This is a fun story about the Miller Seed Vault at the University of Washington. I didn’t know it was a thing, but I am glad that it exists. These types of projects are vital. And we (understandably!) don’t spend as much time on things going right as them going wrong.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
Al Franken: Why the founding fathers didn’t mention abortion in the Constitution
WaPo: Is Congress searching for UFOs? Sort of.
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship
Ethnonationalists and Other Despicable Disciples of The Dotard Трамп:
John Oliver: Utilities
Rep. Kim Schrier (WA-8) on national baby formula shortage
Lauren Mayer: ♫ Musk’s a Shmuck ♬:
WaPo: Supporters of abortion rights rally in D.C., nationwide
Robert Reich: How private equity is making your life more expensive
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
A very fine Friday to you all. I had a lovely walk after work the other day. Not very far outside the urban core, there were several homeless encampments. Dozens of tents and 2 people sleeping on the sidewalk not sheltered by more than a sleeping bag. And I thought to myself if this is the rest of massive sweeps, why bother? Like, what does teem sweeps think it’s accomplished?Out of the tourist and business areas and into the industrial parts of the city.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
Man. Fucking Edmonds, man. I don’t know what I can add to my last few posts about their homeless camping law. Except, fuck, now it’s the law. Fuck 5 of the City Council members. Fuck the cruelty. Fuck not building shelter, let alone enough housing. Man, and jail time if you don’t break up your family for an unsafe shelter in a different city. Keep shuffling people around like there isn’t a goddam pandemic still. Sorry, you have to choose between getting rid of your pet and going 30 miles away for one night’s shelter or rising 90 days in jail and a fine.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets this evening for conversation over a cocktail. Got something to say? Then stop by.
The Seattle chapter of DL meets every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm out on the back patio.
Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place. If you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, find a chapter near you.
It’s filing week, Washington. Every state House and half of the state Senate are up for grabs. The only statewide race is for Secretary of State. Depending on where you live, there may be local races too.
If you aren’t satisfied with your legislator, or whatever other office, and nobody is picking up the slack, that someone can be you. We need people to run.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. Right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
Amber Ruffin: America’s history of stealing vulnerable children of color
Zerlina: When will laws catch up to #MeToo?
The Weekly MAGA Chronicles:
LegalEagle: The Constitution doesn’t say that!
Forced Pregnancy and Other Supremely Fucked-up Issues:
Mother Jones: The secret economy that runs EVERYTHING
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Are you excited? Free transit (h/t) this weekend. Re-register your Orca Card. Look at the card reader confused as it doesn’t work. What fun.
Seriously, if you don’t normally use transit, this could be a good weekend to try it if you live in the Puget Sound region. There are soccer and baseball games to go to. Downtown is hopping, and it’s a nice weekend to go somewhere. Please wear a mask, though.
And hey, wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you haven’t yet.
Good morning. I have read a few things about tires degrading it it harming salmon. But this is one of the more comprehensive articles on it. First, kudos to KUOW on finding the local peg for California is looking for alternatives. Local news is the best. Second, it’s really terrible what we’re doing. What chemicals we’re putting in the water every time we drive, and the timeline to fix it. Geez.
Anyway, wash your dang hands. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
It turns out that today is Tuesday. And that means that the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets to engage in an evening of political deliberation over a hardy quaff. Stop by if you can.
The Seattle chapter of DL meets every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm out on the back patio.
Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place. If you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, find a chapter near you.
Gosh, it seems like a sweeps-centered plan to get people into shelter isn’t working. Maybe of we do more sweeps, we can crack the code.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
Amber Ruffin: Is This Racist? Amber Ruffin on the FDA’s menthol cigarettes ban
Remix Bros.: ♫ Vaxxed And Boosted REMIX ♬
Трамп and His Treasonous Terrorists:
Trevor does the 2022 White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Zerlina: U.S. hits 1 million covid deaths
Supremely Fucked:
Solana Rice: Why child poverty is a policy choice
John Oliver: Environmental racism
Trevor: Nancy Pelosi surprises Zelenskyy
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
I don’t know what’s going on in Edmonds. Special council meeting to vote on the demand people find a shelter despite not having any shelter. Several times.
Now shelter has to be 35 miles from Edmonds City Hall. That sounds like a lot. Just eyeballing it, they’re saying if there’s shelter anywhere between Everett and Seattle, they can fine someone for sleeping on a bench and send them to jail. It’s just cruel. At least it keeps not getting a vote.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated if you haven’t and get boosted if you’re eligible.
Roe v Wade is almost certainly going to be overturned. It’s awful. It’s going to mean a lot of women, trans men nonbinary people, and other people who can get pregnant are going to have much worse life outcomes. Including, but hardly limited to, dying in childbirth and raising unwanted children. Awful.
It will probably be state by state for a while. Here in Washington abortion will still be legal for now. Of course the people who spent the last several decades talking about states rights will try to take bans national.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
Tuesdays are Drinking Liberally days in Seattle. Please join us as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets for some conversations over a drink.
The Seattle chapter of DL meets every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm out on the back patio.
Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place. If you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, find another chapter near you.
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