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• Watch: Man dives in after shark, catches it with his bare hands in Kitsap County

  29-06-2017 23:47
  
  Neither shark nor human was injured in the making of this video, said Kitsap County 19-year-old Alex Winn.
  
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• ‘Crikey, mate’: Kitsap County man dives in after shark, catches it with his bare hands

  29-06-2017 23:47
  
  Neither shark nor human was injured in the making of this video, said Kitsap County 19-year-old Alex Winn.
  
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• A Religious Group Thinks Silent-Reading Parties Are a Sign of the Apocalypse

  29-06-2017 23:44 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleA group of people were silent during a recent reading party at the Sorrento.CF
  On a website I'd never heard of called The Trumpet, which is published by the Philadelphia Church of God and which "seeks to show how current events are fulfilling the biblically prophesied description of the prevailing state of affairs just before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ," there's a piece up about the silent-reading party, an ongoing event I started at the Sorrento in 2009 modeled on
  
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• Zillow backs off threat to sue McMansion Hell after compromise

  29-06-2017 23:33
  
  After being down for days, the blog was back up Thursday, complete with old posts featuring Zillow photos.
  
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• The 16 Best Movies Playing in Seattle This Weekend: June 29-July 2, 2017

  29-06-2017 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffWatch Reservoir Dogs this weekend at SIFF Cinema Uptown to see the moment when Tarantino became Tarantino.
  This weekend at the movies, our recommended special screenings include a quietly heartwarming feature by Hirokazu Kore-eda, a documentary about plutonium, a 2017 SIFF favorite about realistic musicians, and a fictional but dramatic culinary showdown. You can also catch blockbusters like Baby Driver, The Beguiled, and It Comes at Night. See all of our film criti
  
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• Savage Love: The Music Box

  29-06-2017 23:24 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage STEVEN WEISSMANI had a great time at the live taping of the Savage Lovecast at Chicago's Music Box Theatre. Audience members submitted questions on cards, and I tackled as many questions as I could over two hours—with the welcome and hilarious assistance of comedian Kristen Toomey. Here are some of the questions we didn't get to before they gave us the hook...
  If your partner's social media makes you uncomfortable—whether it's the overly friendly comments they get on th
  
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• Family of Covington man crushed by tree sues Oregon

  29-06-2017 23:20
  
  The suit asserts the Oregon Department of Transportation has a duty to maintain trees along Highway 30, and the tree that crushed 27-year-old Jorge Figueroa showed obvious signs of decay.
  
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• Seattle Food News: Pinxto Reopens, Willows Inn Gets Dinged, the Truth About Donkey Sauce, and More!

  29-06-2017 22:57 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tobias Coughlin-BoguePinxto's luscious bacon-wrapped dates, now available in roomier environs. Amber Fouts
  Pinxto Slides Over to Former Spitfire Space
  Over the weekend, the tiny Belltown tapas bar finished its revamp of the space that used to house Spitfire, a rather forgettable sports bar on 4th Avenue between Bell and Blanchard, Seattle Met reports. Their last day over on 2nd was Saturday the 24th, and they were open bright and early on the 25th for Pride. Hours from here on out will be the
  
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• You Decide: Seattle's Experiment in High Wages VS. Kansas' Experiment in Tax Cuts

  29-06-2017 22:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede Heidi Groover
  Ever since that nonsense report by the University of Washington's "economists" (meaning, a school of men and women whose knowledge of the production and distribution of wealth is no deeper and useful than a bunch of logicians who call something a donkey and then close their eyes and feel the hairy thing up and say: ahh, see, that is a donkey) was released on Monday, June 26, we have not heard the end of it. The report did what it was supposed to do: make a lot of
  
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• Endangered Hawaiian monk seal gives birth on Waikiki beach

  29-06-2017 22:33
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — An endangered Hawaiian monk seal has given birth on a Waikiki beach — the first such birth in at least several decades. The seal was born late Wednesday or early Thursday, said Angela Amlin, coordinator for the Hawaiian Monk Seal Recovery Program. Mother and pup attracted dozens of onlookers as they rolled […]
  
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• Endangered Hawaiian monk seal gives birth on remote beach

  29-06-2017 22:33
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaiian monk seal conservation volunteer has captured rare video of one of the animals giving birth. The seal known as RO28 had her pup on Kauai’s north shore on June 18. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s marine mammal response coordinator for Kauai says the pup is nursing well. Monk seals […]
  
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• Eastern Washington fires converge, grow to 47,500 acres

  29-06-2017 22:13
  
  Fires are burning in Grant, Douglas and Yakima counties. Residents at the northwest edge of Quincy, Grant County, have been warned they may have to evacuate.
  
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• Central Washington fires converge, grow to 47,500 acres

  29-06-2017 22:13
  
  Fires are burning in Grant, Douglas and Yakima counties. Residents at the northwest edge of Quincy, Grant County, have been warned they may have to evacuate.
  
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• High court: Abuse victims can protect their kids from abusers

  29-06-2017 21:24
  
  In a win for survivors of domestic violence, the state Supreme Court ruled that children whose parents were abused may receive court protection against their parents' abusers.
  
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• Transgender woman convicted of 3 murders in Spokane

  29-06-2017 21:23
  
  Donna Perry was convicted of killing three women who worked as prostitutes during a four-month span in 1990. Their cases had gone unsolved until 2012, when Perry’s DNA was matched to the victims.
  
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• Connelly: Public to Trump on use of Twitter -- Shut up!

  29-06-2017 21:11
  
  Six out of ten Americans want Donald Trump to stop tweeting insults and abuse on his personal Twitter account, according to new Quinnipiac University poll.
  
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• Prison sentence cut from life to 42 years for man who killed mother, daughter as a teen

  29-06-2017 21:02
  
  Brandon Backstrom was 17 when he killed 30-year-old Marine Walls and her daughter Korree Olin, 12, in Snohomish County.
  
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• That NRA Ad Is Also an Attack on Cities

  29-06-2017 20:57 via thestranger.com
  by Rich Smith
  By now you've likely seen this woeful bit of baseless would-be rabble-rousing from the NRA, an organization that called for more guns in schools following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook, and one that has yet to make a statement about Philando Castile.Since the advertisement resurfaced a few days ago, writers have been quick to point out its many hypocrisies, including its attack on First Amendment rights, its hyper-violent and questionable use of verbs ("they use their media to as
  
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• Live Review: Ambient-Guitar Hero/Horse-Rescuer God and Vanilla at Highline

  29-06-2017 20:42 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalGod and Vanilla—six strings and infinite profound feelings. Dave Segal
  You shall know God and Vanilla (aka Richard O'Leary) by his austere guitar washes, braided pony tail, and cowboy hat. To understate things, he cuts a unique figure in Seattle's underground-music scene. Despite living northeast of Gold Bar and being in his late 50s, O'Leary makes frequent 100-mile roundtrip drives to the city to both perform and support fellow adventurous artists. Last night at Highline&mdas
  
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• Large study links key pesticide to weakened honeybee hives

  29-06-2017 20:40
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A massive new study in three European countries finds a common pesticide dramatically weakens already vulnerable honeybee hives. For their experiment, researchers planted fields of rapeseed, which is made into cooking oil. Some of the fields were planted with seeds treated with the class of insecticides called neonicotinoids, others with untreated seeds. […]
  
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• Climate change up close: Southern, poor counties to suffer

  29-06-2017 20:36
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Poor and southern U.S. counties will get hit hardest by global warming, according to a first-of-its-kind detailed projection of potential climate change effects at the local level. The study, published Thursday in the journal Science , calculates probable economic harms and benefits for the more than 3,100 counties in the United States […]
  
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• Currently on Craigslist: An Original Twin Peaks Prop

  29-06-2017 20:27 via thestranger.com
  
  You could live in your own Lynchian fantasy!by Leilani Polk
  If I had the money and a living space that allowed for it, I'd be seriously considering investing in this prop that was taken from the set of the original ('90s-era) Twins Peaks (not the freaky, stilted and soulless facsimile it's become; I can't get past the sixth episode even though I'm trying mighty hard to motivate due to feelings of Lynchian loyalty).Anyway, a Seattle couple who are apparently friends with Stranger staffer Kim Sell
  
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• Ed Murray Is Still Not Running for Re-Election, Endorses Jenny Durkan

  29-06-2017 20:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverSurprise. HG
  Putting an end to weeks of will-he-or-won’t-he, Mayor Ed Murray announced today he will not run a write-in campaign for a second term.
  Instead, standing in the orate lobby of the Paramount Theater, Murray endorsed former U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan for mayor.
  Last month, Murray dropped his bid for re-election after multiple allegations that he sexually abused teenagers in the 1980s. (He denies those allegations.) After a lawsuit making abuse allegations was drop
  
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• There Won't Be Dashcam Footage to Show What Happened Between Police and Giovonn Joseph-McDade

  29-06-2017 20:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneA photo of Giovonn Joseph-McDade taken by his childhood friend, Keith Isaac.NEVER FORGET PB/KEITH ISAAC
  Kent police fatally shot 20-year-old Giovonn Joseph-McDade last Saturday after a car-chase in which Des Moines police say a suspect driver tried to "ram" his car into a police officer. Des Moines police, who are conducting the investigation into the police shooting, say that a Kent officer opened fire after the driver allegedly drove toward the officer as he began to approa
  
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• Furry fisher in South Cascades has a baby! Biologists say grainy photo shows kit

  29-06-2017 20:03
  
  Biologists caught Lilly the fisher on camera and with a kit. Fishers were driven out of Washington decades ago, and biologists are attempting to reintroduce the members of the weasel family to the south Cascades.
  
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• Culture News: Kusama's Infinity Mirrors Opening, Rebecca Brown's New Book Deal, New Century's New Venue

  29-06-2017 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithBut first: did you see all those stolen sandwich boards for condos in Volunteer Park over the weekend? That was a Derek Erdman show.RSArtist and Prankster Derek Erdman Presented His Final Seattle Art Show in Volunteer Park: The piece was titled Derek Erdman's Graveyard, and it was all about displaced people displacing the displacers. When I ran around the park the next day, only one sign remained on the green. I heard they turned it into a condo.Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrors Opens
  
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• Jon Grant: Lawsuit Against Democracy Vouchers Shows "the Rental Industry Is Scared"

  29-06-2017 19:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverJon Grant: enemy of landlords. courtesy of campaign
  In its lawsuit over Seattle's new campaign financing system, the Pacific Legal Foundation singled out one candidate running in this year's city council races: Jon Grant.Grant—a tenant advocate running for citywide position 8 who has raised $129,000 in vouchers—says tenants should have collective bargaining rights with landlords. One of PLF's plaintiffs is a landlord. Seattle's Democracy Voucher program, the firm argu
  
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• Seattle mayor back in the race? Not quite

  29-06-2017 19:42
  
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray's spokesperson used a cheap ploy Thursday morning to get media to turn out in droves for a non-announcement: That he still won't seek re-election.
  
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• This New NRA Ad Is Not At All Unhinged and Is So Totally Not an Incitement to Violence

  29-06-2017 19:34 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage
  Their media, their schools, their movie stars, their ex-president, their singers, comedy shows, and award shows are all inciting violence. Only the police and the "clenched fist" (not the trigger finger?) of NRA members can stop "them" from destroying "our" country.
  Business Insider:A National Rifle Association ad that has gained traction on social media this month urges Americans to join "freedom's safest place" as protesters and members of the "resistance" movement who oppose Don
  
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• New Washington state budget would provide $7.3B more to public schools over four years

  29-06-2017 19:25
  
  Lawmakers were still hammering out details Thursday and had not publicly released a copy of the entire plan. Washington’s citizens may not see the fine print until Friday morning.
  
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• Lawmakers — and public — will get little time to review budget before vote

  29-06-2017 19:25
  
  An actual draft of Washington’s proposed two-year state budget might not be released until as late as Thursday night. The public could have less than 24 hours to see the details before a vote.
  
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• ‘Decisions are made’: Lawmakers — and public — will get little time to review budget

  29-06-2017 19:25
  
  An actual draft of Washington’s proposed two-year budget might not be released until as late as Thursday night. The public could have less than 24 hours to see the details before the Legislature votes.
  
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• Michael Bond, creator of beloved Paddington Bear stories, is dead at 91

  29-06-2017 19:20
  
  The genial British author who created Paddington Bear, the polite, good-natured but disaster-prone little hero of children’s novels, picture and activity books, television series, and films, died at his home in London.
  
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• How This Metro Bus Plowed My Car Onto the Sidewalk

  29-06-2017 19:17 via thestranger.com
  
  by Steven HsiehNobody was hurt.
  Damn, that could have been so much worse.After a couple sleepless nights, I woke up this morning with a certain pep to my step. Showered, caffeinated and ready to face the day, I waltzed across the street to my Queen Anne bus stop an hour earlier than usual. Damn, boy. Maybe my perceptions were clouded by the hoorahs running through my head, but my bus stop companions—some familiar, some not—also seemed primed for the challenges that lay before them.We
  
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• Seattle Mayor Ed Murray won’t be write-in candidate, endorses former U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan

  29-06-2017 19:06
  
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced his decision Thursday to not relaunch his re-election campaign as a write-in candidate — instead endorsing Durkan.
  
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• Mayor Ed Murray to announce ‘shake up’ in Seattle race

  29-06-2017 19:06
  
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray will announce his decision Thursday on whether to relaunch his re-election campaign as a write-in candidate.
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Man at Work Takes a Break, Part 1

  29-06-2017 19:02 via thestranger.com
  
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• Tacoma lifts ban on stun guns within city limits

  29-06-2017 18:55
  
  The ban in Tacoma was imposed after complaints of convenient stores selling a variety of weapons.
  
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• Connelly: Stop flouting the Clean Air Act or we'll sue, AGs tell Trump's EPA

  29-06-2017 18:54
  
  Attorney General Bob Ferguson and 12 other AGs take Trump administration to the woodshed, and say they will go to court, over the Environmental Protection Agency's failure to obey the federal Clean Air Act.
  
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• Jesus Christ, Is Ed Murray Still Running or What?

  29-06-2017 18:41 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverWhy? City of Seattle
  Today at 11 am, Mayor Ed Murray will make an announcement "to share his decision about a write-in mayoral candidacy." What does that mean? Who knows!
  In May, Murray dropped his bid for re-election after multiple allegations that he sexually abused teenagers in the 1980s. (He denies those allegations.) Then, the lawsuit making abuse allegations against him was dropped. And last week, Murray said he wasn't ruling out a write-in campaign and planned to poll vote
  
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• State Supreme Court orders Sunnyside police to return man’s car

  29-06-2017 18:40
  
  The BMW was seized in 2013 after police in the Yakima County city suspected it was purchased with drug-trafficking proceeds.
  
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• Who Is Running the US? Is It the Generals?

  29-06-2017 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede Kuzma/Getty
  If Trump were to turn those nuclear keys, nothing would happen. In our day, the scenario for World War III is most likely to resemble the plot for Dr. Strangelove. The generals have taken over. Why? Because, the current president has "neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought..."When it comes to matters concerning foreign policy, agreements, and conflicts, Trump is only in charge of his Twitter account.This, however, is not to say tha
  
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• The Morning News: Partial Muslim Ban Goes Into Effect Tonight, People Are Flooding Into Seattle

  29-06-2017 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufThis monster tearing families apart. Nate Gowdy
  Trump's New Muslim Ban Begins at 5 p.m. PST: Visa applicants, including refugees, from Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Iran and Yemen must prove they have a "bona fide relationship" with a close family member or business entity. But the definition of a "close" family member is mystifying. "They must prove a relationship with a parent, spouse, child, adult son or daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law or sibling already in the United
  
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• Governor declares state of emergency for NYC transit system

  29-06-2017 17:50
  
  The city's subways and commuter trains have been plagued by rising delays and unreliable service. Dozens of people were injured when a subway derailed Tuesday.
  
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• Good Morning! The President of the United States Is Still a Sexist Pig

  29-06-2017 16:58 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageI heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came..
  — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017
  ...to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!
  — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017
  MSNBC's statement:
  "It's a sad day for America when the president spends his time bullying, ly
  
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• Science Says: Pregnant or trying? Don’t let Zika guard down

  29-06-2017 16:36
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Zika virus may not seem as big a threat as last summer but don’t let your guard down — especially if you’re pregnant or trying to be. While cases of the birth defect-causing virus have dropped sharply from last year’s peak in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, Zika hasn’t […]
  
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• Pregnant or trying? Don’t let Zika guard down

  29-06-2017 16:36
  
  WASHINGTON — The Zika virus may not seem as big a threat as last summer but don’t let your guard down — especially if you’re pregnant or trying to be. While cases of the birth defect-causing virus have dropped sharply from last year’s peak in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, Zika hasn’t disappeared […]
  
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• 2 minor earthquakes reported overnight near Bellingham, Bremerton

  29-06-2017 15:57
  
  A couple hundred people reported to the U.S. Geological Survey that they felt the tremors.
  
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• Seattle added more people last year than all of King County’s suburbs combined

  29-06-2017 15:00
  
  While Seattle’s population growth is soaring, the opposite trend is under way in surrounding King County. Last year, the suburbs experienced their slowest population gains in more than a decade.
  
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