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• My Philosophy: Stuck in Second Gear

  06-01-2016 23:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Fatal Lucciauno: More beefs-per-minute in “Domestic Violence.”
  If you were waiting for the first white nonsense of 2016, you sure didn't have to wait long. Pissed-off peckerwoods with big-ass guns took over an empty federal wildlife refuge building like some true American Heroes, right here in the Great Northwest. Among them is the son of one Cliven Bundy, the one-time Fox News darling caught on tape talkin' 'bout "the nigra," like he just sprang out of Tarantino's skull, Athena-styl
  
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• Here's What Governor Jay Inslee's Executive Order on Gun Violence Will Do

  06-01-2016 23:47 via thestranger.com
  
  In Washington state, more people are killed by firearms than by car crashes, according to the governor's office. Aedka Studio/Shutterstock
  A day after President Barack Obama said he would take executive action to close background check loopholes, Washington Governor Jay Inslee has issued a new executive order outlining next steps he wants the state to take in curbing gun violence.In case you somehow need more convincing that something should be done about gun violence, here are a few of the wher
  
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• Human remains found near Tacoma Community College

  06-01-2016 23:41
  
  Police are investigating human remains found in the woods near Tacoma Community College.
  
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• Four New Restaurants to Be Excited About

  06-01-2016 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Nirmal's brings upscale Indian dining to Pioneer Square.Nirmal's
  A few notable restaurant openings to start the new year:
  Upper Bar Ferd'nand
  Like its sibling Bar Ferd’nand in Melrose Market, Upper Bar Ferd'nand, located in Capitol Hill's Chophouse Row complex, is a wine bar and bottle shop serving small-batch wine from family-owned wineries around the world. The project of wine director Marc Papineau and chef Matt Dillon (Sitka & Spruce, Corson Building, Bar Sajor, the London Plane),
  
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• Childlike Emperor Donald Trump Decides Ted Cruz Shall Be His Next Plaything

  06-01-2016 23:11 via thestranger.com
  
  The right and left sides of Ted Cruz's face continue their inexorable journey to opposite sides of his head. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com
  Let's be totally clear: Ted Cruz is legally eligible to become president. I don't like it, you don't like it, nobody who's met him likes it. But it's a fact.
  And if there's one thing Donald Trump hates, it's facts. Who knows why he's decided that this particular truth needs to be attacked, but he's suddenly going on the offensive against Cruz's citizenship,
  
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• Study: Ebola survivors’ blood didn’t help patients in Guinea

  06-01-2016 23:02
  
  LONDON (AP) — Giving the blood of Ebola survivors to patients didn’t seem to make a difference, doctors found in the biggest study so far on the approach, prompting some scientists to say it’s time to abandon the strategy. With no licensed treatment for the devastating disease, doctors have sometimes used blood from survivors to […]
  
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• California governor declares gas leak a state of emergency

  06-01-2016 22:48
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency Wednesday over a massive natural-gas leak that has been spewing methane and other gases into a Los Angeles neighborhood for months, sickening residents and forcing thousands to evacuate. In a statement, Brown said he acted based on the requests of people in […]
  
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• President Clinton to raise funds in Seattle Friday for Hillary Clinton’s campaign

  06-01-2016 22:27
  
  Former President Clinton is scheduled to be in Seattle Friday for a fundraiser benefiting the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Bill Clinton in Seattle on Friday for Hillary Clinton fundraiser

  06-01-2016 22:27
  
  Former President Clinton is scheduled to be in Seattle on Friday for a fundraiser benefiting the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Parents of man killed by Pasco police file federal lawsuit

  06-01-2016 22:25
  
  The parents of a rock-throwing man shot to death have filed a federal court lawsuit contending the Pasco police officers used excessive force in the case.
  
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• This video will make you scared to leave the planet

  06-01-2016 22:15
  
  As NASA and a host of private rocketeers gear up for increased human space travel, perhaps the old eco-motto of "Pack it in, Pack it out" should be changed to "Pack it up, Pack it down (or make sure it burns up in the atmosphere)."
  
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• The Best Selfie-Related Injury and Death of 2015

  06-01-2016 22:14 via thestranger.com
  
  No chances were taken with this selfie. Charles Mudede
  To die from a selfie is to die a truly 21st century death. This kind of exit only came into prominence with the massification and globalization of smartphones and the digital camera. This way to go is the new nature. Indeed, Wikipedia points out that in 2015 "more people have been killed taking selfies than by shark attacks."Here is the best selfie-related injury and the best selfie-related death of the year that recently entered eternity.Be
  
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• Diverse interests split on best way to manage public land

  06-01-2016 22:10
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An armed group occupying the headquarters of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon wants the federal government to relinquish about 300 square miles to local control so it can be opened up for ranching, mining, logging and other uses. Birders covet the same land for its many migrating species that use […]
  
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• I Spent My Holidays Listening to Billboard's Top 20 Singles of 2015. It Was Completely Appalling.

  06-01-2016 22:07 via thestranger.com
  
  I spend 99 percent of my time listening to music about which most people don't know or care. I assiduously avoid chart pop's mansion and the endless smorgasbord of cotton-candy-on-white-bread sandwiches it serves while its overlords expect you to smile till your face cracks. So who better to assess the 20 most popular songs of 2015, per industry bible Billboard? Let's rue this:
  20. "Fight Song" by Rachel Platten
  Young attractive white woman sings about vengeance in general, universal terms, usi
  
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• Inslee calls for strengthening background checks of gun buyers

  06-01-2016 21:57
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee seeks to strengthen background checks to lessen the toll of gun violence, calling his proposal “a public-health response to a public-health crisis.”
  
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• Get Ready for the Right-Wing Backlash Over Washington's New Transgender Bathroom Policy

  06-01-2016 21:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle's transgender pride march wound through Capitol Hill last June. Ansel Herz
  The Washington legislative session gets underway next week and Republican officials are busy riling up the fears of their base over a new rule from the state's Human Rights Commission that explicitly protects the right of transgender people to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity.Transgender advocates say progressives need to be prepared for this backlash. In other places around the
  
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• Police: Felon tied to Capitol Hill mass shooting caught with gun

  06-01-2016 21:43
  
  A Seattle-area felon linked by police to a shooting in the city that injured five now faces federal gun charges.
  
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• T-Mobile boosts subscriber count by 2.1 million in 4Q

  06-01-2016 21:35
  
  The company said its the 11th consecutive quarter it has had more than 1 million net additions to its service.
  
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• Seattle Meowtropolitan Cat Cafe Is as Depressing as a Strip Club

  06-01-2016 21:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Yes, that woman in the far right is wearing a cat jumper. And yes, they're all having the time of their lives. The cat, Pink, just woke up from a nap.Mary SetonI walked into Seattle's first and only (for now) cat cafe expecting to be greeted by 40 mewling furballs all wanting to make biscuits in my sweater. That didn't happen. Instead I was met by three smiley baristas hanging out in a slick, tastefully(?) forest-themed cafe. There was a short and simple list of drinks behind the bar, and a few
  
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• Washington to limit carbon pollution from largest facilities

  06-01-2016 21:09
  
  The state’s largest industrial emitters would be required to reduce carbon emissions by 5 percent every three years, under a proposed rule released Wednesday by state regulators.
  
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• Audit finds taxis owe Port of Seattle for unreported trips to Sea-Tac

  06-01-2016 21:05
  
  An audit found that the taxi company contracted to serve Sea-Tac Airport under-reported trips and fares and failed to hold up other parts of its agreement with the Port of Seattle going back four years.
  
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• Governor Inslee leads GOP challenger Bryant in new poll

  06-01-2016 21:00
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee leads his 2016 Republican challenger, Bill Bryant, by nine percentage points, according to the results of an Elway Poll.
  
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• Native Artists + Native Animals = Goodnight World, the Best Art Book for Children AND Adults

  06-01-2016 20:52 via thestranger.com
  
  There are animals on every page, each one by a different artist, and all the artists are credited on the back cover of the book. COURTESY NATIVE EXPLORE
  The baby board book Goodnight World, Animals of the Native Northwest came out in 2014 from Native Explore, but I noticed it yesterday at Elliott Bay Books and snatched the last two copies on the shelf. The woman at the counter told me they've got many more. They're $10.
  The book is brilliant. Last night I read it twice out loud, on demand by bot
  
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• Guest Editorial: I Don't Know What You're Talking About: The Coachella Lineup Looks Great!

  06-01-2016 20:33 via thestranger.com
  
  Dear whiny, liberal, 45-year-old fun police: Why don't you get off my back and learn that there's more to life than bitching about how great it was when you were young and in charge of the world? Because guess what: You're not and you're not.
  Let me see if I have this straight: You're crying into your artisanal, locally sourced, hand-stitched crying towels because Guns N' Roses are headlining Coachella, and reunions are bad, and Coachella is supposed to have only cool bands no one has heard of.
  
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• My Dad Worked at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, and He Knows What Happens When Ranchers Get Their Way

  06-01-2016 20:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Before the federal government limited grazing at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, ranchers had turned the land to "mud and cow shit." steve estvanik/shutterstock.com
  Since the Mahleur National Wildlife Refuge occupation began, there’s been a number of articles pointing out how deeply in the wrong these self-styled freedom fighters are. Dan pointed out white privilege, Sydney pointed out hypocrisy, and Charles pointed out capitalism.
  But there is one more point to be made here: The Malheur
  
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• Hot Pockets

  06-01-2016 20:11 via thestranger.com
  DYK in the 1700s women’s clothes didn’t have pockets? Women embroidered pockets that tied on. #WomenArtistWednesday pic.twitter.com/5ilsWfXxvB— Winterthur Museum (@WinterthurMuse) January 6, 2016
  Look kinda like nut cozies to me—or antique embroidered linen truck nuts.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Walter Kirn Reads from Blood Will Out, His Best Book Yet, Tonight at Town Hall

  06-01-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Walter Kirn Reads from Blood Will Out, His Best Book Yet, Tonight at Town Hallby Paul Constant[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Visit Echo at the Olympic Sculpture Park

  06-01-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Echo at the Sculpture Park Rises from the Concept of #YesAllWomen, Though the Artist Didn't Mean Her That Wayby Jen Graves[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Think & Drink Looks at Race in Cinema Tonight at Naked City Brewery

  06-01-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Think & Drink Looks at Race in Cinema Tonight at Naked City Breweryby Danielle Henderson[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Stranger by the Lake at SIFF Cinema Uptown

  06-01-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Stranger by the Lake Is a French Movie About Gay Cruising with a Brilliantly Black Heartby David Schmader[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Show Off Your Great Taste in Reading at the Book Swap at George & Dragon

  06-01-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Show Off Your Great Taste in Reading at the Book Swap at George & Dragonby Paul Constant[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Sci-Fi Author Kij Johnson Reads Tonight at University Book Store

  06-01-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Sci-Fi Author Kij Johnson Reads Tonight at University Book Storeby Paul Constant[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Restaurant Roux in Fremont Is Completely Tasty, Totally Satisfying

  06-01-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Restaurant Roux in Fremont Is Completely Tasty, Totally Satisfyingby Bethany Jean Clement[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Queen Shmooquan: I Own Me

  06-01-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Queen Shmooquen's Indescribably Irreverent Performance Art Will Leave You Rattled and Gloriously Uncomfortableby Kelly O[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Katherine Freese Reads from The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter Tonight at Town Hall

  06-01-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  Katherine Freese Reads from The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter Tonight at Town Hallby Paul Constant[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Godzilla Film Festival Tonight at SIFF Cinema Uptown

  06-01-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Godzilla Film Festival Tonight at SIFF Cinema Uptownby Paul Constant[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• FIZZ: OCnotes and WD4D at Lucid Lounge

  06-01-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  OCnotes and WD4D Tonight at Lucid Loungeby Charles Mudede[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Fatoumata Diawara Brings Her West African Blues to Jazz Alley Tonight

  06-01-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Fatoumata Diawara Brings Her West African Blues to Jazz Alley Tonightby Kyle Fleck[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Explore the Restaurants Along Martin Luther King Jr. Way for Plate of Nations

  06-01-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Explore the Restaurants Along Martin Luther King Jr. Way for Plate of Nationsby Bethany Jean Clement[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• APRIL Festival Happy Hour Tonight with Shin Yu Pai and Zubair Ahmed

  06-01-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  APRIL Festival Happy Hour Tonight with Shin Yu Pai and Zubair Ahmedby Paul Constant[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Aneesh Chopra Talks Technology in Government Tonight at Town Hall

  06-01-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Aneesh Chopra Talks Technology in Government Tonight at Town Hallby Paul Constant[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Inslee leads Bryant by only 9 points in first statewide poll of 2016

  06-01-2016 19:55
  
  National political tout sheets listed the Washington governor’s race as “safe Democratic” for much of last year, but the first poll of 2016 shows Gov. Jay Inslee with a lead of just 9 points over his Republican challenger Bill Bryant. “Gov. Jay Inslee has a race on his hands:  With only 39 percent of voters polled included to vote for his reelection, Inslee led Seattle Port Commissioner Bill Bryant by just 9 points in last week’s Elway Poll,” pollster Stu
  
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• Study: Star clusters might host intelligent civilizations

  06-01-2016 19:37
  
  KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Clusters of stars on the fringes of our Milky Way galaxy may be home to intelligent life. That’s that word from an astrophysicist who’s new to probing extraterrestrial territory. Rosanne DiStefano (dee STEF-uh-no) of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, presented her theory Wednesday at the American Astronomical Society’s […]
  
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• Body found on beach at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park

  06-01-2016 19:28
  
  Seattle police detectives were investigating the discovery of a body in Golden Gardens Park in Ballard, police said.
  
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• One of the Most Memorable Stories I Ever Read Is Now a Book

  06-01-2016 19:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Associate editor Eli Sanders won a Pulitzer for his 2011 story, "The Bravest Woman in Seattle." Kelly O
  Long before I worked at The Stranger, before I even lived in Seattle, I was a big fan of The Stranger. And one of the reasons I was a big fan of The Stranger was because of this story. It is an amazing piece of journalism, told so skillfully that I couldn't read it fast enough, but it also disturbed me, deeply, for weeks.I now have the privilege of calling the author of that deeply affecting,
  
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• These beautiful photos of Greenland ice sheet rivers should freak you out

  06-01-2016 19:14
  
  If the North Pole heat spike, rash of strange and powerful storms and broken heat records didn't freak you out this year, well here's one more shot at it.
  
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• String of arsons hit military housing near NAS Whidbey Island

  06-01-2016 19:14
  
  Police are investigating fires set at military housing units near Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.
  
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• The Silent-Reading Party Is Tonight! At 6 pm! With Live Piano!

  06-01-2016 19:05 via thestranger.com
  
  It's the first reading party of 2016. It takes place in the lobby of the Sorrento Hotel, seen here under construction in 1909. Courtesy of Sorrento Hotel
  It's the first Wednesday of the month, which means one thing: The silent-reading party is tonight at 6 pm. Since that article was first published, we've added live musicians to the mix, and for the last year and a half it's been the amazing, exquisite Paul Matthew Moore on piano. He plays from 6 pm to 8 pm, and it's totally free—and all a
  
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• Our New Health Care System: Still Evil. Less Evil. But Still Evil.

  06-01-2016 18:49 via thestranger.com
  Here's what Barack Obama had to say about the Affordable Care Act, aka "Obamacare," after some of its key provisions went into affect:
  Because of this law, nearly 8 million seniors have saved almost $10 billion on their medicine because we’ve closed a gaping hole in Medicare’s prescription drug plan.We’re closing the donut hole. And because of this law, a whole lot of families won’t be driven into bankruptcy by a serious illness, because the Affordable Care Act prevents y
  
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• The Morning News: Inslee to Introduce Statewide Gun Violence Initiative, North Korea Claims It Tested Hydrogen Bomb

  06-01-2016 17:44 via thestranger.com
  
  A day after President Obama's announcement about new federal background check rules, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee plans to introduce a new public health initiative to reduce gun violence. More details will be released later today. Governor's Office
  Gov. Jay Inslee Will Announce an Executive Order Related to Gun Violence Today: Inslee is expected to launch a public health initiative to reduce gun violence in Washington state. That comes a day after President Barack Obama announced he would use an e
  
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