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If you’re in Seattle, Geov has plenty of protests going on. Before and during the inauguration. I heard some people say they didn’t realize there were anti-Trump rallies going on in the immediate wake of his election. So there you go.

This week marks the start of confirmation hearings in D.C. and the start of the Washington state legislative session. Please join us this evening for a much-needed 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 198 chapters of Living Liberally, including ninteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

It’s the first day of the Washington legislature. And that means it’s the what-do-you-want-from-the-legislature thread:

Mostly for me it’s playing defense against some of Trump’s excesses. It’s making sure that don’t tangle ourselves up in any attempt to deport people. It means making sure that the people kicked off Obamacare get health care in Washington; Maybe it means keeping up the exchange. Maybe it means universal health care from the state. But it can’t mean we let people die for want of health care.

But I don’t think we can just be stuck in react to Trump mode. I was kind of inspired by California’s we’ll launch our own satellites thing (a reaction to Trump, sure, but would also be pretty cool if Clinton had won the election). I’d like Washington State to build a space elevator. It seems like with Boeing and the universities and some good places to build it East of the mountains, it’s the sort of thing the whole state could be involved in.

Every year I say I’d like the reproductive parity act, or whatever we’re calling it. Every year, it doesn’t pass, but it’s still a good idea.

Anyway, those are the things I’m hoping and maybe dreaming will happen in the legislature. What do you want to see?

Did you get your democracy voucher? I did! I’m super excited to use them. Like, should I just find one candidate I like and give them all of the money? I can’t just use them to reject Tim Burgess due to the fact that he’s retiring. But surely there will be someone.

White House: West Wing Week.

SCOTUS Wars:

• Young Turks: Could Dems block Supreme Court nominations for entire Трамп term?
• Sam Seder: Republicans are now saying that obstructing SCOTUS nominees is wrong!?!

Trevor with Keegan-Michael Key: A final address from Obama’s Anger Translator:

Farron Cousins: Paul Ryan attaches Planned Parenthood defunding provision to Obamacare repeal.

Young Turks: Proof Republicans don’t give a shit about ethics.

Michelle Obama’s says goodbye as FLOTUS.

Трамп—The Putin Poodle, Sexual Assaulting, Serial Philanderer, Scam Artist Goes to Washington:

• Stephen: Трамп Tweets tough, but he has nothing on Jesus.
• Maddow with Chuck Schumer: Donald Трамп captured by hard right.
• David Pakman: Трамп spokesidiot wants Hillary “punished” for “trying to influence election”!
• Trevor: Russia/Трамп reacts to President Obama’s Sanctions
• Olbermann: What did Трамп know and when did he know it?
• Sam Seder: Kellyanne Conway thinks its unfair That Dems won’t help destroy Obamacare
• Young Turks: Трамп on Russian hacking
• James Corden: Hillary Clinton will make Трамп’s inauguration awkward.
• Maddow: Republicans shift Donald Трамп coverage with packed schedule
• Jimmy Kimmel explains how truth works.
• Is Трамп a crony capitalist?
• Young Turks: Трамп takes aim at CIA
• David Pakman: Трамп whines that hearing was delayed. It wasn’t. Officials call out his lie.
• Olbermann: Still supporting Трамп? This message is for you:

• Sam Seder: Bernie shows YUGE Трамп Tweets on the floor…
• Ari Melber: Donald Трамп biographer thrown out of Трамп golf course
• Farron Cousins: New study confirms racism, sexism propelled Трамп into office
• Some House Members object to the Electoral College vote.
• David Pakman: Why hasn’t anyone hacked Трамп’s tax returns.
• Young Turks: What is the T. R. U. M. P. act?
• Stephen: ТрампCare and “Intelligence”
• Late Night: Трамп and Cover
• PsychoSuperMom: It’s My Patriotic Duty (To Make As Much Fun Of Trump As I Can)
• Joy-Ann Reid: Donald Трамп’s lack pf acts for inauguration getting under his skin
• David Pakman: Трамп is so hated, he has to go to British singers for inauguration entertainment.
• Maddow: Resistance to Donald Трамп grows with local roots
• James Corden: Трамп Tweets.

Ways Hitler was like a teenage girl.

Young Turks: Republicans ban live-streaming from the floor…what do they have to hide?

Vice News: Seattle’s trans law enforcement.

David Pakman: Republican’s bizarre attempt to prevent Supreme Court from citing their prior ObamaCare cases!!!.

Sam Seder: GOP Rep’s Twitter poll BACKFIRES BIGLY, shows YUGE support for Obamacare.

The 2017 Congressional Clown Show:

• Trevor: House Republicans grapple with backlash on ethics vote:

• Farron Cousins: Voter backlash forced Republicans to abandon plans to destroy Ethics Committee.
• Mark Fiore: De-Obamafication.

Obama: President Obama on social progress and equality.

Sam Seder: Megyn Kelly pretends to be sad about leaving FAUX News to join the real “Journalists” at NBC.

Stop Jeff Sessions.

Young Turks: What is Obama’s real record on the economy?

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

It’s kind of amazing that when the Office Of Congressional Ethics gutting vote came about all of Washington’s Republicans were either for it or Didn’t vote (it’s not organized by state, but I’m pretty sure that’s right). Remember when Reichert was running as a straight arrow? Well, it was always bullshit, of course, but now it’s even more exposed as such.

Oh hey, people’s minimum wage just went up. It’s still needlessly complex in Seattle. Washington’s is not as much as I’d like it. Still and all, the sky hasn’t fallen yet.

Also, everywhere in Washington has sick leave/safe leave now. So use that if you need it. I don’t know how strong the enforcement will be (it has been pretty weak in Seattle).

Start out 2017 by feeding your inner political animal. Please join us tonight for a New Year edition 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 196 chapters of Living Liberally, including ninteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

Revelation 1:9
We suffer because Jesus is our king.

Discuss.

Pap: Racist Republicans target minorities in Georgia.

Jeff’s earth.

Adam Ruins everything: Electric cars aren’t as green as you think:

White House: West Wing Week.

2016 Was Fucking Insane!

• Young Turks: How 2016 impacted us all.
• Daily Show: Hasan Minhaj says “Goodbye” to 2016
• You’re Wrong with Mike Lawrence2016 was great for nerds.
• 2016 was a bad year for music lovers.
• Young Turks: 2016 Jerk of the Year
• Young Turks: 2016 Turk of the Year
• Famous farewells of 2016
• Honest New Years

Young Turks: Oops! Professional asshole Carl Paladino didn’t mean to PUBLICLY post racist comments.

Chris Hayes: Mega racist and Drumpf campaigner Carl Paladino fired from School Board for being a fucking racist.

Epic Rap Battles of History: Theodore Roosevelt vs Winston Churchill:

Ari Melber: FAUX News reports FAKE NEWS about Food Stamp fraud.

Minute Physics: The No Cloning Theorem.

The Sexual Assaulting, Putin Loving, Walking, Talking Conflict of Interest:

• Sam Seder: How easy will it be to roll back civil rights under Drumpf?
• Young Turks: Meet the con artist leading Drumpf’s inauguration prayer.
• Ben Dixon: Are Drumpfists beginning to realize they’ve been conned?
• Drumpf’s attack on sanctuary cities explained.
• Michael Brooks: Drumpf on “Lock Her Up”, “That plays great before the election, now we don’t care”.
• Young Turks: Drumpf already historically unpopular.
• Farron Cousins: Still think Drumpf’s a populist? Then you aren’t paying attention!
• Ari Melber: Drumpf is Tweeting the U.S. towards nuclear destruction
• Mark Fiore: Ode to the pundits.
• Sam Seder and Digby: “The fact that [the James Comey letter] happened at all should be deeply, deeply concerning.”
• Ben Dixon: Did the RNC really compare Drumpf to Jesus?
• Young Turks: Drumpf takes credit again for doing what he didn’t do.

Sam Seder: Lawrence Lessig on why the Electoral College has got to go!

PsychoSuperMom: Eight is better than one.

White House: Rare look inside where Obama lives at the White House.

Newzoids: Putin’s Top Gun:

Alex Lawson with Nancy Altman: The GOP’s plot to kill Medicare starts Jan. 3rd!

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

Good riddance 2016.

The precinct maps of ST3 are both illuminating and about what you expect. The cities, especially Seattle, and the close in suburbs are for it and the rest of the area isn’t as much or are against it. I hope as rail gets further and further out, that more people between the cities and further out can enjoy it as much as some of us in the city.

Please join us tonight for a year-end edition of Drinking Liberally with 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 196 chapters of Living Liberally, including ninteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

Daily Show holiday gift guide.

“Skeptic on a Stick” holiday toy commercial

Adam Ruins Everything: The drunken, pagan history of Christmas:

Conan: The Toilet Santa.

You’re Wrong with Mike Lawrence: The best and worst of Christmas

Seth Meyers: Walking in a Winter Punderland

Liam Neeson Auditions For Mall Santa Claus:

Drumpf in Twitter war with Santa

PsychoSuperMom: Don’t they know (not everyone does Christmas)?

Obama’s Holiday message

Young Turks: How to trigger a war on Christmas.

Woke Christmas Carols

Late night Crew Poetry: My Christmas wish, New Year’s groove

Jeremiah 10:2-5
Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

Discuss.