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What ever happened to Seattle nice?

I was on the bus over the weekend, and I sat in the seats over the wheels that face each other, as opposed to the ones that face forward. It was bright out, so I had my sunglasses on. I should say for this story that they weren’t particularly dark.

I wasn’t really paying attention to anything other than the podcast about the Holy Roman Empire that I was listening to. The guy sitting across from me says, “where are you getting off the bus?”

I assumed he was going to need some help with something and was looking for a recruit. I really didn’t know. “Queen Anne.”

He didn’t say anything for a bit and then angrily said, “take your fucking glasses off. You’re being creepy.”

Now, I’m not damaging my eyes because some coked up (?) jackass on the bus is having a paranoid reaction to me sitting. So I sort of nod my head no, and go back to the podcast. Now guy who is concerned about creepy people on the bus is starting at me intently. And I have to pay him much more attention than I had been. He got off the bus before me and the rest of the section of the bus started laughing at him.

Be nicer, Seattle.

Numbers 15:32-36
While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day. Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly, and they kept him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him. Then the LORD said to Moses, “The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp.” So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Discuss.

Trevor’s solution to unnecessary 911 calls.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: “Dangerous minds”-ing the Colorado teachers’ strike

The Atlantic: The 99% is a myth—here’s how it really breaks down.

Physics Girl: The most mysterious object in the universe.

Young Turks: Tomi Lahren gets owned on immigration.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Grifter Dotard Трамп and Company:

• Lawrence O’Donnell: The Dotard Трамп attacks W.H. leakers, who leak about leaking
• Bill Maher: Royally screwed
• Late Show: Hallmark’s White House apology collection
• Chris Hayes on Dotard Трамп’s “astonishingly blatant abuse of power”
• Ari Melber: Трамп aide’s suspicious meeting triggered ‘crossfire hurricane’
• Vox: The big problem with comparing Трамп to Nixon
• Mark Fiore: Jared, boy-peacemaker!
• WaPo: A year of Трамп’s attacks on the special counsel probe
• David Pakman: Senate investigation concludes Russia interfered to help Трамп win
• Stephen: Трамп wants the U.S. to “be cool” about China
• Late Show: Another late night call between Hannity and Трамп
• Farron Cousins: Hannity FLIPS OUT on Mueller investigation, calls it a threat to American democracy
• Rachel Maddow: Missing financial reports drove leak of Michael Cohen information:

• Chris Hayes: Steve Schmidt, “There is blood on Dotard Трамп’s hands
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Dotard Трамп Jr’s hard-to-believe memory lapses
• Stephen: Dotard Трамп Jr.’s testimony summarized—“I do not recall”
• Seth Meyers: North Korea threatens to pull out of Трамп summit
• Bill Maher: 25 things you don’t know about Michael Cohen
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Meet Трамп’s new fixer
• Late Show: Mueller’s anniversary gift for the President
• Trevor: The Трамп administration is plagued by professional leakers
• David Pakman: Трамп now “helping” China after their $500 million contribution
• Joy Ann Reid: Details from grand jury witnesses offers peek at Robert Mueller’s progress
• Ari Melber: Did Dotard Трамп and his advisers coordinate political attacks?
• Farron Cousins: Watch Rudy Giuliani FREAK OUT on CNN when busted lying
• Stephen: Sean Hannity puts the President to bed each night
• Lawrence O’Donnell: “These are animals”
• Seth Meyers: Трамп deals with new Russia and Michael Cohen bombshells
• Chris Hayes: Senate Judiciary transcripts shed new light on Трамп Tower meeting with Russians
• Lauren Meyer: Follow All The Money:

• Lawrence O’Donnell: John Kelly still silent after staffer mocked “dying” Sen. McCain
• The Late Show: Are You Moving An Embassy?
• Stephen: A GOP bill would require Трамп/Pence photos at post offices
• Ari Melber: Mueller circling Roger Stone with new Russia probe subpoena
• Trevor: Fraudulent for-profit schools make a comeback under Betsy DeVos
• Rachel Maddow: Kushner family sees Qatar-tied bailout as US policy warms to Qatar
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: John Bolton jeopardizes Трамп’s Nobel prize
• Seth Meyers: Michael Cohen pay-to-play allegations and John Kelly’s immigration comments
• Stephen: There’s one thing Jake Tapper wants from Mueller’s probe
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Michael Cohen’s missing suspicious activity reports
• Bill Maher: New Rule—Трамп is above the law
• The Late Show: Pillow talk with Трамп and Hannity
• Chris Hayes: The unintended consequences of The Dotard Трамп’s FAUX-only media diet
• Heads of State: Трамп explains how his China deal is totally NOT a bribe:

• Stephen: The White House “buckles up” for Mueller probe
• Ari Melber: Dotard Трамп-Hannity bromance hitting T-pain level.
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: The U.S. Embassy moves to Jerusalem
• James Corden: Dotard Трамп remembered his anniversary
• Lawrence O’Donnell: “Bob Mueller didn’t say that”
• Trevor: Backlash over Трамп’s Jerusalem embassy move
• Sam Seder: Bill Gates dunks on the Dotard Трамп’s absolute stupidity
• Chris Hayes: Bill Gates dishes about President Dotard Трамп meetings
• Seth Meyers: Late Night White House press briefing, “Is Трамп through with porn stars?
• Stephen: What happens in the White House, leaks from the White House

John Oliver: Venezuela

Jimmy Dore: Rick Perry gives Dennis Miller mean jokes to use on female comedian.

Ronny Chieng: “Pawfficer Donut” becomes Michigan’s first police cat.

Young Turks: Republican breaks stupid meter with “scientific” theory

Kurzgesagt: The deadliest being on planet earth.

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.

The Atlantic: A visual history of light.

Hate’n and Shoot’n In ‘Merica:

• Slate: Why the far right believes every Muslim is a liar.
• Young Turks: Gun nut marches around college campus with assault rifle
• WaPo: What we know about the Texas shooting suspect
• Sam Seder: Student says she’s not surprised that tragedy happened at her school
• Chris Hayes: Dannel Malloy (D-CT) to governors, “You can make your state safer!”
• The Atlantic: A devastating hate crime in Kansas
• WaPo: The Texas school shooting thought the eyes of a survivor.
• Young Turks: Racist snowflake triggered by people not speaking English
• Sam Seder: This man is the Forrest Gump of being racist in NYC
• Farron Cousins: Confused Tucker Carlson has a meltdown on national TV

Francesca Fiorentini: The biggest myths about socialism.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: The unimpressive royal wedding

Big Tobacco saying sorry (because they legally have to).

Jim Jefferies with Curtis Cook: Is Kanye West the mythical Black Republican?

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

There’s a small part of me that hopes there is an initiative to repeal the head tax. I haven’t seen any polls, but I can’t imagine team regressive taxes and do nothing about homelessness is popular among Seattle voters. Still, I hope you don’t sign if you see a petition. It’s past time to deal with homelessness in Seattle.

So, obvi, all private server email scandals aren’t the same. Hillary Clinton deleting emails after her lawyer says it’s fine isn’t nearly as bad as the Republican Party losing State Department emails on their server. But if you’re going to say what about email servers, at the very least, don’t do it when you get in power. Honestly get your shit together.

It’s another election Tuesday with primaries in Idaho, Nebraska, Oregon and Pennsylvania. Additionally, there are some special election in state house or senate districts in Pennsylvania and Alabama. Stop by tonight’s edition of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally and join the conversations about national, state, or local politics. Or just decompress over a drink.

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? There are 253 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, six in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or consider starting your own chapter.

Later this month is the 400th anniversary of the Defenestration of Prague. I have trouble wrapping my head around the 30 Years’ War, let alone the Holy Roman Empire. It’s tough to imagine the religious fervor. I don’t think anyone who participated could understand the horror they were unleashing.

The world seems very very different from ours. And yet 400 years seems like not much time at all.

Proverbs 29:15
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Discuss.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Guam: Why America’s most isolated territory exists.

Sam Seder: FAUX guest stuns everyone after saying torture worked on McCain.

Jimmy Fallon with Trevor Noah: Helping train teachers and educate South African orphans.

The Dotard Трамп and His Stormy Mofia:

• Trevor: Трамп pulls out of the Iran nuclear deal
• Stephen: Трамп ignores U.S. allies, leaves the Iran deal
• Lauren Mayer: This isn’t normal!
• Bill Maher: No deal.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Dotard Трамп attacks stop after Michael Avenatti revelation
• WaPo: This Трамп appointee runs a federal agency from his home in Dallas.
• Late Show: A word from the Nobel Peace Prize
• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s fixer, Michael Cohen, had a secret slush fund
• Jimmy Kimmel: If Dotard Трамп is nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize
• Chris Hayes: Robert Mueller questioned companies that paid Michael Cohen
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Трамп plays the hits at the NRA convention
• Ari Melber: How Cohen’s “slush fund” could destroy Трамп like Nixon’s tapes
• Young Turks: Trump’s idiotic smear of universal health care
• Stephen: Gina Haspel says waterboarding is so 2002
• Trevor: Michael Hayden, “The Assault on Intelligence” in Трамп’s post-truth America
• Vox: Трамп quits Iran nuclear deal, undoing years of diplomacy
• Heads of State: Why Трамп is ripping immigrant children from their parents:

• Rachel Maddow: Without Iran plan, Трамп destroys US credibility and betrays allies.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Paying Michael Cohen is filling the swamp with money
• Ari Melber: The Dotard cheapens North Korean hostage return with ratings obsession
• SNL Weekend Update: On Rudy Giuliani’s confessions
• Trevor: Michael Cohen’s secret side hustle
• Joy Ann Reid: Michael Cohen case folds in on itself with unexpected Schneiderman twist
• Stephen: Трамп says Giuliani will “Get his facts straight”
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Трамп pulls out of the Iran nuclear deal
• Conan: Melania Трамп’s Other Campaign Ideas
• WaPo: Who is Viktor Vekselberg
• Jimmy Kimmel: Drunk Dotard Трамп is out of order
• Late Show: Pennywise The Clown loves Jeff Sessions’ new immigration policy
• Seth Meyers: Трамп supporters think he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
• Samantha Bee: Art of the Iran deal
• Stephen: Michael Cohen has been selling access to the President
• James Corden: Трамп’s Mueller interview prep is off to a rough start
• Trevor: Rudy Giuliani’s catastrophic media blitz
• Late Show: Iran’s response to Dotard Трамп
• Ari Melber: Republicans line up against justice, invite the Rod Rosenstein showdown
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Michael Avenatti’s sexy media blitz
• Rachel Maddow: Newly exposed payments to Michael Cohen add depth to Stormy Daniels case
• Lawrence O’Donnell: The Dotard Трамп filled the swamp with former lobbyists
• Stephen: Melania Трамп is riding high after her first state sinner
• Francesca Fiorentini: Greatest hypocrisies in the Трамп era:

• Trevor and Michael Kosta Discuss the Трамп-Giuliani “scumbag defense”
• Stephen: Трамп’s plan for peace is to “out-crazy” Kim Jong-Un
• Chris Hayes: Scott Pruitt’s security threats
• Mark Fiore: Blowing up the Iran deal with buster!
• WaPo: A Russian oligarch, a porn star and AT&T—The tale of Michael Cohen’s shell company
• Ari Melber: Mueller puts lawyer tied to Трамп campaign behind bars
• Late Show: Rudy Giuliani is digging himself into a hole.
• Bill Maher: New Rule—Married to the mob.
• Conan: Americans approve of Трамп being North Korea’s next hostage
• David Pakman: Dotard Трамп’s “Space Military”
• Michael Brooks: Trump starts lying as soon as he meets released North Korea prisoners
• Jimmy Kimmel: Rudy Giuliani is very confused
• Stephen: This week in Scott Pruitt’s scandals
• Jimmy Fallon with Trevor Noah: President Трамп’s “Knife crimes” comments make a new reggae song
• Maddow with Michael Avenatti: Michael Cohen only really has one employer
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Michael Avenatti on suspicious payments to Dotard Трамп’s lawyer.
• Seth Meyers: Rudy Giuliani keeps making things Worse for Трамп
• Ari Melber: Sex-tape lawyer who helped Cohen silence women could topple him
• Stephen: Melania to today’s youth—‘Be best’
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Richard Cordray’s fight for consumer protection

Mental Floss: TV moms, animal kingdom moms, and Mother’s Day!.

Chris Hayes: Sheldon Adelson cuts $30M check to GOP-aligned super PAC.

Late Show: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s “Political confessions”.

Vox: The “duck curve” is solar’s greatest challenge.

Misbehaving Men:

• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Men are ruining everything.
• Jim Jefferies: How the NFL exploits its cheerleaders
• Trevor: Eric “Champion of Women” Schneiderman falls to the #MeToo movement
• Samantha Bee: Checking in with #MeToo.
• Jim Jefferies: Tucker Carlson proves men are weak:

• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: SuperShe Island—No men allowed

Seth Meyers: Michelle Wolf talks about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Late Show tolerance tips.

WaPo: She rented an apartment owned by Sean Hannity…Then came the bedbugs, late rent and eviction..

Trevor: Slavery scenarios infect U.S. schools.

Primary Season:

• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper:
• Chris Hayes: The political demise of Don Blankenship
• WaPo: Winners and losers from the first big primary day of 2018
• Jimmy Kimmel: Mike Pence’s brothers revealed
• Trevor: Don Blankenship takes on “Cocaine Mitch” McConnell
• WaPo: What to watch in this year’s state primaries
• Lewis Black: The Primaries Are Working Their Stupid Magic

Minute Earth: When trees go nuts.

Ari Melber: Extremists and worse slip through as GOP rushes to pack courts.

Andy Richter and friends: A lesson in implicit bias.

Stephen: Everyone in China is getting a “Social credit score”.

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

Huh…I just turned on KUOW (94.9 MHz) to listen to the Week in Review, and it turns out Goldy is one of the panelists.

Check it out now (from noon to 1pm) or listen to the rerun this evening (7pm to 8pm).

Look, we can’t have a head tax, because then there will be fewer heads. It’s Econ 101. Just like how the so called death tax causes there to be fewer so called deaths. What, do you want more not dead headless people? Vote no to prevent Seattle from becoming the new Sleepy Hollow. Econ 101.

As Darryl reminded me at Drinking Liberally this week, today is the 14th blogiversary of HA. Reflecting back on my very first post, I obviously had no idea how this blog would quickly take over my life.

I don’t much blog here at the moment (or anywhere for that matter), but a big thank you to all my loyal readers and trolls for helping to make the past 14 years, well, something.

There are a lot of things more important about the Cohen bribery scandals. But Essential Consultants? That’s the name of your evil scheme. I know that the goal was to fly under the RADAR. But so much else was designed to get caught. Seriously has there been a more boringly named GOP effort to destroy the Republic since the Enterprise?

It’s Tuesday! And that means the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally will meet. Besides chatting politics over drinks, we’ll be watching the primaries in Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio, and West Virginia. Especially West Virginia. Stop by if you can.

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? There are 253 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, six in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or consider starting your own chapter.

It’s weird that people who spent 8 years looking for Obama’s Katrina aren’t saying the same for Trump. I mean Puerto Rico is still suffering from Trump’s actions. The continued suffering of our fellow citizens is a choice. The same people who thought that everything Obama did was as bad as Katrina sure are missing their chance.