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• The Washington-Grown “Legal Powerhouse” Coming for LGBTQ Rights

  23-12-2024 22:30 via thestranger.com
  Kristen Waggoner Is Driving the Anti-LGBTQ Push in the Supreme Court. And Seattle’s the Town That Made Her.by Hannah Murphy WinterEarlier this month, in a feature in the Gay Times, Uncloseted Media introduced many of their readers to Kristen Waggoner, one of the world’s leaders in anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice advocacy, and fighter for “religious freedom.” She was presented—for very good reason—as a “legal powerhouse” in the conservative movement, wit
  
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• The Stranger’s Cookie Countdown: Day 23

  23-12-2024 22:15 via thestranger.com
  We're counting down to 2025 by sharing some of our favorite cookies on Slog every day in December!by Vivian McCallLook, I know what you're thinking. This store-bought frosted sugar cookie sucks. This cookie is too crumbly. This cookie tastes exactly the same, whatever the color, and breaks the sacred code that white means vanilla and brown means chocolate. This cookie has a sawdust texture as if chemically engineered to have as much air as physically possible between molecules of butter, sugar,
  
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• The Top 38 Events in Seattle This Week: Dec 23–29, 2024

  23-12-2024 19:00 via everout.com
  Kenny G, Nosferatu, and Moreby EverOut StaffChristmas festivities might be the star of the show this week, but there are also plenty of other jolly-good events to keep you busy, from the Emerald City Gala to Kenny G and the Christmas Day film premieres of Babygirl and Nosferatu.
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  Emerald City Gala
  Seattle-based rapper Yonny, funk-hop ensemble Marshall Law Band, Latin hip-hop artist Esebree, and many more will take the stage in support of Seattle Cozy Connections, a
  
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• Slog AM: The Gaetz Ethics Report Is Here, King County Metro Suspect Apprehended, Texas Representative Found Living in Retirement Home

  23-12-2024 18:21 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamAn early present: CBS News got a sneak peek at the House Ethics Committee report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz that's expected to drop today. The investigation found that Gaetz, who was perilously close to becoming attorney general, paid numerous women for sex, one of whom was a 17-year-old girl. He also bought and used illicit drugs. He got lit on those drugs in his Capitol Hill office, too. In short, the Committee found "substantial evidence" t
  
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