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• White House: Yeah, We're Going To Go After Legal Pot

  23-02-2017 23:49 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage
  Politico:
  White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday that he expects states to see “greater enforcement” of the federal law against marijuana use, a move that would be at odds with a growing number of states’ decisions to legalize it. Spicer, taking questions from reporters at the daily briefing, differentiated between the administration’s positions on medical marijuana and recreational marijuana.... Spicer suggested that the administration is opp
  
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• Watch Dave Reichert's Faux Facebook "Town Hall"

  23-02-2017 23:49 via thestranger.com
  by Heidi GrooverRepublican Dave Reichert held a Facebook Q&A instead of a town hall. Viewers reacted with emojis as they watched the live feed. KCTS
  Free from the annoyance of having to listen directly to the voters he works for, Republican Congressman Dave Reichert (R-Auburn) settled in comfortably for a live Q&A with KCTS 9's Enrique Cerna this afternoon.Reichert has been avoiding the type of real, in-person town hall meetings that have been blowing up in the faces of Republicans acros
  
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• Films for the Trump Era: Sleep Dealer and the Fear of a Brown Planet

  23-02-2017 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeThe future of the factory in Sleep Dealer... Maya Entertainment
  The cinema of this millennium's first decade gave us three great science fiction films: District 9, Children of Men, and Sleep Dealer. The last two weren't box-office hits, though both were much better than the first film, Neill Blomkamp's District 9 (2009). The second film, Alfonso Cuarón Children of Men, is only now getting some attention because it's producing lots and lots of unexpected echoes as it incre
  
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• Proposed 37-day Lower Columbia spring chinook sport fishery to be finalized Thursday

  23-02-2017 23:20
  
  Salmon anglers are waiting for announcement of the Columbia River spring chinook fisheries that was expected to be finalized Thursday afternoon (Feb. 23) by Washington and Oregon fisheries managers. A fact sheet released ahead of the meeting showed what could be a sport catch of 8,900 spring chinook on the Lower Columbia River below Bonneville […]
  
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• Apple’s local deal spurs creation of new UW professorship in artificial intelligence

  23-02-2017 23:17
  
  The UW’s Guestrin Endowed Professorship in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is bolstered by a $1 million endowment stemming from Apple’s acquisition of a local tech company.
  
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• Savage Love: Fantasy Scenarios

  23-02-2017 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage Joe Newton
  I am a straight married man. My wife and I have a 4-year-old and a 3-month-old. We've just started having intercourse again. For Valentine's Day, we spent the night in a B&B while grandma watched the kids. We had edibles, drank sparkling wine, and then fucked. It was amazing. After we came and while we were still stoned and drunk, my wife mentioned she was open to inviting others into our sex life. I asked about getting a professional sex worker. She said no. But may
  
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• Study: Global warming is shrinking river vital to 40M people

  23-02-2017 23:02
  
  DENVER (AP) — Global warming is already shrinking the Colorado River, the most important waterway in the American Southwest, and it could reduce the flow by more than a third by the end of the century, two scientists say. The river’s volume has dropped more than 19 percent during a drought gripping the region since […]
  
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• Charges: Man bound, gagged over rottweiler puppy money

  23-02-2017 22:47
  
  A 34-year-old Enumclaw man was charged this month with binding and gagging a man in his Federal Way-area home and stealing more than $10,000 that was exchanged in a transaction over rottweiler puppies.
  
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• Review: Rent at the Paramount Has Good Singers, But the Show Has Aged Poorly

  23-02-2017 22:43 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleSkyler Volpe, in her first national tour, does a good job singing the part of Mimi. Carol Rosegg
  I have a friend who's a millennial and who likes the movie version of Rent. I give him endless crap for it, so naturally he's the person I invited to see the 20th anniversary tour of Rent that's playing at the Paramount through February 26.Rent is a tough case because it has not aged well. The material is dated and kind of annoying, and yet if you were a gay teenager in the '9
  
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• Hundreds protest at U.S. Rep. Reichert’s office, demand town-hall meeting

  23-02-2017 22:30
  
  Hundreds of people demonstrated outside U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert’s district office in Issaquah Thursday, demanding he face constituents at a town-hall meeting.
  
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• Trump Is Trying to Cut Arts Funding. But Are You Really Surprised?

  23-02-2017 21:39 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogThe arts, what a snore... WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY
  This is a city that loves its public media. Nearly every cab driver around town seems to listen to All Things Considered on repeat, and in addition to KUOW and KEXP, we also have KNKX, the newly independent radio station that plays bird songs every morning, classical music station KING, and public television station KCTS 9. But last weekend, The New York Times reported that failed steak salesman and current US president Donald Trump&md
  
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• Live: We're Outside GOP Rep. Dave Reichert's Office, Where Hundreds of his Constituents Are Rallying to be Heard

  23-02-2017 21:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithHere at the Hear our Voice's Rally oursidw @davereichert's office in Issaquah. If you think there's not bike orgs here you're drunk. pic.twitter.com/VZhEoaTSBI
  — Rich Smith (@richsssmith) February 23, 2017
  We're outside of GOP Congressman Dave Reichert's office, where hundreds of constituents are participating in a "Hear Our Voice" rally. The demonstration is inspired partly by Reichert's refusal to host a town hall for the people he represents. Follow along here:Paula. She sa
  
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• 21 Ways To Celebrate Mardi Gras

  23-02-2017 20:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Events From Feb 23-March 4by Stranger Things To Do StaffMardi Gras is Tuesday, February 28, and there are lots of opportunities to let the good times roll in the coming days—from a Cajun tasting menu at Tilth to free New Orleans-style music at the Triple Door and the Royal Room to giant dance parties a 5K race with plenty of beads to help you prepare for all the food you're going to eat on Tuesday.FEBRUARY 23-28
  1. Mardi Gras Tasting MenuFor Mardi Gras, Maria Hines's local-focused restaura
  
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• 21 Mardi Gras 2017 Events In Seattle

  23-02-2017 20:54 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffCelebrate Brazilian Carnaval with music and dancing at the Crocodile or the Royal Room. StockPhotosArt / Shutterstock.com
  Mardi Gras is Tuesday, February 28, and there are lots of opportunities to let the good times roll in the coming days—from a Cajun tasting menu at Tilth to free New Orleans-style music at the Triple Door and the Royal Room to giant dance parties a 5K race with plenty of beads to help you prepare for all the food you're going to eat on Tuesd
  
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• Charges: Drug-trafficking jail guard ratted out snitch to dealer

  23-02-2017 20:35
  
  A corrections officer at an Aberdeen jail faces federal charges following allegations that he smuggled drugs into the jail and gave up the identity of a police informant.
  
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• Charges: Drug-smuggling jail guard ratted out snitch to dealer

  23-02-2017 20:35
  
  A corrections officer at an Aberdeen jail faces federal charges following allegations that he smuggled drugs into the jail and gave up the identity of a police informant.
  
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• Governor Jay Inslee Issues Executive Order Blocking State from Participating in Federal Immigration Raids, Religious Registry

  23-02-2017 20:29 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney Brownstone "If [the White House] thinks they're going to jerk away the state's Medicaid money because we won't become mini-ICE agents, they're wrong," Inslee said. TVW
  After four weeks of chaotic, rapid-fire executive orders from the Trump administration that attempt to ban immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries and deport millions of undocumented immigrants living in the US, Washington governor Jay Inslee has issued an executive order of his own: one that expressly prohibits
  
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• Coast Guard, NTSB to investigate disappearance of crab boat Destination

  23-02-2017 20:26
  
  The Destination, which was registered in Alaska but sailed out of Seattle, went missing in the Bering Sea.
  
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• Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp closes; 39 holdouts arrested

  23-02-2017 20:01
  
  Police closed the North Dakota protest camp Thursday, with 39 protesters arrested. Many demonstrators vowed to continue their resistance in camps being established nearby.
  
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• Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp closed; 46 holdouts arrested

  23-02-2017 20:01
  
  Police closed the North Dakota protest camp Thursday, with 46 protesters arrested. Many demonstrators vowed to continue their resistance in camps being established nearby.
  
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• 33 arrested as police move in on Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp

  23-02-2017 20:01
  
  Police with guns drawn are moving on Oceti Sakowin camp as dozens of protesters continue to hold out, refusing to leave in show of resistance.
  
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• Seattle's new Upstream Festival releases lineup

  23-02-2017 20:00
  
  Seattle's version of "South-by-Southwest" is here, and the line up is a doozy.
  
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• George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo Is the First Essential Novel of the Donald Trump Era

  23-02-2017 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Willie Fitzgerald CHLOE AFTEL
  We're only a month in, and already Donald Trump's presidency seems like something George Saunders would concoct: a regressive, hyper-capitalist fever dream in which language is hilariously corrupted, fairness is thrown out the window, and the foundational tenets of civil society start to give way. As in Trump's America, so in a Saunders story: Everything seems absurd until it breaks your heart.
  Now, after years of success writing short fiction and essays, Saunder
  
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• Inslee signs order limiting Washington state’s help in immigration enforcement

  23-02-2017 19:48
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee announced an executive order aimed at restricting state agencies from helping enforce federal immigration laws.
  
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• Inslee signs order limiting Washington state’s help in enforcing Trump’s immigration policies

  23-02-2017 19:48
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee announced an executive order aimed at restricting state agencies from helping enforce federal immigration laws.
  
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• Inslee order makes Washington a 'sanctuary state'

  23-02-2017 19:33
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday morning signed an executive order declaring Washington a "welcoming jurisdiction," spelling out that state resources won't be used to support federal immigration efforts, except where required by law.
  
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• Snow visits Seattle once again

  23-02-2017 19:25
  
  Are you seeing what we're seeing? This sleety snowy stuff happening outside?
  
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• Hey, Dave Reichert: Look at All of These Town Halls Where No One Is Getting Hurt

  23-02-2017 19:18 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich Smith"This could be us but you're scared," says 400 of Reichert's constituents who hosted an empty chair town hall in Cashmere, WA on Monday.Michael NashIn a little sit 'n' chat interview with KIRO, Congressman Dave Reichert (R-8) finally responded to a local reporter's request for comment on his failure to do his job and host a public meeting for his constituents—*despite the fact that he had done so back in 2009*—by saying "times have changed." KIRO goes on to summarize the
  
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• Senator Patty Murray asks DeVos to clarify remarks about Education staff

  23-02-2017 19:03
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic senator is expressing concern about Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her comments about employees. In an interview last week, DeVos said some Education Department workers could “try to subvert” its mission and promised to act “swiftly and surely” on that matter. Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash., sent a letter to DeVos […]
  
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• Shabazz Palaces, Flying Lotus, Alunageorge, Snarky Puppy to Headline Paul Allen's Upstream Music Festival + Summit

  23-02-2017 19:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Upstream, the "SXSW for the PNW" music festival unveils a Seattle-heavy debut lineup.by Amber Cortes Upstream Music Fest + Summit
  Upstream Music Fest and Summit, the latest cultural offering from Seattle's favorite billionaire Paul Allen, has announced its inaugural lineup—and it’s looking like the vast majority of bands are, as promised, Seattle-and-NW-centric.The festival debuts May 11-13, inundating Seattle with three-days of performances, workshops, and exhibitions to swim throug
  
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• Did you feel the earthquakes last night? More than 2,200 reported feeling the temblors

  23-02-2017 18:18
  
  Did you feel the quakes? Let us know.
  
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• America's Next Top Model Recap: Run! It's The Acting Bug!

  23-02-2017 18:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Chase BurnsAll the world's a stage, and all the models are merely playaaaas.Acting! It's easy. All you have to do is cry, right? Well, Episode 12, And Action, teaches us that acting is actually, like, a lot more than crying and being pretty. Acting is about pulling painful, traumatic memories from the back parts of your brain and serving them up to a small audience of producers and editors who will then pimp your problems to the world for cash money. At least, that's what I got from this week
  
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• The Morning News: Now's the Time to Stand Up for Trans Students in Washington State.

  23-02-2017 17:51 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneAnti-trans activists are targeting Washington students like Myles Peña, pictured above. Come to a rally in Tacoma this Saturday to support trans students and their families.SB
  Washington Lawmakers Slam Trump's Attack on Trans Students: Yesterday, the Trump administration announced it would be revoking an anti-discrimination guidance from the Department of Education that protects transgender students. This action directly contradicts statements Trump made during his cam
  
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• Stray bullet bounces off Central Oregon woman’s head while she watches TV

  23-02-2017 17:43
  
  The bullet crashed through the Redmond woman’s home and bounced off her head. She suffered a minor injury.
  
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• It’s been a wet (and cold) winter in Seattle — but other West Coast cities have had it worse

  23-02-2017 17:38
  
  The West Coast has had a very wet winter as a low-pressure system has stalled off the coast — and no one knows why.
  
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• ‘Hidden Figures’ resonates in Seattle with black women studying engineering

  23-02-2017 17:15
  
  University of Washington engineering students can relate to the films' lead characters.
  
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• Arctic ‘doomsday’ seed vault receives 50,000 new deposits

  23-02-2017 17:13
  
  HELSINKI (AP) — Nearly 10 years after a “doomsday” seed vault opened on an Arctic island, some 50,000 new samples from seed collections around the world have been deposited in the world’s largest repository built to safeguard against wars or natural disasters wiping out global food crops. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the world’s largest […]
  
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• NASA’s Jupiter-circling spacecraft stuck making long laps

  23-02-2017 16:40
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Jupiter-circling spacecraft is stuck making long laps around the gas giant because of sticky valves. It currently takes Juno 53 days to fly around the solar system’s biggest planet. That’s almost four times longer than the intended 14-day orbit. After repeated delays, NASA decided late last week to forego […]
  
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• Today in traffic: crash on I-5 in Lynnwood, troopers help mother-to-be on Highway 167

  23-02-2017 16:20
  
  Traffic incidents snarled vehicles in the region Thursday morning, including on Highway 167 in Pacific where troopers and King County sheriff's deputies helped a mother-to-be get to a hospital before she gave birth.
  
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• Today in traffic: crash on I-5 in Lynnwood, baby delivered on Highway 167

  23-02-2017 16:20
  
  Traffic incidents snarled vehicles in the region Thursday morning, including a baby who couldn't wait to reach the hospital to be born.
  
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• Drone video: Check out state’s largest rooftop solar array at new Ikea in Renton

  23-02-2017 16:04
  
  Ikea's solar array produces 1.127 megawatts of electrical power from 3,268 panels.
  
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• Navigating minefield of student-immigration questions, widely honored teacher to host town hall

  23-02-2017 15:01
  
  Worried students and educators confused about their legal responsibilities toward immigrant families have spurred a U.S. government teacher to host an information meeting next week.
  
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• Washington State Ferries looks to train workforce of its future as retirements loom

  23-02-2017 15:00
  
  With about one-quarter of Washington State Ferries’ 1,800 employees eligible for retirement within five years, new training simulators in Ballard are part of an aggressive recruiting effort to draw new employees — and help current employees get ready for more advanced roles.
  
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• Anti-Chinese laws show immigration hysteria isn’t new

  23-02-2017 15:00
  
  Files from enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act in Seattle illuminate current immigration and citizenship proposals.
  
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• Woman’s sassy obit warns people to wait to claim her stuff

  23-02-2017 14:34
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Relatives of a 91-year-old Ohio woman who died this week are giving her the last word with a sassy, occasionally profane obituary that starts with the basics — “I was born. I lived. I died.” — and instructs people to “wait the appropriate amount of time” before trying to claim her […]
  
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• Trump Scraps Protections for Trans Students

  23-02-2017 13:09 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageNYT:
  President Trump on Wednesday rescinded protections for transgender students that had allowed them to use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity, overruling his own education secretary and placing his administration firmly in the middle of the culture wars that many Republicans have tried to leave behind. In a joint letter, the top civil rights officials from the Justice Department and the Education Department rejected the Obama administration’s position that n
  
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• SpaceX makes good on space station delivery a little late

  23-02-2017 11:48
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX made good on a 250-mile-high delivery at the International Space Station on Thursday, after fixing a navigation problem that held up the shipment a day. Everything went smoothly the second time around as the station astronauts captured the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship as the two craft sailed over Australia. […]
  
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