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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: How Can a Teacher Show Support For a Trans Student With Unsupportive Parents?

  23-07-2015 23:59 via thestranger.com
  
  I'm an 8th grade teacher at a public school in the south and I will have a trans student in class next year. I know this because I purposely requested him, knowing that his school year would be much worse with some of my colleagues. Last year there was a big issue with the student about being called his preferred name—because his parents refuse to recognize his gender identity and make him go by his birth (female) name. The other students were told that they had to call him by his given na
  
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• You Can Vote For Stronger Civilian Oversight of the King County Sheriff's Office This November

  23-07-2015 23:53 via thestranger.com
  
  King County Sheriff John Urquhart is firing bad deputies left and right, but the county council wants to institutionalize accountability beyond him individually. King County
  The August 4 primary election is less than two weeks away, but here's something to keep in mind for the general election in November: In King County, you're going to get to vote on whether to bolster civilian oversight of the King County Sheriff, thanks to a contentious charter amendment that the county council, after a 5-4
  
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• Go to the Margin Shift Reading Tonight

  23-07-2015 23:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Quenton Baker, Sally Wen Mao, and Rob Schlegel are going to very quietly bring down the house. Courtesy of Margin ShiftMargin Shift is a local poetry series whose mission is to provide a platform for emerging and established poets from around and outside of town. The organizers are a collective of local, academic poets, including Jane Wong and Stranger Genius Award-winner Maged Zaher, among others, but, true to their name, the members are constantly shifting around.Also true to their name, the r
  
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• Savage Love: Soft Service

  23-07-2015 23:14 via thestranger.com
  
  joe newtonMy wife and I have been together for more than 10 years, practicing some kind of nonmonogamy for more than seven. We tried different things—open, dating others, FWBs—but after a bi threesome with another guy a year ago, we knew that was our thing. For a while, everything was great, but roughly a month after that defining threesome, I came down with a bad case of mono. In a couple of months, we resumed our bi sexdates with our FWB, and I noticed I had a hard time getting ho
  
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• Cop killer gets life in prison instead of death in Seattle case

  23-07-2015 22:51
  
  Verdict in deciding life or death for Seattle cop killer
  
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• Decoding the Queen Gene in Ratatat's DNA: Evan Mast Talks Brian May, Remixing Björk, and Magnifique, Their First LP in Five Years

  23-07-2015 22:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Biggie sends them signs from the heavens.
  Toward the climax of the 1980 film adaption of Flash Gordon, heroine Dale Arden screams, "Flash! Flash! I love you, but we only have 14 minutes to save the Earth." The soundtrack, by Queen, is blazing and triumphant. Ming the Merciless is defeated (spoiler alert) to the most royal, eloquent guitar and keyboard rock possible.
  Brooklyn duo Ratatat pull essential strands of their DNA from the embossed, stadium-filling sonics so articulately varnished and la
  
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• So I Watched Rachel Maddow's Interview With Rick Santorum

  23-07-2015 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Sigh.
  I haven't written much about Rick Santorum over the last couple of years. I devoted a short chapter in my last book, American Savage, to Rick, but I haven't updated www.spreadingsantorum.com even once since he announced that he was running for president again. I'm done with Santorum, I'm sick of Rick, I'm not gonnado him the favor of pretending to take him seriously anymore. (A rare instance where I'm taking my cues from the GOP base.)
  Now Rick thinks he can be president—or, at the
  
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• Rachel Maddow's Interview With Rick Santorum

  23-07-2015 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Sigh.
  I haven't written much about Rick Santorum over the last couple of years. I devoted a short chapter in my last book, American Savage, to Rick, but I haven't updated www.spreadingsantorum.com even once since he announced that he was running for president again. I'm done with Santorum, I'm sick of Rick, I'm not gonnado him the favor of pretending to take him seriously anymore. (A rare instance where I'm taking my cues from the GOP base.)
  Now Rick thinks he can be president—or, at the
  
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• Zia Mohajerjasbi's Hagereseb Plays Tonight

  23-07-2015 21:28 via thestranger.com
  
  Zia Mohajerjasbi, the winner of the 2009 Genius Award for film and the director of a number of Macklemore's music videos, is presenting his first major work, Hagereseb. Lyrical, intimate, and filled with the solemn winter light of the Northwest, the 35-minute film is set in 1990s Yesler Terrace and concerns the small world and troubles of an Eritrean American boy. He wants to make music, he needs batteries for a synthesizer, he has cultural and generational conflicts with his traditional family
  
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• New Sightline Study Makes the Case for Public Campaign Financing in Seattle

  23-07-2015 21:20 via thestranger.com
  
  I-122 would give you $100 in "democracy vouchers" to donate to candidates for city council, city attorney, and mayor. JAMES YAMASAKI
  Ansel mentioned it in Morning News yesterday, but the Sightline Institute's new study about local campaign funding is really something, so let's dig into it a little more.
  Sightline is one of the main backers of a new plan to create public campaign financing in Seattle and released the new study attempting to prove the stranglehold big money has on local politics.
  
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• The Seconds Leading Up to the Beginning of the End of Sandra Bland's Life

  23-07-2015 20:55 via thestranger.com
  
  The moment before Sandra Bland is noticed by Texas Trooper Brian Encinia. That's her car there on the left.YOUTUBE/TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
  Before Texas Trooper Brian Encinia bad encounter with the black activist Sandra Bland, he had a good encounter with a college sophomore.What we see in the video: A student, having apparently been pulled over for speeding and evidently not having had her insurance on her, receiving a warning. (Her not having insurance is suggested by a request from t
  
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• Why We're Endorsing Michael Maddux for City Council District No. 4

  23-07-2015 20:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Michael Maddux Courtesy Michael MadduxThe SECB has real concerns Michael Maddux might work himself into a quaalude stupor and be found parked on some Laurelhurst lawn muttering about how it all could have gone so well for him in Northeast Seattle's District 4. (The phrase "our very own Rob Ford" was actually thrown around in our meetings.) The dude tends to act first and think later.
  But if that happens—we hope it won't—it'll at least be interesting. You know what would be worse? Ano
  
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• Ezra Miller: The Sexiest Shaggy-Haired Out Bi Guy Alive

  23-07-2015 17:20 via thestranger.com
  
  I probably should've sat my ass down and watched Rachel Maddow's interview with Rick Santorum first thing this morning—that's what my freelance assignment editors on Twitter are telling me—but I watched the trailer for Madam Bovary instead. Again. Because Ezra Miller. Sigh. I know that a shaggy-haired, lanky, out bisexual guy with killer cheekbones will never named the Sexiest Man Alive by the people at People. But it really should be Ezra this year.
  Okay. Now I'm going to sit down
  
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• The Morning News: Orcas in Puget Sound, NASA's New Planet, and New Details about the Man Killed by the SPD Last Week

  23-07-2015 17:15 via thestranger.com
  
  The population of 81 orcas counted is higher than last year, but still dangerously low.Tory Kallman/Shutterstock
  Researchers Say All the Puget Sound Orcas Are Present: On the annual tally of endangered orcas in Puget Sound, researchers counted 81, including four babies. "Crews from the Pacific Whale Watch Association have photographed the babies swimming and jumping out of the water," according to the AP, "and report that they appear to be healthy."
  "I’ll Never Know. Because I Can’t
  
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• Guest Editorial: City Attorney Pete Holmes Should Stop Prosecuting Black Lives Matter Protesters

  23-07-2015 15:07 via thestranger.com
  
  The authors of this editorial were arrested, prosecuted, and tried for blocking a Seattle freeway on Martin Luther King Day as part of a Black Lives Matter demonstration. A jury recently acquitted them, with one juror saying their actions were protected free speech. Seattle has a history of protesters blocking freeways, including this 1970 protest against the Vietnam War. Courtesy of MOHAI, Seattle P-I Collection
  Not guilty. That was the verdict a jury delivered to us in response to the City of
  
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• Snohomish County cities say new ADA accessible curb ramps are not needed

  23-07-2015 02:53
  
  Snohomish County cities say new ADA accessible curb ramps are not needed
  
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• Today I Got Pulled Over for Driving While Black

  23-07-2015 02:51 via thestranger.com
  
  It happened on I-5, near Tacoma. That's him writing my ticket. Ijeoma Oluo
  Today I got what many in the black community call a “DWB.” Driving While Black is the act of getting behind the wheel while excessively pigmented, leading to a much higher chance of being stopped, ticketed, searched, and arrested than white people. An officer doesn't even need a reason to arrest you if you're driving while black.Today I was not only Driving While Black, I was driving with my two brothers, ther
  
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• Free Will Astrology for the Week of July 22

  23-07-2015 02:01 via thestranger.com
  
  FESTA/SHUTTERSTOCKCANCER (June 21–July 22): Charles Darwin is best known for his book The Origin of Species, which contains his seminal ideas about evolutionary biology. But while he was still alive, his best seller was The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms. The painstaking result of more than 40 years' worth of research, it is a tribute to the noble earthworm and that creature's crucial role in the health of soil and plants. It provides a different angle on one of
  
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• The Best Thing To Do Every Day This Week, Starting Tonight

  23-07-2015 01:58 via thestranger.com
  
  An entire festival devoted to the character who may or may not be an actual cat is just one of your options
  WED JULY 22
  READING
  'Antigolf' Release Party
  This is going to be one of those readings where the audience will laugh very hard, but at different times. James Gendron’s soothing voice somehow makes his associative jokes funnier, more unexpected. Willie Fitzgerald’s humor lies in the kinds of objects he chooses to describe, which at first seem random but end up anchoring the stor
  
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• Man charged with child molestation after Wild Waves groping incident

  23-07-2015 01:43
  
  Man charged with child molestation after Wild Waves groping incident
  
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• Medics Sue Seattle Police Over Excessive Use of Force and Use of Blast Balls on May Day

  23-07-2015 01:38 via thestranger.com
  
  Police aim less-than-lethal weapons at protesters on May Day. Alex Garland
  Two medics, including one veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, are suing the Seattle Police Department alleging excessive force and suppression of their First Amendment rights on May Day.
  "The weapons and tactics were designed to injure and terrorize citizens and dissuade them from engaging in political speech," the lawsuit, filed in federal court yesterday, claims. "Although for years May Day events have featured a
  
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• It Seems The Stranger's Spells for Edge of the Circle Books Backfired (Or: Thanks for the Dumpster Blaze, Magic Rich)

  23-07-2015 01:23 via thestranger.com
  
  This is what happens when you let inexperienced wizards named Rich Smith do magic. SB
  At 4:41 this morning I woke up to the smell of burning garbage. I walked over to my second-floor window, which was open, and looked down into the alleyway between my apartment building and the one next door. The dumpsters were on fire.
  This was not a small fire, and it was getting bigger. Black smoke billowed into my studio apartment. As I fumbled for my phone to call 911, I watched a small piece of lit garbage
  
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• The High List: Cereal Sculptures, Spock Amok, and Outdoor Cinema

  23-07-2015 01:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Get stoned and go watch Drive outdoors!
  'John O'Donnell: Cereal Cave'
  ART Through Aug 2, Glass Box Gallery (831 Seattle Blvd S)
  Cereal sculptures! This exhibition of sculptures, video, and prints focuses on "nostalgia, failure, fantasy, and ideas surrounding the construction of mystery." Whatever that means! Cereal sculptures! (But seriously, this guy makes some wonderfully weird pieces that skew toward the colorful and discombobulated.)
  
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• 'Our country is ruled by majoritarian pigs'

  23-07-2015 01:05 via thestranger.com
  
  From Ta-Nehisi Coates's new book Between the World and Me, in light of Brian T. Encinia arresting Sandra Bland because Sandra Bland refused to put her body at his disposal:
  At this moment the phrase "police reform" has come into vogue, and the actions of our publicly appointed guardians have attracted attention presidential and pedestrian. You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate the task and allow th
  
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• I Love Television: Do You Know Who I Am??

  23-07-2015 00:31 via thestranger.com
  
  I could’ve put down my pen and let the birds in my throat fly—charming the globe with my musical ejaculations.
  Guys! I'm on vacation this week, so attempt to enjoy this vintage I Love Television™ column from way back in 2006! —Humpy
  Most people can only be successful in one career. Me, I could be a superstar in a myriad of professions—from award-winning chimney sweep, to championship drag racer, to toothbrush manufacturer, to world's sexiest proctologist. HOWEVER!
  
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• Maybe Sandra Bland Died "Because White Men Can't Police Their Imagination"

  23-07-2015 00:01 via thestranger.com
  
  That's a line from the poet Claudia Rankine's book Citizen. It's printed facing a page of names of black men who've died at the hands of police. Clearly, black women are dying, too. Mary SetonMany armchair commenters are arguing over when the "inciting incident" occurred. Who—Sandra Bland or the cop—took the action that propelled their interaction to its horrible conclusion? It could have been the moment Bland decided to drive while black in Texas. It could have been the moment she d
  
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