Archives for January 2020

It’s 2020! Celebrate the start of this new (possibly transformative) year with the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally on Tuesday night.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Look for us in the back room of the pub beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 266 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, seven in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or start a new chapter for your community!

Dear Senators Cantwell and Murray;

I am writing to urge you to do everything in your power to stop us from going to war with Iran. A war would have devastating consequences for both sides, andis not in the national interest. Further, we have a moral obligation to stop it before it goes any further.

Thank You

Carl Ballard

Now This: Most heroic first responders of 2019.

Daily Show: Top 10 Obama Scandals.

Mental Floss: 18 weird & wonderful holidays to celebrate in the New Year.

The Dotard Трамп and His Henchpersons:

• Trevor: Everything you need to know about Трамп’s tremendous road to impeachment
• Chris Hayes: Why The Dotard was cut from “Home Alone 2”
• Now This: What would happen if Трамп overturned Obamacare?
• Mark Fiore: The Emoluments Clause
• Lawrence O’Donnell: State Department demurs on Mike Pompeo-Volodymyr Zelenskiy meeting
• Joy Reid: Evangelicals and Трамп—Facing a final split?
• Lauren Mayer: Putin put the P in GOP:

• Robert Reich: How Citizens United got us Трамп
• Now This: The top impeachment in 2019
• Lawrence O’Donnell: All the President’s men must testify in Senate impeachment trial
• Chris Hayes: New unredacted emails contain “Clear direction from POTUS to hold” funding
• Ari Melber: GOP nightmare? Giuliani “would testify” at Трамп trial as insiders push him away
• Now This: Pro-Трамп pastor says impeachment is a “Jew coup”
• Lawrence O’Donnell: NYT report reveals the truth about The Dotard Трамп’s tax cuts
• Vox: The rise and fall of Rudy Giuliani
• Now This: The most absurd Трамп quotes of 2019
• Chris Hayes: Трамп’s strange habit of retweeting obscure accounts

Now This: Top Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez moments of 2019.

Roll Call: Best of Congressional Hits and Misses in 2019.

Weird History: Hedy Lamarr—The Nazi-fighting bombshell who made cell phones possible.

Now This: Who is Devin Nunes, and why is he always having a cow?

Hasan Minhaj: How to survive 2020:

Chris Hayes: Senate staffer portrayed in “The Report” responds to Mike Pompeo.

Vice News: Inside the cryptocurrency revolution.

Twenty-twenty Vision:

• Rachel Maddow: Castro on dropping 2020 bid
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Sen. Booker—“This President has no larger strategic plan” in Middle East
• Trevor: Getting to know Elizabeth Warren
• Rachel Maddow: Julian Castro on changes needed in the caucus and presidential nomination process
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Sen. Booker on impeachment—“All of us should want the truth to come out”

Now This: How reproductive freedoms were limited in 2019.

Sky News: A new climate—What Antarctica tells us about the past…and the future.

Chris Hayes: On the threat of Anti-Semitism.

Vox: Google and Amazon are now in the oil business.

Robert Reich: Why I’m still hopeful about America:

Vice: Why college athletes don’t get paid

Now This: Michelle Obama voted most admired woman in U.S.

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

There are going to be anti war protests across the country tomorrow (h/t). If you are in the Seattle or Tricities area, and are able to attend, I would encourage you to come.

Hey, let’s not go to war with Iran. I mean the President clearly wants a war. But we will have to do what we can to prevent it. Or at the very least stand up and say that we oppose it. I don’t know how effective marches or letter writing or whatever is, but be the kind of person who participates in opposing the war.