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• Led By Patty Murray, Senate Democrats Will Hold the Floor In Protest of Secret Obamacare Repeal Bill

  19-06-2017 23:58 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersNot so fast, secretive healthcare repealers.CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES
  Washington State's Patty Murray, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate health committee, will lead the charge later today as Democrats "hold the floor" to call attention to a secretive Republican effort to repeal Obamacare.It's just one part of a Democratic plan to "grind Senate business to a halt" until Republicans come clean about what they're trying to do in the Senate, where even many Republican Senato
  
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• Washington State Patrol plans crackdown on left-lane camping

  19-06-2017 23:45
  
  This week, the Washington State Patrol says troopers will keep an extra eye out for drivers who are breaking the state law that requires motorists to keep right except to pass.
  
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• Left-lane campers, this means you: State Patrol conducting crackdown this week

  19-06-2017 23:45
  
  This week, the Washington State Patrol says troopers will keep an extra eye out for drivers who are breaking the state law that requires motorists to keep right except to pass.
  
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• The 30 Best Concerts in Seattle This Week: June 19-25, 2017

  19-06-2017 23:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffEmily Nokes once described Christeene as an "Austin-based stank-terror-drag phenomenon in a sweat-matted fright wig and uncomfortably blue contacts." Kick off your Pride weekend with a Friday evening show at the Crocodile. Kelly O
  This week, our music critics have picked everything from a Death Cab member who's gone disco (Dave Depper), to iconic Japanese party thrashers (Guitar Wolf), to the best way to relive Pink Floyd's peak era (Roger Waters) to outdoor concert
  
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• Mobile billboard demands Amazon stop ads on Breitbart

  19-06-2017 23:03
  
  A billboard is driving around Amazon's Seattle campus telling the company to stop buying ads on right-wing news site Breitbart.
  
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• Connelly: Perry says carbon is not 'primary contributor' to global warming

  19-06-2017 23:01
  
  U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, contradicting a global scientific consensus, is claiming that carbon dioxide is not "a primary contributor to the global warming that we see."
  
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• Al Franken Will Be on the Blabbermouth Podcast This Wednesday!

  19-06-2017 22:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersSenator Al Franken will be talking to The Stranger's Blabbermouth podcast this Wednesday. Subscribe to the show for free right here! Courtesy Hachette Book Group
  It was a question from Democratic Senator Al Franken that got Jeff Sessions into potential perjury trouble over his Russia connections. In other confirmation hearings, Franken's questions have spotlighted the incompetence of Betsy DeVos and the callous absurdity of Neil Gorsuch. But for this Wednesday's Blabbermouth podcas
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Her Partner Only Likes Having Sex with Hairy Old Gay Men

  19-06-2017 22:46 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  My partner and I are in our early 30s and have been together for 6 years. I'm a cis-gendered female and my partner is FTM and began his transition last year. Up until that point, we had a fairly vanilla but satisfying and regular sex life. We both started to want kinkier sex, more variety, and some agreed-upon openness but had yet to really do the work to get there. The changes our relationship have gone through since his transition started though are so drastic I'm having a hard t
  
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• Sofia Coppola Has Never Heard of the Bechdel Test

  19-06-2017 22:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher Frizzelle"The what test?" (Actual quote.) Rich Fury/Getty Images
  GQ just published an interview with director Sofia Coppola, whose new movie is The Beguiled (a remake of a 1971 Clint Eastwood film). The interview begins:GQ: I loved The Beguiled. Would you say this is the rare feminist film that struggles to pass the Bechdel test?
  Sofia Coppola: The what test?
  The Bechdel test.
  I've never heard of that. What's that?
  It's a test to see if two or more women in a movie talk about some
  
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• Supreme Court's Ruling to Strike Down Trademark Law Banning "Disparaging" Names a Win for Portland Band, The Slants

  19-06-2017 22:29 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufSimon Shiao Tam, bassist for The Slants, spoke about his ongoing legal fight with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to trademark his band name at the University of Washington. Today, the Supreme Court ruled prohibiting trademarks for offensive names violates the First Amendment. ASK
  The United States Supreme Court ruled this morning that a law preventing "disparaging" names from being registered as protected trademarks violates the First Amendment. Today's decision
  
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• 3-year global coral bleaching event over, but still bad

  19-06-2017 22:13
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. scientists announced Monday that a record global coral reef bleaching event has finally ended after three years. About three-quarters of the world’s delicate coral reefs were damaged or killed by hot water in what scientists say was the largest coral catastrophe. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced a global bleaching […]
  
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• 3-year global coral bleaching event easing, but still bad

  19-06-2017 22:13
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A mass bleaching of coral reefs worldwide is finally easing after three years, U.S. scientists announced Monday. About three-quarters of the world’s delicate coral reefs were damaged or killed by hot water in what scientists say was the largest coral catastrophe. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced a global bleaching event […]
  
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• Charges: Drug-fueled sexual encounter led to double-slaying

  19-06-2017 22:10
  
  Murder charges filed against a South Carolina man last week for a 2016 double-slaying in Belltown indicate that a drug-fueled sexual encounter precipitated the fatal assaults.
  
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• What You Missed This Weekend at Northwest New Works 2017

  19-06-2017 22:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithEarth and Ceremony's I Want to Hear the Sea seemed to stun the audience with its power and beauty.Earth and CeremonyNorthwest New Works 2017 has come to a close. Sad. But here I am to tell you about all the mainstage shows you were sorry (and not so sorry) to have missed!
  Overall, this year's festival of brand new, in-progress avant-garde performances seemed to be above average: a couple standouts, a couple weird and moody ones, and a couple shows that should probably go back in the
  
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• Seattle mayor candidates react to shooting with sorrow, concern, calls for change

  19-06-2017 21:44
  
  Candidates for Seattle mayor are reacting to the fatal shooting by police of Charleena Lyles. calling it “deeply unjust,” “devastating” and “a tragedy on many levels.”
  
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• Seattle mayor candidates react to Charleena Lyles shooting with sorrow, concern, calls for change

  19-06-2017 21:44
  
  Candidates for Seattle mayor are reacting to the fatal shooting by police of Charleena Lyles. calling it “deeply unjust,” “devastating” and “a tragedy on many levels.”
  
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• Immigrant Advocates Will Take Up Hunger Strike to Protest Treatment Inside Northwest Detention Center

  19-06-2017 21:28 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneNestora Salgado, an activist who was imprisoned in Mexico for two years after fighting cartels, will join activist Maru Mora Villalpando on a hunger strike outside the Northwest Detention Center.Alex Garland
  Starting at noon, immigrant activist Maru Mora Villalpando will refuse food for 72 hours outside the Northwest Detention Center in the hopes of relaunching a hunger strike within the Tacoma immigration detention center itself. On Wednesday, Nestora Salgado, a US and Mexic
  
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• Seattle Food News: Fremont Brewing Presents Pride Kolsch, 2120 Arrives at Amazon, and More

  19-06-2017 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tobias Coughlin-BogueThe rare, majestic rainbow heron. Fremont Brewing Co.
  Fremont Brewing Puts Two of The Best Things in One Can For Pride
  It's Pride week, which means celebrating of LGBTQ rights amid nearly nonstop drinking. To help you do both at once, Fremont Brewing presents Pride Kolsch, a light, refreshing, and perfect-for-summer lager that will raise money for LGBT causes (and hopefully get you pleasantly buzzed in a park, on a patio, or around a fire). The new brew is launched June 2
  
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• Hotel-restaurant lobby backs Jenny Durkan for Mayor

  19-06-2017 21:00
  
  Jenny Durkan is emerging as the business-backed candidate for Seattle Mayor.  She wins an endorsement from the city's restaurant and hotel lobby, including a group that challenged a recent voter-passed worker protection law.  Jessyn Farrell gets backing from big Teamster local.
  
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• Racist puppet angers onlookers at Solstice Parade

  19-06-2017 20:45
  
  The puppet, which was spotted along the parade route, portrayed a woman in blackface caricature. Its presence generated disappointment and anger from many in attendance.
  
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• Why Does Cliff Mass Believe Scientists and Leftist Journalists Are Exaggerating the Dangers of Climate Change?

  19-06-2017 20:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede"On May 12, 2016, a total of 17 wildfires... burning in the vicinity of Fort McMurray, Canada."NASA
  Some of the reasons Cliff Mass gives for not alarming people about the real and ever-growing climate crisis: "Psychological Stress on the Population,""Truth Telling Opens Hearts," and "Exaggeration and Hype can be Counterproductive." He compares those who are warning the public about the climate crisis to those who, during Bush's administration, warned that Saddam Hussein had weap
  
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• Fatal police shooting of Charleena Lyles is top trending topic on social media

  19-06-2017 19:40
  
  Reports of the shooting were widely shared on social media Sunday and Monday.
  
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• Health-plan rates in Washington state’s individual market could go up an average of 22%

  19-06-2017 19:36
  
  Health-insurance rates in Washington’s individual market would increase an average of 22 percent based on filings under review by state officials. Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler blamed part of the increase on uncertainty about Obamacare’s future.
  
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• Charleena Lyles, Victim of SPD Shooting, Remembered as “Life of the Party”

  19-06-2017 19:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Steven HsiehCharleena Lyles Courtesy of Family
  Those close to Charleena Lyles will tell you she bounded with energy.
  “She was the life of the party,” said Trina Washington, a cousin who knew Lyles since she was 12 years old. The two were inseparable.
  “She liked to go out. She liked to dance, sing. She was one of those people that would always be moving around like ‘Heeey!” said Monika Williams, Lyles’ older sister, snapping her finger and forcing a smile be
  
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• SPD releases audio of Charleena Lyles shooting

  19-06-2017 19:00
  
  The Seattle Police Department released an audio recording early Monday morning of Sunday's interaction with Charleena Lyles, a 30-year-old pregnant woman who was fatally shot by officers after reporting a burglary attempt at her apartment.
  
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• Seattle Police Release Audio of Fatal Shooting of Charleena Lyles

  19-06-2017 18:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverOutside the Sand Point apartment complex where police fatally shot Charleena Lyles. Steven Hsieh
  The Seattle Police Department this morning released audio from a confrontation yesterday in which two Seattle police officers fatally shot Charleena Lyles after Lyles called them to report a burglary. The fuzzy four-minute audio clip, which was recorded by officers' dash cam system, which includes microphones on each patrol officer, offers little insight into what happened immediately
  
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• NASA telescope finds 10 more planets that could have life

  19-06-2017 18:35
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA says its planet-hunting telescope has found 10 new planets outside our solar system that are likely the right size and temperature to potentially have life on them. As the Kepler telescope finished its main mission, NASA announced Monday that it has seen a total of 49 planets in the Goldilocks zone […]
  
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• Spun Out: 5 Essential Cuts Selected by Local DJ Riz Rollins

  19-06-2017 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave Segal"We dance because we cannot fly. I'm just trying to help." Andi Dean
  DJ RIZ ROLLINS (KEXP; Board of Deacons)
  1. Tinush, "Struggle (feat Aretha Franklin)" 2. LTJ Xperience feat. Joe Bataan, “Ordinary Guy” (Irma Records)3. Bill Withers, "The Same Love (Whiskey Barons Rework)"4. Jill Scott, "Wanna Be Loved (Tony Nuccio's Lovely Remix)"5. Eugene Tambourine feat. Yevhen Varela, "In the Good Life (Balearic 2)"DJing philosophy: “I have no favorite musical styles and will
  
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• The Morning News: Seattle-Area Workers to Employers Who Pay Less Than $15: Go Hang

  19-06-2017 18:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede WORKING WASHINGTON
  Companies Not Offering At Least $15 An Hour Are Finding It Hard to Fill Open Positions: This is not surprising. What one must understand is that a capitalist economy cannot grow rapidly and make the leap into an advanced state of things without high wages. The history of the world has never seen a country escape underdevelopment with low wages. It's all there in the history books. It's not there, sadly, in many econ courses, programs, and journals, which sinc
  
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• Energy chief: Carbon dioxide not prime driver of warming

  19-06-2017 17:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Monday he does not believe carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming, a statement at odds with mainstream scientific consensus but in line with the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Asked on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” whether carbon emissions are primarily responsible for climate change, […]
  
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• Too hot to handle: Study shows Earth’s killer heat worsens

  19-06-2017 17:05
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Killer heat is getting worse, a new study shows. Deadly heat waves like the one now broiling the American West are bigger killers than previously thought and they are going to grow more frequent, according to a new comprehensive study of fatal heat conditions. Still, those stretches may be less lethal in […]
  
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• Science Says: DNA shows early spread of cats in human world

  19-06-2017 17:04
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Long before cats became the darlings of Facebook and YouTube, they spread through the ancient human world. A DNA study reached back thousands of years to track that conquest and found evidence of two major dispersals from the Middle East, in which people evidently took cats with them. Genetic signatures the […]
  
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• Sunday’s fatal encounter wasn’t first time Seattle police had met a troubled Charleena Lyles

  19-06-2017 16:44
  
  Seattle Police released dashcam audio of the fatal shooting of Charleena Lyles in Magnuson Park. Officers can be heard shouting “Get back! Get back!” before gunfire breaks out. Also, details from a June 5 call to her home bear striking similarity to Sunday’s incident.
  
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• ‘Get back! Get back!’: Seattle police release recordings of fatal shooting of Charleena Lyles

  19-06-2017 16:44
  
  Seattle Police released dashcam video and audio of the fatal shooting of Charleena Lyles in Magnuson Park. Officers can be heard shouting “Get back! Get back!” before gunfire breaks out. Also, details from a June 5 call to her home bear striking similarity to Sunday’s incident.
  
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• ‘Get back! Get back!’: Seattle police release audio of fatal shooting of Charleena Lyles

  19-06-2017 16:44
  
  The Seattle Police Department released audio of the fatal shooting of 30-year-old Charleena Lyles on Sunday in Magnuson Park.
  
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• Sizzling heat wave creates health hazard in southwestern US

  19-06-2017 16:06
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Southwestern U.S. is about to feel the wrath of a punishing heat wave that includes a forecast of 120 degrees in Phoenix — a temperature not seen in the desert city in more than 20 years. The broiling temperatures will also be felt in Las Vegas and Southern California, creating a […]
  
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• Canceled flights, burning door handles: Heat hits Southwest

  19-06-2017 16:06
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Airlines canceled flights in Phoenix and doctors urged people to be careful around concrete, playground equipment and vehicle interiors Monday as a punishing heat wave threatens to bring temperatures approaching 120 degrees to parts of the Southwestern U.S. Arizona is seeing the most stifling temperatures, but the wrath of the heat wave […]
  
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• KeyArena financing plan appears far ahead of Sodo group

  19-06-2017 16:00
  
  Oak View Group already has detailed for the city exactly who would pay for what and how.
  
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• Historic tugboat dry-docked in Seattle to prepare for full hull restoration

  19-06-2017 16:00
  
  The Arthur Foss has been gone from Lake Union Park for roughly two weeks while crews made repairs, laser-mapped the hull and prepared to restore its entire hull.
  
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• Who’ll be responsible when self-driving car crashes?

  19-06-2017 15:00
  
  Washington is welcoming self-driving cars to use the state’s roads as testing grounds. But who’s responsible if one causes a crash, the driver or the carmaker? With the technology still evolving, there is no clear answer.
  
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• Here’s why I-5 is such a mess in Seattle area, and what keeps us moving at all

  19-06-2017 15:00
  
  It moves more cars and stalls more cars than any road in Washington. A concrete scar through the heart of Seattle, Interstate 5 is the backbone of the region’s transportation system. With congestion more than twice as bad as it was in 2011, can anything be done to ease the gridlock?
  
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• City revives plan to build affordable housing at Fort Lawton

  19-06-2017 15:00
  
  A similar plan for the former Army installation was blocked by area residents, who favored development of the site as a park.
  
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• Can’t Washington state ease I-5 traffic? Fixes exist, but most of them are pricey.

  19-06-2017 15:00
  
  Plenty can be done to unclog traffic on Interstate 5, but it’s almost all costly in one way or another. Adding lanes, especially through downtown Seattle, is enormously expensive. Adding tolls would reduce traffic, carries its own obvious costs.
  
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• Italy says G-20 a chance to pressure Trump on climate pact

  19-06-2017 14:16
  
  ROME (AP) — Italy’s premier says that world leaders will keep up the pressure on President Donald Trump to re-think his opposition to the Paris climate pact. Paolo Gentiloni said Monday the Group of 20 meeting of major countries’ leaders, on July 7-8 in Hamburg, Germany, would present the opportunity to lobby the U.S. administration. […]
  
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• Video as visa: Seattle school livestreams graduation for students with family overseas

  19-06-2017 13:00
  
  Franklin High School is livestreaming its graduation ceremony this year for the first time, bringing children of immigrants closer to their faraway loved ones.
  
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• Correction: China-Carfentanil story

  19-06-2017 11:59
  
  SHANGHAI (AP) — In a Feb. 16 story about China banning the synthetic opioid carfentanil, The Associated Press misidentified Yu Haibin as the director of the Office of the National Narcotics Control Committee. He is a division director at the Ministry of Public Security’s Narcotics Control Bureau. A corrected version of the story is below: […]
  
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• Seattle fisherman a bellwether as citizenship revocations rise

  19-06-2017 08:21
  
  If Renton resident Koula Sylla loses his citizenship, the 54-year-old will be one of the first Americans denaturalized who was identified through the large but little-noticed Homeland Security Department review of aged immigration documents. Hundreds of naturalized citizens could find their citizenship at risk due to the same probe.
  
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• Dozens attend vigil for woman killed by police in Sand Point

  19-06-2017 07:56
  
  Several dozen people attend a vigil outside the apartment building of Charleena Lyles, a 30-year-old woman who was shot by police after she called them to respond to an attempted burglary, Sunday, June 18, 2017. Lyles has a history of mental illness and police say she brandished a knife during the incident.
  
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• Demands for answers after police kill pregnant Seattle mom

  19-06-2017 07:56
  
  Several dozen people attend a vigil outside the apartment building of Charleena Lyles, a 30-year-old woman who was shot by police after she called them to respond to an attempted burglary, Sunday, June 18, 2017. Lyles has a history of mental illness and police say she brandished a knife during the incident.
  
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• ‘Human Project’ study will ask 10,000 to share life’s data

  19-06-2017 06:28
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Wanted: 10,000 New Yorkers interested in advancing science by sharing a trove of personal information, from cellphone locations and credit-card swipes to blood samples and life-changing events. For 20 years. Researchers are gearing up to start recruiting participants from across the city next year for a study so sweeping it’s called […]
  
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