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• Today in "Let's Make Fun of Donald Trump"

  18-08-2015 23:42 via thestranger.com
  
  Believe it or don't, somehow... MIRACULOUSLY... the walking joke that is Donald Trump is the clear leader among Republicans for their presidential nominee. HAHAHAHAAAAAA!! WOW. (By the way if you're thinking this reflects terribly on the average Republican—you're right. Because here's one reason why the average Republican is supporting Trump via the I, Anonymous Blog.)Anyway, I love the fact that Trump remains in the race, because he's providing lots and lots of A+ comedy. Here are just a
  
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• Has Amazon killed Seattle? One writer thinks so

  18-08-2015 23:35
  
  A Tuesday morning Gawker story painted a picture of Seattle as an already dead shell of its former self, swallowed up by Amazon and ruined by the "rising tide" of "dullard" software engineers moving to the city. But while Amazon certainly is making its mark on the city -- likely not entirely for good -- the author's lengthy editorial may be stretching the truth of the matter.
  
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• Hitchhiking with the Prince of Puke in Carsick

  18-08-2015 22:28 via thestranger.com
  
  How out of your mindwould you go if you picked up John Waters hitchhiking? I WOULD LOSE MY BANANAS. I'd lay some slavish praise at the feet of the cult icon who directed some of the greatest films of all time (Pink Flamingos, Cry-Baby), wrote some of the most entertaining books ever (Shock Value, Role Models), and curated the planet's funniest holiday album (A John Waters Christmas), which, much to my family's chagrin, I sing along to ("Here comes fatty with his sack of shit") at unholy volumes
  
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• The Clinton campaign does another closed-door fundraiser in Seattle, with surrogate Howard Dean

  18-08-2015 22:21
  
  Hillary Clinton continues to run a stealth presidential campaign in these parts, with unannounced fundraising forays: The latest private event guest is 2004 Democratic presidential hopeful and ex-Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. The “Deaniac” once drew 8,000 people to a Westlake rally during his nationwide “Sleepless Summer” tour 12 years ago.  He was the hero of liberals then, the candidate who boasted of representing “the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party
  
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• Ferguson Transformed Marissa Johnson in a Good Direction, but Her Use of the Phrase "White Supremacy" Is a Big Problem

  18-08-2015 21:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Flowers on the spot where Michael Brown was shot and killed just over a year ago in in Ferguson, Missouri. R. Gino Santa Maria /Shutterstock.com
  In the Seattle Times article "Marissa Johnson part of a new, disruptive generation of activists," it is revealed that Ferguson was the event that transformed or radicalized Marissa Johnson, one of the two Black Lives Matter activists who disrupted the Social Security and Medicare rally in Westlake Park on August 8.The author of the story, Nina Shapiro,
  
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• Breaking with the Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton Says She's Opposed to Arctic Drilling

  18-08-2015 21:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Clinton's stance against Arctic drilling doesn't exactly jibe with this gas-guzzler's show of support. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com
  In response to today's federal approval of drilling for oil in the Arctic, Hillary Clinton posted a tweet that announced her admiration for the Arctic and positioned herself against the Obama administration's decision:The Arctic is a unique treasure. Given what we know, it's not worth the risk of drilling. -H
  — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 18, 20
  
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• Charge: ‘Black Bloc’ May Day demonstrator crashed into cop

  18-08-2015 21:11
  
  A Des Moines man accused of fighting a police officer during a rowdy May Day demonstration in Seattle now faces a felony assault charge.
  
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• How One Seattle DJ Is Keeping 78rpm Culture Alive

  18-08-2015 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Taylor (left) on huntng for 78s: "The excitement of digging through moldering piles of filthy records in hopes of uncovering a gem holds a unique sway." Kelly O
  If Seattle can support HISSSSSSS, a monthly DJ night devoted to cassettes, it can probably sustain one dedicated to 78rpm shellac. It helps if the person behind the decks is Jeffery Taylor, co-owner of Wall of Sound record store and co-curator of Victrola Favorites, an illustration-intensive book and 2-CD compilation that surveys the for
  
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• How One Seattle DJ Is Keeping 78-rpm Culture Alive

  18-08-2015 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Taylor (left) on hunting for 78s: "The excitement of digging through moldering piles of filthy records in hopes of uncovering a gem holds a unique sway." Kelly O
  If Seattle can support HISSSSSSS, a monthly DJ night devoted to cassettes, it can probably sustain one dedicated to 78-rpm shellac. It helps if the person behind the decks is Jeffery Taylor, co-owner of Wall of Sound record store and cocurator of Victrola Favorites, an illustration-intensive book and two-CD compilation that surveys the
  
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• This Year's Hempfest Through the Eyes of an Anthropologist

  18-08-2015 20:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Out-of-towners at Hempfest: University of Rochester-based researcher Joe Orman (left) and Sacramento-based comedian Ngaio Bealum (right). bk
  By the end of his first day at Hempfest, anthropology student Joe Orman was shivering and starting to turn blue. He had come from the University of Rochester to study whether legalization was changing cannabis culture in Washington State—but Friday had turned into one long thunderstorm, which dumped more rain on Seattle than the city had seen all summ
  
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• Trump leads Republicans but big majority of Americans view him unfavorably

  18-08-2015 20:53
  
  Real estate mogul Donald Trump has hit a plateau of about 25 percent, but still enjoys a wide lead over competitors in the 17-person contest for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, according to the latest CNN-ORC national poll. Overall, however, both Trump and his nearest competitor, ex-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, are viewed negatively by nearly 60 per cent of Americans, with Bush’s “negatives” on the rise. Donald Trump:  He leads Republicans but nearly 60 percent of A
  
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• Vice's Guide to Washington Food Launches This Week, Hosted by Chef Tarik Abdullah

  18-08-2015 20:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle chef Tarik Abdullah: Hosting VICE shows and teaching kids how to cook.This week, VICE's food channel MUNCHIES is releasing its five-part Guide to Washington video series. The first two episodes are available now, with the rest following over the next three days. In Episode 1, host Tarik Abdullah does the Seattle classics: Fish 'n' chips at Ivar's, coffee at Victrola, teriyaki from Nasai off the Ave, and, of course Dick's Drive-In. (Abdullah does his best to mask his supreme discomfort wh
  
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• The GOP Wants to End Birthright Citizenship

  18-08-2015 20:09 via thestranger.com
  
  Remember when Republicans just wanted to undo the 20th century?
  "Reform" Social Security out of existence, roll back women's rights, undo the Voting Rights Act, restrict access to contraception, destroy the unions, shove gays and lesbians back in the closet? Now they want to undo the 19th century too. This weekend, Donald Trump announced that he wants to end birthright citizenship—and Scott Walker, Lindsey Graham, and Bobby Jindal have all rushed to second Trump's call to repeal the 14th A
  
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• Hillary Clinton opposes oil drilling in Arctic, saying it is ‘not worth the risk’

  18-08-2015 19:59
  
  Ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a break with the Obama administration, has come out against oil drilling in the Arctic, saying in a Tweet that it is “not worth the risk.” Clinton took her stand a day after the Obama administration said it would allow Shell to drill into oil-bearing rock formations beneath Alaska’s remote Chukchi Sea.  The Shell-leased drilling rig Polar Pioneer — a familiar, much protested presence in Seattle’s Elliott Bay last spring
  
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• Today Is the Day Balzac Died from Drinking Too Much Coffee

  18-08-2015 19:42 via thestranger.com
  
  A sculpture of Balzac in Paris. Balzac/Shutterstock
  Honoré de Balzac drank coffee for days on end, weeks on end, on an empty stomach, and they say it's how he croaked. The 19th-century French writer "died of caffeine poisoning." Some say he drank 50 cups of coffee a day, but it's not like he kept count, and it sounds like he drank way more than 50 cups a day when he felt like it.Rebecca Brown once saw his desk and she could tell he was a coffee maniac just from looking at it:One of the fa
  
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• No More Maurice Lenell Cookies

  18-08-2015 18:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Sad news for anyone who grew up in Chicago:
  For lifelong Chicagoan Ron Hall, a bite into a Maurice Lenell cookie brings flashbacks to his younger days — from grade school field trips to the former cookie factory on Harlem Avenue in Norridge to walking his beat as a police officer while snacking on the sweets. But soon, Hall and other Maurice Lenell fans will have to find other ways to satisfy their nostalgic cookie cravings. The company that has been producing a limited supply of the cooki
  
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• The Morning News: Seattle Debates Hookah, Chelan Wildfire Bakes Apple Trees, and Hillary Criticizes Arctic Drilling

  18-08-2015 17:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Earlier this month, Mayor Ed Murray announced that he wanted to shut down Seattle's hookah lounges. Dan Nolte, City of Seattle
  Hookah Debate Continues After City Implements New Anti-Hookah-Lounge Rules: People packed City Hall on Monday in response to the city's new attempt at cracking down on hookah lounges. After community leader Donnie Chin was shot to death near a hookah lounge last month, the city adopted zero-tolerance rules on Sunday that would shut down hookah lounges in violation of the
  
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• State Rep. Reuven Carlyle plans to move up to the State Senate

  18-08-2015 04:14
  
  State Rep. Reuven Carlyle flirted briefly with a 2014 challenge to State Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, a fellow Democrat, in Seattle’s 36th District.  Kohl-Welles lined up endorsements from every conceivable Democratic interest groups, and after a weekend Carlyle decided that the House was after all a happy home. A more orderly transition is in the worlds. Rep. Reuven Carlyle: A creative, competent presence in Olympia.  He is seeking to move up to the State Senate. Kohl-Welles is head
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: The Asexual Dom

  18-08-2015 03:06 via thestranger.com
  
  I’m confused about my sexuality. For many years I thought I preferred heteroromantic asexual relationships. Exposure to select reading material—thanks to the corrupting influence of my gender studies classes—has convinced me that I am an asexual t-type (i.e. "top," but I prefer not to use such connotative terms) female who is attracted to slight and feminine men. I do not want to take off my clothes or engage in oral, anal, digital, or vaginal sex. Instead, I want to design sex
  
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• City Council Agrees to Let Voters Decide on Turning the Viaduct into a Park, but Isn’t Happy About It

  18-08-2015 01:57 via thestranger.com
  
  The Park My Viaduct initiative would replace most of the current viaduct with an elevated park. JOSHUA BOULET
  Remember those people who want to turn the viaduct into a park? They were still trying to make that happen when The Stranger had a collective freak-out about the crumbling elevated freeway back in February. And they're still trying now, despite an already-established city plan for renovating the waterfront once the viaduct is torn down.
  Earlier this month, the group pushing the "Park My
  
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• Bernie Sanders to Meet with Black Lives Matter Activist to Discuss Criminal Justice Plan

  18-08-2015 01:47 via thestranger.com
  
  BLM activist DeRay McKesson calls Bernie's new racial justice platform a "draft."Jack DoritoToday the Bernie Sanders campaign agreed to meet with activist DeRay McKesson and have a conversation about the candidate's new racial justice platform, Politico reports.@deray Let's do it. We will PM you this week to arrange.
  — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) August 17, 2015
  McKesson started garnering national attention for his organizing work during protests that followed the killing of Michael Br
  
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• The Passing of a Seattle Art Legend: Rolon Bert Garner, 75, Has Died

  18-08-2015 01:45 via thestranger.com
  
  There he is with the goofy tooth, the great beard, and the glasses. Flanking him are arts writer Roger Downey, and/or cofounder Anne Focke, and, on the far right, public arts commissioner Patricia Ford.Courtesy University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
  Rolon Bert Garner was having trouble breathing when I interviewed him over the phone two years ago. He was at home on Whidbey Island. I was at home in Ballard. I remember the night—it was one of those Seattle rainy nights, cold
  
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• What We Know About the Shooting on Capitol Hill Over the Weekend

  18-08-2015 00:29 via thestranger.com
  
  Police responded to a "large disturbance." bikeriderlondon/Shutterstock
  On early Sunday morning, a "large disturbance" and then a shooting left one man dead across from the Baltic Room nightclub on Capitol Hill near Pine and Melrose, according to police. Christine Clarridge at the Seattle Times is reporting that the victim is "Monie Ratt" Williams, the son of Ritchie "OG Ratt" Williams, a former gang member murdered in South Seattle in 2013. (The King County Examiner's office and SPD have not re
  
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• Here's What We Know About the Shooting on Capitol Hill Over the Weekend

  18-08-2015 00:29 via thestranger.com
  
  Police responded to a "large disturbance." bikeriderlondon/Shutterstock
  On early Sunday morning, a "large disturbance" and then a shooting left one man dead across from the Baltic Room nightclub on Capitol Hill near Pine and Melrose, according to police. Christine Clarridge at the Seattle Times is reporting that the victim is "Monie Ratt" Williams, the son of Ritchie "OG Ratt" Williams, a former gang member murdered in South Seattle in 2013. (The King County Medical Examiner's Office and SPD hav
  
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