Monday, September 28, 2026

Seattle

Sorry, Trash Pandas

Dear Trash Pandas, I owe you an apology. Last weekend, after what I’ll call “a completely honest lack of judgment,” I accidentally left an entire, unopened package of magically delicious gummies on my back deck. I discovered this the next morning...

Slog AM: Ballard Light Rail Is Dead for Now, Markwayne Mullin Keeps Threatening to Ban International Flights to Sanctuary Cities, Trump Still Pushing Trump...

RIP Ballard Light Rail: For now, at least. Yesterday, the Sound Transit board voted down Seattle City Councilmember Dan Strauss’s hail mary amendment to build the Ballard light rail extension. Facing a $35 billion budget gap, the agency will...

Ticket Alert: Kehlani, LE SSERAFIM, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

Summer may not have started yet, but we’re helping you plan for a fun fall as well. R&B songstress Kehlani winds down the world tour for her recently released self-titled album in Seattle this September. K-pop quintet LE SSERAFIM...

ICE Retaliates Against Hunger Strikers at NWDC

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has transferred the leaders of a Tuesday hunger strike at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma to an unknown location. Advocates say their removal was retaliatory. The hunger strike was organized by 44-year-old Rogelio...

Slog AM: Trouble in YIMBYdise, Dog Shoots Woman, White House Honors Harambe the Gorilla

Save the Light Rail: City and county officials are trying everything to keep Sound Transit 3 intact after Sound Transit proposed cutting several stations and lines due to rising costs. Councilmember Dan Strauss has proposed an amendment to save...

Pop Loser #31: SOPHIE Summer

Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week, Big Freedia dropped the first track from her SOPHIE-produced EP, Linda Perry shaded two Billy/ies in one interview, and Robert Fripp has a testicle-related question. Plus, AI advancements that nobody asked for,...

Dungeon Crawler Carl Is a Seattle Story Even Though the Whole City Is Destroyed on the First Page

In March, I picked up a book called Dungeon Crawler Carl. It consumed me. I spent the next four weeks tearing through the seven available books in the series. All I wanted to do was read. All other media...

Slog AM: Meta Killing More Jobs in King County, Dow Constantine Kicks Graham Street Station Into the Future, CDC Seeking Volunteers to Screen Travelers...

Meta keeps bleeding local jobs into the twilight of AI hype. The latest round of layoffs has eliminated 1,395 jobs in King County. Though some may think that AI itself is the cause of this escalating redundancy, a closer...

Doom and Groom

Should I feel weird about my husband’s grooming situation when he was young with a family friend if he doesn’t feel weird about it? He’s mid-thirties. He’s known this woman since he was seven and she used to babysit for...

Slog AM: Bari Weiss Turns Off CBS News Radio, Susan Collins’s White Supremacist Photo Op, SNAP Cutbacks Mean Hunger for Millions of Young People

Impoverished PNW Journalists Strike McClatchy Newspapers: Just as they threatened, dozens of journalists struck papers across Washington and Idaho today, claiming management won’t send decision-makers to logjammed contract negotiations over increased pay. The workers say the strike will last...
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Apple hit with $5.7 billion in damages over haptic patents

Haptics tech company Taction sued Apple in 2021, alleging it infringed two of its patents. Now a federal jury...
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