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• New ‘eclipse’ stamp from U.S. Postal Service transforms with a touch

  20-06-2017 23:51
  
  LARAMIE, Wyo. — The U.S. Postal Service has officially unveiled a first-of-its kind stamp that transforms with the touch of a finger and is dedicated to this summer’s total solar eclipse. The 49 cent stamp uses temperature-sensitive ink. When a person touches it, the body heat transforms the image of the blacked-out sun into the […]
  
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• Mobb Deep Rapper Prodigy Passed Away Today in Las Vegas

  20-06-2017 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede"Getting closer to God in a tight situation..."
  One of the greatest rap tracks ever made is Mobb Deep's "Shook Ones (Part II)." One of the greatest hiphop albums ever produced is Mobb Deep's Hell on Earth. Both were released between 1995 and 1997. The former represents, in my opinion, the closest hiphop has ever come to a state of architecture.The rappers on these important works, which blended gangster poetry with beats that had the drama and grandeur of a cathedral, are Havoc
  
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• Police probe into shooting of Charleena Lyles could take months

  20-06-2017 23:44
  
  Federally mandated reforms call for a thorough investigation, but the answers won’t come quickly.
  
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• Police probe into Charleena Lyles fatal shooting could take months

  20-06-2017 23:44
  
  Federally mandated reforms call for a thorough investigation, but the answers won’t come quickly.
  
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• Seattle PD names officers who fired upon, killed Lyles

  20-06-2017 23:34
  
  Transcripts show that the officers who fired at Charleena Lyles during a burglary call Sunday morning weren't carrying Tasers that could have been used before resorting to gunfire. But the Seattle Police Department won't say what type of weapons they were carrying when they approached a woman who had exhibited delusions in front of police before.
  
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• Less lethal? HQ mum on weapons issued police who killed Lyles

  20-06-2017 23:34
  
  Transcripts show that the officers who fired at Charleena Lyles during a burglary call Sunday morning weren't carrying Tasers that could have been used before resorting to gunfire. But the Seattle Police Department won't say what type of weapons they were carrying when they approached a woman who had exhibited delusions in front of police before.
  
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• Can Blacks Be NIMBYs?

  20-06-2017 23:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeTwilight of black Seattle,... Charles Mudede
  As everyone should know, wages in America were de-linked from productivity in the late 1970s. As a consequence, wages have been flat while productivity has sharply increased over the decades. The stagnation of wages, however, threatened an important component of capitalism: consumer demand. The two main solutions to this problem turned out to be: one, produce cheaper products by taking advantage of the wage differences (arbitrage) bet
  
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• My First (and Last) Time Dating a Rice Queen

  20-06-2017 23:06 via thestranger.com
  
  Are you even gay if your sexuality is based on race and not gender preference?by Alexander CheeOn one of our first dates—we lasted for about two weeks in July of 1998—we met up in New York's West Village for dinner.I walked West 11th Street to get here, he said. Do you think it's out of our reach, to live there?My heart caught in my ribs. Oh, I said, without explaining. It's not out of our reach. It's our destiny. He seemed to accept this. We were both drunk.For a long time, living o
  
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• Revenue projections for Washington state are slightly up

  20-06-2017 22:31
  
  With the additional money expected to come in, revenues for the overall 2017-19 state budget are projected to be $41.7 billion, state-revenue forecasters said Tuesday.
  
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• Revenue projections for Washington are slightly up

  20-06-2017 22:31
  
  With additional money expected to come in, the projected overall state budget for 2017-19 is expected to be $41.7 billion, state revenue forecasters said Tuesday.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: It's Okay to Share Dick Pics at Work, Just Not His Dick Pics

  20-06-2017 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I'm a 36-year-old homo in a large metropolitan city with a sizable gay community. I'm out, proud and being single. I'm also on the promiscuous side. Being that I'm a slut (a label I'm not afraid of) and that it's also 2017, there exists a number of photographs of me in a number of sexual positions. My face isn't clearly visible in any of them, but some photos show more of me than others, including tattoos.
  I've sent these photos out over the gay hookup apps. Now, in my mild defense
  
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• Kirkland teen killed tubing in Colorado

  20-06-2017 22:30
  
  Maxmillian Lopez, 18, was visiting his grandfather when the accident happened on the Cache la Poudre River in north-central Colorado.
  
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• High concept: Artists design labels for weed while high

  20-06-2017 22:28
  
  Picking out a strain of weed can be hard. These artist interpretations should make it a bit easier – or at least a whole lot more fun. 
  
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• Seattle landlords must give voter-registration info to new renters, City Council decides

  20-06-2017 22:08
  
  The new ordinance comes as Seattle has become the fastest-growing big city in the nation and studies show that people on the move vote at lower rates.
  
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• Connelly: Cabinet billionaire -- Use booze, hors d'oeuvres to lure factory workers

  20-06-2017 22:00
  
  With manufacturing jobs to fill, companies should be plying high school students and their parents "with cocktails and hors oeuvres", says billionaire U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, a buddy of President Trump.
  
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• Woodland's Newborn Baby Giraffe Looks Cute and Weird

  20-06-2017 21:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Steven HsiehWatch a baby giraffe fall out of a grownup giraffe:Correction: A previous version of this post misidentified the baby giraffe as Tufani. In fact, Tufani is the mother. Steven regrets the error. Please kill him.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Tufani, Woodland's Newborn Baby Giraffe, Looks Cute and Weird

  20-06-2017 21:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Steven HsiehWatch a baby giraffe fall out of a grownup giraffe: [ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo announces birth of baby giraffe

  20-06-2017 21:44
  
  The zoo released a video of a newborn giraffe and its mother, Tufani, Tuesday morning. Here’s what is known about the calf and when visitors may be able to see it in person.
  
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• Science Says: Why some airplanes don’t fly in high heat

  20-06-2017 21:38
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to getting airplanes off the ground in broiling weather, it’s not the heat or the humidity. It’s the air density. Hotter air gets thin, making it harder to take off and land safely, mostly for smaller jets. That’s what has kept some planes grounded in Phoenix this week where […]
  
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• Teatro ZinZanni Moves to Marymoor Park, For Now

  20-06-2017 21:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich Smith🎶 Here we are now going to the east side. / I pick up my antique spiegeltent and we hope we won't die. 🎶 Jess SteinThings weren't looking too good for the popular cirque-du-dinner-theater back in January. Teatro ZinZanni was looking even worse in March, when founder and artistic director Norm Langill's negotiations with the Seattle Opera (their landlord) and Washington Holdings (the developer who bought the land beneath the tent) failed. At that time it was looking l
  
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• Tomorrow: Senator Al Franken on the Blabbermouth Podcast!

  20-06-2017 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersSenator Al Franken will be on The Stranger's Blabbermouth podcast on Wednesday. Subscribe to the show for free right here! Drew Angerer / Getty Images
  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 podcast—sub
  
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• Hoboken mayor seeks climate job instead of 3rd term, blames Trump

  20-06-2017 21:05
  
  HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey mayor says she’ll focus on climate change rather than running for a third term in office because of President Donald Trump. Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer announced her decision not to run on Tuesday. The Democratic mayor says she wants to “take a new role working more directly” on […]
  
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• Guest Editorial: Class Politics, Not Establishment Liberalism, Can Win Over Republicans—A Reply to The Seattle Times

  20-06-2017 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Kshama SawantSeattle City Council member Kshama Sawant says progressives can win over Republican voters, but only if they cut ties to big business. City of Seattle
  On June 4, Danny Westneat’s Seattle Times column “In Seattle, is it now taboo to be friends with a Republican?” denounces me for supposedly declaring that I don’t have any Republican friends. In fact, the article mischaracterized and misquoted my comments. I sent a short reply clarifying my position to the S
  
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• Central District Leaders Break Ground on New Liberty Bank Building

  20-06-2017 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufCentral District community members, including the descendants of Liberty Bank founders, celebrate the groundbreaking of a new community land trust. ASK
  On Monday, members of the Central District community gathered to celebrate a groundbreaking ceremony on the Liberty Bank Building and Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. The redevelopment project, intended to address the neighborhood's rapid gentrification, will provide affordable housing unit
  
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• Adventurous R&B/Rap Diva SassyBlack Taps Into "Upbeat Heartbreak" on New Black Swing

  20-06-2017 20:44 via thestranger.com
  
  SassyBlack's new album offers a distinctive, queer take on New Jack Swingby Todd Hamm"They call me Sassy, Ms. Black if ya nasty." —"Watching You"SassyBlack wants to take you on a trip on her latest album, New Black Swing (out June 23). Maybe not down memory lane, but through a living exhibition of the mechanics of a gone but not forgotten era of R&B. Running from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s, new jack swing, the stylistic reference point for New Black Swing, stepped away from
  
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• The Stranger Will Be Covering Tonight's Rally For Charleena Lyles

  20-06-2017 20:44 via thestranger.com
  
  by Chase BurnsCharleena LylesCOURTESY OF FAMILY
  A rally for Charleena Lyles, a 30-year-old black mother who was fatally shot by Seattle police officers on Sunday, begins at 6 pm tonight at Magnuson Park. It's scheduled to go till 9.From our event listing:
  They say, "People are tired of seeing another trending hashtag commemorating black death. People are tired of burying their loved ones as a result of police violence. People are tired of watching murderers walk free. People are tired of being t
  
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• UPDATE: Owner of Blue Moon Burgers Admits to Participating in Racist Text Exchange Describing Black Employees

  20-06-2017 20:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tess Riski Tess Riski
  Charlie Olson, owner of Blue Moon Burgers, posted a statement on Facebook this morning confirming that he participated in a racist iMessage exchange on a company iPad.
  In the exchange, another employee who has not yet been identified sends Olson a photo of three black employees with the line "All the n*****s." Olson responds, "That's what prison looks like." The message with the slur was allegedly sent by the employee to Olson on iPads at the restaurant's Capitol Hill lo
  
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• Seattle's got a new, tallest baby

  20-06-2017 20:25
  
  Just when you thought you were done with giraffe babies, the Woodland Park Zoo pulls you back in: After months of eager anticipation (and a livestream) Seattle's zoo has welcomed a new baby giraffe.
  
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• Teatro ZinZanni is pitching its tent again

  20-06-2017 20:20
  
  Seattle's favorite dinner circus is propping up the spiegeltent again.
  
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• Bellingham man charged with hate crime, assault after fight with roommates

  20-06-2017 20:11
  
  The defendant is accused of grabbing a knife and brandishing it toward a roommate while making derogatory statements regarding race and sexual orientation.
  
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• Seattleites Can Now Tip Their Uber Drivers With Their Phones

  20-06-2017 20:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by Steven HsiehFinally? NYCSHOOTER/GETTY
  Uber, the union busting, taxi scabbing, law flouting, sexual harassment-plagued ride share company today announced that Seattlites will be able to use the app to tip their drivers. The company is also rolling out the option in Minneapolis and Houston, and plans to bring it to every city in its market by the end of July.The announcement brings Uber up to speed with Lyft, another anti-union ride share company once known for putting fuzzy, pink mustaches on
  
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• Debate heats up over teaching climate change in U.S. schools

  20-06-2017 19:20
  
  The struggle over what American students learn about global warming is heating up as conservative lawmakers, climate-change doubters and others attempt to push rejected or debunked theories into the classroom.
  
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• Uber adds option to tip drivers as it heads in new direction

  20-06-2017 19:02
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Uber is enabling passengers to tip its U.S. drivers with a tap on its ride-hailing app for the first time, part of a push to recast itself as a company with a conscience and a heart. Besides the built-in tipping option announced Tuesday, Uber is giving drivers an opportunity to make […]
  
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• Check Out the Guy Running Against Paul Ryan

  20-06-2017 17:33 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageRandy Bryce is running against @SpeakerRyan in 2018. He was genetically engineered from Bruce Springsteen songs. pic.twitter.com/XD9bOEeOkl— Anthony Breznican (@Breznican) June 20, 2017
  That's some good political advertising right there.
  The last time a Speaker of the House lost their reelection bid? Washington State's own Tom Foley, way back in 1995. The time before that? Galusha Aaron Grow in 1862. Let's do it again in 2018.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comment
  
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• The Morning News: Seattle Police Officer Said "I Don't Have a Taser" Before Shooting Charleena Lyles

  20-06-2017 17:19 via thestranger.com
  
  by Steven HsiehThe apartment complex where Seattle police officers fatally shot Charleena Lyles. Steven Hsieh
  Seattle Police Department Released a Transcript of the Audio From the Shooting of Charleena Lyles: The release comes alongside dashcam and surveillance video from the shooting, though neither tape offers much detail on what happened inside the apartment when two white police officers shot the black mother of four.The transcript, however, gives a definitive record of the words exchanged b
  
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• Arlington driver, 19, dies after striking utility pole

  20-06-2017 17:09
  
  The man was driving Monday in the 9300 block of Arlington Heights Road.
  
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• Seattle police transcript of fatal shooting of Charleena Lyles: ‘I don’t have a taser’

  20-06-2017 16:12
  
  Charleena Lyles was fatally shot by two Seattle police officers on Sunday morning. Her family says the death could have been avoided.
  
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• Lesson in bias: Columbia City, I hear you loud and clear

  20-06-2017 15:00
  
  Last week’s column about Columbia City hurt many, due to how the neighborhood was portrayed. Since then, columnist Nicole Brodeur has listened and learned.
  
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• Got a drone for Dad’s Day? There’s an angry buzz about where to fly them

  20-06-2017 15:00
  
  While hobbyist drones grow in popularity, most parks won’t allow them, regulations are many and fliers can risk public censure. But there are a few public places to fly if you received one for a gift.
  
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• Cantwell promotes bill that would give tax incentives for firms that offer apprenticeships

  20-06-2017 13:00
  
  New national legislation could greatly expand the use of apprenticeships, a form of postsecondary education that’s popular in Europe.
  
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• How the AP-NORC poll on climate change was conducted

  20-06-2017 09:31
  
  The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll on climate change and the Paris climate accord was conducted by NORC on June 8-11. It is based on online and telephone interviews of 1,068 adults who are members of NORC’s nationally representative AmeriSpeak panel. The original sample was drawn from respondents selected randomly from NORC’s […]
  
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• AP poll: Few agree with Trump move to ditch Paris accord

  20-06-2017 09:26
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll finds that less than a third of Americans support President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, with just 18 percent of respondents agreeing with his claim that pulling out of the international agreement to reduce carbon emissions will help the U.S. economy. The survey conducted […]
  
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• AP-NORC poll: Few favor Trump move to ditch Paris accord

  20-06-2017 09:26
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than one-third of Americans support President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, a new poll shows, and just 18 percent of respondents agree with his claim that pulling out of the international agreement to reduce carbon emissions will help the U.S. economy. The survey conducted by the […]
  
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• Charleena Lyles loved her children, dancing and Fourth of July, says brother of woman killed by Seattle police

  20-06-2017 06:16
  
  The woman fatally shot by two officers Sunday enjoyed family barbecues, wrote poetry and as a mother of four was, “Doing it on her own,” her brother said.
  
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• Seattle mother of 4 shot by police was getting mental-health help, records show

  20-06-2017 05:54
  
  Charleena Lyles was shot by two officers after reporting a burglary Sunday. According to interviews and court records, almost everyone in her life tried to get her help.
  
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• UPDATE: Dash Cam and Surveillance Video From Day of Charleena Lyles' Death Offers Scant Details

  20-06-2017 05:04 via thestranger.com
  
  by Steven Hsieh SPD
  The Seattle Police Department released videos showing two vantage points of the fatal shooting of Charleena Lyles, a black mother of four, though the footage offers scant details of what occurred inside an apartment when two white Seattle police officers fired their weapons at the black mother of four, killing her.
  The release comes hours after police officials posted dash cam audio from the shooting on the department’s blotter website. Police on Monday evening also rel
  
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