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2 days ago | 
thestranger.com | Hannah Murphy Winter
Good Morning! The sun is shining. The Supreme Court is busy. Pluto is in retrograde. And weâre headed for another 70-degree day. Letâs do the news. Fifth Timeâs the Charm: Trump signed a new travel ban yesterday, barring or restricting travel from 12 countries. Sound familiar? Thatâs because he tried four different iterations of the same ban during his first term, and it took him a year to find a version that wouldnât get struck down in court.
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3 days ago | 
thestranger.com | Hannah Murphy Winter
Remember June 2024? Me neither. That was at least a decade ago. But sliding into Pride Month, itâs palpably different this year.
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5 days ago | 
thestranger.com | Hannah Murphy Winter
Good Morning! The sun is shining, and itâs going to stay that way all day. Highs just under 70. Want proof before you head outside? I just discovered airplane-enthusiast Mitch Suttonâs livestream of Rainier and SeaTac airport. Check the weather, and watch some airplane nerds talk about wing numbers. Spoiler alert: the mountainâs out today. Letâs do the news. Itâs Dust Season in Florida: Move over fire season, thereâs a new plague in town.
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1 week ago | 
thestranger.com | Hannah Murphy Winter |Vivian McCall
Good morning! Memorial Day was the unofficial start of summer and the weather got the brief. It’s going to be a balmy 72 today, and it’ll climb into the 80s tomorrow. (A little rich for my taste, if I’m being honest.) Let’s do the news. At Least We Still Get the Sunset: It’s official. After several years of pilot programs, our beaches are permanently closing early.
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1 week ago | 
thestranger.com | Hannah Murphy Winter
On Saturday, an extremist anti-LGBTQ, anti-abortion group called Mayday USA took over the center of Cal Anderson Park in Capitol Hill. And this far-right invasion wasn’t a shock. It was a city-permitted prayer rally at the center of Seattle’s queerest neighborhood. On the first day of Memorial Day weekend, when queer Seattleites would typically be sunbathing in the grass, Seattle’s parks department granted the group a 15-hour permit to dominate the park with stadium speakers.
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2 weeks ago | 
thestranger.com | Hannah Murphy Winter
A new poll by the Northwest Progressive Institute (NPI) tells us what we were all hoping to hear: We have a real mayor’s race this year. NPI, our local public opinion expert, ran a poll simulating a general election throw down between the two candidates who have raised the most in their campaigns so far: Transit Riders Union General Secretary Katie Wilson (at $256,318) and Mayor Bruce Harrell (at $390,585).
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2 weeks ago | 
thestranger.com | Hannah Murphy Winter
Good Morning! We’re in for some more perfect weather today. High 60s, partly cloudy. Can’t get outside today to enjoy it? That’s okay. It’s gonna be like this for the next 10 days at least. Just don’t call it Spring out loud, or it’ll get spooked and go back into hiding. Alright, let’s do the news. The Big Beautiful Bill: Trump may have signed a record number of executive orders in his first 100 days, but this legislative session has been exceptionally unproductive.
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3 weeks ago | 
thestranger.com | Hannah Murphy Winter
Good Morning! We’re still in the drizzly phase. It’ll be damp until Sunday, in the mid-50s. It’s not hang-out-oustide weather, but you won’t totally hate waiting for the bus. Wanna start with a headline that’ll make you want to smash things?
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3 weeks ago | 
thestranger.com | Hannah Murphy Winter
Good Morning! We’re looking at the kind of spring weather that out-of-towners don’t believe exists here: Highs in the mid 60s, partly cloudy, small chance of rain. I’m guessing even Charles Mudede can’t find a way to complain about it today. But before you get out and enjoy this perfect walking weather, let’s do the news. The GOP Wants Us Pregnant and Barefoot: We already knew that JD Vance and Elon Musk were obsessed with us having more (white) American babies.
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1 month ago | 
thestranger.com | Hannah Murphy Winter
This paper marks the return of The Stranger’s SIFF Notes: an absolutely (maybe manically?) exhaustive rundown of what’s happening at the 2025 Seattle International Film Festival. We watched more than 100 films in the last month (which, if we’d watched them all back-to-back, adds up to about a week’s worth of film. YOU’RE WELCOME).
