Slog AM: Microsoft Outage Persists, Sound Transit Tries to Stop Killing Fish, A Schumer Challenger Appears

Horse thief in Portland: A 29-year-old Idaho woman was visiting Portland for a model horse show. She brought her whole collection of 100 custom, hand-painted model horses worth $10,000 and won best-in-show. The next day, someone smashed her car window and stole her entire collection, hawking “piles of her horses” on the street for $5. Police arrested a suspect. Please, if you obtained a beautiful model horse in the Pearl District, return it to its rightful owner. Fuck this grifter: Right-wing influencer Nick Shirley has retracted his claim that he witnessed food stamp fraud at Seattle grocery store Lam’s Seafood Asian Market. The video retraction comes a month and millions of views after Shirley made the claim. It also came after Lam’s hired a lawyer and threatened to sue Shirley. A grim Outlook: Microsoft is entering day two of a global outage that’s hobbling Outlook, Teams, and AI assistant Copilot.

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