Ben Watanabe
@benwatanabe
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@everettherald journalist covering Everett and transportation. formerly @whidbeyrecord. once ate a 12-inch cheesecake in a single day and didn't vomit
425, WA
Joined March 2009
Been drafting this for a while but finally I'm ready to publish
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Internal messages from Live Nation reveal two execs talking about "robbing [fans] blind." “These people are so stupid. I almost feel bad taking advantage of them," one says. That man is now the head of ticketing for the unit responsible for Live Nation's 150 amphitheaters.
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Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility: “I guess,” he says “Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.”
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If Trump campaigned as a President of peace, he has governed as the opposite
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US immigration officials picked up a blind Rohingya refugee last week in Buffalo, NY. Then, realizing they had no basis to deport him, they released him five miles from his home. He needed a walking stick and died trying to make his way back to his house:
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A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.
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NEW: No one has heard from Seattle organizer Frank Gabriel Yzaze Yegres since Friday when he said he would be deported this weekend. ICE lookup system says he's in custody, but won't say where. Advocates demand WA congressional delegation step in https://t.co/GY5fDtxS8Z
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Undocumented-led mutual aid group Super Familia has launched a letter-writing campaign demanding Washington elected officials intervene on behalf of community organizer Frank Gabriel Yzaze Yegres,...
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The Snohomish County Council is starting a page program for high school students! This year's program will run the week of April 27th - May 1st. If you know of a high school student who might be interested in participating, please scan the QR code below.
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"As her 13-year-old son wailed and her older daughter produced paperwork proving her mother was in the United States lawfully, the agents shackled Ms. Mehari and took her away."
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Dozens of refugees with valid status were sent from Minnesota to Texas to be revetted, prompting a lawsuit. Those released had to pay their way back.
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Drop Site obtained harrowing footage of the latest killing which appears to be from the perspective of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk
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Trump’s paramilitary forces just shot and killed another person in Minneapolis.
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Federal agents just shot and killed another person in Minneapolis.
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Food is further out of reach for more Washingtonians as SNAP funds wither on the vine. 🥫🫰 Just who those Washingtonians are is a question Uncle Sam made a lot harder to answer as federal data on the matter disappears. 💸 #waleg
https://t.co/wPC7ztX4Gs
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ICE agents in Minnesota detained at least four children from the same school district, including a 5-year-old, deepening skepticism about the Trump administration’s claims of targeting violent criminals. https://t.co/2iK1zHb5YO
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The Empire is a disease that thrives in darkness, it is never more alive than when we sleep.
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Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
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In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
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Someone who got too paranoid and the man responsible for the Miracle over the Mojave
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My last story published last week, as Cascade PBS sunsets its investigative team desk -- ending coverage of a company with egregious safety violations developing a $44 million Port of Longview project. One that's already had an excavator fall into a pond. https://t.co/yQLVuhluow
cascadepbs.org
Clark County cites a lack of proof that the Vancouver company acted with “culpable mental state” when a 16-year-old was injured using prohibited equipment.
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Breaking News: The Supreme Court lifted restrictions on ICE agents in Los Angeles, allowing them to make indiscriminate stops based on factors like ethnicity.
nytimes.com
A federal judge had ordered agents not to make indiscriminate stops relying on factors like a person’s ethnicity or that they speak Spanish.
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In 2019, on Trump’s orders, a @USNavy SEAL Team snuck into North Korea to try to plant a device to monitor Kim Jong-un’s communications. A wild story about how the mission went wrong, leaving unarmed North Koreans dead, but no listening device in place.
nytimes.com
The 2019 operation, greenlit by President Trump, sought a strategic edge. It left unarmed North Koreans dead.
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BREAKING: The Israeli military says its strike on a Gaza hospital that killed 20 people, including five journalists, was aimed at what it believed was a Hamas camera.
apnews.com
The Israeli military says its double strike on a Gaza hospital that killed 20 people targeted what it believed was a Hamas surveillance camera. But witnesses and health officials say the first strike...
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BREAKING: Four journalists, including a freelancer who worked with AP, are among eight killed by an Israeli strike on southern Gaza's Nasser Hospital.
apnews.com
Health officials say Israeli strikes on a hospital in southern Gaza have killed five journalists, including a freelancer who worked for The Associated Press. Mariam Dagga was a visual journalist who...
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Months after a cognitively impaired New Jersey man died while trying to meet up with a flirty Meta AI chatbot, ‘Big sis Billie’ was still romancing users, tests by Reuters show https://t.co/HfTbfH6IPe
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