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• Northwest Tap Connection’s take on Alton Sterling killing

  06-07-2016 23:51
  
  When choreographer Shakiah Danielson watched news reports about the death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge on Tuesday, she felt disheartened and exhausted – another police killing. “The part that hit me the hardest, though, was seeing his son break down,” Danielson said, recalling 15-year-old Cameron Sterling’s cries at a news conference, while fighting back tears of her own. […]
  
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• Jesus Cristina! Garage-Punk Badasses Boss Hog Are Back

  06-07-2016 23:47 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalBoss Hog (Martinez, second from right): still kicking ass after all these years.Angel ZayasFrom the late '80s to the mid '90s, New York City's Boss Hog purveyed an exhilarating brand of sleazy, noise garage rock that served as a somewhat more upscale update on Pussy Galore's scum-punk blasphemies. The common link of those groups are vocalist Cristina Martinez and her husband, guitarist/vocalist Jon Spencer. After 1999's Whiteout album, the power couple put Boss Hog on the back burne
  
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• Seahawks Quarterback Russell Wilson is Married Which Means He Can Have Sex Again

  06-07-2016 23:46 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tricia Romano Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
  Our long national nightmare of Russell Wilson's celibacy has finally come to an end. Wilson and Ciara tied the knot yesterday in an actual castle in Liverpool, England, in what (I'm sure) was a very tasteful ceremony that was not at all overdone and didn't resemble a Princess Bride fairy tale. Another plus to this news? At least now the (misogynist and sexist) jokes tying lack of sex to bad game performances will cease.[ Comment on this story ][ Su
  
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• Court orders Montana resort founder, Medina resident freed from jail

  06-07-2016 23:41
  
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered the release of the founder of a Montana club for the ultra-rich, who has spent the last 14 months in jail for failing to account for the money from the sale of a resort in Mexico. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted […]
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Bonus Advice From Esther Perel for "Heartbroken And Devastated"

  06-07-2016 23:22 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageThe first question in Savage Love this week is from HAD, aka "Heartbroken And Devastated," a man who discovered 17 years into his relationship—and 14 years into his marriage—that his seemingly loving & wonderful wife was cheating on an absolutely epic scale throughout the course of their marriage. No one would blame HAD for leaving his wife but he wasn't sure he wanted to leave and he wanted my thoughts on making it work. It was a tall order—his wife introduced
  
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• Oregon girl allegedly groped on flight seeks $10M from airline

  06-07-2016 23:19
  
  The 26-year-old suspect, Chad Camp, remains in a Portland jail after pleading not guilty to abusive sexual contact
  
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• Trans Comic: Ideal Bathroom Exit Would Be Disappearing in a Cloud of Smoke

  06-07-2016 22:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneFinn Cottom: actually fucking funny. Finn Cottom/YouTube
  Local politics—specifically a local ballot initiative trying to take away trans people's right to use a gender-segregated bathroom—can be very unfunny. But Finn Cottom, a local comic I had never heard of before they e-mailed us, is very fucking funny indeed.
  Watch Cottom describe the mental calculations trans people already have to make in order to reduce the likelihood of being gawked at—or worse, ass
  
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• Delay those New Year’s plans: 2016 is getting a leap second

  06-07-2016 22:32
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Already a leap year, 2016 will drag on a bit longer. International timekeepers are adding a leap second at year’s end. Because Earth is slowing down a tad, occasionally timekeepers insert another second or two to match Earth’s rotation and the precise atomic clocks. U.S. Naval Observatory’s Geoff Chester says the tides’ […]
  
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• My Philosophy: The Best Local Hiphop You Missed in the First Half of 2016

  06-07-2016 22:04 via thestranger.com
  
  by Larry Mizell Jr.OCnotes. KELLY O
  So how was your Fourth? Good times? Brews and buds? Or just full of terrors and terrible reminders, sick ironies, and glaring hypocrisies? Let's table that for now—we're halfway through 2016. Let's touch on some local offerings that slipped through the cracks.
  I dug cuts on Nu Era's Armadilla Lexus from January—especially "BLK FLWRS," the one completely stolen right from the gate by an amazing-sounding DoNormaal, epic enough that it merited its own
  
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• Retiring Lt. Gov. Brad Owen to visit Cuba with state officials, others

  06-07-2016 21:58
  
  Unlike standard trade missions, this weeklong trip is intended to be more of a listening tour to learn about Cuba’s medical system.
  
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• Police investigate hate crime on Capitol Hill during Pride weekend

  06-07-2016 21:24
  
  The man was walking alone when an attacker called him a gay slur and punched him, according to a police report.
  
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• Hillary Clinton Won't Go to Jail, But Will the E-Mail Scandal Hurt Her Chances In November?

  06-07-2016 21:03 via thestranger.com
  
  Americans probably don't care about those damn emails.by Rich SmithIs Hillary history?Krista Kennell / Shutterstock.com
  After F.B.I director James B. Comey announced that his team "didn't find clear evidence that Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information," I imagined a great wave of apathy washing over many Clinton supporters. Like October 2015 Bernie, back when Democrats were patting themselves on the back for having a more substantive d
  
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• Initiative to Raise Statewide Minimum Wage to $13.50 Likely to Appear on November Ballot

  06-07-2016 20:58 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverInitiative 1433 would raise the minimum wage to $13.50 by 2020 and give all workers paid sick time. Anna Minard
  Raise Up Washington, the campaign raise the minimum wage across the state, announced today that they've turned in 360,000 signatures—well over the 246,372 valid signatures required.That means the measure is likely to qualify and appear on your November ballot.Initiative 1433 would incrementally raise the minimum wage across Washington to $13.50 by 2020, beginning
  
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• Seattle rolls out mobile medical van for homeless

  06-07-2016 20:48
  
  Mayor Ed Murray on Wednesday applauded the introduction of a new mobile medical van aimed at helping people in Seattle who are homeless.
  
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• Gretchen Carlson, Formerly of Fox News, Files Lawsuit Against Roger Ailes Alleging Sexual Harassment

  06-07-2016 20:46 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleCan you imagine the fear and disgust that might result if this 76-year-old man—that prepossessing hunk of burning love on the left—kept pressuring you to have sex with him?Read the most damning parts of the Gretchen Carlson suit against Roger Ailes https://t.co/4ccXk3XWPs pic.twitter.com/zqkNvPixqR— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) July 6, 2016
  What if he—your boss—told you that there was one person he wanted to be stranded on a desert islan
  
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• Republicans Harrumph Over "Un-American" Acts Such as Breathing

  06-07-2016 20:44 via thestranger.com
  
  by Matt BaumeAmber waves of smog. Phonix_a Pk.sarote
  Go ahead and take a deep breath, ahhhh, in and out. Feels good, doesn't it? YOU COMMUNIST.
  House Republicans hassled the EPA at a hearing this week, at one point accusing the agency of being "un-American" for requiring that industries not literally choke us all to death with poison fumes.
  Regarding clean energy policies, Ohio Rep. Bill Johnson said, "I think it’s absurd, I think it’s irresponsible, I think honestly it’s un-Am
  
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• Rape charge against Idaho TV weather forecaster dismissed

  06-07-2016 20:15
  
  The Twin Falls County prosecutor says an analysis of the facts led the state to conclude the man did not commit a rape.
  
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• House Dems Boo Sanders

  06-07-2016 20:01 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageBoo.Politico:
  Sen. Bernie Sanders is still talking like a guy who's running for president. But frustrated House Democrats—who booed him at one point during a morning meeting—say it's time to stop. With the Democratic convention just weeks away, Sanders still hasn't endorsed one-time rival Hillary Clinton and dodged questions about when he would during a tense meeting Wednesday morning with House Democrats. Sanders also stunned some of the Democrats in attendance when he
  
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• Spokane deputies arrest wounded man suspected of bank robbery

  06-07-2016 19:49
  
  The suspect is being treated at a hospital for injuries to his right arm and hip. He was shot and wounded by a bystander after the credit union was robbed.
  
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• Religious Extremists Export Hate, Murder, and Terror to Brazil

  06-07-2016 19:38 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageGays, lesbians, and trans people are being beaten, stabbed, and murdered in Brazil in an "epidemic of anti-gay-violence," the NYT reports:
  While Americans have fiercely debated how to respond to the massacre last month at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Brazilians have been confronting their own epidemic of anti-gay violence — one that, by some counts, has earned Brazil the ignominious ranking of the world’s deadliest place for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender
  
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• Two of Just Want Privacy's Top Funders Paid More Than $60,000 to Cut Down Their Neighbor's Trees and Improve Their View

  06-07-2016 19:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneEXCUSE ME, TREES, JESUS SAYS YOU MUST STOP OBSCURING MY VIEW OF THIS MOUNTAIN. Matt Apps/Shutterstock
  Meet John Olerud: retired Seattle Mariners player, devout Christian, wealthy Clyde Hill resident, anti-trans ballot initiative funder, and tree-slaying schmuck.
  According to Just Want Privacy campaign filings submitted last week, Olerud and his wife each contributed $25,000 to the campaign to remove transgender folks' right to use gender-segregated bathrooms. But that's nothi
  
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• The Greenwood Explosion Left This Man Homeless. Our Readers Are Trying to Change That

  06-07-2016 19:33 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufHal Miller stands on his building's fire escape, which faced the site of the Greenwood explosion, which leveled Mr. Gyros, Neptune Coffee, and Quik Mart. ASK
  Hal Miller has been camping in Discovery Park for nearly a week.Miller, 60, was made homeless after the Greenwood explosion damaged his apartment building in addition to leveling three businesses on Greenwood Avenue, which stood just across the alleyway. Repair permits for the building, which housed 13 residents and Gordit
  
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• People Are Trying to Raise Money to House the Man Made Homeless by the Greenwood Explosion

  06-07-2016 19:33 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufHal Miller stands on his building's fire escape, which faced the site of the Greenwood explosion, which leveled Mr. Gyros, Neptune Coffee, and Quik Mart. ASK
  Hal Miller has been camping in Discovery Park for nearly a week.Miller, 60, was made homeless after the Greenwood explosion damaged his apartment building in addition to leveling three businesses on Greenwood Avenue, which stood just across the alleyway. Repair permits for the building, which housed 13 residents and Gordit
  
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• #AltonSterling

  06-07-2016 19:15 via thestranger.com
  by Ansel HerzAlton Sterling is the latest black man killed by cops on camera https://t.co/ThoHPZnawx pic.twitter.com/weRrgCLy8z— VICE (@VICE) July 6, 2016
  Vox:
  In his last few minutes of life, Alton Sterling seemed completely immobile. Two Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police officers had pinned him to the floor, flat on his back. But even as Sterling seemed completely unable to move, one of the police officers yelled, "He’s got a gun!" Within seconds, an officer shot Sterling, who was sti
  
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• Body recovered from Lynnwood pond is ID’d

  06-07-2016 19:10
  
  The 50-year-old man’s death has been ruled a suicide, police said
  
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• Body recovered from Lynnwood pond ID’d

  06-07-2016 19:10
  
  The 50-year-old man’s death has been ruled a suicide, police said
  
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• Local Artists Made a To-Do List and You Can Read It

  06-07-2016 19:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesA look at the West Seattle Junction, then and now. Courtesy of the Southwest Seattle Historical Society
  Government grant announcements are only fun because they're a snapshot of what artists are doing all holed up in their studios and garages. Not all artists, mind you. There are plenty who never get, and never apply for, government funding. But for those who do, King County arts agency 4Culture just announced the latest round, and it includes:
  Mary Coss, Taking Off the Gloves.
  Rach
  
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• Snohomish County deputies seek help finding home of disoriented man

  06-07-2016 18:47
  
  A man who identified himself as John Wesley Dilley was found alone Wednesday morning.
  
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• Disoriented Snohomish County man, found early Wednesday morning, returned home safely

  06-07-2016 18:47
  
  The man was found alone early Wednesday morning and unable to remember where he lives. He was later connected with his daughter and taken home.
  
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• Man found dead in SeaTac with apparent gunshot wound

  06-07-2016 18:10
  
  A man was found inside a car with at least one apparent gunshot wound, officials said.
  
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• Man found dead in car in SeaTac with gunshot wound

  06-07-2016 18:10
  
  A man was found inside a parked car with at least one apparent gunshot wound, officials said.
  
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• 65 Stranger (Than Usual) Things To Do in Seattle This Week

  06-07-2016 18:08 via thestranger.com
  
  A Bubble Flash Mob, Goatalympics, The Myth and Magic Faire, And More Unusual Picks For July 6-10by Stranger Things To Do StaffOur arts critics have already recommended 37 great things to do this week and our music critics have picked the 22 best concerts, but there are still hundreds more events happening. To prevent some of the quirkier and more extraordinary ones from slipping through the cracks, we've compiled them here—from the EMP's Myth and Magic Faire and the Electric Bootie Carniva
  
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• The Morning News: Mayor Defends Police Oversight Move, Obama Announces Troops Will Stay in Afghanistan

  06-07-2016 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverMayor Ed Murray says he announced that he would not extend the appointment of a Seattle Police watchdog because he's in "limbo land." City of Seattle
  Mayor Ed Murray Says He Didn't Realize SPOG Would Be So Happy that He Wasn't Reappointing Pierce Murphy: Last week, Mayor Ed Murray announced that he would not reappoint two people doing police oversight, auditor Anne Levinson and director of the Office of Professional Accountability Pierce Murphy. The police union, known for blocki
  
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• Family dog rescued from Mercer Island house fire

  06-07-2016 17:58
  
  A fire severely damaged a West Ridge Road home, but the residents and a dog were unharmed.
  
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• Will Medical Marijuana Patients Be Forced Back to the Black Market?

  06-07-2016 17:31 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tobias Coughlin-BogueA life or death situation: Meagan Holt worries that recreational stores won’t carry the full plant extract oil that her daughter, Madeline, relies on to control her seizures. MICHAEL SCOTT
  On July 1, Washington State's medical marijuana dispensaries and collectives officially closed, leaving only state-licensed recreational stores to serve patients. This is a result of the Cannabis Patient Protection Act (SB 5052), which is perhaps the most egregious bit of doublesp
  
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• Wednesday Morning Brief: Toxic house, I-5 traffic, Clinton emails

  06-07-2016 17:03
  
  (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s a quick roundup of this morning’s news: The house was so dangerous, prospective buyers needed a legal waiver to enter it. But that didn’t stop 41 bidders from making offers on a mold-infested home with crumbling floors in West Seattle. We know what […]
  
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• Wednesday Morning Brief: Decrepit house, Clinton emails, Bellevue backtracks

  06-07-2016 17:03
  
  (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s a quick roundup of this morning’s news: The house was so dangerous, prospective buyers needed a legal waiver to enter it. But that didn’t stop 41 bidders from making offers on a mold-infested home with crumbling floors in West Seattle. We know what […]
  
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• Today’s NW news roundup: Toxic house, I-5 traffic, Clinton emails

  06-07-2016 17:03
  
  (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s a quick roundup of this morning’s news: The house was so dangerous, prospective buyers needed a legal waiver to enter it. But that didn’t stop 41 bidders from making offers on a mold-infested home with crumbling floors in West Seattle. We know what […]
  
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• California city’s curb fix disappoints earthquake scientists

  06-07-2016 16:53
  
  HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) — A faulty curb that perfectly illustrated the seismic forces at work underneath a San Francisco Bay Area neighborhood has been fixed, stunning scientists, who say a curbside laboratory for studying earthquakes was destroyed. The Los Angeles Times reports (http://lat.ms/29og8Yp ) that since at least the 1970s, scientists have painstakingly photographed the […]
  
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• Suspect allegedly fires 6 shots at Algona officers in standoff

  06-07-2016 16:19
  
  Officials said the suspect fired multiple shots at Algona police officers after a traffic stop.
  
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• You asked, we answered: What can charters do that other public schools can’t?

  06-07-2016 15:00
  
  In our second installment of Education Lab IQ, we answer a reader’s question about the differences between charters and traditional public schools.
  
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• Why butter isn’t back: Not all saturated fat is created equal

  06-07-2016 15:00
  
  While other higher-fat dairy foods don’t seem to elevate blood cholesterol, butter definitely does.
  
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• Guest essay: Christians need a new framework for talking about race

  06-07-2016 15:00
  
  Drew Yoos, a pastor at Light of the Cross Lutheran Church in Bothell, writes that it's time for a more complex conversation on race and theology.
  
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• Boost from Bernie Sanders plays into Seattle race for Congress

  06-07-2016 14:45
  
  In a Seattle-area congressional race pitting progressive Democrats against each other, Bernie Sanders could be a difference-maker. The Vermont senator has been helping Pramila Jayapal with her bid to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott.
  
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• Boost from Bernie Sanders playing into Seattle race for Congress

  06-07-2016 14:45
  
  In a Seattle-area congressional race pitting progressive Democrats against each other, Bernie Sanders could be a difference-maker. The Vermont senator has been helping Pramila Jayapal with her bid to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott.
  
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• Zero Days and the Future of War

  06-07-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Zero Days and the Future of Warby Erik Henriksen"This was obviously the first, biggest, and most sophisticated example of a state or two states using a cyber weapon for offensive purposes," says New York Times national security correspondent David Sanger in Zero Days. He’s talking about Stuxnet—an elegant, dense, and massive piece of malware. First discovered via an "epidemic of computer shutdowns" in 2010, eventually it was recognized as something far greater: a powerful, covert Ame
  
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• We Saw You Get a Sparkler on Your Birthday Cake in Fremont and Almost Get Hit by a Firework in Ballard

  06-07-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  We Saw You Get a Sparkler on Your Birthday Cake in Fremont and Almost Get Hit by a Firework in Ballardby Stranger StaffPARALYZED BEFORE A SPARKLER CANDLE ON FOURTH OF JULYSurrounded by friends in a backyard in Fremont, we saw you staring down at your birthday cake. You weren't focused on the sprinkles or the white icing or the chocolate cake beneath. Your eyes were glued to the star-shaped sparkler candle freaking out above the confection. Granted, it was not freaking out as beautifully as it wo
  
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• The Best Performances I Failed to Write About in the First Half of 2016

  06-07-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Best Performances I Failed to Write About in the First Half of 2016by Rich SmithDirector's Choiceat Pacific Northwest BalletThis collection of three ballets expanded my understanding of the possibilities of the art. Little Mortal Jump incorporated music you don't ever hear at the ballet (Andrew Bird, Beirut, Philip Glass, Tom Waits) in order to tell a love story informed by recent advancements in theoretical physics. It reminded me of a play that ran at the Seattle Rep in February, Constella
  
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• The Best of (the First Half of) 2016: Our Favorite Music, Film, TV, Art, Food, Books, and Theater

  06-07-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Stranger Writers Name the Best Music, Film, TV, Art, Food, Books, and Theater of 2016. So Far.by The StrangerHi. Yes, the year is half over, and no, the first six months weren't just a terrible dream. Donald Trump really is running for president, guns really are closer to being mandatory than to being regulated, and you'll really never get a ticket in time to see Lin-Manuel Miranda in Hamilton. There have been some positive developments in 2016, however, and we wanted to write them down before w
  
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