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(I promise I’ll get back to politics at some point, but here’s more inane nonsense)

I was walking through the park and a man walking the other way started talking to me. Now I’m wearing headphones because I have something I’d rather do than talk to some stranger. Also, It’s Seattle, and we have a culture of keeping to ourselves, that I appreciate. But fine. I took my headphones off and started listening to him.

“You have long hair.”

I was aware. It wasn’t cool hair or cut your hair, hippie. Just a statement of fact that he knew that I knew.

I walked by a building the on the way to Drinking Liberally, and I noticed that the name of it was written in cursive. People aren’t being taught cursive in a lot of schools. It’s a decision I generally support, so this isn’t a getoffmylawn post.

I wonder how long until most people find that building indecipherable. It’ll probably get painted over long before that. It made me wonder what I walk by that I don’t notice that everyone would have understood 50, 100 whatever years ago.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally was founded in early 2005, and has been meeting weekly ever since. Please join us tonight for a drink, some political conversation and, if you wish, some dinner.

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 231 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.

There is a crow’s nest in the tree across from my apartment. They must have just had a chick, because they’re aggressively dive-bombing people. Over the weekend, I saw that avian asshole attack 2 people so much that they ran away. Fortunately, they haven’t gone after me yet. But others have. I feel like they’re more aggressive than usual this year, but I don’t know.

Numbers 22:29
Balaam answered the donkey, “You have made a fool of me! If only I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now.”

Discuss.

Jimmy Dore chats with Bill-O-The-Clown about Roger Ailes.

Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Sam Seder: The grotesque Трампcare graph Paul Ryan doesn’t want you to see.

Traveler Трамп and Company:

• Трамп’s sun.
• The President Show: Трамп screams at the TV.
• David Pakman: Трамп exempts his whole staff from ethics rules!
• Jimmy Kimmel gets to the bottom of covfefe.
• Sam Seder and Digby: Трамп’s overseas trip shows he lacks strength & stamina for the job
• Samantha Bee: Covfefe, Kushner & an idiot abroad
• Olbermann: Has Michael Flynn already flipped on Трамп?
• David Pakman: Трамп plans to return diplomatic compounds to Russia
• Late Show: Post cards from Donald Трамп
• The Daily Show: Based on a typo:

• The world searches for the meaning of covfefe
• Joy Reid: Why Donald Трамп gave up “Leader of the free world”.
• WaPo fact checks Трамп’s NATO rhetoric
• David Pakman: About half of Трамп’s Twitter followers are fake
• Leaked video of Sean Spicer’s “covfefe” press conference
• Young Turks: Jeff Sessions’s rolling snowball of lies keeps growing
• Ari Melber: Donald Трамп attacks birth control amid scandal circus distraction
• Trevor: Трамп abroad—oh, the places those tiny hands will go!
• Bill Maher: Constant Covfefe
• ТрампCare: Redefining health
• Kimmel: Drunk Donald Трамп — Sicily Trip
• Robert Reich: Seven reasons Трамп’s corporate tax cuts make no sense
• The President Show: Interview with S.E. Cupp
• Olbermann: The GOP must take responsibility for Трамп.
• Trevor: Трамп tells the earth to go fuck itself.
• David Pakman: Why does Трамп lie to his own supporters?
• Трамп can’t fill posts in his sadministration
• Ezra Klein: Donald Трамп is destroying his own presidency
• Sexy readings of Трамп Tweets
• PsychoSuperMom: There ain’t enough covfefe in the world to make this funny
• Randy Rainbow: Donald Трамп’s MANGO TOUR!

• Trevor: The truth about “covfefe” and Трамп’s propaganda machine
• Samantha Bee: Who will be Трамп’s John Dean?
• David Pakman: Трамп asks world leaders to call him on his cell phone.
• Olbermann: Shouldn’t Jared Kushner be arrested?
• James Corden: Let’s Join the FBI in Scrutinizing Jared Kushner
• Farron CousinsNobody wants to work for Трамп’s disastrous administration
• David Pakman: Трамп White House will take away birth control from millions
• Sam Seder: Sean Spicer actually pretends covfefe was secret code, everyone laughs at him
• Jonathan Mann: Трамп’s Trip.

VOX: How the media’s weapons fetish primes us for war.

How to eat pudding in space.

Samantha Bee: Gianforte body-slammed the vote.

Sam Seder: Dipshit Rick Santorum (debating Jennifer Granholm) says the Sun is “not reliable, not consistent”.

Warming Globe:

• What you need to know about the Paris Agreement on climate change.
• Young Turks: Mike Pence can’t understand why people care about climate change
• The President Show: Screw science! Bye-bye, Paris:

• Kimmel on Трамп pulling out of the Paris accord.
• Josh Willis: Reversing climate change with geoengineering?
• VOX: Flying over the melting arctic made climate change feel much more urgent.

Samantha Bee: An interview with Al Franken.

Bill Maher: New Rule—get low.

Young Turks: Remember when Ted Nugent threatened Obama?

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

I’ve been trying to cut down on my time on the Internet. Not a complete shut down, but just not faffing around. Anyway. Turns out that I am once again writing some nonsense from the bus rather than having written anything in advance. Sorry, but it might be better for me.

Look, we all agree that Alaska Rep. David Eastman is the wooooorst. Fuck that guy. What an ass.

But! Maybe Seattle’s tourism industry should embrace it. A city so great you’ll have a dangerous second trimester pregnancy terminated just for a visit.

Please join us this evening as we make up and discuss fake news for submission to the national media fake news feed at this week’s 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 230 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.

2 Chronicles 23:13
And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.

Discuss.

The famine food truck.

Jimmy Kimmel: This week in unnecessary censorship.

Young Turks: Ben and Jerry’s is banning same-flavor scoops for marriage equality down under.

Tales of the Трамп:

• Late Show: Best of Melania hand swats.
• Raw footage: Трамп shoves a Prime Minister.
• James Corden: Let’s join the FBI in scrutinizing Jared Kushner
• Young Turks: Трамп curtsies to Saudi King.
• Kimmel: Sean Spicer loves it when Трамп is away.
• Conan: Трамп calls Putin to discuss orbs & Israel
• Michael Brooks: Pope throws shade at Трамп joking with Melania about Трамп’s weight.
• Stephen: Cartoon Pope Francis roasts Donald Трамп
• Sam Seder: Sub-adult Трамп actually shoves Montenegro Prime Minister at NATO.
• Seth Meyers: A closer look at Donald Трамп and Greg Gianforte.
• Ari Melber: Jared Kushner secret channel query, Part I.
• Ari Melber: Jared Kushner secret channel query, Part II
• David Pakman: Snowflake Трамп bails in Saudi Arabia from “exhaustion”
• PsychoSuperMom: Stop insulting kids (by comparing us to Трамп)
• Young Turks: Ben Carson’s message to poor people, “It’s your fault.”
• What the fuck is up with Трамп’s intense handshakes?

• Kimmel: Трамп’s visit with the Pope
• Melania doesn’t like Трамп either.
• Stephen: Трамп’s odd call with new BFF Rodrigo Duterte
• Young Turks: Трамп can’t stop doing all the things he bashed Obama for.
• Seth Meyers: Draining the swamp
• The Onion has obtained hundreds of classified documents from the Трамп White House
• Sam Seder: Stoopid fuck Трамп leaks intel while bragging about not leaking intel
• Kimmel: Donald Трамп commemorative plates
• James Cordon: Трамп does the Middle East.
• Трамп chickens out and cannot say “radical Islamic terrorism”
• Stephen: God thinks Трамп is getting “needy”.
• Young Turks: Трамп buddy, Sheriff Clarke, lied about Homeland Security position
• Olbermann: This is how low the Трамп apologists will stoop
• Mark Fiore: Story Time with the President.
• Трамп’s travel ban stays frozen.
• Michael Brooks: Трамп seems bizarrely dazed as he stumbles out of photo op with Netanyahu
• Kimmel: Kids read Трамп’s speeches.
• Stephen stages a Twitter-vention for Трамп.

WaPo: Obama gives Europeans a message of solidarity and hope.

Jimmy Dore: Sec. of Energy Rick Perry still wants to be called “Governor”!

Monkeys can demand ransom, too.

David Pakman: SCOTUS rules Republicans gerrymandered NC districts by race

Putin’s Persons of Interest:

• Jared Kushner is now a focus in the Russia investigation.
• Late Show: Трамп’s new lawyers, Galino & Farnes
• Young Turks: More obstruction of justice from Трамп.
• Olbermann: 40 shady things we now know about Трамп and Russia
• Songify the News: Трамп vs. Comey
• John Oliver: Stupid Watergate:

• Stephen: Reince Priebus has Comey memo-phobia
• WaPo: Трамп asked intelligence officials to deny connections with Russia
• Chris Hayes: Jared’s secret back channel.
• Olbermann: So, what about those Oval Office tapes?
• Seth Meyers: Трамп goes abroad amid escalating Russia probe
• Farron Cousins: Трамп son-in-law, Jared Kushner, becomes person-of-interest in Russia probe
• Jimmy Dore: Putin chats with Jimmy.
• Michael Brooks: Jared Kushner under FBI investigation
• Francesca Fiorentini: The more you know: Russia-Трамп edition
• Colbert with Maddow: Why did Bannon & Priebus go home early?
• David Hawkings: Lessons from 44 Years of Special Investigations.

VOX: The evolution of American protest music.

Bill Maher: Fuck Mars!.

Michael Brooks: Sean Hannity has a meltdown as FAUX News retracts Seth Rich conspiracy story.

Visit the USA: National treasures for sale.

GOP Tries to Loot America:

• Stephen puts the CBO’s ’23 million’ estimate into perspective
• Young Turks: Republican “healthcare” plan is a death sentence suggests CBO.
• Here’s what’s in the new CBO report on the Republican health-care bill.
• Sen. Sanders argues with Mulvaney in budget hearing.
• David Packman: CBO score is every bit as bad as we expected.
• Stephen has an unpopular opinion about Трамп’s budget:

• Young Turks: FBI “Person of interest” Jared Kushner
• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s cruel budget breaks his campaign promises
• David Pakman: Michael Flynn will plead the 5th, refuse to cooperate with Russia investigation
• Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-7) on Трамп’s budget is “shockingly extreme” and a “betrayal”
• D.C. reacts to GOP health bill’s budget score
• Stephen has a math problem for Трамп.
• Seth Meyers with DNC Chair Tom Perez: The GOP’s “disaster” health care bill.

Stephen is also body slamming his enemies.

Samantha Bee: A brief history of Florida’s felon voting ban.

Mental Floss: 41 facts about unique architecture.

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

In Wednesday’s Open Thread, I called a hair shirt a “hare shirt.” I got called on it by Roger in the comments, and I feel so, so, so bad. I’ll have to say 30 hale merrys.

I was talking to Darryl last night, and he wants you all to know he is very, very, very sorry that he missed yesterday’s Drinking Liberally thread. It’s a deep sadness. It probably kept him up last night. He’s wearing a hare shirt.

I’m feeling a bit blah today. So even less of my nonsense than usual.

Leviticus 11:5
And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.

Discuss.