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• Slog AM: Boeing Machinists Reject Contract, Seattle's Tech Industry Keeps Cutting Jobs, Trump Admires Hitler's Generals and Faces Another Groping Allegation

  24-10-2024 17:41 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Rich SmithNo deal at Boeing: Boeing Machinists voted Wednesday to reject the company's latest contract offer, continuing their strike that began on September 13. According to the Seattle Times, some union members said the deal failed to deliver high enough wage increases; others are holding out for the return of their pensions. (The company claims pensions are a nonstarter.) Machinists rejected the proposal with 64 percent voting no. The deal would have inc
  
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• Eating Like Enumclaw

  24-10-2024 00:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Maybe Enclumclaw is Tacoma's last band.by Charles MudedeI visited Tacoma recently. I stayed at the McMenamins Elks Temple hotel, which is old (completed in 1916) and can be categorized as a part of the late Beaux Arts craze in the USA. (The arts beautiful movement believed that the sight of beautiful buildings alone could morally improve those with low morals.) My room was, like the whole building (lord knows how many bars and restaurants it holds), huge. The Temple is very much like the hotels
  
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• To Combat Vigilantism, We Must Lower Public Defender Caseloads

  24-10-2024 00:09 via thestranger.com
  
  Prosecutors across Washington have been warning the public to prepare for a wave of vigilante violence. It’s true that Washington has experienced plenty of recent vigilantism, from increasing attacks on unhoused folks to Forks-style Facebook panics. But some senior Washington law enforcement officials—both prosecutors and police officers—are warning against another threat: giving poor people decent lawyers. These powerful officials argue that Washington’s Supreme Cou
  
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• Afternoon Undelight

  24-10-2024 00:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Stop assuming you know what's happening and shove your assumptions up your ass.by AnonymousListen, you asshole. Yeah, I'm talking to you, 10:15 pm Thursday night. I know you think you're super clever and cute, responding to the noises you sometimes hear coming from my apartment. Our apartment buildings are LITERALLY 10 feet apart, and you THINK you're hearing sex noises coming from my apartment across the way. 
  YOU. ARE. NOT.I have lived in this apartment for almost 15 years, and in that ti
  
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