there be a simple explanation -- like, some of the grants go to improving the building? If you know how to look into this I would love some help. (And, fair's fair: the goal is not to "debunk" what she said but to check if it's true. Even if she made some other false claims, these claims could be true.) I assume even here in the conservative sub, people care about the truth enough to debunk claims made by a right-wing journalist when it's warranted. (But I'm hedging my bets and asking in the other one too :) ) What I've found so far: 1. The daycares named in the video are not "empty", based on records from inspections done by DCYF. I looked up the four identified daycares in the video that I was able to find (Manha Family Child Care, Daisy Family Child Care, Aboo Family Child Care and Hiba Family Child Care) on the DCYF's Child Care Check Page and looked up the inspection records for each one. All of them have inspections that were signed off by a DCYF licensor in the past year, with the name of the licensor and the date of the inspection on the record, and the inspection only "counts" if the kids are present. I also managed to reach one of the licensors on the phone, and she confirmed that she had been to the child care on the date listed, and there were kids present (otherwise she wouldn't have signed off on it). Between them, the four daycares had a total of 10 inspections (from 2023 to present) by six different licensors. Assuming the licensors were honest, this still doesn't prove the daycare wasn't fraudulently inflating attendance (I don't think the licensors count the kids and compare to billing records?), but it does prove it wasn't a "ghost daycare". And maybe the daycare was functioning on the day of the inspection, but since turned into a fully fraudulent ghost daycare by the time Daviscourt visited -- but that's unlikely. In sum: (1) the "ghost daycare" allegations in the video could be true, but probably aren't; and (2) the fact that she didn't check this herself is such journalistic corner-cutting that everything else should be taken with a grain of salt. She actually did allege, sort of, that the inspectors themselves were in on it, which brings us to: 2. The image Katie Daviscourt tweeted of "DCYF employees" was misleading as pertains to these daycares, not representative of DCYF employees anyway, and pretty racist. Katie tweeted this on Thursday: https://preview.redd.it/v86fr34g2trh1.png?width=887&format=png&auto=webp&s=1f34dec4e09d3beaa48892e95ae3b942eee147bd These are real DCYF employees listed at https://apps-ca-ext.dcyf.wa.gov/EmployeeDirectoryInternet/ . However the wording "Look who is approving the licenses/inspections" implies these inspectors had something to do with the daycares she visited, or at least that this is a representative sample of the employees that do the inspections. But if you look at the names of the licensors on the reports for the four daycares above, they are: Quiana Montgomery Tylin Beeler Faiza Ibrahim [the only person who is also listed in the graphic above] Nataliya Mikota Jennifer Ingersoll Itzel Arroyo Meanwhile, the list in the image includes an "Administrative Assistant" who (I am assuming) wouldn't actually go out and do "inspections". Literally, it looks like someone just seached the DCYF employee directory (which has 3,500 people) and found some Muslim-sounding names and listed them all together to make it sound scary. Daviscourt later deleted the tweet and posted a new one saying : Sorry guys. Deleted that recent graphic only because it was sent to me as a tip and I didn’t realize the photos were AI, so I don’t want to get dinged. Names still accurate. Will work on a new one! So, add to the list: forwarding a "tip" as if it was original work, and not vetting anything in it. The fact that the images were A.I. was the least bad part. So that's what I've got so far. If anyone has ideas for how to dig into the other claims in the video, let me know. Thanks!
On September 21, conservative local vlogger Katie Daviscourt put out a video on X suggesting that there was rampant fraud in Somali daycares mostly in Tukwila and High Point. Similarly to Nick Shirley last year, she knocked on doors of a few day cares (which she identified in her video by name) while accompanied by a camera man (the controversial de-transitioner "Apostate Ari") and when they didn't answer the door, she suggested the daycare didn't have any kids and was a scam. She later tweeted out a list of employees at the WA Department of Children, Youth and Families with Middle Eastern names, implying that these were the employees supervising the daycares she said were fraudulent. I did some digging to debunk some of this, but I'd like to request some help fact-checking some of the other claims that I don't know anything about. For example, she says that one of the daycares was getting $40K/month in DCYF grants even though it's only licensed for 10 kids - and market-rate daycare for is about $2K/kid max, so tuition-only grants should have totaled only up to $20K. But could there be a simple explanation -- like, some of the grants go to improving the building? If you know how to look into this I would love some help. (And, fair's fair: the goal is not to "debunk" what she said but to check if it's true. Even if she made some other false claims, these claims could be true.) What I've found so far: 1. The daycares named in the video are not "empty", based on records from inspections done by DCYF. I looked up the four identified daycares in the video that I was able to find (Manha Family Child Care, Daisy Family Child Care, Aboo Family Child Care and Hiba Family Child Care) on the DCYF's Child Care Check Page and looked up the inspection records for each one. All of them have inspections that were signed off by a DCYF licensor in the past year, with the name of the licensor and the date of the inspection on the record, and the inspection only "counts" if the kids are present. I also managed to reach one of the licensors on the phone, and she confirmed that she had been to the child care on the date listed, and there were kids present (otherwise she wouldn't have signed off on it). Between them, the four daycares had a total of 10 inspections (from 2023 to present) by six different licensors. Assuming the licensors were honest, this still doesn't prove the daycare wasn't fraudulently inflating attendance (I don't think the licensors count the kids and compare to billing records?), but it does prove it wasn't a "ghost daycare". And maybe the daycare was functioning on the day of the inspection, but since turned into a fully fraudulent ghost daycare by the time Daviscourt visited -- but that's unlikely. In sum: (1) the "ghost daycare" allegations in the video could be true, but probably aren't; and (2) the fact that she didn't check this herself is such journalistic corner-cutting that everything else should be taken with a grain of salt. She actually did allege, sort of, that the inspectors themselves were in on it, which brings us to: 2. The image Katie Daviscourt tweeted of "DCYF employees" was misleading as pertains to these daycares, not representative of DCYF employees anyway, and pretty racist. Katie tweeted this on Thursday: https://preview.redd.it/1m4xjzurxsrh1.png?width=887&format=png&auto=webp&s=f1505addf0725f21832251eb093747eacbc63ef2 These are real DCYF employees listed at https://apps-ca-ext.dcyf.wa.gov/EmployeeDirectoryInternet/ . However the wording "Look who is approving the licenses/inspections" implies these inspectors had something to do with the daycares she visited, or at least that this is a representative sample of the employees that do the inspections. But if you look at the names of the licensors on the reports for the four daycares above, they are: Quiana Montgomery Tylin Beeler Faiza Ibrahim [the only person who is also listed in the graphic above] Nataliya Mikota Jennifer Ingersoll Itzel Arroyo Meanwhile, the list in the image includes an "Administrative Assistant" who (I am assuming) wouldn't actually go out and do "inspections". Literally, it looks like someone just seached the DCYF employee directory (which has 3,500 people) and found some Muslim-sounding names and listed them all together to make it sound scary. Daviscourt later deleted the tweet and posted a new one saying: Sorry guys. Deleted that recent graphic only because it was sent to me as a tip and I didn’t realize the photos were AI, so I don’t want to get dinged. Names still accurate. Will work on a new one! So, add to the list: forwarding a "tip" as if it was original work, and not vetting anything in it. The fact that the images were A.I. was the least bad part. So that's what I've got so far. If anyone has ideas for how to dig into the other claims in the video, let me know. Thanks!
If you lost your wallet between Stoup and Garage on Broadway in Cap Hill, I turned it into Stoup Brewing in hopes you might actually find it. Found around 8:30pm on 9/25. Hope it gets back to its owner.
Thinking about applying to PSA—what entry-level paths should I look into? I’m 21 and recently moved to the Puyallup area from California. I’m working as a delivery driver right now, and before that I worked on wildland fire crews with the CCC and CAL FIRE. I’m used to physical work, long days, teamwork, and following safety rules, but I don’t have trade experience yet, also have restaurant experience I’m looking for a stable career and interested in what PSA might offer. What entry-level jobs or apprenticeships could be a good fit for someone with my background? What qualifications do they look for, and what are the pay, schedule, and hiring process like?
Morning commute, Eastgate Way to I-90. Came straight at my dashcam through the roundabout, then just stopped and accepted his honors. 🕶️
Anybody awake and bored? I'm in town from Portland visiting a friend of mine up here so I'm sitting in my hotel bored.