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• Thanks for NOTHING, Nordstrom Rack

  18-07-2015 23:14 via thestranger.com
  
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  You know how much I love my Facebook news feed. And not just because it allows me to keep up with all my friends without ever having to see them face-to-face, LOL. But seriously. It's where I get most of my news and pretty much all of my information about the world around me, for better or worse. So you can imagine how excited I was to see the ad for Nordstrom Rack's Men's Shoes Clearance Sale with prices starting at $7 accompanied by a picture of a pair of sweet green brogues. Wel
  
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• Why We're Endorsing Mike O'Brien for City Council District No. 6

  18-07-2015 20:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Council member Mike O'Brien Kelly OSeattle really needs Mike O'Brien to keep doing his thing. He's a key leader on climate change, pushing for divestment and engaging in kayaktivist civil disobedience against Shell's Arctic drilling rig. (*Fist bump.*) This year, he'll need to stand his ground, corral his colleagues into staring down threats from developers, and make sure that the "grand bargain" he recently forced to fund thousands more units of affordable housing in the city gets implemented w
  
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• Governor Inslee Meets with the Kids Who Sued the State Over Climate Goals

  18-07-2015 02:38 via thestranger.com
  
  From left: Adonis Williams, Athena Fain, Gabe Mandell, Lara Fain, Michael Foster, and Andrea Rodgers about to meet Governor Inslee.SB
  Today, Governor Jay Inslee met with a group of kid climate activists currently suing Washington State over its carbon emissions goals.This is no fluffy lawsuit. In a groundbreaking ruling last month, a judge agreed with the eight tweens who lodged the complaint against the Department of Ecology. Now, the state has to consider the petition that the kids filed last
  
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• New Plan for the Weekend: 10 Hours of the Grateful Dead Playing "Dark Star" in 1972

  18-07-2015 01:42 via thestranger.com
  
  Is this your fave version of "Dark Star"? Don't answer right away.
  No band in the history of music has more maniacal, documentation-drunk fans than the Grateful Dead. This axiom has been reinforced by the 36-volume Dick's Picks live-recording series, Dave's Picks coming up on 15 volumes, and the Dead's 50th anniversary Fare Thee Well tour being prepped for a November 20 box-set release, mere hours after its completion.Another manifestation of Deadhead fanaticism surfaced this week, when one Soin
  
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• Man Who Went on Hunger Strike to Protest Conditions Inside Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center Comes Home

  18-07-2015 01:27 via thestranger.com
  
  Family members welcome Paulino Ruiz home at Sea-Tac airport. Kelly O
  A man who spent eight years behind bars for the crime of stealing a pack of cigarettes, according to his supporters, came home to his family late last night at Sea-Tac airport. His name is Paulino Ruiz.Ruiz is a member of Colectivo de Detenidos (Collective of Detainees), a group of prisoners at Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center who went on hunger strike last year to protest dire conditions within the jail. Authorities respond
  
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• How a Donut Can Improve Your Life

  18-07-2015 01:01 via thestranger.com
  
  What are you doing this weekend? Saturday the temperatures are going to climb back up to almost 90 degrees. Might I humbly suggest you become KING or QUEEN of summertime fun with one of these?
  Or better yet—ONE OF THESE!!! >>>
  My life has completely changed for the better because of this. Kelly O
  
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• Equal Rights Washington Announces City Council Endorsements, But Skips District Where Its Former Director Is Running

  18-07-2015 00:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Equal Rights Washington couldn't decide which of these candidates to endorse for city council District 3. (We, on the other hand, did.) The former Executive Director of ERW, Rod Hearne, is at the far right. Eli Sanders
  Yesterday, Equal Rights Washington took to Twitter and e-mailed supporters announcing its endorsements for this year's city council elections. A glaring omission: District 3, where hate crimes against LGBTQ people are on the rise, where current Council Member Kshama Sawant is runn
  
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• Gemma Arterton's Quintessentially Average Beauty Is Pretty Much the Only Thing Worth Noticing About Gemma Bovery

  18-07-2015 00:30 via thestranger.com
  
  A plurality of Britons concur that Gemma Arterton is pretty.
  In a famous passage of The General Theory, John Maynard Keynes, the most influential economist of the 20th century, likens the profession of stock trading and speculation to a newspaper competition that has readers pick the six prettiest faces out of 100 pictures. The person whose choice "most nearly corresponds with the average preferences of the competitors as a whole" wins the prize. The trick is: Contestants who want to win aren't
  
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• SL Letter of the Day: Mr. Average Sex

  18-07-2015 00:27 via thestranger.com
  
  Originally posted on October 24. 2012.
  A while ago, I broke up with my long-term boyfriend. A few months after the breakup, I met someone new and we started sleeping together. It was the best sex of my life. Wild, passionate, and unpredictable. New Guy wasn't looking for anything serious, and neither was I, so we kept things very casual. After a couple months of amazing sex with New Guy, my long-term boyfriend came back into the picture. I told him I'd been seeing other people, but that I missed
  
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• Bertha's Contractor Says the Tunnel Won't Be Finished Until 2018. So We Got to Go on a Tour of the Tunnel!

  18-07-2015 00:20 via thestranger.com
  
  If we stare at the mouth of the tunnel long enough, maybe we'll forget that the tunnel is supposed to open in 2018. SB
  Today, Mike Lindblom at the Seattle Times broke the news that Bertha's contractor had pushed back the downtown tunnel project's schedule AGAIN. Tunneling is now supposed to start November 23, and contractor Seattle Tunnel Partners expects the whole project to be ready for cars by March of 2018. That's 27 months later than the original schedule's December 2015 end-date.Perhaps se
  
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