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• Sense8, Group Sex, and the Wachowskis’ Happy Ending

  06-06-2018 23:46
  Netflix’s underrated series gets a sensual conclusion.by Suzette SmithSense8, the Netflix series in which eight strangers wake up suddenly sharing each other’s senses and skills, is ending. Though it was created by the nerd-royalty team of the Wachowskis and J. Michael Straczynski, the ambitious series never amassed the viewership required to fund a show filmed on location around the globe.When Netflix canceled Sense8 in 2017, it got a lot of feedback from the show’s few but pa
  
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• Hotel Artemis Is Fully Stocked with Oddballs

  06-06-2018 23:29
  Case in point: Jeff Goldblum plays "The Wolf King of Malibu."by Ben ColemanMost genre films have an oddball character or two thrown in for color. An eccentric specialist or secretive fixer, they pop into the story for a bit, perform a difficult task, possibly while delivering a staccato monologue, and then disappear. "I'd like to see a movie that's just about THEM," one occasionally thinks. Hotel Artemis is that movie, and it's just as good as it sounds.The ensemble of eccentrics on offer are th
  
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• Dozens arrested in five-county drug bust in Puget Sound area

  06-06-2018 23:16
  It was the fourth bust in the past four months in which local and federal law enforcement targeted drug-trafficking in the Seattle area.
  
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• I Was So Stoned I Got the Day of the Month Wrong for Cucci's Critter Barn

  06-06-2018 23:15
  
  by Chase BurnsI fucked up.
  Our next Regrets Issue doesn't come out for awhile, but I have a regret.
  It's why you shouldn't submit your final drafts at 3 AM while stoned:The error in question.
  In the June 6, 2018, issue of The Stranger, we I published that Cucci's Critter Barn happens the first Saturday of every month at Kremwerk. That's incorrect. It happens the second Saturday of every month at Kremwerk, including this Saturday. You should absolutely go because it will be debaucherously sublime
  
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• A Real-Life Heist Is Re-created in American Animals

  06-06-2018 23:07
  The part-scripted, part-documentary mash-up works (mostly).by Ned LannamannForget all the heist movies in which thieves steal humdrum things like diamonds or Monets or coaxium. The big score in American Animals is something to get really excited about: rare books.Based on a true story about a plot to relieve the library at Kentucky’s Transylvania University of its most valuable tomes (including a drool-worthy Havell edition of Audubon’s Birds of America), director Bart Layton’s
  
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• Hereditary Will Leave You Drenched in Sweat

  06-06-2018 22:23
  Hope you like jump scares and family trauma!by Ciara DolanIf you’re not comfortable with the very real possibility that you’ll be drenched in sweat and cowering in the fetal position by the end of Hereditary, perhaps this is one cinematic experience you should skip. But you’d be missing out—writer/director Ari Aster’s feature debut might be one of the most beautiful and nauseating horror movies ever made.Hereditary centers on miniaturist artist Annie Graham (an Osca
  
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• Audio and Video Show Canvassers Spreading False Information About the Head Tax

  06-06-2018 22:22
  
  But is it illegal? That's unclear.by Steven HsiehEverybody's favorite stock signature gathererGetty
  A week ago on Slog, I reported on locals who said they encountered canvassers who didn’t have their facts straight about the head tax. I also wrote about my own run-in with a canvasser who falsely suggested I would be taxed under the policy.
  Now, video and audio have emerged that purport to show petitioners giving false information about the head tax.The clips come from Socialist Alternative
  
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• When it Comes to Housing, it’s Time to Bring a Bit of the Chicago Way to the Seattle Process

  06-06-2018 22:09
  
  by David ColeChicago's housing mix: condo towers, townhouses, walk-ups, four-flats, all on the same block. DAVID COLE
  Back in the mid-1990s, I was an undergrad architecture student at the University of Illinois at Chicago while working part-time as an intern at a large architecture firm in downtown Chicago. My family had moved to the Chicago area after I graduated high school in Florida, and after spending most of my childhood as a Navy brat moving around between various suburban, exurban, and f
  
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• King County Executive Accidentally Hosts Argument About Cops at Pride

  06-06-2018 21:58
  
  by Katie HerzogCops might not belong at Pride but this guy definitely does.Kelly O
  County Executive Dow Constantine inadvertently started a Facebook war on Tuesday after he (or whoever runs his social media) posted this:It's a pretty innocuous post (a new task force! In King County! What a shock.), but, soon enough, a self-proclaimed "internet activist" commented on Constantine's post: "Step one: keep cops out of Pride. It's not for them, queer or not."Nothing says "Pride" like queer in-fighting
  
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• Climate change campaigners find ally Orthodox Church leader

  06-06-2018 21:55
  SPETSES, Greece (AP) — Leading climate change experts and campaigners said Wednesday they would work with the leaders of the Orthodox Church and other religions to fight global warming, after expressing concern that their message was not reaching people fast enough. Scientists, campaigners, and economists involved in the climate change debate gathered on the Greek […]
  
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• Climate change activists find ally in Orthodox Church leader

  06-06-2018 21:55
  SPETSES, Greece (AP) — Leading climate change experts and campaigners said Wednesday they would work with the leaders of the Orthodox Church and other religions to fight global warming, after expressing concern that their message was not reaching people fast enough. Scientists, campaigners, and economists involved in the climate change debate gathered on the Greek […]
  
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• California Judge Aaron Persky Has Been Recalled by Voters

  06-06-2018 21:35
  Remember that guy? He sentenced Brock Turner to a mere six months in jail after Turner sexually assaulted an unconscious woman.by Sophia StephensOn June 2, 2016, California Judge Aaron Persky sentenced Brock Turner to six months in jail after Turner was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a “garbage enclosure,” in Turner’s words. (This piece of shit actually tried to appeal his conviction in December 2017 on the grounds that the prosecution had incorrec
  
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• In Sadie, Seattle Director Megan Griffiths Offers a Thoughtful Portrait of a Budding Sociopath

  06-06-2018 21:15
  
  by Gillian Anderson
  Sadie, the latest from local filmmaker Megan Griffiths (Lucky Them, Eden), has a perfect Northwest feel. Sadie is 13 and lives with her mother in a dilapidated trailer park. Sadie worships her absent father, while being impossible with her harried mother. She is smart and precocious, trying to come to an understanding of how the world works, but the adults around her have their own problems. The film shows the way adults communicate with kids, never talking to them directly,
  
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• Attorney in Everett bikini baristas lawsuit wants out of case

  06-06-2018 21:07
  Seattle attorney Derek Newman is requesting for a judge grant him permission to leave.Seattle attorney Derek Newman says there has been a "substantial breakdown in the attorney-client relationship" and his clients are not listening, according to court documents.
  
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• New NASA chief vows US will always have astronauts in orbit

  06-06-2018 21:03
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Major changes could be ahead for the International Space Station but there will always be an American astronaut in orbit, NASA’s new boss said Wednesday. The space agency is already talking with private companies about potentially taking over the space lab after 2025, but no decision will made without the other 21 […]
  
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• Seattle’s Magnolia Bridge is about worn out, but city says it can’t afford a replacement

  06-06-2018 21:01
  Neighbors and drivers fear a traffic disaster because Seattle lacks money to replace the Magnolia Bridge, expected to wear out in the 2020s.
  
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• More than 200 new laws take effect in Washington state this week

  06-06-2018 20:59
  The new laws include a package of bills meant to address sexual misconduct at the workplace, and most of them take effect Thursday.
  
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• Water alert re-issued for Oregon capital area

  06-06-2018 20:58
  SALEM, Ore. — Salem, Oregon, officials re-issued a limited no-drink warning for tap water in the state’s capital city, reinstating guidelines lifted only days before advising medically sensitive groups to find other water sources. The Wednesday warning, linked to toxins caused by a bloom of algae in a municipal reservoir, says children under six, people […]
  
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• Cannabis Commerce to Commence in Canada

  06-06-2018 20:45
  
  by Josh Jardine FILO / GETTY IMAGES
  Canada, America's 51st state, may be about to launch into the thrill ride that Oregonians bought an e-ticket for three years ago: recreational cannabis legalization, via the C-45 bill, the Cannabis Act. The bill is up for a crucial vote tomorrow (on Thursday, June 7), and if it passes as expected, our neighbors to the north won't just be doing this province to province. No, these Tragically Hip(sters) are opting to make cannabis legal through the entire countr
  
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• What Happened After My Boyfriend Got Sexually Assaulted in the Military

  06-06-2018 20:00
  
  by Lance GarlandI will probably always regret speaking up. Thomas James
  I think there were seven witnesses, but I remember only four distinct faces.
  We were sitting in a waiting room of the Judge Advocate General's building of Naval Base Kitsap on the Kitsap Peninsula. Inside the courtroom, there were high ceilings, brass fixtures, pews for spectators, flags, and wooden jury benches that rose up like stadium seating. Men in dress uniform stood as sentinels at every exit and by every important fi
  
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• Meet the new guys: Taj and Glenn, Seattle zoo’s rhinos

  06-06-2018 19:52
  Taj and Glenn are new this spring to Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo, where they’re living in the new Assam Rhino Reserve, where the zoo used to keep elephants.
  
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• Get Excited: The Complete Capitol Hill Block Party 2018 Schedule Was Just Announced

  06-06-2018 19:42
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffGet ready. Courtesy of CHBP
  The complete schedule for Capitol Hill Block Party 2018 (which will happen from July 20-22) was just announced. The Stranger's complete guide to the iconic music festival, which takes over the Pike/Pine corridor for three days of local and national artists on five separate stages, is also now live on our Capitol Hill Block Party calendar.
  You'll find the complete schedule, critics' picks, photos, descriptions, and music clips for every CH
  
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• The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice Like You've Never Seen Before

  06-06-2018 19:30
  
  by Rebecca BrownSeattle Opera's O+E: Love's Journey to Hell and Back, a girl-on-girl version of the classical myth, runs through June 10 at Seattle Opera Studios. Philip Newton
  If you could bring back to life the love of your life who has died, would you do it? What if you couldn’t look at them? What if they thought you had changed? What if you had? Then what if they didn’t want to come back to life? Or should the dead just be dead and we ought to just get over it?The Seattle Opera&r
  
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• Trump's Trade War Hits Eastern Washington Farmers

  06-06-2018 19:07
  
  by Katie Herzog Getty Images
  Donald Trump sure knows how to screw his loved ones.The President's unnecessary trade war ramped up last week after Trump imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imported from U.S. allies in Europe, Canada, and Mexico. In response, some of the impacted nations quickly promised to retaliate, and that retaliation will (surprise!) hit Trump's base the hardest. In Washington state, that means eastern Washington's apple and potato farmer are about to get real fucked because
  
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• Unhurried hurricanes: Study says tropical cyclones slowing

  06-06-2018 19:02
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tropical cyclones around the world are moving slightly slower over land and water, dumping more rain as they stall, just as Hurricane Harvey did last year, a new study found. This isn’t about how powerful a storm’s winds are, just how fast it chugs along. Storms in the last few years — […]
  
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• Oregon to start requiring testing for cyanotoxins in water

  06-06-2018 18:56
  The plan comes after toxins — produced by cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae — were discovered in Salem's drinking water.
  
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• Oregon to start require testing for cyanotoxins in water

  06-06-2018 18:56
  The plan comes after toxins — produced by cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae — were discovered in Salem's drinking water.
  
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• San Francisco Tenants Will Get Lawyers in Eviction Cases, Seattle Tenants Will Continue to Get Screwed

  06-06-2018 18:55
  
  "Right to counsel" guarantees tenants a lawyer when they face eviction.by Heidi Groover Hailshadow/getty
  California last night held important primary elections for governor and several congressional seats. Amid all the national coverage, you may have missed the results of a local ballot measure in the state that Seattle officials could take a hint from.Voters elected to make San Francisco the latest city to create a right to legal representation for tenants facing eviction. More radically, it be
  
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• Trump commutes term of Kardashian-championed drug offender

  06-06-2018 18:49
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Flexing his clemency powers once again, President Donald Trump on Wednesday commuted the life sentence of a woman whose cause was championed by reality TV star Kim Kardashian West. “BEST NEWS EVER!!!!” was the exuberant twitter response from Kardashian West, who visited the White House last week to press the case of […]
  
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• Kellyanne Conway: Commander of Cheese

  06-06-2018 18:47
  by Dan SavageKellyanne Conway just called Donald Trump the Commander-of-Cheese. Apparently, she's seen his Trump Tower decor. And I just lost a $100 bet that Kellyanne would never say anything true.#CommanderOfCheesepic.twitter.com/eMjLBnSCQM— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) June 6, 2018 [ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• 95-year-old woman killed after pulling in front of deputy near Anacortes

  06-06-2018 18:41
  The deputy's vehicle was totaled in the crash but he was not injured.
  
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• Police Release One Body Camera Video Showing Incident That Led to Officer's Assault Charge

  06-06-2018 17:29
  
  But no video yet from the officer who allegedly committed the assault.by Steven Hsieh
  Two officers. One video. The Seattle Police Department has released body camera footage showing an incident that led city prosecutors to charge an officer for misdemeanor assault.
  But the department still has not released body camera footage from the cop who allegedly punched a man twice in the eye during an unlawful arrest. Ofc. Martin Harris, 51, was charged with assault on Friday for the alleged assault, whi
  
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• Slog AM: Sound Transit Faces Car-Tab Class Action Lawsuit, Amazon Warehouse Work (Continues To Be) Hell

  06-06-2018 17:21
  
  Jeff's colorful balls, Trump doesn't know the words, Scott wants to see his wife rock a Chick-Fil-A uniformby Nathalie GrahamHere we go again.Sound TransitClass action lawsuit filed against car-tab tax: People apparently still hate transit and still hate ST3 even though they voted for it. Well, at least seven angry Puget Sound-region residents have grabbed their torches and their pitchforks to lambast the Sound Transit car-tab taxes. The lawsuit is being filed on the basis that a Senate bill Gov
  
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• The heat is back on high: May smashes US temperature records

  06-06-2018 17:05
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Record heat returned to the United States with a vengeance in May. May warmed to a record average 65.4 degrees in the Lower 48 states, breaking the high of 64.7 set in 1934, according to federal weather figures released Wednesday. May was 5.2 degrees above the 20th century’s average for the month. […]
  
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• Man dies in Skykomish River; 4th suspected drowning near Snohomish County waterfalls this year

  06-06-2018 17:00
  The Snohomish County Sheriff's Office recommends that swimmers stay away from waterfalls due to swift currents, hidden snags, drop-offs and cold water temperatures.
  
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• VW exec reinstated after probe of discredited monkey trials

  06-06-2018 16:31
  FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen has reinstated an executive suspended after he failed to prevent now-discredited experiments that exposed monkeys to diesel exhaust. The company said Wednesday in a news release that external relations head Thomas Steg had returned to his post after no legal misconduct was found. Steg said in the statement that he […]
  
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• ATF investigating after SUV explodes in Federal Way

  06-06-2018 16:16
  A man was arrested for investigation of second-degree "malicious explosion of a substance" in Federal Way, though detectives are trying to figure out how it happened.
  
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• Edmonds man sentenced to 16½ years for beating roommate to death

  06-06-2018 16:08
  At the time of the homicide, the defendant was drinking about a fifth of vodka a day, according to a defense memo filed for his trial. He required six days' hospitalization for alcohol withdrawal after his arrest.
  
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• UW will begin directly admitting computer science majors as freshmen

  06-06-2018 15:01
  Computer science is such a fast-growing, popular major at the University of Washington’s Seattle campus that two-thirds of the freshmen and sophomores who apply don’t get in. But next spring, students who get a letter of acceptance to the UW will also find out immediately if they’ve been chosen for a coveted spot in one […]
  
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• Howard Schultz, 2020? We in Seattle know he’d be a lamb to the slaughter

  06-06-2018 15:00
  The Starbucks CEO has many strengths, but Seattle can testify that politics isn't one of them. That's the part where his weakness cost us a city legacy, the Sonics.
  
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• Disbarred attorneys not qualified to run for state Supreme Court, booted off the ballot

  06-06-2018 15:00
  Stan Lippmann and John “Zamboni” Scannell both filed as candidates to take on two state Supreme Court justices, but judges in Thurston County recently ruled the two men are unqualified to run because they are disbarred attorneys.
  
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• Trio of astronauts blast off to international space station

  06-06-2018 13:21
  BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — A trio of astronauts from Russia, the United States and the European Space Agency has blasted off for a mission on the International Space Station. A spacecraft carrying Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA, Sergey Prokopyev of Russian space agency Roscosmos and the ESA’s Alexander Gerst, from Germany, lifted off as scheduled from […]
  
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• Won't You Be My Neighbor? Is a Tear-Stained Trolley Ride Back to Your Childhood

  06-06-2018 13:00
  
  Are you crying from nostalgia or the impossibility of someone so deeply, utterly good existing again?by Sean NelsonThe question isn't whether you will cry. You will cry.The question isn't how much you will cry. You will cry extensively.The question, which only emerges days into the aftermath of seeing this extraordinary (and, in all candor, somewhat devastating) new documentary about the life and work of Fred Rogers, is this: What exactly are you crying about?Possibility number one: good old-fas
  
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• What Looking at Landscapes Can Do to You

  06-06-2018 13:00
  These paintings remind us of what we could lose and have lost lots of.by Rebecca BrownThe world is giant, too big to get. But when you look at a landscape painting, it pares it down, making it a window you can look throughto see only enough and remember or think about somewhere else, another way to be.When you look at a landscape painting, you think you could understand part of the world for a little time. We need those "spots" of time, as Wordsworth called them, moments that happen inside or to
  
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• The Music of Mokoomba Blows My Mind

  06-06-2018 13:00
  I thought I had a grasp of contemporary African pop. I was wrong.by Charles MudedeLate last year, Zimbabwe's most noted graphic designer, Saki Mafundikwa (he currently lives in Seattle and teaches at Cornish College of the Arts), sent me a link to a 50-minute video he made of a musical performance by Tonga villagers in the Victoria Falls region of Zimbabwe. Saki sent the link because I exposed, during a session of heavy drinking at the Quarter Lounge, my complete ignorance of the Tonga people an
  
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• The Mother of All Pregnancy Books

  06-06-2018 13:00
  
  Like a Mother is a thoughtful, engaging, and well-researched book about pregnancy.by Leilani PolkThe new book from former Stranger staff writer Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy, blends investigative research with anecdotal accounts of Garbes's own experiences and those of fellow mothers in the trenches. Her style is reflective and informative, her conversational tone makes sometimes complicated scientific matters easy to digest, and th
  
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• The Critter Person Pageant Will Leave You Gagging

  06-06-2018 13:00
  This live drag competition is nothing like RuPaul's Drag Race. Thank god.by Chase Burns"I might cheat on my husband onstage" is not something you'd expect to hear from a typical pageant queen. But the drag queens competing in this year's Critter Person Pageant aren't typical.They're dirty, scary, bedazzled, pretty, and potty-mouthed—and they'll do anything to be this year's Critter Person. One competitor told The Stranger they may even eat a human baby onstage, but that was probably a joke
  
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• Sick and Twisted Drag at the Critter Person Pageant

  06-06-2018 13:00
  This live drag competition is nothing like RuPaul's Drag Race. Thank god.by Chase Burns"I might cheat on my husband onstage" is not something you'd expect to hear from a typical pageant queen. But the drag queens competing in this year's Critter Person Pageant aren't typical.They're dirty, scary, bedazzled, pretty, and potty-mouthed—and they'll do anything to be this year's Critter Person. One competitor told The Stranger they may even eat a human baby onstage, but that was probably a joke
  
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• Sexual Assault and Silence Among Men in the Military

  06-06-2018 13:00
  Years before #MeToo, I insisted on telling the truth. I'll probably always regret it.by Lance GarlandI think there were seven witnesses, but I remember only four distinct faces.We were sitting in a waiting room of the Judge Advocate General's building of Naval Base Kitsap on the Kitsap Peninsula. Inside the courtroom, there were high ceilings, brass fixtures, pews for spectators, flags, and wooden jury benches that rose up like stadium seating. Men in dress uniform stood as sentinels at every ex
  
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• I Was His Piece on the Side, but Something Wasn't Right

  06-06-2018 13:00
  I wanted to know what was up.by AnonymousI was his piece on the side. He told me his husband couldn't know we were hooking up. He said their relationship was "nearly sexless," but he still loved his husband and didn't want to leave him. The strange thing was that we always hooked up at their place. Whenever I told him I needed his cock, he said come over. It seemed like his husband was always "out of town for work" when I called. I joked with him about my "fuck luck." The first thing that made m
  
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