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• SPD Still Looking for Suspects in Bite of Seattle Shooting Amid Questions About Chief Barnes’s Whereabouts on Sunday

  28-07-2026 22:35 via thestranger.com
  
  In a fourth press conference this week, Mayor Katie Wilson and Seattle Police Department Chief Shon Barnes confirmed that one of the victims of Sunday’s Bite of Seattle shooting was involved in the shooting. Barnes also responded to controversy about his whereabouts on Sunday.Wilson started by acknowledging the victims: Ashley Whitehead, 56, and Carlos Israel Sanchez Villalba, 44. The third person killed in the shooting, Junior Cee Niko Semo, 19, is believed to have been involved in what
  
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• The Invite

  28-07-2026 21:19 via thestranger.com
  
  I’m a late-thirties hetero married man. I’m also a flirt. I’ve known this about myself for a long time, and while my spouse knows this generally, she probably doesn’t know that I can lean into a bit at times when she is not around. For a long time it was fine. I considered my flirting to fall into my “zone of erotic autonomy” and never intended it to lead anywhere. Then twice in the last year it’s led to women getting the wrong (but honestly, under
  
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• Slog AM: Ukraine Bombs Iran, Kohberger Claims Innocence, the Oregon Trail Is Open, and the Bab Al-Mandab Strait Is Closed to Saudi Oil

  28-07-2026 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Washington Blocked Again from Inspecting ICE Jail: State health inspectors were set to find out just how bad conditions are for immigrants detained in GEO Group’s private ICE jail in Tacoma last week, only to be blocked at the last minute by a federal court order, per the Seattle Times. The state has been trying to inspect the facility after receiving thousands of complaints about poor conditions for detainees.Kohberger Now Says He Didn’t Kill Idaho Students: Convicted last year for
  
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• Dear Hendrix

  28-07-2026 01:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Dear Hendrix,It’s 4 a.m., and I can’t sleep.Soon, I’ll have to walk out of our apartment door and head to the KEXP radio station, where I do my daily Early Show. It’s Monday morning after a long weekend. I’m going to start the show at 5 a.m. with a tune from Mozart. It’s Mozart Monday—a regular thing for me. But I don’t feel happy about anything right now.When I finally arrive at work around 4:30 a.m., something feels off. It’s eerie, uncomf
  
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