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• Handwritten Einstein letter auctioned off for nearly $40,000

  13-11-2018 23:28
  JERUSALEM (AP) — A handwritten letter written by Albert Einstein warning of the dangers of growing nationalism and anti-Semitism years before the Nazis rose to power has been sold for nearly $40,000. The Kedem Auction House says the previously unknown letter, brought forward by an anonymous collector, fetched $39,360 in bidding in Jerusalem on Tuesday […]
  
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• Forecasters: South is in for wintry mix this week

  13-11-2018 23:17
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Forecasters are warning that snow, sleet and freezing rain are likely Wednesday and Thursday across parts of the South. The National Weather Service says accumulating snow is likeliest in northeast Arkansas, southeastern Missouri, northwest Tennessee, western and central Kentucky and southern Illinois and Indiana. Farther south, forecasters expect lighter snow, sleet […]
  
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• Seattle Is Now the Future of Three Cities

  13-11-2018 23:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeLong Island City should now be called New Seattle... Charles Mudede
  So it's official. Amazon is opening new offices in three cities: NYC and Northern Virginia—which will both be home to HQ2—and Nashville, where there will be a new Amazon operations center. The corporation will also receive a total of $2.2 billion "in performance-based incentives." These cities are essentially buying jobs. That is the state of our post-crash economy. Jobs are no longer created by exci
  
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• Montana hunter recovering after grizzly bear breaks arm

  13-11-2018 23:05
  KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — A Montana elk hunter who was attacked by a grizzly bear is recovering at a hospital. Anders Broste tells the Daily Inter Lake newspaper Monday that he thinks he surprised the bear Sunday morning. The 36-year-old who lives north of Columbia Falls says he was trying to get his gun off […]
  
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• She Fell in Love With One Guy but Wound up With Another

  13-11-2018 22:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  This might seem as a pretty ordinary issue compared to the ones I usually read about on your blog but I could really use your help. I am 29-year-old hetero woman in a monogamous relationship relationship. I love my boyfriend and I am OK to fuck him only. When I met him, he could barely carry a sexual act to its end. He had some issues from his past relationships and we worked on them together, to the point where we now have great sexual chemistry and a
  
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• A Defense of Justin Timberlake: Why I’m Following Pop’s Leading Man into the Woods

  13-11-2018 22:37 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jenni Moore Ryan McGinley
  Man of the Woods isn’t Justin Timberlake’s best work by any means, but you probably already knew that. Timberlake’s fifth solo album is his most criticized work to date; it’s been called a misstep, “failed fusion,” “incoherent,” “underwhelming,” and worse. Critics didn’t love it, but fans gobbled it right up—the record performed well, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200.
  While I’m d
  
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• Hate crimes skyrocket across the nation, almost double in Seattle over the past year

  13-11-2018 21:58
  Reported hate crimes in Seattle have jumped from 118 in 2016 to 234 in 2017.
  
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• Jeff Bezos Scams States Out of $2.2 Billion

  13-11-2018 21:52 via thestranger.com
  
  Some advice for the denizens of Queens and Arlington: Invest in property now.by Katie HerzogThe future home of HQ2 in National Landing, née Crystal City.My deepest condolences to Queens, New York and Arlington, Virginia, both of which are soon to welcome thousands of lanyard-wearing, Solowheeling-ridng, tech-money-making Amazon employees into their environs.In Arlington, Amazon will be headquarted in the Crystal City neighborhood, although according to Amazon's press release announcing th
  
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• Techno/House DJ Gag Reflex Spins Music That Inspires Catharsis and Exaltation

  13-11-2018 21:34 via thestranger.com
  
  Host of the new Bloom monthly at Timbre Room, DJ Gag Reflex is helping to foster Seattle's burgeoning queer techno and house scenes.by Dave Segal"It's a very exciting time in Seattle right now for queer techno." CECILIA CORSANO-LEOPIZZIDJ GAG REFLEX (aka ODESSA SWAN; TUF)
  Current top 5 tracks:
  IVVY, "Up to My Chest in Trash" (MOTOR)
  Sheet Pan by IVVYAriel Zetina, "Chino" (Majía)
  Exhibition by MAJIA
  Umfang, "Complete Your Collection" (Allergy Season)Divorce, "A2" (Fatt Grabbers)Overland, "
  
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• Seattle Archdiocese pays nearly $7 million to settle men’s claims that six priests abused them as boys

  13-11-2018 21:13
  Jim Hauer and the five other men each claim they were victimized as children decades ago by priests assigned to churches and schools throughout Western Washington. In addition to receiving settlements, several expressed a demand that the church reveal its infamous "secret files" that for years protected and enabled abusers.
  
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• Four-alarm fire at Gascoigne Lumber on North Queen Anne was arson, Seattle fire officials say

  13-11-2018 20:38
  Lumber yard fire was arson, fire officials say. Damages estimated at $4.3 million.
  
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• Fire at Gascoigne Lumber on North Queen Anne was arson, Seattle fire officials say

  13-11-2018 20:38
  Saturday night's big lumberyard fire was arson, fire officials say. Damage was estimated at $4.3 million.
  
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• It Never Ends

  13-11-2018 20:31 via thestranger.com
  
  People still keep pranking me with candy corn.by Rich SmithThat horrible thing poking out of the jack-o'-lantern is a pair of SOCKS. RS
  I thought I was meeting a friend for a drink at a bar last night. As it turned out, I was actually meeting my greatest enemy.
  When I walked into the bar and ordered my regular boilermaker, the bartender said he was out of whiskey, but that he did have "one of these." He then presented that horrible Halloween bouquet you see in the photo above. My mouth dropped.
  
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• Canadian Cannabis Supplies Are Going Up in Smoke

  13-11-2018 20:19 via thestranger.com
  
  by Josh Jardine DONALD WEBER / STRINGER / GETTYNow that the Great White North has gone Green, it may be a good time to check in to see how Canada is faring with cannabis legalization. Did they suffer multiple mass shootings and numerous racist gerrymandered elections of questionable validity? No, that was us. The worst problem that seems to have developed up there is... they are running out of weed.
  Weed became available for purchase in stores and online on October 17, and since then, Canadians
  
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• CIA considered potential truth serum for terror suspects

  13-11-2018 19:57
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Shortly after 9/11, the CIA considered using a drug it thought might work like a truth serum and force terror suspects to give up information about potential attacks. After months of research, the agency decided that a drug called Versed, a sedative often prescribed to reduce anxiety, was “possibly worth a try.” […]
  
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• Want to Change the Way White Women Vote? Move to a Red State and Join an Evangelical Church.

  13-11-2018 19:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Convincing 53 percent of white women that their party—and their values—are incorrect? It’ll take a lot more than an act of Congress to accomplish that.by Katie Herzog Getty Images/Joe Raedle
  As I wrote last week, despite increasingly positive results for the Democrats in both the U.S. House and Senate, after the election, blame for progressive losses in Texas, Georgia, and Florida were immediately cast upon white women—and not just the white women who actually voted for R
  
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• Cause of massive North Queen Anne lumber yard fire remains under investigation

  13-11-2018 19:52
  Fire investigators hope to determine the cause of Saturday's massive, four-alarm fire that destroyed a lumberyard and millwork business this week. It took firefighters three hours to get the blaze under control.
  
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• Ten Years Later, Alopecia Still Sounds Sad, Weird, and Fun

  13-11-2018 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  For the first time in ten years, Why? played their seminal Alopecia album from start to finish at Seattle's Neumo's.by Lester Black"In Berlin I saw two men fuck/ In the dark corner of a basketball court" Lester Black
  I was an 18-year-old heading into my freshman year of college when Why? released their seminal, irony-filled album, Alopecia. My teenage self found an immediate kinship with the dark lyrics, which sounded like they were scrawled down in suburban parking lots and high schools. Like t
  
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• Spain considers ban on sale of gas and diesel cars by 2040

  13-11-2018 17:58
  MADRID (AP) — Spain’s government is eyeing ambitious steps to tackle climate change, including a ban on the sale of gas and diesel cars from 2040. The government presented a blueprint Tuesday that foresees an end to state financial subsidies for fossil fuels and a prohibition on fracking. The working document, obtained by The Associated […]
  
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• Two Months Into Uncle Ike's Pesticide Testing and They Already Have a Failure

  13-11-2018 17:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Uncle Ike's starting randomly testing their pot products for pesticides last month. This month they nabbed their first culprit.by Lester BlackJudging by their $47 million in sales, you personally have probably already bought pot from this store. Christopher Frizzelle
  Two months into Uncle Ike’s brand new pesticide testing program and the busy pot shop has already nabbed its first failure. A concentrate tested positive for having 1.5 times the state’s limit for piperonyl butoxide, a p
  
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• No accounting for these tastes: Artificial flavors a mystery

  13-11-2018 17:28
  NEW YORK (AP) — Six artificial flavors are being ordered out of the food supply in a dispute over their safety, but good luck to anyone who wants to know which cookies, candies or drinks they’re in. The dispute highlights the complex rules that govern what goes in our food, how much the public knows […]
  
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• Slog AM: Amazon HQ2 Is as Far Away from Us as Possible, CNN Sues Donald Trump, Aquatic Invaders Threaten Columbia River Salmon

  13-11-2018 17:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Michael BellKill a pike, save a salmon. mihtiander/Getty Images
  Why so secretive, Uber and Lyft? We just wanna peek at your goods! Err, data. Or at least, your drivers want to. Uber and Lyft show no interest in transparency relating to their data, but recently the ride share companies dropped a court case pertaining to their ridership data in Seattle. Now they are facing another case pertaining to Sea-Tac Airport, where a driver for both companies wants access to their data to avoid making pa
  
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• Pullman officers face second use-of-force suit in 3 months

  13-11-2018 16:20
  Treshon Broughton is suing 12 police officers for alleged rights violations including use of excessive force.
  
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• Washington State Patrol detective violated woman’s rights with ruse, hidden cameras, court rules

  13-11-2018 15:00
  Kathleen Whalen thought she was doing her civic duty by helping the detective investigate an identity-theft ring. In reality, she was unwittingly helping him build a case against herself and her own disability claim.
  
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• Uber and Lyft drop data fight with Seattle, and start another over Sea-Tac Airport data

  13-11-2018 15:00
  Just a few weeks after Uber and Lyft dropped their legal fight to keep Seattle data secret, the two companies now have filed suit to prevent the Port of Seattle from releasing similar data about ridership to and from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
  
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• Multimillion-dollar art collection, once promised to SAM, now up for auction at Christie’s

  13-11-2018 15:00
  In 2007, Seattle-area art collector Barney A. Ebsworth publicly promised 65 major artworks to Seattle Art Museum — including Edward Hopper's iconic "Chop Suey." But this week, Ebsworth's prized art collection is going up for auction at Christie's. How did that happen?
  
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• Money for homeless, gang unit, orca study in King County budget set for vote

  13-11-2018 15:00
  The proposed budget directs millions of dollars to homeless shelters, from Seattle to the Eastside to Federal way.
  
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• Lacking sea ice affects temperatures in northern Alaska town

  13-11-2018 07:02
  UTQIAGVIK, Alaska (AP) — Scientists say changing sea ice patterns are affecting fall temperatures in the far northern Alaska city of Utqiagvik (ook-GAR’-vik). Alaska’s Energy Desk reports temperatures in the town formerly known as Barrow have increased in October more than any other month over the last five decades. Rick Thoman, climate specialist at the […]
  
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• Will Amazon’s HQ2 sink Seattle’s housing market?

  13-11-2018 05:37
  Probably not, at least not in the next couple years: Amazon still plans to add the equivalent of an HQ2-sized office expansion in Seattle, and the new outposts it picked are so pricey that they offer employees here no financial incentive to flee the city.
  
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• Richland doctor charged with running opioid ‘pill mill’

  13-11-2018 04:53
  Richland, Wash. — A Richland doctor is accused of prescribing opioids and other highly addictive medications to patients without seeing them. Janet S. Arnold allegedly charged patients $20 for prescriptions without an appointment and $80 to $120 if they wanted to see her at Desert Wind Family Practice. Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration raided her […]
  
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• Court indicts Richland doctor charged with running an opioid ‘pill mill’

  13-11-2018 04:53
  RICHLAND,  Wash. — A Richland doctor is accused of prescribing opioids and other highly addictive medications without seeing the patients. Janet S. Arnold allegedly charged patients $20 for prescriptions without an appointment and $80 to $120 if they wanted to visit her at Desert Wind Family Practice. In May 2017, agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration […]
  
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• Slog PM: Mariners Leadership Has a History of Racism, Fired Staffer Says; Queer Faction of Migrant Caravan Reaches Border First

  13-11-2018 02:23 via thestranger.com
  
  Tough week for California, a victory in Arizona, the gays are powerfulby Nathalie GrahamWait… they said what now? LINDSEY WASSON/GETTY IMAGES
  Washington Dems choose Spokane representative as majority leader: Sen. Andy Billig of Spokane’s 3rd Legislative District was selected as the Washington Senate Democrats’ new majority leader. The Democrats now have a 27-22 majority.
  Fired Mariner’s staffer says Mariners leadership is racist: There are other issues too, that recently
  
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• Looming Seattle City Council vote on police labor contract generates political friction right down to the wire

  13-11-2018 01:20
  Burgess, Chief Carmen Best lobby for council to ratify the proposed contract; Seattle King County NAACP joins police commission and civil-rights groups who worry it undermines police reforms.
  
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• The Beatles’ White Album Turns 50, and Now There’s a Lot More of It to Hear

  13-11-2018 01:14 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ned Lannamann © Apple Corps Ltd.Classic rock may be on the wane as a cultural force, but as the box-office success of Bohemian Rhapsody and the continuing deluge of deluxe reissues of old albums prove, it’s certainly not on the wane as a commercial one. Just in time, 1968’s two-ton beast, The Beatles (usually referred to as “the White Album”), has been reissued with all the bells and whistles in a variety of formats. The biggest, most comprehensive one is a seven-
  
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• Experts cite vulnerabilities in Washington state, North Carolina voting security

  13-11-2018 00:54
  Cyber experts said Washington appears to have failed to plug all the holes after Homeland Security warned last year that Russian cyber operatives had downloaded voter records in Illinois and attempted to do so in 20 other states.
  
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• The Stranger Strips Down and Rides 'Cupcake' on a Nearly-Naked Luchador’s Scooter in Tacoma

  13-11-2018 00:01 via thestranger.com
  
  It's our party-crashin' column!by Nathalie GrahamWe did it!!!F Yeah Scooter Club
  Where: Tacoma (???)
  When: Saturday morning, November 10
  The Stranger shaved our legs for the first time in months. Why? We were headed to Tacoma. We groaned initially—Tacoma???—but the invite was from Tacoma’s elite scootering clubs. Would The Stranger strip down and join them for their 10th annual nearly-naked scooter ride?
  You bet your ass we would. So, we shaved our legs—our nearly-naked o
  
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• The Stranger Crashes a Nearly-Naked Scooter Parade in Tacoma

  13-11-2018 00:01 via thestranger.com
  
  It's our party-crashin' column!by Nathalie GrahamWe did it!!!F Yeah Scooter Club
  Where: Tacoma (???)
  When: Saturday morning, November 10
  The Stranger shaved our legs for the first time in months. Why? We were headed to Tacoma. We groaned initially—Tacoma???—but the invite was from Tacoma’s elite scootering clubs. Would The Stranger strip down and join them for their 10th annual nearly-naked scooter ride?
  You bet your ass we would. So, we shaved our legs—our nearly-naked o
  
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