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The world’s most polluted cities.

Mark Fiore: Pipeline Protector

Roll Call Decoder: How does new member orientation really work?

Trevor: The Dakota Access Pipeline’s reservation reroute.

Denying climate change is like living in a burning house:

Mental Floss: 27 amazing accomplishments of elderly people.

Farron Cousins: The fight for 15 has tens of thousands hitting the streets to fight for a living wage.

Facebook Live with President Obama.

Young Turks: Veterans deploy to Standing Rock #NoDAPL.

The Serial Philanderer, Con Man, Putin-loving, President Elect:

• Young Turks: Why Drumpf’s “landslide” mandate is nonsense
• Keith Olbermann: Can Donald Drumpf possibly believe what he’s saying?
• Jimmy Dore: Mitt Romney humiliates himself at Drumpf Tower.
• David Pakman: Drumpf now trails Clinton by 2.3 million votes
• Maddow: Drumpf does a pre-inauguration ‘Thank You’ tour.
• Thom: Did Carrier fleece both Drumpf & America?
• Stephen: Drumpf will soon acquire mass text capability
• Young Turks: Drumpf picks Sarah Palin to lead largest government agency
• David Pakman: Rumors about faithless Drumpf electors.
• Sam Seder: Romney forced to have intimate dinner of shame with Drumpf for SOS job.
• Roll Call: Who has Drumpf picked for his Cabinet
• PsychoSuperMom: Tweetin’ Donald:

• Trevor: President-elect Drumpf’s conflicts of interest
• Understanding real Drumpf voters.
• Maddow: Drumpf plans to privatize VA? Vets say “NO!”
• Jimmy Dore: Republicans target Medicare despite Drumpf’s promise to protect it
• Sam Seder and Ari Berman: Drumpf & the GOP are trying to destroy democracy
• James Corden: Donald Drumpf and Mitt Romney make nice over dinner.
• Drumpf could violate the Constitution on Day 1.
• More leaked taped calls between Drumpf and Obama:

• Young Turks: Drumpf Tweets out a huge lie about the election.
• Stephen: At dinner with Donald Drumpf, Mitt Romney ate crow.
• Maddow: Drumpf’s scary pick for Deputy National Security Adviser is clueless!
• Don’t freak out about Donald Drumpf! This country has always been run by questionable people.
• Trevor: Adapting to Donald Drumpf’s lies
• David Pakman: Donald Drumpf has been turning down intelligence briefings since winning election

Full Frontal game night.

Adam Ruins Everything: How prostitutes settled the wild west.

Conan: Celebrity survey.

David Pakman: Texas now requires funeral services for all abortions.

White House: West Wing Week.

Jimmy Dore: Low wage workers rise up to demand livable wage.

How to make fake news.

Olbermann: “Government-backed attackers” may have hacked my account.

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

It’s obviously horrendous that we’ve set up a system where you have to drive for hours if you want an abortion. I do wonder how much we as a state can do. If people are driving to Yakima, a city not on the border, maybe there are ways to encourage more clinics closer to Idaho and Oregon. It’s probably the part of the state that’s the most hostile to that sort of thing.

In a lot of the open threads since Trump’s election, I’ve been harping on how Seattle and Washington State can push back against the worst of Trump’s policies. I’m glad to see I’m not the only person thinking about local resistance to these national issues (h/t). That leaves a lot of problems for people in a lot of places without much protection. And, frankly, I’m not sure how up to it, our local politicians are.

Pffffffffffffffffffffffffff. Man. Trump is like the worst, right? I don’t just mean whatever Godawful nonsense he’s decided to do between when I wrote this and when you’re reading it. I mean he’s so bad he’s making children sad.

Deuteronomy 14:18
You must not eat bats.

Discuss.

Daily Show: R.I.P. Facts.

David Pakman: The truth about the alt-right.

Young Turks: The Emails Mike Pence doesn’t want you to see.

Adam ruins everything: The Shocking Way Private Prisons Make Money:

Common Ground: The game we can all agree on.

Jonathan Mann: Fight These Fucking Nazis Right Now.

The Serial Philanderer, Con Man, Putinophile, President Elect:

• Stephen: Drumpf vs. ‘Hamilton’ inspires a hip hop musical spin-off
• Jimmy Dore: Drunk Reince Priebus questions Steve Bannon
• David Pakman: Possible Drumpf Security Secretary accidentally reveals Homeland Security docs. DOH!
• Olbermann: This is what happens when you criticize Donald Drumpf.
• Young Turks: Practical things we can do while Drumpf is President
• Farron Cousins: Democrats must constantly attack, you don’t play nice with a bully
• Thom: Drumpf’s secret weapon and conflict of interest.
• Seth Meyers: A closer look at Donald Drumpf’s cabinet and conflicts of interest
• David Pakman: Donald Drumpf, who “Never settles,” settles Drumpf University scam case for $25 million
• Randy Rainbow: About Hamilton…Donald Drumpf, grow up!

• Mark Fiore: Drumpflink jobs network
• Seth Meyers: A closer look at Drumpf’s “Hamilton” feud distracts from conflicts of interest
• Michael Brooks: Neo-Nazis celebrate Drumpf’s win in DC’s Ronald Reagan Building, cheer “Hail Drumpf!”
• David Pakman: Drumpf against net neutrality despite not having a clue about what it is.
• Jimmy Dore: Drunk RNC Chair talks Drumpf’s kids on Jimmy’s voice mail.
• Stephen: The Drumpf train is already off the rails.
• Young Turks: Drumpf accuses Hamilton Cast of harassing Mike Pence.
• Thom: How Republicans plan to stop Medicare.
• Olbermann: The surprisingly easy way to get rid of Donald Drumpf
• Seth Meyers: A closer look at Drumpf’s foreign business ties
• Young Turks: Drumpf could be violating the Constitution on day 1, says former Bush WH lawyer
• David Pakman: Drumpf lies again, claims to have stopped Ford from moving plant to Mexico
• Jimmy Dore: Drunk Reince Priebus reacts to his new position in the White House

Farron Cousins: Glenn Beck attacks alt-right, forgetting he helped create it.

Trevor interviews Wesley Lowery, author of “They Can’t Kill Us All”.

Geologist’s nightmare.

Jonathan Mann: Recount!

PsychoSuperMom: I’m not a scientist:

Thom: How many Japanese sent to internment camps were US citizens?

Young Turks: Republican gerrymandering ruled unconstitutional

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

How to cook a Royal Thanksgiving turkey.

James Corden: Thanksgiving edition of Side Effects May Include.

Thanksgiving Classic: Sarah Palin’s Thanksgiving Massacre (with a side of word salad):

Stephen Colbert’s Turkey Tips, Part I.

Stephen Colbert’s Turkey Tips, Part II.

Late Night: What we are thankful for.

Turkeys try Thanksgiving food.

Obama pardoned the Turkey that killed my family. (Thanks, Obama!)

Late Show: How to draw a turkey by hand.

Congress talks turkey, turkey ham, and other food.

Daily Show: “U Name It” challenge for a stressful Thanksgiving:

James Corden: Friendsgiving—Thanksgiving with weed.

Stephen: The Late Show’s post-election Thanksgiving survival tips.

If you were wondering “what’s up with those outlines of people around Seattle?” well here you go. Dead pedestrians. My primary means of getting around the city is walking, and I’ve noticed a few. I hope drivers see them too.

Please join us Tuesday for an evening of politics over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. This is the place to go for some post-election discussions of the future.

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 189 chapters of Living Liberally, including twenty in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

On top of all the problems Seattlish raises with this bullshit petition to impeach Council Member Sawant, it’s a waste of her time. She’s doing incredibly important work on housing. It’s city budget season. Yeah, she’s an important part of these protests. I hope anyone in the media keeps their focus when they’re covering her, but too late.

Proverbs 20:17
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Discuss.

Can California form its own country?

Alex meets the President.

Adam Conover: The sinister reason weed is illegal:

David Pakman: Hillary Clinton leads Donald Трамп by more than one million votes.

Sam Seder: Can Obama make a Supreme Court recess appointment?

The Sexual Predator, Путин Puppet, President Elect:

• Colbert: Трамп and Путин make their first joint appearance.
• Trevor: President-elect Трамп’s prospective cabinet of deplorables
• Seth Meyers: A Closer Look at Трамп’s promises and personnel
• Olbermann: Should we give Donald Трамп a chance?
• Randy Rainbow interviews Donald Трамп:

• Sam Seder: Warren debunks Трамп’s ‘drain the swamp’ claims.
• Young Turks: Трамп’s fraud will cost him $25M
• Samantha Bee: Sore winners.
• Trevor: How South Africa could prepare the U.S. for President Трамп
• Lawrence O’Donnell: George Takei on Трамп’s proposed Muslim registry.
• Sam Seder: Трамп Attorney General pick Sen. Jeff Sessions was too racist for a 1980s judgeship appointment.
• Young Turks: Трамп taps racist for top cop position
• Stephen: Путин gives Трамп a large wooden horse.
• Seth Meyers: A Closer Look at Трамп’s transition
• Trevor: Team Трамп’s proposes a Muslim registry
• Thom: Why Трамп’s Cabinet is a basket of deplorables
• Susie Sampson: 10 actions you can take to stop Трамп.
• Sam Seder & Cliff Schecter: Трамп appointees are as dangerous & alarming as possible
Maddow: DC Hotel exemplifies Donald Трамп’s business conflicts
• Colbert: Steve Bannon And Reince Priebus are The New Odd Couple
• Young Turks: Трамп family using Presidency to cash in.
• Samantha Bee: New cabinet installation Party I
• Samantha Bee: New cabinet installation Party II
• Jimmy Dore: Why Steve Bannon in the White House makes perfect sense
• Jon on the presidential election.
• Olbermann: No, this is not normal pre-Presidential behavior.
• Seth Meyers: A Closer look at Donald Трамп’s first moves as President-Elect
• Farron Cousins: Democrats should block everything Трамп attempts, like GOP did To Obama
• Trevor: Donald Трамп’s post-election compromises
• Chris Hayes: Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) on hates crimes since election, Donald Трамп’s Presidency
• Young Turks: Трамп adds Islamophobic General to his “Cabinet of Deplorables”
• Sam Seder: Трамп National Security Advisor Michael Flynn is pathologically fixated on “radical Islamic terror”
• Young Turks: Трамп’s horrible chief strategist.
• Conan: Some of Трамп’s cabinet picks.
• Mark Fiore: Secretary of Deplorables.
• Stephen: Трамп is Tweeting for to relieve the pressure.

David Pakman: NSA Chief, Russia hacked the 2016 election.

Mental Floss: 39 U.S. City Name origins.

Minute Physics: Is the moon held up by a spring? How perspective shapes reality.

David Packman: Racist assholes call Michelle Obama an “ape in heals”.:

Joe Biden: Building on a record of economic progress.

Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

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

In Monday’s Open Thread, I mentioned that I’d like to keep a Washington State exchange. But the more I think about it, the more I would like Washington State to just set up a public option of our own and sell it across state lines. Maybe we can keep our exchange and sell the public option to Washington State residents at cost, but sell it to the rest of the country at a profit. Of course, we’d probably need a Democratic State Senate to make that happen, but it’s worth the push.

There may be a lot of internally displaced refugees in Trump’s America. If Kansas collapses under its own weight, it may be that nobody can save them. If ICE raids are as bad as we fear, people might move to sanctuary cities. If police aren’t even doing the basics to protect Black people, Latin Americans, or gay people, they might have to move to other parts of the country where they feel safer.

I say this as a warning for Seattle and Washington: We have to get our shit together. We have to solve our homeless problem because more people are coming (and because it was always the right thing to do). We have to make sure people still have health care here because healthy people in Washington are more productive, and more people coming are going to need it (also, because it’s the right thing to do). We have to get serious about police reform so people who come here aren’t afraid of them (also, it’s the right thing to do).

I generally push back against people who say people who don’t like policies in their state should move to a more liberal state. But if we want to be an option for people, we have to work on ourselves.