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• Dutch to Trump: America First, The Netherlands Second!

  25-01-2017 23:50 via thestranger.com
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• Seattle to Trump: We will not be bullied on immigration

  25-01-2017 23:47
  
  Mayor Ed Murray, Seattle leaders join bicoastal chorus of defiance toward Trump's immigration and refugee policies.  "We will not be bullied," says Murray.
  
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• Seattle to Trump: We will not be bullied by you on immigration

  25-01-2017 23:47
  
  Mayor Ed Murray, Seattle leaders join bicoastal chorus of defiance toward Trump's immigration and refugee policies.  "We will not be bullied," says Murray.
  
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• Walla Walla corrections officer accused of child rape

  25-01-2017 23:44
  
  The Columbia County man has been an officer at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla since 2008.
  
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• What Does Resistance Look Like? For These Americans, It’s Lobbying Their Senators Every Week on #ResistTrumpTuesday

  25-01-2017 23:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithGot the federal building goin' up on a Tuesday. Rich SmithMelissa Alexander is bouncing a big, blue-eyed, burbling two-month-old on her lap in Democratic Senator Patty Murray's conference room. She's never sat in Senator Murray's conference room before. She's never spoken about the importance of clean air and water into a bull horn at a political rally in front of approximately 120 people before, either. In fact, she voted Republican in the last four presidential elections, and most
  
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• Trumphoria: Dow Jones Industrial Average Hits 20,000

  25-01-2017 22:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede"Let's do this crash lesson again." The Big Short
  On the night Trump was elected, the Dow Jones was at 18,000 points. Today, it hit 20,000 points. That is a 2,000-point increase. That shit is straight up crazy.Dow Jones Industrial Average hits 20,000 for the first time https://t.co/yctLLfikvX
  — Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) January 25, 2017
  What you will not find in the real economy are activities that can answer to or justify those increases. What's happening, however, is no
  
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• Roxane Gay Pulls Book with Simon & Schuster Because of the Company's Contract with Milo Yiannopoulos

  25-01-2017 22:21 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleRoxane Gay: "He doesn’t have a right to have a book published by a major publisher but he has, in some bizarre twist of fate, been afforded that privilege. So be it. I’m not interested in doing business with a publisher willing to grant him that privilege."
  Feminist essayist and fiction writer Roxane Gay was supposed to deliver How to Be Heard to TED Books (an imprint within the parent company of Simon & Schuster), "this month." But according to a statemen
  
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• Trump casts shadow over GOP gathering led by Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  25-01-2017 22:02
  
  After conference chair Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Spokane, opened the annual conference in Philadelphia for House and Senate partisans to hash out policy and set their agenda for the year, questions quickly turned to the White House.
  
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• Costco says golf balls will return

  25-01-2017 21:50
  
  According to a comment from the Costco co-founder, the retailer's highly-popular golf balls will return to stores. 
  
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• A look at the Northwest earthquake that shook the world

  25-01-2017 21:38
  
  Just before midnight on Jan. 27, 1700, Japan woke up to a massive tsunami -- a surprise, since no one there felt the earthquake that caused it. Years later, scientists finally figured out why: It all started in the Pacific Northwest.
  
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• Mary Tyler Moore, Dead at 80

  25-01-2017 21:37 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonRIP MTM
  Mary Tyler Moore, the brilliant TV and film actor, comedian, producer, and impresario, died today at the age of 80, following a long battle with diabetes. She was Laura Petrie, Mary Richards, Beth Jarrett, and Pearl Coplin, but above all she was always irreducibly Mary Tyler Moore—part modernist, part classicist, and all trouper. Some of us will love her until the day we join her.
  
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• Trump Is Coming for Seattle

  25-01-2017 21:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageLA Times:
  President Trump is preparing to take executive action that would target funding for so-called sanctuary cities, part of a series of moves he is considering announcing this week on immigration and national security.... The move would fulfill one of Trump's signature campaign promises: forcing police in such major jurisdictions as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago to work more closely with immigration officials and demand local jails hold people who are in the country i
  
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• A Q&A with Chumbawamba former Danbert Nobacon, behind New Anti-Trump Song "Revolution 9.01"

  25-01-2017 21:29 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalDanbertNobacon: Stimulating ideas and thinking that might help us survive beyond this century.SOL GUTIERREZ
  The songs ridiculing, denigrating, and satirizing Donald Trump have been coming for a while. On the one hand, does Trump even listen to music? It's doubtful. Swindling at a world-class level demands that one not be distracted by beautiful sounds. On the other hand, Trump has the thinnest skin of anyone in the history of the epidermis, not to mention the self-control of a 12-ye
  
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• Public would pay more to get government records under legislative proposal

  25-01-2017 21:20
  
  New bipartisan legislation in the state House would make it more expensive for the public to access government records. It would, for the first time, set prices for providing electronic copies of records.
  
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• Pam Roach clashes with fellow Pierce County council member, cuts off microphones

  25-01-2017 21:08
  
  Roach, the chair of the council, silenced her peer’s microphones during a public meeting.
  
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• Study: Seattle-Tacoma region has five of nation's top 21 traffic bottlenecks

  25-01-2017 21:03
  
  Western Washington is on the national map for its traffic congestion.  A new study gives the Seattle-Tacoma area five of the 21 most congested bottlenecks in the U.S. highway system, with four more in the top-100 list.
  
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• Study: Seattle-Tacoma region has 5 of nation's top 21 traffic bottlenecks

  25-01-2017 21:03
  
  Western Washington is on the national map for its traffic congestion.  A new study gives the Seattle-Tacoma area five of the 21 most congested bottlenecks in the U.S. highway system, with four more in the top-100 list.
  
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• Brazil orders 11.5 million yellow fever vaccines

  25-01-2017 21:00
  
  SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Ministry of Health has ordered 11.5 million doses of yellow fever vaccines to reinforce its stockpiles amid the largest outbreak of the disease the country has seen since 2000. Ministry official Eduardo Hage told a news conference Wednesday that around 5.5 million of those doses have already been sent to […]
  
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• Cops: Burglary ring targeted Felix Hernandez, Seattleites, Eastsiders

  25-01-2017 20:56
  
  Several police agencies in the Seattle area nabbed a trio of burglars accused of running a prolific burglary ring, targeting high-end homes including that of Cy Young Award-winning Seattle Mariners pitcher Felix Hernandez.
  
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• Actress Mary Tyler Moore, icon for modern women, has died at 80

  25-01-2017 20:48
  
  A symbol of women’s liberation, Mary Tyler Moore came into our living rooms as the professional Mary Richards on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and as the spunkyLaura Petrie on “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” She was 80.
  
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• Trump 'ban' on sanctuary cities could cost Seattle big, or not at all

  25-01-2017 20:39
  
  President Donald Trump signed an order Wednesday stripping federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities like Seattle, though exactly what that might mean -- and whether it would have much impact -- is still up in the air.
  
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• Mariners’ Felix Hernandez among victims of high-end burglary ring, police say

  25-01-2017 20:37
  
  Police say the burglars are thought responsible for 123 burglaries, with losses totaling nearly $3 million.
  
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• 3 arrested in high-end burglary ring; Mariners’ Felix Hernandez among victims

  25-01-2017 20:37
  
  Police say the three burglars are thought responsible for 123 burglaries, with losses totaling nearly $3 million. One suspect was reportedly wearing a watch owned by the Mariners’ star pitcher when he was arrested.
  
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• Future of giant radio telescope in Puerto Rico in limbo

  25-01-2017 20:14
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The future of one of the world’s largest single-dish radio telescopes is in question after the U.S. National Science Foundation announced Wednesday it was accepting proposals from those interested in assuming operations at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The announcement comes as the federal agency runs out of […]
  
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• What does Trump’s action on ‘sanctuary cities’ mean for Seattle? Here’s what we know

  25-01-2017 20:12
  
  President Trump signed an executive order meant to crack down on so-called “sanctuary cities” for undocumented immigrants.
  
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• Are You a Victim of a Hate Crime? Here's How to Get Support.

  25-01-2017 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia Knauf ISTOCK BY GETTY/HONG LI
  After more than a year of campaigning on a platform based on hate, racism, misogyny, and xenophobia, on January 20, Donald Trump officially became the 45th president of the United States.
  Trump-inspired bigotry is already happening. In the 10 days after Trump was elected president, 867 hate crimes were reported across the United States. Not even a week after the election, 18-year-old Nasro Hassan, a Muslim student at the University of Washington, was st
  
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• State Senate leader signs letter supporting Trump education pick Betsy DeVos

  25-01-2017 19:58
  
  Washington’s GOP Senate Majority Leader Mark Schoesler has signed a letter supporting Betsy DeVos, the billionaire philanthropist who is President Trump’s pick for secretary of education.
  
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• State Senate leader signs letter backing Trump education pick Betsy DeVos

  25-01-2017 19:58
  
  Washington Senate Majority Leader Mark Schoesler, a Republican, has signed a letter supporting Betsy DeVos, the billionaire philanthropist who is President Trump’s pick for secretary of education.
  
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• After Trump Revived Dakota Access and Keystone XL Pipelines, Indigenous Water Protectors Rallied in Seattle

  25-01-2017 19:38 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufAn intertribal group, flanked by supporters, led a peaceful demonstration in Westlake Center on Tuesday night. ASK
  As one of his first acts as president, Donald Trump signed an order to resurrect the Keystone XL Pipeline and push forward construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, which indigenous water protectors brought to the world's attention last summer.In response to Trump, indigenous leaders—some just recently back from marching in Washington DC—gathered in d
  
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• Top Trump adviser registered to vote in both in New York and Florida

  25-01-2017 19:13
  
  The chief White House strategist to President Trump, Stephen Bannon, is registered to vote in both New York and Florida -- news revealed as Trump was tweeting his call for an investigation into voter fraud.
  
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• George Michael Has Been Dead for a Month, and I'm Still Not Over It

  25-01-2017 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleThe scruff. The cross. The fist. The leather. What the hell?
  It's been a month since George Michael was found dead on Christmas Day, and it's still unclear how he died. I, for one, don't care—nor do I get why some people are hounded, exposed, and punished for every detail of their (consensual) personal lives, while others can outright brag about serial sexual assault and their only punishment is becoming the most powerful person on the planet. I Googled "How did Geo
  
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• NASA displays Apollo capsule hatch 50 years after fatal fire

  25-01-2017 18:58
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A relic from America’s first space tragedy is finally going on display this week, 50 years after a fire on the launch pad killed three astronauts at the start of the Apollo moon program. The scorched Apollo 1 capsule remains locked away in storage. But NASA is offering visitors at […]
  
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• Trump creates uncertainty for wind, solar power

  25-01-2017 18:53
  
  Alternative energy like solar power is getting cheaper and more competitive with traditional sources, but experts don’t expect pro-renewable-energy policies from a Trump administration.
  
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• Greenwood businesses call for PSE to pay for gas blast

  25-01-2017 18:43
  
  State investigators have accused the utility of unsafe practices, claiming in a September 2016 complaint that a contractor hired by PSE did not properly cap the natural-gas line that ultimately caused the explosion.
  
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• Greenwood business owners call for PSE to pay for gas blast

  25-01-2017 18:43
  
  Business owners affected by the gas explosion in Greenwood are calling on Puget Sound Energy to take financial responsibility.
  
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• Women's March on Seattle raises $10k for local food bank

  25-01-2017 18:33
  
  The count for the Seattle Women's March just keeps growing (estimates now put it at around 200,000 marchers) but that's not the only surprise from marchers. A Seattle food bank located along the route also got about $10,000 in donations.
  
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• Greenpeace, Fuck Yeah!

  25-01-2017 18:08 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage7 Greenpeace protesters unfurl 'Resist' banner atop crane near White House https://t.co/jiQTpy6lPs pic.twitter.com/XXX9OLp68X— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) January 25, 2017
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• Impeach the Motherfucker Already!

  25-01-2017 17:57 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Listening to pundits discuss the president on the radio, I was inspired by your brilliant acronym (DTMFA) to yell, "Impeach the motherfucker already!" I'd love to see a line of bumper stickers and T-shirts bearing that sensible message: ITMFA! We need a shorthand for the obvious—think of the boost to productivity we'd get if we could cut half-hour conversations about the president to five simple letters: ITMFA! I appeal to you to bring this acronym into our everyday vocabular
  
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• Person of Interest: Palmira Figueroa, An Organizer Behind Seattle's Historic Womxn's March

  25-01-2017 17:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufPalmira Figueroa Stanton Stephens
  Although she's long been involved with Seattle's social organizing community, Palmira Figueroa doesn't consider herself an activist. By day, she serves as the development director for environmental sustainability nonprofit Stewardship Partners. Outside of work, Figueroa is "a fighter for social justice." Most recently, she helped chair the Womxn's March on Seattle, which led about 175,000 people from Judkins Park to Seattle Center this past Sat
  
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• Is ‘alternative’ National Park Service Twitter account based at Mount Rainier?

  25-01-2017 17:39
  
  It's unclear whether the account's owners are actually based here in the Evergreen State.
  
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• The Morning News: Washington Republicans Take Jobs in Trump Administration, Lose State Senate Majority

  25-01-2017 17:37 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverRight-wingers from Washington State are on their way to work for Donald Trump. nate gowdy
  Trump Is Hiring Washington State Republicans: When Washington State Senator Brian Dansel from Republic resigned his job in the state senate yesterday to become a special assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Republicans temporarily lost their majority in that body. The state senate is now tied 24-24 until Dansel is replaced. Meanwhile, Senator Doug Ericksen from Ferndale took a tem
  
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• Seattle Times Reporter Claudia Rowe Gets Personal with a Serial Killer in The Spider and the Fly

  25-01-2017 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich Smith
  In the late 1990s, Kendall Francois raped and killed eight sex workers in Poughkeepsie, New York. For two years, he piled their bodies in the attic of a house he shared with his mother and his two younger siblings. At the time of these murders, current Seattle Times education reporter, Claudia Rowe, was working in Poughkeepsie as a stringer for the New York Times. She wanted the story, but she also wanted to know the culprit; she wanted to get inside his head.
  Her debut book, The S
  
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• Badlands National Park tweets about climate despite Trump crackdown; tweets deleted

  25-01-2017 16:18
  
  The tweets were deleted shortly after going viral.
  
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• Abolish Washington’s death penalty? Deep divide remains in state Legislature

  25-01-2017 15:30
  
  Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s proposal to repeal Washington’s death penalty came with a bipartisan flourish that isn’t often seen at the Capitol. But getting legislators to end executions could face steep odds in Olympia.
  
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• Abolish Washington’s death penalty? Deep divide remains

  25-01-2017 15:30
  
  Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s proposal to repeal Washington’s death penalty came with a bipartisan flourish that isn’t often seen at the Capitol. But getting legislators to end executions could face steep odds in Olympia.
  
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• NAACP proposes adding ethnic-studies curriculum to Seattle schools

  25-01-2017 15:01
  
  The Seattle King County NAACP wants ethnic studies to be offered to all students in Seattle Public Schools.
  
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• Historic gift: Gates Foundation gives $279 million to University of Washington

  25-01-2017 15:00
  
  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is once again shattering donation records at the University of Washington, this time with a $279 million grant to continue and expand programs that measure health around the globe.
  
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• The CAIR Project

  25-01-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  TheCAIRProject’sworkisstraightforward:Theyrunahotline.Peoplewhoneedhelp getting an abortion call the number to get help paying for an abortion or find someone to give them a ride to the doctor or host themiftheyhavetotraveloutoftownforthe procedure.
  Calls to the CAIR Project’s hotline have steadilyincreasedfrom1,200in2014to1,800lastyear.Buttheprojectonlyhassomuch money on hand, which they divide up into a weekly budget. At a certain point each week, women call but they can’t ge
  
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• Refugee Women’s Alliance

  25-01-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  “Our youth are experiencing a lot of anxiety,” says Mahnaz Kourourian Eshetu, MBA Executive Director, Refugee Women’s Alliance. “We have children who come to their parents and say, ‘Should we turn off the lights so the immigration authority doesn’t come and get us?’ They’re in tears because they fear they’re going to be separated from their parents.”The Refugee Women’s Alliance offers assistance for refugees in Puget Sound, includ
  
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• Northwest Immigrants Rights Project

  25-01-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Donald Trump has promised to deport immigrants, triple the number of ICE agents, and cut all federal funding to “sanctuary cities” like Seattle, where local police don’t participate in arresting undocumented immigrants.
  The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project will be on the frontlines of fighting those efforts here. “The only thing that’s predictable is the unpredictability,” says Executive Director Jorge Baron of Trump’s promises. “We know it&rsquo
  
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