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• Bothell Fire Department rescues bald eagle from tree

  18-02-2016 23:24
  
  This was no cat stuck up in a tree. For more than 24 hours, a full-grown bald eagle was stuck in a Bothell tree before a Bothell Fire Department ladder truck could deliver help.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Bonus Blowjob Tips, Anal Sex Toy Recs

  18-02-2016 23:22 via thestranger.com
  
  I just listened to Episode 486 of the Savage Lovecast. This is specifically regarding the woman who wondered if she could learn to like giving blowjobs.
  When I first met my husband, I identified as lesbian—I was young, I've since learned that I'm bi, and that you don't have to just choose one—but when I met him I was extremely uncomfortable even looking at his dick, let alone going down on him. However, I have learned to enjoy it. And I disagree with some of the advice you gave&mdash
  
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• Savage Love: The Past Is Never Dead

  18-02-2016 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  JOE NEWTON
  My new girlfriend blurted out that she had a cuckolding past with her ex-husband. She says her ex badgered her into arranging "dates" with strangers and that he picked the guys. Her ex would then watch her having sex with a guy in a hotel room. The ex only watched and didn't take part. I am really bothered by her past. She says she did it only because her ex pressured her into it and she wanted to save her marriage, so she agreed. But I suspect she may have enjoyed it and may have be
  
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• Skewed Glam and New Wave Visions on Gazebos' Engrossing Debut LP Die Alone

  18-02-2016 22:11 via thestranger.com
  
  Retromania has run rampant in rock music for many years. At this point in the once-rebellious art form's history, the smartest rockers compete to see who can most ingeniously rearrange the puzzle pieces of rock's variegated styles. On their engrossing debut album, Die Alone, Seattle quartet Gazebos have zeroed in on a combo of glam and new wave to express their skewed visions. It sounds like it sprang from some eternal glittery, skinny-tied 1979 of the mind, and I mean that in the most sparklin
  
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• Students, teachers and parents ‘walk-in’ to support Seattle schools

  18-02-2016 21:59
  
  More than 70 Seattle schools held “walk-ins” Thursday to show support for public education.
  
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• Eagles of Death Metal Return to Paris, Play a Triumphant Show, Advocate Gun Ownership

  18-02-2016 21:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Jesse Hughes, so far to the right you can't even see his right hand! Harmony Gerber/Shutterstock
  Mass shootings are such a commonplace now that you may only have a dim recollection of the one that took place just three months ago in Paris, at a club called the Bataclan, during an Eagles of Death Metal show on November 13 of last year.On Tuesday, the band returned to Paris to play its first show there since the night of the massacre. CNN reported that the Olympia Theater (the Bataclan is still cl
  
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• Police respond to reports of gunshots in Delridge

  18-02-2016 21:28
  
  Police are responding to reports of shots fired in Seattle’s Delridge neighborhood.
  
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• Body of missing Sammamish man found in Beaver Lake

  18-02-2016 21:14
  
  Man missing from parents’ Sammamish home found dead.
  
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• 3rd state official resigns in wake of prison early-release error

  18-02-2016 21:04
  
  Denise Doty, a former state corrections official said to be the highest-ranking administrator to have known about the mistaken early release of prisoners has stepped down from her job in another state agency.
  
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• Seattle Symphony Scoops Up Another Grammy, this Time for Best Classical Instrumental Solo

  18-02-2016 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle Symphony and violinist Augustin Hadelich won Best Classical Instrumental Solo for their recording of Dutilleux's L'arbre des songes, which appears on this album.Seattle Symphony
  This morning my great-great-grandmother was telling me about an ancient musical happening called the 2016 Grammys. Since it happened two whole days ago, she was only able to clearly recall the power and intensity of Kendrick Lamar's performance (which seems to be inspired by a play? Thanks, theater!) and little e
  
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• Donald Trump Apparently Now Running Against the Pope

  18-02-2016 20:35 via thestranger.com
  
  "Fear not, my child. He may pull off a delegate sweep, but have you seen his numbers in the general?" neneo / Shutterstock.com
  Donald Trump has declared some sort of beef with the Pope in what seems like a fever dream but is an actual thing that is happening and involves real grown-ups in reality.
  The dispute stems from that insane plan of Donald's to build a giant wall along the border with Mexico, which Donald assures us is a brilliant plan, fantastic, the best idea in the world.
  The Pope, who
  
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• Donald Trump Is Currently In a Flame War With Pope Francis

  18-02-2016 20:27 via thestranger.com
  Pope to Trump: You're not a Christian!
  Inserting himself into the Republican presidential race, Pope Francis on Wednesday suggested that Donald J. Trump “is not Christian” because of the harshness of his campaign promises to deport more immigrants and force Mexico to pay for a wall along the border. “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian,” Francis said when a reporter asked him about Mr. Trump on th
  
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• El Nino weakens a tad, but we won’t feel that for months

  18-02-2016 20:21
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Meteorologists see signs that the super El Nino is weakening ever so slightly, but they caution months will pass before people in the Americas will feel it. The World Meteorological Organization said Thursday that El Nino has passed its peak based on specific temperature, wind, and atmospheric pressure conditions. That’s technically true, […]
  
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• Scientists revise study on Eurasian migration to Africa

  18-02-2016 20:15
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Scientists say they are revising their claim that Eurasian farmers who migrated to Africa some 3,000 years ago have left their genetic mark in the furthest corners of the continent. Cambridge University researchers say an error in the way specialized software was used wrongly suggested that the ancient migrants’ DNA spread as […]
  
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• Correction: Ancient Migration-DNA story

  18-02-2016 20:15
  
  BERLIN (AP) — In a story Oct. 8 about ancient migration to Africa, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Eurasian migrants’ DNA spread to all parts of African continent, citing researchers who had published a scientific paper on the subject. The researchers have acknowledged making a mistake in their computational analysis and published a revised […]
  
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• Inslee wants new agency to focus on children, families

  18-02-2016 20:03
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee wants to create a new state agency to deliver services to vulnerable children and families, and he signed an executive order Thursday to start the process.
  
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• REVIEW: Reissue of the Pop Group's For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?

  18-02-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  THE POP GROUP
  For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?
  (Freaks R Us Records reissue; out Feb. 19)
  Album titles don’t come much blunter and gut-punching than this one. What the Pop Group lacked in subtlety they made up for in galvanizing music and lapel-grabbing lyrics. Thirty-six years after its initial release, For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? still fills you with crisis-mode adrenaline and resonates with relevance. Humanity’s chronic problems are still gnawin
  
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• Charge: U District Starbucks worker stabbed by unwelcome patron

  18-02-2016 19:53
  
  A Seattle man accused of stabbing a University District Starbucks worker in the neck has been charged with assault.
  
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• Meet the "Super Requester" Who Obtained the Six Hour-Long Police Dashcam Video

  18-02-2016 19:18 via thestranger.com
  
  Mike O'Dell tried to film his own arrest during MLK Day protests last year. He was arrested for allegedly assaulting this officer. Video from a bystander showed the officer fell down and injured himself as he was running after someone. Mike O'Dell
  My article in this week's paper is about a foul-mouthed Seattle police officer who seems to hate his job, as revealed by a six-hour recording from his car's camera that he was unaware of.
  There's an interesting story behind how the video came to my att
  
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• Engineer Who Warned of the Bertha Boondoggle Wants to Be the Tunnel Project's New Boss

  18-02-2016 19:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Thom Neff, a civil engineer hired by the last mayoral administration to assess tunnel project risks, thinks he's the man to help guide Seattle through (or out of) the Bertha mess. Courtesy of Thom Neff
  If you were following the Bertha boondoggle as far back as 2010, you might recognize Thom Neff's name. That was the year former mayor Mike McGinn hired Neff to analyze the risks of pursuing the downtown tunnel project.Neff, a civil engineer who once served as senior vice president at Parsons Brinc
  
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• Environmental Groups Oppose Mayor's City Light CEO Nominee

  18-02-2016 18:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Larry Weis defended his environmental record before city council members last night. Seattle Channel
  The local chapter of the Sierra Club and the environmental justice group 350 Seattle are asking the city council to reject confirmation of the mayor's pick to run City Light, former Austin, Texas utility head Larry Weis.
  Those groups—along with Council Member Kshama Sawant, who chairs the council's energy committee—are worried about Weis's environmental record, particularly his suppor
  
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• On Oxytocin, Pseudoscientific Views, and Rightwing Radio Hosts

  18-02-2016 18:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Hi Dan,My girlfriend and I just read your post on the Kinsey Institute and we're similarly dismayed that an institute of that caliber is putting agenda above unbiased research. Clearly Sue Carter, the moralizing new head of the institute, hasnever heard of confirmation bias. As all scientists know, if you start off with a result in mind that you'd like to confirm, especially if it is based on your values, your brain is going to find a way to confirm that belief even if the data doesn't really su
  
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• Morning News: Paul Allen Buys the Central District, Death of Mountlake Terrace Mom Investigated As a Homicide

  18-02-2016 17:39 via thestranger.com
  
  Central District is a part of this picture, which was taken from a downtown tower. Andrew S. Williams/shutterstock.com
  Paul Allen Has Bought and Plans to "Redevelop" the Promenade 23 Shopping Center on 23rd and Jackson Street: The main business operating in Promenade 23 shopping center has been the Red Apple Grocery, which when I lived in the area (between 2003 and 2009), had a reputation for playing great soul music for its shoppers, many of whom were black, and many of whom could be found in t
  
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• SPD Officer Leaves Dashcam on All Day. We Watched the Whole Thing.

  18-02-2016 17:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Officer Ditusa: Spending the day with an SPD officer who hates his job.
  "Do you ever want to punch anybody in the face?"
  Officer Salvatore Ditusa is sitting in his patrol car at Northgate Mall on June 18, 2014. He is on duty, meeting a friend in the parking lot.
  "Like that guy?" the friend asks.
  "No, fuck him," Ditusa replies. "I mean everybody today... fucking everywhere you turn, someone needs a clout."
  "You get yourself in a lot of trouble," the man warns the officer. "But it sure is tempting
  
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• Vandals break windows, set fires at middle school in White Center

  18-02-2016 15:17
  
  Vandals broke two windows, destroyed property and set two fires at Cascade Middle School in White Center.
  
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• UW, UPS, Gonzaga among top Peace Corps schools

  18-02-2016 15:02
  
  The University of Washington, University of Puget Sound and Gonzaga University sent more volunteers to the Peace Corps than any other schools of their size in 2015.
  
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• California considers condoms for porn actors

  18-02-2016 10:25
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Condoms could be coming to porn studios across California if the state agency in charge of enforcing workplace safety adopts proposed new regulations aimed at protecting actors who make adult films. The state Division of Occupational Safety and Health was scheduled to vote on the regulations following a hearing Thursday in […]
  
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• Woman describes rape she said preceded 10-year abduction

  18-02-2016 09:41
  
  FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — A woman testified that a man told her not to yell when he first raped her when she was still a girl, an assault that came before a 10-year abduction during which she had to marry the man and have his child. The now-26-year-old woman took the stand Wednesday in an […]
  
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• Cliven Bundy, 4 others face federal indictment in Nevada

  18-02-2016 09:20
  
  A federal grand jury in Nevada indicted Cliven Bundy and four others on 16 charges related to an armed standoff near his ranch in 2014 over unpaid grazing fees.
  
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• Should high school punishments go on college applications?

  18-02-2016 07:15
  
  They are basic yes-no questions that ask whether a college applicant ever got into trouble in high school. Yet they’re anything but simple, say some who want run-ins at school or with the law taken out of the college admissions equation. Advocates, school districts and even some colleges share concerns about youthful mistakes haunting students […]
  
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• How our Elwha project came together

  18-02-2016 05:51
  
  Our recent interactive look at the revival of the Elwha River watershed took collaboration across many corners of the newsroom. Here's a small glimpse at how it came together.
  
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• Union Gospel Mission gets new mattresses to dream on

  18-02-2016 05:12
  
  Seattle's Union Gospel Mission in Pioneer Square received almost 300 donated, new, luxury mattresses for residents in their rehabilitation and recovery dorms.
  
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• ‘There’s no freedom’: Not all homeless living in vehicles welcome city’s ‘safe lots’

  18-02-2016 05:07
  
  Seattle is aiming for a humane response to homelessness and complaints about RVs with its new “safe lots.” But it is coming into conflict with those who have something others on the streets lack: a home, of sorts, and with it autonomy and a sense of ownership.
  
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• Renaming Highway 99 after black Civil War vet reflects changing values

  18-02-2016 04:47
  
  The symbolic battle over highway markers is part of a deeper struggle over American identity.
  
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• Lawsuit targets Medicaid policy that limits spendy hepatitis C drugs

  18-02-2016 04:43
  
  A new lawsuit seeks to force state Medicaid officials to revoke a policy limiting high-priced drugs to treat hepatitis C to only the sickest patients. After a similar suit last month, a private insurer changed its policy.
  
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• Lawsuit targets Medicaid policy that limits spendy hep C drugs

  18-02-2016 04:43
  
  A new lawsuit seeks to force state Medicaid officials to revoke a policy limiting high-priced drugs to treat hepatitis C to only the sickest patients. After a similar suit last month, a private insurer changed its policy.
  
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• SeaTac workers say they aren’t getting $15 an hour, sue 14 employers

  18-02-2016 04:29
  
  SeaTac workers at 14 companies have filed lawsuits seeking class-action status that allege their employers have been paying them less than the $15 per hour called for under the minimum-wage ordinance approved by the city’s voters in 2013.
  
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• Early behavioral therapy benefits ADHD kids, study finds

  18-02-2016 03:48
  
  Experts said results of the behavior-first approach, if replicated in larger studies, could change standard medical practice, which favors medication as first-line treatments.
  
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• Group Launches Website to Put Anti-Trans Discrimination to a Statewide Vote

  18-02-2016 03:06 via thestranger.com
  
  An anti-LGBTQ group wants to file an anti-trans ballot measure once it receives $100,000 and 1,000 volunteers. Alex Garland
  "Just Want Privacy," a campaign dedicated to repealing the state Human Rights Commission's rule allowing transgender people to use the sex-segregated bathroom that aligns with their gender identity, is preparing to put anti-trans discrimination to a vote.
  The campaign's website, which is registered to the director of the anti-LGBTQ group Family Policy Institute of Washingto
  
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• Western State psychiatric staffers say they face retaliation

  18-02-2016 02:09
  
  According to hospital staff, two psychiatrists who criticized hospital management were told to work from home this week during a period when federal inspectors were expected to visit.
  
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• Free Will Astrology: For the Week of February 17

  18-02-2016 01:32 via thestranger.com
  
  feSTA/Shutterstock
  AQUARIUS (Jan 20–Feb 18): For a limited time only, 153 is your lucky number. Mauve and olive are your colors of destiny, the platypus is your power animal, and torn burlap mended with silk thread is your magic texture. I realize that all of this may sound odd, but it's the straight-up truth. The nature of the cosmic rhythms is rather erratic right now. To be in maximum alignment with the irregular opportunities that are headed your way, you should probably make yourself
  
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• Conservative Trolls Have Been Suggesting Men Go into Women's Restrooms to Help Legislators Discriminate Against Trans People

  18-02-2016 01:26 via thestranger.com
  
  Anti-trans bathroom bill supporters rallied in Olympia on Monday. Alex Garland
  It's one thing for conservative legislators to throw out specious arguments about the possibility of men abusing an anti-discrimination rule that protects transgender people in bathrooms.It's another thing to try and goad male conservatives into using women's restrooms in order to prove a point. Over the last two months, Facebook users who support the anti-trans discrimination bills in the state legislature have been
  
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• SPD: Man flashes woman, attacks as she calls 911

  18-02-2016 01:23
  
  Seattle police hope you recognize this flasher who attacked a woman last month on First Hill.
  
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• UW does poor job reporting results of its medical trials, study says

  18-02-2016 01:15
  
  Academic medical centers like the University of Washington and the Oregon Health & Science University conduct dozens of clinical trials each year, but they often fail to report the results of those studies, a new analysis finds.
  
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• Bill inspired by Spokane murder-suicide urges mental-health help

  18-02-2016 01:11
  
  A police officer responding to an attempted suicide could recommend a mental-health professional quickly offer help to the person.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: One Suggestion for First-Time, Bucket-List MMF Threesome

  18-02-2016 01:09 via thestranger.com
  
  I am a women in her 40's. A male friend of mine, who I have been having a sexual relationship with for many years, is dying of cancer. On his bucket list, he has requested for two threesomes—one with both me and another man, one with me and another woman.
  I haven't found a girl yet but I have found the perfect guy. I had a sexual relationship with him in the past. Both men have always treated me with respect and kindness and both are clean of disease. They are both open to exploring and ex
  
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• City and Neighborhood Disagree About Who's Getting Jobs on 23rd Avenue Construction. Here's Why They're Both Right

  18-02-2016 00:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Earl Lancaster, the owner of Earl's Cuts and Styles, and other business owners in the Central District say they rarely see people of color working on the construction project on 23rd Avenue. Kelly O
  Yesterday, I posted about how business owners in the Central District say that they rarely see construction workers of color on the city's 23rd Avenue overhaul. The city, meanwhile, says the project actually has better hiring diversity numbers than similar projects have had in the past.
  Now, data fro
  
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• Doom-Metal Band Sumac Have Cancelled Their Feb. 20 Funhouse Show

  18-02-2016 00:38 via thestranger.com
  
  MAMA by Endon
  Sumac—a newish doom-metal group featuring guitarist Aaron Turner (Mamiffer, Old Man Gloom, ex-Isis), drummer Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists), and bassist Brian Cook (Russian Circles, Stranger freelancer) have had to cancel their February 20 date at the Funhouse because Canadian citizen Yacyshyn's visa was denied. The show will go on with Japanese "Catastrophic Noise Metal" group ENDON and Black Spirituals. Funhouse booker Brian Foss is searching for a band to replace Sumac. If he fa
  
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