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The Light Rail's Cross Lake Connection Not a Love Match for the 1 Line My sister in law says there are serious astrological complications.

We read the astrological charts for the 1 Line and the soon to be open Cross Lake Connection, and the two might not be a love match.

Do you eat food? Then you should care about farm workers. Read Conor Kelley on the effort to get collective bargaining rights for the people who grow your food.

Minnesotans Launch General Strike Against ICE Faith leaders, labor unions, and community groups in Minnesota have banded together to call for a state-wide general strike today to protest the “ICE campaign of terror." It's kind of a big deal...

All eyes are on Minnesota today, as millions of us watching make our own private calculations for how far we’ll go to protect our cities. Or how we’ll live with ourselves in what’s left of them.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO

this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

Coordinated a beer drop by a white friend to deliver a 30-rack of Hamm’s to a Hispanic friend’s doorstep because his wife wouldn’t let him leave the house to go buy more beer for fear he’d be brutalized by lawless armed masked federal paramilitaries. This is Minnesota community. We take care of us.

In Madison, Shon Barnes ran a failed pilot program for body cameras. Now Seattle is trusting him with a mass surveillance program. After a failed pilot program in Madison, SPD Chief Shon Barnes is leading a department trusted with yet another controversial camera program: the network of police CCTV cameras on Seattle’s stre...

Seattle’s police chief built his reputation on transparency. But a report released last fall in Madison found Shon Barnes ignored directives and key data in a body-cam pilot. Now Seattle is expanding police surveillance and trusting the same guardrails.

Slog AM: US Terrorizes Greenland, US Terrorizes US, Washington Sheriffs Yell on Facebook The Stranger's morning news roundup.

- US Terrorizes Greenland

- US Terrorizes US

- Washington Sheriffs Yell on Facebook

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'The Heart Sellers' Is Unfortunately Really Fucking Relevant Right Now See 'The Heart Sellers' at the Seattle Repertory Theater through February 1.

The Play About the Immigrant Experience Takes on a New Meaning in Trump’s America

That's funny, I was just thinking about how peaceful everything was

Slog AM: Varsity Theater Will Close This Week, Bob Ferguson Grows a Spine, Maybe, and Trump Keeps Making Moves on Greenland The Stranger's morning news roundup.

- Varsity Theater Will Close This Week

- Bob Ferguson Grows a Spine, Maybe

- Trump Keeps Making Moves on Greenland

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King County Prosecutors Won't Charge Pedro Gomez Cheryl Delostrinos' case represents a structural crevasse in sexual assault crimes, caught between the limits in the definition of consent, and a jury’s willingness to believe victims.

King County Prosecutors Won't Charge Pedro Gomez.
"Our system is inadequate to provide healing to most survivors," they say.

YouTube video by strangervideo Is this the ugliest apartment building in Seattle?

Charles is asking the hard hitting questions, like why are modern apartment buildings so ugly? This is Stranger Places with @mudede.bsky.social

Take Our Sex Survey, You Sexy People! Grab a drink, get comfortable, and tell us everything.

At HUMP!, there is truly nothing we love more than talking about sex. So, as the @thestranger.com said, tell us everything!

Take The Stranger's 2026 Sex Survey now!

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Take Our Sex Survey, You Sexy People! Grab a drink, get comfortable, and tell us everything.

Have you taken The Stranger's Sex Survey yet? It'd be a lot cooler if you did!

Losing Horribly on Jeopardy! Waking up that morning last October, my dream was to win a fortune on Jeopardy!. Then I watched the returning champion, Harrison Whitaker, shred through the games right before mine. My new dream was t...

What if you achieved your lifelong dream of getting on Jeopardy! but your biggest win was not throwing up onstage?⁠
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David Lewis writes about realizing the game is more reflex than knowledge, and coming home to Seattle with a head full of trivia that wasn't as trivial as he thought.

Seattle Joins National Anti-ICE Protest for Woman Killed by ICE in Minneapolis For Ray Mitchell, Renee Nicole Good’s blood is not only on the hands of the ICE agent who shot her—it’s on the hands of American leaders who “refuse to stand up.”

Hundreds gathered outside the federal building downtown as Seattle joined a national wave of anti-ICE protests after Renee Nicole Good was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. @micahyip.bsky.social reports.

What I Learned About the Future at Seattle WorldCon WorldCon, the annual volunteer-run science fiction and fantasy writing convention, sweeps through a different city every year. And in 2025, they chose Seattle. Writers from around the world gathered t...

Everything's fucked, but I wrote an article about how writers are fighting for the future and why we're going to win:

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🪐 #booksky

Losing Horribly on Jeopardy! Waking up that morning last October, my dream was to win a fortune on Jeopardy!. Then I watched the returning champion, Harrison Whitaker, shred through the games right before mine. My new dream was t...

A moment of levity: One man's failure on Jeopardy!, which many say is the world's greatest game show
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This is valuable, clear reporting

Videos of the shooting do not show the woman attacking anyone.

Smaller Venues Keep Closing Even Though They're Vital to Our City's Nightlife Music venue operators still booking live music and DJs are miracle workers. So many factors are working against them. The cost of everything is rising and music aficionados' wages mostly aren't keepin...

Interviewed several musicians and venue operators about the precarious state of the Seattle music scene for @thestranger.com .

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Seattle Children’s Hospital Nurses on the Verge of First-Ever Strike Seattle Children's nurses and their union, the Washington State Nurses Association, say they don't want to strike, but the hospital, and it's anti-union law firm, aren't giving them a choice.

The nurses are on the verge of a strike www.thestranger.com/news/2025/12...

This Army veteran and husband of a former Congressional candidate has been detained by ICE since August. If he's detained much longer, he could lose his eyesight. As time creeps by in the Northwest Detention Center, pressure builds in the muscles behind Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry’s eyes. The swelling tissue puts pressure on his optic nerve. For Zahid, as he’s call...

The Army veteran and husband of a former Congressional candidate has been detained by ICE since August. If he's detained much longer, he could lose his eyesight.

How Community Organizing Turned Into a Campaign Strategy For many, Mamdani and Wilson represent a new possibility for the Democratic Party. One that’s less entrenched in the institutions of politics, and more interested in the well-being of working pe...

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For some weekend reading, @thestranger.com partnered with The Guardian to explore what it means to run a winning mayoral campaign as a community organizer.

Seattle Braces SPD Against ICE Operations Camille Baldwin-Bonney doesn’t buy it. The police accountability advocate and co-chair of People Power Washington called Mayor Bruce Harrell’s new anti-ICE executive orders “performative rather than s...

ICE raids are rising, and Seattle says SPD cannot help. Advocates call Harrell’s order mostly symbolic, so the council is pushing SPD to spell out how officers will respond, what they can refuse, and how they will protect residents if federal agents overreach.

Slog AM: Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Out, Trump Has a New Crush, and the Olympic Pipeline Could Screw Over Your Holiday Plans Good Morning! It’s Thanksgiving week, which means, depending on your job, you’re either facing an easy breezy three day week, or one of the most nightmarish customer service weeks of the year. Be kind...

- Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Out

- Trump Has a New Crush

- The Olympic Pipeline Could Screw Over Your Holiday Plans

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What’s Next for Harbor Island Studios? On Monday, members of the Washington film community sent out an emergency call to action. King County was about to finalize the biennial budget, they said, and the County Council planned to withdraw f...

King County Council Saved the Sound Stage, but It’s Only Funded for the Next Six Months