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Buses honking at cars in the stop is my favorite thing. I don’t know, yesterday coming home honk honk honk. Sure it’s like 10:30 in a fairly residential neighborhood. So great from the bus, probably less so if you’re in an apartment trying to sleep. I assume it’s rideshare drivers, but maybe it’s delivery people. I know that it’s tough to find a place to idle your car for a few minutes while you wait for the next customer, but stay out of the bus stop. Honk honk honk.

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!

Monday Open Thread

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Can whoever is killing sea lions please stop? It seems like not fucking killing sea lions would be the default. Come to think of it, I have lived my whole damn life not killing sea lions.

If you see a sea lion today, just let it be. Same tomorrow and the next day. Pretty soon you’ve gone a week without killing any sea lions. Then a month of no killing sea lions. Because you know it, not killing sea lions becomes a habit.

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.

Open Thread

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Man, what the hell, Republic? If you care about the Second Amendment, form a well regulated militia. You actually can do that. I mean protect yourself from invading Canadians, or insurrectionary elements or whatever. But this is silly.

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!

Open Thread

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When you call the police on Black people, you are running all sorts of risks. There are worst cases, but even if they don’t happen, it’s still pretty bad. So sometimes you “just” humiliate someone supervising a parental visit.

The role of police in that instance wasn’t to remove fear. It was to move it from the white employees to the Black man minding his business.

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.

Nov 16 Open Thread

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I am pretty much fine with a leadership fight after an election. So a challenge to Nancy Pelosi in and of itself seems fine. It’s a little weird coming right after a major pickup in the House. I think Nancy Pelosi is great, but leadership challenges help define the party.

0pen Thread Thread

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I am on the bus after Drinking Liberally, and am behind someone who smells strongly like vaping. I have smelled worse many times on the bus, or on the light rail. Hell, many times on this route.

But what is our obligation to smell reasonable on the bus? And did this person move in that direction by switching from smoking to vaping?

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.

Open Thread

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Jeff Sessions is a piece of shit. Obviously fuck him for ever. And yet, his successor is going to be worse. This seems to be the story of the Trump administration. There is no bottom.

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