Please join us tonight for the start of fall and some politics under the influence at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state DL over the next week. The Tri-Cities chapter also meets tonight and every Tuesday night. On Wednesday, the Bellingham and Burien chapters meet. And on Thursday, the Woodinville chapter meets.

With 203 chapters of Living Liberally, including seventeen in Washington state, three in Oregon and three in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Maddow: New polls show mid-term elections tilting toward Democrats.

White House: West Wing Week.

Scotland Votes to Remain in UK:

• Sam Seder: No
• Thom: What America can learn from the Scotland independence vote
• Young Turks: Scotland votes “No”.

Ann Telnaes: Hillary’s back.

Thom: GOPer admits that Obamacare is working.

Mental Floss: 35 jobs that no longer exist.

Drums of War:

• Obama: Congressional authorization to train Syrian opposition
• Jimmy Dore chats with Obama about his military plans.
• Puppet Nation: Bombs Away

• Ann Telnaes: It’s a war, Mr. Kerry.
• Jimmy Dore chats with Ron Paul about Rand’s flip floppery.
• Bill Maher rips war hawks for breathlessly hyping ISIS threats.
• Maddow: Under your beds!
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Lindsey Graham nearly shits his pants on national TV over his fear of ISIS

James Rustad: What would Richard Nixon Do?

WaPo: Rick Perry 2.0.

Debate: Rand Paul v. Rand Paul.:

Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Ugly.

Bush League:

• Late night laughs: Red Skins Edition.
• Sam Seder: Adrian Peterson, child abuse, and the NFL
• Young Turks: Vikings finally bar Peterson after sponsors threaten to withdraw.
• Olbermann: On Roger Goodell’s appearance
• Jon: The Fault in Our Star (player’s league).
• Young Turks: Sean Hannity LOSES IT over corporal punishment
• Stephen: All Hannity is saying is that some children deserve to be punched in the face
• David Pakman: Adrian Peterson arrested on brutal child abuse charges
• PsychoSuperMom: Take the Stairs (ladies).
• Ed, Pap, and Terrance Moore: NFL turns blind eye to child abuse

Bill Maher’s dirty little secret.

Thom: Both the evangelical movement and ISIS are anti-evolution extremists.

Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot:

• Sam Seder: Rush Limbaugh…”hey fellas, sometimes ‘no’ means ‘yes’ if you can ‘spot it'”
• Young Turks: Sex tourist Rush Limbaugh unclear on meaning of consensual sex
• Ed: Seduction master, Rush Limbaugh, and his romance by sexual assault
• Sam Seder: How much time is left for Rush?

Sam Seder: School privatization leads to rats and feces.

Maddow: Mid-term troubles. Republicans panic as Senate candidates slip.

Liberal Viewer: James Baker admits George W Bush caused chaos in Middle East.

#Wasillabillies:

• James Rustad: #PalinBrawl song
• Sam Seder: The Palin family brawl
• Young Turks: Arizona Cardinals Jonathan Dwyer suspended for domestic violence
• Thom: “Mamma Grizzly’s” drunken brawl
• Bill Maher: Palin should be embarassed of her mom genes
• Puppet Nation: Brawl in the Family.
• David Pakman: Palin apologizes to America…for the wrong thing.

Sam Seder: Chris Hayes BUSTED for un-PC talk.

Thom with more Good, Bad, and Very, Very Ugly.

“No Evidence of Wrongdoing”:

• Young Turks: Federal Investigation clears Chris Christie of playing a role in Bridgegate.
• Bill Maher on Chris Chrstie’s exoneration.

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

Please join us tonight for an evening of politics over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. Tonight the Tri-Cities and Shelton chapters meet. The Lakewood chapter meets this Wednesday. And for Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets.

With 204 chapters of Living Liberally, including seventeen in Washington state, three in Oregon and three in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Thom: Why Republicans are embracing over-the-counter birth control.

Puppet Nation: Resurrecting Christie.

Cillizza: How close is the Senate race?

Thom: The REAL cost of a Big Mac.

David Pakman: Nutburger Rick Santorum thinks secularism is a religion and should be banned from school.

Young Turks: Ted Cruz booed off stage by Christians sick of his BS.

Bill Maher: “History will treat [Obama] very kindly”.

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

The Drums of War:

• Obama addresses the nation on the ISIL threat
• Jon with America..FUCK YEAH!
• Puppet Nation: If ISIL is ISIS, is ISIS IS

• Colbert: Obama should thank McCain and Cheney for being right on Iraq
• Ed: As Pres. Obama battles ISIS Republicans yelp like hyenas in the background
• Jimmy Dore chats with Peter King about ISIS.
• Sam Seder: Ted Cruz’s stunningly stupid plan for ISIS.
• Ann Telnaes: Cheney’s Iraq record.
• Sarah Palin apologizes to America for something and then slips back into babble mode
• Chris Hayes: Republicans want all out war.
• Young Turks: GOP puffery over Obama’s speech
• Jimmy Dore: John McCain’s strategy.

Thom: Republicans have forgotten the victims of 9/11.

Mental Floss: 36 facts about cats.

Young Turks: Palin family caught in a drunken brawl.

White House: West Wing Week.

David Pakman: Scott Brown’s cringe-worthy introduction.

Ed: North Dakota nutburger Kramer things Obama has a “War on Potatoes”.

Sam Seder: Surprise. Latest Right Wing hero is a total fraud.

Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Ugly.

Cops Do The Darnedest Things:

• Black teen public relations.
• WaPo: “Your property is guilty until you prove it innocent”:

• Sam Seder: This may be the most important video yet in the shooting of Michael Brown.
• Young Turks: New video reveals disturbing details of Michael Brown shooting
• D.C. Police trying to prevent a citizen from video recording an arrest.
• Ana Kasparian: Ferguson cops start wearing body cameras.
• Thom: Racist policing in America

Bill Maher: The target Representative.

Obama: The 11th observance of 9/11.

Puppet Nation: Just go with Mitt.

Sharpton: Michelle Obama campaigns in Georgia while Republicans demonize ‘Black-voting.

Jimmy Dore chats with Arnold about Maria cheating:

David Pakman: Louie Gohmert wishes Central American kids were more like North Koreans.

Young Turks: GOP filibuster bill to overturn Citizens United.

Thom: Why we need to prosecute OUR torturers.

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

It sounds like a Big. Fucking. Deal. The Washington State Supreme Court has just found the state Legislature in contempt of court. Boy are they in trouble, now, huh?

The court said in an order issued Thursday it would hold off on punishing the Legislature until after the 2015 session. If lawmakers do not complete their plan for fixing the way the state pays for public schools by the end of that legislative session, the court promises to reconvene and impose sanctions and other remedial measures.

Oh. Dang…I was hoping for something more like Rodney Fucking Tom being frogmarched to the gates of the Monroe prison.

The contempt finding is related to the McLeary vs. State case, in which the Supreme Court ordered the Legislature to fully fund the state’s public education to be in compliance with the State Constitution that makes it the

…paramount duty of the state to make ample provision for the education of all children….

The Court has repeatedly “emphasized” that the State is engaged in an ongoing violation of this constitutional duty, and has known that funding is “constitutionally inadequate” for decades.

But the lack of “ample provision for […] educaton” isn’t what the Legislature was found in contempt for. Rather, it is because they are late with a report telling the Justices how they planned to fully fund education. Specifically:

After the 2014 legislative session, the Committee issued its report to the court. In it, the Committee admitted that “[t]he Legislature did not enact additional timelines in 2014 to implement the program of basic education as directed by the Court in its January 2014 Order.” […]

[O]n Spetember 3, 2014…the State again admitted that it did not comply with the court’s January 2014 order….
[…]

[T]he court unaimously finds the State in contempt for failing to comply with the court’s January 9, 2014 order.

They are tardy with their homework, just like children in school, who would simply earn an F.

Rather than handing out an F, the Court offers this:

Sanctions and other remedial measures are held in abeyance to allow the State the opportunity to comply with the court’s order during the 2015 legislative session. If by adjournment of the 2015 legislative session the State has not purged the contempt by complying with the court’s order, the court will reconvene to impose sanctions and other remedial measures as necessary.

And if the Legislature fails again, the court wants a report on why they should not sanction. Otherwise…

[n]o other pleadings should be filed by any of the parties except at the direction of the court.

In other words, “shut up and finish your damn homework!”

The last Tuesday of the primary season is upon us, with primary elections in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Delaware and Rhode Island. (Okay…we’re ignoring the 13 Sept primary in the U.S. Virgin Islands.) So please join us this evening for some electoral politics over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state chapter of Drinking Liberally over the next week. The Tri-Cities, Shelton, and Vancouver, WA chapters also meet on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the Bellingham chapter meets. The Bremerton chapter meets on Thursday. And next Monday, the Aberdeen and Yakima chapters meet.

With 203 chapters of Living Liberally, including seventeen in Washington state, three in Oregon and three in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

That Canadian Immigrant:

• Ted Cruz’s dad explains black people
• Liberal Viewer: Ted Cruz’s inappropriate joke after 9 year old kills instructor with Uzi.

Mark Fiore: The Presidential Painsuit.

Puppet Nation: ISIS Schmisis.

Cheap Labor:

• Thom: Economic terrorism paid for by goons.
• James Rustad: Fight for $15:

• Thom: Workers speak out about low pay.
• Some economist debunks Republican ideas about minimum wage increases.
• The McDonalds McPoverty Meal
• José Díaz-Balart: Fight for $15 leads to massive food workers protest all over the U.S.
• Thom: The GOP War on Workers™ kills again
• Ed: VP Biden slams Republicans over their ‘War-on-Labor’

Liberal Viewer: Nutburger Peter King’s bogus claim that al Qaeda planned to attack Ft. Knox.

Sharpton: Republicans go into warp-drive trivial by attacking Obama’s tan suit.

The Wrong Guys:

• Sam Seder: Scalia’s poster man for death penalty turns out to be innocent.
• Young Turks: 30 years of horrific injustice & how Scalia made it worse.

Mental Floss: 40 tremendous college traditions.

Sharpton: Right Wingers preaching impeachment to their racist teabagger base.

A Batty Story:

• David Pakman: Gun-toting militiamen catch “illegals” studying bats
• Young Turks: Armed border thugs BUST some people…biologists studying bats.

Richard Fowler: Go figure…Medicare is not such a budget-buster anymore.

Sharpton: Carpetbagger Scott Walker enlists out-of-state supporters for Senate election

What’s Black and Brown and Red All Over?

• Jimmy Dore on Steve King on Ferguson
• COPS: Ferguson
• Jimmy Dore: Voice mail from Bill-O-the-Clown
• David Pakman: Justice Dept. will conduct civil rights investigation of Ferguson PD
• Reid Report: “There’s a new sheriff in town and his name is Eric Holder.
• Pap and Howard Nations: The police state of America.
• Jimmy Dore: Black protesters hold open carry rally

Obama visits Stonehenge.

Maddow: Rand’s burdens.

Puppet Nation: NATO Plays with itself.

The Politician–Industrial Complex:

• Sam Seder: What Eric Cantor is doing now will not surprise you.
• Chris Hayes: Cha-Ching! Defeated Congressman cashes in.
• Young Turks: Former politician resigns early to get cozy position he is unqualified for.
• David Pakman: Eric Cantor resigns and runs for the MONEY

Some nutjob Republican tries to argue that health care can be harmful to health.

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

Fruits of the Political Season:

• Jon: The craziest Senate race ads
• Young Turks: Nutburger CO candidate claims challenger wants to behead Christians
• Another Honest Political Ad
• WaPo: Best ads of the primary season.
• Why Gil is going to New Hampshire

White House: West Wing Week.

Pap: Republican obstructionism shapes Obama’s legacy

Young Turks: Dumbass politician from Oklahoma warns Christians about ALL Muslims.

Old McDonnell Had a Pen:

• A “sweeping conviction.”
• WaPo: The McDonnell trial in 3 minutes.
• The McDonnell corruption case: By the numbers.
• Ed and friends: Justice done.

Puppet Nation: Burger King hates America.

Jimmy Dore calls Mitt Romney:

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

Please join us this evening for a celebration of labor along with some political conversation over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Perhaps you can check out another Washington State chapter of Drinking Liberally over the next week. The Tri-Cities chapter also meets this Tuesday. The Lakewood chapter meets this Wednesday. And on Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets. Finally, the Enumclaw chapter meets on Friday.

With 203 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and three in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

Jonathan Mann: Fuck Yes, I’m A Social Justice Warrior:

Presidential Fashion:

• Young Turks: Tan suited Presidents.
• Sharpton: Tan Suit.

John Green: Understanding agriculture in the developing world.

Mark Fiore: Pentagon hymn, The Shores of Tripoli.

Ferguson Issues:

• Jon: FAUX News’ response to Ferguson (via TalkingPointsMemo).
• Stephen: Ferguson (via TalkingPointsMemo).
• Young Turk: Sexy video chatter’s audio Of Michael Brown shooting authenticated
• Moving moments from Michael Brown’s funeral.
• Ed: Right wingers claim that Michael Brown beat up policeman.
• Hillary Clinton breaks her silence.
• Sam Seder: FAUX News idiot claims Eric Holder runs DOJ like the Black Panthers.
• Puppet Nation: Police on my back.
• Everything Must Go!!!

Ann Telnaes: An ice bucket challenge for the media.

Ed and Pap: Could Mitt possibly save the GOP?

Mental Floss: 25 famous people who were once interns.

Sam Seder: Obama’s ambitious new global climate push.

Turtle Soup:

• Thom and Pap: BUSTED! Mitch McConnell’s Koch problem….
• Young Turks: Secret audio proves Senator is billionaires’ bitch
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Sen. Mitch McConnell’s offers crippling GRIDLOCK to the Koch Brothers

Psychosupermom: Put the blame on me, Bob.

White House: West Wing Week.

Young Turks: Chris Christie is against voting unless you’re a Republican.

Gov. Oops:

• Jon on Rick.
• Pap: Rick Perry is in big trouble.
• Jimmy Dore calls Rick Perry:

• Rick Perry: Courage
• Oops: Rick Perry forgets to feed and pay National Guard patrolling border.
• Sharpton: Oops, He did it again…Perry forgets the charges against him.

Sam Seder: State senator pleads guilty to bribery—for switching his vote from Michele Bachmann to Ron Paul.

Alex Wagner and Chris Cillizza: The role of Obamacare in the North Carolina’s Senate race.

Sharpton: Female voters Just Say No to Republican candidates.

Former Home of the Whopper:

• Chris Hayes and Robert Reisch: Burger King set to move headquaters out of the U.S.A
• Thom: The latest corporate Benedict Arnold.

Puppet Nation: Shrub returns Barry’s call.

Chris Hayes: Republicans threaten ANOTHER government shutdown

ONN: GOP maintains solid hold on youth that already look like old men.

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

It’s the last Tuesday in August, so it must be election day somewhere. In fact, there are primaries in Arizona, Florida, and Vermont and runoff elections in Oklahoma. So join us for some election night punditry and political pontification over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight, and every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner and election returns.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state DL over the next week. They’re everywhere! The Tri-Cities chapter also meets this and every Tuesday night. On Wednesday, the Bellingham and Burien chapters meet. On Thursday, the Woodinville and Spokane chapters meet. And next Monday, the Yakima, South Bellevue and Olympia chapters meet.

With 203 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and three in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Young Turks: Will the NRA support this gun club?

Paul Ryan refuses to answer a question on his tax break for millionaires.

Ann Telnaes: Time for equality, SCOTUS.

Thom: Documented cases of deported refugee children being murdered.

Mental Floss: 26 amusing facts about amusement parks.

Liberal Viewer: FAUX News attacks atheists fighting tax-exempt churches acting like super PACs.

Brown and White and Blood-Red all over:

• Joy-Ann Reid: Man killed by police for carrying a BB gun in an Ohio Walmart
• Sam Seder: Right wing reaction to Ferguson is all the proof needed to demonstrate they are race driven
• Young Turks: Eric Holder delivers a message to Ferguson.
• Chis Hayes: Growing up Black and hunted in Ferguson
• Mark Fiore: Post racial America alert.
• Maddow: County prosecutor (Republican) Bob McCulloch has no credibility!
• Young Turks: Racists gang up on Captain Ron Johnson over college fraternity signs.
• Peace through pizza
• Freedom is messy: Jimmy Dore rants about Ferguson
• Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Ferguson and America’s endless race crisis
• Young Turk: FAUX News’ report of fractured eye socket is debunked.
• CNN: FAUX News report about broken eye socket is false (surprise, surprise).
• WaPo: Ferguson is…
• Thom: When will the demilitarization of America begin?
• Sam Seder: Cop caught on camera threatening to shoot and kill protesters
• Young Turks: Officer ‘Go F*ck Yourself’ threatens to kill Ferguson protestor
• NRA versus cops

• Puppet Nation: Fear of a black planet
• Thom: Time for Bill-O-the-Clown to get real about White privilege
• Sam Seder: Kajieme Powell shot and killed by St. Louis police seconds after arriving at scene
• Young Turks: Kajieme Powell shooting video disturbs for so many reasons
• Alex Wagner with Michael Steele: Political representation of African Americans in Ferguson.

White House: West Wing Week.

Pap: McDonnell trial highlights GOP’s corrupt nature.

Bringing affordable health care to Alaska Natives.

Ed: The disconnect between Republican Christian ideals and helping the poor.

ONN: U.S. Forest Service kills off Smokey Bear to get people serious about fire safety.

Ann Telnaes: Down the Iraq rabbit hole.

Eric Schwartz: STFU Rush Limbaugh.

Setting the record strait on voter ID laws.

Oops…A Felony Indictment for the Guy with Smart Glasses:

• Tamron Hall: Gov. Rick Perry defiant after felony indictment.
• Liberal Viewer: FAUX News lists Rick Perry indictment third…hoping you’ll forget it like Rick Perry?
• Sharpton: Perry blames Democrats for a grand jury felony indictment.
• Sam Seder: Rick’s mug shot…all smirks and no “smart glasses”
• Indicted Gov. Rick Perry fears an ISIS invasion across the border (with zero evidence).

Jimmy Dore: John Boehner’s legal team speaks out.

Honest Political Ads: An Unprovoked Attack:

Maddow: Former VA Gov. McDonnell corruption trial—Pat Robertson blames Obama?!?

Farron Cousins: Has Louie Gohmert completely lost his mind?

Mitt Romney ALS Ice bucket challenge.

Pap: The Tea Party charity swindle.

Thom corrects Karl Rove and the fact free zombies of FAUX News.

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

What’s on your mind these days? Are you thinking about the upcoming fall elections? Do you have an opinion on Ferguson or the militarization of local police forces? Perhaps you are still pondering the Seattle Times’ bizarre estate tax op-ed, or have an urge to do something about it? Or maybe you are curious about the Perry indictment.

Whatever it is that has you thinking politics, consider the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally as your weekly sounding board for all things political.

We meet tonight, and every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Perhaps you can check out another Washington State chapter of Drinking Liberally over the next week. The Tri-Cities and Shelton chapters also meet this Tuesday. The Lakewood and South Seattle chapters meet this Wednesday. And on Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets.

With 205 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and three in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Oops. Rick Perry is Indicted on two Felony Counts:

• CNN: Gov. Rick Perry indicted by Texas Grand Jury.
• AP: Texas’ Rick Perry indicted for abuse of power
• Steve Kornacki with James Moore: Rick Perry’s indictment and Perry’s response.
• Young Turks: Texas Governor Rick Perry (R-Oops) is indicted by Grand Jury on two felony counts.
• Rick Perry charged with abuse of power.
• Maddow: Texas Gov. Rick Perry indicted on 2 felony counts
• James Rustad: “The Rick Perry Song”

Mental Floss: 30 Weird Sports Injuries.

Puppet Nation: Obama calls Shrub:

The Wingnut Border Meme:

• Matt Binder: James “Pimp” O’Keefe pretends to be Osama bin Laden.
• Young Turks: FAUX entertainer claims personal knowledge that ISIS has crossed U.S. border

John Oliver (with Sarah Silverman) on payday loans.

Farron Cousins: Ted Nugent, the draft dodging dixieland dumbass, says something.

The Flaccid Neocons Twitch A Bit:

• Young Turks: War Mongering Wingnuts attack Obama for showing constraint.
• Mark Fiore: John McCain’s “Bomb It”!
• José Díaz-Balart: G.O.P. Nutjobbers fearmonger over Obama’s Iraq actions
• Sharpton w/ Rep. Jim McDermott (WA-7): John “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran” wants more bombing.

Pap and David Pakman: Which state has the worst voter suppression?.

White House: West Wing Week.

RJ Eskow with Nancy Altman: WTF?!? Social Security Trustees report a growing surplus.

David Pakman: Congressman against minimum wage hike complains he hasn’t received a raise.

G.I. Cop:

• Ferguson SWAT shoot tear gas at Al Jazeera news crew
• WaPo’s Wesley Lowery’s pre-arrest video
• Chris Hayes: The militarization of local police
• David Pakman: Unarmed black teen gunned down by police.
• Michael Eric Dyson: 18 Yr Old Michael Brown murdered by St. Louis, MO Police.
• CNN: Ferguson police harass journalists.
• David Pakman: New eyewitness to unarmed teen Michael Brown killing emerges
• Chris Hayes: Reporter describes setting up for broadcast then being shot at by Ferguson police
• Young Turks: Rage is the right response to police killings
• Maddow reminds Ferguson protesters what it took in Bunkerville to make cops “back off”
• Young Turks: Smear campaign follows release of name of unarmed-black-kid-shooting cop.
• Jonathan Mann: The Ferguson Army Song:

• Matt Binder: Police kill unarmed teen in Missouri
• James Rustad: “A song for Michael Brown”
• Young Turks: Unarmed black teen killed by police in St. Louis
• David Pakman: Anonymous takes down Ferguson’s police web site
• Young Turks: LAPD kills unarmed mentally disabled man and racially insults him
• Thom: Another unarmed black teen killed by the police
• David Pakman: Police kill a black man in walmart for carrying BB gun sold in store
• Matt Binder: Police shoot and kill black man in Walmart.
• Sharpton: The summer of police killing unarmed blacks
• Young Turks: In 2009, Ferguson police beat an innocent man and then charged him for bleeding on them.

Jimmy Dore speaks with Ron Paul about his son.

Tweety: ObamaCare is thriving despite Republican attempts to smear, defund, weaken, destroy and repeal it (54 times!).

ACLU sues Fife over pot ban.

Imps for Impeachment:

• Sharpton: Despite denials, G.O.P. candidates run on impeachment.
• Jimmy Dore gets a call from John Boehner about impeachment.
• Ed: Mike Huckabee talks impeachment

Alex Wagner: Paul bearers—has the Libertarian movement finally arrived?

Puppet Nation: Ebola media coverage formula.

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) “There are certain shows on Fox I can’t watch, because they’re totally not fair and totally not balanced.”.

Young Turks: Reality check—why almost no scientists are Republicans:

FAUX & FIENDS are totally befuddled by Obama’s vacation plans.

Corporations are Peoples, Too:

• Young Turks: How people become superPACS to buy politicians.
• Pap: The corporate death grip on America.
• David Pakman: Comcast spends $110K on dinner to honor sitting FCC Commissioner?!?
• Young Turks: If corporations are people, why not become a corporation for the corporate privileges?
• Farron Cousins: Charles Koch’s plan to destroy the economy.

Young Turks: GOP Governor hilariously battles satanists.

Alex Wagner: Romney’s favorite “Jimmy Johns” sub shop accused of wage theft.

David Pakman: White students are no longer the majority in public schools.

The Quitter Babbles:

• Farron Cousins: Sarah Palin is is just as stupid as you would think.
• Michael Brooks: This IDIOT was John McCain’s CHOICE for a running mate.
• David Pakman: Sarah Palin attempts to use words. Fails.
• Young Turks: The embarassing Sarah.
• Sarah Palin explains fast food wages from another viewpoint
• Epic Rap Battles: Sarah Palin VS Lady Gaga
• Hitler finds out about The Sarah Palin Channel
• Puppet Nation: Botched prison executions…THANKS OBAMA!

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

Please join us tonight for an evening of politics over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. While our primary election is over, there are some interesting primary elections going on in Connecticut, Wisconsin, and Minnesota tonight.

We meet tonight, and every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state chapter of Drinking Liberally over the next week. The Tri-Cities, Vancouver, WA, and Redmond chapters also meet on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the Bellingham chapter meets. The Spokane chapter meets on Thursday. And next Monday, the Aberdeen, Yakima and Olympia chapters meet.

With 205 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and three in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Ugly.

Jon: Virginia is for lovers…of money.

Obama: Statement on actions in Iraq.

Ann Telnaes: Israel’s Mission Accomplished.

The U.S. Tortured People:

• Ann Telnaes: “We tortured some folks”.
• Michael Brooks: Obama points out the, “We tortured some folks”.

Thom: The “sovereign citizen” movement threat.

Gil Fulbright: Fancy Farm Speech:

Farron Cousins: Diagnosing Ann Coulter’s mental illness.

Mental Floss: 33 amazing toy facts.

Thom: The Siberian crater mystery solved…and it isn’t good news.

Crazy Congress Critters:

• Ezra Klein: G.O.P. led U.S. Congress is less popular than head lice.
• Young Turks: Rand Paul flees Dreamers.
• Alex Wagner: Rand Paul drops his burger and flees
• Sam Seder: Rand Paul runs away…
• Ed: Rand Paul’s dine and dash.
• Steve Kornacki: Rand Paul employs Reagan fact-denying, lying tactics.
• David Pakman: Rand Paul flees in terror from Hispanic immigrant
• Sharpton: DREAMers confront Tea-Party racist Steve King as hypocrite Rand Paul flees
• Jon nails Aqua Buddah on his foreign aid flip flop
• Ezra Klein: The G.O.P. BIG immigration problem
• Mark Fiore: Camp Do Nuttin’.
• David Pakman: Most Americans disapprove of the G.O.P. lawsuit.
• Matt Binder: G.O.P. report finds no wrongdoing by Administration in Benghazi!?!?!
• Steve Kornacki: Obama administration cleared of deliberate wrongdoing in the Benghazi attack
• David Pakman: Benghazi fizzle…no administration wrongdoing.
• Young Turks: Odd…House Intelligence Committee report clears the Administration, but FAUX News is silent.
• Liberal Viewer: Will Republicans impeach Obama for not deporting enough undocumented immigrants?
• Sam Seder: The GOP attack on child refugees
• Late Night Laughs: Congressional recess edition

Sharpton: The G.O.P. wishes Obama a happy birthday:

White House: West Wing Week.

Farrons Cousins: Rick Scott’s environmental flip-flop flap.

Late Night Laughs: Obama’s Birthday Edition.

Thom: When the ocean’s carbon cycle goes out of balance.

Sam Seder: Reality check on Obama’s immigration authority.

Pap: It is time for Democrats to fight back.

Donald Trump is a Fucking Moron:

• Ana Kasparian: Donald Trump’s ebola comments.
• Stephen reacts to The Donald’s comment on ebola-stricken doctors.

Steve Kornacki: Is Gov. Sam Brownback (R-KS) in big trouble.

Young Turks: Meghan McCain destroys Glenn Beck.

Pap: The Republican Party has betrayed Lincoln.

Jimmy Dore: Worst piece of journalism.

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