Baseball!!! Clap your hands, or cheeks (if you have the assets)—the Seattle Mariners are headed to the playoffs after beating the Colorado Rockies 4-3! I have only one thing to say:

Crash: A fatal crash between a truck and a motorcycle slowed traffic on southbound I5 around Interstate 526 in Everett, reports the Seattle Times.

Back to the Collapsing Empire: President Donald Trump started his Tuesday address to the United Nations by announcing his teleprompter was broken. He only referenced the war in Ukraine and genocide in Gaza in passing, and according to CNN, spent most of his time talking shit. From the network: “‘I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell,’ he said at one point while talking about migration, a sentiment that neatly summed up the thesis of his speech. In a sign of just how much the world has changed since he was laughed at from the same podium by delegates in his first term, the audience Tuesday sat mostly silent.”

Change-up: Trump posted on social media that he believed Ukraine could, with NATO support, reclaim its territory from Russia. The statement came after a meeting with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. Just before the meeting, he told reporters NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft in their airspace. This is good for Ukrainians, but also, so odd. For months, he’s been saying Ukraine would have to cede land for peace with Russia. 

Violence: Three people have been shot at an ICE facility in Dallas. One person is dead and two are wounded. Detainees were among the three victims, officials say. No federal agents were shot, but VP JD Vance and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem posted about violence against federal law enforcement immediately after the incident was reported. The shooter shot and killed himself. The news is moving fast. Check here for updates.

Bad Cops, Want to be a Worse One? The federal government is airing local ads to lure local law enforcement toward a wild and wonderful career with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The campaign is targeting sanctuary cities like us, LA and Chicago. “Attention Seattle law enforcement,” the ad states. “You took an oath to protect and serve, to keep your family, your city safe. But in sanctuary cities, you’re ordered to stand down while dangerous illegals walk free.” Mayor Bruce Harrell is pissed about the recruitment ads, saying that “we are not going to compromise our high standards for law enforcement when the Trump administration tries to bully us into violating our own laws and values.” (He also likely doesn’t want to lose any gains on officer numbers). The $8.9 billion city budget proposal he dropped Tuesday included $40 million for the Seattle Police Department, the biggest increase for a city department in the plan.

What’s in that Budget? Dough to fund the police (less money for the Fire and Health and Human Services departments), a plan to divert 45 percent of the JumpStart tax (money specifically set aside for affordable housing) to the general fund (money specifically set aside for whatever), and more (it’s a budget). The Seattle Times’ David Kroman has more details here. He writes that the budget is built around a slightly sunnier economic forecast than August’s: Officials expect a $150 million deficit, not a $240 million deficit.

Harrell Announces $15 Million to Address Gun Violence: The city will send the money to groups focused on gun violence prevention, school safety, and support services. Harrell made the announcement at Garfield High School, where 17-year-old Amarr Murphy-Paine was shot and killed during lunch in June 2024. After the shooting, the school partnered with Seattle’s Health and Human Services Department on prevention. Garfield’s principal said students are in “a better place” as a result. 

Mayoral Challenger Katie Wilson Criticizes Harrell’s Approach: In a statement to KUOW, Wilson’s cited the City Auditor, which found last year that Seattle lacked “a rigorous evidence-based framework for our violence prevention investments.” “Putting existing contracts out for bid now is putting the cart before the horse — the strategic framework should be hammered out first, and should draw on highly successful approaches that have been tested in other cities.” Wilson said this should be postponed until the city can work with local leaders and community-based organizations to “identify best practices.”

Seattle Area Trans Women Are Being Beaten by Groups of Men: Earlier this month, three trans women were beaten by a group of young men on Capitol Hill. According to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, there’s been at least four other group beatings like it since June 2024. In one case, strangers joined in. No other group in the county is being targeted like this, the office told The Stranger.

Today’s Forecast: Sunny with a high of 70 before we drop into the 60s the rest of the week.

Dropping into the 60s:

Air Quality Alert Until Noon: The air quality sucks in southern and eastern Pierce County and northern and east King County. The wildfire smoke may linger for the next day or so, according to the National Weather Service. Save that strenuous outdoor activity for the evening, this shit is not good for you.

“GIMME MY JIMMY,” read protester Chris Kevorkian’s sign outside the local ABC affiliate KOMO’s office on Tuesday. The station’s parent company, Sinclair Broadcasting, has said it won’t air “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Executives at Disney and ABC took Kimmel’s show off the air last week shortly after FFC Chair Brendan Carr went on a far-right podcast and called Kimmel’s conduct “some of the sickest conduct possible.” Carr implied his agency could “do this the easy way, or the hard way.”

Kimmel’s “controversial comments” about Charlie Kirk’s shooting were not all that controversial. He suggested MAGA was “desperately trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, anything to score political points from it.” He may not have been right about the shooter’s ideology (which is still unclear), but he was absolutely correct about the right exploiting Kirk’s death.

What You Didn’t Hear on KOMO: During his first opening monologue since his return, Kimmel called the Trump administration’s threats against ABC “anti-American.” “This show is not important,” he said. “What’s important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.” The New York Times reports Carr will not stop going after the media.

Apple TV Quietly Pulled Show About Domestic Extremism: The Savant—a show about law enforcement trying to prevent domestic extremism—was supposed to premiere this Friday. But now, it’s off the release slate and it’s unclear when it’ll be put back on. The decision was made “amid current events,” writes Deadline.

A song for today: According to the New York Times, people have been gathering outside the Dallas ICE facility for a weekly prayer vigil, where people raised signs like “families belong together” and “due process.” More than 8,400 people have been detained at the building since President Donald Trump took office.

Vivian McCall is The Stranger's interim Editor-in-Chief. In her private life, she is a musician and Wii U apologist. If you’re reading this, you either love her or hate her.

84 replies on “Slog AM: At Least One Person Is Dead at ICE Facility Shooting, Trump Tells UN Member States Their Countries Are “Going to Hell,” Harrell Announces Funding for Gun Violence Prevention”

  1. Coolidge dear, are you still stuck on this? Ms. Jenner demands respect that she denies others. So I, personally, will only refer to her by her surname. I’ve never met her, I wouldn’t want to, because Republicans are horrible people, so you needn’t worry about the possibility of my disrespecting her to that mass of Botox where her face used to be.

  2. @51: Sometimes Republicans turn into Democrats as politics is malleable. Your “Republicans are horrible people” schtick makes you a nasty hateful person even though you think it gives you clout.

  4. Coolidge dear, how you do prattle on. Republicans are not only horrible people, they are also terribly emotionally fragile.

    You really should buck it up a bit, dear. Put on your big boy pants, cry harder, all of those other cliches you people are so fond of.

  5. 50 pretty ironic for you to be acting like the moral authority on respecting caitlyn jenner’s chosen name when vivian had to close comments on the article about anti-trans violence because you couldn’t resist the urge to use slurs

  6. @52: “Sometimes Republicans turn into Democrats as politics is malleable.”

    That would be the very first step to their becoming slightly-less-than-horrible people, now wouldn’t it? 😀

    Have you any examples of Republicans turning into Democrats?

    Have you any examples of Republicans being not-horrible people?

  7. Ah yes, right-wing terrorism like the Oklahoma City Bombing, lynching, burning flaming crosses, and dismantling voting rights and the Constitution to prop up poor victimized white folks who had their jobs and college admissions taken by immigrants who got a free pass because DEI or some such pathetic excuse. Whatever happened to bootstraps and personal responsibility? Now they just blame everyone who looks or sounds different for all their problems in life, pitiful and weak. At least Oklahoma wants to make sure a Turning Point chapter is placed in every high school so that Timothy McVeigh’s savage ideology can proliferate and become normalized by a bunch of suckers.

  14. I can’t believe they’re trying to pass that psycho who killed the deportees at the ICE concentration camp as a “leftist” Republicans think we’re all as dumb as they are.

  15. “64” Anti-Ice?” Not exactly deny defend depose. I am starting to think they are just reporting whatever is engraved on shell casings as some bullshit to scapegoat this bogeyman of radical leftists. Like at least Robinson’s were a bit more creative. The media is highly compromised right now.

  17. 58 ???? Vivian had to shut down comments on it because you typed out a bunch of nasty slurs within minutes of the post going live. Not to mention your other sock puppet in the same thread minimizing their experience. This thread was closed because you can’t contain your hatred of trans people, unless they’re podcasters and celebrities who grift off of anti-trans sentiment of course.

    https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09/23/80249464/seattle-area-trans-women-are-being-attacked-by-groups-of-men

  19. 67: You’re wrong about this buddy. Biped may have commented. We are not sock puppets. My comment was @2 and it was in regard to how strange it was that Viv used scare quotes like “f_g” instead of typing them out.

  20. Also, when was the last time the radical left pulled a January 6th? Like what the fuck, those shitbags tried to overthrow our entire government and then got pardoned by the biggest criminal fuckhead of them all. Do we just accept that because he pardoned them it didn’t happen? We are under far right extremist terrorism right now that is blanketing the country with falsehoods and total rewriting of history every day by outlawing thoughtcrime, aka the truth! How the fuck people could vote for that mother fucker after J6 still boggles my mind. How fucking stupid and weak minded are our people to gobble up this dogshit? Pitiful and disgraceful. Fuck everyone who voted for Trump again after J6, unbelievable traitorous filth.

  21. 69 no i’m not, i saw the comments myself —coolidge was comment number 2 with the slurs and @spankey” was comment number 1, and these are both obvious raindrop/phoebe alt accounts

  22. @71: I saw them too. My comment, @2, was about the typing of slurs in Viv’s text. Do you remember what @1 said? It was something like “How horrible to be attacked for your beliefs.”

    Do you recall any comments past @2?

  24. If the author is not typing out the full slur that should be your first clue that they’re not welcome in the comments for reasons that would be obvious to a non-horrible person. You have a long history of talking shit about trans people so you don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt.

  25. 74: Since when do stranger staffers not type out slurs in their full text? Viv was being prudish.

    I have never said anything negative about trans people. That’s the truth.

  27. The fuck you haven’t, and you knew exactly what you were doing when you typed out those words with your whole chest. It’s not hard to ask a question about editorial style without using the actual slurs.

  28. @76. Thats right, fuckface. What about January 6th? Do you support pardoning all the fuckers who invaded and vandalized the Capitol? Or is a pitiful caps swap all you got? You probably aren’t even a real American.

  31. 77: You’re actually hanging your hat on the use of a slur in a news story in this rag as opposed to using the slur against someone specifically or as a group? My, such pearl clutching when you really have exhausted anything of substance you could ever say against me.

    You so excruciatingly pathetically desperate. It must be because I’m living rent free in your head.

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