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Honestly, the legislature spends more time trying to kill the goose that lays the golden egg in Seattle, today rescheduling the MVET voters just supported, than they do fixing their fucked up constituencies. Don’t those legislators have not paying for education to attend to? Don’t they have a lot of work not regulating so called crisis pregnancy centers? Don’t they have a cruel budget to pass? Leave Seattle the fuck alone until you get your own house in order.

Oh, and the MVET is somewhat regressive? Sure, although it has a fairly high exemption for PEOPLE WHO CAN’T AFFORD CARS PAY 0 DOLLARS. Also, give ST an income tax in exchange, and I think you’ll find a lot of the opposition goes away.

The people giving to the anti-trans people pooping in public bathrooms initiative sure are, um, colorful. No shitty. Sorry, I spelled shitty wrong that first time.

Tonight: Meet, eat, drink, think, debate, hydrate, brainstorm (free form), venerate and commiserate. Join us for our weekly meeting 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 small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the other 228 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

So Ed Murray maybe abused some children in the 1980’s? Obviously, fuck that guy if it’s true.

It’s tough to evaluate the claims and counter-claims. My first instinct is to believe people when they say they’ve been victims. And while I certainly don’t think the numbers game is really helpful (1 is enough), 3 people?

1 Timothy 5:11-15
As for younger widows, do not put them on such a list. For when their sensual desires overcome their dedication to Christ, they want to marry. Thus they bring judgment on themselves, because they have broken their first pledge. Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also busybodies who talk nonsense, saying things they ought not to. So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander. Some have in fact already turned away to follow Satan.

Discuss.

How to convince racists to fight climate change.

Stephen: Political monologue

Bill Maher: A few of Republicans’ favorite things.

Late Night: Late night writers tackle sexual harassment

Трамп’s Tower of Tees and Corruption:

• Stephen: Susan Rice’s ‘unmasking’ allegations explained by Scooby Doo.
• Farron Cousins: Трамп defends scumbag Bill O’Reilly, “He didn’t do anything wrong!”
• David Pakman: Dems want Трамп to release tax returns before any tax reform legislation.
• Young Turks: Corporate media gets big war boner for Трамп.
• Seth Meyers: Трамп walks out of signing ceremony.
• Olbermann: Do authorities now have what they need on Трамп?
• Jonathan Mann: Congress And Трамп Flushed Your Privacy Down The Shitter
• Young Turks: Is this the secret Russian deal Трамп made?
• James Corden: Трамп’s Tweets preserved forever
• Jimmy Kimmel knows why Трамп sent Jared Kushner to Iraq
• Seth Meyers: Трамп meets with Chinese President
• Late Show: This bear has a rebuttal to Трамп’s hunting bill
• Samantha Bee: Heir to the White House throne
• PsychoSuperMom: Jared Kushner (You’re An A-Hole To Me)
• Trevor: Is Jared Kushner the real President?
• Mark Fiore: Kushner, The Musical
• Seth Meyers: A closer look at FAUX News, O’Reilly and Трамп
• Olbermann: So you want a new election?
• Jonathan Mann: Singing about 45
• Farron Cousins: Donald Трамп has the mental prowess of a child
• David Pakman: Трамп signs away your internet privacy.
• Randy Rainbow interviews Ivanka Трамп.

• Seth Meyers: Flynn asks for immunity, Трамп tweets about surveillance
• Late Show: The Muppets collaborate with Sean Spicer
• Trevor: Sean Spicer is a kindergarten press secretary
• Stephen: Sean Spicer is shrinking in size
• Sam Seder: Трамп leaves signing ceremony without signing executive orders.
• Young Turks: Трамп defends fellow sexual predator Bill O’Reilly
• Daily Show: The divinity of Donald Трамп
• VOX: Comedians have figured out the trick to covering Трамп
• Young Turks: Cuck fight between Bannon and Kushner
• Seth Meyers: Трамп is annoyed by the “President Bannon” meme
• Stephen: Steve Bannon, that was a total cuck move
• Young Turks: Why was Bannon removed from National Security Council?
• Farron Cousins: Goodbye privacy—Трамп signs order allowing ISPs to share your internet browsing history.
• David Pakman: Trump plays 14th game of golf in 10 weeks

Mental Floss: Why did we stop going to the moon?

Bill Maher chats with Jose Antonio Vargas.

Full Frontal: You’re not helping with guns.

Bill Maher: New Rule, “What would a DICK do?”

Sam Seder: Will aide turn on Chris Christie over Bridgegate?

Bassem Youssef: How to hate right.

Supreme Nuke:

• Ezra Klein: Why Neil Gorsuch is the wrong justice for a divided country
• Here’s What Merkley’s Overnight Senate Speech Was About in 2 minutes.
• Young Turks: Republicans nuke filibuster, Gorsuch advances
• Stephen Preps the bunker ahead of the GOP’s nuclear option
• Sam Seder: Mitch McConnell brags about blocking Obama’s SCOTUS nominee by breaking Senate rules

Roy Zimmerman: “Turn Off the Hubble” Anthem for the Republican War on Science:

Young Turks: O’Reilly’s show mysteriously ends early

Armchair Presidents: I do leather now.

Sam Seder: Maxine Waters calls FAUX News a “sexual harassment enterprise”.

Samantha Bee: We told you so—Russian hacking.

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

So, I guess we’re at war now? Cool. Right? It’s super cool. I assume that our pro-Trump trolls will be too busy joining the military to defend those people who we’re killing and also wouldn’t let into the country.

I realize that you don’t have to take the same stance as the person you voted for on everything military related (I was protesting the Afghanistan war in 2001 and have been pretty consistently against drones, but somehow voted for people who were considerably more hawkish than me for pretty much every position ever). Still and all, if you voted for president “bomb the shit out of them” you maybe have more of an obligation to put your money where your mouth is.

I’m approximately the billionth person to mourn the hiatus of Capitol Hill Seattle. If there are 2 things they did well, it’s great hyper local news and paying their writers.

Here’s hoping for an eventual return.

Please join us this evening for some conversation over a drink 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 small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the other 222 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

It’s pretty amazing how unified we were as a society on Japanese Interment. Sure, if you’d sampled the Japanese population, you could get some very different results than the general population. And there were deserters among the general population. Individuals, and sometimes whole towns. Still, I was surprised to learn that there was only one newspaper paper that opposed the camps. I hope it’s a call for all of us to do better going forward.

Matthew 5:28
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Discuss.

Conan investigates the mysterious deaths of Russian diplomats.

Jimmy Dore: Anti-Planned Parenthood filmmaker charged with 15 felonies.

Mental Floss: 29 interesting archaeological finds.

Samantha Bee: Government Worked! Rape Kit Backlog Part 2.

Young Turks: Anti-abortion activists charged with felonies

The Трамп Crime Organization:

• Stephen: Presidential leak-crets, volume 3
• Trevor: Nepotism, impeachment & the freedom caucus
• Late Show: Трамп’s caddie confessions.
• Seth Meyers: A closer look at the Трамп/Nunes story
• Bill Maher: Трамп monologue:

• David Pakman: Uh-Oh…Трамп also tied to Russian mobsters
• Olbermann: Could Трамп pass a sanity test?
• Should we worry about President Трамп and nuclear weapons?
• Mark Fiore: Head exploding news
• Maddow: Трамп administration scandals risk normalizing corruption
• Young Turks: Трамп University coming back to haunt The Donald.
• Sam Seder: Rick Santorum (YUUUUUCKKK!!!!) actually calls Трамп’s deregulation of the coal-industry a ‘Breath of good air’
• Jonathan Mann: Nepotism in the White House
• Late Show: Трамп’s climate change rollback reviewed by Woodsy the Owl
• Trevor: Трамп vows to end non-existent War on Coal™
• Stephen: Jared Kushner, chief White House nepotism beneficiary
• Maddow: Political strains in West serve Vladimir Putin goals
• Seth Meyers: A closer look at whether Devin Nunes is investigating or working for Трамп
• David Pakman: Трамп Campaign manager Russia Scandal grows BIGLY! Sad!
• Conan: Трамп takes credit for more things he had nothing to do with.
• Stephen: Wine, dine and reset gender norms to ’69
• FoD: Sad Трамп
• Jimmy Fallon: Трамп’s terrible approval rating.
• David Pakman: Трамп admin wanted to block former Atty General from testifying on Russia
• Stephen: The Late Show wins the “Hi, Stranger” challenge.:

• James Corden: Mike Flynn’s Art of the Squeal
• PsychoSuperMom: So Many Lies, So Little Time
• Bill Maher: New Rule on Трамп enablers.
• Jimmy Dore: Sean Spicer freaks out on Black female reporter.
• David Pakman: Is Трамп suffering from dementia.
• Young Turks: Why Mike Pence won’t eat with women alone.
• Sam Seder: Watch Ivanka Трамп lie about how she won’t take job in daddy’s regime
• Olbermann: Here’s how this all ends for Трамп
• Conan’s press secretary.
• Flynn: “When you’re given immunity, it probably means you’ve committed a crime….”
• Young Turks: Трамп says he’s cool with Flynn’s immunity request
• Stephen: Diagramming Nunes’ conflict of interests in investigating Трамп.
• Maddow: Michael Flynn’s testimony could implicate higher-ups in government
• Farron Cousins: Трамп says he’s immune to sexual harassment lawsuits because he’s President
• Trevor: Трамп’s budget.

VOX: How a case gets to the US Supreme Court.

Farron Cousins: Let’s just say it—Republicans hate America

Sean Hannity is bad for America.

Stephen: North Carolina’s ‘bathroom bill’ gets dumped.

Amber’s Minute of Fury: Bill-O-The-Clown

Young Turks: Porn site protects you more than Republicans.

Sam Seder: Dumbass Rep. Ted Yoho Thinks Congresscritters work for the President.

ObamaCare is the Law of the Land:

• Sexy women beg for health care
• Young Turks: Трамп is sure healthcare reform will be easy
• Jimmy Dore: Watch Трамп & Republicans attack each other over healthcare defeat
• Stephen: Трамп on American healthcare—When you love something, let it explode
• Samantha Bee: Government is hard—Health care edition.:

• Young Turks: ТрампCare defeat kicks off Presidential Twitter meltdown.

VOX: Why knights fought snails in medieval art.

Stephen: The scrapping of internet privacy—Something we can all hate together.

Farron Cousins: Pres. Bannon won’t be charged with voter fraud…despite evidence.

Samantha Bee: Someone run against Johnnie Caldwell!!!

Minute Physics: Should you walk or run when it is cold?

Conan: United Airline’s double standard dress code.

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

No, I don’t plan to blog about this (too busy working on important stuff), but, well, it wouldn’t be right to let the day go by here without at least a little mention:

So, our old friend Tim Eyman (this blog’s namesake) faces a $2 million civil penalty. Which is great and all that. But I must admit to being disappointed that he isn’t facing felony charges. And no, I’m not afraid to publicly assert that I think he committed multiple felonies.

FYI, for those keeping track, I first broke the story that ultimately led to this lawsuit almost five years ago in The Stranger. As for the notion that Timmy was getting kickbacks from signature gatherers, I suggested that back in 2006. So, you know, I told you so.

I’m really psyched about Councilmember González’ announcement of a legal defense fund for people facing deportation. It’s important that people have the right to defend themselves. I hope that we can make this a long-term thing to outlast the current news cycle, or even the current administration.

Cell service in the Bus Tunnel* is here for T-Mobile users and will be here for everybody soon. And if you need to call 9-1-1, you can no matter what carrier you have.

It’s an overall good, but there are downsides. I will be sad to see the end of people being too loud getting cut off by a tunnel. What a joy that always is, gone because technology is amazing.

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