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• Mona Das Exits the Race for WA-8, Which Still Leaves Nine Challengers

  16-01-2018 23:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Other Democrats in the race: Follow Das's lead.by Rich SmithMona Das bows out of her congressional race.Mona Das for CongressToday, Mona Das announced on Facebook that she's no longer running for Congress in Washington's 8th District. In the post, Das cites fundraising issues and says, ultimately, that "there is not enough money and the responsible thing for me to do is suspend the campaign." Though this run wasn't successful for her, she encourages others, "especially little brown girls with bi
  
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• Connelly: Dems claim 50 Senate votes to restore net neutrality

  16-01-2018 23:40
  Democrats are within one Senate vote of restoring net neutrality, and blocking a Federal Communications Commission decision that gives internet service providers the right to give preferential treatment.
  
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• Connelly: Democrats claim 50 Senate votes to block net neutrality repeal

  16-01-2018 23:40
  Democrats are within one Senate vote of restoring net neutrality, and blocking a Federal Communications Commission decision that gives internet service providers the right to give preferential treatment.
  
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• Carrie Brownstein Is Making a TV Show About Her Life (and a New Sleater-Kinney Album Is in the Works!)

  16-01-2018 23:39 via thestranger.com
  
  It's “a show about a young woman, a band, and a community learning how to be unafraid of their own noise.”by Amber CortesCarrie Brownstein's remarkable life: coming to a screen near you. SCOTT DUDELSON VIA GETTY IMAGES
  Portlandia fans may be sad to learn about the final curtain of the offbeat comedy show—dynamic duo Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein decided to end their run together (amicably) after eight seasons of poking fun at the quirks of the craftiest, most passive aggre
  
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• Counterpoint: Why Your Defense of Aziz Ansari Makes You a Tone-Deaf Asshole

  16-01-2018 23:15
  
  The fact of the matter is that most women will not be victims of Harvey Weinstein. Most women, however, will experience uncomfortable pressure like what the author of the Aziz Ansari account detailed.by Nathalie GrahamAziz Ansari at the 23rd Annual Critics' Choice Awards Christopher Polk/Getty
  This past summer, I went to this guy’s house thinking we were just going to hang out, and get to know each other. Nope. Naive. I sat next to him on his twin bed (red flag No. 1) and he turned on this
  
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• Before We Burn Aziz Ansari, Perhaps Some Self-Reflection Is in Order

  16-01-2018 22:48
  
  if Aziz Ansari is guilty, then a whole lot of women are guilty, too.by Katie HerzogFomerly beloved comic Aziz AnsariGreg Doherty/Getty Images
  When I read the by-now viral article about a date with Aziz Ansair being the "worst night" of a young woman's life, my first thought was, “Really?"The young woman, called “Grace,” is an anonymous 23-year-old photographer who went out with Ansari in September of 2017, and then told her story to Katie Way, a staff writer at the website Babe
  
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• The Drama in WET’s Straight White Men Even Extends to the Program

  16-01-2018 21:50 via thestranger.com
  
  A note from director Sara Porkalob to start dialogue about Young Jean Lee's play ended up starting dialogue with Lee instead.by Rich SmithDirector Sara Porkalob wanted audiences not to feel as bad for one of these characters as they may have felt. Max Magerkurth
  Washington Ensemble Theatre's production of Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men is currently sold out. Those who were hoping to see a version of the show before it blows up on Broadway this summer might find comfort in knowing that the a
  
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• ‘War zone’: Flu patients flooding California hospitals

  16-01-2018 21:27
  The influenza A strain called H3N2 is making people so ill in California that thousands have shown up at hospitals, and some places are treating them in “surge tents” intended for major disasters.
  
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• The Misuse of "It's" Has Become Rampant, with No End in Sight

  16-01-2018 21:25
  
  For how much longer are we going to tolerate the rampant misuse of "it's"?by Dave SegalThe Electric Company illuminates a rudimentary grammar rule. YouTube screengrab
  A popular internet-era axiom is, "Don't read the comments." Fuck that. I read 'em with gusto—and it's not just because I harbor excessively masochistic tendencies. No. To avert my eyes from comment sections—the CBGB bathrooms of the World Wide Web—would deny me the pleasure of peeping the English language's real-t
  
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• 'No more tears to shed': Family sues Sheriff's Office in unarmed man's Burien shooting

  16-01-2018 21:01
  Tommy Le's family filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the King County Sheriff's Office, former Sheriff John Urquhart and other officials, claiming the Sheriff's Office racially profiled Le before being killed in Burien and then scrambled to justify the shooting with a story about a knife.
  
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• The Nostalgia of The Final Year Doesn't Address the Fierce Urgency of Now

  16-01-2018 20:55
  
  by Eli SandersThe stars of The Final Year, a documentary chronicling the last days of the Obama approach to our world and its problems. Getty Images
  There are probably more important things you can do in response to the Trump era than spend 89 minutes of your time watching The Final Year, a wistful documentary about former President Barack Obama's foreign policy worldview.Having given 89 minutes of my own time to this film, I feel it's likely the people it focuses on—Obama, former Secretar
  
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• Activist Maru Mora-Villalpando says ICE using her deportation as ‘intimidation tactic’

  16-01-2018 20:44
  Activist Maru Mora-Villalpando, an undocumented immigrant, says federal immigration officials are using an “intimidation tactic” by putting her into deportation proceedings.
  
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• Activist Maru Mora-Villalpando says ICE using deportation threat as ‘intimidation tactic’

  16-01-2018 20:44
  Activist Maru Mora-Villalpando, an undocumented immigrant, says federal immigration officials are using an “intimidation tactic” by putting her into deportation proceedings.
  
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• “I Am Not Going to Stop,” Pledges Local Immigration Activist Targeted by ICE

  16-01-2018 20:33
  
  by Heidi GrooverMaru Mora, a local immigration activist who faces deportation, spoke in front of ICE's Seattle office today alongside her daughter and supporters. HG
  When the letter arrived at Maru Mora’s home in December, she recognized the logo for Immigration and Customs Enforcement immediately.“I realized immediately what it was without even opening it,” Mora said. As she signed a receipt for the letter, Mora’s 20-year-old daughter opened it. Inside was a notice to ap
  
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• Family of man killed by King County deputy files lawsuit, claims race was a factor

  16-01-2018 20:28
  Tommy Le, a 20-year-old Vietnamese American, was fatally shot by a King County sheriff’s deputy who responded to reports that a man with a knife was threatening neighbors in Burien. Le was carrying a pen.
  
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• McDonald’s sets recycling goals for 2025

  16-01-2018 19:40
  NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald’s says it aims to use all recycled or other environmentally friendly materials for its soda cups, Happy Meal boxes and other packaging by 2025. The world’s biggest burger chain also wants all of its 37,000 restaurants worldwide to recycle customer waste by that year. It has a ways to go: […]
  
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• "Let's Do It" with Bri Pruett: Putting the Sensual in Consensual

  16-01-2018 19:26
  by Bri PruettThere’s only one sure-fire way to avoid being in a consensual gray area in a sexual scenario: Use your grown-up words and explicitly ask for consent. If you’re a shy or less verbal person, this might seem like a daunting task.Illustration: Erika MoenFirst, let’s deal with some of your concerns...
  1. I don’t like “asking.”
  People (especially men) have told me that “asking permission” feels weak, that it establishes a power dynamic from
  
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• 2 people killed in separate collisions on train tracks in Monroe, Seattle

  16-01-2018 19:03
  The first two deaths on BNSF Railway train tracks in Washington this year were logged within 10 minutes of each other — coincidentally — on Tuesday, according to the company’s spokesman. The first happened at 5:50 a.m. at the south end of the King Street Tunnel in downtown Seattle when an “elderly man waved his […]
  
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• Connelly: John Spellman, state's last Republican governor, dies

  16-01-2018 18:44
  Former Gov. John Spellman, Washington's last Republican governor, dies at 91.
  
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• Bighorn sheep get new home at John Day River Basin

  16-01-2018 18:21
  MAUPIN, Ore. (AP) — Jim Bittle’s participation in one of Oregon’s greatest wildlife success stories came strictly from behind. The Central Point man parlayed his position on the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission into a key role during the capture of 20 California bighorn sheep from the Deschutes River Canyon and their release in Oregon’s […]
  
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• Denis Johnson Triumphs Over the Grave In His Final Story Collection, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

  16-01-2018 18:15
  
  Johnson's highly anticipated collection comes out today.by Willie FitzgeraldOne of the stories in Johnson’s posthumous collection, which comes out today, is so good it left me literally stammering aloud to no one. Cindy Lee Johnson
  For one year in college I worked as a bouncer at a cacophonous place that catered almost exclusively to students. It wasn’t dangerous—occasionally you’d split up a bout of chin-jutting between MBAs—though that didn’t stop some of th
  
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• World’s largest sea turtle could come off ‘endangered’ list

  16-01-2018 18:09
  Federal ocean managers say it might be time to move the East Coast population of the world’s largest turtle from the United States’ list of endangered animals. An arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has received a petition from a fishing group asking that the Northwest Atlantic Ocean’s leatherback sea turtles be listed […]
  
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• Former Washington governor, King County executive John Spellman dies

  16-01-2018 18:01
  John D. Spellman, Washington’s 18th governor and the first King County executive, has died at age 91.
  
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• Alaska Airlines promises 13 flights a day out of Paine Field

  16-01-2018 17:54
  People who catch flights from Everett's Paine Field, rejoice: There will be 13 departures flying out of the airport.
  
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• The Morning News: An Unusually Warm Seattle Winter, and a Gun Debate That's Still Hot

  16-01-2018 17:34
  
  China's cleaning up its act, North Korea suits up for the Olympics, and a lot American men need a crash course on consent.by Nathalie GrahamWill legislators ban bump stocks? GEORGE FREY/GETTY IMAGES
  You didn’t forget about gun control did you?: How could you when we have a mass shooting every day? We don’t, or, at least, we haven’t had any that have made headlines since 57 people died in Las Vegas and the public lost interest in, like, a week and a half. In Olympia, they haven&
  
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• Czech highway closed amid heavy snow, multiple car crashes

  16-01-2018 16:26
  PRAGUE (AP) — Heavy snow in the Czech Republic has caused dozens of car crashes and closed down the country’s major highway. The Czech Hydro-meteorological Institute warned the snowfall was expected to hit six of the country’s 14 regions, mostly in eastern Czech Republic. The D1 highway, a key route that links the capital Prague […]
  
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• Rep. Pramila Jayapal to boycott State of the Union address due to ‘racism’ from White House

  16-01-2018 16:17
  In a message to her constituents on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Seattle said she would not attend the speech because of "racism and hatred" from President Donald Trump.
  
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• Alaska Airlines to begin flights to 8 West Coast cities from Everett’s Paine Field this fall

  16-01-2018 15:59
  The airline will ultimately offer 13 departures every day from Everett's Paine Field.
  
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• Is Seattle’s homeless crisis the worst in the country?

  16-01-2018 15:40
  Maybe. It depends on how you count — but Seattle is definitely worse per capita than New York or L.A.
  
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• Texas airports scrap hundreds of flights as icy temperatures hit

  16-01-2018 15:32
  DALLAS (AP) — Hundreds of flights have been canceled in Texas, where frigid temperatures have left runways — and roads — dangerously icy. The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for the Houston area on Tuesday and is warning mariners of gale-force winds along the Texas coast. Sleet and freezing rain are forecast […]
  
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• “Winter Family Fun Day” in Maine postponed by lack of snow

  16-01-2018 15:29
  DENNYSVILLE, Maine (AP) — A celebration of winter and family fun in Down East Maine has been pushed back by a lack of snow. Cobscook Bay State Park Winter Family Fun Day was originally scheduled to take place on Saturday. The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry says it has moved the event to […]
  
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• Flooded out of Houston by Hurricane Harvey, couple make soft landing in Seattle

  16-01-2018 15:00
  They had lived in their Houston home for 40 years. They had 20 minutes to pack a bag and get out.
  
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• Even the eyelashes freeze: Russia sees minus 88.6 degrees F

  16-01-2018 14:09
  MOSCOW (AP) — Even thermometers can’t keep up with the plunging temperatures in Russia’s remote Yakutia region, which hit minus 67 degrees Celsius (minus 88.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas Tuesday. In Yakutia — a region of 1 million people about 3,300 miles (5,300 kilometers) east of Moscow — students routinely go to school even […]
  
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• Big freeze: Russia’s Yakutia sees near-record cold spell

  16-01-2018 14:09
  MOSCOW (AP) — People living in some of the coldest places on earth are hunkering down as temperatures fall to near-record lows that are even defeating thermometers. Temperatures in the remote, diamond-rich Russian region of Yakutia on Tuesday plunged to minus 67 degrees Celsius (minus 88.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas. In Yakutia — about […]
  
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• Most people got an ‘F’ on our year-end education quiz

  16-01-2018 14:00
  Nearly half of the 1,000 people who took our education news quiz couldn’t identify a photo of our state schools chief.
  
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• Kauai officials mull bus-stop rules to prevent overnight use

  16-01-2018 08:49
  LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) — Kauai County officials proposed new rules at bus stops to stop people from using them as overnight shelters. The proposal called for a ban on erecting any structure within a bus stop or next to it. It also called for prohibiting anyone from occupying a bus stop “in a way that […]
  
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• Volcano in Papua New Guinea little known, hard to predict

  16-01-2018 05:50
  CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — People in Papua New Guinea are being warned that an eruption of a volcano in the South Pacific nation could also cause a local tsunami. The volcano on Kadovar Island has been erupting for more than a week, forcing 700 people to leave that island and 3,000 to be evacuated from […]
  
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• Oregon considers cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions

  16-01-2018 04:22
  The program would be designed to link with existing markets in California and Canada.
  
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• Now in the majority, Washington state Democrats press for tighter gun laws

  16-01-2018 04:05
  Emboldened by their new one-vote majority in the state Senate, Democrats are pushing forward on gun regulations in the Washington Legislature, such as bans on bump-stocks and high-capacity magazines. But with a closely divided Legislature, it’s easier said than done.
  
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• Glowing red lava rolls down slopes of Philippine volcano

  16-01-2018 02:39
  LEGAZPI, Philippines (AP) — Glowing red lava was rolling down the slopes of a Philippine volcano as authorities maintain a warning of a possible hazardous eruption. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said Tuesday morning the lava was quietly flowing in some places but at times Mount Mayon was erupting like a fountain. Lava […]
  
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• On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, thousands gather and march through Seattle

  16-01-2018 02:19
  Monday's MLK Jr. march was one of many events in the Puget Sound area and across the nation honoring the civil-rights leader.
  
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• Add Rep. Pramila Jayapal to the List of Dems Boycotting the State of the Union

  16-01-2018 02:10 via thestranger.com
  by Steven HsiehANNOUNCEMENT: With all the racism coming from the White House, I will NOT be attending @realDonaldTrump's State of the Union.Instead, we'll focus on the State of OUR Union, our opposition to his agenda, and we will lift up a progressive and inclusive vision of our country. pic.twitter.com/dcAWMIkZZV
  — Pramila Jayapal (@PramilaJayapal) January 15, 2018A rough transcript:Hello. I am Pramila Jayapal, and I’m proud to represent the 7th Congressional District in the State o
  
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• Voices from Seattle's MLK Day March

  16-01-2018 02:00 via thestranger.com
  
  "Dr. King stood for equality for all. Socially, we've lost some of that today."by Eli SandersRay Clark with his family at today's Martin Luther King, Jr. march in Seattle. ES
  Ray Clark, 42
  Seattle "born and raised"Why are you out here today?
  To support democracy. To celebrate Martin Luther King. And to show my children where we're from, and where we're going if we don't stand up—all together.What do you think of the state of the country right now?
  I'm afraid. I'm afraid we're going backwar
  
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• Connelly: Rep. Jayapal to boycott Trump's State of the Union

  16-01-2018 01:28
  Washington's Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal will boycott President Trump's State-of-the-Union speech at the end of the month, decrying "the racism and the hatred coming out of the White House."
  
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• Gospel star Edwin Hawkins, known for ‘Oh Happy Day,’ dies

  16-01-2018 01:07
  Along with Andrae Crouch, James Cleveland and a handful of others, Hawkins was credited as a founder of modern gospel music.
  
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• Seattle-Area Rents Drop to a Level That's Still Far from Affordable for Most

  16-01-2018 01:01
  
  by Charles Mudede"When rents dip, I dip, you dip, we dip." gollykim/gettyimages.com
  According to Mike Rosenberg, the Seattle Times business reporter, rents in King and Snohomish counties are finally falling "significantly" for the first time in a decade. By significant, he means a 2.9 percent drop "as compared to the prior quarter." Rosenberg suggests that the market is removing some power from landlords and transferring it to renters because the number of empty apartments is growing. All of thi
  
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• Warning: Stifling sneezes can be health hazard in rare cases

  16-01-2018 00:47
  LONDON (AP) — Tempted to stifle a loud or untimely sneeze? Let it out instead, doctors in England warned Monday based on the very unusual case of a man who ruptured the back of his throat when he tried to suppress a sneeze. In a case study published in the journal BMJ Case Reports, doctors […]
  
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• Five Cranberries Songs That Will Break Your Heart In Light of Dolores O’Riordan's Passing

  16-01-2018 00:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Their lead singer, Dolores O’Riordan, passed away today at age 46.by Amber CortesDolores O’Riordan performing in 2010.ANADOLU AGENCY VIA GETTY IMAGES
  The sad news that Dolores O’Riordan—the Irish songwriter best known for being the frontwoman for The Cranberries)—has passed away today is making its way through the internet. Reports detail that she was found unresponsive a London hotel this morning, but no cause of death has been revealed as yet.The first thing comes
  
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• Patient’s stifled sneeze leads to ruptured throat, hospital

  16-01-2018 00:33
  LONDON (AP) — Doctors in England say stifling a big sneeze can be hazardous for your health in rare cases, based on the very unusual experience of a man who ruptured the back of his throat when he tried to stop a sneeze. In a case study published Monday in the journal BMJ Case Reports, […]
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Saving a Sugar Baby

  16-01-2018 00:22 via thestranger.com
  
  "I'd prefer to see women giving blowjobs because they love it—not because they've never been to Tahiti."by Dan Savage
  A female friend of mine (who is ayounger than me) told me she was considering being a "sugar baby." It's likely you know what this is, but for those who don't — my understanding is basically its sex trade for gifts, money, vacations, etc. I have conflicted feelings about this type of situation, and sex work generally. Some pro, some con.I'm sex-positive and have
  
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