Rich Smith

Citing reporting by @propublica and others, nearly 4,000 doctors, nurses and health professionals sent a letter to DHS Sec Kristi Noem calling for the immediate release of all children currently in immigration detention. Full letter: tinyurl.com/yz2amueb 1/

RIP Frederick Wiseman

Frederick Wiseman changed the way we see the world.

From the classrooms of High School to the corridors of Hospital, he turned his camera on the institutions that shape us — inviting us to look closer, sit longer & confront truth with empathy. 

May his memory be a blessing.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

ICE can't function without the private sector. Here are ICE's top corporate collaborators: Amazon/Whole Foods Target Palantir Every major hotel chain Home Depot Lowe’s AT&T Aramark Eastern Airlines Global X Omni Air Flock Systems Dell UPS FedEx Motorola Solutions LexisNexis Thompson Reuters We don't need vague calls to stop shopping at these places or one-off rallies — we need sit-ins, pressure campaigns, *organized* boycotts, employee and consumer petitions, sickouts, demands from elected officials, and non-violent disruption to force these companies to immediately break from ICE

INBOX: Grocery worker union accuses Harrell goes behind workers' backs to make deals with Kroger.

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Honestly a legend. Rest in peace king5.com/article/news/p…

NEW: 101 days after an IDF soldier killed 26-year-old American-Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, I spent 3 days with her family in DC. They hoped to convince Antony Blinken to investigate her death. But he told them things they’d “already heard before.” motherjones.com/politics/2025/…

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@CarlFNelson lol you did not imagine that, and good question!

Do you guys remember back in like 2021 when Seattle's East Precinct opened up a community room? Where you could hang out, and watch Shrek 2 or something? Did I imagine that? And if no, is it still open?

in my latest exploration of Seattle subcultures and hobbies I joined a group of friends for their traditional gathering: Shark & Whiskey movie night. It was fun and silly and also a way to keep a friend group together as life keeps pulling it apart thestranger.com/play-date/2024…

OPEN CALL: Harrell may run a seattle "bipartisan" campaign. Big biz says he's kicking ass and labor isn't looking for a challenger. But Harrell should have to defend his record to a strong progressive, not coast to a second term. thestranger.com/news/2024/12/2…

NEW: As you hear calls for more cops in the wake of the tragic stabbing death of Metro Bus Driver Shawn Yim, consider the recent downtown crackdown and what might be driving agitation in the city. tinyurl.com/mtc448xd

@hannahkrieg @FifthCrichton I regret not writing more stories about our reporting process

@FifthCrichton @richsssmith Full context of the slog am blurb. All checks out and is pretty charitable but I guess we are just like brandi kruse!

This doesn't feel like a fair assessment of @richsssmith's column. I always got the sense that the Stranger merely had no proof of the affair, not that they didn't believe it possible. @hannahkrieg?