It’s the last day before a few hot ones. In the past a couple of June days over 80 wouldn’t matter much. But with global warming, and having already had a heat wave it’s just kind of gross. At least the air is not smoke filled yet.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
Lawrence O’Donnell: Senate passes debt ceiling bill 63 to 36
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week
The Party of Lies and Indictments:
WaPo: How an Indiana high school play resisted LGBTQ censorship
The Daily Show: From people’s pride to corporate pride
NowThis: Senate passes debt ceiling bill
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
4 day week, but I am more spent than most. So here’s to the weekend. After today. And here’s to getting vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
– Jesus Christ almighty. Ann Davison out here just ending important programs unilaterally. Just, fuck.
– I’ve linked to tree ordinance reporting before, but now, it has passed.
– Please, for goodness sake, get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
Please join us this evening as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally toasts in the summer. We’ll spend some time talking politics, too.
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm. You’ll find us on the back patio.
Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week
The Ugly “Conservatives”:
Lawrence O’Donnell: What if Joe Biden is doing everything right in the debt ceiling negotiations?
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
This I, Anonymous in The Stranger has been a bug bear for me for along time. Like, I will take our terrible walkers over our terrible drivers. But man, just, like, recognize that there are other people. Maybe they have actual things to do. Maybe they don’t want to navigate around a group of people, or one slow person managing to take over the whole sidewalk. Come on, everyone.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible. Get them.
Regulating the gig economy should probably come at the state or Federal level. But as long as they aren’t stepping up, it’s fantastic that the city of Seattle is stepping up. First with sick and safe leave rights and now potentially rights around termination. Too much of tech is just new and exciting ways to treat workers poorly.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gets together tonight for an evening of politics, drinks, and socializing. If you can, stop by.
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm. You’ll find us on the back patio.
Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.
Vaccines are the best invention ever. Ever. I know I keep harping on you to get vaccinated or boosted for COVID-19.
But also, am I glad I got my MMR as a kid. Because whoo boy. I was in one of the places the person with measles went this weekend. Instead of an oh shit situation, it’s fine.
Mark Fiore: SCOTUS gift cards
Chris Hayes: Elon Musk says “So be it” if tweeting conspiracies, extremism loses him money
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week
Vice News: A year after Buffalo—Turning grief into action
The Party of Liars and Seditionists:
Robert Reich: Why child labor in America is skyrocketing
NowThis: Women open up about sterilization in a post-Roe world
The Daily Show: A.I. Joe Biden campaign ad
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
I didn’t get any engagement on Twitter, and I don’t know if it’s because Twitter sucks now or because it’s just not interesting? Or both.
Anyway, the other day, I got on the light rail at Pioneer Square going North. Now what you have to understand is that the sometimes the doors open on the right and sometimes they open in the left, and between there and Capitol Hill, where the doors open on the opposite side, it’s all underground.
The person who got on ahead of me went to the opposite doors and looked out the window. Butt to the other passengers. Whenever I get that spot, it’s because I am getting off at Capitol Hill, but I always turn around so I’m facing inside the train. I can understand if it’s above ground but looking out at the gray walls of the tunnel seems… wrong? Off? I don’t know.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
– The new drug possession law is harsher than I would have preferred. I am also not sure what “encourages prosecutors to divert drug possession cases to treatment” will mean in practice.
– It’s filing week, so file for office. Seriously, go for it. If there’s a local position and you don’t like what the incumbent is doing or you don’t like anyone in the race for an open sea,well, make it happen.
– The Queen Anne Taco Bell is far too expensive.
– Multnomah County, get your shit together and spend the money allocated for homeless people. For God’s sake.
– Get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
It is a lovely evening to get together with like-minded individuals and solve the problems of the world on the back of a napkin. Sound good? Then join us this evening as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gets together for drinks, good cheer, and conversation.
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm. You’ll find us on the back patio.
Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.
It’s too hot. Please for goodness sake, someone do something about it. Like another week of this in May. In May? May? Seriously, May. I don’t like it. We just skipped from low 60’s to mid 80’s? Fuck. In goddam May. This is supposed to be some of the nicest time of the year. Instead it’s just too hot.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
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