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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:

• Jimmy Kimmel: Senate Republicans block abortion rights bill, Трамп vs wind & newly-leaked Lindsey Graham audio
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ That’s Tucker, with an ‘F’ ♬
• Ali Velshi: New e-mails show early stage of Трамп’s big lie scheme
• Zerlina: What GOP subpoenas mean For Jan 6 investigation
• Tommy Campbell: Mike Lindell fails to rejoin Twitter, Boebert’s book roasted and The Dotard fears fruit
• Chris Hayes: The Right’s abhorrentresponse to the formula shortage—Starve undocumented infants!
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Dotard Трамп, a man of God ♬
• Desi Lydic: Coup Mobile—America’s most reliable insurrectionist network:

• Seth Meyers: Trump thought China had a “hurricane gun,” and Senate GOP block bill to codify Roe v. Wade
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп reacts to the Washington Post winning the Pulitzer Prize
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Dotard Трамп, Nothin’ Special ♬
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп’s latest crazy rant
• Rachel Maddow: GOP fields candidates of questionable character as attacks on abortion rights intensify
• Seth Meyers: Rudy dodges Jan. 6 investigation and Трамп calls Pence a “fucking loser”
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Just how “monumentally historic” the McCarthy subpoena really is
• Jimmy Kimmel: GOP lawmakers subpoenaed over Jan 6th insurrection
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Why Lauren Boebert Loves Free Speech ♬
• Jonathan Mann: ♫ Fascism in America ♬
• Stee Hofstetter: Proof of Madison Cawthorn lies:

• Michael Kosta: This is every former Трамп official promoting their book
• Robert Reich: Why Republicans are NOT the party of freedom
• Zerlina: More GOP Jan. 6th hypocrisy revealed in new audio from Lindsey Graham
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп’s Twitter can, his subpoenaed phones disappear & his pretend MAGA Republican Dr. Oz
• Seth Meyers: Трамп wanted to bomb Mexico
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп Backs Трамп Clone In Nebraska ♬

LegalEagle: The Constitution doesn’t say that!

Forced Pregnancy and Other Supremely Fucked-up Issues:

• SNL Weekend Update: Justice Amy Coney Barrett on overturning Roe v. Wade
• Vice News: Will overturning Roe set back our democracy?
• Lawrence O’Donnell: America is living under the obliviousness of the Supreme Court
• Now This: How restricting abortion rights will change the U.S.
• Mark Fiore: Alitos DIY precedentkit
• The Daily Show: Did the FAUX News civility police forget 40 years of anti-abortion protests?
• Zerlina: Surveillance in a post-Roe world
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ Once You’re Born You’re On Your Own ♬:

• Full Frontal Rewind: Health care—for her!
• Now This: Restrictions on abortion rights are the new “Jane Crow”
• Amber Ruffin: ♫ The Supreme Court—Letting uteruses down everywhere ♬
• Joy Reid: Alito’s reason for overturning Roe–the decline in “domestic supply of infants” for adoption
• SNL: Roe v. Wade
• John Oliver: Abortion ruling
• Vice News: How your phone knows if you’re getting an abortion
• Now This: The economic impacts of abortion bans
• SNL Weekend Update: Roe v. Wade leaked draft opinion
• Amber Ruffin: No uterus? No opinion on abortions
• Zerlina: Doctor combats abortion misinfo on TikTok

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:

• Seth Meyers: Трамп held in contempt and endorses nonexistent person named “JD Mandel”
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Gathering of Pervs (or simply G.O.P.) ♬
• Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian: Stupidest People in Congress Awards
• Really American: Трамп’s Defense Secretary said, Трамп wanted to shoot Democratic protestors
• Mark Fiore: Right wing Rattie
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп reacts to Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie
• Ali Velshi: Notably crass, Трампy Republican defeated by Democrat in very red district
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп and McCarthy, Atrocious and Wrong ♬
• Winlar: ♫ This week in “Fuck It, It’s Friday” ♬:

• Trevor: Трамп can’t remember who he endorsed in the Ohio GOP primary
• Zerlina: Grand jury seated in Трамп GA investigation
• Tommy Campbell: Jimmy Kimmel claws Mike Lindell, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s joke testimony and Don Jr’s tiny crowds
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ I Do Not Care For The Dotard Трамп ♬
• Amber Ruffin: Watch out Marjorie Taylor Greene, courts have receipts!
• Stephen: Hannity explains his bootlicking texts to Mark Meadows
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard reacts to JD Vance winning Ohio
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп’s mental decline worsens ♬
• Seth Meyers: Matt Gaetz thinks “over-educated” is an insult; Трамп tied to Oath Keepers
• Stephen: The Dotard thinks he’s a religious hero with a high IQ
• Ari Melber: “They knew”—Republican lawmakers Wanted Pardons For Criminal Coup, Per Evidence

Trevor does the 2022 White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Zerlina: U.S. hits 1 million covid deaths

Supremely Fucked:

• Stephen: The Supreme Court doesn’t give a damn what the public wants & how gullible is Susan Collins?
• LegalEagle: Roe v. Wade to be overturned based on Supreme Court draft opinion
• Desi Lydic Foxsplains the Supreme Court leak
• WaPo: Comparing Supreme Court justices’ earlier words to the draft Roe v. Wade decision
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп reacts to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade
• Zerlina: Banning abortion and the cycle of poverty
• Jonathan Mann: ♫ Pack The Goddamn Courts You Cowards ♬:

• Trevor: Conservatives are obsessed with SCOTUS leak
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Samuel Alito’s lies did not stop in his confirmation hearing
• Robert Reich: The end of Roe v. Wade?
• Joy Reid: Republicans seething over SCOTUS draft opinion leak for the wrong reason
• The Late Show: ♫ Look Out! It’s Pro-Life Spiderman ♬
• Chris Hayes: What the SCOTUS leaker wanted the world to know about the draft
• Liberal Redneck: SCOTUS overturning Roe v Wade
• Joy Reid: 17th century misogynist cited multiple times in Justice Alito’s draft opinion
• The Daily Show: Supreme Court to strike down Roe v. Wade, leaked opinion shows
• WaPo: What Susan Collins said about abortion and the Supreme Court
• Lawrence O’Donnell: If you voted Republican, you voted to overturn Roe v. Wade
• Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian: God comes out as pro-choice
• J-L Cauvin: Brett Kavanaugh confesses HE LEAKED the Alito memo to Politico
• Seth Meyers: The shocking SCOTUS leak and the GOP’s decades-long plot to overturn Roe
• Joy Reid: Experts depict the grim reality of a post-Roe America
• The Late Show: Sen. Susan Collins will believe anything
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ I Don’t Wanna Go Back To 1950 ♬:

• LegalEagle: Penalties for lying about Roe?
• Now This: What happens next if Roe v. Wade gets overturned
• WaPo: What five conservative justices said about overturning abortion rulings
• Stephen: GOP cowards afraid to celebrate Roe v. Wade ruling and Matt Gaetz’s toxic tweet
• Chris Hayes: Why Stacey Abrams “converted” to an unequivocal abortion rights supporter

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.

Forgot about this. Running behind, but at least there’s a thread.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Amber Ruffin: How many mass shootings until we can have REAL gun control?

Samantha Bee: The case for universal free lunch

Dulcé Sloan is… Black Karen

The Crazy Coup-monkies that Worship Трамп:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Kevin McCarthy accidentally told the truth ♬
• Seth Meyers: Two Disney adults on Disney and Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill
• Rachel Maddow: Michigan GOP in chaos as fealty to Трамп’s big lie defines party
• Tommy Campbell: Mike Lindell blocked from Amazon, Kushner’s shady billions and Dim Jr
• Really American: GOP lawmaker says rape is “opportunity” for women
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ Part Of Their Herd ♬:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп’s fear of fruit ♬
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп reacts to being held IN CONTEMPT of Court
• Vox: Could the Constitution bar Трамп from running again?
• Rachel Maddow: The Republican war on journalism
• Samantha Bee: Mark Meadows’ 2,319 texts are absolutely bonkers
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Putin and Трамп, Peas in a Pod ♬
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Ron DeSantis is $1 billion stupider than we thought
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп’s mess of frightening candidates, Truth Social’s lies & Jimmy’s proposal for Mike Lindell
• Rachel Maddow: Трамп is no less dangerous for being a ridiculous buffoon
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Republican Candidates Suck (Up to Трамп) ♬
• Seth Meyers: Трамп says he won’t return to Twitter even with Elon Musk in charge
• Chris Hayes: Targeting of Madison Cawthorn reveals where Republican red line is
• Really American: Republicans MELTDOWN over student loan forgiveness
• Chris Hayes: McCarthy took issue with Mo Brooks, Matt Gaetz, and Others after Jan. 6
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп reacts to dangerous fruits
• Rachel Maddow: Meadows and Трамп allies pursued alternate elector scheme despite legal advice against it
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ “I’ve Had it With This Guy”, The Kevin McCarthy Song ♬
• Jimmy Kimmel: Marjorie Taylor Greene plays dumb in court and Трамп held in contempt
• Lawrence O’Donnell: DeSantis just signed the biggest property tax hike in history
• Seth Meyers: Ivanka Трамп election texts and Perdue & Vance embrace Трамп’s lies
• MeidasTouch: Top Democrat BLASTS Marjorie Taylor Greene during scathing speech on house floor
• Rachel Maddow: GOP leaders mortified by colleagues supporting Трамп insurrection
• Mark Fiore: How to atone for your vile disgusting thoughts
• Trevor: Why can’t these Republicans remember what they did on January 6th?
• Rachel Maddow: How populations are lured into tolerating previously unacceptable behavior in politics
• WaPo: New York judge holds Трамп in contempt of court in state attorney general’s civil probe
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Madison Cawthorn, The Victoria’s Secret Representative ♬:

• The Daily Show: Fringe-watching Madison Cawthorn
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп can’t handle the truth about 2020, Melania’s 52nd birthday & Devin Nunes’ bigly fail
• Chris Hayes: New details on why Pence refused to get in a Secret Service car on Jan. 6
• Seth Meyers: Pence’s “Chilling” words on Jan. 6, Greene’s texts about “Marshall law” and Трамп is bananas
• Joy Reid: GOP plans to “take the next election regardless of who wins” Harvard constitutional scholar says
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп Doesn’t Like to be Called Stupid (So Why Does He Speak?) ♬
• Rachel Maddow: Deposition transcript reveals Трамп’s fear of flying fruit

Liberal Redneck: On Elon, Twitter, and our billionaire overlords

Robert Reich: Musk’s Twitter takeover—A win for oligarchy

Jonathan Mann: Unionize Twitter:

Trevor: South African racism vs. American racism

Full Frontal: Spring ‘22 fashion report—Reusable tote bags

This Week in ТрампPlague:

• Chris Hayes: We have a pill that treats covid but it’s still widely ignored
• Vox goes to anti-vax Burning Man
• Now This: Fauchi—Can we eradicate COVID-19?
• Katy Tur: Dr. Birx on Трамп’s White House during covid

WaPo: Madeleine Albright eulogized by Biden, Clintons and family

Winlar: ♫ Fuck it, it’s Friday ♬

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