Archives for June 2020

(At some point I will get back on track with these.)

The Supreme Court had another goodish ruling (pdf, I haven’t read it yet since I’m on lunch) in a high profile case. I am still concerned that Roberts is a swing vote in these decisions.

It’s definitely good that we’re winning these (for lack of a better phrase) culture war cases. But the court ruled on an exact same law a few years ago. It stinks that we have to play defense. If Justice Kagan (or Garland) were the swing vote, it would probably be on better cases.

Anyway, go wash your hands right now.

Hasan Minaj and AOC discuss the Green New Deal

Stephen and Jon: Joe Biden, humbled by grief, may be the leader America needs right now

ТрампPlague:

• Stephen: Трамп stoked a culture war over masks that put everyone at risk…even the Secret Service
• Bruce W. Nelson: The woodtick song (inspired by Mike Pence)
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп delivers Arizona church rally
• Trevor: U.S. hits all-time high in coronavirus cases
• Bill Maher: Live free or die hard
• Lauren Mayer: Empty chairs at empty eallies
• Jonathan Mann: Please wear a mask
• The Late Show: Jesus wants nothing to do with Mike Pence’s policies
• John Oliver: Coronavirus VIII—Prisons and jails
• Reflect: Трамп threatens rule of law by firing New York District Attorney Geoffrey Berman
• Stephen: Трамп’s risky rally tour touches down in covid hotspot Arizona as cases spike in 29 states
• Jimmy Fallon: Mike Pence refuses to wear mask at coronavirus briefing
• Seth Meyers: Trump amps up the racism because he’s failed at everything else
• Trevor: Трамп’s Tulsa rally flop
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп DESTROYS Brad Parscale and Ron DeSantis (LEAKED CALL)
• The Late Show: Rep. Louie Gohmert gets douchebusted
• Samantha Bee: Black trans lives matter
• Samantha Bee: Violence against trans women of color
• James Corden: Trump takes Tulsa, dominates drinking water
• Stephen: As Arizona covid cases spike, Трамп delivers speech to packed crowd of maskless student supporters
• Jimmy Dore: Chris Christie has cure for COVID-19!
• The Late Show: Oklahoma! Where the crowd turnout was really lame:

• Stephen: Трамп does an epic walk of shame after TikTok users and K-Pop fans troll his Tulsa rally
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп meets the President of Poland
• Sarah Cooper: How to empty seat
• Courtney Jaye: Boogie on Down to the Rally (Pt. 1)
• Courtney Jaye: Boogie on Down to the Rally (Pt. 2)
• Robert Reich: America is not exceptional
• The Late Show: Michael Bolton sings John Bolton’s book
• Bruce W. Nelson: Empty Seats, empty heart, empty head
• Jimmy Fallon: Трамп furious over lack of turnout at Tulsa rally
• The Late Show: Time for “Answer Plinko” with The Dotard
• Stephen and Jon: Let’s Address The President As #SwampyDon
• The Daily Show: The Dotard Трамп—Never not joking
• Courtney Jaye: The Ballad of Billy Barr
• Bruce W. Nelson: Tulsa
• Stephen: Melania Трамп rates The Dotard’s performance at his Tulsa rally debacle
• The Late Show: The Dotard’s post-rally walk of shame
• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s Tulsa rally was a flop
• John Di Domenico: Трамп RANTS about his Tulsa Rally in his Father’s Day Message
• Sarah Cooper: How to second term
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard goes after KPOP fans
• Stephen and Jon: Advice from 1918 and thoughts on Трамп’s handling of the coronavirus

Hasan Minhaj: We’re doing elections wrong

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses

Black Lives Matter:

• Trevor: Axed Statues and NASCAR racism
• Mark Fiore: Preserve the racist statues
• AJ+: Can Black voters swing the 2020 election?
• Trevor and Jon talk Confederate Statues, COVID-19 & “Irresistible”
• Vox: Why America’s police look like soldiers
• The Late Show: A message from Mrs. Butterworth
• Roy Zimmerman: DWB (Driving While Black):

• The Chicks: #MARCHMARCH
• Trevor: Noose in Bubba Wallace’s garage was not a hate crime
• The New York Times: Philadelphia police violated their own guidelines, here’s how
• Vox: What “defund the police” really means
• Hasan Minaj and Keith Ellison on justice for George Floyd
• Trevor: Bubba Wallace on the noose incident & bringing BLM into NASCAR

WaPo: House passes bill to make D.C. the 51st state.

Samantha Bee: Tarana Burke on the connection between police brutality and sexual violence

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

Forgot about a thread today. Here’s a limerick in honor of mask wearing being mandatory in Washington starting today.

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You really should wear a mask, it

Is not much of a thing to ask, it

Will be a breeze,

And will slow the disease.

It might even keep you out of a casket.

.

Also, please wash your hands right now.

I am glad that new rules for face masks are going into effect on Friday (pdf). It seems like a good public health measure. As with when it was Yakima County, I would prefer that this be on the government and employers rather than on individuals. I also hope you don’t call the police on some random person not wearing one.

Still, the coronavirus is spreading too much and some of you are not masking up. Come on.

Also, wash your hands right now.

It stinks that Governor Inslee has to issue an order to wear masks for Yakima County. But it is the correct thing to do. I would prefer the state put the mandate on businesses or made sure masks are available, rather than it fall to individuals. Although, I don’t know what the government’s power to force companies to act or local governments to spend money.

In any event, wash your hands right now.

Samantha Bee: The Republican campaign of voter suppression, Pt. 1.

Samantha Bee: The Republican campaign of voter suppression, Pt. 2.

Robert Reich: Seven ways 2020 has exposed America

SCOTUS Surprises:

• Roll Call: “I cried tears of joy”—Democratic leaders react to DACA decision
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп complains about DACA and Tulsa!
• Trevor: Supreme Court outlaws LGBTQ workplace discrimination
• Now This: What the Supreme Court’s DACA ruling means
• Roll Call: Will the Supreme Court’s landmark LGBTQ decision impact health care discrimination rules?
• Seth Meyers: Supreme Court rules on LGBTQ rights, police reform gains steam
• Trevor: SCOTUS protects dreamers

The Daily Show: FAUX News’s law & order experts

Bruce W. Nelson: I know a wrestling coach who’ll kick your butt (a Ted Cruz song).

ТрампPlague:

• Seth Meyers: Sen. Bernie Sanders is doing everything to prevent Трамп’s reelection
• Bruce W. Nelson: The immutable, unsuitable Dotard Трамп
• Trevor: Kimberly Jones speaking out about Black experiences in America
• The Late Show: Watch your step, Mr. Pres’nit
• Foundation Singers: “Stay home Oklahoma” with Oklahoman Brad Pitt:

• Sarah Cooper: How to more cases than anybody in the world
• Hasan Minhaj: In coronavirus world, is college still worth it?
• John Di Domenico: Трамп wishes himself happy birthday, because NO ONE can do it better
• Stephen: Трамп’s bone spurs act up at West Point, denying the President a graceful exit
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трампiversary, Paw Patrol outrage and Pence sells RVs!
• Vox: Why all Americans should honor Juneteenth
• The Late Show: Sneak peek at Mary L. Трамп’s tell-all book
• Bill Maher: America strong
• Lars Nelson and Bruce W. Nelson: Donnie don’t care about Tulsa
• John Di Domenico: Трамп’s ramp rant tweet verbatim
• Trevor: Bolton book bombshells—Трамп is corrupt and weird as fuck
• Seth Meyers: Bolton tries to cash in with Трамп Book
• Mark Fiore: MAGAmmunity
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп rally in Tulsa
• Stephen: Leaked excerpts from Bolton’s book detail Трамп’s pattern of corruption and obstruction
• The Late Show: The Dotard competes in the 2020 West Point Ramp Stakes
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп struggles at West Point and celebrates 74th birthday
• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s coronavirus cover-up and Bolton’s tell-all book
• Bruce W. Nelson: Трамп’s West Point water hazard
• Now This: Joe Biden slams Трамп’s coronavirus response as deaths exceed WWI
• Jimmy Fallon: Трамп is trying to block the publication of John Bolton’s tell-all book
• Stephen: Трамп can’t spin his choice of Juneteenth for Tulsa rally, pushes it back a day
• John Di Domenico: Трамп announces the theme for Tulsa rally
• The Late Show: John Bolton’s mustache thanks Трамп for making him rich
• Lauren Mayer: It takes a woman
• Courtney Jaye: Happy Obama day to you:

  happy @BarackObama day, president bunker boy @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/lNDTs2lXzn

  — Courtney Jaye (@TropicaliJaye) June 14, 2020

• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп fends off tell-all books, supporters fend off masks
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп addresses the West Point ramp with Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes
• Lars Nelson and Bruce W. Nelson: Thrilled to death
• The Daily Show: Gun masks—The only mask that’s also a gun

Trevor: Stacey Abrams—“Our time is now” and ending voter suppression.

Black Lives Matter:

• Trevor: Трамп signs police reform while praising the police
• The Daily Show: 9-1-1 for White people emergencies
• Now This: Why COVID-19 hits Black and Latinx communities hardest
• Bill Maher with Malcolm Nance and Andrew Sullivan: What monuments should we tear down?
• Stephen: Трамп’s tiny police reform order doesn’t honor his pledge to families of police shooting victims
• Trevor: Why did Rayshard Brooks have to lose his life?
• Seth Meyers: Sen. Bernie Sanders Wants police officers to be held accountable for their actions
• Now This: What “defund the police” really means
• The Daily Show: A guide for White people Supporting Black lives matter
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп issues police reform executive order
• Trevor: Civilian militias, Black band-aids & the NFL’s apology
• Now This: Myths about Confederate monuments
• Susan Rice: Susan Rice’s advice for Joe Biden.
• The Daily Show: What is Juneteenth? Dulcé Sloan explains
• Late Night: Amber Ruffin answers frequently asked Juneteenth questions

Full Frontal: Meet reference man.

Foundation Singers: “Farewell far-right!” Hannity and Murdoch meet Billy Joel:

John Oliver: Facial recognition.

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

King County is in Phase Two of the coronavirus response. The link has what various types of businesses can do. I am still pretty nervous about any indoor gathering for the foreseeable future. Like, you’re only as safe as the worst person around. And card rooms seem particularly no good. Ick.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

Man, I don’t know if it’s just me getting older or something to do with the quarantine, but I am not sleeping well at all. I am still going to sleep and getting up at the same time as before. But now I am just exhausted all the time.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

Cases of COVID-19 are increasing in Washington. It seems like this is to do with Memorial Day. Grand reopening maybe grand reclosing.

I don’t know if we’ll see future spikes based on the protests. It being outside, with masks, and in some cases spaced out, mitigates the spread. But big crowds and not always being able to keep distance isn’t great. I assume that we would have started hearing about cases if they were happening in large numbers.

Anyway, stay safe and wash your hands right now.

Robert Reich: Who’s really looting America?

ТрампPlague:

• Courtney Jaye: Babygate
• Bruce W. Nelson: Cows, Fences and The Dotard Трамп
• The Late Show: Ghosts of Confederate soldiers have new military base name ideas for Трамп
• Bill Maher: New Rule—Democracy’s safe word
• Bruce W. Nelson: Put your mask on!
• Trevor: Coronavirus is on the upswing
• Lars von Retriever: MetalTrump–Dig (Mudvayne)
• Bruce W. Nelson: Bunker Room
• Lauren Mayer: Ivanka is the new Karen:

• Courtney Jaye: STFU, Ivanka
• The Late Show: Platitudes generator can’t handle Ivanka Trump’s commencement speech
• Bruce W. Nelson: Babygate!
• Seth Meyers: Трамп defends the Confederacy, complains about polls
• Robert Reich: The deadly FAUX News-Трамп syndicate
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп’s back out, COVID sex guidelines & NASCAR flag ban
• Courtney Jaye: Fuck this fucking president
• Bruce W. Nelson: Bunker fevor

Courtney Jaye: FAUX News is the devil

The Night the Lights Went Out on Georgia’s Voters:

• Stephen: Voter suppression plagues Georgia’s primary
• Trevor: Georgia’s disastrous primary
• The Late Show: Think you can get past Georgia’s voter suppression boss?

Trevor: Joe Biden on healing the country and acknowledging weaknesses

Black Lives Matter:

• Stephen: Jon Batiste on leading a musical march for justice
• Trevor: Confederate symbols are coming down
• Jonathan Mann: Jackboot
• Samantha Bee: America’s long-standing tradition of police brutality
• Daily Show: FAUX News is suddenly anti-protest
• The Late Show: A special message from Antifa
• Randy Rainbow: The Bunker Boy:

• Seth Meyers: Trump sinks in polls as protesters call to defund the police
• Trevor: Трамп doubles down and Democrats respond to protests
• Stephen: Megan Rapinoe’s parents taught her that you need to help people, period.
• Courtney Jaye: Bunker Boy
• Seth Meyers: Трамп and the police lash out at the Black Lives Matter protests
• Trevor: Joe Biden on reforming the police
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп’s “Army,” Mitt Romney marches & Americans come together
• Stephen: Emmanuel Acho—Being anti-racist means calling out racism wherever you see it
• Jonathan Mann: The Capitol Hill autonomous zone
• John Oliver: Police
• Sarah Cooper: How to bunker
• Trevor: Cops meet police brutality protests with more police brutality
• Stephen: Trump openly insults Black Americans by scheduling MAGA rally on Juneteenth in Tulsa, OK
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп tweets conspiracy theory & cousin Micki’s words of hope
• The USA Singers: The Ballad of George Floyd:

• Samantha Bee: It’s time to defund the Police
• Trevor: America protests police brutality and systemic racism
• The Late Show: Beware…The elderly Antifa!
• Mark Fiore: Defunding everything but the police
• Stephen: Calls to defund the police intensify while Трамп attacks Buffalo man assaulted by the cops
• Trevor: What should we do about police unions?

Hasan Minhaj: The news industry is being destroyed

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

Higgldy Piggledy,

The CHAZ has anarchy.

Building something without

The police.

.

However tenuous

The claims of

Autonomy

I hope they won’t cease.

(Also, wash your hands right now)

Seattle, COVID-19 testing is available and free. There are locations in SoDo and Aurora Avenue North. If you are showing symptoms or have been exposed to someone with coronavirus (including having been at the crowded protests) you can sign up.

In any case, please wash your hands right now.

Christ. You can’t just. I mean. It’s bad enough what the police are doing. But random civilians driving into, and shooting into, crowds. What a shit. Just an absolute, unparalleled shit.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

Trevor: A look back at the legacy of stop-and-frisk in New York City.

ТрампPlague:

• John Oliver: Voting by mail
• The Late Show: Melania needs a new smile machine
• Now This: Trump waives environmental protection regulations
• Bruce W. Nelson: The legend of slimy Don and the wreck of the ship “America”
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard Трамп has a new doctor for America
• The Late Show: New Jersey makes a bid for Трамп’s relocated convention
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп attacks Mattis and builds White House fence
• Bill Maher with Rosa Brooks and Michael Steele: Blood in the streets next November?
• Vox: Why Covid-19 is more AND less deadly than we knew
• Sarah Cooper: Трамп on how to bible
• John Di Domenico: Трамп demands voter fraud, ballot harvesting & children be OUTLAWED!
• Bruce W. Nelson: If Трамп were a ship he would be the Titantic
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп responds to Obama’s speech

The Daily Show: Eight times America surprised Trevor.

The Dotard Fiddled While America Burned:

• Seth Meyers: Mattis Denounces Трамп, Cotton calls for deploying troops against protests
• Late Night: Pained historical comparison cowboy
• Conan: Van Jones on George Floyd, police brutality, & what comes next
• Bill Maher: Is America great enough for you yet?
• NY Times: We’re sick and tired—Voices From Minneapolis protests
• The Late Show: The gospel according to Don
• College Humor: Tide CEO says soap isn’t medicine
• Late Night: Amber Ruffin’s experience with the police—Skipping in Chicago
• Now This: Michigan Sheriff joins protesters marching for George Floyd
• James Corden: Malcolm Corden teaches Трамп how to hold the bible
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп promises to dominate Jesus Christ
• Foundation Singers: HELL! Трамп, George Floyd & protesters:

• Stephen: After days of unrest, America needs moral leadership. Instead, we have The Dotard Трамп
• Jimmy Kimmel: Jimmy Kimmel on protests, Трамп’s bible photo op & white privilege
• Seth Meyers: Michael Che talks about the Black Lives Matter protests
• Hasan Minhaj: How coronavirus broke America
• Conan: Statement on the killing of George Floyd
• Stephen: Trump sics military on peaceful protesters and clergy to make way for bible photo op
• The Late Show: God photo-bombs Трамп
• Late Night: Amber Ruffin’s experience with the police—When I tell you to stop, you stop
• WaPo: Here’s how to identify law enforcement officers and National Guard units
• The Daily Show: Experience the upheaval of the 1960’s all over again
• Bruce W. Nelson: Bunker bitch
• Stephen: America’s citizens will not be silenced by government intimidation
• James Corden and Reggie Watts: It’s time for change in the US
• Seth Meyers: Трамп threatens to deploy military in response to protests
• Lauren Mayer: I’m a Jew (but I know that ain’t Christian), bible photo-op edition:

• Jonathan Mann: I am anti fascist and the President says i’m a terrorist
• Jimmy Kimmel: Trump fumes over bunker & bible photo op
• Stephen: Chris Hayes—Трамп’s “Enemy of the people” rhetoric has put the press in danger
• Conan: W. Kamau Bell on #BlackLivesMatter & the importance of showing your work
• Late Night: Amber Ruffin’s experience with the police—Driving as a teen
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard finally addresses the protests
• Stephen: Sen. Cory Booker talks race, empathy, and his legislation to stop abuses of power by law enforcement
• Mark Fiore: Operation Photo Op
• Jimmy Kimmel: Wanda Sykes on Black Lives Matter, quarantine with her twins & Twitter feud with Scott Baio
• The Late Show: Трамп’s speech has RoboCop thinking about a career change
• J-L Cauvin: Bunker Трамп addresses the nation
• Stephen: Chris Hayes—You couldn’t find a worst person for this moment
• Late Night: Amber Ruffin’s experience with the police—It’s a new day
• Jimmy Kimmel: Shaquille O’Neal on George Floyd, discrimination & talking to his sons
• Hasan Minhaj: We cannot stay silent about George Floyd:

• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s deranged response to the George Floyd protests
• Jonathan Mann: Did you hear what happened in Boston
• Stephen: Shockingly brutal police tactics deployed nationwide as protests unite Americans of all backgrounds
• Bill Maher: The blue wall of silence
• WaPo editorial: The rot in policing has spread beyond just ‘a few bad apples’
• The Late Show: GOP Senators speak out after Трамп gasses U.S. citizens
• Vox: Protests aren’t what they look like on TV
• James Corden: Dr. Michael Eric Dyson discusses civil unrest across America
• Trevor breaks down reparations & white privilege
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard Трамп has the strongest sympathy
• Bruce W. Nelson: Трамп and his bunker, and the Devil and Hell
• Stephen: Dictator fanboy Трамп gets his wish as military vehicles roll down the streets of Washington
• Late Night: Amber’s minute of fury—Police violence against peaceful protestors

Wyatt Cenac: Segregation problems and school integration

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

I am glad that Tacoma is taking the death of Manuel Ellis at the hands of a Tacoma police officer seriously. It seems to have taken a video (and the work of many people on the ground). Still I hope his family and community get some kind of justice.

And please wash your hands right now.