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Continue reading →: TtS weekly Roundup: July 6- 12
By Hannah Saunders We’re back with another weekly reporting round-up from July 6- 12. Last week, we published 11 articles on topics like Seattle’s CCTV surveillance, the upcoming Erika Kirk event, a sexual assault at the Northwest Detention Center, Seattle elections, and more. Let’s take…
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Continue reading →: UPDATE:”We’re going to hang you for treason”: WA Congressional candidate receives death threats at midnight
By Hannah Saunders 1:24 p.m. UPDATE: Chaudhry issued TtS a statement: “Fighting for my husband’s freedom last year against ICE and the weaponized federal government across four federal jurisdictions with no lawyers – and winning – taught me a lesson I’ll ever forget: when you…
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Continue reading →: Patriot Front marches in Kirkland weeks ahead of Erika Kirk “Make Heaven Crowded Again” event
By Hannah Saunders Several residents in Kirkland peeked out their blinds to find a single file line of young men wearing khakis, blue shirts, white neck gaiters, and tan hats marching past on July 11. These men, about 20 in total, are members of the…
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Continue reading →: District 5 candidate Nilu Jenks discusses how her family’s journey from Iran shaped her vision for Seattle
By Gray Trammel The top campaign issues of Nilu Jenks, who is running in the Seattle City Council District 5 race, started a long time before she entered the political realm. Jenks, who works as a voting rights advocate, was born in Oklahoma to Iranian…
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Continue reading →: First Hill tenants say no evictions or rental spikes at rally during ongoing battle with real estate investment firm
By Gray Trammel Earlier this spring, Nordic Partners Investments bought up Seattle’s historic John Winthrop Apartments and have been terrorizing tenants through non-mandatory seismic retrofitting with pending forced relocation, construction, and alleged harassment. On the evening of July 10, about 32 Nordic tenants, neighbors, and…
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Continue reading →: Building sustainable, ethical, independent journalism at TtS
By Hannah Saunders At Through the Static (TtS), we firmly believe that independent journalism should only answer to the community that it serves. Today, corporations control the majority of media, and at the local level, I have seen how advertisers influenced candidate endorsements for elections…
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Continue reading →: Cameras down now: activists demand removal of CCTV cameras instead of simple deactivation
By Gray Trammel Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson announced on July 7 that the Stadium District CCTV cameras installed for the 2026 FIFA World Cup have been turned off, and will remain deactivated while the city completes an independent privacy and data-governance audit. Members of the…
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Continue reading →: Northwest Detention Center guard reportedly sexually assaulted detainee who is a veteran
By Hannah Saunders Garnet Smith, a 44-year-old U.S. military veteran has been detained at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma for over nine months, and recently reported to several groups that a guard employed by the GEO Group sexually assaulted him. About Face, the…
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