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Being homophobic is just too darned expensive: The owners of the Oregon bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple’s wedding is filing to appeal their $135,000 fine to the U.S. Supreme Court. It’s tough out there for homophobes these days, but with a stacked Supreme Court, who knows?

Meanwhile King County is now looking out for ways to support our LGBTQ community: The latest King County Community Health Needs Assessment included a special addition that examines “the health inequities affecting the LGBTQ population, in particular for youth and young adults, as well as provide information about community health needs.” This seems like a really positive step forward for King County, it’s only a shame it took us this long to start including this information within the King County Community Health Needs Assessment. Onward and upward though, right?

Bomb intercepted at Hillary and Bill Clinton’s house: And another suspicious package sent to President Obama was intercepted as well. The Secret Service says reassuringly that “neither was at risk of receiving them because of screening procedures.” This comes just a day and a half after a pipe bomb was found in billionaire philanthropist George Soros’s mailbox. A suspicious package was also found at Time Warner Center in New York, causing the CNN bureau to evacuate. All three stories are breaking news this morning, so information is sparse for now.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders has already released a press statement from the White House:

Thank you for your service Caroll Spinney: Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch’s puppeteer is retiring.

We’re all pooping plastic: A study led by a scientist from the Medical University of Vienna found that we’re all shitting microparticles of plastic. Even the lead scientist was surprised to find that “every participant’s poop tested positive for plastics.” No word on how it affects us though, y’know, that we’re all constantly passing plastic, because “no studies on micro-plastic toxicity in humans have been performed.” Based on the studies of micro-plastics collecting in other animal’s bodies though, the expectations do not bode well.

Can Snapchat save democracy? No. But it did help more than 400,000 people register to vote, according to AXIOS. The best part about it? A spokesperson from Snapchat said “[the] majority of those were 18 to 24 years old.”

This is not a good look for a candidate: The saddest thing here is that this candidate believed taking their opponents info page, something no one reads, off of a front stoop could possibly, in any way, actually affect the election. People, man…

Wait, why is our mayor trying to foist the World Cup on Seattle? Forget the projected $10 million cost, and the fact that the city says all of the cost will be recuperated. Why is our mayor trying to bring one of the world’s most indefensibly corrupt organizations to our city? In that John Oliver take that I linked author Dave Zirin says, “bribery and FIFA go together like peanut butter and jelly.” This city can barely handle our day to day traffic—how on earth could it possibly deal with hosting a World Cup? Spike Friedman wrote about this possibility back in January, and while he was very critical, any amount of optimism on this front is more than I have. Whatever, let FIFA in, I’ll just take a nice long vacation to a different time zone and watch the games at an absurdly early time like I always do.

Wet weather coming: Sign me up for a moisture surge!

Bringing back Gold Star Comments: That’s right friends, Gold Star Comments are coming back as a daily event and they’re coming back hotter than ever, so fluff your linguistic skills and dust off your lexicological-promiscuity. Or don’t. The Gold Star Comment cannot be categorized—sometimes it’s funny, and sometimes it’s smart, but they in no way (except perhaps accidentally) reflect my, nor The Stranger’s opinions. Alas, say hello the first in the resurrection of the beloved Gold Star Comment—from none other than CC-Rob. Take it away CC:

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Tonight’s best Seattle entertainment options include: A bombastic dance music show with Seattle pop star PSA (with Mary Keey, Hezza Fezza, and Occlusions), a screening of the irreverent vampire flick What We Do in the Shadows, and a Northwest Symphony Orchestra concert celebrating the Washington’s National Park Fund’s 25th birthday. See more on our Things To Do calendar.