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.
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:
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:
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.
I don’t claim any expertise in the Seattle Community Court. But it seems good. And I certainly don’t trust Ann Davison. So, I am pretty skeptical of her plan to send fewer people there and more to prison. Especially if they are only committing very low level misdemeanors.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
Good morning to everyone except for the people in Edmonds trying to criminalize homelessness. Jesus, man. 5 years in prison for a second offense. And they have the temerity to call their approach “compassionate”? Get the fuck out of here.
Anyway, I am glad it didn’t pass, but I couldn’t figure out from the article when it will be heard again. So if you live in Edmonds, you may want to contact your city council members and, politely, ask them to actually be compassionate, rather than using it as a buzzword while doing the opposite.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you haven’t yet.
Please join us this evening as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets to discuss politics and life 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 a chapter near you.
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