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ICE Retaliates Against Hunger Strikers at NWDC

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has transferred the leaders of a Tuesday hunger strike at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma to an unknown location. Advocates say their removal was retaliatory. The hunger strike was organized by 44-year-old Rogelio Enrique Bolufé Izquierdo, a Cuban-born NWDC detainee and leader of the grassroots group Unión de […] The post ICE Retaliates Against Hunger Strikers at NWDC appeared first on The Stranger.

Slog AM: Trouble in YIMBYdise, Dog Shoots Woman, White House Honors Harambe the Gorilla

Save the Light Rail: City and county officials are trying everything to keep Sound Transit 3 intact after Sound Transit proposed cutting several stations and lines due to rising costs. Councilmember Dan Strauss has proposed an amendment to save Ballard’s line by building from Ballard to Westlake directly rather than building a brand new downtown […] The post Slog AM: Trouble in YIMBYdise, Dog Shoots Woman, White House Honors Harambe the Gorilla appeared first on The Stranger.

Pop Loser #31: SOPHIE Summer

Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week, Big Freedia dropped the first track from her SOPHIE-produced EP, Linda Perry shaded two Billy/ies in one interview, and Robert Fripp has a testicle-related question. Plus, AI advancements that nobody asked for, and oh my god, I can’t stop listening to ABBA Gold! Subscribe to Pop Loser here! […] The post Pop Loser #31: SOPHIE Summer appeared first on The Stranger.

Dungeon Crawler Carl Is a Seattle Story Even Though the Whole City Is Destroyed on the First Page

In March, I picked up a book called Dungeon Crawler Carl. It consumed me. I spent the next four weeks tearing through the seven available books in the series. All I wanted to do was read. All other media tasted like sand.  At one point, when I was finishing the fifth book in the series, […] The post Dungeon Crawler Carl Is a Seattle Story Even Though the Whole City Is Destroyed on the First Page appeared first on The Stranger.

Slog AM: Meta Killing More Jobs in King County, Dow Constantine Kicks Graham Street Station Into the Future, CDC Seeking Volunteers to Screen Travelers at Airports For Ebola 

Meta keeps bleeding local jobs into the twilight of AI hype. The latest round of layoffs has eliminated 1,395 jobs in King County. Though some may think that AI itself is the cause of this escalating redundancy, a closer examination reveals that it is instead massive spending on AI infrastructure. But why are tech companies […] The post Slog AM: Meta Killing More Jobs in King County, Dow Constantine Kicks Graham Street Station Into the Future, CDC Seeking Volunteers to Screen Travelers at Airports For Ebola  appeared first on The Stranger.

Doom and Groom

Should I feel weird about my husband’s grooming situation when he was young with a family friend if he doesn’t feel weird about it? He’s mid-thirties. He’s known this woman since he was seven and she used to babysit for him. She was a family friend. Once she returned to England, my husband went to visit her […] The post Doom and Groom appeared first on The Stranger.

Slog AM: Bari Weiss Turns Off CBS News Radio, Susan Collins’s White Supremacist Photo Op, SNAP Cutbacks Mean Hunger for Millions of Young People

Impoverished PNW Journalists Strike McClatchy Newspapers: Just as they threatened, dozens of journalists struck papers across Washington and Idaho today, claiming management won’t send decision-makers to logjammed contract negotiations over increased pay. The workers say the strike will last one day, and request readers not cross the virtual picket lines and avoid the websites of […] The post Slog AM: Bari Weiss Turns Off CBS News Radio, Susan Collins’s White Supremacist Photo Op, SNAP Cutbacks Mean Hunger for Millions of Young People appeared first on The Stranger.

Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, May 25–31

MONDAY 5/25 Chapterhouse, the Asteroid No. 4 (MUSIC) Chapterhouse aren’t shoegaze GOATs, but they’re in the convo, flying high enough to sniff the exhaust of My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Lush, and Slowdive. The Reading, England, quintet burned brilliantly but briefly, releasing but two albums and a handful of EPs from 1990 to 1993. Their best […] The post Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, May 25–31 appeared first on The Stranger.

Go to Folklife This Year

It’s Memorial Day Weekend, which means it’s time to break out the tank tops, fire up the grill, and rediscover that the lakes are still really freaking cold in May. And it’s also time to scoot down to Seattle Center to go to Folklife.  I know, I know. The only thing you think of when […] The post Go to Folklife This Year appeared first on The Stranger.

Seattle Social Housing Developer Buys First Building

The Seattle Social Housing Developer (SSHD) has announced its first acquisition, a 150-unit apartment building in the heart of downtown. It plans to turn half of these units into affordable housing. The building, called the Elara at the Market, is a few blocks north of Pike Place Market. SSHD expects to close the sale in […] The post Seattle Social Housing Developer Buys First Building appeared first on The Stranger.

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