Last night after Drinking Liberally, there was a car idling in the bus stop. Nobody in it. The bus was a bit later than On Bus Away said it would be, so it was there for at least 5 minutes.

A small part of me thinks that I should have stolen it and driven home. I mean it’s a public service removing it from the bus stop, and I get home sooner. I realize that there are some moral and societal downsides to car theft, so I waited for the bus.

Also the Senate Republicans hate you and want you to die without health care.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight for an evening of politics and drinks (while we still have health insurance.)

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the other 236 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, five in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

It’s too fucking hot. I couldn’t sleep last night. I was just a ball of sweat. It’s the first time as a Seattleite that I’ve considered getting AC. And fuck how hot it’s going to be this week.

Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Discuss.

Porn stars defend net neutrality.

WaPo: What is the “Right to Die” movement?

Seth Meyers: The EPA.

Minute Physics: What is the shape of space?.

VOX: The high cost of free parking.

Samantha Bee: Louie Gohmert’s freestyle history lesson

ClusterТрамп:

• Daily Show: Honoring Трамп’s “Made In America” week
• Full Frontal: When will Трамп be impeached?
• Young Turks: Трамп backers ramp up Mueller smear campaign
• Samantha Bee: Trump’s voter “integrity” commission
• Farron Cousins: Трамп is trying to figure out how to pardon himself and his family
• Kimmel: Drunk Donald Трамп on “Made in America” week
• David Pakman: Bizarre Трамп interview suggests serious mental instability
• Three things lawmakers want to know from Трамп’s Three Musketeers
• Stephen rents the Трамп pee pee tape hotel room:

• How federal employees react to the Трамп administration
• The President Show: The Don.
• Daily Show: Lil’ Donnie’s toy collection.
• Farron Cousins: Трамп’s 6 Month Report Card: 991 Tweets, 836 Lies, 0 Legislative Accomplishments
• Stephen introduces Russia week.
• How Jeff Sessions and Donald Трамп’s relationship turned sour

The Kellyanne Story:

• Official trailer
• Part 1: The birth of alternative facts
• Part 2: Chicken and choices
• Part 3: Parables
• Seth Meyers: Трамп turns on Sessions amid Russia probe
• Daily Show: So long Sean.
• Young Turks: Meet Трамп’s newest scumbag Anthony Scaramucci
• Stephen: Трамп wants an Attorney General who can time travel.
• How a Трамп steel tariff might affect your sweet desserts.
• Trevor: Toying with Russia.
• Keith Olbermann: The media must fight back
• VOX: The best FAUX News explanations for Junior’s Russia meeting:

• Трамп had a second, secret, meeting with Putin.
• The President Show: Made in America
• Stephen: Трамп and Putin sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G (democracy goodbye)
• Трамп in the Wild: Handshakes.
• Keith Olbermann: A timeline of treason
• Trevor: President Трамп casually makes another damning admission.
• WaPo: Трамп’s top 5 misleading claims…so far
• Songify: NO FAIR—Трамп ft. Eric & Don Jr.
• Stephen: Donald Трамп had no filter in his New York Times interview
• Young Turks: Sean Spicer resigns.

Francesca Fiorentini: Can anyone stop fake news?

Eric Schwartz, Matt Nakoa, Jagoda, Neale Eckstein: I Gotta Problem with That:

VOX: Why a total solar eclipse is such a big deal.

Mental Floss: 33 facts about famous landmarks

Republicans Persist in Trying To Kill Americans:

• Stephen: Repeal now, replace later, reelect never
• Trevor: Even Republicans hate Трампcare.
• Young Turks: Трамп thinks health insurance costs $1/month.
• Seth Meyers: Трамп tries to revive his failed health care bill
• Kimmel: Drunk Donald Трамп on ObamaCare
• How Senate Republican women stopped the latest attempt to strip Americans of health insurance.
• ObamaCare repeal bill riles up protesters, as GOP lawmakers head to White House.
• Stephen: Was that Tweet from Shakespeare or Трамп.
• David Pakman: Repeal of Obamacare is a disaster.
• Trevor: How the Republican health care bill came and went
• Farron Cousins: Трамп’s New York Times interview proves he is losing his mind
• Mark Fiore: Repeal and Whatever
• CBO on GOP repeal bill: 32 million more without insurance over a decade

Stephen broke some rules in “The Russian White House”.

Five times politics got nice.

VSauce: How much of the earth can you see at once?

VOX: Why the ocean is getting louder.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

It finally happened. I was at the Columbia City Farmers Market and I decided that I didn’t need any Rainier Cherries. Thus concludes the saga for another year.

Although, writing this, now I’m kind of hungry for some. Maybe I’ll pick some up after work.

Seattle, I love you so so so much, but you have to learn how to jay walk. There seem to be 2 groups of pedestrians. First people who don’t jay walk at all. Fine whatever.

The other group is too fearless. I know that pedestrians have the right of way, but if you cause a driver to hit the breaks, you’re jay walking wrong.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight for an evening of politics and whimsy, typically undertaken while consuming a beverage of some sort.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the other 235 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, five in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

I haven’t filled out my ballot yet, but I realized that I’m not voting for any guys in the mayor or City Council races. What a time to live.

Proverbs 30:15
The leech has two daughters.
‘Give! Give!’ they cry.

Discuss.

Jimmy Dore: Chris Christie explains the beach thing..

Olbermann: The true evil of Russia’s cyber war on America

Young Turks: Now Ryan wants a dress code remake.

Minute Physics: Why is it hard to land on Mars?

Трамп’s Traitor Train:

• Late Show: Donald Трамп Jr.’s spam folder full of collusion, too
• Kimmel: Sean Spicer Jr. defends Donald Трамп Jr.
• Stephen Colbert with John Oliver: The Don Jr. scandal is something (if something means anything)
• David Pakman: Трамп admin’s own data proves Obamacare isn’t imploding
• Chris Hayes: Why Kellyanne Conway said “yet”
• Roll Call: 2018 Senate races may be tough for Republicans
• WaPo: Трамп’s ongoing misunderstanding of NATO funding
• Young Turks: Now Трамп wants a see-through wall!
• The President Show: Executive orders—A little less transparency:

• Late Show: Mika and Joe are the inaugural “Трамп attacked me on Twitter” Hall of Fame
• Olbermann: Two Трамп confess to conspiracy.
• Stephen: Donald Jr.’s best defense? That he’s an idiot
• Trevor: FAUX News defends the indefensible Donald Трамп Jr.
• Young Turks: The Don Jr. Russian meeting plot thickens…
• Stephen: Kellyanne Conway gives it to Stephen Straight (as in, straight up BS)
• Kimmel: An interview with Kellyanne Conway about Donald Трамп Jr.
• Late Show: John Oliver joins the “Трамп attacked me on Twitter” Hall of Fame
• Roll Call: Трамп’s Tweety habits isn’t helping the G.O.P. agenda.
• Conan: Jr. interrupts the call between dad and Putin.
• Stephen: What’s next for Donald Трамп Jr.
• The President Show: Трамп interviews Matt Taibbi
• David A. Fahrenthold: Where does “opposition research” cross a line?
• Stephen recreates Kellyanne Conway’s “fun with words”.
• Young Turks: Трамп gets freaky with French First Lady.
• Trevor: A Russian, an email and an idiot
• Farron Cousins: Трамп has spent close to 25% of his “Presidency” playing golf
• Stephen: Трамп wasn’t even the brains behind “Celebrity Apprentice”.
• WaPo: The timeline leading up to Donald Трамп Jr.’s controversial meeting
• Young Turks: Kellyanne Conway’s collusion confusion
• Daily Show: Translating Трамп
• Conan: Casting for a new Russia scandal movie
• Stephen: Трамп said more than ‘bonjour’ to France’s First Lady
• The President Show: Terrible outbreak.
• Roy Zimmerman: Junior (T-R-E-A-S-O-N):

• Late Show: Трамп slot machine, hit a truth to win!
• Kimmel: Donald Трамп’s transparent border wall
• Sam Seder: Kellyanne Conway’s flash card defense.
• Late Show: Трамп and company audition for Kermit
• Young Turks: Americans Troll Трамп’s Voter Fraud Commission
• Conan: Трамп on a stump.
• Maddow: Donald Трамп Jr Russian meeting story is unpacking like a nesting doll.
• Stephen: Donald Трамп Jr. is his own “Deepthroat”
• WaPo: Untangling the web of Donald Трамп Jr.
• Kimmel: Gremlins Reboot starring Putin & Трамп
• Young Turks: Who’s dumber? Jr. or Sr.?
• Stephen: Mr. President wasn’t Mr. popular at the G20 summit

Jim Jefferies Show: America’s First Amendment.

Huge iceberg breaks of Antarctica.

Stephen: North Korea’s missiles can reach Alaska. Alaska doesn’t dare..

David Hawkings’ Whiteboard: How much do lawmakers get paid?

Alex Jones rants as an indie folk song:

Young Turks: Republicans think college is ruining America

David Pakman: Most Republicans thing college is bad.

Republican Deathcare:

• Francesca Fiorentini: Can Трамп save America with single-payer healthcare?
• Roll Call: McConnell delays August recess so that Republicans can redouble efforts to kill Americans.
• The “new” health care repeal bill.
• Senate Republicans unveil competing death care proposals
• Roll Call: What’s in the new G.O.P. “health care” bill?
• Farron Cousins: Republicans refuse to take health insurance away from themselves.
• Sam Seder: Caught lying about pre-existing conditions, Ted Cruz tries to weasel out…
• Al Franken slams Ted Cruz’s cruel Трампcare amendment
• I’m one of the lucky ones.

Jimmy Dore: Mitt Romney admits “I kneel at the statue of Bain Capital”.

Sam Seder: Tucker Carlson goes NUCLEAR when compared to Hitler sympathizers.

Chuck Schumer: On net neutrality

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Happy Bastille Day. I can’t find my pocket knife or my pike, so I don’t know if I can celebrate it properly this year. (PS, the French Revolution is odd)

Am I in Hell? I think I’m on the bus home from Drinking Liberally, but perhaps my ring of Hell smells of stale fries and the soundtrack is off key versions of whistled patriotic songs. If this posts, I was not in Hell.

Please join us tonight for an evening of liberal politics over drinks at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the other 235 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, five in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

It’s strange to get emails asking me to spend my democracy vouchers. I suppose that money is money for the campaigns. And it’s good to remind people that they can spend them.

Who are you going to use your democracy vouchers on?