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I see we’re into the redemption phase of the me to movement. It seems pretty quick. I don’t know the correct amount of time, but even as someone who believes in second chances, this seems rushed. Especially since most people haven’t faced any legal punishment.

Also, I’m not seeing any steps that people are taking to prevent future harassment and assault by people credibly accused of past bad acts. No clearly laying out future consequences if they keep acting the same. Maybe that’s impossible, but then all the more reason not to start the redemption tour.

I think I might do the Wednesday open threads on the way home. See how y’all like it. This is definitely not just because I forgot to put one up this morning. Thank you and God bless.

Please join us Tuesday for an evening of politics and conversation 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 251 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.

Did you enjoy the weather this weekend? Me too. It was grand. I hope it’s good for a while. I could do with less foot traffic in places I frequent even when it’s a bit gloomy.

Judges 11:29-40

Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced against the Ammonites. And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD : “If you give the Ammonites into my hands, whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the LORD’s, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.”

Then Jephthah went over to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into his hands. He devastated twenty towns from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel Keramim. Thus Israel subdued Ammon.

When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of tambourines! She was an only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter. When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, “Oh! My daughter! You have made me miserable and wretched, because I have made a vow to the LORD that I cannot break.”

“My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me just as you promised, now that the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites. But grant me this one request,” she said. “Give me two months to roam the hills and weep with my friends, because I will never marry.”

“You may go,” he said. And he let her go for two months. She and the girls went into the hills and wept because she would never marry. After the two months, she returned to her father and he did to her as he had vowed. And she was a virgin.

Discuss.

Stephen: The sketch of Stormy Daniels’ perpetrator looks very familiar.

MoJo debunks the biggest myths about voter fraud.

Stephen: Wu-Tang wants their album back, Jeff Sessions.

The Atlantic: When Einstein warned the world.

Golf Pro Dotard Трамп And His Caddies:

• Late Show: Kim Jong-Un’s first impression of Mike Pompeo
• Ari Melber: Humiliating leaked tapes catch Трамп lying about his wealth while posing as hi own spokesperson
• Jimmy Kimmel travels back in time to visit baby Dotard Трамп
• Trevor: Trump sends a $250 million message to Syria
• Stephen: Comey Compared Dotard Трамп to a mafia boss
• Heads of State: “I Swear” — Dotard Трамп SINGS about Russia investigation
• Jimmy Kimmel: 3rd grader explains fake news to Dotard Трамп
• Jimmy Dore: Rick Perry struggles to understand Amazon Alexa
• Chris Hayes: President Dotard Трамп hits 108 days at his own golf properties
• Late Show: Dotard Трамп is obsessed with the dossier:

• Rachel Maddow: James Comey memos immediately leaked after FBI delivers to Congress
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Diamond and Silk’s Journey on the Трамп train
• Stephen: Not-secretary of state Mike Pompeo went to North Korea
• Conan: James Comey’s dramatic ABC interview
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп calls Comey “Worst FBI director in history”
• Jeff Jefferies: The U.S. should not bomb Syria if it won’t help its refugees
• Maddow: Mike Pompeo’s N. Korea trip meant to boost his nomination
• Chris Hayes with Senator Menendez (D-NJ): Syria strikes may have been “choreographed” with Russia:
• Lawrence O’Donnell: The Comey emos—Трамп, Vladimir Putin & prostitutes
• Maddow and O’Donnell: James Comey’s consistency is “powerful” evidence
• Jimmy Fallon: Joel McHale wins Трамп diss Bingo
• Francesca Fiorentini: Can Трамп fix Syria?:

• Stephen: Nikki Haley is standing up to Трамп and Russia
• Farron Cousins: Sniveling Ted Cruz sucks up to Трамп in The most disgusting way
• Ari Melber: “Art Of The Deal” co-author on how Трамп uses confirmation bias
• Stephen: Sen. Harris—There is bipartisan support for protecting Mueller
• Samantha Bee: This week in bombshells: Comey, Ryan, & Bey
• Vox: Why Трамп’s “limited strike” on Syria probably won’t work
• Conan: Tony the cameraman has seen the pee tape
• Rachel Maddow: James Comey—Rudy Giuliani boasts prompted investigation into FBI leaks
• Lawrence O’Donnell with Pete Williams: The Comey memos—fast facts
• Ari Melber: Comey memos boomerang on Трамп, add to potential obstruction case
• Stephen interviews James Comey
• The Daily Show: Hasan the record—What is impeachment?
• Trevor: Трамп blabs about Mike Pompeo’s secret meeting with North Korea:

• Conan: Трамп’s overqualified NASA nominee
• Rachel Maddow: James Comey—George Papadopoulos discussed getting Clinton e-mails from Russian government
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: The sick liberal pee tape fantasy
• Jimmy Kimmel warns baby Dotard Трамп about Comey book
• Stephen: Skeletons in the Cabinet—Scott Pruitt and Ryan Zinke

Full Frontal: Medicinal cannabis for all.

Wendover: How to design impenetrable airport security.

Roy Wood Jr.: CP time—The fair housing act turns 50

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.

Chris Hayes: Senator Tammy Duckworth’s 10-day-old daughter makes history.

Thinking About the Earth:

• Vox: How a warmer Arctic could intensify extreme weather
• NOVA: Understanding natural climate cycles
• Bill Maher: Grass warfare
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Conservatism is the new punk rock
• Trevor: NASA is experimenting with space sperm
• Bill Maher with Gov. Jay Inslee: War on weed

MoJo: Here are the country’s worst voter laws.

Rachel Maddow: James Comey—I don’t believe that Loretta Lynch did anything improper

Farron Cousins: Alex Jones admits live on air that he’s a total liar and scumbag

Adam ruins Copernican mythology.

Chris Hayes: West Virginia GOP Senate candidate is a convicted criminal.

Loitering While Black:

• Trevor: Two Black men get arrested for doing nothing at Starbucks.
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Could climate change save crab dicks?
• The Late Show: Starbucks announces its racial bias training.
• Sam Seder: Starbucks victims speak out on their ridiculous arrests
• Stephen: Starbucks, you kicked out the wrong people.

Samantha Bee: It’s not hard to hire women and people of color.

Trevor: A series of gunfortunate events

The Atlantic: When tax cuts failed.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

The Mannity And His Cleaning Man:

• Stephen: Sean Hannity forgot to mention something
• Slate: How FAUX News reacted after Sean Hannity revealed as Michael Cohen’s mystery client
• Trevor: Sean Hannity had “exclusively almost” nothing to do with Michael Cohen
• Lawrence O’Donnell and friends: Will Michael Cohen flip on the Dotard?
• Bill Maher: The Dotard’s lawyers
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Sean Hannity fucked a house
• Chris Hayes: Buzzfeed editor speaks out after Michael Cohen drops suit
• Conan: Is Andy Richter Michael Cohen’s fourth client?
• Jimmy Kimmel: Sean Hannity is Michael Cohen’s mystery client
• Stephen: How loyal is Michael Cohen?
• Samantha Bee: People are saying, Sean Hannity is a serial killer.
• Ari Melber: Dotard Трамп’s fixer Cohen can’t fix his own problems
• Rachel Maddow: FBI sought “papers of the President” in Michael Cohen searches
• Mark Fiore: Cohen & Cohn, fixers-at-law
• Stephen: Comey goes ‘Hollywood’ (according to Hannity)

MoJo: The architects of voter suppression in America.

Songify the News: MEMES & YODEL TRAP.

Trevor with Karlie Kloss on Getting girls excited about coding with Kode With Klossy.

Vox: How Parkland student David Hogg beats his critics.

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

I don’t have anything to read over the weekend! I have several books on hold at the library, so I don’t want to start something that will take me a long time to read. The Grant biography that everyone says is great will have to wait. Anyone reading something light breezy that would be available at the Central Library or Elliott Bay Books?

I don’t know enough about peremptory challenges. But it seems like this is a good rule. Or at least an improvement. Here’s hoping it makes juries more diverse.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets Tuesday night. Feel free to stop by…all are welcomed!

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 251 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 was unaware that there is an Eye of the Tiger PAC. Or that it’s run by Steve Scalise. Or that it had given money to Dino Rossi.

But back to Eye of the Tiger PAC! Do you have to get permission when you use a song? PAC changes the meaning of a words before it more quickly than anything else I can think of. Survivor are from Chicago, and Eye of the Tiger is used in Rocky III, but Scalise is from Louisiana.

Deuteronomy 7
When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you- and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods, and the LORD’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

Discuss.

Vox: What melting sea ice means for life in the Arctic.

Trevor: So much news, so little time.

Lauren Meyer: Pay your teachers well:

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: The left tries to silence Laura Ingraham

De-Facebook:

• Jimmy Kimmel: Your data was shared! Love, Facebook
• Slate: They told Mark Zuckerberg he should say “Senator” before every statement
• Vox: Why you keep using Facebook, even if you hate it
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Coaching Mark Zuckerberg—Bring your own facts and blame the Left
• Jimmy Kimmel: Senators ask Mark Zuckerberg for help
• Late Show: The Facebook reactions don’t “like” Zuckerberg anymore
• Jonathan Mann: Robot Zuck at the old folks home.
• WaPo Dept. of Satire: The Zuckerberg hearings
• SNL Weekend Update: Mark Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica.
• Jimmy Kimmel: Confused lawmakers question Mark Zuckerberg
• Stephen: Zuck explains Facebook to Congress

Jim Jefferies: Oklahoma teachers aren’t taking the government’s crap anymore.

Stephen: Tucker Carlson stole Stephen’s panda bit.

Vox: How border walls disrupt nature.

Malala: Don’t clip the wings of women.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Drag queen story time.

The Dotard Трамп:

• Stephen: Трамп’s lawyer Michael Cohen wasn’t expecting company
• Kimmel: Трамп loves to pronounce things dead
• Late Show: The Queen completes the royal wedding Guest list
• Seth Meyers: Late Night White House press briefing
• Stephen: Bannon’s master plan to defeat Robert Mueller
• SNL Weekend Update: Трампy news
• Mark Fiore: Lie deflector.
• Ari Melber: Why Comey’s “pee tape” claim matters to Bob Mueller
• Conan: Michael Cohen offered the FBI $130,000 to keep the raid quiet
• Trevor: The FBI raids and The Dotard has a Twitterfit
• Stephen: The President’s WrestleMania foreign policy:

• WaPo: Five takeaways from James Comey’s new book.
• Jimmy Kimmel: Dotard Трамп wants to fire Robert Mueller
• Late Show: Confessions of a Трамп tower doorman
• Trevor: Трамп might have a secret kid
• Seth Meyers: Pee pee tape allegations, Paul Ryan retires, Трамп attacks Mueller
• Stephen: Трамп condemns the “disgraceful” raid of Michael Cohen
• Jimmy Kimmel: The Трамп board game.
• Stephen: The state of the White House is, “Oh my God!”
• Late Show: New tariffs are making Crazy Ernie’s Electronics even crazier
• WaPo: Трамп attorney Michael Cohen is under federal investigation
• Chris Hayes: A preview of Comey’s book.
• Stephen: Трамп’s Chief of Staff is eyeing the door
• Jimmy Kimmel: Dotard Трамп’s doorman paid to keep quiet
• Daily Show: What is a “taint team?”
• Rachel Maddow: Mueller report on President Трамп obstruction takes shape ahead of schedule
• Seth Meyers: Трамп lashes out after Michael Cohen raid
• SNL: The Game of Life, DACA edition
• Stephen: Трамп lashes out at Amazon and “delivery boy” USPS

John Oliver: Crisis pregnancy centers.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: False flag—Is a crisis actor posing as Alex Jones?:

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Paul Ryan Chickens Out:

• Stephen: Paul Ryan is taking his tax cuts and going home
• Conan: Paul Ryan wants to take away his family’s health care in person
• Jimmy Fallon: Paul Ryan retires from Senate
• Roll Call: A look back at Paul Ryan’s career in the House
• Jonathan Mann: Bye-bye Paul Ryan.
• Jimmy Kimmel: The saddest part about Paul Ryan leaving

Adam ruins ancient gladiators.

Newsbroke: The religion of libertarianism.

Jonathan Mann: Ten State Senators voted for bestiality.

Vox: Why Black Americans are getting less sleep.

Trevor: Kim Jong-un transitions from reclusive madman to super social madman.

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

Please join us Tuesday evening as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gathers for conversations over beverages of choice. All are welcomed!

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 251 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.

Exodus 32:24-29
Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of control and so become a laughingstock to their enemies. So he stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all the Levites rallied to him.

Then he said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.’ ” The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died. Then Moses said, “You have been set apart to the LORD today, for you were against your own sons and brothers, and he has blessed you this day.”

Discuss.

Slate: Why Democrats are blue and Republicans are Red—and why it’s the opposite everywhere else.

NOVA: Climate change’s best hope.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: “Roseanne” gives conservatives a safe space

Jimmy Kimmel responds to Sean Hannity’s vicious attacks.

The “Very Stable Genius” Dotard Трамп and Friends:

• Jimmy Kimmel: Kellyanne Conway on being the #1 White House leaker
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Robert Mueller’s team finds more Russia ties
• The President Show: The President must confess his sins
• WaPo: Here’s why scrutiny over Scott Pruitt’s actions is rising
• Ari Melber: How Manafort’s attack on Mueller backfired on him and FAUX News
• Bill Maher: Трамп the riffer
• Seth Meyers: Трамп sends the National Guard to the border and attacks Amazon
• Jimmy Kimmel: Second grader explains trade deficits to Dotard Трамп
• Eugene Robinson: Трамп lies about what scares him:

• Young Turks: Трамп deploying military to Mexican border because he saw it on FAUX News
• Trevor: Is Ronny Jackson ready to run the VA?
• Our Cartoon President: The manliest first pitch in history
• Heads of State: Why Трамп’s EPA eliminated Obama-era fuel efficiency rules
• Jimmy Kimmel: The Dotard Трамп explains Easter & Passover
• Lawrence O’Donnell: The Dotard Трамп, Robert Mueller and “subject” versus “target”
• WaPo: Analyzing Трамп’s claims about “caravans” of migrants
• Ari Melber: Rob Reiner on why “truth” is difficult in the Трамп era
• David Pakman: Networks bail on bizarre, garbled Трамп speech/rant
• Young Turks: Трамп going “nuclear” (and stupid) over DACA
• The President Show: You can do so much without a conscience
• Jimmy Kimmel: Porn stars explain private arbitration
• Our Cartoon President: “Who’s the winner?”
• Lawrence O’Donnell: President Dotard Трамп’s “wag the dog” problem
• Seth Meyers: Point, Counterpoint—White House shake-up, bad leadership
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп’s bashing sparks new Amazon delivery service
• Jimmy Fallon: Dr. Evil gets fired from Трамп’s cabinet:

• Trevor: Michael Wolff on exposing the Трамп White House in “fire and fury”
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп’s border plan explained by Barista Theatre
• The President Show: The porn star song
• Ari Melber: By denying Daniels payment, Dotard Трамп may ruin his own NDA
• Fact checking The Dotard’s “catch and release” Tweet
• Seth Meyers: Трамп breaks silence on Stormy Daniels as Russia probe heats up
• Young Turks: Democrat wins in latest sign of anti-Трамп blue wave.
• Our Cartoon President: Introducing cartoon John Bolton
• Trevor Noah with Cecile Richards: How Planned Parenthood is faring under Трамп.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Another big progressive win in Dotard Трамп country
• Mark Fiore: Drive the all new Megalosaurus
• Jimmy Kimmel: Surprise visitor at Dotard and Melania Трамп’s Easter egg roll
• Ari Melber: Obama adviser says Трамп’s undoing for monetizing the presidency

NOVA: The science of whoopee cushions.

Young Turks: Billionaire bigots spreading anti-Muslim propaganda

Adam Ruins Everything: How JFK almost caused World War 3.

Eugene Robinson: MLK was complicated. We should remember him that way.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: War on men—The beginning of the end

It’s Like Fucking Ground Hog Day—Another Goddamn Mass Shooting!

• Seth Meyers: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) isn’t going to give up on gun control
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Cory Booker—Finding common ground to make America safer
• Vice News: Why the best hope for gun control isn’t Congress—It’s with the states
• Young Turks: NRA spews propaganda after YouTube shooting
• David Pakman: Rare female shooter opens fire at YouTube headquarters

The Atlantic: The human face of a prison sentence.

Vox: What America’s shopping mall decline means for social space

Tide CEO: You gotta stop eating Tide Pods.

Bill Maher: New rule—Pencils down.

WaPo: What is the nuclear option?

Minute Earth: Are plastics too strong?

America’s Pravda:

• David Pakman: Leaked memo reveals Sinclair threatening employees over “must-read” scripts
• Young Turks: Watch Sinclair turn local news anchors into creepy Трамп drones.
• WaPo: What is Sinclair Broadcast Group?
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: The right way to protest school shootings
• David Pakman: The problem with Sinclair isn’t their right wing politics
• John Oliver: Sinclair’s propaganda

Jim Jefferies finds flaws in sex trafficking prevention bills.

Francesca Fiorentini: The fight between progressives and centrists

Vox: China’s trillion dollar plan to dominate global trade.

Minute Physics: Special relativity chapter 3—Lorentz transformations

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