Nathalie Graham

Emerald City Comic Con Has Connections to ICE A group of unhappy cosplayers penned a petition to Emerald City Comic Con's parent company asking them to do something about it.

Emerald City Comic Con starts today! The con’s ownership has ties to ICE. A group of cosplayers isn’t taking that relationship lying down:

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Urbanist Ron Davis Hungers for the House Davis has heard grumblings about his decision to run against an established Democrat incumbent, but he thinks he's the right choice for the seat.

Ron Davis is running
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Why Workers at Sophon Went on Strike Court documents show that behind the scenes, Sophon and chef Karuna Long struggled financially for years, resulting in bounced paychecks, late payments to vendors, unpaid rent, and lawsuits.

If you've wanted to know what the hell was going on with the recent closures of Sophon and Oliver's Twist, @thestranger.com has it all right here:
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Hanging on by a Thread with the Capitol Hill Tool Library’s Mending Circle The four people at my table had their heads down, needles and threads in their hands. Behind me, books like How to Fix Almost Everything, Basic Electricity, and, fittingly, Successful Shelves and Buil...

For my latest Play Date column, I went to the Capitol Hill Tool Library's monthly mending circle and learned a thing or two about self-reliance:
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This is the main use for them, yes.

starting a new thing where I actually read the physical magazines from my various subscriptions

I can't emphasize this enough: .08 is way drunker than you may think.

A good reminder of the great story the Stranger did last summer showing that in fact a 0.05% BAC is enough to make you too impaired to drive!

Anti-Drunk Driving Bill Crashes and Burns in the Legislature The bill to lower the legal blood alcohol content limit died in the House, even in spite of The Stranger's flawed-science experiment last summer.

RIP to lower BAC
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Uh Oh, Someone Might be Doing Fraud At least 37,824 names registered to testify against the bill in House and Senate hearings were duplicates, some appearing more than 100 times. And at least 100 people told Invest in Washington Now tha...

Do this many people actually hate the millionaire's tax or is it a lot of lying? www.thestranger.com/news/2026/02...

Huge flex

This game is a neat way to test how well you know Seattle’s transit routes.

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I'm bad at it!!!

Think You Are the King of the Bus? This New Game Will Humble You I was excited to play. And then I lost. Twice.

have you tried the new transit game?

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A sly hip check will do—can’t risk a flagrant foul

yes

Let me nutmeg Rob Saka

I must slide tackle Dan Strauss

if they don’t let me play soccer in the Seattle elected official soccer game for my column I’m going to scream

Throwing Stones with Granite Curling Club A dedicated group in one of the few dedicated curling facilities on the West Coast.

oh we're talking about curling?
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How it started / how it’s going

There’s an Election Happening Right Now Only real ones know about the King Conservation District (KCD) election. Which is a shame. It isn’t some dusty, obscure, do-nothing entity; the KCD has an operating budget of around $10 million, mined...

did you know about the seattle election happening right now? www.thestranger.com/news/2026/02...

it smells like soil on the 8 rn anyone else getting notes of this?

my life is typing "doc.new" into google chrome over and over and over and over and over and over and over and one must imagine sisyphus happy

LAPD won't enforce California's ICE mask ban, chief says LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell discusses the city's lowest homicide rate since 1966 and explains why the department won't enforce California's ICE mask ban.

could be a similar story for Washington’s bill that’s making its way through the legislature rn

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St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to the first time local police in...

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

babe please you have to stop watching Roku city

Protests! Get Your Protests Here! The demands are simple: Get Target to denounce ICE, those chuds terrorizing and murdering people in Target’s hometown, and to stop allowing them to operate in their stores. Shouldn’t the c...

looking for somewhere to direct your energy today? try this:
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ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.

After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:

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ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

This is grim. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...