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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Jan 31–Feb 2, 2025

  31-01-2025 19:00 via everout.com
  Fremont Soupocalypse, The Great Seattle Seed Swap, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15by EverOut StaffNews cycle wearing you down? Take some much-needed me time this weekend and unplug at events from the 5th Annual Fremont Soupocalypse to The Great Seattle Seed Swap & Community Kitchen and from Explore the Outdoors Family Fair to Jazz in the City with Darrius Willrich. For more ideas, check out our roundup of this week's top events.
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• Slog AM: New Chief for SPD, Leadership Ousted at FBI, A Nirvana Reunion

  31-01-2025 17:17 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamA new chief for SPD: The Seattle Police Department's new boss will be sworn into the role Friday. Shon Barnes is the former chief in Madison, Wisconsin, a much smaller city than Seattle with a police department half as big. He worked in Greensboro, N.C. as an officer and commander before that. Barnes, who has a doctorate in management and used to be a history teacher, could be a much-needed fresh perspective for our pals over at SPD. Or,
  
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• Trump’s Federal Government is Blocking Gender Marker Changes

  31-01-2025 00:08 via thestranger.com
  Here's What You Can Change Right Now, and What You Can'tby Vivian McCallWhen Joe Biden was President, trans people in the US could update the gender marker on file with the Social Security Administration, the gender marker on their passport with the State Department, and, if they were not born here, various travel, employment, and residence documents with US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
  But last Monday Donald Trump issued the sweeping executive order, “Defending Women From Gender
  
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