Slog AM: Climate Protesters Block Amazon HQ, City Council to Discuss Minimum Wage Rollbacks, and Trump Lawyers to Argue Election Interference Is Free Speech [Video]

Weather girl Hannah here: REAL Seattle-heads will love this. Today, it’s gonna rain. Like, the whole fucking day. This morning, temperatures will hover around the high 40s and then tip over to the low 50s around 1 pm. So I’d suggest some boots and a water-proof jacket, but you’re an adult, you can dress yourself. 

Climate pledge who? Wednesday morning, “troublemaker” protesters blocked Amazon’s downtown corporate headquarters, a parking garage, and an Amazon Go store in effort to pressure the e-commerce giant to divest from a natural gas pipeline project that would increase greenhouse gas emissions by 3.47 million metric tons every year for the next three decades, according to a 2022 filing with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The protesters argued that supporting the project runs contrary to the “Climate Pledge,” in which Amazon promised to run strictly on renewable energy by 2025 and to decarbonize by 2040. 

Activists block the entrance to Amazon’s Day 1 building Wednesday …