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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Why Is My Friend With Benefits Being An Asshole?

  22-03-2017 23:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I have been seeing this guy as a friend with benefits for years. He recently told me that we seemed to be in a relationship. I thought that meant he would make more of an effort to communicate and spend more time with me. We went to a dinner and concert after this discussion. It was late and I ended up getting very tired. I could tell this annoyed him. Instead of telling me, he unilaterally decided he needed a break and then didn't see me for about two weeks. I asked to see him abo
  
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• Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz for President?

  22-03-2017 23:51 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tricia RomanoHoward Schultz: The next president? Getty Images
  Apparently, those in the room during his farewell speech as CEO at Starbucks' annual shareholders' meeting seemed to think that Howard Schultz wasn't retiring, but pivoting toward a much bigger job: Commander-in-Chief.
  I mean, why the fuck not?Since we've clearly given up on the idea of a woman holding higher office—Gov. Jay Inslee's name is being floated as a 2020 Presidential hopeful, too (fine, whatever, I want Bob)—
  
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• Sitting in on rehearsals for More Music @ The Moore

  22-03-2017 23:47
  
  The 14 participants, between the ages of 14 and 21, chosen for the annual More Music @ The Moore workshop in Seattle are spending a week in training and rehearsal with jazz star Robert Glasper. They’ll perform in concert on March 24.
  
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• Trumpcare Is in Trouble

  22-03-2017 23:23 via thestranger.com
  by Heidi GrooverSpokane's Cathy McMorris Rodgers is a defender of Trumpcare. Thousands of people in her district stand to lose coverage. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
  Combined Democratic and Republican opposition threatens to sink the Republican Obamacare replacement, which is expected to get a vote tomorrow.Politico:House conservatives say they have the votes to bring down a Republican plan to replace Obamacare, threatening a core piece of President Donald Trump's agenda and sparking a frantic,
  
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• Nursing assistant charged, suspended on sexual assault allegations

  22-03-2017 23:15
  
  A nursing assistant's license was suspended this month after being criminally charged for alleged sexual assaults of patients in north King County, possibly dating back to 2011.
  
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• 37 senators: Big Trump cuts will gut EPA's 'core mission'

  22-03-2017 23:10
  
  Thirty-seven senators in Washington, D.C., and a rain-spattered crowd on the Seattle waterfront protest proposed cuts by the Trump administration to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. They don't want the EPA's "core mission" to be gutted.
  
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• On the Blabbermouth Podcast: Do Trump-Voting Hillbillies Deserve Sympathy?

  22-03-2017 23:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by The StrangerEpisode 93 discusses the recent Frank Rich article, "No Sympathy for the Hillbilly." Above, a line at a free medical clinic in Appalachia. John Moore / Getty ImagesSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!After charging through the week’s big political news—Comey’s announcement, the Gorsuch hearings, a looming vote to repeal Obamacare—we dive into a fight over hillbillies.It turns out that Dan Savage really loved a recent Frank Rich piece in
  
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• Bainbridge Island Trumpcare Protesters Cancel Die-In Demonstration in the Wake of London Attacks

  22-03-2017 22:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufActivists staged a rally and symbolic "die-in" in opposition to repeal of the Affordable Care Act in New York City.(CFP/Albin Lohr-Jones) pic.twitter.com/ZE0lPOh10P
  — Global Times (@globaltimesnews) March 12, 2017Bainbridge Island Indivisible, a group inspired by an open source guide to fighting President Donald Trump, cancelled a "die-in" protest at Westlake Center in Seattle this evening. The rally—which was intended to protest Trumpcare (AKA the replacement for t
  
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• What Seattle Voters Can Learn From the Racism of Washington's Pro-Trump Rural Voters

  22-03-2017 22:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeA barn in Trump Country.KIT LEONG/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
  CNN has a story about a white man who attended 45 Trump rallies, voted for Trump, and only realized he voted for a fraud when the cuts in Trumpcare were revealed. One of those cuts concerned treatment for drug addiction. The Trump voter is a father whose son died from a drug overdose. He believes that the provision for drug addiction in Obamacare would have saved his son's life.But what did this man see in the wealthy New Yorker
  
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• Idaho man who didn’t match murder DNA freed after 20 years

  22-03-2017 22:34
  
  BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho man who experts say was coerced into a false murder confession is now free after spending half his life behind bars. An eastern Idaho judge released Christopher Tapp on Wednesday morning after vacating his rape conviction and resentencing him to time served for the 1996 murder of Angie Dodd. The […]
  
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• Idaho man who didn’t match DNA from killing is freed

  22-03-2017 22:34
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho man who experts say was coerced into a false murder confession was freed Wednesday after spending half of his life behind bars. A judge released Christopher Tapp after vacating his rape conviction and resentencing him to time served for the 1996 killing of Angie Dodd. The release came after […]
  
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• Inslee to speak at U.N. on Thursday about climate change

  22-03-2017 22:31
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee is headed to New York, where he’ll speak Thursday about climate change before the General Assembly of the United Nations.
  
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• Rare frog discovery has researchers hopping for joy

  22-03-2017 22:25
  
  THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — A discovery involving a rare California frog has researchers hopping for joy. Nine egg masses from the California red-legged frog were discovered on March 14 in a creek in the Santa Monica Mountains, which stretch from Los Angeles westward along the Malibu coast into Ventura County. The endangered species hasn’t […]
  
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• Next Stop: Death—All Grown Up Author Jami Attenberg on the Pains and Pleasures of Touring in Trump’s America

  22-03-2017 22:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jami AttenbergJami Attenberg will appear in conversation with Maria Semple on Thurs, March 23 at Elliott Bay Book Company. Her sixth (and finest) novel, All Grown Up, is available now.Zack Smith Photography
  Ten days ago, I left New Orleans on a month-long tour for my sixth book, All Grown Up. At the airport I ran into a friend who was flying to his father’s funeral. He sadly motioned to the garment bag on his shoulder. “Yeah, I’ve got the all black suit. Things are heavy,&rd
  
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• HUMP! 2017 Call For Submissions!

  22-03-2017 22:09 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  HUMP! 2017 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
  Amateur filmmakers, actual filmmakers, sex-positive singles/couples/throuples/quads, wannabe porn stars, kinksters and other creative types are hereby invited to submit short porn films—five minutes max—for the HUMP! 2017 film festival! Your film can be hardcore, softcore, live action, stop action, animated, musical, kinky, vanilla, straight, gay, lez, bi, trans, genderqueer. Your film can be anything because everyone and everything is we
  
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• Four Reported Dead, 20 Injured in London Attack

  22-03-2017 21:56 via thestranger.com
  by Ana Sofia KnaufThe London attack is being considered a "terrorist incident" https://t.co/Es9zilI2Zr pic.twitter.com/f7AcSZLqfE
  — TIME (@TIME) March 22, 2017Four people are dead after an alleged terror attack in London this afternoon, the BBC reports. An armed police officer was fatally stabbed in the Houses of Parliament and the man "believed to be the attacker" was shot by police. Moments before, the alleged attacker slammed his car into the railings of the Westminster Bridge after mow
  
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• Dave Reichert Is Ready to Vote for Trumpcare. Is That Really What His Constituents Want?

  22-03-2017 21:37 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverAbout 10,000 more voters in Dave Reichert's district supported Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump. Mark Wilson/getty
  Tomorrow, members of the U.S. House of Representatives plan to vote on a (newly amended) plan to dismantle Obamacare and replace it with a new scheme that could cost millions of Americans their insurance coverage.A bunch of Republicans are going to vote for it, including, almost certainly, western Washington's own Dave Reichert.Reichert represents a backwards-L-shap
  
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• Gov. Inslee is displaying his wares on panels in New York and San Francisco

  22-03-2017 21:30
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee, possibly eyeing a place on Democrats' 202 ticket, will be playing the world stage this week.Inslee is joining a panel at the United Nations in New York, "Stocktaking on Climate: Ambition and Action."  He will then fly to San Francisco for a World Economic Forum talk on "how education, human connection and innovation are key to thriving in a tech-based world." 
  
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• Your Zine is Alive and Well, and Living Permanently at the Seattle Public Library

  22-03-2017 21:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tobias Coughlin-BogueGoodbye, old friend. ZAPPZinesters of Seattle, I have some sad news. The Zine Archive and Publishing Project (ZAPP), whose erstwhile Richard Hugo House (RHH) offices once hosted the world’s largest collection of self-published printed materials, is officially dead. The organization parted ways with the Hugo House in 2013, with both sides agreeing that the archive had been woefully de-prioritized. ZAPP then became an independent organization and set out to raise mone
  
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• Texas Teacher Smiles For Mugshot

  22-03-2017 20:37 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  A 27-year-old science teacher in Texas was arrested earlier this week on charges of having "an improper relationship" with a 17-year-old male student. And all anyone can talk about is her mugshot and the big smile on her face. Her lawyer says she's smiling because she knows she's innocent. Hm. I don't think I'd be smiling if I had just been arrested for a crime I didn't commit. But I don't think I'd be smiling if I had just been arrested for a crime I did commit either. So maybe we
  
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• On Sale This Week: 19 Seattle Music & Arts Events

  22-03-2017 20:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffThe Tim & Eric 10 Year Anniversary Awesome Tour goes on sale on Friday, March 24. Tim & Eric
  Spring is here, and so is announcement season. This week, many big-name Seattle events are going on sale and are likely to sell out very quickly, so we've rounded them up below so you can plan ahead and get your wallets ready. We've also included big-name events that have gone on sale in the last few days. See all of the concerts, talks featuring celebrities, and the
  
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• Amazon focus of new complaints over 'List Price'

  22-03-2017 20:27
  
  A consumer interest group has taken complaints about Amazon's advertised prices to the California Attorney General, demanding an investigation and saying the company is "ripping consumers off."
  
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• Costco golf balls now at center of lawsuit

  22-03-2017 19:47
  
  The wacky case of Costco's coveted golf balls continues with a new wrinkle: Costco is suing Acushnet, a premium ball manufacturer, over comments made about the Kirkland Signature ball.
  
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• One Thing Frank Rich Is Definitely Right About

  22-03-2017 19:37 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli Sanders"Stronger Together" doesn't just sound like a food co-op slogan. It literally is the slogan for Seattle's Central Co-op. ES
  We'll be fawning and fighting over Frank Rich's "No Sympathy for the Hillbilly" argument on the upcoming episode of the Blabbermouth podcast. But I can tell you right now, as a fan of a certain Seattle grocery store, there's one thing Rich got exactly right.
  He writes:
  “Stronger Together,” the Clinton-campaign slogan, sounded more like an invitatio
  
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• New idea shakes up dinosaur family tree for T. Rex and pals

  22-03-2017 19:37
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tyrannosaurus Rex and his buddies could be on the move as a new study proposes a massive shake-up of the dinosaur family tree. Scientists who took a deeper look at dinosaur fossils suggest a different evolutionary history for dinosaurs, moving theropods such as T. Rex to a new branch of the family […]
  
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• SPD: Kayaking burglar hid in Duwamish River

  22-03-2017 19:22
  
  Firefighters cut a hole in the floor of a boathouse Wednesday morning to retrieve a suspected burglar who spent an hour hiding from authorities in the Duwamish River.
  
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• Arctic sea ice shrivels to record low for winter

  22-03-2017 19:17
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The frigid top of the Earth just set yet another record for low levels of sea ice in what scientists say is a signal of an overheating world. The National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado says the Arctic this month set a record low for winter peak sea ice area: […]
  
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• Arctic sea ice dips to record low for winter

  22-03-2017 19:17
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The frigid top of the Earth just set yet another record for low levels of sea ice in what scientists say is a signal of an overheating world. The extent of floating ice in the Arctic hit a new low for winter: 5.57 million square miles (14.42 million square kilometers). That’s about […]
  
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• Kayaking burglar tries to make getaway by jumping into chilly Duwamish, police say

  22-03-2017 18:51
  
  The man spent about an hour in the water before Seattle firefighters cut a hole in the floor of a boathouse and pulled him out. The suspect was taken to the hospital for treatment.
  
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• Trump will give graduation speech to Christian students at Liberty University

  22-03-2017 18:20
  
  President Trump is this year's commencement speaker at Virginia's Liberty University, which bills itself the world's largest Christian college.  Its president Jerry Falwell, Jr., has been a Trump cheerleader despite the president's libertine lifestyle.
  
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• Worried about getting old? Poll sees optimism grow with age

  22-03-2017 17:54
  
  A new survey suggests many pessimistic feelings held by people earlier in life take an optimistic turn as they move toward old age.
  
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• Seattle Finally Has a Plan to Give All Workers Paid Family Leave

  22-03-2017 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverSeattle City Council Member Lorena González, who is up for reelection this year, is proposing a plan to give Seattle workers 26 weeks of paid family leave. City of Seattle
  The United States is one of the only industrialized countries in the world to offer no paid leave for new parents. Paid parental leave benefits parents, children, and the labor market. Paid family leave—which allows people to care for sick family members, not just new babies—helps even more.
  
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• Who's Worse: Camille Paglia, Sanctimonious Liberals, or My Sniveling Self?

  22-03-2017 16:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithPaglia and her audience.RS
  You've most recently heard Camille Paglia coming out of Milo Yiannopoulos's mouth. She's a proud equity feminist who rails against the censorious rage of Andrea Dworkin and Betty Friedan in favor of the sex-positive, self-reliant Amazon. Her heroines are late 1980s Madonna, Oscar Wilde, the Beat poets, and the big, loud Italian women of her New Jersey childhood. She's a free-thinkin', free speech-lovin', rock-n'-roll prof who's old enough to remember when
  
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• Bill would bar discrimination toward climate change doubters

  22-03-2017 16:26
  
  AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A Republican lawmaker in Maine says the state should protect people from being discriminated against based on their beliefs about climate change. Rep. Larry Lockman has introduced a bill that would limit the attorney general’s ability to investigate or prosecute people based on their political speech, including their views on climate […]
  
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• The Morning News: Oso Three Years Later, Police Officer Stabbed at UK Parliament

  22-03-2017 16:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverForty-three people died in the 2014 Oso landslide. Kelly O
  Oso Three Years Later: On the third anniversary of the landslide, families are still coping with the disaster and scientists and officials are trying to figure out how to make sure it doesn't happen again, Hal Bernton reports.
  Police Officer Reportedly Stabbed at UK Houses of Parliament: The BBC is updating their story here: "A police officer has been stabbed in the Houses of Parliament in central London, Commons Leader D
  
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• The Morning News: Oso Three Years Later, Attack at UK Parliament

  22-03-2017 16:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverForty-three people died in the 2014 Oso landslide. Kelly O
  Oso Three Years Later: On the third anniversary of the landslide, families are still coping with the disaster and scientists and officials are trying to figure out how to make sure it doesn't happen again, Hal Bernton reports.
  Police Officer Reportedly Stabbed at UK Houses of Parliament: The BBC is updating their story here: "A police officer has been stabbed in the Houses of Parliament in central London, Commons Leader D
  
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• Seattle’s gun-sale tax raises less than $200,000 in first year

  22-03-2017 15:11
  
  When the tax was proposed, the city’s budget office estimated it would raise $300,000 to $500,000 a year.
  
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• Kids: the collateral damage of the GOP’s health-care bill

  22-03-2017 14:30
  
  Almost every kid in our state has medical coverage, a health-care mountaintop that took decades to reach. The Republican health-care bill would bring that crashing back down.
  
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• ‘I’m amazed tourists ever come back’: Your comments on Seattle’s poor tourism survey

  22-03-2017 14:30
  
  A recent FYI Guy story on tourists' satisfaction with Seattle drew 500 comments online, plus a flood of emails and phone calls. Here are the highlights.
  
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• Man, 29, dies during domestic-violence incident in Snohomish County

  22-03-2017 14:09
  
  The man became unresponsive during an attempt by the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office to take him into custody during a domestic-violence call near Echo Lake.
  
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• Man, 29, dies during altercation with police in Snohomish County

  22-03-2017 14:09
  
  At one point, a Taser device was used on the man during the altercation with law-enforcement officers, according to an investigation team looking into the incident that started with a domestic-violence call.
  
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• In Case You Needed Another Reminder to Get Yourself Vaccinated...

  22-03-2017 14:02 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufDon't put yourself—or your munchkins—at risk. Get vaccinated. ROBERT ULLMAN
  A local man and his 6-month-old child have a measles infection after returning from a trip to Asia, King County Public Health officials announced in a press release yesterday. The department reports that neither the father nor the baby were immunized.
  Public Health officials are now warning people in the area about this family's infection because there's a chance they may have exposed others
  
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• What we’re reading: Spokane finds that making school harder is just what kids want

  22-03-2017 14:01
  
  For the past five years teachers at Spokane’s Rogers High have pursued an approach that may seem counterintuitive: by making school tougher, they can get more students to go to college.
  
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• Woman who posted ‘Spanish privilege’ rant pleads guilty in mental-health court

  22-03-2017 14:00
  
  Sandra Jametski posted a Facebook Live video railing against “Spanish privilege” as she followed a neighbor in her car, criticizing her driving as un-American and repeatedly saying the woman and her family don’t belong here. .
  
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