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• Jon Stewart on the Hillary Clinton: "A Very Bright Woman Without the Courage of Her Convictions"

  11-05-2016 23:54 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzDoes anyone genuinely disagree with him about this? Jon Stewart absolutely skewers Hillary Clinton here. The media quoted him on Trump and left this out.
  Wow.https://t.co/3GsKnsyEsC— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) May 10, 2016
  I miss this guy. In a lengthy discussion with former Obama strategist David Axelrod, Stewart also compared corporate media's coverage of Trump to crack dealing—"It can do tremendous damage, but as long as people are buying crack, everything is good"&mdash
  
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• Jon Stewart on Hillary Clinton: "A Very Bright Woman Without the Courage of Her Convictions"

  11-05-2016 23:54 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzDoes anyone genuinely disagree with him about this? "Because I'm not even sure what they are," he says. Jon Stewart absolutely skewers Hillary Clinton here. The media quoted him on Trump and left this out.
  Wow.https://t.co/3GsKnsyEsC
  — Shaun King (@ShaunKing) May 10, 2016
  I've missed this guy. In a lengthy discussion with former Obama strategist David Axelrod, Stewart also compared corporate media's coverage of Trump to crack dealing—"It can do tremendous damage, but as
  
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• Our Seattle Beer Week Calendar

  11-05-2016 23:14 via thestranger.com
  
  There Are Hundreds of Events Happening, But We've Picked The Highlights For Youby Stranger Things To Do Staff
  
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• Women of Seattle City Council on Sexist Arena Backlash: "We Will Not Be Silenced"

  11-05-2016 23:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverIn response to the backlash over their vote against a street vacation for an NBA arena, Lorena González, Sally Bagshaw, and the other women on the Seattle City Council say, "We are not deterred." City of Seattle
  The five women on the Seattle City Council haven't said much since they received a flood of misogynistic hate mail in response to their vote against a street vacation for a new NBA arena in Sodo. Today, they responded as a group for the first time with an op-ed in
  
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• Help Wanted! Web Developer!

  11-05-2016 22:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Anthony HechtHello there.
  The Stranger is hiring a web developer!
  Specifically, we're looking for someone to be on the front lines for supporting, maintaining, and building the website you're on right now, as well as The Portland Mercury's site. That means supporting our editorial and other staff internally, implementing analytics and ad-serving platforms, as well as developing new features and fixing bugs (if you could even ever find any ha ha).
  We use HTML (obvs), CSS, Javascript, and our c
  
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• Cops: Bystanders trap man after attacks on 6 women at UW

  11-05-2016 22:13
  
  King County prosecutors claim Ernest Terrill Parnell accosted at least six women during a spree of sexually motivated assaults ending in his arrest on May 4. Parnell, 41, had been released from jail days before the purported attacks.
  
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• President Obama on the Fierce Urgency of Incremental Change

  11-05-2016 22:03 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersPresident Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama last year, on the 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches. Pete Souza / White House
  I haven't seen this on Slog yet, so I'm just going to leave it here. You really should listen to (or read) the whole thing. It's President Obama's May 7 speech to the graduating class of Howard University, and in it he lays out his theory of political change while engaging pretty much all of the highly pessimist
  
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• Cops seek attacker in attempted rape of elderly woman in Capitol Hill

  11-05-2016 22:00
  
  Seattle detectives are looking for an attacker after a 72-year-old woman was assaulted and nearly raped Saturday in her own Capitol Hill home.
  
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• To avoid prison, Oregon man had his son shoot him in the legs

  11-05-2016 21:44
  
  A man shot the day before he was to report to prison has admitted that he directed his son to shoot him in the legs so he could delay prison and collect insurance money.
  
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• Hillary Clinton's Really Into the Possibility of Space Aliens

  11-05-2016 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Matt BaumeHere's one way to think of her: She is both Mulder and Scully. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com
  If you're having trouble seeing the bright side of Hillary being the nominee instead of Bernie, maybe this will cheer you up a bit: Hillary's really into the possibility of space aliens.
  In fact, some of Hillary's most genuine moments seem to come when she's discussing her zest for exploring alien life. At some point a late-night host asked her about UFOs, and she corrected him that the pro
  
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• "Your Boyfriend is a Penis Wrinkle in Time"

  11-05-2016 21:09 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonIs somebody n'egging Madeleine L'Engle?
  Well I never!
  Sorry to glorify graffiti, but this is pretty good. Also, many have said the Stranger doesn't pay enough attention to public art, so, you know... two birds.
  
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• Science News: A Swarm of Earthquakes and Traps Full of Dead Crabs

  11-05-2016 21:02 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeThis is Mount St. Helens. Is she about to blow again? Ethan Linck
  Something is Stirring Under Mount St. Helens Again: In your semi-regular reminder that the backbone of the Pacific Northwest is a chain of active volcanoes, a series of over 130 small earthquakes (Pacific Northwest Seismic Network since March 14th. The reason for this “swarm of earthquakes,” as they are evocatively described? Molten rock is moving into the volcano’s magma chamber, recharging for
  
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• Listen to Seattle Metalgaze Trio Dust Moth's Massive Single "Lift"

  11-05-2016 20:46 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalDust Moth: Adding gossamer to heavy metal's girth. The Mylene Sheath
  Seattle metalgaze trio Dust Moth have revealed the first single from their debut album Scale (due out July 22 on The Mylene Sheath). "Lift" is a girthful slab of majestic, melodic metal, elevated to a higher level by the dulcet, goth-grande-dame vocals of Irene Barber (former singer/guitarist for XVIII Eyes and current Erik Blood collaborator). Reviewing Dust Moth's 2014 Capitol Hill Block Party set on Line Out, I
  
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• I-90 speed limit won’t increase to 75 mph in Eastern Washington

  11-05-2016 20:27
  
  The Washington State Department of Transportation, Washington State Patrol and Washington Traffic Safety Commission say they will not raise the speed limit from 70 to 75 mph because of safety concerns.
  
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• Brain scans find protein a marker of Alzheimer’s decline

  11-05-2016 20:26
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A toxic duo of plaques and tangles interact to drive Alzheimer’s disease, and now researchers say it’s the tangles that may better predict early symptoms. It’s not clear exactly what causes Alzheimer’s. Sticky amyloid that builds into plaques coating the brain increases people’s risk. But they can harbor a lot of that […]
  
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• Federal Way police focusing ‘all our resources’ on deadly shootings

  11-05-2016 20:22
  
  Federal Way police are “prioritizing all of our resources” to solve a recent spate of shootings that has left three men dead since Monday, Chief Andy Wong said Wednesday morning.
  
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• Federal Way police focusing ‘all our resources’ on 3 deadly shootings this week

  11-05-2016 20:22
  
  Federal Way police are “prioritizing all of our resources” to solve shootings that have left three men dead since Monday, the police chief says.
  
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• Ella Dawson's TEDx Talk on STI Stigma

  11-05-2016 20:18 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
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• Who to Believe About the Alberta Wildfires: Cliff Mass or the New York Times?

  11-05-2016 19:43 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeThat rising mountain of smoke over there? This is Cliff Mass' world, and so it has nothing to with global warming—yet.Donny Ash/shutterstock.com
  Here is what our local and popular weatherperson Cliff Mass has to say about the cause or possible causes of the exceptional Alberta wildfires:
  The proximate cause of all this warmth and dryness? Here is the pressure (height) anomaly for the last 3 months in the midtroposphere (500hPa). You will notice very strong, small-scale, pe
  
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• State: 75 mph too fast for eastern section of I-90

  11-05-2016 19:33
  
  Lawmakers in Eastern Washington asked for a 5-mph speed limit hike along I-90, but state officials decided it was too much risk and too much cost to be worth letting people go 75 mph.
  
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• Passenger’s quest for beer, flight attendants’ hugs forced Alaska flight to Seattle to divert, feds say

  11-05-2016 19:29
  
  PORTLAND — A passenger who authorities say forced an Alaska Airlines flight to be diverted after he didn’t get a beer has pleaded not guilty in Portland to a charge of interfering with a flight crew. A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday says 32-year-old Luke Watts of Portland threatened to become violent if flight attendants didn’t […]
  
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• Passenger’s quest for beer, flight attendants’ hugs forced Alaska flight to divert, feds say

  11-05-2016 19:29
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A passenger who authorities say forced an Alaska Airlines flight to be diverted after he didn’t get a beer has pleaded not guilty in Portland, Oregon, to a charge of interfering with a flight crew. A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday says 32-year-old Luke Watts of Portland threatened to become violent if […]
  
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• Two Teenagers Arrested in Shooting Death of Kent Man

  11-05-2016 19:25 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageThere's not much detail in Mike Carter's report at the Seattle Times. But a man was shot to death in a parking lot last weekend and authorities "have arrested two teenage suspects in connection" with his death:
  The suspects, ages 14 and 15, were arrested Monday in Des Moines and Jenkins said detectives recovered a firearm believed to have been used in the slaying. The gun had been reported as stolen in a residential burglary, he said. Jenkins said Phelps did not live in the apartmen
  
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• How Many People Are Riding the First Hill Streetcar? The City Doesn't Know

  11-05-2016 19:17 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverDoes anyone ride this thing? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ SDOT
  A few months into the operation of the long-delayed First Hill Streetcar, local reporters have been wondering: How many people are riding that thing? The response they've gotten from the Seattle Department of Transportation: We're not sure.Zach Shaner at Seattle Transit Blog:Curious about the line’s ridership both before and after ULink, I asked SDOT for ridership data a couple weeks ago. Sadly, it appears that ri
  
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• Some Ballard Residents Are Receiving Mail for the First Time in Three Years

  11-05-2016 19:09 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufLast seen in 2013 — until now. LesPalenik / a href="http://www.shutterstock.com">Shutterstock
  Why have some residents along 8th Avenue NW not received mail since 2013? Because of a German Shepherd who "viciously barked" at a USPS mail carrier.According to KING 5, Molly Tallon's dog, Cooper, scared a mail carrier, who then suspended mail delivery to the area."It doesn't feel important until it's taken away from you," said Molly Tallon. "We've missed traffic tickets. We'
  
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• Did you lose power Wednesday morning? Blame a raccoon

  11-05-2016 18:06
  
  A raccoon in a substation caused nearly 40,000 Seattle City Light customers to lose power.
  
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• Panama City to the World: "It should be Called the Mossack Fonseca Papers, not the Panama Papers."

  11-05-2016 18:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedePanama City does not want the world to think it is what it is, a tax haven. Sylwia Brataniec/shutterstock.com
  Why are the Panama Papers such a big deal? They do not reveal anything out of the ordinary. They only expose what everyone can see and has seen without exposure.Indeed, why do Panamanians feel that the name of their beloved country is being dragged through the mud by this sordid affair? Much of what is in the leak is perfectly legal. What's the problem with being identif
  
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• The Morning News: A Raccoon-Caused Mass Power Outage, a Vandalized Mosque, and an Ex-SPD Officer Accused of Unlawful Imprisonment

  11-05-2016 17:27 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney Brownstonei go to glory ;) Miroslav Hlavko/Shutterstock
  Raccoon Foils 38,000 Seattleites: Nearly 40,000 people in Ballard, Fremont, and Wallingford lost power this morning after an all-hands no-feet trash-cat "wandered into the a substation at 8th Avenue NW and Leary Way and somehow de-energized the system," KING 5 reports. "The raccoon was never captured but is said to have survived."Mukilteo Mosque Site Vandalized: Two "Ban Islam from America" posters were found on a toppled sign on
  
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• Red Mill Burgers Owner John Shepherd Accused of Sexist, Transphobic Online Comments

  11-05-2016 17:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzWant some bigotry with your burger? No? Ari N/Shutterstock
  Red Mill Burgers is a highly-rated local burger chain with restaurants in Ballard, Phinney Ridge and Interbay. It's known for its stacks of bacon. Now, the chain's owner is becoming known for something else: alleged sexism and transphobia. Classism, too.People are calling for a boycott.A Facebook user with the name John Shepherd—the same name as the owner of Red Mill—is one of the garbage people who directed miso
  
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• Canadian professor: Olympics should be postponed due to Zika

  11-05-2016 16:47
  
  LONDON (AP) — With the opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro less than three months away, a Canadian professor has called for the Olympics to be postponed or moved because of the Zika outbreak, warning the influx of visitors to Brazil will result in the avoidable birth of malformed babies. “But for the games, would […]
  
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• Man dies after shooting in Federal Way; third fatal shooting there this week

  11-05-2016 16:12
  
  Federal Way police are investigating the city's third fatal shooting this week.
  
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• Man dies after Federal Way shooting; 3rd fatal shooting there this week

  11-05-2016 16:12
  
  Federal Way police are investigating the city's third fatal shooting this week.
  
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• SpaceX Dragon returns to Earth with precious science load

  11-05-2016 15:33
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX capsule returned to Earth on Wednesday with precious science samples from NASA’s one-year space station resident. Less than six hours after leaving the International Space Station, the Dragon cargo carrier plopped into the Pacific, a few hundred miles off the Southern California coast. SpaceX reported a good splashdown, […]
  
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• SpaceX Dragon departs space station, heads home with cargo

  11-05-2016 15:33
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX capsule is headed back to Earth with precious science samples from NASA’s one-year spaceman. The Dragon left the International Space Station on Wednesday morning, bound for an afternoon splashdown in the Pacific. The station’s big robot arm set the Dragon free over Australia. The capsule had been at […]
  
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• Deeper learning: More crucial than ever, and yet too rare

  11-05-2016 15:02
  
  Advocates of “deeper learning” say deeper learning has become even more important in a changing economy that demands critical thinking. But only about a fifth of high school classrooms are learning deeply, according to one national study.
  
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• ‘I was one of the lucky ones’: The struggle to get guns out of domestic abusers’ hands

  11-05-2016 14:30
  
  Authorities in Washington are reviewing the way cases of domestic-violence offenders with protective orders against them are handled, to ensure that the offenders surrender their weapons.
  
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• Study says Seattle could do more to help tech startups

  11-05-2016 09:01
  
  Seattle ranks No. 11 of 25 U.S. cities on how prepared they are for the ”technological revolution” sweeping across every industry, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce study says.
  
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• Seattle ranks only No. 11 among U.S. cities on readiness for ‘tech revolution’

  11-05-2016 09:01
  
  Seattle ranks No. 11 of 25 U.S. cities on how prepared they are for the ”technological revolution” sweeping across every industry, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce study says.
  
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• Shallow quake hits Tibet, causing landslides, 60 hurt

  11-05-2016 08:36
  
  BEIJING (AP) — A shallow magnitude-5.5 earthquake struck the mountainous region of Tibet on Wednesday, injuring 60 people, collapsing houses and damaging bridges and roads, authorities said. The quake struck at 9:15 a.m. (0115 GMT), 70 kilometers (44 miles) northwest of Gyamotang village at a depth of just 10 kilometers (6 miles), according to the […]
  
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• Shallow quake hits Tibet, at least 6 hurt by falling debris

  11-05-2016 08:36
  
  BEIJING (AP) — A shallow magnitude-5.5 earthquake struck the mountainous region of Tibet on Wednesday, blocking roads and leaving at least six people injured by falling debris, state media reported. The quake struck at 9:15 a.m. (0115 GMT), 70 kilometers (44 miles) northwest of Gyamotang village at a depth of just 10 kilometers (6 miles), […]
  
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• You Already Know The Man Who Knew Infinity

  11-05-2016 05:13 via thestranger.com
  
  You Already Know The Man Who Knew Infinityby Ned LannamannI'm not sure how we got to this particular moment in cinematic history—a moment in which a biopic about an unconventional mathematician seems nothing short of a rote cliché. But here we are. In the footsteps of A Beautiful Mind and The Imitation Game comes The Man Who Knew Infinity, an utterly familiar film that explores the life of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.Ramanujan's story is pretty fascinating: Self-taught,
  
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• Why Aren't These West Seattle Workers Making the Right Minimum Wage?

  11-05-2016 05:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Why Aren't These West Seattle Workers Making the Right Minimum Wage?by Heidi GrooverHere's how one employee of LSG Sky Chefs—a large subsidiary of the German airline Lufthansa—describes her minimum-wage job in West Seattle: She usually has to be at work by at least 4 a.m., but when things are particularly busy, she might have to come in at 3 a.m. or even midnight. When she arrives, she and her coworkers—mostly immigrants and refugees from Africa, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines,
  
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• We Saw You Lifting Rebar Outside Re-bar, Wearing American Flags at a Trump Rally, and Trying to Get People to Dance

  11-05-2016 05:13 via thestranger.com
  
  We Saw You Lifting Rebar Outside Re-bar, Wearing American Flags at a Trump Rally, and Trying to Get People to Danceby Stranger StaffTHE SCENE OUTSIDE RE-BARNo one knows what the bar and performance space Re-bar is made out of—cardboard and meringue?—but the building going up next to it is made of very heavy materials, some of which were being lifted into the air by a crane at 11:30 a.m. on Monday. Five construction workers stood in the street and watched. Uncountable rats huddled nea
  
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• Sampling the Spring Harvest at Vendemmia

  11-05-2016 05:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Sampling the Spring Harvest at Vendemmia in Madronaby Angela GarbesFor chefs, spring is an exhilarating time. Vegetables such as asparagus, nettles, ramps, green garlic, English peas, and fava beans signal that, after months of potatoes and parsnips, we are moving toward the summer growing season, toward the sweetness of zucchini, tomatoes, and corn. But spring's ingredients—green, grassy, tender, fleeting—are delicious in their own right.Every April, I begin scouring restaurant menu
  
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• Racial Drama Onstage and Racial Tension Backstage at Seattle Rep

  11-05-2016 05:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Racial Drama Onstage and Racial Tension Backstage at Seattle Repby Rich SmithIn 1970, James Baldwin (one of the best writers America has ever produced) and anthropologist Margaret Mead (the only anthropologist America has ever heard of) recorded a passionate and prescient seven-and-a-half-hour conversation, which was later turned into the book A Rap on Race.In a show with the same title now running at Seattle Rep, Tony Award–nominated local choreographer Donald Byrd and MacArthur genius pl
  
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• My Philosophy: Feelings About Drake and James Blake Aside, It's a Good Week for Local Hiphop

  11-05-2016 05:13 via thestranger.com
  
  My Philosophy: Feelings About Drake and James Blake Aside, It’s a Good Week for Local Hiphopby Larry Mizell Jr.Music don't stop, thank god.James Blake, Kaytranada, maybe even still Drake all got you nips-deep in your feelings, which are feeling some kinda way. Anyway, there's plenty to get lost in round your way, and maybe just outside it, too: Tacoma's still the future as far as I'm concerned (well, them and Portland). Blakk Soul reportedly packed out the New Frontier Lounge for his smoot
  
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