Last night, the Seattle City Council passed the most comprehensive reform of large vehicle regulations in a generation to make it harder for homeless people to live in RVs and trailers. The six ordinances sponsored by Councilmember Dan Strauss...
Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week, unexpected worlds collided: Bono and Dan Savage, John Wilson and Harry Styles, and David Byrne and Oliva Rodrigo. Joni Mitchell can now vote in the US. Plus, a shout-out to the cool...
The man suspected of shooting to death an attendant at a Belltown gas station was arrested yesterday in Chicago by US Marshals. The murder happened on October 13 around 5 a.m. and was captured by a surveillance camera. The...
I think I’ve developed a crush on my wife’s ex. I’m in my forties and my wife is older than me. We’ve been together for fifteen years. We are both women. Before we dated each other, we dated men...
Our corporate overlords don’t oppose the Millionaires Tax: Or at least, they aren’t spending big to destroy it at the ballot, as they have done to similar income tax proposals in the past, the Seattle Times reports. The lack...
It seems likely that 2026 will be known as the year that AI broke through and became a mainstream political issue. Protests against data centers have swept the country, AI agents are launching cyberattacks against their own kind, and...
Sifting through the infosphere as I drafted Monday’s Slog AM, I was delighted to stumble on an Instagram post introducing Grimothy aka “Jim Reaper, Dark Lord and Father of Jimothy,” as his creators call him. Could this monstrosity have...
MONDAY 10/19
Barbara Kingsolver
(LITERATURE) What can’t Barbara Kingsolver do? The bestselling author never misses, from her historical fiction classic The Poisonwood Bible to her 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning sensation Demon Copperhead. Her most recent novel, Partita, follows piano teacher Livia Cable,...
Good morning and happy Monday to those who celebrate.
Envelopes with suspicious white powder have been sent to congressional offices ahead of the midterms, NBC reports. US Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s staff evacuated her Seattle office Friday afternoon after a similar...
At a chilly morning press conference today, Seattle Social Housing Developer (SSHD) Interim CEO Tiffani McCoy announced plans for the agency’s first original construction project, a five-story apartment building in the Central District on the lot that used to...
