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• All Is Full of Love

  11-02-2025 23:30 via thestranger.com
  Did someone leave you a sweet valentine in our latest issue?by Stranger StaffAt the start of the year, we put out the call for our free reader valentines, a tradition that has been around for something like 25 years, and you came through in spades, sending sweet messages to your partners, friends, family, kids, and pets.
  There were notes to Potato, BUBBAROONI, and My IBS Babe, and from Cake Daddy, Noodle, and Panther. Some were celebrating decades of life together; others were glowing with the n
  
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• Low and Slow

  11-02-2025 22:39 via thestranger.com
  Got problems? Yes, you do! Email your question for the column to [email protected]!by Megan SelingDear Readers: When I open a column with “Dear Readers,” it’s usually to let you know I’m taking a week off. But this is a brand-new column! All new questions, all new answers. But I intentionally dug through the mail for relatively simple questions because I’m just fried from the news. So, if you wrote in this week about a particularly thorny interpersonal conflict th
  
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• UW Student Activists Fear Repression Under Trump’s New Executive Order

  11-02-2025 19:30 via thestranger.com
  Donald Trump’s recent executive order is being seen as a tool of repression against pro-Palestinian student activists, fueling concerns over an intensified crackdown on campus dissent.by Mead GillDonald Trump’s recent executive order is being seen as a tool of repression against pro-Palestinian student activists, fueling concerns over an intensified crackdown on campus dissent. 
  A fact sheet accompanying the order, announced last Wednesday, clarifies that it builds on his 2019 d
  
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• Slog AM: The Special Election Is Today, Planes Keep Crashing, Furry Hackers Might Save Us

  11-02-2025 18:30 via thestranger.com
  by Hannah Murphy WinterIt’s Election Day! Yes, in February. It’s one of our Very Special Elections—the lower-turnout elections where our city council tends to shove progressive projects they want to let die. This time, that project is social housing. So don’t let them kill it. As of this morning, voter turnout was only at 21 percent, which is bad even for a non-November election. And based on this poll at least, this election is tight. So go find your ballot under that pi
  
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