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Archives for February 2020

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Daily Show: Ten people making Black history

Lauren Mayer: Watergate Girl.

Now This: AOC shines a light on Black voter suppression & discrimination.

Twenty-Twenty Vision:

Taina Asili: “We Are Rising” around the world!

The Daily Show: Celebrating Black history.

Now This: How this Black woman is changing the architecture industry.

The Dotard Трамп:

Greenman: Big news from Blackrock.

Bill Maher: New Rule—My way or the die way.

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week.

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

February 26 Open Thread

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Every Presidency a lot happens. And so a lot is on the ballot. Big stuff, little stuff. Obviously, we’re focused on a potential global pandemic today.

But! Recently the NLRB passed a rule to make easier for a franchise to fire workers in retaliation for union organizing. It is now on the individual franchisee rather than the larger franchise. A million of these smaller decisions — boards, court cases you never heard of — are on the ballot.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottle

Come join us as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gets together tonight for some politics, food and drink.

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? There are hundreds of chapters of Living Liberally, including dozens in Washington state, a bunch in Oregon and even a few in Idaho.

Open Thread 2-24

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The stock market has taken a tumble this morning. And so, it’s as good a time as any to remind you that stocks are not the economy. You could be doing well or not. Collectively, one tumble in the market due to a disease isn’t employment or wages. So some spooked investors are spooked. But we should continue to deal with homelessness and wages and job security and empowering unions because those matter more than the rise and fall of the DJIA on any particular day.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Samantha Bee: Black history month rewind.

Vice News: America’s infrastructure is crumbling.

Roll Call: How statehood is granted to U.S. territories.

The Dotard Трамп And Other Inept And Corrupt-As-Fuck Nutburgers:

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Now This: How Sears secretly helped Black Americans under Jim Crow

Joy Reid: Republicans mail out fake census documents

Twenty-Twenty Vision:

Now This: Rashida Tlaib questions why 2020 census erases Middle Eastern & North African identity.

Robert Reich: How Democrats clean up the messes left by Republicans

Now This: Stacey Abrams on fair elections & her Black heroes.

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

Open Thread Feb 21

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Glad that Seattle is providing for more transitional encampments (first point). I can’t imagine that it’s enough, but it’s a step in the right direction. Maybe the rest of us could remember that they’re, like, actual humans living in tents and tiny houses.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleIt’s Tuesday! And that means the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets for an evening of libations-fueled political musings. Please stop by, if you can.

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? There are hundreds of chapters of Living Liberally, including dozens in Washington state, a bunch in Oregon and even a few in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or start a new chapter for your community!

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Stephen interviews new American citizen, John Oliver.

Now This: Black women replace men in historical paintings

The New Yorker: How reënacting slavery became an education tool.

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week.

The Dotard Трамп and His Band of Liars, Thieves, and Snowflakes:

The Atlantic: How the nuclear family broke down.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

The Late Show: Jon Batiste sings classic Valentine’s Day Black History Month love songs.

Now This: Rare footage shows all-Black towns in 1920s America.

Twenty-twenty Vision:

The Atlantic: “Karma” comes for a border agent.

Jimmy Dore: NYTimes says Mitt Romney is a “Man alone!”:

Roy Wood, Jr.The Chitlin’ Circuit.

Samantha Bee: Prager U wants you! (To become a conservative).

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

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottlePlease join us this evening as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets for an evening drinks, conversation and NH primary returns.

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? There are hundreds of chapters of Living Liberally, including dozens in Washington state, a bunch in Oregon and even a few in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or start a new chapter for your community!

Open Thread Monday

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Big election coming up tomorrow. Could make a huge difference for years to come. Of course, I am talking about the King Conservation District. You can vote online for this one, so you can vote on the toilet. In fact, I will be disappointed in you if you don’t vote from the toilet.

I asked a couple environmentalists and they said Porter. So vote for Porter — while pooping — is the official Carl Ballard recommendation.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Seth Meyers: Paul Krugman explains why cutting taxes for the wealthy doesn’t work

Roy Wood, Jr.: The 2020 State of Black Shit Address.

Samantha Bee: The art of health care haggling.

The Dotard Трамп and His Fellow Thieves, Philanderers, and Traitors:

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week.

Now This: How Trayvon Martin’s death led to Black Lives Matter.

The Daily Show: American democracy is going great

AJ+: Why are there so few Black farmers in the U.S.?

Twenty-Twenty Vision:

SNL Weekend Update: Dr. Angie Hynes on Black History Month.

Samantha Bee: Dental care IS health care.

Now This: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shares her experience with poverty.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

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

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