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Does anyone have a recommendation for a pet sitter or boarding location for guinea pigs?

US House passes bill penalizing universities that participate in boycott of Israel

In 2025, the Washington Legislature passed a law that prevents rent gouging, but some landlords and property management companies are still up to their old tricks. They are using "junk fees" as a loophole around rent caps. We are hearing from tenants that they are increasingly being charged excessive fees for services that they don’t want or need, or for basic things like paying the rent. We at the Housing Alliance, call these “junk fees” and they are unfair, expensive, and deceptive. We’d like to hear your experiences. All information shared with us will be kept safe and confidential. Please fill out our survey if you or someone you know has received junk fees and we will be in touch within one week of your submission. Thank you! ~ Po (Advocacy Organizer) Housing Alliance Junk Fees Survey link: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=w21JOKsxXkiwtHn-0hx8aKTozXDbIbFMt3Zx5CarFp1UQVdCNElaSzQyNzFWUU02QVJTNEI2OUVCVS4u

In 2025, the Washington Legislature passed a law that prevents rent gouging, but some landlords and property management companies are still up to their old tricks. They are using "junk fees" as a loophole around rent caps. We are hearing from tenants that they are increasingly being charged excessive fees for services that they don’t want or need, or for basic things like paying the rent. We at the Housing Alliance, call these “junk fees” and they are unfair, expensive, and deceptive. We’d like to hear your experiences. All information shared with us will be kept safe and confidential. Please fill out our survey if you or someone you know has received junk fees and we will be in touch within one week of your submission. Thank you! ~ Po (Advocacy Organizer) Housing Alliance Junk Fees Survey link: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=w21JOKsxXkiwtHn-0hx8aKTozXDbIbFMt3Zx5CarFp1UQVdCNElaSzQyNzFWUU02QVJTNEI2OUVCVS4u

Stuart got paid. Donate to FIRE (since the ACLU is now worthless)! https://www.fire.org/news/washington-professor-who-parodied-university-land-acknowledgment-wins-600k-settlement

TLDR: any places to hang out with kids while we wait for 9am appointment? I’m traveling from snohomish to Issaquah once a week for my daughter’s occupational therapy. It starts at 9am. We went for the first time yesterday and traffic was pretty bad so I want to leave early next week, but we might end up pretty early if we leave early enough to beat traffic. The McDonald’s play place was my only idea, I was wondering if you guys have any ideas.

The farm boys and I sang this ditty about our ongoing battle with local bureaucracy... Stick in your earbuds and turn it up! Context and links to our fight below: The first post fighting the state stealing my land: https://www.facebook.com/joelgross.joelx/posts/pfbid0PBTBDfup9RPwrbpbgbmD1FWQvAPNJPfq2bBsPPkdhheQ46MBM7Gegn4LBngg7Wqbl The public retaliation: https://www.facebook.com/joelgross.joelx/posts/pfbid0zE52YVQ57xDNZYt7eA8JtD3iCvdg4awAxaR5QA43AZw8SPbNDi1dRkX4mC7RmYEol The nepotism: https://www.facebook.com/reel/28150029621287557 Retaliation becomes national news: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1973458806643152 I never set out to make enemies: https://www.facebook.com/reel/2329041131233478/

Some of you may have heard of The Merlin Project — I built it here in Lakewood after two neighbors posted about the same cat: one thought she'd found a stray, the other thought her own cat was missing. He wasn't lost at all, just out doing normal indoor/outdoor cat things — but with no way for anyone to know that, it turned into a mess. If you have an indoor/outdoor cat, you know this fear: he's out on his rounds, a well-meaning neighbor assumes he's a stray, and suddenly there's a "found cat" flyer up or someone's trying to take him in. Totally avoidable if people around you actually know he has a home. That's what Merlin is for. Register your cat once — name, photo, description — and anyone who sees him wandering can check and see: he's fine, he belongs to a home, he's just out and about. No more guessing, no more well-intentioned "rescues." We're at 656 registered users and 825 cats — but Lakewood likely has 10,000+ cats total between owned and community cats. Barely scratching the surface. The more indoor/outdoor owners who register, the fewer mix-ups happen. Takes two minutes, it's free: themerlinproject.io

My buddy was at a show at Neumos on Wednesday night and was chatting with a guy named Dean who was there on a date. He wanted to go into the mosh pit and asked Dean to hold his phone and hoodie. When he came back, Dean and Dean's date were gone with the phone and hoodie. His hope was that Dean just handed off the phone to a Neumos employee, but no phone was turned in. The phone shows its last known location was at Neumos at 8:30 Wednesday night, so it seems like it was turned off to stop tracking. Any advice for my buddy on trying to track down his phone?

School started this week in Seattle, which means you'll see more kids out and about. Find out where Ballard's "School Streets" are and what that means for local access, pick-ups, and drop-offs.