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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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This week, the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally will meet for an evening of political discussion and drinks. The New York primary results will lead off the conversation. Please Join us.

We meet tonight and 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. We start at 8:00pm.


Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. Tonight, the Tri-Cities and Vancouver, WA chapters meet.
The Lakewood chapter meets on Wednesday. And on Thursday, the Tacoma, Bremerton, and Spokane chapters meet.

There are 180 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find (or start!) a chapter near you.

Open Thread 4-18

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I can sort of understand grandstanding against trans people. It’s a cheap way to say you’re a horrible person. It signals to a certain type of horrible person that you’re in the tribe, and it lets you rail against imaginary horrors like people pooping in a place you’ve claimed are wrong. Also, you get to make stuff up like trans rape without actually doing anything about rape. And the costs of being an ass are borne by other people.

But what I don’t get is why people would pay money for a trans-hate initiative. I mean a fool and their money and all that, I guess.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Bernie and the Rabbi.

Samantha Bee: Why superdelegates are a good thing.

Sam Seder and Ari Berman: Voter suppression in 2016.

Young Turks: Planned Parenthood shooter’s crazy, creepy fantasy.

Jimmy Dore: Bill O’Reilly spews racist garbage, immediately says he’s “not a racist”.

Samantha Bee: Gun TV.

Matthew Filipowicz: Climate change and the war on clouds.

Daily Show: Sexual racism.

Minute Physics: Why are airplane engines so big.

The 2016 Clown Parade Marches On:

White House: West Wing Week.

How 112 people will determine where the GOP convention goes.

How to do your taxes.

Stephen and Hillary: America’s small issues.

Seth Meyers: A closer look at Goldman Sachs’ fines

Sam Seder: Public backlash puts the heat on in N.C..

VSauce: How to count past infinity.

Political ‘Captain America’ mashup.

House of Ruth: SCOTUS in the City

Samantha Bee: The NRA stands up for strict regulation…of its mascot costume!

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

Open Thread, or is it?

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Yeah, it is an open thread.

Feel free to talk about whatever. I mentioned candidates in a recent open thread, and I think it kind of killed the conversation for anyone who didn’t want to talk about that. So I just want to underline that barring violations of the comment policy, you can talk about whatever in the Open Threads. In theory I’ll get back to more threads with topics soon.

Open Thread 4-13

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As we get further and further from it, the more people are going to try to write their own narrative on to the time BLM activists interrupted Bernie Sanders at Westlake. I have been genuinely surprised at how quickly people — often time the same person — could go from saying how awful and uninformed they were to pushing the narrative that Sanders politely listened to them.

I’ve been interested to see Marissa Johnson push back on that. Both in an interview with TWIB a month or so ago (plays automatically) or writing it in her own words.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottle

We have a primary-free Tuesday this week, but there is still plenty to discuss. Join us for a pint and political conversation at this evening’s gathering of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

We meet tonight and 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. We start at 8:00pm.



Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings happening this week. Tonight, the Federal Way, Tri-Cities and Redmond chapters meet. On Thursday, the Kent chapter meets. Finally, on Monday, the Aberdeen and Yakima chapters meet.

There are 180 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find (or start!) a chapter near you.

HA Bible Study: 1 Kings 1:1-4

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1 Kings 1:1-4
King David was now an old man, and he always felt cold, even under a lot of blankets. His officials said, “Your Majesty, we will look for a young woman to take care of you. She can lie down beside you and keep you warm.” They looked everywhere in Israel until they found a very beautiful young woman named Abishag, who lived in the town of Shunem. They brought her to David, and she took care of him.

Discuss.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Seth Meyers: Bernie on why young people love him.

Thom: Exposing the diploma mills.

Panamonium:

Mental Floss: 38 facts about the internet.

Robert Yasumura: Republicans are a sausage party and you’re not invited:

Thom: Should the FBI be able to hack you?

Colbert: Political week in review.

Seth Meyers: A closer look at paid family leave.

The 2016 Clown Show:

Pap and Farron Cousins: GOP policies always lead to death and destruction

Young Turks: Feds raid anti-Planned Parenthood activist’s home.

Seth Meyers: Bernie on his cable access show and Hillary:

Republican’s Voter Suppression is Voting Fraud:

Jimmy Dore: Hero woman shouts Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) out of a Starbucks.

Obama: The U.S. economy.

What the Zika virus probably looks like.

Seth Meyers: “Ya Bernt” with Bernie Sanders.

Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

State Sanctioned Discrimination:

Mental Floss: Where did emojis come from?

White House: West Wing Week.

Stephen: The do-nothing Congress is about to do something magical:

McConnell is not taking calls.

Jimmy Dore: Political jokes of the week.

Palin’ Around with Terrorists:

Getting a grip on the Space Station.

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

Open Thread 4-8

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Since this is a local politics blog, ostensibly, I was wondering if y’all have any interest in any local or statewide candidates this cycle. I’m generally pretty big on Angie Marx who I wrote about here, Darcy Burner, who Goldy wrote about, um just do a Google Search, and Tina Podlodowski who we haven’t really written about much, but she’s great. Also, despite my disappointment on charters, I’m still mostly positive on Inslee’s time in office, and will be enthusiastically voting to reelect him.

But I’m probably missing some great candidates. Those are all Western Washington and all white, for instance. So if you’ve got any candidates you’re liking this cycle, this is as good a place as any to drop a line.

Open Thread 4-6

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I’m never particularly thrilled when debate behind the scenes are the news. But there will be another debate in New York. I’m generally happy with more debates, so yay.

But I’m even less happy when I see the names of the moderators. Not because I think, in this case CNN people and a local reporter, will be fuck ups. But I don’t think we actually need moderators. I say just have the candidates have a conversation. Sanders and Clinton are both smart people with interesting things to say. They don’t need Wolf Blitzer to coax a debate out of them. If it’s on a network like CNN, you can have someone say they’re going to commercial, but otherwise butt the hell out.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleTuesday is election day…in Wisconsin. But a pair of high-stakes presidential nominating contests and one important state Supreme Court race in the Badger State is a great reason to get together for drinks and political conversation at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally. Please join us!

We meet tonight and 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. We start at 8:00pm, but show up early for the 6pm (PDT) poll closing time.



Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings happening this week. Tonight the Tri-Cities, Long Beach, and West Seattle chapters also meet. The Lakewood and Bellingham chapters meet on Wednesday. On Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets.

There are 177 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find (or start!) a chapter near you.

Open Thread April 4

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Well, it’s pretty dispiriting that Inslee let the charter schools bill become law. I don’t know what I could add on the policy since the last time I wrote about charters. It would be nice if we could fund education before we start these sorts of things. This won’t take money directly out of public schools, but it will take it away from ancillary things.

If the legislature were serious about charters, they could have had a new revenue source rather than one that already goes to educational sources. But of course, charters were never about improving the quality of education so much as an attempt to break the unions.

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