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4 day week, but I am more spent than most. So here’s to the weekend. After today. And here’s to getting vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

– Jesus Christ almighty. Ann Davison out here just ending important programs unilaterally. Just, fuck.

– I’ve linked to tree ordinance reporting before, but now, it has passed.

– Please, for goodness sake, get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

Please join us this evening as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally toasts in the summer. We’ll spend some time talking politics, too.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm. You’ll find us on the back patio.

Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

The Ugly “Conservatives”:

• Lawrence O’Donnell: Трамп faces new “extremely damning” potential obstruction evidence
• Joy Reid: “Their values are out of whack”—GOP debt ceiling politicking could harm veterans
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ It Appears that Трамп is Screwed ♬
• Ari Melber: Lies—FAUX News hit with a new billion dollar case as “succession” ends with a warning
• Rachel Maddow: Carroll moves to teach Трамп lesson he failed to learn from loss in court
• Parody Project: ♫ Say It Again – MONEY SUCKS THE CONGRESS DOWN ♬:

• Alex Wagner: A quiet Mark Meadows stirs speculation about Трамп legal peril
• Keith Olbermann: Jack Smith’s end game as Трамп craps his pants
• Tommy Campbell: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s boyfriend in drag video and Ron DeSantis smears supporter
• Chris Hayes: FAUX News runs with fake story about migrants displacing homeless veterans
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ Another GOP Debt Crisis ♬
• Mehdi Hasan: The truth about DeSantis’ awful record on covid
• The Daily Show: Conservatives proudly share their pronouns
• Joy Reid: “His first book disappeared from the internet”—Writer on DeSantis’ curious 2011 book on US history
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Ted Cruz, (aka “Трамп Lite”) pushes for Investigation of Bud Light ♬:

• Lawrence O’Donnell: Трамп lawyers demand meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland
• Alex Wagner: Is the special counsel poised for a Трамп indictment or just “playing with his food”?
• Chris Hayes: DeSantis 2024 launch with Elon Musk on Twitter is a disaster
• Desi Lydic: Desi breaks down Matt Gaetz’s plastic surgery
• Joy Reid: “A disaster for Ron DeSantis,” says former GOP congressman on Florida Gov.’s 2024 presidential kickoff
• J-L Cauvin: Mitch McConnell just endorsed Tim Scott for 2024
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп the Lobster (A Song of Hope) ♬
• Katie Phang: Former W.H. lawyer predicts Трамп “will go to jail” in documents case
• Rachel Maddow: DOJ’s reported interest in Трамп foreign business deals reframes scope of Mar-a-Lago probe
• Chris Hayes: E. Jean Carroll seeks new damages from Трамп after CNN comments
• Alex Wagner: DeSantis’ cringeworthy strain for “likeability” is contradicted by hostile policies
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard’s shocking reaction to NFL legend Jim Brown
• Jonathan Jensen: ♫ Stouthearted Men (Josh Hawley Version) ♬:

• The Daily Show: Conservatives try to define “woke”
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Josh Hawley is VERY Manly (He Said So) ♬
• Tommy Campbell: Mike Lindell offers stock and is Lauren Boebert with someone even crazier?
• Chris Hayes: Oath Keepers to receive first seditious conspiracy sentences over Jan. 6
• Joy Reid: “You need to be careful who you patronize”—NAACP official explains its Florida travel advisory
• Rocky Mountain Mike: Coordinated Universal Out Of Touch Time
• Ari Melber: Criminal defendant Трамп back in court after arrest as judge sends warning
• Ronny Chieng responds to Jesse Watters’s anti-Asian racism
• J-L Cauvin: Ron DeSantis dans the dictionary in Florida
• ♫ Still Jail-Free After All These Years ♬:

• Lawrence O’Donnell: Why does Clarence Thomas’s billionaire friend own “the garden of evil” & Hitler’s teapot?
• Alex Wagner: DeSantis faith in Musk for campaign launch results in humiliation
• Desi Lydic: OneVestigation app is perfect for organizing your crimes
• Lewis Black: Teacher under investigation for showing Disney movie
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Kari Lake, a Charlatan and Fake ♬
• Chris Hayes: Ohio Republicans try to change state rules to keep abortion off ballots
• Mother Jones: How Ron DeSantis wants to “Make America Florida”
• Joy Reid: San Francisco Republicans hosting anti-trans “parental rights night” exposed by columnist
• Mark Fiore: Negotiating with the Reborglicans
• The Daily Show: Asking the GOP, “When was America last great?”
• Founders Sing: ♫ You Moron, Ron Ron — DeSantis Vs. Disney, Трамп…and everyone else! ♬

• Alex Wagner: First day of DeSantis campaign not likely as threatening to Трамп as he hoped
• Rachel Maddow: Saddled with Трамп, unpopular policies, GOP toys with tanking economy under Biden
• Chris Hayes: “Literal dumpster fire”—Infighting erupts among Texas Republican leaders
• J_L Cauvin: A quiet Mark Meadows stirs speculation about Трамп legal peril
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Song reveals Josh Hawley’s net worth ♬

Lawrence O’Donnell: What if Joe Biden is doing everything right in the debt ceiling negotiations?

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

This I, Anonymous in The Stranger has been a bug bear for me for along time. Like, I will take our terrible walkers over our terrible drivers. But man, just, like, recognize that there are other people. Maybe they have actual things to do. Maybe they don’t want to navigate around a group of people, or one slow person managing to take over the whole sidewalk. Come on, everyone.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible. Get them.

Regulating the gig economy should probably come at the state or Federal level. But as long as they aren’t stepping up, it’s fantastic that the city of Seattle is stepping up. First with sick and safe leave rights and now potentially rights around termination. Too much of tech is just new and exciting ways to treat workers poorly.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gets together tonight for an evening of politics, drinks, and socializing. If you can, stop by.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm. You’ll find us on the back patio.

Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.

Vaccines are the best invention ever. Ever. I know I keep harping on you to get vaccinated or boosted for COVID-19.

But also, am I glad I got my MMR as a kid. Because whoo boy. I was in one of the places the person with measles went this weekend. Instead of an oh shit situation, it’s fine.

Mark Fiore: SCOTUS gift cards

Chris Hayes: Elon Musk says “So be it” if tweeting conspiracies, extremism loses him money

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Vice News: A year after Buffalo—Turning grief into action

The Party of Liars and Seditionists:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Jim Jordan’s Looking Stupid AGAIN ♬
• Keith Olbermann: Giuliani offered Трамп pardons for $2M
• Alex Wagner: Jordan’s choice of witnesses raises questions about right-wing extremism within the FBI
• Chris Hayes: Control is now a pillar of the Republican vision
• Tommy Campbell: George Santos admits to theft and faces 13 federal charges
• Lawrence O’Donnell: The most dangerous phrase for Giuliani in sexual assault lawsuit
• Randy Rainbow: ♫ Welcome to DeSantis! ♬:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ God, guns and genetalia ♬
• Liberal Redneck: Conservative cancel culture is outta control
• Ari Melber: FAUX News legal earthquake—New billion dollar lawsuit over alleged lies
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Comer’s “Whistleblower” Gone without a Trace ♬
• Alex Wagner: Amid DeSantis attacks, Disney cancels massive development plans in Florida
• Rachel Maddow: Bicyclist brings white supremacists down with skilled heckling
• Roy Wood, Jr.: Roy Wood Jr. Tucker Carlson audition tape
• Parody Project: ♫ The Normalization Song (Dedicated to Maga Republicans) ♬:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ George Santos, Don’t You Cry ♬
• Jen Psaki: The party of “family values” defends The Dotard after sexual abuse verdict
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard reacts to Lauren Boebert’s divorce
• Parody Project: ♫ Strangers on the Right ♬
• NowThis: Disney cancels Florida campus project amid DeSantis feud
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ On the Likelihood of Pence Becoming President ♬
• Alex Wagner: House GOP appears to have reached “nastiness” goal set by Gingrich
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ Where In The World Is Comer’s Whistle-Blower? ♬:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Lauren Boebert is a Free Woman Again ♬
• LegalEagle: George Santos Is In Trouble
• Ari Melber: Criminal defendant Трамп braces as D.A. works to flip key ally
• Joy Reid and Ali Velshi: GOP targets poor in debt ceiling negotiations
• Tommy Campbell: Rudy Giuliani hit with bombshell lawsuit by former employee
• Lawrence O’Donnell: The name of Трамп-echoing liar Jim Jordan’s committee is a lie
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The ‘Family-Values Party’ ♬

Robert Reich: Why child labor in America is skyrocketing

NowThis: Women open up about sterilization in a post-Roe world

The Daily Show: A.I. Joe Biden campaign ad

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

I didn’t get any engagement on Twitter, and I don’t know if it’s because Twitter sucks now or because it’s just not interesting? Or both.

Anyway, the other day, I got on the light rail at Pioneer Square going North. Now what you have to understand is that the sometimes the doors open on the right and sometimes they open in the left, and between there and Capitol Hill, where the doors open on the opposite side, it’s all underground.

The person who got on ahead of me went to the opposite doors and looked out the window. Butt to the other passengers. Whenever I get that spot, it’s because I am getting off at Capitol Hill, but I always turn around so I’m facing inside the train. I can understand if it’s above ground but looking out at the gray walls of the tunnel seems… wrong? Off? I don’t know.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

– The new drug possession law is harsher than I would have preferred. I am also not sure what “encourages prosecutors to divert drug possession cases to treatment” will mean in practice.

– It’s filing week, so file for office. Seriously, go for it. If there’s a local position and you don’t like what the incumbent is doing or you don’t like anyone in the race for an open sea,well, make it happen.

– The Queen Anne Taco Bell is far too expensive.

– Multnomah County, get your shit together and spend the money allocated for homeless people. For God’s sake.

– Get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

It is a lovely evening to get together with like-minded individuals and solve the problems of the world on the back of a napkin. Sound good? Then join us this evening as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gets together for drinks, good cheer, and conversation.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm. You’ll find us on the back patio.

Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.

It’s too hot. Please for goodness sake, someone do something about it. Like another week of this in May. In May? May? Seriously, May. I don’t like it. We just skipped from low 60’s to mid 80’s? Fuck. In goddam May. This is supposed to be some of the nicest time of the year. Instead it’s just too hot.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

Robert Reich: The first step to abolishing the Electoral College

Lawrence O’Donnell: “Mr. President, if you’re listening…”—Laurence Tribe on how to end GOP debt default crisis

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Rapists, Liars, and Other Members of the MAGA GOP Cult:

• Alex Wagner and friends: Carroll victory over Трамп seen as waypoint in winding path of progress
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Tucker Carlson’s Brainwashing Service (CLOSED FOR NOW) ♬
• Ari Melber: Serial fabulist George Santos on indictment and his joke about “Jews”
• Joy Reid: We didn’t need a Трамп pep rally to understand what Трамп is
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard threatens NY jury
• Chris Hayes: About Трамп’s town hall—A seditious candidate can’t be debated, only defeated
• WaPo: George Santos—What to know about his indictment
• Lauren Mayer: The E. Jean Carroll Polka:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Why I say, Hurrah! STDs! ♬
• Alex Wagner: Antisemitic speakers to skip Трамп stop on right-wing roadshow tour
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп’s CNN Town Hall prep LEAKED!
• Mother Jones: Why is George Santos cozying up to a fellow far-right liar?
• Stephanie Ruhle and friends: Breaking down Трамп sexual abuse verdict and George Santos federal charges
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Why Didn’t You Scream? (The Joe Tacopina Song) ♬
• Ari Melber: Трамп found liable for sexual abuse after bombshell admission video played for jury
• WaPo: George Santos’s constituents, “He should go to jail”
• Alex Wagner: White Christian nationalism emerges from shadows of GOP politics
• Parody Project: ♫ Should Old Offenses Be Forgot? ♬:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп hates you too! ♬
• Steve Hofstetter: George Santos—Story of a lying failure
• Ari Melber: Трамп forced under oath—What jurors in civil rape trial heard in closing arguments
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Republicans on Biden—Cognitive Decline AND Diabolical Genius? ♬
• Alex Wagner: Florida college students arrange separate commencement, rejecting board’s Трампy speaker
• Tommy Campbell: Marjorie Taylor Greene is desperate to impeach Biden after he mocked her
• Ari Melber: Трамп civil rape trial witness speak after jury rules
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard Reacts to Jury Finding Him GUILTY
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Famous Fascist Scores CNN Interview! ♬
• LegalEagle: Трамп had no defense for E. Jean Carroll
• Rocky Mountain Mike: ♫ Drag Ron ♬:

• Chris Hayes: Sen. Tuberville on White nationalists in the military—“I call them Americans”
• Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes: Sedition prosecutions & Трамп sexual abuse verdict “established a truth”
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп—“The Russet Rasputin” ♬
• Stephanie Ruhle and friends: The future of the GOP—The Friday nightcap
• Alex Wagner: Republicans struggle to position themselves on Трамп sex abuse verdict
• Tommy Campbell: The Dotard loses to E. Jean Carroll
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard announces Truth Social TV
• Ari Melber: FAUX News braces as Tuckums ready to “torch” network after firing
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Chicken Didn’t Come ♬

Vox: Why Texas judges have so much power

Vice News: Food pantries are swamped after covid benefits end

Bad Lip Reading: State of the Union, 2023:

NowThis: What happens when Title 42 ends?

LegalEagle: Astonishing corruption at the Supreme Court?

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

– Cinerama is coming back after a few years of uncertainty. I am looking forward to the very tasty popcorn that makes me kind of sick, as well as the great movie experience.

– Stay cool in this hot times. The forecast just says toooooo hoooooot so do your best here.

– Get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.