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• Savage Love: Jackhammer

  18-06-2015 23:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Joe Newton
  My boyfriend and I both spent a lot of time masturbating when we were young, and pretty much trained our brains to come only one way. He can only come from masturbating furiously, or sometimes from a marathon of jackhammer sex. A few years before I met him, I toned down the masturbating to retrain my brain and pussy and tried a bunch of new things, and I can now come from different acts and positions. It wasn't easy, but I am so happy with this versatility. I'm starting to get annoye
  
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• Hey, Seattle Times, This Tweet About the Suspected Shooter in Charleston Is Terrible Journalism

  18-06-2015 23:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle's other newspaper raises the question of whether the suspected church shooter in Charleston, who is 21-years-old, is a "sweet kid." The Stranger
  This tweet from the Seattle Times is dangerously sensational, attempting to lure readers into a debate about the personality of a suspected mass murderer, instead of focusing on the crime, its victims, and what is actually happening in Charleston. It panders to lurid curiosity—running counter to the Society of Professional Journalists Code
  
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• Man's body found near 405 in Snohomish County

  18-06-2015 23:06
  
  Man's body found near 405 in Snohomish County
  
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• Are White Women Not Allowed to Go to Morocco? Vendela Vida Talks About Her New Novel, The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty

  18-06-2015 23:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Vendela Vida's new novel is about how going to Morocco and getting your identity stolen can be kind of a good thing. CHLOE AFTEL
  Vendela Vida's fourth novel, The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty, is about a woman who travels to Morocco to escape her life. Just as she's checking in to her semi-shitty hotel, someone steals her backpack. Her passport, her wallet, her computer—anything that could identify her at all—gone. After an absurdly bureaucratic and emotionally galling search for her bel
  
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• A Majority of the City Council Supports Asking the State to Lift the Ban on Rent Control

  18-06-2015 22:55 via thestranger.com
  
  It now appears a slim majority of the city council is siding with Kshama Sawant and Nick Licata to ask the state to lift the ban on rent control. City of Seattle
  Earlier this month, Council Members Kshama Sawant and Nick Licata introduced a resolution that would ask the state to lift its ban on rent control. Until now, it's been hard to figure out where the rest of the council—read: the more conservative majority—stands on asking the state to lift the ban.
  There were some tea leaves
  
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• Suspect in South Carolina Shooting Got a Gun for His Birthday

  18-06-2015 22:54 via thestranger.com
  
  A birthday present for a young American. Kreangkrai Indarodom/Shutterstock
  The uncle of Dylann Storm Roof, the white man suspected of killing nine black Americans at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, told Reuters that the suspect was given a gun, a .45 caliber, by his father for his21st birthday. As with the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the Aurora shooting, and the USCB shooting, the church massacre has dragged the US back into an issue it cannot solve or ma
  
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• Police Investigating Alleged Racial Slur Used by Officer Against Black Lives Matter Protester

  18-06-2015 21:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Jorge Torres, left, holds a megaphone as he rallies Black Lives Matter protesters in downtown Seattle last December. Alex Garland
  At the request of police chief Kathleen O'Toole, the Seattle Police Department's misconduct investigators are looking into an alleged racial slur used by a police officer toward Black Lives Matter protest leader Jorge Torres.Dashcam video, obtained by The Stranger through a public records request (and which we're working to upload), shows a group of police officers ri
  
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• Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig's Lifetime Movie: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON??

  18-06-2015 21:48 via thestranger.com
  
  As you've probably heard, Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig are starring in a Lifetime movie debuting this Saturday, June 20, at 8 p.m.—which we've all assumed would be a parody Lifetime movie, right? Well... maybe wrong? Check out the full trailer for A Deadly Adoption—about a couple who want to adopt a baby from a probably mentally ill pregnant lady, and deadly adoption high jinx ensue! (Maybe they used all the serious parts for trailer, and it will still be funny, or maybe we're all b
  
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• Fox News Strains To Jam Charleston Murders Into Their Unified Field Theory of Absolutely Everything

  18-06-2015 19:47 via thestranger.com
  
  A white man targets a historic African American church with ties to the struggles against slavery, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement. He makes clearly racist statements as he guns down the church's pastor and other members of the congregation. He runs around wearing the flags of rabidly racist—and blessedly extinct—African nations. Take it away, Fox News:"We aren't safe in our own churches," says the white lady, "it was an attack on faith." Then they bring on a black pastor who
  
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• The Racist Flags of the Mass Murderer in South Carolina

  18-06-2015 18:51 via thestranger.com
  
  The racist flag at South Carolina's state House is flying at full mast.Jiri Flogel/Shutterstock
  Dylann Storm Roof—the arrested 21-year-old who is suspected of killing 9 people and terrorizing a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina—is captured in a Facebook photo wearing a jacket with flags of Apartheid-era South Africa and Rhodesia. If this young man is the killer, his level of racism is really, really deep.Because I was born in Rhodesia, I was born in an African-only
  
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• Carrie Brownstein's Book Cover Art Has Arrived.

  18-06-2015 18:37 via thestranger.com
  
  This whole cover is like a picture of a sunny day.
  Although we still have to wait until October 27 for the official memoir to hit stores, Jezebel gave us a sneak peek at the cover of Carrie Brownstein's memoir, Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl.Here's the official description from publisher Riverhead Books:Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one the most important movements in rock history. See
  
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• The Morning News: State Transportation Package Talks Stalled, Suspect in Charleston Hate Crime Shooting Caught

  18-06-2015 17:52 via thestranger.com
  
  We need a transportation package from Olympia in order to get more light rail in Seattle. Sound Transit
  Talks About the State Transportation Package Are Stalled: That's because talks about the state budget—which is needed to stop the government from shutting down—are not going well. “I don’t think anyone can at this stage be anything other than incredibly somber and concerned and deeply troubled by the direction that the discussions are going,” Rep. Reuven Carlyle,
  
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• The Carrie Brownstein Book Cover Has Arrived.

  18-06-2015 17:47 via thestranger.com
  
  This whole cover is like a picture of a sunny day.
  Although we still have to wait until October 27 for the official memoir to hit stores, Jezebel gave us a sneak peek at the cover of Carrie Brownstein's memoir, Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl.Here's the official description from publisher Riverhead Books:Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one the most important movements in rock history. See
  
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• What We Know So Far About the Shooting at a Historic Black Church in Charleston

  18-06-2015 17:18 via thestranger.com
  
  Police have released the following photo of #CharlestonShooting suspect Dylann Roof, 21. http://t.co/3h88mtqYkK pic.twitter.com/KT9JnhJ3rt— NPR News (@nprnews) June 18, 2015A white gunman killed nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina at 9 pm last night, including the reverend, Clementa Pinckney, who was also a state senator. Police have identified the suspect as 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof and are calling the attack a hate crime, reports the New York Times.S
  
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• Serial robber may have struck in Lynnwood

  18-06-2015 13:48
  
  Serial robber may have struck in Lynnwood
  
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• Council Committee Passes Land Use Bill that Is Literally Making People Cry

  18-06-2015 02:58 via thestranger.com
  
  "It shouldn’t always be about the people that are coming," this woman told the city council, choking back tears as she testified in favor of a bill aimed at reducing the size of new developments. "What about the people that are here?" Seattle Channel
  Sometimes the most boring legislative language is the stuff that gets people the most riled up. Case in point: a land use bill that got a vote in the city council's planning and land use committee yesterday and is headed for a full council vo
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: His Ex-Girlfriend's Texts

  18-06-2015 02:44 via thestranger.com
  
  I have a conundrum: my boyfriend constantly texts this girl. Not normally an issue, but he fucked her pretty regularly right before he and I got together. He says it was never more than a sexual attraction, but this girl—who has a boyfriend, mind you—is in love with him. I know this because my boyfriend has told me so. They don't hang out and they don't have phone calls, but the texting is bothering me because she's clearly not speaking to him as "just a friend." He's informed me tha
  
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• Free Will Astrology for the week of June 17

  18-06-2015 01:59 via thestranger.com
  
  FESTA/SHUTTERSTOCKARIES (March 21–April 19): Would you like to stop pushing and struggling for a while? Is there a clenched attitude you would love to let go of? Do you wish you could take a break from having to give so much and try so hard and be so strong? Then do it! Now would be a good time to take a sabbatical from any situation that feels too demanding or frustrating. You wouldn't incur the wrath of the gods or the twists of karma if you sneaked away to indulge in some recreational
  
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• Writer Jim Shepard on Allowing Dogs in Grocery Stores

  18-06-2015 01:45 via thestranger.com
  
  For some Editors-in-Chief, this sort of thing don't fly.Annette Shaff / shutterstock.com
  This afternoon I sat down and talked with Jim Shepard about his new novel, The Book of Aron, which he'll be reading from tonight at 7pm at the Central Library. You should go hear him read from it because (1) The book is about a family living in the ghettos of Warsaw, and it's told from the perspective of a kid, Aron, who is like the opposite of Anne Frank: a lice-infested realist who only cares about food. N
  
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• The High List: The Illusionists, Black Lizard, Divas Take the Hill, and Solstice? Yes!

  18-06-2015 01:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Black Lizard at Northwest Film Forum.
  'The Illusionists—Witness the Impossible'
  THEATER/MAGIC June 16–21, 5th Avenue Theatre (1308 Fifth Ave)
  *GASP* The Illusionists—Witness the Impossible is everything I love about everything! Magic, Vegas-style shows, groups of men with distinct and highly stylized personalities! The seven flamboyant magicians are: the Anti-Conjuror (shock magician, Hot Topic goth), the Warrior (weapons, butt chin, human equivalent of brocade), the Manip
  
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• In Music News: Courtney Doesn’t Love Soaked in Bleach Doc, Neil Young Disavows Donald Trump, New Telekinesis Album

  18-06-2015 01:06 via thestranger.com
  
  Do we really need to watch dramatic reenactments of this person?Featureflash / Shutterstock.com
  • Courtney Love is none too happy about the "docu-drama" Soaked In Bleach, which revisits conspiracy theories that Love herself was responsible for husband Kurt Cobain's death. According to Deadline, her legal team has been sending out a cease & desist order to any theater that is screening the film. The producers issued a statement, claiming that their First Amendment rights were at stake:M
  
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• What I Learned About Drones from the Drone Bros*

  18-06-2015 00:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Kyle Van Vranken and Scott Shawcroft want to change the public's perception of "quadcopters." Also, they are not bros. KR
  Last week, Slog readers overwhelmingly told me they want me to continue writing about drones. (Aren't you sick of hearing about drones? Rich Smith seems to think they'd be good batting practice for teens.) So yesterday afternoon, I embarked on a droning expedition with Scott Shawcroft and Kyle Van Vranken, the guys who believe they disrupted my picnic at Magnuson Park a few w
  
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