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• “We’re Going to Triumph, Even Though We Are Afraid” 

  21-01-2025 21:14 via thestranger.com
  Nearly four thousand people gathered in the frigid chill of a Seattle morning for the 2025 Martin Luther King Jr. March and Rally. They came, as they have for the last 42 years, to remember, to demand, to insist upon their right to hope. But this year, the march struck a searing juxtaposition with events unfolding 2,700 miles away in the nation’s capital.by Marcus Harrison GreenPhotos by Patty Tang
  Nearly four thousand people gathered in the frigid chill of a Seattle morning for the 2025 M
  
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• The Top 39 Events in Seattle This Week: Jan 21–26, 2025

  21-01-2025 19:00 via everout.com
  Jamie xx, Tim Heidecker, and Moreby EverOut StaffDon't let winter's frigid temps keep you from living your best life. We're giving you plenty of reasons to leave the house this week, with tip-top events from Jamie xx to thuy: Wings World Tour and from Tim Heidecker: Slipping Away Tour to a talk with Percival Everett.
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  Arooj Aftab: Night Reign Tour
  New York-based Pakistani singer-songwriter Arooj Aftab blends traditional Urdu poetry with gentle folk guitar and ambient elements t
  
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• Trump and Dump

  21-01-2025 18:55 via thestranger.com
  My partner's teenage son has gone full MAGA.by Dan SavageI’m a lesbian in a big city. My partner of five years is the most wonderful woman I’ve ever met, and we are deeply in love, and plan to spend the rest of our lives together. She has a son from an early-in-life marriage to a man. He is eighteen years old, a senior in high school, and living at home with his mother. (My partner and I do not live together.) About two years ago he got swept up in MAGA hate, toxic masculinity, and v
  
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• Slog AM: Capitol Rioters Set Free, ICE Raids Underway, Warming Centers Ready to Go

  21-01-2025 18:00 via thestranger.com
  Seattle's Only News Roundupby Marcus Harrison GreenWhelp, that happened. Trump, “saved by God to make America great again,” kicked off his first day as the 47th President of the United States with a flurry of executive orders, wielding his signature big Sharpie like a pro. Whether you dealt with those pangs of extensional dread by way of drowning them in booze, talking it out to a teletherapist, or marching in the streets (no judgment from someone who partook in all three, at times s
  
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• It's Monster Jam Time

  21-01-2025 02:05 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger went to Monster Jam.by West SmithIntroduction and captions written by Hannah Murphy Winter.
  Last weekend, photographer West Smith got on Sound Transit and headed down to Tacoma. Why? Because it was time for Monster Jam—the three-day monster truck rally at the Tacoma Dome. This show has everything: A truck named Scooby-Doo; A motocross halftime show; (Probably) AI-generated songs about America. The whole event was (actually) sponsored by super glue. So today, as we all doom scr
  
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