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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Matthew Filipowicz: Lack of living wills for too-big-to-fail banks defended by hedge fund executive.

Sam Seder: Can you guess how many toddlers shot people this year?

Jonathan Mann: Throw the pundits down a hole.

Jimmy Dore: Political jokes of the week.

Samantha Bee: Andrew Jackson was so, so bad.

The 2016 Top Clown Show

Amy Schumer: The Gun Show.

Mental Floss: 32 facts about NYC.

Hillary Clinton ruins “Hamilton”..

Republican Voter Suppression:

Jimmy Dore: Andrew Jackson full of wit and rage at being booted from the $20.

Politician’s less graceful moments.

Seth Meyers: Women and the draft…A closer look.

Daily Show: American soccer’s gender wage gap.

Comedian-in-Chief:

Thom: The Good, the Bad & the Very, Very Interlacustrinely Ugly!

White House: West Wing Week.

Mental Floss: Why do some countries drive on the right and some on the left?

Seth Meyers: Detroit teachers stage a sit-out.

Stephen: Political Week in Review:

Hillary celebrates Mother’s day.

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

Open Thread! May! 6?

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So, I get it. You like your arena, or at least the thought of it. You had to learn about street vacation. And you don’t like that the City Council voted against it. You or one of your Facebook friends, maybe someone on Twitter, noticed that all the women voted one way and all the men voted the other way. Instead of going “huh” and considering how to lobby for your preferred option going forward, things go off the rails.

But, you know what? Do fucking better. As a man who doesn’t take a position on street vacation, but generally supports efforts to get a men’s basketball and hockey arena, this is a disgrace.

The Minimum Wage Survives

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Darryl mentioned it in this morning’s Drinking Liberally thread, but it’s kind of a big deal that the US Supreme Court won’t hear the Seattle minimum wage case. There are 2 reasons why it’s mass rad. First, for Seattle and other places where we want to set a minimum wage, and are going to have the sort of slow, multi-tiered implementation that we got. We can keep the law in place without this imaginary legal hurdle. For the fast food workers and other franchise employees who’ll get a raise going forward, it’s worth it on its own.

But, it also signals that with Antonin Scalia off the court, maybe the country won’t slip further into a new Lochner era. Maybe we won’t decide as many cases primarily on the basis of what’s good for business.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottle

The Supreme Court will not hear a challenge to Seattle’s minimum wage law. And tonight’s election calendar includes an Indiana primary. We’ll roll these topics into our political conversations with cocktails at this week’s 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 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 178 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 May 2

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I hope you survived your May Day (or your m’aider as the news seems to think). For me it consisted of walking home and seeing a lot of cops, and wondering why there are so many. Then kind of remembering and keeping walking. And then having someone in my building freaking the fuck out. Also some people on Twitter. In conclusion, I almost feel like we need better shitty anarchists.

HA Bible Study: Genesis 5:1-3

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Genesis 5:1-3
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth.

Discuss.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Mark Fiore: The Math of Democracy.

Stephen: Tips for potential VP candidates (not you, Carly)

Jimmy Kimmel: Wall of election results has a bad day.

Larry Wilmore: Cleaning up Utah’s porn.

The 2016 G.O.P. Self-immolation Comedy Show:

Stephen: The political week in review with the “Hungry for Power Games”.

Dark Night staring Sen. Patrick Leahy.

Sen. Franken: Obama’s Supreme Court nominee deserves a hearing.

Stephen: How are humans NOT the national mammal?

Daily Show: Felon voting rights.

Coach Convicted:

Can you get rich by running for President?

Seth Meyers: Trump’s and Hillary’s running mates.

John Oliver: Puerto Rico.

White House: West Wing Week.

Young Turks: How Hispanic voters will crush Republicans.

Greenman: Surveilling the scientists.

Amy Schumer: Dr. Congress.

State Sanctioned Discrimination:

Jimmy Dore: Political news of the week.

Sam Seder: Dennis Miller is still incredibly unfunny.

Seth Meyers: A closer look at the NE primary.

Mental Floss: 36 facts about tea.

Daily Show: Confused Islamophobes target American Sikhs.

Bernie Sanders: Bernie Sanders on the crisis of the middle class.

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

Open Thread 4-29

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Oh hey, it’s super on-brand* if I talk about highways for 2 open threads this week. But here we are:

Are you planning anything different for when the Viaduct is closed? Going to telecommute? Going to tough it out? Live in the Tri-Cities and just going to laugh at us Wet Siders? Using this as an opportunity to start biking or walking to work? Going to take I-5 and hope for the best? Going to plan for some more time, and just make it happen? Unemployed? Taking the Light Rail? Working odd hours?

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Open Thread 4-27

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Of all the books I’ve read while out to eat or on a bus, or whatever, I’d say this is the one that I’ve had the most people ask me about. I don’t know if the Supreme Court is an interesting topic generally. Or possibly it’s because you hear so many conservatives ranting about the court, a long haired Seattle person reading “Case Against the Supreme Court ” might seem incongruous.

Anyway, if you want to be super depressed, it’s one I’d recommend. Very interesting and really shows the importance of the court.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleIt is election Tuesday in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. Please join us tonight for an evening of election-watching over an elixir at 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, but some of us will show up earlier to watch the returns.




Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. Tonight the Tri-Cities chapter also meets. On Wednesday, the Burien and North Spokane chapters meet. The Kent and Woodinville chapters meet on Thursday. And next Monday, the Yakima and South Bellevue 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.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Roy Zimmerman: Everybody is Everybody Else.

Bill Maher: Tax the churches.

How to fix America’s corrupt political system.

The White Jet Pro.

What people did with presidential candidate cut-outs.

Who’s it going to be? Donald Drumpf or Hillary?

Always After Me Lucky Charms:

White House: West Wing Week.

Young Turks: Gyrocopter pilot sentenced to prison.

Wicked: Denying Hillary.

The 2016 Crazy-Fest:

David Hawkings’ Whiteboard: Life in the Senate after running for President:

Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Daily Show: The Carson twins debate….:

Stephen: Bernie said “do do”.

State Sanctioned Discrimination:

Reporter fail: Attempt to make #DemocracySpring look stupid backfires!

Deprogrammed political news of the week.

Thom: Can social media seize control of our elections?

Stephen: New York primaried hard.

Mental Floss: 27 facts about James Bond.

The $20 Makeover:

Mark Fiore: Islamophobic Air.

How to stop Ted Cruz.

Obama’s weekly address: Building a fairer and more effective criminal justice system.

PsychoSuperMom: Gerrymandering.

Stephen: Everyone is mad about campaign finance reform.

Break Free Pacific Northwest.

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

Open Thread 4-22

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While I haven’t read it, can’t imagine I won’t support the SEIU backed initiative to fund enforcement of the $15 minimum wage, of the sick leave/safe leave law, and other workplace issues in Seattle. While, generally I don’t think dedicated money is the way to go on those sorts of things, the city hasn’t been very good at enforcement so far. So better a dedicated tax than it being under-resourced.

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