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by Carl Ballard — Friday, 4/30/21, 8:27 am

Hey people from Tacoma (What’s the official nomenclature? Tacomaians? Tacomaites? Tacomegians? Tacoma Tuesdays?) do you qualify for GRIT. $500 a month for a year could go a long way. It also seems like it will help the community writ large to have people a bit further from the edge.

Anyway, wash your hands right now, and schedule a vaccination appointment if you haven’t.

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Wednesday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 4/28/21, 8:12 am

Good morning to a future car-free Lake Washington Boulevard. It would be nice to have a few months of no cars in as many streets as possible. What street near you should go car-free?

Anyway, please wash your hands right now.

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Open Thread Monday!

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 4/26/21, 8:07 am

Good morning. I hope that you are signed up for a vaccine. It seems like pretty soon the supply will be good everywhere. So please sign up if you haven’t already started the process.

And so now part of the issue in Washington is to get it to people who are reluctant, or who have trouble getting to a location. If you are reluctant, my only advice is that you just have to do it. It’s a chore, but one that has great benefits in the long term. For you and for the rest of the community.

If you are unable to get to an injection location, the Washington State Department of Health is doing home based vaccinations.

And everyone please wash your hands right now.

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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

by Darryl — Saturday, 4/24/21, 12:11 am

The Daily Show: What the fuck is happening with climate change?

Samantha Bee: Washington D.C. needs to (puff puff) pass marijuana legalization pt. 1

Samantha Bee: Washington D.C. needs to (puff puff) pass marijuana legalization pt. 2

Race in America:

  • Seth Meyers: Chauvin found guilty in George Floyd murder as calls for police reform grow
  • Roll Call: “This is accountability”—Lawmakers react to Chauvin guilty verdict
  • Amber Ruffin: Chauvin Guilty on all counts yet the clock is still broken
  • VICE News: What’s changed in Minneapolis since George Floyd’s death?
  • AJ+: Why is it so hard to convict police officers
  • Mark Fiore: Counting for White people
  • Now This: ♫ Stacey Abrams shuts down GOP Senator on GA’s new voting law ♬
  • Amber Ruffin: ♫ At Last, A Murderer Will Go to Jail ♬
  • Legal: Three convictions for the same crime?
  • Stephen: njustice, but not indifference
  • The New York Times: From Rodney King to George Floyd—Inside 30 Years of America’s police violence

WaPo: New urgency in Congress to push forward with gun reform after increase in mass shootings

The Late Show: Texas, here’s why you need to make Matthew McConaughey your next Governor

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Racists, Liars, Insurrectionists, Child Sex Offenders, and Even Worse Republicans:

  • Jordan Klepper’s journey into the MAGAverse
  • Jimmy Kimmel: MyPillow Mike’s 48-Hour yellathon & vaccine hesitancy among Republican men
  • The Daily Show: Gov. DeSantis gets benched by baseball manager
  • Lauren Mayer: ♫ Wrong side of history ♬

  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Matt Gaetz’s Words of Advice (via Margaret Thatcher) ♬
  • Legal Eagle: MyPillow nutburger “counter sues” for billions, and will lose
  • Seth Meyers: John Boehner and William Barr memoirs
  • Al Franken: Right wing media and the dangerous expansion of the disinformation universe
  • Jordan Klepper: Mapping the January 6th attack on the Capitol
  • Jimmy Kimmel: MyPillow Mike is booked on Kimmel, Tucker Carlson’s creepy laugh & Chris Christie for prez
  • Stephen: Feds scan Instagram to catch grey hat wearing insurrectionist
  • J-L Cauvin: Трамп and the GOP make condolence calls after the Chauvin verdict
  • Jimmy Dore: Dumping nuclear waste into ocean doesn’t worry Rick Perry
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Maxine Waters Song ♬

  • Seth Meyers: Republicans freak out about DC statehood and the Green New Deal
  • The Late Show: Tucker Carlson’s under-policing freak out
  • Jimmy Kimmel: MyPillow Mike reacts to Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Matt Gaetz, Political Firebrand or Just a Dim Candle? ♬

Now This: VP Harris on environment and climate crisis

John Oliver: Bankruptcy

WaPo: House passes bill that would grant D.C. statehood

Winlar: The safest gun….

This Week in ТрампPlague:

  • The Late Show: Biden asks Americans to take one iota of responsibility
  • WaPo: Health-care workers experience gratitude, grief and affirmation a year into the pandemic
  • Seth Meyers: All U.S. adults now eligible for vaccine giving GOP problems attacking Biden
  • Amber Ruffin: ♫ I’m Vaccinated Too So… Can We Hang? ♬

  • Bill Maher: Fran Lebowitz on post-pandemic life
  • Now This: Fauci on why everyone should want a COVID vaccine
  • Stephen: Obama, Shaq, McConaughey & more encourage Americans to get the jab

Bill Maher: New Rule–OK Boomer

LegalEagle: Things your parents said were illegal…

Samantha Bee gives full frontal the presidential treatment

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

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Open Thread Friday!

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 4/23/21, 8:07 am

Shot number one is officially in the rear view mirror. Everyone at Lumen Field was fantastic. Go there, go there, show me your number, go there, get a shot, wait 15 minutes, done. I was in and out rather quickly. My only side effect was that when I had my hands over my head, it was a bit sore. Not painful, but noticeable. That’s done now. In a few weeks, I can do it again.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now.

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Wednesday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 4/21/21, 7:34 am

Hey! Heeeey. I’m getting my first dose of the Pfizer vaccine this afternoon. I am so excited.

I believe that the benefits of me getting the vaccine are more for the society than for me; One less potential vector. But it also feels very personal. I am excited about not getting sick. I will be glad to be able to do things and see people, and that there is a timeline for it.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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Monday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 4/19/21, 8:25 am

The Tim Burgess plan to bully homeless people in Seattle without providing money shelter seems bad. And in bad faith. Like, you have to talk to the people on the ground, even when you disagree with their approach. They can tell you where you are wrong in a way people who generally agree with you can’t.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

by Darryl — Saturday, 4/17/21, 12:31 am

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

The Parody Project: ♫ Got To Please Yourself ♬

Liars, Grifters, Sex Offenders, and Other Types of Republicans:

  • Stephen: Ecstasy, girls, cocaine and champagne awaited GOP officials at Matt Gaetz’s sex parties
  • Jimmy Kimmel: Mike Lindell’s patriotic crap, Jim Jordan’s relentless stupidity & Matt Gaetz’s shady Venmo
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Who, What, and Why of Matt Gaetz ♬
  • Seth Meyers: MAGA Congressman Matt Gaetz snubbed by Трамп amid growing scandals
  • Rocky Mountain Mike: ♫ Matt The Gaetz ♬:

  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Tucker feels “perfectly white” should pertain to more than just your teeth ♬
  • Amber Ruffin: A fly on the wall of Matt Gaetz’s sex trafficking investigation
  • Legal Eagle: Age of consent in Florida
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Dotard’s Butt’s a Sacred Relic ♬
  • SNL Weekend Update: Matt Gaetz Venmo sex scandal
  • The Late Show: Matt Gaetz scandal attracts Dumb X-Files
  • J-L Cauvin: Liberal Comedian gets RECRUITED by Ralph Reed’s Faith and Family Coalition
  • Robert Reich: GOP civil war & ceaseless police killings
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Who is Ted Cruz? ♬
  • Jimmy Kimmel: Matt Gaetz is so toxic, even Трамп won’t meet with him
  • Seth Meyers: The FBI seized Matt Gaetz’s phone amid sex trafficking investigation
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ When Republicans Meet-up to Bow Down ♬
  • The Daily Show: FAUX News vs. FAUX News—Border conditions edition
  • Stephen: #HeWhoShallBeNamed​ is America’s favorite trending topic
  • Legal Eagle: Greenberg cooperation in Gaetzgate
  • Steve Hofstetter: Matt Gaetz investigation explained!
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The National Republican Extortion Committee ♬
  • Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп fanboy Matt Gaetz’s wild sex parties
  • The Daily Show: The perfect app for all your non-sexual transactions
  • Legal Eagle: Matt Gaetz, explained:

  • J-L Cauvin: The Dotard Трамп delivers a powerful eulogy for Bernie Madoff
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Poor Tucker Carlson ♬
  • Seth Meyers: Republicans want to cancel Dr. Fauci and major league baseball
  • The Late Show: GOP shuts down Jesse Watters

Now This: Dem Senators introduce SCOTUS seats legislation

John Oliver: Long term care

The Late Show: General needs more time in Afghanistan for pizza slice

Race in American:

  • Amber Ruffin: Why using police as debt collectors leads to the killing of Black people
  • Samantha Bee: Attacks on the Asian American community Pt 1
  • Samantha Bee: Attacks on the Asian American community Pt 2
  • Now This: Celebs & politicians debunk reparations myths
  • Trevor: “The Talk” that every Black family has about police
  • Legal Eagle: Prosecution for the Daunte Wright shooter?
  • SNL: Minnesota news
  • Dulcé Sloan: How board games are striving for racial progress
  • Samantha Bee: The murder of Daunte Wright
  • Mark Fiore: The prior previous police shooting
  • Stephen: Excessive use of force by police against Black men again
  • Trevor: Officer Kim Potter charged for Daunte Wright’s death
  • Samantha Bee: Hollywood’s walk of shame—The history of Asian stereotypes in pop culture

Stephen: Political monologue

Amber Ruffin: ♫ Biden’s war on ghost guns, explained…in song! ♬

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

This week in ТрампPlague:

  • The Late Show: The Xupermask is here… Just in time?
  • Jonathan Mann: ♫ Covid Rainy Hotel Kind of Day ♬
  • AJ+: The pandemic through the eyes of someone with OCD
  • Founders Sing: ♫ Just Got My Vaccination ♬:

  • Samantha Bee: Pandemic Video Diaries—When the pandemic ends, work begins
  • Trevor: U.S. pauses Johnson & Johnson vaccine
  • Jonathan Pie: Vaccine wars!
  • Stephen: Women 18-48 are already quite familiar with drug side effects
  • Trevor: Anti-COVID Floridians burn masks & Michigan needs more vaccine
  • Lauren Mayer: ♫ Better Than Getting Covid (the Vaccine Side Effects Song) ♬:

  • Vice News: What exactly is a vaccine passport?
  • Jimmy Kimmel on vaccine safety
  • The Daily Show: MyVaccine—The vaccine made for conservatives

Robert Reich: Does trickle-down economics actually work?

SNL Weekend Update: Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama on their podcast renegades

Roll Call: How Aaron Burr may have created the filibuster by mistake

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

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Friday Open Thread!

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 4/16/21, 6:59 am

Good morning. If you can, please get vaccinated. Vaccines are still tough to get in walking or biking distance from my apartment. But it sounds like in parts of the state, vaccines are available. So please get vaccinated if you can. And if you’re competing with me for spots in Seattle, I hope you get it, but I am still going to try.

And in the meantime, please wash your hands.

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Wednesday April 14 Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 4/14/21, 8:27 am

For Governor Inslee (and President Biden, and Democrats in Congress and the legislature, but this post is about Inslee) I am often not sure how much credit I should give for basic stuff. But this is going to be me praising him for a thing he should do.

So, after the State Supreme Court ruling that the drug possession law violated the state constitution, Inslee is commuting sentences. And you can imagine some other governor saying let the court deal with it, or actively pushing back. So the right thing is good.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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Monday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 4/12/21, 8:15 am

– Some counties could be going back to phase 2 for COVID-19 reopening. I don’t think King County will be one, but restaurants are quite crowded for how much of the population has not been vaccinated yet.

– This article about the cost of not vaccinating is interesting.

– I hope that the Seattle Chamber of Commerce will stay out of elections long term, but good for 2021.

– Light rail on the I-5 Columbia River crossing in the Federal infrastructure plan would be great.

– Wash your hands right now.

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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

by Darryl — Saturday, 4/10/21, 1:01 am

Jordan Klepper debunks the “good guy with a gun” argument

Trevor: What are NFTs?

Jimmy Kimmel: Hunter Biden on crack addiction, political divide, Ukraine, The Dotard Трамп Jr, laptop & finding love

The Proud Liars, Crooks, Racists, and Traitors of the Modern GOP:

  • Daily Show: The rise and spread of White supremacy in America
  • Stephen: Our grifter ex-President’s scheme to separate supporters from their cash
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Matt Gaetz—A Cautionary Tale ♬
  • Joy Reid: House Ethics Committee launches investigation into Matt Gaetz
  • Legal Eagle: The Трамп campaign scam
  • Jimmy Kimmel: Things are going so well for Biden that Трамп says someone else must be running the country
  • John Di Domenico: Трамп & Melania pawn stars?
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ You May Love Трамп, but He Doesn’t Love You ♬
  • Rachel Maddow: Gaetz case renews attention on GOP fake candidate election schemes
  • Lauren Mayer: ♫ How Do You Sing About a Creep Like Matt Gaetz ♬:

  • Trevor: Culture wars!!!
  • Joy Reid: ‘There were no fake Трамп supporters’—Joy debunks GOP false claims on Capitol riot
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ At Orlando AND Mar-a-Lago, You Can Pose with Dotard! ♬
  • Now This: The Dotard launches “cancel culture” attack after denouncing it
  • The Daily Show: Tucker Carlson—White supremacist mass shooter copycat
  • WaPo: With Трамп out, Republicans rediscover their concern for the national debt
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Mealy-Mouth McConnell ♬
  • J-L Cauvin: The Dotard CANCELS Baseball!!
  • Jimmy Kimmel: Totally innocent Matt Gaetz sought preemptive pardon from Трамп
  • Chris Hayes: Debunking the GOP’s false claims on Colorado voting access
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп, The Poster Boy Abdominous ♬
  • Stephen: McConnell’s hypocrisy on corporate speech falls flat as big brands punish Georgia
  • Legal Eagle: Трамп NDA invalidated by court
  • SNL Weekend Update: Matt Gaetz under investigation
  • Trevor: Georgia restricts voting & corporations snap back
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ QAnon Folks Thought Трамп Would Rise for Easter ♬
  • Randy Rainbow: ♫ TED and LINDSEY! ♬:

  • Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп complains about cancel culture, wants EVERYONE canceled
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Ted Cruz and Happy Thoughts ♬
  • Trevor: McConnell wants corporations out of politics unless he benefits
  • The Parody Project: ♫ The salad of Roger Stone ♬
  • Stephen: Gaetz-Gaete–Creepy Florida man’s career implodes over sex trafficking investigation
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Matt Gaetz Received Blanket Pardon from Трамп ♬
  • J-L Cauvin: Трамп EXPLODES at Brett Kavanaugh over Twitter Case!!
  • Legal Eagle: Трамп CFO under scrutiny
  • Desi Lydic FAUXplains Georgia’s new voting laws
  • Jimmy Kimmel: Pence signs a book deal, Gaetz never paid for sex & MyPillow Mike’s $65 million problem
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Mitch McConnell to Corporate America: Open Your Wallet and Shut Your Mouth ♬
  • Now This: GOP’s false comparisons on voting laws
  • The Late Show: Tired of Coke standing up for democracy? Try Shasta!
  • Trevor: Matt Gaetz’s sex trafficking allegations & Трамп’s newest scam
  • Stephen: Gaetz-Gaete—MAGA die-hards stand behind creepy Florida congressman
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Liz Cheney isn’t worried about Matt Gaetz ♬

John Oliver: The national debt

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Now This: Artist reverses sexist ads from the past

The Week in ТрампPlague:

  • Trevor: Morgan Freeman on why everyone should get the COVID vaccine
  • Desi Lydic: How the pandemic drives more women to leave the workforce
  • Keith Olbermann: I went to a hockey game. Never thought I might die. GET THE SHOT
  • Trevor: Vaccine passports—What are they, and why does FAUX News hate them?
  • Rachel Maddow: Set your concerns aside and get vaccinated. Do it for others if not for yourself
  • The Late Show: ♫ Is A Fourth Wave Coming? ♬:

  • SNL: Vaccine Game Show
  • The Remix Bros: ♫ Lil’ KC’s Wind Of God Extended Deluxe Remix ♬
  • The New Yorker: The pandemic through the eyes of a three-year-old
  • Keith Olbermann: The market has already decided. Vaccine Passports are already here
  • Rachel Maddow: Perfect storm of rampant covid variant & vaccine reluctance puts Michigan in crisis
  • The Daily Show: The coronavirus vaccine vs. the fourth wave
  • Trevor: Can we vaccinate as fast as corona mutates?

VICE News: WTF is a filibuster? And should we…nuke it?

Robert Reich: How corporations crush the working class

Desi Lydic: How the pink tax is ripping off women

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

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April 9 Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 4/9/21, 7:37 am

Good morning. Here are some things.

– Some great reporting on the police officers on the Brady list in Washington.

– And speaking of police who shouldn’t be police.

– Get yourself on the Seattle mass vaccination site list. And keep on looking (and feel free to drop other locations in Washington in the thread.

– Wash your hands, you grubby weirdo.

– Biden’s judicial nominees seem pretty rad.

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Open Thread Wednesday

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 4/7/21, 8:09 am

As Seattle rents start to creep up, hopefully we’ll be able to mitigate it. But given how it went in the years before the pandemic, I have some doubts.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now.

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Open Thread Monday!

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 4/5/21, 8:01 am

Good morning to the Seattle students heading back to class.

I am a bit worried that this is too soon. But at some point, it has to happen. It is probably something that can be done safely, but that is a far cry from we will do it safely. Hopefully, between the Federal and state COVID-19 plans, there’s at enough money.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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