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• It’s Not Too Late to Defund ICE

  26-01-2026 23:32 via thestranger.com
  There are limited tools to ensure constitutional rights are respected by ICE and the private detention corporations they contract with. But Congress holds the most powerful card: the power of the purse.by Sarah van GelderProtests swept the Seattle area this weekend after federal agents shot and killed 37-year-old ICE nurse Alex Pretti during the massive surge of federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, just weeks after the killing of Renee Good, a mother of three.
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• Stranger Suggests: Sparkly Majorettes, a Classic Fairy-Tale Ballet, and an Underwater City Made of Trash

  26-01-2026 21:20 via thestranger.com
  One really great thing to do every day of the week.by Julianne BellMONDAY 1/26 Lady Windermere's Fan(FILM) I attended my first Silent Movie Monday last month, and now I am completely obsessed. The film series pays homage to the history of our beloved Paramount Theatre, which opened in 1928, showing silent films accompanied by live musicians on the theater’s original Mighty Wurlitzer (a single organ that’s connected to various pipes and percussion instruments), and serving free,
  
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• Slog AM: ICE Executed a Man on the Street in Minneapolis, the Government Is Lying About It, Abolish ICE

  26-01-2026 18:43 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Hannah Murphy WinterGood morning. We have to stop meeting like this.
  Okay let’s start with what you’ve surely already seen with your own eyes. On Saturday, ICE agents executed a man on the street in Minneapolis. Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old who worked in the intensive care unit at a VA hospital, was part of a small group of demonstrators protesting around federal agents on the street. At the time, he had a handgun in a holster on his waist, which
  
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