Seattle’s most celebrated billionaire is getting a campus wake-up call. A UW student is asking whether philanthropy can keep insulating power from accountability.
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Seattle’s most celebrated billionaire is getting a campus wake-up call. A UW student is asking whether philanthropy can keep insulating power from accountability.
Want to scream? Me too. We're putting a monthly protest calendar in @thestranger.com, including marches, rallies, and other ways to get involved. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Doesn't that feel better?
"There's a specific kind of lie that powerful men tell when the walls start closing in: the minimizing lie, the "it wasn't what it looked like" lie, the "I was barely there" lie. Bill Gates tried that last one earlier this month.
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It took Mayor Katie Wilson 37 minutes into her State of the City to mention the Seahawks. A new era in local government.
Katie Wilson interrupts her State of the City address to note the fact that a 27-year-old was killed last night by a driver in Capitol Hill.
"We have to do better. We're not on track for our Vision Zero goals, and we have to make it safe for our vulnerable road users to get around the city."
She just announced a new skate park in Rainier Beach. Not clear if it's the one that Adonis Ducksworth campaigned on, but I hope so. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/02...
In the lead up to FIFA, Wilson plans to organize a friendly match between elected officials. I will pay real American dollars to watch that.
"We have to start treating food access as core community infrastructure." In her State of the City address, Wilson reiterated her campaign-trail proposal to open a publicly funded grocery store, which she announced with UFCW 300. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/08...
Wilson did not commit to a decision about the expansion of the CCTV system. She said she's still concerned about digital security, but she's also been "moved" by families who see it as a vital tool to solve gun violence crimes, especially after two students were shot at a bus stop in Rainier Beach.
"We can't get so used to the way things are that we start to feel it's natural for so many people to be left to sleep outside every night," Wilson says. She committed to 1,000 new units of shelter this year, with services matched to people's needs.
Mayor Katie Wilson as she starts her State of the City Address: "I don't think I've ever talked for as long as I'm about to talk, so we'll see how it goes."
BREAKING: @councilmember-amr.bsky.social and Toshiko Hasegawa spoke to the Stranger about new their new policies to impede ICE in Seattle and at the Port.
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Local officials across Seattle, King County, and the Port are moving to limit ICE’s reach.
Team USA keeps their 5-0 win streak alive if you don't count the Britta Curl goal, which I don't because fuck transphobes.
BREAKING: Our local lawmakers are hustling on measured that would impede ICE this week. I talked to Councilmember Rinck and Port Commissioner Hasegawa about their newest policies. www.thestranger.com/news/2026/02...
Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?
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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.
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.
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.
- US Terrorizes Greenland
- US Terrorizes US
- Washington Sheriffs Yell on Facebook
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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
- 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.
"Our system is inadequate to provide healing to most survivors," they say.
Charles is asking the hard hitting questions, like why are modern apartment buildings so ugly? This is Stranger Places with @mudede.bsky.social
