Archives for June 2021

Oh shoot. I forgot to write this until now. Sorry.

Anyway, there’s still time to wash your hands right now and to get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.

Seattle’s Drinking Liberally will meet in person on Tuesday! Please stop by our gathering at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm. The kitchen isn’t currently open but will be soon. Carry-in food is okay when the kitchen is closed. Occupancy limits are still in place, so admission will be first come-first serve.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Chapters of Living Liberally are reopening all over the place. Find a chapter near you. Or start a new chapter for your community.

– Is anyone else following the King County vaccine tracker on Twitter? I love seeing the updates.

– Anyone else excited about taking the bus to a trail? Has anyone done it in the past?

– Please wash your hands right now, and get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.

– Here are some interesting looking LGBTQ businesses that you can visit during Pride Month, or any other time.

The Daily Show: Can bias training really change police behavior?

Samantha Bee: Why no progressive agenda can survive the Senate filibuster

The Remix Bros: ♫ Kamala Harris Laughing REMIX ♬

Robert Reich: The unchecked power of police unions

The Week in ТрампPlague:

• Now This: COVID-19 vaccine prizes and perks
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ I Just Don’t Trust a Vaccine (SATIRE) ♬
• Jimmy Kimmel: Selfish Americans delay herd immunity
• WaPo: Barbershop offers coronavirus shots to help Black community end pandemic
• Rachel Maddow: COVID-19 forecast murky as states drop mask requirements

VICE News: Why the Tulsa Race Massacre is so important to the reparations debate

The New York Times: Why do so many sexual assaults in the U.S. military go unpunished?

Now This: : Texas Democrats stage walkout to stop voter suppression bill

Grifters, Thieves, Child Molesters, Traitors and Other Flavors of Republicans:

• J-L Cauvin: Трамп REACTS to Coach K retiring from Duke basketball
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп to Be Installed in the White House ♬
• Keith Olbermann: It must be Biden who calls for Michael Flynn’s arrest. Democracy must defend itself
• The Daily Show: How The Dotard is handling retirement
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard delivers an emotional Memorial Day 2021 speech
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Republican Administration Blues on piano ♬
• Legal Eagle: Charges coming for Трамп?
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ I don’t want to know ♬:

• Now This: Трамп allies call for military coup to depose Biden
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ If That’s What Dotard Wants ♬
• Lewis Black’s Rantcast: Ted Cruz
• Jimmy Kimmel: Gaetz gets goofed and other MAGA failures
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп’s Failed Blog Joins Long List of Failures ♬
• Samantha Bee: How (and why) Black voter rights are under attack (again), Pt. 1
• Samantha Bee: How (and why) Black voter rights are under attack (again), Pt. 2
• Keith Olbermann: Трамп resumes his scampaign while we hesitate to indict and arrest him and the cabal
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ How Great to be a Republican! ♬
• Legal Eagle: General Flynn endorses coup?
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard reacts to Facebook’s 2-year ban
• Forbes: Facebook will keep Трамп banned for two years
• Desi Lydic Foxsplains EVERYTHING
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ PROOF that Marjorie Taylor Greene is from Outer Space ♬
• Rachel Maddow: GOP election misinformation scheme violates federal law
• Mark Fiore: Republican voting enhancement
• Rocky Mountain Mike: ♫ Bye, Bye Blog ♬:

• The Daily Show: 20 minutes of Fox News contradictions
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Rand Paul, Cocaine and Quail Sex ♬
• Keith Olbermann:The GOP push in Texas must be met as we would any other terrorist threat
• VICE News: All the ways Republicans are trying to make protesting a crime
• Legal Eagle: Did Mike Flynn violate military law?
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп THANKS Joe Manchin for keeping the filibuster
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп quits his blog
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Dotard Трамп has Lost his Mind ♬

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Now This: Why Congress needs a nonpartisan Commission for the climate crisis

VICE News: The complicated history of citizen’s arrest laws

The Daily Show: Pink tax, wage gap, gender discrimination—Stories of being a woman in America

Now This: Rep. Jayapal (D-WA-7) fights to expand health care access

Full Frontal: Here’s why your gas stove is killing you

The Daily Show: Young changemakers

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

Look, I think you should get vaccinated because it will stop or slow down a horrible disease. Because it makes you much much much less likely to pass that disease on to your friends and family, to your neighbors, and to a suffering world. But if a chance of winning the vaccine lottery is what gets the shot in your arm, it has the same effect. And who couldn’t use the money? So good luck on that front.

And you can win the wash your hands right now lottery. The prize is diseases dying in the sink, and going down the drain.

Darryl noted yesterday that Drinking Liberally is back. It is so great to be vaccinated. To touch other people. Hell, even not having to worry about the dingy bathroom is a blessing. It’s great to be back with people.

I also took the bus for the first time in over a year. And am back to work from work. The return to normal is happening so quickly. It’s great.

If you haven’t been vaccinated, you should. It’s free. The more people get vaccinated the better for everyone. Let’s stop this horrible virus.

Also, please wash your hands right now.