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A long time ago, back when buses ran in the Transit Tunnel, I was going from Pioneer Square to Convention Place and just got on the first bus, that happened to be at the end of the route. I got on and the only other people were the driver and a couple sitting in the very back. The man was playing a ukulele to the woman. Fantastic.

This moment, back when buses ran in the tunnel, back when there was a Convention Place station, is the last time I was charmed by hearing someone else’s music on public transportation.

But now? Every other ride someone is playing music. It’s very annoying. The other day, it wasn’t just a phone without headphones, but an actual speaker. Fucking hell dude. And sometimes I have to hear your podcast, with commercials? I’m advertised to enough on public transportation without an annoying ad for mattresses or whatever.

Sorry now for the sudden tone shift, I’m trying out a footer. Hey, today is a good day to contact your member of Congress or one of legislators.

More people biking the Fremont Bridge. You guys. I don’t know how much that’s people coming back to work Downtown and how much it’s bike specific.

Amazon workers taking the Interurban Trail to work will probably boost that this year as they’re required to work from the office. I have mentioned that I haven’t noticed a huge uptick in people in coffee shops around Amazon; I also haven’t noticed more bikes. Yet.

Anyway, it’s cold as fuck, go warm up.

It’s Tuesday, which means the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gets together for politics and conversation over a drink. Stop by, if you can.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the back room of the pub. We start at 8:00pm.

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.

Mother Jones: Seven ways to cut TRILLIONS in wasteful government spending

Grace Kuhlenschmidt: Election prognosticator answer for his wrong prediction

Preznit Elect Felon Von Shitzenpantz Syndrome:

• Seth Meyers: Трамп ally Steve Bannon rips “evil” Elon Musk as MAGA civil war erupts
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп’s plan to save Hollywood, Biden’s farewell & we say toodle-oo to TikTok
• Rachel Maddow: Трамп Cabinet confirmation process already falling apart
• Jordan Klepper: Pete Hegseth grilled on cheating, corruption, & women in combat in Senate hearing
• Ross Childs: JD Vance skipping the inauguration??
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Joyously Reunited—The Трамп and The Pences ♬
• Seth Meyers: Трамп nominee Pete Hegseth grilled over drinking, misconduct & controversial comments
• Christopher Titus: Трамп lies about the LA wildfires:

• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard reacts to Pete Hegseth Senate hearing
• Ari Melber: Coup bomb goes off in Smith report
• Sarah Cooper: Pete Hegseth confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense
• The Daily Show: Pete Hegseth—Overserved with honor
• Dark Brandon: Hecklers gonna heck all over Pete Hegseth’s face
• Jimmy Kimmel: Hegseth gets hammered during confirmation hearing, Трамп’s inauguration plans & fire misinformation
• Steve Shives: We need to talk about Трамп’s new official portrait
• Jordan Klepper: Трамп’s new portrait, Biden’s ominous farewell & who gets ceasefire credit?
• Stella Magz:Трамп and Vance’s portraits are out and I’m scared
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ I’d Chip In to Buy Greenland (with Трамп as King) ♬
• Puppet Regime: Putin makes a stunning accusation at Трамп:

• Stephen: Michelle Obama to skip inauguration. Presidential Diet Coke. Bondi & Hegseth grilled by Congress
• LegalEagle: Трамп criminally sentenced
• Tommy Campbell: Трамп and Obama at Carter’s funeral—What was REALLY said
• Stella Magz: Трамп is going to lose it!
• Rachel Maddow: Days from inauguration, Трамп looks to walk back some campaign promises
• Seth Meyers: Biden warns of “oligarchy” in America as billionaires flock to Трамп inauguration
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard celebrates Jack Smith resigning
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Drunks, Elites, and Idiots—Трамп’s NEW D.E.I. ♬
• Stella Magz: Трамп uses AI to share his inner thoughts….
• Robert Reich: Trump’s Cabinet is rich as hell
• The Late Show: Our President-elect is a felon
• Stephen: Inaugural balls. Does Jack Smith’s report matter? Dems Grill Hegseth
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп throws tantrum before inauguration
• ScaredKetchup: Project 2025, The Series, Episode 2 with AI Трамп, Mel Gibson, AOC, and Elon Musk
• Rocky Mountian Mike: ♫ Hello, Metah – Hello,Twittah (A Letter From Mar-a-Lago) ♬:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп Was Sent by Satan (to speed up our demise) ♬
• Seth Meyers: Steve Bannon says Elon Musk is a “Truly evil guy”
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: Trump’s Presidential portrait photoshoot
• Ross Childs: Fact-checking is illegal!
• The Daily Show: The lawyers who will get you out of trouble, Trump-Style
• Stella Magz: Трамп pick Pete Hegseth is a nightmare
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Трамп has lowered the standards every day of his political life
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard demands an indoor inauguration
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ Трамп’s Picks ♬
• Steve Shives: New house rules for Трамп voters, from your local bartender
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Republican Confirmation Hearing Questions ♬

Stephen: Is TikTok really a security threat? A conversation with Jeremy Bash

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

The Deplorables Basket:

• Liberal Redneck: Stop being stupid about the LA fires
• Jon Stewart: GOP hypocrisy with L.A. wildfire disaster relief
• The Late Show: Mike Lindell introduces the MyCross
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ World’s Finest and Most Accurate Lara Трамп Song ♬
• Amber Ruffin calls out Steve Bannon for telling Elon Musk to “Go back to Africa”
• Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ Cybertruck Ignite ♬

Lawrence O’Donnell: Biden’s “tech-industrial complex” warning might be most remembered line of his presidency

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

– Have you been waiting for the state rebate to get an e-bike? Well good news, come April you can get it.

– District 2, so many candidates.

– Man just the other day I saw a driver run a red and almost hit a blind man. Imagine feeling so entitled to do that that you get out of your car and attack them. Seriously, if any of you fuckers feel like that, give up driving.

– I have many problems with Clarence Thomas, but you have to admit he has expertise.

– Still working on an outro for openthreads. Tootles? G’Bye. Just back to wash your filthy hands without the COVID-19 link? You should wash your hands still. I’ve used enough men’s rooms to know many of you aren’t; Maybe something Bob Ferguson specific?

Help! I am broken in ways that science can’t fix. I fucking love every story about municipal composting. Who makes such a person?

Anyway, today’s delightful entry in Carl has a problem is Spokane. What declares itself biodegradable and isn’t feels like a great annoyance. And probably a growing concern. I don’t know what is to be done.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gets together this evening for some politics over a drink. Please stop by, if you can.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the back room of the pub. We start at 8:00pm.

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.

– Hey eff a parking minimum.

– If you’ve seen the horror in Los Angeles and can help an animal out, well geez.

– I don’t understand transit in Spokane, but good luck to them.

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Preznit Elect Felon Von Shitzenpantz:

• Stephen: Jan 6, Трамп’s day of love & Jeffries, “We will fart hard”
• Liberal Redneck: All the recent MAGA drama
• The Other Brother: ♫ Gulf of America ♬
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ Kiss the Ring ♬
• Seth Meyers: Трамп gets fact-checked, faces backlash over lies about CA wildfires
• Rocky Mountain Mike: ♫ In the Year 2025 ♬
• Kat Abu: I cracked the code to Трамп’s unhinged nominee picks
• Rachel Maddow: Five things to know about Pam Bondi, Трамп’s (second) pick for attorney general
• Marsh Family: ♫ Turd on a Wire (The Elon Musk Song) ♬:

• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ Alito, a Back I Can Scratch ♬
• Desi Lydic: GOP promotes The Dotard’s Greenland fantasy while fires rage in LA
• The Late Show: Трамп’s Ozempic tariff
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard declares he will make January 6th a federal holiday
• Dark Brandon: The sentencing of convicted felon Трамп (animated cartoon)
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Трамп’s Jan. 6 lies are a necessary part of his plan to pardon the rioters & attackers
• Jonathan Mann: ♫ Everybody’s Coming ♬
• Steve Shives: Facebook chooses Трамп over truth
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Felon Muskmelon ♬
• Jimmy Kimmel: The Felon Von Shitzenpantz wants to buy Greenland!? Bromance with Elon on the Rocks & Zuckerberg kisses the (brown) ring
• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s insane press conference about Greenland, Jack Smith, Gulf of Mexico
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: Listen to the smelt
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Kamala Harris was the personification of the return of the peaceful transfer of power
• Alex Wagner: Трамп veers into bizarre fixation on adding neighboring countries as states
• Jabari Jones: V.P. Трамп—Tune me OUT!
• Tommy Campbell: Don Jr.’s Greenland visit destroyed and it’s hilarious
• Rocky Mountain Mike: ♫ Elon Town ♬:

• Ari Melber: Musk busted for abusing MAGA role in crypto plot, GOP budget chief debunks DOGE
• The Other Brother: ♫ Panama, Canada ♬
• Desi Lydic: Trump ratchets up call to annex Canada & Greenland
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп win certified on insurrection anniversary
• Darrin Bell: Watch META go full MAGA as Mark Zuckerberg axes fact-checking
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп to Rename Panama Canal ♬
• J-L Cauvin: Von Shitzenpantz reacts to being a felon-President
• Seth Meyers: Трамп wants to annex Canada and Greenland after admitting he lied about inflation
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ K-POP HIT—“I’m Gonna Lie Tonight” by B(DT)S ♬

Vox: Should fluoride be in our water?

Peanuts:

• Stephen: Great-grandpa Joe & ex-Presidents salute Jimmy Carter & Denmark claps back & Zuck’s community notes
• Desi Lydic: Trump & Obama chat at Carter funeral while GOP politicizes LA fires
• WaPo: Carter’s casket arrives at the Capitol
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп at Carter’s funeral ♬

Knotheadusc: ♫ Bluer than Blue ♬:

Miscellaneous Deplorables:

• Steve Shives: Christian prophet predicts God’s wrath for President Biden!
• Darrin Bell: See how MAGA Republicans responded to the devastating LA fires
• The Late Show: Your Jan 6th gift guide
• Dark Brandon: Rudy Guiliani is slowly making his way to jail
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ You Need to Be Poor (So the Rich Folks Can Stay Rich) ♬
• Tommy Campbell: Matt Gaetz gets destroyed over crazy new face and fringe show
• Stella Magz: Matt Gaetz’s debut at his new “job”
• Legaleagle: Matt Gaetz report is out and it’s bad
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Billionaires—What to do With Them? ♬
• Steve Shives: White nationalism and the H-1B visa debate are inseparable

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

– 2 years late, but congrats to SPD on firing a giant fuckup. Hopefully now the good apples can finally note that it’s bad to kill someone and then joke about it.

– Not just the Puget Sound, housing is expensive in Spokane too. Hopefully some of their newish reforms will bring prices down over time.

The Stranger has a bill tracker. I would advise you to find a bill you find interesting and good. Track it, sure, but also contact your legislators and try to get it passed. Maybe find an org that’s doing lobbying.

Please join us this evening as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally convenes for conversation and good company over a cold one.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the back room of the pub. We start at 8:00pm.

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.

An hour ago, I didn’t know Washington state had an intercity bus. Now I would like to see it expanded. Maybe ride it, although it doesn’t seem super convenient to Seattle.

Have any of you taken it? Is it worse than the Greyhound bus would be on a similar route?

Electile Dysfunction Hangover:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Fascist in a Fake Tan (Coming soon to a Capital Near You!) ♬
• ScaredKetchup: ♫ Secret video from Трамп’s Mar-a-Lago New Year’s party ♬
• Chris Hayes: Трамп will already be a lame duck president on Day One
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ When the Trees Start Voting for the Chainsaws (an environmental song) ♬
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Elon Musk says “unrepentant racists” support Трамп
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: Tourist’s Day—Трамп’s new January 6th holiday
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ For 100 Grand, You Can Pray with Трамп! ♬
• The Other Brother: ♫ Dotard and Elon ♬
• Chris Hayes: Elonia Musk “melts down” after underestimating wrath of MAGA trolls
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп is a Natural … ♬:

• Ari Melber: Judge orders criminal sentencing for Трамп before 2025 inauguration
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard reacts to Cybertruck explosion
• Andre Antunes: ♫ Election Meltdowns Go Metal (Part II) ♬
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ A Star-Studded, Трамп Inauguration Song (KAZOO WARNING!) ♬
• ScaredKetchup: Speaker Mike Johnson interview tells all after today’s victory
• Chris Hayes: Trump and MAGA morons falsely link New Orleans attack to the border
• The Other Brother: ♫ The Трамп Doctrine ♬
• Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ H-1B ♬
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Aiming to Destroy a Hundred Years of Progress ♬
• ScaredKetchup: ♫ “In Your Code” AI Трамп’s Happy New Year Love Song to Elon ♬

Peanuts:

• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard reacts to the passing of Jimmy Carter
• MSNBC: Former President Jimmy Carter dies at 100
• NowThis: Former President Jimmy Carter has passed away
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ The Plainly Decent Plain Man From Plains ♬

• Ian Bremmer: Remembering Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy legacy
• Habitat for Humanity: David Letterman remembers President Carter
• New York Times: The Last Word—Jimmy Carter
• Steve Shives: Jimmy Carter gave us more than we gave him

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

With the new year, Amazon employees have to work from the office. I live fairly close to the headquarters, and have been working from home. I haven’t noticed — in two traditionally light days — particularly bad traffic. Or like coffee shops and restaurants being particularly full.

• Jimmy Kimmel: The year in unnecessary censorship
• Vox: 2024, in 4 minutes
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ Twenty more days ♬
• ameriCArtoon: What happened in 2024? The ultimate collection of political cartoons of the year
• Steve Shives: 2024—The year in limericks:

• Tommy Campbell: Destroying the grifts of 2024
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard claims “I had the best 2024 in History”
• Lewis Black rages against 2024
• Jimmy Kimmel declares viral clip of the year
• Ross Childs: 2024 end-of-year bonus