If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em
The press corps in Olympia are the “enemies of the American people,” the Plastics in Mean Girls, and Democratic party operatives, so says right-wing podcaster Brandi Kruse. She detests them. And she wants to join them. On a recent podcast, Kruse showed a video of several reporters huddled around a press table in the House…
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Slog AM: Iran Agrees to Ceasefire, Bill Gates Agrees to Testify, and More Than 80 Dems Want Trump Removed From Office
Iran Agrees to Ceasefire: Last night, Trump announced that the US and Iran have agreed to a two-week ceasefire and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Pete Hegseth did a presser this morning and said, like a ’roided-out high school football coach forced to watch the game from the parking lot after being suspended…
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Drag Race Episode 14: The Final Four
Good morning, Bitches! It’s the Semifinals. Episode 14 (rightfully) started off with the queens in utter shock over last week’s elimination—Darlene was particularly devastated by her new friend’s departure. But with Jane gone, the remaining queens had a new fire in their eyes. It’s anyone’s game now. Our top four—Myki, Nini, Juicy, and Darlene—had one…
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Seattle’s Art-Tech Fantasy Gets More Real
Since time immemorial—or at least since the 1990s—Seattle has chased the elusive intersection of art and tech. But what does that mean, actually? What exists at this mythical crossroads—a devil, a pot of gold? For artists, it’s long signified a transformational influx of funding that might reshape the cultural sector. From the tech side, it’s…
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To Experience the Horror Movie ‘Exit 8,’ Visit the Beacon Hill Light-Rail Station
A part of me wants this post to be about an Instagram pigeon who has made the subterranean Beacon Hill Station its home. But we must assign that deserving story to a post that will appear in the near future. For now, I want to open a review of the Japanese movie Exit 8 with…
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The Washington State Supreme Court Races Are a BFD This Year
Something unprecedented is happening in the Washington State Supreme Court. Five seats are on the ballot this year. That many seats have never been up for grabs at once in the modern court, but a wave of retirements combined with regular term limits has made for one hell of a situation. The court, which oversees…
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Show and Tell
I’ve been married to my wife for nine years and we share a beautiful life together with our two young children. I came out to her as bi late last year after working through some major intimacy issues that are still ongoing. She accepts me and the issues are getting better. We are monogamous and I…
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The Little Pokémon Gym That Could
These days, you can throw a dart and hit a Pokémon. The mofos are everywhere. But what started as an innocent game has mutated into a global frenzy, namely with the cards. Right now, somewhere in America, grown men are fistfighting outside Pokémon vending machines at grocery stores. People are committing literal crimes for cardboard.…
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Slog AM: Trump Threatens to End Iran’s Civilization Over Oil, Incoming Super El Niño, Ye Banned From UK
Thirteen Daily Immigration Arrests in Washington: Despite state and local laws meant to protect Washington immigrants from the Trump administration, newly released data from UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project shows an increased rate of arrests by immigration police between last October and March. Twenty-one hundred people have been arrested, according to the Washington State Standard,…
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Catching Feelings
On the edge of Boeing Field, hemmed by runways and abandoned gravel roads, the Georgetown Steam Plant looms, blockish and impenetrable, straight out of Gotham. Inside looks like the belly of the Titanic: steel boilers, turbines, and pumps twisting through a space so immense it’s been dubbed an industrial cathedral. In 1907, the machine roared,…
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Why Did the Greenwood Fred Meyer Stop Offering Paper Bags with Handles?
I wouldn’t say the Greenwood Fred Meyer is my favorite grocery store, but it’s the closest. And I don’t mind shopping there. It’s annoying to have to show my receipt to an armed guard as I leave the store, but I like their Murray’s cheese counter, and at least they don’t lock up their ice…
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Stranger Suggests: An Eye-Popping Cabaret Festival, One of the Greatest Living Short Story Writers, and a Cosmic Drama About Climate Change
One really great thing to do every day of the week.
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