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SPD captain busted in vice operation: Randal Woolery, a captain with the Seattle Police Department, was arrested at midnight Wednesday on suspicion of sexual exploitation. Woolery was arrested in the midst of a vice operation in North Seattle. He was booked into King County Jail and released 30 minutes later. He has been placed on administrative leave.

Washington neo-Nazis arrested in Texas: The two were stopped driving a car that had assault-style rifles and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition. They were both dressed in “combat/tactical attire,” according to KING 5.

Trump team releases transcript of Ukraine call: Except it’s not from the call. The transcript that was released is from April 21. The call at the center of the impeachment inquiry is from July 25. The April 21 call was not marked as classified. The July call was.

Wet and windy today:

Impeachment hearings! Currently, Marie Yovanovitch, the ousted Ukraine ambassador targeted by Trump and Co. in a smear campaign, is testifying. Trump is smearing her on Twitter as she testifies. Stranger staffers Katie Herzog and Christopher Frizzelle have freed me from impeachment responsibilities and are watching the hearings. They’ll have posts about the goings-on.

No more “Red Line”: Sound Transit has agreed to drop the name “Red Line” to describe its only transit corridor. The name, critics say, evokes Seattle’s racist history of redlining neighborhoods. A new name will be chosen in March. Maybe we should call it… University Street Station Line? (This is a dumb, niche Seattle transit joke that might not even be funny to people who get it. I’m sorry.)

Ohio just… did this: “Ohio House passes bill allowing student answers to be scientifically wrong due to religion.” What does that mean? Great fucking question. I have no idea. From the article it seems like if a student is wrong in class they can just blame it on their religion? I don’t know? “Under the law, students can’t be penalized if their work is scientifically wrong as long as the reasoning is because of their religious beliefs.” Wait. It gets weirder. The follow-up line is this: “Instead, students are graded on substance and relevance.” The kicker is that EVERY REPUBLICAN supported the bill.

Tonight’s Federalist Society entertainment is: A giant video of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony from Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings last year. The video was set up outside the Federalist Society’s black-tie event where Kavanaugh was expected to appear Wednesday night.

No motive in Saugus High School shooting: Yesterday, a school shooting in Santa Clarita, California, left two teenagers dead. The shooting happened just before classes started for the day Thursday. A 16-year-old gunman opened fire in the quad. It took all of 16 seconds for him to shoot five students and then shoot himself in the head. The first responders were three off-duty law enforcement officers who had dropped their kids off at school. They saw students fleeing and jumped into action, administering first aid after identifying the discarded firearm. The gunman is still alive and in grave condition as of this writing. Police have not identified a motive.

When will $30 car tabs get here? Great question. State officials don’t know. The earliest that parts of I-976 could take effect, the Seattle Times reports, is December 5. But changes are likely to take place much later and may not take place at all if lawsuits from King County and the City of Seattle are successful.

Investigations continue into WSU frat death: Police are not ruling out charges in the death of a 19-year-old freshman from Bellevue in a Washington State University fraternity earlier this week. They do not believe he was a victim of hazing. While there is a “Good Samaritan” law that protects underage drinkers if they call the police for help, it won’t protect anyone who bought alcohol for a minor. The police believe the death was alcohol-related.

A weird thing happened during Thursday Night Football: A fight! Here’s the whole thing from afar:

Mason Rudolph on the Steelers was clearly trying to get the Browns’ Myles Garrett’s helmet off:

And then Garrett takes Rudolph’s helmet off and wallops him with it. Probably not a great move. According to people I know who actually watched this football game, all parties involved in this clusterfuck deserved to be ejected from the game. Not all of them were.

Colorado day care busted for overcrowding: There were complaints that Play Mountain Place in Colorado Springs was taking care of more children than it was licensed for. Police conducted a welfare check. The day-care owner refused to cooperate, but police heard the sound of children coming from her house so they investigated. They found a false wall in the house that obscured the passage to the basement. Down there, there were 26 kids and two adults.

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has logged on: And he doesn’t think Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.

Quite the week for Colorado: Palisade High School in Colorado is closed after 300 students and staff were sickened with an unknown illness. The school has not provided much information—maybe because they don’t know anything about what is causing the illness—but has said that if students are experiencing green (!) or bloody (!!) vomit, they should stay home. The suspected cause is norovirus.

Did Donald Trump Jr. buy his own book in bulk? Don Jr.’s new book, Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us, jumped to the top of the New York Times best-selling nonfiction list. Except it included a little dagger symbol next to it. That’s included by Times editors when big portions of the sales come from bulk orders, either from the author or from someone close to the author.

A fun fact for your Friday:

This weekend’s EverOut picks are: The brief but mighty Romanian Film Festival, a Winter Night Market, and Freakout Fest. See more on our EverOut Things To Do calendar.

Nathalie Graham covers anything she finds fun, weird, or interesting. You can find a lot of that in her column, Play Date. Her work has also appeared around town in The Seattle Times, GeekWire, and the...