Archives for July 2021

Dulce Sloan: What July 4th means to Black folks

Jonathan Mann: ♫ The Ocean is On Fire ♬

The Late Show: What ya’ readin’? with Sec. Pete Buttigieg

Vice News: America’s oldest Black neighborhood is fighting racist infrastructure

Mark Fiore: Bipartisanship in the apocalypse

Rachel Maddow: Democrats get creative in effort to stem gun violence

The Thugs, Thieves, Traitors, and Tyrants of Today’s G.O.P.:

• Keith Olbermann: The 4th of July Трампian White supremacists parade in Philadelphia
• Chris Hayes: Right-wing Nutburgers engineer outrage over vaccine “coercion”
• Now This: Nutburger Marjorie Taylor Greene compares vaccine push to Nazi “Brown shirts”
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ If You Listen to Fox News ♬:

• The Remix Bros: ♫ DJT’s There’s Something About MAGA Remix ♬
• The Daily Show: Eye on North Carolina Republicans—Discrimination, counter-protests, and lawsuits
• Rachel Maddow: Michigan AG to probe “election fraud” grifters; Трамп lawyers may face reckoning
• Chris Hayes and friends: Nutcase GOP Sen. Blackburn warns Taylor Swift will be banned by socialists
• Wanda Sykes: Трамп praising Hitler and Republicans refusing vaccines
• Chris Hayes: GOP stoking vaccine culture war at the cost of American lives
• Bruce W. Nelson: Mangy’s Song of Independence (from Трамп)
• Rachel Maddow: Wisconsin nutburger Republicans join election investigation frenzy
• Keith Olbermann: It’s not that he praised Hitler in 2018, it’s why was John Kelly “stunned”?
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ King of the Tax Code ♬:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Wah, Wah, Life’s Unfair (The Трамп Theme Song) ♬
• Joy Reid: GOP efforts to can CRT mimic authoritarian “memory laws” says historian
• The Daily Show: The worst of Sean Hannity

Robert Reich: What does patriotism really mean

Now This: 50 years of the war on drugs

Wanda Sykes helps White people find Black friends

Vox: How the rich avoid paying taxes

Lawrence O’Donnell: TX GOP remove controversial election provisions ahead of special session

The Daily Show: The struggles of African-American journalists

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

Two of six cops in D.C.

Said “insurrection, that’s me!”

And so in due course,

We should kick them off of the force.

But SPD abhors accountability

The COVID-19 related moratorium on utility payments has been extended once again. I keep saying these are going to end at some point. But so far, they keep going. And it’s important to keep people able to have utilities. So, hopefully, when the landing comes, we can make it a soft one.

Anyway, please get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.

What are you up to this evening? If you can, stop by the Seattle chapter of Drinking Liberally for some recreational political conversation over a drink.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm. You will most likely find us on the patio off the back of the pub. The kitchen isn’t open quite yet, but will be soon. Carry-in food is cool when the kitchen is closed.

Chapters of Drinking Liberally are re-opening all over the place. If you can’t make the Seattle chapter, find a chapter near you.

Jimmy Kimmel: This week in unnecessary censorship

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

WaPo: Here’s how Biden’s July 4 vaccination goals turned out

Jaboukie Young-White: Corporations capitalize on Pride Month

The Remix Bros: ♫ Joe Biden Whisper Remix (Ying Yang Twins Parody) ♬

John Oliver: Health care sharing ministries

The New York Times: Searching for The hidden graves of Louisiana’s enslaved people

WaPo: How Southern California became the epicenter for right-wing activism against vaccine mandates

Liars, Thieves, Seditionists, and Other Types of Republicans

• The Daily Show: Govs gone wild!
• Stephen: Crackpot GOP members push for seats on Pelosi’s Jan. 6th Commission
• The Late Show: Olympic protest criticized by Rep. Crenshaw and soiled insurrection desk
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп impersonators are going out of business
• Now This: The Dotard brags (again) about passing a dementia test
• Keith Olbermann: There’s an Easter egg in the 1/6 Commission. Pelosi selects all of its members!
• Parody Project: ♫ FILIBUSTER – a Parody of Land Down Under ♬:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ You can tell where he was “planted” (by the patch of brown dead grass) ♬
• The Late Show: The truth behind Tucker Carlson’s NSA spying claim
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard reacts to Bill Cosby being released
• Stephen: Is the 2024 GOP presidential primary already underway?
• Now This: Obama on GOP gerrymandering, Republican voting suppression, & Трамп’s ‘Hooey’
• Roy Wood, Jr.: Unsolved Mysteries—Do any Republicans know what critical race theory actually is?
• The Daily Show: How Florida wants to teach slavery
• LegalEagle: Sanctions order for the Kraken
• Stephen: The Dotard offers nothing new at rambling Ohio rally
• The Late Show: Gopher yodels every time MTG says something xenophobic
• The Daily Show: Tucker Jeopardy!
• act.tv: Anti-cancel-culture nutburger cancels people!
• Trevor: This didn’t age well
• Founders Sing: ♫ He’s indicted & it feels so good ♬:

• Now This: Boy Tucker thinks the NSA is spying on him
• The Late Show: Трамп’s latest border delusion
• Stephen: Pelosi appoints Liz Cheney to Jan. 6th Committee, as more Capitol rioters face justice
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ When Your Friends are Being Indicted ♬
• Keith Olbermann: Did Tucker Carlson admit emailing a foreign entity with intent on hurting the U.S.?
• LegalEagle: Rudy Giuliani in trouble in DC
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Mangy’s Suggestions for Improvements to America ♬
• Now This: Al Gore calls out Трамп and the GOP on election denialism
• The Daily Show: The Culture War—Critical race theory
• The Late Show: ♫ Трамп Org Indicted! ♬

Lewis Black: Should Justice Stephen Breyer retire?

Robert Reich: Why your Chipotle burrito costs more

The Daily Show: The worst Joe Biden scandals of all-time this month (June)

Stephen: Sec. Pete Buttigieg on his move to D.C.

Vice News: Arizona’s “recount” changes nothing about 2020 election results

Roll Call: Previewing the 2022 battle for the Senate

Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ To those volunteering to ride in the hearse ♬

The Daily Show: Biden ASMR

Lauren Mayer: ♫ Bridge And A Babysitter ♬:

Amber Ruffin Show: ♫ Properly mourning Joe Biden’s dog Champ in song ♬

The Remix Bros: ♫ Joe Biden x Vladimir Putin REMIX ♬

Stephen: Sec. Buttigieg has big plans for America’s infrastructure

Desi Lydic: An apology from the NYC Board of Elections

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

Good morning to everyone except for the 64,115 people who signed the Compassionate Seattle initiative. I understand the impulse. The City and County have been dithering for far too long. And it does provide much needed housing (although not enough, more than now).

But that ban on encampments is just too much. There won’t be enough housing, and so it will be cruel. Now is cruel, but this would make that permanent.

Anyway, please get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.