Performance piece asks why we still have war; Harrell makes anti-ICE executive orders, while local right-wing influencers appear at the White House; Ms battle Friday for the right to face the Blue Jays in the ALCS.

Ex-‘Seattle Sketcher’ spreads the word about hand-drawn art; city, state leaders don’t want US troops on our streets; big $$ for Harrell re-election campaign; last three Bartell Drug stores close.

Mariners-owned TV channel closes; Rendezvous buyers make themselves known; Harrell claims most of Seattle’s unhoused people aren’t from here; Portland isn’t ‘war-torn,’ doesn’t want federal troops on its streets.

Women’s ‘pre-professional’ soccer team debuts; Katie Wilson won’t debate on KOMO if it won’t air Kimmel; AZ Republican wants Rep. Jayapal murdered for encouraging protests; Ms clinch first-round playoff bye.

Popular YouTuber spends a (live, unedited) day in Seattle; firefighter held by ICE released; Harrell’s budget plan raids housing $$ for more cops (again); oh, and there was a big baseball game.

Pancake Chef to serve its last short stack; WA still won’t give state voter info to feds; Harrell’s proposed budget gives still more to SPD; another Kimmel-banning TV station group wants to buy KING.

‘Cascade PBS News,’ née Crosscut, axed; what ‘fewer tech jobs’ may mean to Seattle;’ exUW prof who founded black-history website dies; Jimmy Kimmel’s comeback won’t be on Sinclair-owned KOMO.

Ex-local cinema mogul dies; Council OKs compromise-filled Comp Plan; Ms sweep archrival Astros while Seahawks, Huskies also win big; new H-1B visa fees could ‘impact’ local tech giants.

Songstress Julie Cascioppo’s new memoir; WA says it won’t feed private voter info to feds; why so many people hate expanding SPD’s surveillance-cam network; an ex-Microsoft exec’s in Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘birthday book.’

Sock puppets mime to Council meetings in videos; feds used WA DOL data to track down undocumented residents; Microsoft asked FBI to spy on pro-Gaza employees; can kazoos drown out homophobic preacher?

‘Sasquatch Mountain’ attraction coming to waterfront; pro-Palestinian sit-in at MS execs’ offices; politicians caught using AI text (and one who denies it); Stranger owners buy Chicago Reader.

WA-made film on better living thru time travel; Rinck, Harrell seek B&O tax hike on big biz; Mariners’ first starting pitcher RIP; big land sale out of DC budget bill, ‘devastating’ Medicaid cuts still in.

Rally defends suspended UW activists; ICE spying on Spokane immigration activist; Bill Gates plans to donate his fortune, wind down Gates Foundation in 20 years; the all-American (and apparently anti-MAGA) new pope.

SIFF short depicts Native Hawaiians economically exiled in the NW; protesters accused of $1 million damage to UW building; two more City Council candidates announce; MAGA claims a Seattle housing project’s too ‘woke.’

Tariqa Waters’ SAM solo show explores yesterday’s tomorrow; study says we’re ‘overdue’ for a ‘big one’ earthquake; feds to ‘investigate’ WA allowing trans school athletes; a May Day call to action.