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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Twenty-Something Ways for a Twenty-Something to Come Out

  08-03-2017 23:47 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I've recently discovered I'm a giant gaymo through a fortunate series of events. My problem is: I don't know how to come out, I don't even want to. I don't feel queer, I just feel like myself. I've never kissed a girl, but I just KNOW I am gay and that might not be enough for some people. I know my mother will most likely accept me, but say some ignorant crap in the beginning. I have a headache thinking about explaining my gayness to my mother. I don't feel like dealing with her st
  
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• On the Blabbermouth Podcast: An Interview With the Former Head of the NSA, Plus the Privilege of Women's Day Strikes

  08-03-2017 23:38 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersEpisode 91 talks with General Michael Hayden, the former head of the National Security Agency and the author of "Playing to the Edge." He has some things to say about Trump, Russia, and the so-called "deep state." Win McNamee / Getty ImagesSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!First: In honor of International Women’s Day, we kick Rich Smith out of his chair and talk to a different millennial, Ana Sofia Knauf, who’s decided not to participate in the mu
  
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• A Rape Committed Under Any Circumstance Is Still a Rape, and Horrible

  08-03-2017 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Brittnie Fuller PhotoAlto/Frederic Cirou
  In anOp-Ed published by the Seattle Times this past January, 'Personal Responsibility and the Rape Debate,' author Froma Harrop regurgitates the argument that to the victim, "true stranger rapes" are worse than those perpetrated by a non-stranger. This a mere week before a self-proclaimed pussy grabber assumed the highest office in the country, and it contains all the core tenets of rape apologism:
  "...rapes by total strangers are the mo
  
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• Decision in Detained Dreamer Case to Come Early Next Week

  08-03-2017 23:21 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneDaniel Ramirez Medina, pictured here with his son, has been detained at the Northwest Detention Center for nearly a month. Provided by Counsel to Daniel Ramirez Medina
  Daniel Ramirez Medina, 23, was picked up by immigration officials on February 10 and has now been detained at the Northwest Detention Center for more than a month. Being a twice-authorized Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) recipient with no criminal record didn't help him when immigration ag
  
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• Future News, Dateline 2047: Whatever Happened to Milo Yiannopoulos?

  08-03-2017 23:00 via thestranger.comopen-city
  
  by Stranger Staff
  March 10, 2047
  Ames, IA — Watching him rocking gently on a porch swing, sipping a glass of Diet Carbo-Ice on a breezy summer afternoon, you'd never think that mild-mannered youth pastor Milo Hanrahan was once one of the most hated men in America. But he was.
  Way back in the Twenteens, Hanrahan—who some of our older readers may remember by his former pen name, Milo Yiannopoulos—made a name for himself by writing blog posts (hey, millennials: remember blogs?!) t
  
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• Charges: Sex offender collected child porn while under investigation

  08-03-2017 22:45
  
  A 37-year-old man is charged with child pornography possession for the images he collected even as he was investigated and convicted for other sex crimes, prosecutors say.
  
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• Seattle needs an articulate, moderate candidate for mayor

  08-03-2017 22:31
  
  Somebody in town ought to take on a necessary, thankless task -- run as a moderate centerist candidate for Mayor of Seattle.
  
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• Opinion: Seattle needs an articulate, moderate candidate for mayor

  08-03-2017 22:31
  
  Somebody in town ought to take on a necessary, thankless task -- run as a moderate centerist candidate for Mayor of Seattle.
  
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• Dating app reveals what Seattleites hate the most

  08-03-2017 22:31
  
  Seattle may be a bit cold to outsiders, but when the city settles on something it hates it burns pretty brightly.
  
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• Seattle gives first details on how $275M homelessness levy would be spent

  08-03-2017 22:08
  
  The proposed property-tax levy, which raise $275 million in Seattle over five years, would pay for long-term and short-term rent subsidies and put money toward expanding local shelters, among other things.
  
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• Person of Interest: Renee Jarreau Greene

  08-03-2017 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Amber Cortes
  On a regular basis, Renee Jarreau Greene brings underground dance hits, house, R&B, ballroom, bounce, and more to Seattle clubs and venues as DJ Reverend Dollars (and she'll be releasing her debut LP soon). In 2014, she founded Darqness, an experientially focused monthly night geared at getting queer and trans people of color onto the dance floor and building community in a comfortable, supportive atmosphere.
  
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• 'Dreamer' still detained, decision to come next week

  08-03-2017 21:50
  
  A Seattle-area man will remain in detention at least until next week after a U.S. District Court magistrate judge delayed a ruling in the man's petition for immediate release.
  
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• Serial rapist Anthony Dias dies while serving long prison sentence at Walla Walla

  08-03-2017 21:47
  
  Anthony Dias, 37, who was serving a long prison term for sexual assaults in the South Puget Sound area, has died.
  
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• Go To These Women-Owned Restaurants In Seattle Today

  08-03-2017 21:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffDonna Moodie of Marjorie on Capitol Hill Kelly O
  As part of the call for the Day Without A Woman strike today, March 8 (International Women's Day), organizers are encouraging you to avoid shopping except at small, women- and minority-owned businesses. To help you with that, we've compiled this list of restaurants, cafes, and bars in Seattle that are owned by women (at least partially—some of these are co-owned by men). While it includes many businesses across
  
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• Father of Marysville school shooter appeals firearms conviction

  08-03-2017 21:29
  
  Raymond Lee Fryberg Jr. was convicted of illegally purchasing and possessing six guns, including the pistol his son, Jaylen, used to kill four classmates and wound a fifth at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in 2014.
  
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• Women's Day rally to include band Pussy Riot, activist mayoral candidate

  08-03-2017 20:56
  
  If you're looking for ways to celebrate International Women's Day and rally against President Donald Trump, you can't get more star-studded than the rally at Westlake.
  
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• After months of job gains, Seattle and Washington state employment levels off

  08-03-2017 20:38
  
  The Washington state unemployment rate was 5.1 percent in January while the Seattle-area figure was 3.7 percent, both unchanged from a month prior.
  
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• Canada's Trudeau commits $650 million for reproductive rights, defends abortion

  08-03-2017 20:36
  
  Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau uses International Women's Day to pledge $650 million (C) to global reproductive rights, and to defend "the right of women to choose when, how (and) with whom to start a family."
  
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• Why Should I Give a Fuck About... Jazz Musician Bob James?

  08-03-2017 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalThe Bob James Quartet plays Jazz Alley March 9-12. COURTESY BOB JAMES
  Years Active: 55.
  Provenance: Traverse City, Michigan.
  Essential Albums: Explosions (as Bob James Trio, 1965), One (1974), Two (1975), Three (1976), BJ4 (1977).
  Essential Songs: "Nautilus," "Valley of the Shadows," "Night on Bald Mountain," "Take Me to the Mardi Gras," "Farandole," "Westchester Lady," "Where the Wind Blows Free," "Night Crawler," "Heads," "Angela (Theme from Taxi)," "Shamboozie."
  Influenced By: J.
  
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• Judge rules UW violated public- records law in redacting malpractice settlements

  08-03-2017 20:21
  
  A King County judge ruled The Seattle Times is entitled to recover legal costs and can seek monetary penalties against the university for the violations.
  
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• Ruling on release of Seattle-area ‘Dreamer’ expected next week, judge says

  08-03-2017 20:01
  
  A federal magistrate won’t issue an immediate ruling on a Seattle-area man’s demand to be released from immigration custody because of his status as a “Dreamer.” The judge, upset by a new Justice Department filing, is giving the detained man’s lawyers until Friday to respond.
  
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• The Moral Imperative For Driverless Trucks vs. The Immoral Opposition to Single-Payer Health Care

  08-03-2017 19:57 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageThe Guardian:
  [It] has become almost cliche to complain about good, well-paying factory jobs that have degraded into far less lucrative and reliable positions at Walmart. The few good working class jobs that remain are those that—at least so far—have been exempt from the forces of both globalization and automation. Jobs such as long-haul driving. Indeed, truck driving is arguably one of the final barricades protecting a traditional world where diligent effort exerted in
  
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• Fighting for My Womanhood

  08-03-2017 19:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sophia Lee
  As a transgender woman, I have spent a lot of time thinking about something that most women take for granted: What does it mean to be a woman? Having breasts? Carrying children? Long hair? Dating men? Having pink toys as a child?
  Many women have some of these characteristics, but no woman I've met really has all of them. None of these characteristics are really a requirement. And while lots of women do not have them, they are still accepted as women.
  
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• Caveman menu: Woolly rhino in Belgium, mushrooms in Spain

  08-03-2017 19:14
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Eating like a caveman meant chowing down on woolly rhinos and sheep in Belgium, but munching on mushrooms, pine nuts and moss in Spain. It all depended on where they lived, new research shows. Scientists got a sneak peek into the kitchen of three Neanderthals by scraping off the plaque stuck on […]
  
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• Trump Signals That He Wants to Restart the War on Drugs

  08-03-2017 19:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Lester BlackAre we hearing the last yelps of the dinosaurs of the war on drugs, or the roars of a racist ideology coming back from the verge of extinction?GEORGE PFROMM
  Richard Nixon and Ronald and Nancy Reagan would be watching this White House with a smug sense of satisfaction. Not because of President Donald Trump's coziness with Russia, or his cavalier attitude about sexual assault, but because of the Trump administration's views on drugs and criminal justice. It's hard not to imagine all
  
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• Security-firm owner accused of posing as cop, pulling gun on I-5 driver in Seattle

  08-03-2017 18:54
  
  The owner of the Lakewood company allegedly told investigators he was trying to pull the other driver over because he was driving recklessly. A search of the owner’s car turned up a handgun, handcuffs, body armor and a Taser.
  
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• Owner of security company accused of posing as cop, pulling gun on driver in Seattle

  08-03-2017 18:54
  
  The owner of the Lakewood security company allegedly told investigators he was trying to pull the other driver over because he was driving recklessly.
  
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• Activist, educator Nikkita Oliver to run against Seattle Mayor Ed Murray

  08-03-2017 18:28
  
  Nikkita Oliver, an attorney, community organizer and spoken-word artist, is Mayor Ed Murray’s highest-profile challenger so far.
  
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• Activist, educator Nikkita Oliver to run against Mayor Ed Murray

  08-03-2017 18:28
  
  Nikkita Oliver, an attorney, community organizer and spoken-word artist, is Mayor Ed Murray’s highest-profile challenger so far.
  
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• US study: Climate change goosed odds of freaky warm February

  08-03-2017 18:00
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Climate scientists say a freakishly warm February broke more than 11,700 local daily records for warmth in the United States. But it didn’t quite beat 1954 for the nation’s warmest February on record. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Wednesday reports that the average temperature last month was 41.2 degrees. That’s […]
  
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• Study: Climate change goosed odds of freakishly hot February

  08-03-2017 18:00
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A freakishly balmy February broke more than 11,700 local daily records for warmth in the United States, but it didn’t quite beat 1954 for the warmest February on record, climate scientists said. The average temperature last month was 41.2 degrees — 7.3 degrees warmer than normal but three-tenths a degree behind the […]
  
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• Alaska volcano erupts again, sends ash cloud over Aleutians

  08-03-2017 17:56
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska volcano that’s been active since mid-December has erupted again with an ash cloud that could threaten airliners. The Alaska Volcano Observatory says Bogoslof (BOH-gohs-lawf) Volcano in the Aleutian Islands started erupting at 10:36 p.m. Tuesday and sent up an ash cloud to 35,000 feet. The eruption was marked by […]
  
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• The Morning News: Mayor Ed Murray Gets His Most Significant Re-election Challenge Yet

  08-03-2017 17:43 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverNikkita Oliver is running for mayor. TIMOTHY AGUERO
  Nikkita Oliver is Running for Mayor: The local Black Lives Matter organizer, poet, teacher, and lawyer announced her campaign to take on Mayor Ed Murray this morning."Everything in my history tells me this is not what people like me do that we don’t get this kind of opportunity and that we don’t get to make change in this way,” Oliver told Crosscut. "And I think that’s the exact reason why folks like me a
  
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• Washington’s senators call for probe of working conditions at Hanford

  08-03-2017 17:39
  
  Washington Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray are asking the Department of Energy’s Inspector General to investigate the company that processes workers’ compensation claims.
  
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• Seattle-area Reps. Reichert, DelBene on panel hearing GOP health-care bill

  08-03-2017 17:12
  
  The House Ways and Means Committee, featuring Washington Reps. Dave Reichert and Suzan DelBene, is holding a hearing on the Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Here’s how to watch.
  
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• Boredom in Washington Legislature breeds a Twitter hashtag

  08-03-2017 16:32
  
  How a hashtag was born: With the Legislature working long hours and accomplishing little, some Olympia insiders took to Twitter to entertain themselves.
  
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• Woman dies in West Seattle house fire

  08-03-2017 16:17
  
  A woman was killed by a house fire early Wednesday in West Seattle, the Fire Department says. Three other people in the house escaped.
  
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• Move to prohibit Washington state income tax fails

  08-03-2017 16:08
  
  Washington is one of seven states without a state personal income tax. The Senate failed to reach the required vote threshold to send voters a constitutional amendment asking if they want the prohibition of an income tax enshrined in the state Constitution.
  
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• Sen. Cantwell accuses Trump administration of unlawful action on coal-gas rule

  08-03-2017 15:30
  
  The Washington state U.S. senator says in a letter to the Interior Department that the new administration unlawfully put on hold the Obama-era rule that regulates oil, gas and coal valuations on federal lands.
  
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• Fog clears on GOP health plan, and it’s not a pretty sight

  08-03-2017 15:30
  
  Even our own state’s top Republican, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, is obfuscating. It’s a clear sign the long-awaited plan isn’t as terrific as advertised.
  
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• Do Uber, Lyft worsen Seattle’s traffic congestion?

  08-03-2017 15:30
  
  A new study in New York City says the growth of app-based ride-hailing services could undermine cities’ goals of unclogging streets. Seattle officials say that may be true here during commute hours.
  
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• Mudslide cancels Sounder north train service

  08-03-2017 15:05
  
  The Sounder north train service will also be canceled Wednesday evening and on Thursday, Sound Transit says.
  
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• WSU, UW look to strengthen their Spokane medical schools

  08-03-2017 15:00
  
  Washington’s two major universities are once again asking lawmakers for more money for medical education, but the fighting over who is best equipped to teach doctors seems to be a thing of the past.
  
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• UW creating next-gen mannequins with warm skin, wet mouths to train battlefield medics

  08-03-2017 15:00
  
  University of Washington researchers aim to create the next generation of mannequins, with warm “flesh,” moist “tongues” and other human touches for training battlefield medics.
  
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• The Indescribably Weird and Wonderful World of Mount Analogue

  08-03-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Indescribably Weird and Wonderful World of Mount Analogue Booksby Rich SmithBefore she founded Mount Analogue, a local press that also hosts stimulating and bizarre art events around Seattle, Colleen Louise Barry was a 22-year-old publishing assistant working 60 hours a week at Random House in New York City. Like any young book lover, Barry conceived of the publishing world as "magical, mythical, and glamorous," she tells me over a drink at Redwood, but two years working in corporate publish
  
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• Beauty and Terror

  08-03-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts on Monsters, Vietnam, and Kong: Skull Islandby Suzette Smith[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• U.S. to pay state’s costs, drop appeal on travel ban

  08-03-2017 05:20
  
  The U.S. Justice Department filed a motion Tuesday with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals a day after Trump signed a revised ban, which goes into effect March 16.
  
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