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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Snooper Boyfriend Keeps Snooping Through Passed Out Girlfriend's Phone

  06-01-2017 23:55 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage
  Kind of in a pickle. Straight white male, in a cis relationship, and I am thinking that maybe my GF is cheating on me, but I have no caught-in-the-act solid proof. We've been together for almost four years now, and after we moved in two years ago, our sex life kinda took a nosedive after some life problems we both had. But I thought we were just at a "new normal."
  A couple months ago, while she was drunk, she was plainly texting a guy right in front of me while we were getting read
  
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• Joe Biden gavels down Rep. Jayapal as Congress counts electoral votes

  06-01-2017 23:50
  
  Vice President Joe Biden, presiding as Congress counted electoral votes Friday, gaveled down freshman Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal and other liberal Democrats who sought to challenge Donald Trump's victory.
  
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• Avalanche kills Montana skier in Glacier National Park

  06-01-2017 23:46
  
  KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — An endurance athlete and firefighter who was partially buried in an avalanche while backcountry skiing in Montana’s Glacier National Park died as emergency crews tried to rescue him, officials said Friday. Ben Parsons, 36, of Kalispell, was a skilled outdoor adventurer who competed in mountain biking and ski mountaineering races and […]
  
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• Pramila Jayapal Makes Last-Ditch Effort to Save the Country, Block Trump During Final Electoral Tally

  06-01-2017 23:44 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneShe tried. Heidi Groover
  The freshman senator from Seattle (and the only Indian American woman in Congress) stood up and objected to the final Electoral College count this afternoon, but was put on blast by human Norman Rockwell painting Joe Biden.Here's the video: And the dispatch from Seattle Times reporter Jim Brunner:“Mr. President, I object to the certificate from the state of Georgia on the grounds that the electoral votes were not—”
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• Man Who Threatened to Cut Out Jim McDermott's Tongue Sentenced to Prison, Community Service, and a Book Report

  06-01-2017 23:42 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverLast spring, a man showed up at then-Congressman Jim McDermott's threatening him over his support of Hillary Clinton. Kelly O
  Remember this guy?
  A Seattle man accused of threatening to cut out U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott’s tongue now faces felony charges.
  King County prosecutors claim Jasper K. Bell made the threat because he was upset that McDermott, D-Seattle, was supporting Hilary Clinton for president. Currently jailed, Bell, 27, has been charged with intimidating a public
  
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• Seattle hit-and-run victim to be honored at site where she was killed

  06-01-2017 23:22
  
  Donnelle “Nellie” Yelli, a 62-year-old Seattle woman, was killed Sunday by a hit-and-run driver.
  
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• Yosemite’s valley floor set to close during stormy weekend

  06-01-2017 23:13
  
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Residents of California from the coastline to the Sierra Nevada are gearing up for heavy rain and snow that closed down part of Yosemite National Park on Friday and is expected to swell rivers and topple trees this weekend. Park rangers closed all roads leading to the valley floor, a major […]
  
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• California bracing for storm that closed Yosemite Valley

  06-01-2017 23:13
  
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Photographer and rock climber Josh Hilling who lives in the foothills below Yosemite National Park spent recent days chopping wood and stocking up on groceries, ahead of what’s expected to be the strongest storm to hit Central California in years. Rangers at Yosemite on Friday closed all roads leading to the […]
  
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• The 20 Best Movies Playing in Seattle This Weekend: Jan 6-8, 2017

  06-01-2017 23:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do Staff"I could live here forever," says Charles Mudede about the world of Blade Runner: The Final Cut, which is playing at Central Cinema this weekend.
  If you're heading to the movies this weekend, there are some movies our critics recommend you skip (like A Monster Calls, in which every actor except Sigourney Weaver "throws emotions around like they’re water balloons filled with tears," and Scorsese's Silence, which isn't worth seeing unless you have a strained rel
  
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• The 20 Best Movies Playing in Seattle This Weekend: January 6-8, 2017

  06-01-2017 22:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Our film critics' picks for movies playing Jan 6-8 in Seattle.by Stranger Things To Do StaffIf you're heading to the movies this weekend, there are some movies our critics recommend you skip (like A Monster Calls, in which every actor except Sigourney Weaver "throws emotions around like they’re water balloons filled with tears," and Scorsese's Silence, which isn't worth seeing unless you have a strained relationship with Jesus) but many more that they recommend seeing. See all of those opt
  
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• Washington Middle School briefly placed on lockdown after gunshots reported in area

  06-01-2017 22:55
  
  Seattle Public Schools said Washington Middle School was placed on lockdown around 1:45 p.m. Friday.
  
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• SPD's first trans cop featured on VICE News Tonight

  06-01-2017 22:51
  
  On Friday night, HBO's VICE News Tonight will highlight a notable new member of the Seattle Police Department: the agency's first openly transgender cop, Tori Newburn.
  
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• Threat to cut out Rep. McDermott’s tongue brings prison time, order to learn of congressman’s career

  06-01-2017 22:45
  
  Police say the man wanted former Rep Jim McDermott to support Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
  
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• Man who threatened to cut out former Rep. McDermott’s tongue gets 2 months in prison

  06-01-2017 22:45
  
  Police say the man wanted former Rep Jim McDermott to support Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
  
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• I Want to Take My Womb Out of Retirement and Give Birth to a Black Daughter So That She Can See Hidden Figures

  06-01-2017 22:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ijeoma OluoHidden Figures: You will get to laugh with black women, hope for black women, and cheer for black women.
  I'm not much of a crier, but I was tearing up within the first 30 seconds of Hidden Figures. I had approached the theater with some trepidation. I'm so used to being disappointed by films, especially films that try to put an inspirational bent on our country's dark and ugly racial history. But at the very beginning of Hidden Figures, I was looking at a little black girl—a
  
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• Wounded Mount Vernon officer showing ‘steady progress’ in hospital

  06-01-2017 22:27
  
  Officer Mike McClaughry faces a long road ahead and is ’not out of the woods,’ a brain surgeon acknowledged during a news conference on Friday
  
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• A smile and an ‘ouuuuch’: for critically wounded Mount Vernon officer, signs of progress and a long road ahead

  06-01-2017 22:27
  
  For nearly 12 hours a day, every day, Linda McClaughry sits at Harborview by the bedside of her husband, Mount Vernon police officer Mike McClaughry, shot in the head on Dec. 15. She has no time for bitterness or anger.
  
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• Scientists watch growing Antarctic crack but aren’t alarmed

  06-01-2017 22:24
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists are watching, but not alarmed by, a growing crack at the edge of a key floating ice shelf in Antarctica. New images show the long-watched crack in the Larsen C ice shelf grew 11 miles (18 kilometers) in the last few weeks. Another dozen more miles and a Delaware-sized iceberg could […]
  
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• ‘It is over’: VP Joe Biden shuts down Seattle congresswoman Pramila Jayapal’s last-ditch effort to halt Trump

  06-01-2017 22:21
  
  Biden's shutdown of Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Seattle, recorded by CSPAN, drew laughs and applause from some lawmakers, including House Speaker Paul Ryan.
  
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• ‘It is over’: Vice President Joe Biden shuts down Seattle congresswoman Pramila Jayapal’s last-ditch effort to halt Trump

  06-01-2017 22:21
  
  Biden's shutdown of Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Seattle, recorded by CSPAN, drew laughs and applause from some lawmakers, including House Speaker Paul Ryan.
  
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• Senator Patty Murray, Dems, Introduce Bill to Block Muslim Immigrant Registry

  06-01-2017 22:16 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneThis is Patty Murray when she isn't protecting the country from xenophobic and totalitarian surveillance tactics.Courtesy of Sen. Patty Murray
  Yep, this is what it's come to: Washington State's Senator Patty Murray and a coalition of other Senate Democrats have introduced a bill to block the creation of a federal registry based on religion, ethnicity, race, age, gender, national origin, nationality, or citizenship. The "Protect American Families Act" would block draconian act
  
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• Judge assigns homework to Bernie bro who threatened McDermott

  06-01-2017 22:05
  
  A Bernie Sanders supporter whose threats at U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott's office prompted the longtime Seattle congressman to arm himself with a shovel won't see any federal prison time.
  
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• Elisa Chavez's "Revenge" Is a Poetic War Cry for the Next Four Years

  06-01-2017 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich Smith
  The greatest threat to American democracy will be in charge of running that democracy in two weeks. Since the events of 11/9, many have cycled through the stages of grief, and many more continue to cycle. If you're currently lingering somewhere between anger and depression, then the Seattle Review of Books has a slam poem by Elisa Chavez called "Revenge" that just might be the thing you need to bust out of your mind spiral and get back to work.Chavez's humor and love of community d
  
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• Sen. Tim Sheldon picked as president pro-tem of GOP-controlled state Senate

  06-01-2017 21:52
  
  Sen. Tim Sheldon will likely be the state Senate’s next president pro tem. In that largely ceremonial role, Sheldon, a Democrat who caucuses with Republicans, will fill in when the lieutenant governor is unavailable.
  
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• Americans' message to GOP: Don't axe Obamacare

  06-01-2017 21:45
  
   The American people either do not want the Affordable Care Act repealed, or oppose repeal until Republican put their own replacement plan on the table:  Will Trump and Republicans listen?
  
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• Mifune: The Last Samurai Is a Good Documentary About a World-Historical Actor

  06-01-2017 21:26 via thestranger.com
  
  by Andrew Wright
  Toshiro Mifune was an actor who made the very concept of 3-D seem absurd. Over the span of nearly 200 films—most notably his 16 legendary collaborations with Akira Kurosawa—Mifune presented a figure whose magnetism was off the charts, with a physicality that always seemed to be a few milliseconds ahead of conscious thought. Even in still photos, he’s somehow on the move.
  
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• Our Complete Resistance & Solidarity Calendar

  06-01-2017 21:01 via thestranger.com
  
  The Womxn's March Seattle, Strip Against Trump, And Other Inauguration Protest Eventsby Stranger Things To Do Staff
  
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• Iceberg bigger than NY’s Long Island poised to break off from Antarctica

  06-01-2017 20:57
  
  A massive chunk of Antarctica’s Larsen C is hanging on by a relative thread. When it breaks off, it could eventually lead to the disintegration of the ice shelf.
  
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• Hillary Clinton To Run For President of New York City?

  06-01-2017 20:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeThe Clinton kingdom?RICHARD CAVALLERI/SHUTTERSTOCK.comThere's a lot of talk about centrist Democrats urging Hillary Clinton to come out of the cold of her stunning loss to Donald Trump and make a run for the mayor of NYC. The race happens this year. The current mayor, Bill de Blasio, is disliked by centrists, who complain that his time in office has seen an increase in graffiti, a rise in the visibility of homelessness, and the deterioration of public spaces. Another, and more i
  
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• Your Guide To January 2017 In Seattle: 65 Arts & Culture Events To Get Tickets For Now

  06-01-2017 20:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffThis month, the Seattle Opera will take on Giuseppe Verdi's classic La Traviata. Courtesy of English National Opera/ Tristram Kenton
  The holidays may be over, but, in Seattle, January is full of plenty of excellent theater, film festivals, readings, and other arts and culture events to help take your mind off the freezing weather outside. We've already compiled our critics' picks for the first week of the month to help you get started, but now it's time to look ahea
  
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• Get Tickets For These 80 January Concerts Now

  06-01-2017 20:38 via thestranger.com
  
  Timbrrr! Winter Music Festival, The Chamber Music Society Winter Festival, And Moreby Stranger Things To Do StaffThe holidays may be over, but, in Seattle, January is full of plenty of excellent live music to help take your mind off the freezing weather outside. It's time to look ahead to all of the other shows you have to look forward to in January, which you should buy tickets for now, before they sell out. See them all below, ranging from the Timbrrr! Winter Music Festival to the Seattle Cham
  
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• Get Tickets For These 65 January Arts & Culture Events Now

  06-01-2017 20:35 via thestranger.com
  
  David Sedaris, The Nordic Lights Film Festival, La Traviata, And Moreby Stranger Things To Do StaffThe holidays may be over, but, in Seattle, January is full of plenty of excellent theater, film festivals, readings, and other arts and culture events to help take your mind off the freezing weather outside. Some events (like An Evening with Ira Glass and Kathy Griffin's "Like a Boss" tour) are already sold out, but tickets are still available for the events below, including the Nordic Lights Film
  
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• Your Guide To January 2017 In Seattle: 80 Concerts To Get Tickets For Now

  06-01-2017 20:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Timbrrr! Winter Music Festival, The Chamber Music Society Winter Festival, And Moreby Stranger Things To Do StaffThe holidays may be over, but, in Seattle, January is full of plenty of excellent live music to help take your mind off the freezing weather outside. We've already compiled our critics' picks for the first week of the month to help you get started, but now it's time to look ahead to all of the other shows you have to look forward to in January, which you should buy tickets for now, be
  
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• Seattle’s new democracy vouchers: What they are and how to use them

  06-01-2017 20:28
  
  Have you received "democracy vouchers" in the mail? Here's your guide to what exactly they are and how you can use them.
  
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• It’s Not Easy Running a Small Business in Seattle: Q&A with the Owners of Georgetown’s Oldest Cornerstore

  06-01-2017 20:27 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufAlan Phillips and La Dele Sines, ownersof Carleton Avenue Grocery ASK
  When Georgetown's Country Inn Roadhouse went up for sale in 2007, Alan Phillips and La Dele Sines knew they had to buy it and preserve one of the last pieces of the old Seattle neighborhood's history. The building, which has stood at the intersection of Carleton Avenue and South Warsaw Street since 1904, was once a site of Seattle vice: Prohibition-era drinking and gambling on the main floor and sex in the "h
  
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• The Only Washington Republican Who Voted on Gutting the Ethics Office Voted Yes

  06-01-2017 20:24 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverDave Reichert thought gutting the Office of Congressional Ethics was a great idea. office of rep. dave reichert
  Before House Republicans backpedaled on their plan to reduce the power of the Office of Congressional Ethics this week, the one Washington State Republican representative who had the chance to vote on the change voted for it.
  Dave Reichert—the anti-gay/former sheriff/Auburn Republican who you may remember from when he tried to target welfare recipients for buying
  
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• Dying UK man to challenge British law on assisted suicide

  06-01-2017 20:00
  
  LONDON (AP) — A British man with a terminal disease is attempting to overturn the country’s laws on assisted suicide. The charity Dignity in Dying said in a statement Friday that 67-year-old Noel Conway has motor neurone disease, a degenerative muscle-wasting disease. He is not expected to survive another year. Conway says he fears being […]
  
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• Five People Killed in Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting

  06-01-2017 19:46 via thestranger.com
  by Ana Sofia Knauf#BREAKING UPDATE: 3 dead in shooting at Fort Lauderdale Airport. WATCH live coverage now on NBC 6 and here: https://t.co/BUdADBrWRq pic.twitter.com/8LX6OmZ54U
  — NBC 6 South Florida (@nbc6) January 6, 2017A gunman opened fire inside Florida's Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, shooting at least nine people. Five people were killed in the shooting, the Washington Post reports.Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer was there at the time of the shootin
  
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• Bat-friendly tequila, research play role in species recovery

  06-01-2017 19:46
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Wildlife officials say it might be time for a toast now that a once-rare bat important to the pollination of plants used to produce tequila is making a comeback. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday proposed removing the lesser long-nosed bat from the endangered species list. Mexico delisted the […]
  
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• Trump dumps on new 'Apprentice' host Arnold Schwarzenegger

  06-01-2017 19:44
  
  President-elect Donald Trump took time out from berating U.S. intelligence agencies to post a Tweet dumping on his replacement as host on "The Apprentice," actor-bodybuilder-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  
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• More snow expected in days ahead along Cascade slopes will be a delight for skiers and snowboarders

  06-01-2017 19:19
  
  The extended freezing cold temperatures are finally coming to an end, and more snow – possibly a lot of it – is expected to cover the icy slopes heading into next week. Light snow showers will begin late Friday and into Saturday with a slight bump of the freezing level up to 500 feet, and […]
  
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• Deep-freeze ending with more mountain snow to delight skiers and snowboarders

  06-01-2017 19:19
  
  The extended bitter cold temperatures are finally coming to an end, and more mountain snow – possibly a lot of it – is expected to cover the icy slopes heading into next week. Light snow showers are forecast for the mountains to begin late Friday and into Saturday with a slight bump of the freezing […]
  
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• With Layoffs Imminent, Seattle Times Plans to Restructure Newsroom

  06-01-2017 19:18 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverThe Seattle Times before "short, trendy posts" were a thing. Seattle Municipal Archives
  As Seattle Times reporters continue to await news on exactly how many of their colleagues will take buyouts or be laid off, they've received a lengthy memo from editor Don Shelton promising significant changes to how they do their jobs.In an email sent to the newsroom Wednesday afternoon, Shelton told reporters and editors: "We are talking about nothing less than changing the overall culture o
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: A Quiet Tuesday Bank Robbery

  06-01-2017 19:08 via thestranger.com
  
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• Study documents tree species’ decline due to climate warming

  06-01-2017 18:32
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A type of tree that thrives in soggy soil from Alaska to Northern California and is valued for its commercial and cultural uses could become a noticeable casualty of climate warming over the next 50 years, an independent study has concluded. Yellow cedar, named for its distinctive yellow wood, already is […]
  
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• What you need to know about new Alaska Airlines flights to Havana, Cuba

  06-01-2017 18:29
  
  UW President Ana Mari Cauce was among the first to fly to Havana, Cuba, on a new Alaska Airlines route.
  
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