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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Full Frontal: This American trash—Voter suppression in Georgia.

Stephen chats with Joaquin and Julián Castro.

Tiny Fingers Resistance: White “Power”:

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.

Vox: Why advertisers are tracking your emojis

The Dotard Трамп and His Various Criminal Organizations:

Jim Jefferies: Examining Holland’s extremely racist Christmas character, “Black Pete”.

Knowing Better: Buying happiness

Nick Hanauer and Goldy: Why do we call it “pitchfork economics”

WaPo: Tracing the trail of anti-Soros content at Radio and Television Martí (I’m looking forward to my big-ass Soros paycheck for this one).

Samantha Bee: Democracy—A retrospective:

Wired: How to create a crossword puzzle.

Late Show: Pop Quiz with Joaquin and Julián Castro.

Tragedy On the Border:

The Late Show: Frosty The Snowman doubts climate change.

Adam ruins cool technology.

Vox: What we get wrong about affirmative action

Jimmy Dore: Jeb Bush’s weird reaction to his dad’s death.

Roll Call: More Congressional hits and misses.

Full Frontal: Frost Bee the Snow Woman.

The Threeway—GOP, NRA and Russia:

Robert Reich: The truth about privatization

Daily Show: Switzerland—So many guns, no mass shootings.

Vox: How the Saudis ended up with so many American weapons.

WaPo: “Truth isn’t truth”—Rudy Giuliani tops 2018’s quotes of the year list

Mark Fiore: Undo-ocracy.

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

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleThe Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight for an evening of political conversation over drinks and dinner.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the room at the rear of the tavern beginning about 8pm.





Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 260 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, eight in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or you might consider starting your own chapter!

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Trevor chats with his Grandma about apartheid and tours her home.

Stephen remembers George H.W. Bush.

Vox: The problems with rebuilding beaches.

Chris Hayes: Every vote counts.

Trevor with Al Gore: The Climate Reality Project and “24 Hours of Reality”

Late Show: Planet Earth’s climate change episode.

The Dotard Трамп and His band of Co-Collusioners and Embezzlers:

Daily Show: Meet District Attorney Mark Gonzalez, criminal justice reformer.

Adam ruins mattresses.

Stephen: PETA forgot to correct these anti-animal phrases

Full Frontal: GLUE—Gorgeous ladies unionizing everywhere!

Minute Earth: These names can kill animals.

Jimmy Kimmel: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders or Beto O’Rourke for President?

WaPo: What you need to know about the possible government shutdown

Daily Show: Bill Gates wants to reinvent the toilet

The G.O.P. and Related Election Crime Organizations:

Mental Floss: Everything you need to know about space.

Roll Call: What is a continuing resolution? Decoding this jargon as Congress averts a shutdown.

Trevor hosts the Global Citizen Festival to Honor Nelson Mandela’s 100th birthday:

The Atlantic: The last chess shop in New York City.

Stephen with Michelle Obama: It is hard to hate up-close.

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 gathers for an evening of free speech, with no obstruction but plenty of collusion in using the words “resistance” and “impeachment” in prose, song, chants, and slam poetry.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the room at the rear of the tavern beginning about 8pm.





Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 260 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, eight in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or you might consider starting your own chapter!

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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The Atlantic: China is surveilling and threatening Uighurs in the U.S..

Ilhan Omar: Diversity in Congress leads to better policy

Wendover: The deadly logistics of climbing Everest.

Stephen looks back at America’s epic fall.

The Dotard Трамп and Other Disarticulating Collusioners:

The Atlantic: The chaos of the universe is contained in a watch.

Veronica Escobar sees unity between left and right.

Jim Jefferies throws a party for fellow soon-to-be U.S. citizens.

Kurzgesagt: End of space—Creating a prison for humanity.

The Atlantic: Your brain perceives reality by hallucinating.

Jon Stewart does Stephen Colbert:

Antonio Delgado is for a public option, renewable energy and restoring people’s faith in democracy.

Nova: Fireproofing our future through better design.

The Atlantic: Sex and the 1960s college girl.

Adam ruins guns:

Vox: FAUX News keeps breaking its own rules.

Real Engineering: Vinyl versus digital.

Trevor: Al Gore weighs in on ManBearPig.

Rashida Tlaib can’t stand bullies and is keenly aware her district is third-poorest in nation

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

HorsesAss Files for Bankruptcy

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Over the years, this blog has not been immune to legal controversy. Ignoring the toothless comment thread threats, we occasionally receive take-down demands, cease and desist letters and the like. Indeed, this blog was born out of a lawsuit. It began with Goldy’s Horse’s Ass initiative catalyzing a lawsuit brought against him by Washington’s then state Attorney General, Christine Gregoire. Goldy fought the AG and the AG won:

Siding with the state attorney general, Thurston County Superior Court Judge Gary Tabor ruled yesterday that a proposed statewide initiative declaring Eyman to be a horse’s ass isn’t a proper subject for an initiative. It isn’t legislative in nature, he said, and therefore is “outside the power given to the people.”

An initiative, the judge added, must be “for a purpose other than expressing a sentiment.”

Besides providing the seed for this blog, the only other positive outcome of the whole fiasco was giving the Seattle PI’s Neil Modie the type of multi-layered pun that a lesser journalist would kill for in the headline “A Bum Rap?”

Of course, for Goldy, the start of this blog launched him into a decade of impoverished muckrakery, living off of small donations, double digit blog advertisement revenue, and an occasional ghost-writing gig. Those were hard, if fun, years; Goldy took some scalps along the way.

Times have changed. We all have troubles, it seems. Just today we learned that farm bankrupcies are way up in the midwest.

And legal problems have finally brought down Horsesass. Fines, legal fees, court orders, high voltage! (done dirt cheap).

When I say “Horsesass”, perhaps I should say, the Horse’s Ass. Yes…the anti-government agitator, the perpetual purveyor of defective initiatives, Mr. self-identified lying liar, this blog’s namesake himself, Tim “Biggest-Lie-Of-My-Life” Eyman has filed for bankruptcy:

Attorney General Bob Ferguson has accused Eyman of secretly moving funds between two initiative campaigns in 2012 and receiving $308,000 in kickbacks from the firm that collected signatures for both measures.
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Ferguson filed a lawsuit in March 2017 seeking $1.8 million in penalties, plus reimbursement of the funds Eyman received from the firm.
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In documents filed Wednesday, Eyman reported assets of more than $2 million and liabilities of $3.2 million. He owes $77,000 in legal fees and a disputed $3.1 million to the Office of the Attorney General, according to the reports.

It’s an “own goal.” Eyman blatantly violated campaign finance laws, and thwarted court orders. And, apparently, he’s fresh out of sugar daddies.

Eyman claims the legal actions against him have caused his wife to divorce him. Yeah…I’m guessing it’s the lies! (Or maybe the embarrassing costumes?)

No word yet on whether his dog has run away.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleThe Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets this evening for some politics and conversation over a pint. Please stop by.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the room at the rear of the tavern beginning about 8pm.




Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 260 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, eight in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or you might consider starting your own chapter!

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Farron Cousins: Motel 6 agrees to massive settlement for turning guest info over to ICE

Seth Meyers: Minority voter suppression.

Roll Call: Lame duck Congressional hits and misses.

Rachel Maddow: GOP gerrymandering—Democratic votes not matched by seats gained:

Chris Hayes: Cindy Hyde-Smith stumbles in senate debate.

Mental Floss: Cooking facts and life hacks!

The Atlantic: The most extreme railway in the world.

WaPo: Cindy Hyde-Smith’s controversial comments, a timeline.

Lauren Mayer: Thanks for rich liberals!

Louis Black: Flat Earth International conference.

Mother Jones: Lockdown!

The Dotard Трамп and His Band of White Nationalist:

Trevor: Kristen Gillibrand is fighting for New Yorkers and celebrating the “Bold & Brave”.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Vox: The roots of America’s democracy problem.

Ari Melber: New Blue Congress breaks diversity records, plummets average age.

Jim Jefferies: Why immigrants should be celebrated, not feared

Trevor: Khizr Khan paying tribute to Democratic values in “An American Family”:

The Atlantic: A dangerous job at the highest point on Earth.

Chris Hayes: A humanitarian crisis unfolds in California

Real Engineering: Britain’s most daring WW2 raid

Stephen: Justice Sonia Sotomayor allows Stephen to approach the bench

Trevor: Pete Souza on being the eyes of the White House in “Obama: An Intimate Portrait”.

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

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottlePlease join us for an evening of politics over a pint at this evening’s Thanksgiving warm-up edition of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the room at the rear of the tavern beginning about 8pm.





Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 260 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, eight in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or you might consider starting your own chapter!

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Trevor and Jaboukie Young-White discuss Amazon’s move to NYC.

Minute Physics: Impossible muons.

Lynzy Lab: Subtract the Divide.

Bill Maher: Just don’t go there.

The Dotard Трамп and Other Soulless Grifters:

Robert Reich: How blue states help red states.

WaPo: From Chicago to the White House—The life of Michelle Obama’s mother.

Jimmy Kimmel: A chat with Michelle Obama.

Mind Warehouse: The most protected Presidents in the world.

Wendover: Why China is so good at building railways.

Post-Midterm Madness:

Roy Wood, Jr.: CP Time—Contributions of the black soldier.

Vox: The Kamasutra is not (just) about sex.

The New Yorker: How doomsday preppers get ready for the apocalypse.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

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

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottle

Please join us Tuesday evening for the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. We’ll be raising a toast or two to some fine election results.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the room at the rear of the tavern beginning about 8pm.






Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 260 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, eight in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or you might consider starting your own chapter!

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Jimmy Kimmel: Americans aren’t that divided!

New Yorker: A hundred years of American protest, then and now.

Physics Girl: How to make a square vortex ring.

Midterm Madness:

Mental Floss: Beer facts and life hacks.

Trevor with Cory Booker: Bending the arc of the moral universe toward justice in America

Robert Reich: It’s time for Medicare for all.

Jimmy Kimmel: We must protect Ruth Bader Ginsburg at all costs.

Stephen: Protect Ruth Bader Ginsburg at all costs.

John Oliver: Immigration, invasions, and family separation.

The Dotard Трамп And Other Losers:

NowThisWorld: Violent extremism in the U.S..

The Atlantic: What if you controlled the budget? An experiment in Democracy.

Stephen: Republicans and Democrats have different sexy thoughts.

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

2018 Midterm Election Thread

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Game on, boys and girls! It’s election day, and the polls have closed in half the states.

Kindly note that this is an election thread. Keep on topic or kindly shuttle your ass to the open thread below.

I’m headed to Drinking Liberally now, so surprise me with your insights in the comment thread.

6:01: Well…at least Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) has won!

6:04: Beto still leads by a hair. And Klobuchar (D-MN) has won.

6:05: Looks like Felons in Florida are going to be able to help elect the next President!

6:07: Cool…I am just getting caught up here after arriving at DL. Hey…a D is leading in NE for Gov? Interesting.

6:16: My early assessment is that this is not really a blue wave. More like a blue splash. There are some very pleasing results, like Ted Cruz trailing a punk rocker–Ted Cruz is a weasely punk. But many races are going, more or less, as expected.

6:32: Oh…cool.

Many of you hear “Donna Shalala” and think, “Oh yeah, Clinton’s HSS secretary.” But Donna Shalala was the Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin—Madison when I earned two degrees. She signed my diplomas. I’ve chatted with her. So…cool.

6:59: WOW! Kansas! Gov!

7:21: MSNBC is now calling the House for Democrats.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleIt’s been a wild couple of years feeling like our democracy has been held together with spit and bailing wire. Today, we’ve wheeled ‘er into the pits to clean off the grunge, replace some nuts and a few bolts, do some serious alignment and, perhaps, a rebuilt the top end. Please join us Tuesday evening for an Election Day rally at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

But, before you stop by, if you haven’t done so please be sure to return your ballot in a drop-box. Here’s how you can find a ballot drop box near you.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the room at the rear of the tavern for our usual 8pm starting time. For election night, some of us will show up much earlier.

The Roanoke will have TVs tuned to election coverage. They have free WiFi. And you can buy drinks! If you insist on hearing every word of coverage, bring headphones and a device to stream audio. What can I say? Bars can be noisy.

We’ll be live-blogging the election right here.





Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 259 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, seven in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or consider starting your own chapter.

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