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• Candidate Survivor Is Thursday

  23-07-2025 22:00 via thestranger.com
  Best of all? Just like voting, it's FREE!by Megan SelingThe time has come! It is officially Primary Election season. The ballots have been sent out, the candidates have been interviewed and researched, and the endorsements have been pored over and debated, and now it's time to vote! But before you cast that ballot, you have one more level of due diligence to conquer: You must see how well your candidate of choice can perform under the pressure of our annual Candidate Survivor competition!
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• Burn the Chris

  23-07-2025 21:34 via thestranger.com
  Chris Fleming performs at Neptune July 27.by Vivian McCallI presented comedian Chris Fleming with a theory. When he answered the phone for our interview ahead of his performances in Seattle, I proposed that his comedy is all about discussing gender in an absurd way. He has a bit about the snacks at Trader Joe’s that only women can see, and another about his sixth sense for when a restaurant is owned by brothers. Fleming broke through on YouTube with his character Gayle Waters-Waters, a hig
  
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• Slog AM: ICE Detains High School Theater Director, Israel Strikes WHO Site, and CEOs love Bruce Harrell

  23-07-2025 18:36 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's Morning News Roundup.by Hannah Murphy WinterGood Morning! The weather is goddamn beautiful—highs in the 80s and sunny—which is a delightful contrast to everything you’re about to read.
  Let’s do the news.
  (If you get to the end, there’s some butt jokes, as a treat.)
  Trump Is Afraid of Teachers: Last week, ICE arrested and detained Fernando Rocha, a theater manager at Juanita High School in Kirkland. His lawyer told the Seattle Times that Rocha entered
  
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• Fading Away

  23-07-2025 00:00 via thestranger.com
  Got problems? Yes, you do! Email your question for the column to [email protected]!by Dan SavageI’m a cis bisexual American woman in my 30s, married to a man. I’ve been living in Europe for the past decade. I’m self-employed, and it’s a pretty lonely existence sometimes. I don’t speak the local language well. It’s a very tight-knit culture, and everybody seems like they’ve had their friend groups since birth. I’ve had a really hard time form
  
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