Slog AM: Washington Bans Trans Girls from Girls Sports, the “World’s Largest Jew-Hater” Is Investigating Antisemitism at UW, and More Nuclear Weapons Are Bound for Our Shores
The Ayatollah responds to the blue wave: “If there are still those who entertain the slightest hope that the hegemonic system may change behavior or shifts in its political parties may bring about change, or that by making concessions to the US, they can persuade it to abandon its hostility, they’re gravely mistaken,” he posted…
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Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries psychologist Abraham Maslow coined the term “peak experiences”: surging upflows of heightened clarity, awe, vitality, and love. He also identified another category, “plateau experiences.” These are gentler but more enduring states, characterized less by ecstatic fireworks than by a leisurely delight in being alive. I believe you’re in a phase…
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Wednesday’s Ballot Drop Is Here
We have more ballots and more votes! But not many. For any big, or really any noticeable, changes, we’ll have to wait for tomorrow’s ballot drop and Friday’s. Those will have a trove of election day ballots. But here’s what’s up. We’ve got our eye on whether Dems win a supermajority in the state House,…
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Pop Loser: Chastity Belt’s New Album Made Me Cry
Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week I’ll dive into Chastity Belt’s new album All My Friends (out Friday on Suicide Squeeze), the best musician costumes I saw this Halloween, and that time the Pet Shop Boys produced an album for Liza Minnelli. There are so many great shows happening in Seattle this week, and…
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Idaho Voters Picked the Evilest Possible State Gun
Despite the best efforts of the Idaho Republican Party, the state’s people still have the right to propose citizen initiatives, which appear on the ballot alongside initiatives referred by the far-right state Legislature. For instance, Idaho residents this year voted down a grassroots attempt to restore abortion access, as well as a ploy by the…
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Slog AM: Democrats Take Congress, Millionaires Tax Stays, Trans Sports Ban Could Pass
Goodbye Republican Congress! Try not to let the tsunami hit you on the way out. Oops! It hit you? Hm. Maybe that’s because you did zero to help Americans with basic problems—food prices, gas prices, housing prices, the list goes on and on—while at the same time opening the door and laying yourselves down as…
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Four Years Ago, Vito’s Beloved Stuffed Cougar Went Missing
During Thanksgiving weekend of 2022, Vito’s was deprived of a key part of its identity, a taxidermy cougar named Barbara. Killed somewhere in Northern Canada some 20 years before the start of the present millennium, and purchased in 2010 by Vito’s owners, Greg Lundgren and Jeff Scott, the beast commanded the back room reserved for…
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Levitating Together
When XOË (pronounced X-O-E) began making music together a year and a half ago, they had no preconceived notions about what influences might come to the surface. “I feel like it’s only been since the end of last year that we’ve really found our sound,” the band’s keyboardist, Max Irvine, tells me. “And even then,…
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What to Do If You See ICE
Print, fold, and keep this ’zine on hand so you know how and where to report an ICE sighting. You can submit photos and video, and search for ICE license plate information, anytime at ICEout.org. The Washington Immigration Solidarity Network announced staff layoffs in October, and its Deportation Defense Hotline is only monitored Monday–Friday, 7…
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Where to Scream
Solidarity Day with Seattle Democratic Socialists of AmericaNov 14La Resistencia, which started in 2014 to “end immigrant detention and deportations in Washington,” regularly hosts vigils outside the detention center and monitors deportation flights out of the King County International Airport. On November 14, they’ll be joined by members of the Seattle Democratic Socialists of America.…
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Addicted to the Rot
Alex Tatarsky, who once made headlines by pulling a hoax at the Andy Kaufman Awards in 2013, where they announced they were Andy’s daughter and that he was still alive, says their absurdist performances live in “the uncomfortable in-between zone of comedy, dance-theater, performance art, and deluded rant—sometimes with songs.” Their solo show Sad Boys…
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The People You Meet in Chinatown
I actually kinda love that it’s hard to park in Chinatown. Don’t get me wrong, I also fucking hate it. But I do appreciate what it represents: a neighborhood that’s alive, which, in 2026, is not a given with Chinatowns across the country. Our CID is something special, and the best way to experience it…
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