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A surprisingly good unexpected joy in Seattle comes when you pick up a Lime Bike off the ground. Strangers will thank you. When there are several bikes, other people will often help. It’s great. There are a few seconds of community and then back to whatever we were doing. I know, it’s free labor for a private company, but still, can’t beat it.

Chronicles 15:13
All who would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, were to be put to death, whether small or great, man or woman.

Discuss.

Vox: Scientists are remaking mosquitoes to fight malaria.

Conan: Obama also asked James Comey to make a promise….

Trevor: A Mali migrant rescues a child in France

Jimmy Kimmel accepts Ted Cruz’s challenge.

Minute Physics: Length contraction and time dilation.

The Dotard Трамп and His Gang of Criminals:

• Rachel Maddow: Dotard Трамп ends signal with pardons, could face rude awakening
• Conan: James Comey says Трамп’s “spygate” claims are made up
• Lawrence O’Donnell: What you’re really worried about tonight if you’re Dotard Трамп
• Ari Melber: How a Трамп pardon in collusion case could be a crime
• Late Show: Трамп and Xi’s high stakes poker game
• Rachel Maddow: FBI assembling contents of Michael Cohen’s shredder machine:

• Chris Hayes: Backlash grows against separation of migrant families
• Trevor: Where is Melania?
• Ari Melber: How Dotard Трамп uses trolling as political warfare
• Lawrence O’Donnell: WhatDotard Трамп’s pardons really do
• Samantha Bee’s has some words for Ivanka Трамп
• WaPo: What the Dotard has said about pardons
• Trevor: Kim Kardashian goes to the White House and Трамп pardons Dinesh D’Souza
• Conan: James Comey is like a breakup Трамп can’t get over
• Ari Melber: Listen to the tape of Michael Cohen making threats for the Dotard
• Rachel Maddow: Paul Manafort gets contender for world’s sketchiest legal defense fund
• Jimmy Dore: Sean Spicer desperately trying to stay relevant
• Chris Hayes: Dotard Трамп falsely blames Democrats for family separation
• Lawrence O’Donnell: The Michael Cohen tape.
• WaPo: What’s the hurry Sarah Sanders?
• Jimmy Kimmel: Hammered Dotard Трамп gives commencement speech
• Ari Melber: Трамп’s problem with lying
• Bill Maher: Tweet sorrow:

• Lawrence O’Donnell: Jeff Sessions is key witness in Robert Mueller obstruction probe
• Chris Hayes and friends: How Dotard Трамп paved the way for Roseanne

Trevor: France’s migrant hero.

Minute Earth: How long can we live?.

Bill Maher: New Rule—Conspiracy theories.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

The most valuable airspace in the world.

Racists SUCK!

• Trevor: Even the anti-PC brigade condemns Roseanne Barr
• Jimmy Kimmel on Roseanne cancellation
• Lawrence O’Donnell: The Dotard Трамп doesn’t denounce Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet
• WaPo: Roseanne Barr’s offensive comments got her canceled
• Chris Hayes: Roseanne Barr reflects a chunk of the Dotard Трамп base
• Full Frontal: Ask your doctor about Ambien
• Trevor and Roy: Starbucks shuts down for racial bias training.
• Hallie Jackson and Morgan Radford: White nationalists running for office in record numbers
• Starbucks’ racial bias training went great, according to Starbucks
• Jonathan Mann: When Трамп tells a lie, when Rossanne says something racist

Vox: The culture war between doctors and midwives, explained.

Seth Meyers sits down with The Washington Post.

Jonathan Mann: 4,645 Americans died in Puerto Rico:

Best of Newsbroke (farewell).

How scientists discovered dark matter.

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

I’m looking forward to the employment numbers this morning. I may have been briefed on them yesterday, but today I’ll really delve deeper. I’ll be sure to keep Tweeting if I find something interesting.

Prime rate held steady at 79.2%. That’s a number.

They slightly revised the April numbers too. Did you know they could do that?

So Ambien got Rosanne fired?

I blame Ambien for America’s inability to apologize.

Ambien made slavery and Jim Crow.

Ambien fucked up all that money.

Jesus Christ on the Cross, did Ambien make conservatives forgot that they pretend to be about personal responsibility?

Please join us this evening for a round of political prognostication over a pint at 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? 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.

Hosea 13:16
The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.

Discuss.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Solar panels and whining cheerleaders

Jimmy Kimmel: Do whatever you want at Starbucks!

Mental Floss: Dogs can smell fear, and other dog facts

Newsbroke: Powerful White Nationalists behind the “English only” movement

Mark Fiore: Freedom sticks.

Young Turks: Racist woman attacks US serviceman.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Jeanine Pirro is an American institution

The Dotard Трамп And His Band of Dopes:

• Trevor: Трамп’s nighttime chats with Sean Hannity
• Seth Meyers: Трамп cancels NK summit and pushes crazy “spy” claim
• Stephen: A judge ruled Трамп can’t block people on Twitter anymore
• Rachel Maddow: Mueller probe’s many threads are why details can’t be public.
• Chris Hayes: What about the North Korea summit commemorative coins?
• Michael Brooks: Трамп’s ICE terror squad LOSES 1475 CHILDREN—Abolish it NOW!
• Late Show: The Summit—A Трамп-Kim love story
• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s “spygate” claims
• WaPo: The boom and bust of Michael Cohen’s taxi business
• David Pakman: Giuliani unhinged—Трамп might commit perjury because “truth is relative”
• Ari Melber: DOJ caves to President Dotard Трамп-backers
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Abstinence-only sex ed and the POTUS prayer shield
• SNL Weekend Update: Eric and Donald Трамп Jr. on Трамп Tower meeting
• Stephen: This isn’t your grandfather’s constitutional crisis
• Rachel Maddow: James Clapper on Russia, “They swung the election to a Трамп win”
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп cancels North Korea summit
• Joy Reid: Is Dotard Трамп running the country or producing a show?
• SNL: Sarah Palin’s advice:

• Chris Hayes: This is the next key figure to watch in Трамп scandals
• Farron Cousins: Judge rules that Трамп blocking people on Twitter is unconstitutional
• Ari Melber: Giuliani revisited—Has Трамп’s TV brawler “lost it”?
• Stephen: Трамп hates White House leaks, according to White House leaks
• Seth Meyers: Late Night’s timeline for Robert Mueller’s investigation
• Chris Hayes: Checking in on Dotard Трамп’s promise that tax cut would bring jobs
• Late Show: How the FBI came up with ‘Crossfire Hurricane’
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Dotard Трамп letter hinted at “end of a romance”
• Seth Meyers: Fired Трамп aides and officials
• Stephen: Michael Cohen’s “taxi king” partner flips
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: America’s “no scrubs” immigration policy
• Trevor: The U.S.-North Korea summit might not happen
• Rachel Maddow: James Clapper Russia assessment calls Dotard Трамп legitimacy into question
• Ari Melber: Stunner from Court TV founder—Giuliani is admitting Трамп’s guilt
• Late Show: An approximation to Трамп’s interview with Mueller
• Farron Cousins: Dotard Трамп SUCKS at being President
• Rachel Maddow: Clapper—Dossier was not used for intelligence assessment of 2016.
• Chris Hayes: Mike Pence thinks he’s #Winning on the NFL kneeling issue
• David Pakman: Judge rules Трамп regularly violating 1st amendment
• Stephen: Nice try, deep state, Трамп has you figured out
• Young Turks: Mueller finds half a million more reasons for Cohen to flip on Трамп
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Anthony Scaramucci talks White House leakers
• Chris Hayes: Despicable new Dotard Трамп policy on children:

• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s spying claims and Don Jr’s meeting with Gulf emissaries
• Rachel Maddow: Dotard Трамп haphazard N.K. summit dump put journalists in wanton danger
• Joy Reid: A new concern for Dotard Трамп Jr.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: President Dotard Трамп’s “lie” infiltrates language
• Stephen: The commemorative coin spoke too soon
• WaPo: Трамп promised to drain the swamp. The swamp seems to be doing fine.
• Michael Brooks: Totally confused Трамп bumbles his way through explaining the North Korea situation
• Ari Melber: Michael Cohen’s new reported ties to Ukraine
• Chris Hayes: Confused by Трамп scandals? Chris explains.
• Late Show: The Mole—Трамп Administration edition
• Rachel Maddow: History highlights President Трамп’s failure on Russian election outreach
• Stephen: Guess who rose from the sinkhole on the White House lawn?
• SNL: Dotard Трамп and Robert Mueller
• Chris Hayes: Reality show President’s diplomatic effort crashes & burns

Jimmy Kimmel does Jordan Klepper

Michael Brooks: Moron NRA spokesman responds to NFL rule like a third grader

Jim Jefferies: Leave your emotional support camel at home.

Heads of State: Gorsuch rules against workers in forced arbitration case.

Vox: Why people are buying cartoon cats on the blockchain

The Atlantic: Edge of Daybreak—The real jailhouse rock.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Samantha Bee will make you care about Yemen.

NOVA: AI explained—What is a neural net?

David Pakman: NFL goes fascist, bans kneeling during National Anthem

Midterm Madness:

• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Republicans don’t need money to win midterms
• Stephen: Profiles in discourage—Joe Arpaio edition
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Stacey Abrams makes history with Georgia win.
• Samantha Bee: Midterm checkin

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Cecile Richards—Planned Parenthood and “Make trouble”

Jonathan Mann: Boycott the NFL.

The Atlantic: The Collapsing Bridge—a poem.

Samantha Bee: Abolish ICE!:

Vox: Monogamy, explained.

Seth Meyers: This is the kind of story we need right now.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Jordan’s predictions—Future fake news

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

It’s not on their website, but KUOW had a piece on the band Thunderpussy. It was fantastic how many times they said it. I have no idea who in standards and practices approved it, but all the kudos.

White American Evangelical Christians are going to have to figure out how far they’re willing to go along with Trump. I know, how about stop when he discriminated against Black people in housing? Or when he took his first shit in a gold plated toilet in a tower over a then impoverished city. Or when he said Mexicans are rapists. Or when when they heard him bragging about all the sexual assault. Or his attacks on food stamps and insurance while giving tax cuts to the wealthy. Or the sex outside marriage.

I know, for decent people support for Trump should have waned long ago, or never started. But now it’s at least a possibly that paid for one of his mistress’ abortions. Now, I don’t care if it wasn’t coerced. But White Evangelicals have been pretending that abortion is the same thing as murder for decades. I don’t think that they will care, but maybe that will be too far.

Once again, tonight is an election night with primaries in Arkansas, Georgia and Kentucky, and some runoff elections in Texas. Stop by tonight’s edition of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally and join our conversations about politics, elections, guns, the media, bike lanes, head tax….

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.

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.