Happy @pwhltorrent.bsky.social home opener day! I dusted off my hockey writer hat for this one: "Now, before anyone can start to regurgitate some brand of 'ThEy DoN’t GeT pHySiCaL iN wOmEn’S hOcKeY' nonsense you read on a message board in 2017, let me say this: Yes, they fucking do."

Pretty proud of this one. I followed the Seattle Torrent around ahead of their home season opener. God, I love hockey. www.thestranger.com/sports/2025/...

Pretty proud of this one. I followed the Seattle Torrent around ahead of their home season opener. God, I love hockey. www.thestranger.com/sports/2025/...

Feels pretty good to have The Stranger Election Control Board's hard work, influence, and jokes recognized by the NYT today, but they neglected to appreciate the also very vital Pumpkin Pie Control Board. It's fine, I'm fine. www.thestranger.com/food-and-dri...

If you haven't checked to make sure your vote counted, you need to do it now - the race for Seattle's future depends on it!

Overhead in the @thestranger.com office: "What's MxPx?"

Imagine how insufferable Dawson Leary's film podcast would be.

Does anyone else use their head as leverage when using an Aeropress or is that just me?

I love hockey.

Sorry for your loss, Mariners fans. I am going to selfishly take this opportunity to share one of my favorite things I've ever written, from when the Preds lost the Stanley Cup to the Penguins. Different team, different sport, but lots of the same feelings. ❤️

I don't know why there is a headless pigeon in my driveway but I am going to choose to believe it is an offering from the crows for Johnny Waffles.

Seattle's No Kings Rally started at Seattle Center and now there has been a constant stream of people marching to Westlake for the past 45 minutes.

Baseball is fun I see why you people like it

Rude to start things off with the kingdome demo imo

The 'Burbs should be in the Criterion Collection.

Give juuse saros the nobel peace prize

Happy hockey season to all who celebrate and also I really wish we could cease signing the national anthem before all games until we have a president who isn't actively declaring war against American cities

All the times Taylor Swift comes off as Gail the Snail on The Life of a Showgirl. A thread.

Taylor Swift hasn't emotionally developed beyond the age she got famous and that anyone continues to think her writing is interesting is the most interesting thing about her.

So the government has shut down on the same day Hegseth and Trump made their egomaniacal, condescending speeches to a room full of top military officials. And what happens during a shutdown? According to the BBC, "the military are required to work, but won't be paid until after" the shutdown ends.

Sending Subway gift cards to all my Portland pals.

Freeze-dried candy isn't good, knock it off.

Trying to cancel Hulu because I'm not a fan of fascism, and it literally will not let me cancel. It just goes back to the account page. Over and over and over again. Did antifa break Hulu?

To be absolutely clear: Disney didn't cancel Kimmel because of something he said. They canceled Kimmel because of something Trump said.

On March 4, Trump addressed Congress and said, "I have stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America. It's back."

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Trump does not respect dead people. He only respects people who can benefit him. The dead are useless.

"The dark new America that Kirk dedicated his life to manifesting has finally arrived. A complete collapse of the online and the offline, where political violence is simply just another opportunity to grow your personal brand if you can turn your phone on fast enough and make it out alive."

We're excited to announce that the 2025 Fall Arts Issue is HERE!

I will not allow our society to go back to using the word "money" to say something was good. Leave Swingers dead and in the ground.

ICE detained Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry, a Pakistan-born US Army veteran and husband of former congressional candidate Melissa Chaudhry, during his citizenship interview in Tukwila. He’s now being held at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. The story is developing at The Stranger.

We can all agree that Channing Tatum is the best Chris, right?

Pretty Girls Make Graves are playing Bumbershoot, so I will share again the oral history of the best band to ever exist. It took days and weeks and months of reporting, and it was very hard because how do you write about something that is in your bones, you know? www.thestranger.com/art-and-perf...

My favorite Kneecap lyric is "we got a wee machine that be's cleaning our dishes."

We have fun.

BRING BACK MORE PASSENGER FERRIES I WOULD RIDE THEM ALLLLLL DAY

We finally found Seattle's tops. www.thestranger.com/the-stranger...

Meanwhile, looking at @thestranger.com's endorsements...

Jim Acosta, no, what are you doing.

Was Free Willy called Free Willy because it's about a whale fighting for free will?

lol so bored with people coming after The Stranger with bad faith takes in an effort to make themselves out to be some kind of anti-establishment media hero like c'mon

It's time.

Seattle's PWHL team has officially landed Seattle! ‪I took a picture of Hilary Knight with a basket of Rough and Tumble's "Knight's Cheese Curds" because I am a serious journalist. @pwhl--seattle.bsky.social

I love @vivmccall.bsky.social's interview with Chris Fleming so much.

My favorite lines from Audrey's review of Katy Perry's show: This was by far the loudest concert I’ve ever attended, and I’ve seen My Bloody Valentine. Then, in Willy Wonka fashion, she tore a piece from her cotton-candy-spun boots and handed it to an 8-year-old fan. “What’s up, Amazon family?”

If we re-elect this loser in November I am going to scream for days www.thestranger.com/guest-editor...

Donald Trump, a sitting president, is suing the WSJ for libel and REPRESENTING HIMSELF. I love dramatic movies and books about journalism—Spotlight, Shattered Glass, Bad Blood, even Almost Famous—and holy shit, this is gonna be a treasure trove in five years. I cannot wait.

At Fred Meyer today. On July 17. Not mad about it.

Yesterday, council members AMR and Joy Hollingsworth helped restore the rat mosaic at Cal Anderson. But on Tuesday, Hollingsworth voted to pass Ann Davison's initiative to fine taggers??? Thankfully, @gramsofgnats.bsky.social made her explain herself. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/07...

VOTE, YOU DING DONGS! Even in the unsexy local primary elections!