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• Know your rights: What to do when you're pulled over

  20-01-2016 23:28
  
  We pass along advice and what rights you should keep in mind when you're pulled over by law enforcement.
  
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• My Philosophy: Lead in the Water, Hiphop at the Central

  20-01-2016 23:21 via thestranger.com
  
  DJ Paypal: revelatory, well-attended.
  The place that gave us MC Breed, Ready for the World, and the Dayton Family—Flint, Michigan—has hot and cold running toxic waste coming out of its taps. A perfect storm of jaw-dropping neglect and disregard for mostly black, overwhelmingly poor Flint has resulted in a political house fire and a bunch of goddamn babies with three times the normal amount of lead in their blood. The effects of lead poisoning in young children can't help but remind o
  
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• Joe McDermott running for Jim McDermott’s 7th District seat

  20-01-2016 23:02
  
  King County Councilmember Joe McDermott says he’ll seek the 7th District seat of retiring 14-term Rep. Jim McDermott.
  
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• Snohomish County closes on first buyout of land in Oso slide

  20-01-2016 22:54
  
  The Snohomish County Council has agreed to buy 100 remaining parcels of land where the deadly 2014 slide struck.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Dildos and Dildon'ts

  20-01-2016 22:41 via thestranger.com
  
  I read your response to the person hoping to recycle their used toys in new column. A few years ago, I donated the sex toys and other items I no longer wanted to the Aliveness Project for their annual fundraiser. Before donating the sex toys, I ran them all through the dishwasher so they'd be clean, and the Project was grateful to get them. I have no idea what sold and what didn't, but felt good about the contribution. Perhaps the person who wrote that letter could donate them to a business like
  
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• Council Member Tim Burgess Pledges Action on Airbnb Rentals

  20-01-2016 22:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Some people think the Airbnb logo looks like a vagina. I do not.tanuha2001 / Shutterstock.com
  Tim Burgess, the former Seattle City Council president who now chairs the council's housing committee, published a blog post this morning promising to do something about regulating Airbnb.It wasn't exactly Burgess's idea; the suggestion to regulate the short-term housing market originally came out of the Mayor's Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA). The HALA plan aims to have short term ho
  
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• Official wishes air monitoring were better after gas leak

  20-01-2016 22:32
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles County public health official says he wishes air pollution monitoring had been more comprehensive soon after a massive natural gas leak was reported in October. Angelo Bellomo, the county’s environmental health director, said Wednesday that better testing was delayed in part because officials believed Southern California Gas Co. […]
  
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• Gas leak pollution monitoring took months to put in place

  20-01-2016 22:32
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A massive natural gas leak that has driven thousands of Los Angeles residents from their homes had been out of control for more than a month when the county’s acting health director said in November that long-term impacts of the cancer-causing chemical benzene should be measured. It took many more weeks […]
  
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• The Richy Awards Have Just Been Announced!

  20-01-2016 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Congratulations to all the winners selected by me! Rich Smith! Winners receive the hula hoop I'm clearly smuggling in my sweater.GrammaIt's theater awards season in Seattle, everybody! The Gypsy Rose Lee Awards were just announced, and it looks like a group of theater critics and bloggers think Lizard Boy did a good job this year. Good job, cast and crew of the Lizard Boy!Back in October the Gregory Awards were announced, and then of course there were the Footlight Awards earlier this month, whi
  
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• King County Council Chair Joe McDermott is running for Congress

  20-01-2016 22:17
  
  King County Council Chair Joe McDermott on Wednesday announced that he will run for the 7th District seat in Congress being vacated with the retirement of 14-term Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash. McDermott, no kin to the incumbent, is a 15-year legislator and council member from West Seattle. About 25 percent of voters in the 7th District live in the West Seattle-Burien-Vashon neighborhoods that he has represented in Olympia and at the King County Courthouse. King County Council member Joe McDermott,
  
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• Part Museum, Part Clubhouse, Part Vintage Gear Orgy: Inside the First Patchwerks' Synth Meetup and Petting Zoo

  20-01-2016 22:09 via thestranger.com
  
  A man plays Andy Reichel and Cindy Desmarais's Synthesizers.com unit. It sounded like a massive choir of electronic frogs.Dave Segal
  Sunday afternoon at Substantial's loft-like office on Capitol Hill there comes a disorienting cacophony from several synthesizers being tested by various geeks and geekettes. It's a towering babble of alien burbles and spluttering bleepage, a psychedelic swirl of analog and digital emissions that combine with animated human chatter to overwhelm the senses. This is
  
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• Charter-schools fix passes state Senate

  20-01-2016 21:45
  
  The Washington Senate passed a bill that seeks a legal fix to charter schools after a state Supreme Court ruling that found the system unconstitutional.
  
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• Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bernie Sanders: Why Is the Socialist's Imagination "So Limited Against White Supremacy?"

  20-01-2016 21:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Yesterday, Coates published some tough words for Bernie Sanders regarding the senator's stance against reparations:Sanders is a lot of things, many of them good. But he is not the candidate of moderation and unification, so much as the candidate of partisanship and radicalism. There is neither insult nor accolade in this. John Brown was radical and divisive. So was Eric Robert Rudolph. Our current sprawling megapolis of prisons was a bipartisan achievement. Obamacare was not. Sometimes the moral
  
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• Why Car Mechanics Provide a Social Good and Dealers of New Cars Do Not

  20-01-2016 21:29 via thestranger.com
  
  An old car in the city of Cairo. Courtesy of Ted Swedenburg
  Before I begin, I must explain that this post has two primary sources and inspirations—one is "Cairo Nihilism: The Death of a Recycling City and the Rise of American Consumerism," a short essay by Maged Zaher, a local Egyptian-born poet who won the 2013 Genius Award for literature. The other source is Eric Schneider's and Dorion Sagan's book Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life.One of the many observations Zaher pr
  
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• Stepmom of missing Kyron Horman breaks silence, denies involvement

  20-01-2016 21:15
  
  The stepmother of missing Kyron Horman has broken her silence, saying she never harmed him. Terri Horman took 7-year-old Kyron Horman to his Portland school in 2010 and was the last person known to have seen him.
  
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• Puget Sound orca numbers rise fast after 30-year low in 2014

  20-01-2016 21:09
  
  After nine births, Southern-resident orcas in Puget Sound number 85.
  
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• King County Council Member Joe McDermott Is Running for Congress

  20-01-2016 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Joe McDermott: A King County Council member who wants to be a Congressman. courtesy of campaign
  Joe McDermott—who was just selected to chair the King County Council—has made official what we've all been expecting: He's running for the seat in the U.S. House of Representatives currently held by Jim McDermott. (Earlier this month, Congressman McDermott announced that after 14 terms in D.C., he's retiring.)Ever since Congressman McDermott's announcement, the local political chattering c
  
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• It's Lunchtime, Who Feels Like a Sarah Palin Word Salad?

  20-01-2016 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Matt mentioned a bunch of this earlier, but for anyone who doesn't read so good, and even for people who read just fine, watching Sarah Palin spray her edge-of-psychosis "thoughts" all over Donald Trump is really something to behold.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Alaska police handcuffed ‘uncooperative, belligerent and evasive’ Palin son

  20-01-2016 20:37
  
  As ex-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin flew to Iowa for her Donald Trump endorsement, a very different scenario was unfolding Monday night at the Wasilla, Alaska, home of the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee. Track Palin, here 26-year-old son who lives with his parents, was being arrested. He faces charges of domestic violence assault, interfering with a report of domestic violence and possessing a firearm while intoxicated. (Update: At a Trump campaign event in Oklahoma on Wednesday, Sarah Pali
  
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• Indictment: Washington teen drug dealers thrived on ‘darknet’

  20-01-2016 20:14
  
  Two Washington young men accused of using the deep web to traffic ecstasy and other drugs face federal charges.
  
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• Scientists ID new genus of tree frogs long thought extinct

  20-01-2016 20:06
  
  NEW DELHI (AP) — Two mysterious tree frogs found by a British naturalist in 1870 were long assumed to be part of a vanished species, never again found in the wild. Until now. Scientists led by Indian biologist Sathyabhama Das Biju have rediscovered the frogs and identified them as part of a new genus — […]
  
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• Edgy Comedian Sarah Palin Announces National Tour

  20-01-2016 19:41 via thestranger.com
  
  "Hi America! I didn't ruin you enough last time so I'm back." Andrew F. Kazmierski / Shutterstock.comWell, it's all over, you guys. Donald Trump has the most important endorsement of the 2016 presidential campaign: Sarah Palin. Yup, the bumbling grifter has returned to the national spotlight, and she hasn't lost her trademark touch.
  For example: "He’s been going rogue left and right," she hollered at a rally. "He’s been able to tear the veil off this idea of the system."
  She added, "
  
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• Seattle man charged in N.J. terrorism case sentenced for robbery

  20-01-2016 19:35
  
  A Seattle man charged with allegedly killing a New Jersey college student because he was angry about U.S. foreign policy was sentenced in an unrelated robbery case. He also faces three aggravated murder charges in Washington.
  
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• 2015 Was the Hottest/Gayest Year On Record

  20-01-2016 19:24 via thestranger.com
  
  NYT:
  Scientists reported Wednesday that 2015 was the hottest year in recorded history by far, breaking a record set only the year before—a burst of heat that has continued into the new year and is roiling weather patterns all over the world. In the continental United States, the year was the second-warmest on record, punctuated by a December that was both the hottest and the wettest since record-keeping began.
  You know what else happened in 2015? Five unelected judges* radically** redefine
  
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• Grisly fossils from Kenya reveal a 10,000-year-old massacre

  20-01-2016 19:09
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have found grisly evidence of a massacre in Kenya about 10,000 years ago, providing rare evidence of violence between groups in ancient hunter-gatherer societies. Researchers said the discovery casts light on the poorly understood roots of warfare. Evidence of violence appeared in 10 of 12 relatively complete fossil skeletons the […]
  
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• Skier, snowboarder die in avalanches in Montana, Wyoming

  20-01-2016 18:44
  
  BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — A skier and a snowboarder have died in separate avalanches in the West, bringing to seven the number of deaths from avalanches this winter in the U.S. Officials say snowboarder Jed Wesley Foster died Tuesday in an avalanche south of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Wyoming. The skier died the same […]
  
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• Ski patrol member dies in southwestern Montana avalanche

  20-01-2016 18:44
  
  BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — One of the two people who died in recent avalanches in the West was a ski patrol member who was helping two university students with avalanche research. The Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center says the victim of Tuesday’s slide near Cedar Basin in southwestern Montana was one of two Yellowstone Club […]
  
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• Earth’s temperature depends on where you put thermometer

  20-01-2016 18:40
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to measuring global warming, it’s all about altitude. Temperature readings taken close to Earth’s surface — about 6 feet off the ground — show a slightly warmer planet than measurements taken from on high by satellites in orbit. And that discrepancy has given ammunition to climate-change doubters. Government agencies […]
  
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• 1 fisherman dead, 2 missing off Oregon coast near Coos Bay

  20-01-2016 17:56
  
  The captain of a boat that capsized more than a mile off Coos Bay was able to make it to shore, while one fisherman died and two others were missing.
  
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• ‘The dog had no chance’: Man accused of killing girlfriend’s pet

  20-01-2016 17:53
  
  A Thurston County man has been accused of choking and beating his girlfriend’s dog to death.
  
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• The Morning News: Judge to Rule on Eyman Initiative, Gunmen Attack Pakistan University, Republicans Subpeona Governor

  20-01-2016 17:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Still relevant somehow. courtesy of tim eyman
  A Judge Will Rule This Week on the Last Tim Eyman Initiative: You remember Initiative 1366, right? That's the one barely passed this past November that would cut state sales taxes if the state legislature doesn't put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot to require a 2/3 majority to raise taxes. After a hearing yesterday, the judge is expected to rule tomorrow, Joel Connelly reports.
  What's the Case About, Exactly? "The legal challenge to
  
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• 2015 hottest year in history, scientists report, with heat continuing in new year

  20-01-2016 17:38
  
  Scientists say the record burst of heat has continued into 2016, roiling weather patterns all over the globe.
  
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• Violent crime up 18% in Vancouver, FBI reports

  20-01-2016 17:24
  
  Vancouver, Wash., saw more reports of violent crime in the first six months of 2015 than in that period the year prior, and the growth was much faster than the U.S. rate.
  
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• These Republicans Are Waging a War on Choice in Washington State. Tell Them to Stop.

  20-01-2016 17:16 via thestranger.com
  
  Call and e-mail these anti-choice lawmakers and tell them you're watching and will work to defeat them.
  "I certainly would like to prevent, if I could legally, anybody having an abortion—a rich woman, a middle-class woman, or a poor woman." Those were the words of Henry Hyde, an Illinois Republican, in 1977. At the time, the congressman was pushing hard for a law that would squash the rights of women—particularly poor women. He was successful.
  Hyde, who died in 2007, is the namesake
  
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• He Said It Like There's Something Wrong With Masturbating to Anime

  20-01-2016 17:14 via thestranger.com
  
  Talking Points Memo:
  While explaining that he believes that Donald Trump's success in the Republican party does not mean that establishment conservatism is dying, GOP strategist Rick Wilson dismissed the "childless single men" who support Trump's presidential bid. "The fact of the matter is, most of them are childless single men who masturbate to anime. They’re not real political players. These are not people who matter in the overall course of humanity," Wilson said of Trump supporters o
  
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• 2015 shattered the global heat record and we paid for it

  20-01-2016 16:54
  
  In the year 2015, the world came together in Paris and passed a toothless agreement to save the Earth. That same year, human-caused global warming shattered all the records, reports NASA and NOAA.
  
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• Scientists: Good evidence for 9th planet in solar system

  20-01-2016 16:38
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists reported Wednesday they finally have “good evidence” for Planet X, a true ninth planet on the fringes of our solar system. The gas giant is thought to be almost as big as Neptune and orbiting billions of miles beyond Neptune’s path — distant enough to take 10,000 to 20,000 […]
  
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• To save its salmon, California turns to genetic matchmaker

  20-01-2016 15:03
  
  Geneticist John Carlos Garza has become a key figure in California’s effort to preserve its decimated salmon stocks. Using the latest genetic techniques, he and his team decide which individual fish should be bred together.
  
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• Seattle School Board to vote on offering even more students free transit passes

  20-01-2016 14:02
  
  The Seattle School Board will vote Wednesday on expanding its free ORCA card program.
  
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• Deputies: Man dies after dispute over touching truck

  20-01-2016 13:22
  
  TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in central Florida say a man died after a dispute over whether he touched another man’s pickup truck. Brevard County Sheriff’s spokesman Maj. Tod Goodyear tells the Orlando Sentinel that 67-year-old German Heredia was walking with his granddaughters and their dogs Jan. 5 when Warren Buchanan walked up and accused […]
  
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• Top 11 Live Shows In Seattle This Weekend

  20-01-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Bass Bombs, Queer Punk-Pop, And More Picks From Our Music Criticsby Stranger Things To Do StaffThis weekend brings a little something for everyone, music-wise: from '90s rap legends Bone Thugs-N-Harmony at the Neptune, to the carpet-bombing noise of the Rita at Kremwerk, to a cassette release for pop-punk supergroup Topless. As always, feel free to peruse our complete music calendar for literally dozens of other live shows around town this weekend and beyond.
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• The X-Files Is Back, and It Brought Along a Monster That Shoots Blood Out Its Eyeball

  20-01-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The X-Files Is Back, and It Brought Along a Monster That Shoots Blood Out Its Eyeballby Erik Henriksen"It shot blood at me! From out its eyeball, Scully! I think. It was hard for me to see because I had blood in my eyes."So claims Fox Mulder in the third episode of the new The X-Files—a six-episode miniseries that kicks off Sunday on Fox, reuniting FBI Agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) for the first time since... well, let's just pretend that second X-Files movie
  
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• Last-Minute Plans: 27 Cheap & Easy Things To Do This Weekend

  20-01-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  A Katy Perry-Themed Dance Party, A Seattle Aquarium Beach Walk, And More Events Under $10by Stranger Things To Do StaffIt's almost the weekend—do you know what you're doing? No? Then you're in the perfect position to go to one of these free and very cheap (under $10) events happening this weekend, like a nighttime beach walk with Seattle Aquarium naturalists, a Katy Perry-themed Candi Pop dance party with free pizza, and the Seattle Makers Market. If you have a slightly larger budget, chec
  
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• 13 Movies Worth Seeing This Weekend

  20-01-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Most Important Film in the Oscar Race, Saturday Secret Matinees, And More Picks From Our Film Criticsby Stranger Things To Do StaffOur critics selected their favorite films this week, from wide releases to one-time showings, and we have the details on when and where to see all of them. If all of our picks seem a little complex and intense, consider checking out Northwest Film Forum's Children's Film Festival this weekend, through Jan 31, or take a peek at the other films on our movie times l
  
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• Emergency planners work on playbooks for the deadly Big One

  20-01-2016 10:13
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — As military helicopters ferry search and rescue teams over the Pacific Northwest, below them are scenes of devastation from a giant earthquake that could strike the region at any time. Tsunami waters surge through coastal communities. Buildings, bridges and roads lie in ruins. Fires burn out of control. Survivors are stranded […]
  
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• Greenpeace: Air in China 10 percent less polluted last year

  20-01-2016 08:57
  
  BEIJING (AP) — Average concentrations of air particulates in 189 Chinese cities fell by 10 percent in 2015, according to a new Greenpeace report, a sign that pollution overall was decreasing even as catastrophic levels of smog this winter in northern China effectively shut down schools and roads. Overall pollution levels in Beijing were down […]
  
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• Michigan governor on Flint water: ‘I let you down’

  20-01-2016 08:30
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder said he has failed Flint residents but pledged to take new steps to fix the city’s drinking water crisis, starting with committing millions in state funding and deploying more National Guard members. The second-term Republican, who devoted most of his annual State of the State speech Tuesday […]
  
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• Most of Detroit’s public schools close amid teacher sick-out

  20-01-2016 08:21
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Most of Detroit’s public schools closed for the day on Wednesday due to teacher absences, as disgruntled educators stepped up efforts to protest the governor’s plans for the district, its ramshackle finances and dilapidated buildings. Detroit Public Schools said more than 85 of its roughly 100 schools were shut. On Tuesday night, […]
  
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• Coconut trees are no longer considered trees in Indian state

  20-01-2016 08:21
  
  PANAJI, India (AP) — Coconut trees are no longer considered trees in the tropical Indian state of Goa, where authorities have reclassified them as palms to allow farmers to cut them down more easily. Officials said they dropped the cocus nucifer from Goa’s official list of trees in order to help coconut farmers cull old […]
  
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• Oregon standoff leader attends meeting, hears chants of ‘go’

  20-01-2016 07:59
  
  The leader of an armed group who took over a national wildlife refuge in southeastern Oregon weeks ago joined hundreds of area residents at a tense community meeting — listening quietly as many loudly chanted at him to “go.” Ammon Bundy, who has been trying to drum up support for his cause, didn’t speak at […]
  
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