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• About 1,000 brooding octopuses found off California coast

  30-10-2018 23:39
  MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — Scientists exploring the sea floor off the coast of central California for deep-water coral and sponges instead found an unprecedented sight: Hundreds of octopuses tucked between rocks with their tentacles inverted and covering groups of white eggs — a posture that is common among brooding females. The cluster of more than […]
  
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• Let's Not Forget How Amazing Life Really Is

  30-10-2018 23:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede NAN104/gettyimages.com
  One of the saddest thing about our times is that those who have power almost universally have feeble imaginations. For reasons that require another post to explain, the economic system that dominates our world and is driving it into the ground seems to reward these types of people handsomely. Now, by imagination, I mean wonder. And by wonder, I mean secular enhancement. By secular, I'm not referring to a long duration (this is how the word is used in econ
  
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• Straight Boy Wonders How Common His Ex-Girlfriend's Kink Might Be

  30-10-2018 23:09 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  I'm a straight guy and I had a girlfriend a while back who was very into sucking my cock after it had been in her pussy. This was not something she did to just please me—though it did please me very much—and she was not bi or into other girls. It was her primary source of enjoyment and became central to our sex life, though not during her period which neither of us desired. I did some Googling and came up with the term P2M (pussy-to-mouth) f
  
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• Water landing: Take a photo tour of Nisqually national wildlife refuge

  30-10-2018 22:54
  More than 300 species of birds, mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians inhabit the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge. The estuary was restored in 2009 by removing dikes and reconnecting 762 acres with Puget Sound tides. There are 190 acres of tideflats in the estuary.
  
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• Water landing

  30-10-2018 22:54
  More than 300 species of birds, mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians inhabit the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge. The estuary was restored in 2009 by removing dikes and reconnecting 762 acres with Puget Sound tides. There are 190 acres of tideflats in the estuary.
  
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• Lawyer in civil rights struggle, Michael Trister, dies at 77

  30-10-2018 22:29
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A civil rights lawyer forced from a teaching position at the University of Mississippi in one of the last spasms of segregationist control there during the 1960s has died. Nancy Duff Campbell says her husband, 77-year-old Michael Trister, died Oct. 20 from pancreatic cancer in Washington, D.C. Trister made headlines in […]
  
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• T-Mobile’s subscriber gains top analysts’ expectations

  30-10-2018 22:22
  The third quarter tally of 1.08 million new monthly subscribers was the fourth straight quarter to exceed more than 1 million customer additions.
  
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• Spooky Halloween and Día de los Muertos Food & Drink Specials To Try in Seattle

  30-10-2018 22:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffThese macarons from Bakery Nouveau are as spooky as they are sweet. Bakery Nouveau via Instagram
  Halloween and Día de los Muertos are here, and seasonal food and drink specials abound, from midnight-black bagels and ice cream cones to skull-shaped cakes to orange pumpkin macarons. We've gathered the city's spookiest specials for your perusal here. For more ideas, check out our list of October food and drink specials and our full food and drink calendar.
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• Halloween and Día de los Muertos Food & Drink Specials

  30-10-2018 22:18 via thestranger.com
  Skull-Shaped Cakes, Pumpkin Macarons, and more Dia de los Muertos and Halloween food & drink specials.by Stranger Things To Do StaffHalloween and Día de los Muertos are here, and seasonal food and drink specials abound, from midnight-black bagels and ice cream cones to skull-shaped cakes to orange pumpkin macarons. We've gathered the city's spookiest specials for your perusal here.Note: Availability may vary.
  Bakery Nouveau
  The beloved bakery has decorated some adorably macabre macaro
  
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• Hawaii Supreme Court upholds permit for giant telescope

  30-10-2018 22:09
  HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s Supreme Court upheld a decision to grant a construction permit for an embattled, international giant telescope project planned for a mountain Native Hawaiians consider sacred. The court ruling Tuesday is a victory for the contentious Thirty Meter Telescope planned for Hawaii’s tallest mountain, Mauna Kea. Opponents say the telescope will desecrate […]
  
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• Whole Foods Is Now Open on Capitol Hill. Here's All the Free Shit.

  30-10-2018 22:08 via thestranger.com
  
  Stock up on the free guac.by Katie HerzogWelcome?
  The Bellevuization of Seattle's once gritty homosexual neighborhood became complete today when Whole Foods opened in Capitol Hill. I stopped by on my daily vape break, and it was, predictably, a mad house, complete with lanyard-wearing humans wandering around in a daze under the bright florescent lighting, roving cashiers with registers on wheels, and more than one emotional support poodle in the produce section.The bottom floor of Capitol Hill's
  
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• Yakima County prosecutor clears sheriff’s sergeant who ran over teen

  30-10-2018 21:53
  The Yakima County prosecuting attorney said in a report that Sgt. Nate Boyer believed he was trying to contain a fleeing suspect when he unknowingly drove over the teen.
  
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• Prosecutor clears sheriff’s sergeant who ran over teen

  30-10-2018 21:53
  The Yakima County prosecuting attorney said in a report that Sgt. Nate Boyer believed he was trying to contain a fleeing suspect when he unknowingly drove over the teen.
  
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• Seattle would consider exempting tampons from sales tax under City Council proposal

  30-10-2018 21:41
  The idea is that menstrual hygiene products, like prescription drugs and food items, are necessities and therefore should not be taxed. Washington exempts prescription drugs and most food items from the sales tax.
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The Low-Key, Singular Boast Track "Rap Flow Stain" by 206 Underground-Hiphop Maverick Specswizard

  30-10-2018 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Listen to a unique boast track off defiantly idiosyncratic 206 hiphop legend Specswizard's new UNFOLLOW EP.by Dave SegalThe underground-hiphop legend's slept-on saga continues.
  Specswizard, "Rap Flow Stain" (self-released)
  Perpetually and unjustly under the radar, Seattle MC/producer Specswizard raps like he's confiding in you in a private spot and trusting you to savor his words and take them to heart. His productions subtly twist golden-age-hiphop beatmaking into more subdued and warped realms
  
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• Oregon: Third-party gubernatorial candidate withdraws, supports incumbent Kate Brown

  30-10-2018 21:09
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The race for Oregon governor took an unexpected turn when the candidate of the state’s third-largest party withdrew and threw his support behind Democratic Gov. Kate Brown. Patrick Starnes of the Independent Party said in a joint telephone interview Tuesday with Brown that he backs her because she supports campaign finance […]
  
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• Oregon: Governor candidate withdraws, supports Democrat

  30-10-2018 21:09
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The race for Oregon governor took an unexpected turn Tuesday when the candidate of the state’s third-largest party withdrew and threw his support behind Democratic Gov. Kate Brown. Patrick Starnes of the Independent Party said he backs Brown because she supports campaign finance reform. Starnes had made reform his centerpiece. Brown, […]
  
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• Pot Industry Asks for Transparent Candy Rules

  30-10-2018 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  After the LCB delayed their ban on infused candy they asked industry groups to provide some recommendations. Today, the state's largest industry groups sent in those recommendations.by Lester BlackThe state doesn't want pot in these candies. LCB presentation
  When the state's Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB) announced earlier this month that they were suddenly banning pot companies from making pot-infused candies, the pushback was intense and immediate.A bipartisan group of state legislators asked
  
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• Steve Gonzalez for Justice Position No. 8

  30-10-2018 20:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Election Control Board
  Nathan Choi didn't show up for our endorsement meeting, but the SECB isn't sure that Choi even lives on this planet. "I am the only candidate who has successfully developed Real Estate," his statement reads in the voters' pamphlet. Um, what the fuck does real estate have to do with being a supreme court justice? Choi also has a record of campaign violations and personal lawsuits. In a divorce proceeding, he allegedly failed to pay child support, falsified recor
  
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• Kepler telescope dead after finding thousands of worlds

  30-10-2018 20:03
  Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope's demise Tuesday. Already well past its expected lifetime, the 9 1/2-year-old telescope had been running low on fuel for months.
  
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• And You Say There Are No Jews in Seattle

  30-10-2018 19:46 via thestranger.com
  
  Thousands of people showed to Temple De Hirsch Sinai on Capitol Hill last night for a moving vigil for Pittsburgh.by Rich SmithLast night about 1,000 people gathered outside Temple De Hirsch Sinai on Capitol Hill for a vigil in honor of the 11 Jews murdered in Pittsburgh. Another 2,500 attended the vigil inside. RS
  The headline on this post comes straight from the mouth of a young woman searching for the end of a line that began last night at the doors of Temple De Hirsch Sinai on Capitol Hill a
  
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• Hillary Clinton Tells a Joke, No One Gets It

  30-10-2018 19:43 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogShe might not have a future in the White House but she might have one at open mic night.GINOSPHOTOS/GETTY IMAGES
  SHOCKING video has emerged from the same public event in which the former First Lady/New York senator/Madame Secretary/Democratic nominee for President told Recode's Kara Swisher that she would, contrary to the will of the people in general and this people in particular, still like to be president. But the video, in this case, is almost less important than the transcrip
  
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• Washington AG Bob Ferguson says state will sue if Trump tries to overturn birthright citizenship

  30-10-2018 18:44
  In a statement Tuesday, Ferguson, a Democrat viewed as a possible 2020 candidate for governor, echoed many critics of President Trump's claim he could end citizenship for children born in the U.S. to noncitizens by fiat, without amending the Constitution.
  
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• Merkley eyes White House, visits early primary states

  30-10-2018 18:06
  The Oregon Democrat's national profile rose this year when he led opposition to the Trump administration's immigration policy that saw parents forcibly separated from their children.
  
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• New Savage Lovecast: Is There a Urologist in the House?

  30-10-2018 17:26 via thestranger.com
  
  Episode #627 — October 30, 2018by The Stranger
  A sugar baby has fallen in love with her sugar daddy. He loves her too! Except, he kind of doesn't want her to meet his actual daughter. Does she have the right to demand it? A coach at a college has been asked to drive one of her students to get an abortion. Because of where they live, it will take 4 hours. Should she do it? Welcome to America.
  On the Magnum, things get a little gnarly with our urologist pal, Dr. Stephen King. How many times
  
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• Slog AM: Green Crab Invaders Move Toward South Puget Sound, Seattle Housing Market Is… Not Terrible?

  30-10-2018 16:29 via thestranger.com
  
  by Michael Bellomw! bririemoments/Getty Images
  Drug overdose is the top killer of King County homeless: And this year the number of overdoses is substantially higher than last. Last year 67 homeless had died from overdose through October, this year, that number is already at 100—and "the average age of death is 47."
  Seattle housing market is… dropping? Spoiler! Don't get your hopes up! It's still unaffordable. Buttttt, for the first time in four years, houses on average are going fo
  
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• Hurricane Oscar speeding north, brings high surf to Bermuda

  30-10-2018 15:10
  MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Oscar is expected to produce high surf conditions along Bermuda’s beaches as it moves north in the Atlantic Ocean. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Oscar was centered about 470 miles (755 kilometers) east southeast of Bermuda on Tuesday morning with top winds of 105 mph (165 kph). […]
  
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• Pullman police officer arrested in sex assault of WSU student

  30-10-2018 15:04
  The student reported the assault in April. Pullman police say the sergeant has been on paid administrative leave or desk duty since then.
  
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• Pullman officer charged with sexual misconduct toward WSU freshman

  30-10-2018 15:04
  The student accused the veteran officer of making her engage in a sex act in April. Pullman police say the sergeant had been on paid administrative leave or desk duty since then.
  
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• Pullman officer charged with sex misconduct of drunken woman

  30-10-2018 15:04
  The student reported the assault in April. Pullman police say the sergeant had been on paid administrative leave or desk duty since then.
  
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• Average Seattle-area home selling for below list price for first time in 4 years

  30-10-2018 14:46
  The shift comes as home prices across the Seattle metro area are falling, on a month-over-month basis, at the fastest rate in the country. Buyers are now more likely to avoid bidding wars and the dangers that come with them.
  
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• Average Seattle-area home now sells for below list price for first time in 4 years

  30-10-2018 14:46
  The shift comes as home prices across the Seattle metro area are falling, on a month-over-month basis, at the fastest rate in the country. Buyers are now more likely to avoid bidding wars and the dangers that come with them.
  
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• Seattle tech startup 98point6 raises $50 million for virtual doctor’s visits

  30-10-2018 14:00
  The latest funding brings investments in 98point6 to more than $86 million since it was founded in 2015.
  
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• 1,200 years ago, the Nez Perce here smoked tobacco, long before whites arrived

  30-10-2018 14:00
  The Nez Perce people in the Northwest smoked indigenous tobacco 1,200 years ago, contrary to narrative that they took it up when white traders arrived in the 1790s. The traders won out with domesticated tobacco with 8 percent nicotine; the tribal tobacco was a measly 0.16 percent.
  
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• Court documents: Man killed was stabbed in chest with sword

  30-10-2018 13:00
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Court records say a Portland man who was killed last week was stabbed in the chest with a sword that was hidden in a cane. A probable cause affidavit says Timothy Cato pulled out the sword while 28-year-old Tyler Chism was arguing with his girlfriend around 2 a.m. Thursday in Northwest […]
  
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• At least 9 dead as violent storms buffet Italy

  30-10-2018 12:36
  MILAN (AP) — At least nine people have been killed over two days in Italy as heavy rains and high winds buffet much of the country. The news agency ANSA said Tuesday that the deaths included a woman who was buried by mud when a landslide invaded her home and a firefighter who was struck […]
  
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• At least 11 dead as violent storms buffet Italy

  30-10-2018 12:36
  MILAN (AP) — Heavy rains and high winds buffeting much of Italy have killed 11 people over two days, officials said Tuesday. Many of the deaths were due to falling trees crashing down on cars or passers-by, but they also included a woman who was buried by mud when a landslide invaded her home near […]
  
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• At least 10 dead as violent storms buffet Italy

  30-10-2018 12:36
  MILAN (AP) — Heavy rains and high winds buffeting much of Italy have killed 10 people over two days, officials said Tuesday. Many of the deaths were due to falling trees crashing down on cars or passers-by, but they also included a woman who was buried by mud when a landslide invaded her home near […]
  
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• Typhoon leaves 6 dead in Philippines, more feared trapped

  30-10-2018 06:12
  ILAGAN, Philippines (AP) — A strong typhoon blew across the northern Philippines on Tuesday, setting off landslides that left at least six people dead and forcing thousands to flee from villages that were still recovering from a deadly storm last month, officials said. Regional police Chief Superintendent Rolando Nana said authorities were attempting to verify […]
  
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• Typhoon lashes northern Philippines, at least 3 missing

  30-10-2018 06:12
  ILAGAN, Philippines (AP) — A strong typhoon blew across the northern Philippines on Tuesday, leaving a 5-year-old girl dead and at least three other people missing, knocking out power in entire provinces and forcing thousands to flee from villages that were hit by a deadly storm last month. Typhoon Yutu weakened considerably from its earlier […]
  
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• Typhoon lashes northern Philippines as thousands evacuated

  30-10-2018 06:12
  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A strong typhoon is battering the northern Philippines, where thousands of people were evacuated to avoid a repeat of the death and destruction wrought by a powerful storm last month. Officials say Typhoon Yutu slammed into Dinapigue town in northeastern Isabela province before dawn Tuesday with sustained winds of 150 kilometers […]
  
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• ‘We will arise’: Thousands gather in Seattle for vigil mourning Pittsburgh synagogue massacre

  30-10-2018 04:47
  The shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue left 11 people dead. It was likely the deadliest attack against the Jewish community in U.S. history and comes amid rising anti-Semitism in America, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
  
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• Thousands gather in Seattle for vigil mourning Pittsburgh synagogue massacre

  30-10-2018 04:47
  The shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue left 11 people dead. It was likely the deadliest attack against the Jewish community in U.S. history and comes amid rising anti-Semitism in America, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
  
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• Strong but deep quake rattles New Zealand’s North Island

  30-10-2018 04:04
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A strong but deep earthquake struck New Zealand’s North Island on Tuesday afternoon, causing Parliament to be briefly suspended as a precaution. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injuries, and authorities said there was no risk of a tsunami. The magnitude 6.1 quake was centered about 77 […]
  
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• Slog PM: Seattle Is Finally Good for Tech, Local Mosquito Is Naughty

  30-10-2018 02:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Nathalie GrahamThe digital worker GETS THINGS DONE PeopleImages/ Getty Images
  First person ever contracts West Nile virus from allegedly local mosquito: This is not that exciting. Other people in King County have had West Nile virus, they’ve just gotten it from out-of-state or—worse—eastern Washington. This lady may have gotten it on Bainbridge Island. Most people with West Nile don’t get any symptoms. There may be more cases as climate change continues to be our reali
  
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• Why Did People Have to Get Killed Before GoDaddy Severed Ties With Gab?

  30-10-2018 01:37 via thestranger.com
  
  As with the killing of Heather Heyer, the domain and hosting service only acted after murder.by Eli SandersThe man who allegedly killed 11 Jewish Americans in Pittsburgh frequented an extremist-favored social network called Gab. Jeff Swensen / Stringer
  Back in August of 2017, after Heather Heyer was killed during the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the web hosting and domain service GoDaddy abruptly ended its business relationship with a white nationalist website called the
  
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• Police believe abducted Vancouver girl taken to Mexico

  30-10-2018 01:21
  Authorities believe 21-year-old Esmeralda Lopez Lopez crossed the border with Aranza Ochoa Lopez,
  
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• Weekday Trumpdate: Nine Hours of "Executive Time"

  30-10-2018 00:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersEight more days until the midterms. Spencer Platt / Staff
  • Donald Trump's private schedule shows nine hours of "executive time" for a recent Tuesday, which is not atypical. In other words, notes Vanity Fair:
  The most powerful person in the world is somehow doing even less work every day than he was earlier this year.
  • How does he spend that "executive time"? Apparently, he spends it fuming about his latest enemies. You can guess who they are at this point.&bul
  
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• There Is Constant Bloodshed and Washington Is the Only State With a Gun Safety Initiative

  30-10-2018 00:30 via thestranger.com
  
  People are dying! Where are the ballot initiatives???by Nathalie GrahamShouldn't we have… more? DMYTO/GETTY
  The period between the 2016 presidential election and this year's midterm election has seen some of the most devastating acts of gun violence perceivable. Yet, how many have already faded from our collective memory?There was the music festival in Las Vegas that saw 58 people mowed down by bullets. In response, eleven states ended up banning bump stocks, but a nationwide ban didn&rsq
  
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• Brother of girl killed at Mukilteo house party sues shooter, parents, party hosts, gun seller

  30-10-2018 00:10
  The lawsuit comes as Washington state voters consider Initiative 1639, a ballot measure that would bar anyone under the age of 21 from buying a semi-automatic rifle like the one used in the deadly July 2016 rampage.
  
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