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I went home fairly early after Drinking Liberally last night. Nonetheless, I am feeling tired. So instead of a coherent post, I am just going to do the half-sleep on public transit thing. Talk among yourselves.

Stormy days, these. But you can find shelter at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally. Stop by this evening for conversations over a drink.

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

Can’t make it to Seattle? Ok…then check out one of the 249 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.

So. Now we’ve seen the Stormy Daniels interview, does it add much? I think we all knew the outlines. I guess it’s good to hear it from her. I don’t care about an affair. And consensual sex is less gross than the sexual assault he has bragged about.

Campaign finance violations? Sure, probably. So blackmail possibilities from his careless behavior? Maybe. Hypocrisy of his religious supporters? Doy, but we already knew that.

Nahum 1:2-6
The Lord is a jealous God, filled with vengeance and rage. He takes revenge on all who oppose him and continues to rage against his enemies!

The Lord is slow to get angry, but his power is great, and he never lets the guilty go unpunished. He displays his power in the whirlwind and the storm. The billowing clouds are the dust beneath his feet.

At his command the oceans dry up, and the rivers disappear. The lush pastures of Bashan and Carmel fade, and the green forests of Lebanon wither.

In his presence the mountains quake, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles, and its people are destroyed.

Who can stand before his fierce anger? Who can survive his burning fury? His rage blazes forth like fire, and the mountains crumble to dust in his presence.

Discuss.

Stephen: Putin wins election (with some help from the Russians).

The week in Congressional hits and misses.

NASA: Astronaut Moments with NASA astronaut Drew Feustel.

Samantha Bee: The history of women’s pain.

WaPo: Audio and texts show how two men worked to discredit one of Roy Moore’s accusers.

Minute Physics: The brown dwarf debate.

Vox: Why female condoms are so hard to find.

The guy who won’t talk about politics.

The Dotard Трамп:

• Rachel Maddow: Трамп chaos takes out McMaster and alarms with appointment of Bolton
• Stephen: The Dotard Трамп congratulates Putin for electing himself
• Seth Meyers: Трампs’ advisers told him not to congratulate Putin
• Joy Reid: Dotard Трамп’s invisible plane
• Ari Melber: Secret memo warned The Dotard Трамп data firm about breaking U.S. law
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп is furious and bad at spelling
• Chris Hayes: Betsy DeVos finally answers Congresswoman’s question, a year later
• A PSA by Our Cartoon President
• Jonathan Mann: Who Wants To Go To War (John Bolton That’s Who)
• Lewis Black: Трамп’s golfing milestone
• Seth Meyers: McKay Coppins on what really motivates Трамп
• Rachel Maddow: Robert Mueller following the money on Трамп’s Middle East policy
• Late Show: Rex Tillerson gets fired on the toilet
• Stephen: Трамп’s lawyer paid off Stormy Daniels because he “cares.”
• HeadsOfState: EPA’s Scott Pruitt explains spending $43,000 on s soundproof booth:

• Rachel Maddow: Against advice, Трамп congratulates Putin on sham election win
• Conan: The damaging information Russia Has on Трамп
• Samantha Bee: Firings, facebook, and (not-so-fond) farewells
• Jimmy Kimmel: Security footage proves Ben Carson’s furniture is fangerous
• James Corden: First ad for Трамп’s anti-drug campaign
• SNL: Anderson Cooper White House turmoil
• Seth Meyers: U.S. cybersecurity
• WaPo: Not just a “coffee boy”—Papadopoulos’s role in Трамп’s campaign
• Stephen: Трамп shuffles his legal counsel to fend off Mueller
• Jim Carrey’s art causes a stir.
• Our Cartoon President: Stormy Daniels
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Stormy Daniels’ lawyer sends “warning shot” to President Dotard Трамп
• Chris Hayes: Senator Chris Murphy on John Bolton: “I can’t imagine” a more dangerous pick
• Rachel Maddow: As legal team withers, Трамп adds cable news legal pundits
• Seth Meyers: McKay Coppins on why Трамп’s White House is like the hunger games
• Stephen: Dotard Трамп Jr. colluded with a woman who wasn’t his wife
• Ari Melber: Some Republicans talk impeachment if Трамп fires Robert Mueller
• Jimmy Kimmel: Lots of turnover in the White House
• Trevor: Трамп sacks Andrew McCabe and takes aim at Robert Mueller.
• WaPo: Four of Bolton’s mustache’s hawkish moments
• Seth Meyers: The Dotard trades barbs with Biden as legal problems mount
• Stephen analyticizes Cambridge Analytica
• Trevor: Трамп takes on the opioid crisis
• David Pakman: Трамп says he could beat up Joe Biden
• Conan: Canadian has a strongly worded message for Трамп
• Late Show: Трамп’s new legal team—conspiracy theorists at law
• Seth Meyers: The Dotard attacks Mueller and McCabe, and Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica
• Trevor: Electronic brainwashing—Cambridge Analytica’s sinister Facebook strategy
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп vs Biden—Sarah Knucklebee Sanders weighs in
• Stephen: Let the Robert Mueller tweets begin!
• Joy Reid: Maxine Waters on impeachment—we can’t wait for 2020
• Rachel Maddow: Cambridge Analytica scandal rocks already rattled Трамп world
• Lawrence O’Donnell: ohn Bolton and the madness in the White House
• Jonathan Mann: Will he or won’t he fire Mueller
• James Corden: Трамп’s new lawyer and Dotard Jr.’s affair:

• Seth Meyers and John Oliver on John’s children’s book about VP Pence’s gay bunny, Marlon Bundo
• Chris Hayes: Трамп ignores all caps warning and congratulates Vladimir Putin

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Redpilled—The Storm

Our Cartoon President: Who gets out to turn the jets on?
Our Cartoon President: Biparti-Satans busted!

Vox: Why eating healthily is so expensive in America.

Jimmy Kimmel: Happy 88th Birthday Pat Robertson.

Samantha Bee: The Iraq war, 15 years later.

Stephen works out with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Gunz in ‘Merica and the March for Our Lives:

• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: March For Our Lives vs. Brave adults who do nothing
• Trevor and Parkland students discuss gun reform and March for Our Lives
• Locked and loaded Трамп.
• Ari Melber: Parkland survivor—Congress need to “get up” and fix gun violence
• Mother Jones: He survived the Las Vegas massacre, and he’s protesting for the first time
• What? ANOTHER GODDAMN SCHOOL SHOOTING?!?
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Baltimore teens speak out about underreported gun violence
• Francesca Fiorentini: School shootings—A good reason to lower the voting age?

• Late Night: Teenagers—Saving our country so you don’t have to
• WaPo: “Too many of my friends have died because of guns”
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Laura Ingraham vs. March for Our Lives
• Trevor: Tucker Carlson’s bad take on teen activists
• FL Students: “We’ve been silent for too long”
• Mother Jones: Newtown students heading to D.C. with the message “Enough is enough”
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Adult-splaining grammar to teen activist David Hogg.
• Vox: What students really think about school shootings.

Samantha Bee: All you get is birth control.

Trevor: Facebook fallout—Mark Zuckerberg rolls out an apology

Garfunkel and Oates: Both sides can laugh:

Adam ruins the midnight ride of Paul Revere.

Stephen: Mark Zuckerberg is silent smid Facebook’s privacy scandal.

Vox: Women are not as divided on #MeToo as it may seem.

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

Shouldn’t the President know what’s in a spending bill before Fox News tells him? Honestly, the bill is probably a piece of shit, but it’s his fucking job to know what’s in it during negotiations. He has experts at his disposal; Don’t rely on a semi-fictional TV talk show.

I have been listening to The History of English podcast, and it’s very strange for me to listen to a history podcast that’s still going. Usually I will binge a series once it’s done. Anyway, it has got to Edward I. The podcast hasn’t got there yet, but pretty soon, he is going to ban Jewish people from England.

As I was listening to this, I walked by Seattle Shakespeare. I see that The Merchant of Venice is coming up. It. Made me realize that the vast majority of people who the play was written for had never met anyone Jewish. It had been over 300 years, and yet the stereotypes were popularly understood.

According to the data that we pilfered from Facebook and analyzed into a profile by our team of data scientists using the very latest in neural network-based AI, you need a damn drink! So stop by the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally this evening and join us for conversations and/or rants over that drink.

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

Can’t make it to Seattle? Ok…then check out one of the 249 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.

At this point, any Republican who hasn’t actively denounced Donald Trump is trying to turn the US into a dictatorship. The McCabe firing means that a Muller firing is almost inevitable. At some point, a point that has almost certainly passed, anything but actively working against him is complicity.

Ecclesiastes 5:12
Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.

Discuss.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: FAUX News gets a new slogan

WaPo: Phillis Wheatley’s existence was dangerous to an idea the U.S. was founded on.

Mental Floss: Everything you need to know about English and other languages!.

Joy Reid, Amber Ruffin, and Jenny Hagel: Diversity in Late Night at SXSW.

Vox: The guide book that helped black Americans travel during segregation.

Daily Show: Is facial recognition software racist?.

Samantha Bee: Cy Vance—Technically legal, Part 1.
Samantha Bee: Cy Vance—Technically legal, Part 2.

Rachel Maddow: New sanctions reveal Russian hacking of US energy infrastructure

Paradigms—How we know what we know: The science of seeing.

The Dotard Трамп And His White House Shit Show:

• Stephen: Rex in review—Colbert’s top takes on Secretary Tillerson
• Seth Meyers: Трампs unhinged rally and Betsy DeVos’ train wreck interview
• Chris Hayes: The Dotard Трамп likes to hire TV personalities for important roles
• Conan: LIVE footage of Трамп’s motorcade in Los Angeles
• James Cordon: The Dotard Трамп can’t stop firing his staff
• Ari Melber: “Art of the Deal” ghostwriter, “Трамп exploits fear.”
• Our Cartoon President: “I would like to plant a story”
• Stephen: Stormy Daniels suggests Трамп has been…bad
• Space Force: The theme song:

• WaPo Fact Check: Does President Трамп’s border wall pay for itself?
• Kimmel: A message from Melania Трамп on cyberbullying
• Stephen goes to art therapy
• Seth Meyers: Late Night White House press briefing—When is the impeachment?
• Jimmy Dore: Jeff Sessions boasts “I’m not ‘fraid of Трамп, no suh!”
• Lawrence O’Donnell: The subpoena President Dotard Трамп feared more than any other
• Trevor: Трамп improvises his way through a rally and agrees to meet Kim Jong-un
• Heads Of State: Трамп on Bannon saying being called racist is a “badge of honor”
• Stephen: Трамп went to Pennsylvania to endorse…himself
• Our Cartoon President: “Just report the facts”
• Stephen: Hungry To Leave Power Games, Rex Tillerson edition.
• Jimmy Kimmel: The Dotard Трамп visits wall samples in California
• Trevor: Profiles in tremendousness—Larry Kudlow
• James Corden: Трамп pitches space force to “Marine Core”
• Late Show: How the House intel committee landed on “no collusion”
• Mark Fiore: MAGA staffing solutions.
• Conan: Betsy DeVos and Stormy Daniels are equally qualified to be education secretary
• Late Show: Which Трамп cabinet member will survive the DCAA tournament?

• Seth Meyers: Трамп fires Rex Tillerson
• Our Cartoon President: Love Of money is the root of all evil
• Stephen: Трамп presents “space force, episode dumb”
• Seth Meyers: Трамп lies to Trudeau and fills his staff with loyalists
• Stephen: Rex Tillerson got fired via Twitter
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: What does Carter Page not know?
• Rachel Maddow: UK punishes Russia over spy poisoning, The Dotard Трамп oddly quiet
• James Corden: Trump has turned sleeping into an insult
• Trevor: Trump inspects the wall
• Chris Hayes: What will Robert Mueller find in the Трамп organization documents?
• Seth Meyers: Conor Lamb’s win, Трамп’s “space force” and #NationalStudentWalkout
• Jimmy Kimmel: Shocking discovery about Трамп merchandise
• Stephen: Can Трамп’s lawyers block Stormy Daniels’ “60 Minutes” appearance?
• Samantha Bee: Rex & Mike & Conor & teens
• Ari Melber: How Трамп’s “obsessive desire” to meet Vladimir Putin unfolded
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп departed staffer commemorative plates
• WaPo: Does Трамп want a cabinet full of FAUX News personalities?
• What one year of Трамп does
• Bill Maher: The Трамп temp agency
• Randy Rainbow interviews Betsy DeVos!

• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: The MSM’S attack on Betsy DeVos
• James Corden: Трамп to Robert Mueller, “It wasn’t me”
• Trevor: Trump cans Rex Tillerson over Twitter
• Conan: Трамп lawyer Michael Cohen’s many mistakes
• Stephen: Melania Трамп explains her “Einstein visa”
• Rachel Maddow: Трамп skips Russian sanctions law, meekly echoes Mueller instead.
• Late-night laughs: Трамп’s “space force”
• Lawrence O’Donnell: The Dotard Трамп loses in Трамп country
• Our Cartoon President: Rich guys, bad boy edition
• Stephen: Trump inspects some models (of the border wall)

WaPo: These students are getting organized to fight gun violence.

John Oliver: Cryptocurrencies.

Vox: The ketogenic diet explained.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Who says conservatives can’t do comedy?7

Why the #MeToo moment is especially distressing for Muslim women.

WaPo: Why and how the U.S. is involved in the conflict in Yemen.

Daily Show: Disrupting the legal system with robots.

Bill Maher chats with Rep. Beto O’Rourke.

Seth Meyers: Political monologue.

Vox: Why we imagine aliens the way we do.

Trevor: Students walk out to protest gun violence

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

I was recently cleaning out my closet, and I came across a pin I was given in October/ November 2001, when I was protesting the war in Afghanistan. On the one hand, it feels fucking futile. We’re still there, and people like John Fucking Bolton are still around along with team torture. On the other hand, it may be the protest I’m most proud of participating in. Just me and a couple Quakers on the street corner holding signs when the world had gone mad.

Come the hell on, Microsoft (h/t).

When we talk about the worst in the nation gender pay gap in Seattle, often Boeing, Microsoft, and Amazon come up. As if manufacturing and tech just have to favor men. It doesn’t. It’s choices we make. It’s systematic discrimination in our largest companies, and down the line. It’s seeing 238 internal complaints and not doing anything.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally meets this evening. Please join us for some good conversations over a drink.

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

Can’t make it to Seattle? Ok…then check out one of the 244 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.

I feel like I’m more tickled by KEXP doing every Sub Pop release than I should be. I was a teenager in Seattle at a time when they were huge. I guess that may be true of any time in the last 30 or so years.