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I am excited for Bellevue’s Grand Connection. It seems like a fun ride when it’s all complete.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.

Good morning. Do you live in King County? Are you behind on rent or utilities? Well, the county is going to help people with rent. So you might as well apply if you’re eligible.

And for goodness sake, wash your hands right now, and take the vaccine as soon as you can.

I generally don’t like the line item veto. But as long as it’s being used, it can go to better housing laws (first item). More accessory dwelling units are great for density. I will be glad if there are more. I know people who lived in them right out of college who wouldn’t have been able to afford their neighborhood otherwise.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now, and get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.

Now This: Kirsten Gillibrand on sexual assault in the military

Stephen interviews Michelle Obama Part I

Stephen interviews Michelle Obama Part II

Stephen interviews Michelle Obama Part III

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Grif-ters, Трампs, and Thieves (and Other Types of Republicans):

• Seth Meyers: Republicans refuse to move on from The Dotard
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ MTG Harassed AOC ♬
• Now This: Marjorie Taylor Greene harasses AOC in 2019 video
• Legal Eagle: Secret DOJ memo—No obstruction prosecution
• WaPo: Ocasio-Cortez on Greene, “I’m concerned about her perceptions of reality”
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп REACTS to the death of Barack Obama’s dog
• The Founders Sing: ♫ I CAN’T LIVE (If Living is Without You) ♬:

• Jimmy Kimmel: Liz Cheney canceled by same people who hate cancel culture
• The Late Show: Congressman Clyde’s Capitol Tours!
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Ron Johnson’s Too Stupid for Wisconsin ♬
• Mark Fiore: Liz Cheney: Now she’s done it!
• Amber Ruffin: How culture wars and White supremacy go together like “Green Eggs and Ham”
• Stephen: The GOP’s purity test—Loyalty to Трамп, OR ELSE
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Congressman Clyde ♬
• act.tv: Watch Ted Cruz lie, whine, and then walk out of a gun violence hearing!
• Roy Wood, Jr.: Unsolved mysteries—Why can’t Republicans say “Joe Biden won the election?”
• Robert Reich: The GOP is canceling their own
• Legal Eagle: Follow Tucker Carlson, go to jail?
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The New Republican Marching Song ♬
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ “Take Good Care of Liz Cheney” ♬:

• Stephen: Sen. Warren says that, “The Republican party is eating itself.”
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Truth about Republican Lying ♬
• Seth Meyers: Republicans are purging anyone who won’t embrace Tрамп’s election lies
• Trevor: GOP ousts Liz Cheney and promotes Elise Stefanik
• WaPo: Nutburger House Republicans downplay Jan. 6 Capitol attack
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Matt Gaetz and MTG, America’s Worst ♬
• Legal Eagle: The FAUXitis and FAUXmania defense, because of course
• The Daily Show: Insurrectigone—Instant relief for Republican guilt
• Stephen: McCarthy admits election wasn’t stolen, but GOP’s tent isn’t big enough for Liz Cheney
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Republicans Cancel Liz Cheney” ♬
• Jimmy Dore: Mitt Romney heckled at GOP convention
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп won’t Allow Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit into the suburbs!!!
• Randy Rainbow: ♫ Clang, Clang, Clang Went Josh Hawley! ♬:

• Now This: Nutcase GOP Rep lies about Capitol attack
• Seth Meyers: Republicans oust Liz Cheney for rejecting Трамп’s big lie
• Mother Jones: Leaked video of dark money group writing GOP voter suppression laws
• Jordan Klepper: Arizona’s vote recount
• Stephen: Jake Tapper on The GOP’s continued support of No. 45
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ A Bridge Too Far, Republicans Can’t Abide The Truth ♬
• Legal Eagle: Newsmax settles and retracts

John Oliver: Black hair

Trevor: Caitlyn Jenner takes on Gavin Newsom in the California recall election

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Andre Antunes: ♫ Bitconnect goes METAL! ♬

The Week in ТрампPlague:

• act.tv: Rand Paul vs. Dr. Fauci—Rand Paul speaks but doesn’t listen!
• Now This: Nurses union honors nurses lost to COVID-19 in D.C.
• Jimmy Kimmel: Crazy vaccine misinformation keeping Americans unvaccinated
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ COVID and E.D. ♬:

• Seth Meyers: COVID vaccine cards and the CDC
• WaPo: CDC says fully vaccinated Americans no longer need masks indoors or outdoors in most cases
• Amber Ruffin: amber’s wishes for a pandemic-free world
• Stephen: Vaccinated people free to go maskless, as “COVID penis” concerns rise
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ You Could Be the Start of the NEXT Epidemic! ♬

Lewis Black’s rantcast: Mother Earth

Roll Calls: How redistricting will shape the fight for House seats

Robert Reich: Democrats are running out of time

Samantha Bee: Gun violence is a public health crisis (extended edition)

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

Got my second shot on Wednesday. Since a lot of people are talking about side effects, I should mention that mine were pretty mild. I felt like I needed a nap all day. Then I took one, and felt fine. My arm wasn’t even sore. I think mild or no side effects is probably more common than you might think based (understandably) on how people report on them, especially on social media.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.

It’s pretty exciting when there’s progressive legislation that you weren’t aware of until it already passed. What a great thing that agricultural workers will have the same overtime rights as the rest of the state.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now, and get vaccinated if you haven’t already.

Seventeen years ago today I clicked “Publish” on the very first post here at HA, with obviously no fucking idea how blogging would soon take over my life. Had I to do the past 17 years over again, I wouldn’t, even if I wanted to, because how could anyone even hope to retrace the bizarre path I followed from accidental activist to foul-mouthed blogger to talk radio host to foul-mouthed Stranger writer to mysterious behind-the-scenes benevolent-plutocrat-funded progressive propaganda king?

That said, how’d the past 17 years turn out? Well, on May 10, 2004, I wrote this:

I have serious political goals, and I intend to pursue them. I intend to help educate the public and the media about an astonishingly regressive tax system that gives billions of dollars of tax breaks to wealthy special interests while placing an almost unbearable burden on the backs of middle- and low-income families. I intend to work for real, progressive, tax reforms that provide meaningful relief to those who need it most, assure adequate funding for essential public services, and create the kind of positive, rational business environment that all citizens want. And I intend to continue my efforts to expose Tim Eyman as the lying, thieving, blowhard even many of his most ardent supporters admit he really is. (Did I mention Tim Eyman is a lying, thieving, blowhard?)

But I also intend to have a little fun.

Well, progress report: this year the state legislature passed and the governor signed into law a modest capital gains tax—Washington state’s first bit of progressive tax reform in forever. Meanwhile, after losing a long drawn out civil suit brought by the state Attorney General, Tim Eyman is in the process of paying something like $5 million in fines and legal fees for at least some of the many crimes he’s committed over the course of his lying, thieving career. I can’t say exactly what I had to do with the outcomes, but it was something. Also, I did indeed have a little fun along the way. So progress!

Anyway, a big thanks to all the loyal readers and vicious trolls who helped make HA more than just a narcissistic exercise, and an especially big thanks to Darryl and Carl for keeping it going these past few years. Don’t know if I’ll ever come back to regular blogging, but if you miss me, I do spit out the occasional foul-mouthed tweet.

 

Parody Project: ♫ Environmentally Resigned (a parody of “Gentle on My Mind”) ♬

Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ First 100 Days ♬

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Race in America:

• Trevor: The war over teaching America’s racist history in schools
• VICE News: The Black church that could bankrupt the Proud Boys
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Marjorie Taylor Greene “America First” Campaign Song ♬
• Bill Maher: The BIG LIE
• Chris Hayes: Tennessee GOP wants to Whitewash history by banning lessons on systemic racism
• VICE News: What mothers of police brutality victims want you to know
• Rachel Maddow: Republicans fear new voting restrictions could backfire on their own voters
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ I Can Tweet Any Time That I Want, Dotard Can’t ♬
• Desi Lydic FAUXplains: Is America a racist country?

Winlar: ♫ You got the right to love ♬

WaPo: How Kamala Harris is approaching her historic vice presidency

Lauren Mayer: ♫ I’m Fine (With an Asterisk) ♬

Liars, Grifters, Incompetents, and Other Types of Republicans:

• Rachel Maddow: Biden’s DOJ charges Трамп with ‘obstruction’ after shocking ‘proof’ request to Bill Barr
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Republicans Have a Gigantic Ass (in Florida) ♬
• The Late Show: Woodland creatures rally to Leader McCarthy
• Legal Eagle: Lockdown fighters?
• Keith Olbermann: Spying on the WaPo underscores it. Biden must decapitate GOP threat
• Jimmy Kimmel: The Dotard delights in Mitt Romney getting booed & Michael Flynn can’t recite the Pledge of Allegiance
• Trevor: The GOP pushes out Liz Cheney & conspiracy theorists take over Arizona’s recount
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Poor Li’l Tuck’ms (for Tucker Carlson, with thanks to Joy Reid) ♬:

• Seth Meyers: Sen. Amy Klobuchar reacts to Трамп’s Facebook ban
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard announces he has a blog
• Amber Ruffin: How the Jan. 6th Capitol riot was organized in broad daylight
• Samantha Bee: Matt Gaetz and the Republican double standard
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Ted Cruz Lullaby ♬
• Legal Eagle: Don’t write down all your crimes
• Ari Melber: Giuliani criminal raid has Трамп worried
• The Late Show: Problematic Prince praises FAUX News
• Seth Meyers: DeSantis signs voter suppression law on FAUX
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Republicans and Liz Cheney ♬
• Al Franken: Mitch McConnell and Tim Scott’s disingenuous responses to Biden’s speech
• Bill Maher: Sex, drugs & GOP
• Rachel Maddow: “Deliverables were delivered”—Despite denials, much of the Giuliani case is on the record
• The Late Show: Drone supports Kilmeade’s kid clapback
• Seth Meyers: Rudy Giuliani claims Трамп’s DOJ searched his iCloud account in 2019
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Dotard Трамп is Giving Speeches Now at Weddings ♬
• Samantha Bee: Republican attacks on trans athletes are escalating
• Mark Fiore: The first one hundred days of never-mindism
• Amber Ruffin: Rudy Giuliani & Sen. John Kennedy played stupid games, won stupid prizes
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Cruz Dines with Трамп, Трамп Devours Cruz ♬:

• Jimmy Kimmel: Sweaty Teddy has dinner with The Dotard & Facebook upholds Трамп ban
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп REACTS to being banned from Facebook AGAIN!
• Now This: GOP lawmakers introduce 90+ anti-protest bills
• Ari Melber: Giuliani criminal probe bombshell—SDNY vet says “more going on” after raid
• The Late Show: Mitt Romney narrowly escapes GOP booing
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The ‘Steel’ Dossier? ♬
• Robert Reich: The Republican re-brand exposed
• Seth Meyers: Republicans lash out at Liz Cheney for not supporting Трамп’s Big Lie
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ “Bamboo”, A Song of the Maricopa County Vote Recount Debacle ♬
• Legal Eagle: Giuliani’s iCloud seized
• Joy Reid: On Tucker Carlson’s many failures
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Republican Castrati ♬
• The Daily Show: Ted Cruz—The booger on the lip of democracy

Legal Eagle: Do students have First Amendment rights?

The Remix Bros: ♫ JOE.I.AM’s Americans Always Get Up ♬

AJ+: How to end homelessness in the U.S

This Week in ТрампPlague:

• Trevor: The U.S. may never reach herd immunity & U.K. runs a massive COVID experiment
• WaPo: Pres. Biden outlines “new phase” of coronavirus vaccination campaign
• Now This: ♫ Roll up your sleave ♬
• Jaboukie Young-White: Eating in public after quarantine—Dos and don’ts
• Jimmy Kimmel: A message for people who don’t want the COVID vaccine:

• Now This: Health care workers share thoughts about anti-vaxxers
• Seth Meyers: Things to keep after the pandemic
• Greeman: Anti-vaxers, climate denial and the threat to democracy
• Rachel Maddow: Bizarre excuse behind cuckoo GOP-led vote audit
• Now This: Mazie Hirono on COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act
• VICE News: How addicts survived COVID
• Jimmy Kimmel: Dr. Fauci on people not getting vaccinated, conspiracies & misinformation and last talk with The Dotard
• John Oliver: COVID-19 vaccines

Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Doing nothing is not an option ♬

VICE News: The surprising contenders in California’s recall race

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

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

Good morning to everyone but Pierce County Executive Bruce Dammeier. Seriously, it’s a couple months. Just let the grocery workers have hazard pay for a while. It’ll be over and you won’t have been the asshole. If you wanted a broader plan, you could have negotiated it. Gah.

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

Well, if my email and Twitter feed are correct, the deadline for Give Big is midnight tonight. If you have a local charity that you like, your donation will go further today. I gave to a local food bank, but there are a lot of good causes.

And also, wash your hands and get vaccinated if you are eligible.

It looks like King County (among others) will kick down to phase 2 of the reopening plan. Restaurants have been flouting the 50% capacity rules, and we’re going in the wrong direction. Eventually, the vaccine use should catch up, but in the meantime, I don’t mind a bit of caution.

Trevor: 2020 Census results—Low population growth and a House seat shuffle

Stephen: Biden’s speech promises “Jobs, jobs, jobs”

Amber Ruffin: ♫ A White Guy Musical Recap of President Biden’s First 100 Days ♬

Now This: Biden’s first 100 days

Bill Maher: Crypto mania!

Race in America:

• Amber Ruffin: iPhone Black—The phone no one will mistake for a gun
• Legal Eagle: Chauvin and the Supreme Court
• Roy Wood, Jr.: The State of Black Shit 2021—Coronavirus, a Black bachelor & police brutality
• Amber Ruffin: Why the racist myth of “voter fraud” is dominating Republican politics
• Now This: Tim Scott claims America isn’t racist
• Al Franken: How crisis intervention training improves policing and saves lives
• The Daily Show: Bouncer kicks out Lindsey Graham for insane argument

Stephen: Tracking President Biden’s progress after 100 days in office

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Samantha Bee: President Biden needs to end Трамп-Era immigration policies, pt. 1

Samantha Bee: President Biden needs to end Трамп-Era immigration policies, pt. 2

Trevor: Biden’s big speech

Liars, Grifters, Seditionists, Child Traffickers and Other Republicans:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Is Tucker losing his mind? (The question begs to be asked) ♬
• The Late Show: Ted Cruz pranked in his sleep by kindly Granny
• Jordan Klepper: Facts are no match for Трамп supporters
• Seth Meyers: Ari Melber on Rudy Giuliani’s apartment raid and the Derek Chauvin trial
• Bill Maher and friends: “Giuliani time”
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Biden puts Ted Cruz to sleep! ♬
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп in good will hunting
• Legal Eagle: Giuliani raided!
• Trevor: FAUX News scandal alert! Biden’s red meat mandate & Kamala’s children’s book
• Act.tv: Rudy Giuliani’s laptop has been seized!!! 😂
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Biden’s Speech and Трамп’s silence ♬
• Parody Project: ♫ MY PILLOW (a Parody) ♬

• Stephen: Sen. Klobuchar is still angry with Senators Hawley and Cruz for supporting the insurrection
• Jimmy Kimmel: Rudy gets raided….
• The Daily Show: How you’d imagine Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson might laugh
• Seth Meyers: One of Трамп’s biggest scams, the Foxconn deal, falls apart
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Tucker Carlson is Losing His Marbles ♬
• Seth Meyers: GOP and FAUX News spread an insane new lie about Biden banning meat
• Jimmy Dore: Jeb Bush’s out of control jealousy of George Bush
• The Late Show: Explorers crash Rick Santorum’s whitewashing speech
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Rudy G. ♬
• Mark Fiore: The replacement Republican party
• Stephen: Sen. Sanders finds it “increasingly difficult” to work with Senators who supported the insurrection
• Trevor: Rick Santorum goes off on Native American culture
• Seth Meyers: FBI raids Rudy Giuliani’s home and office, seizes phones and computers
• Legal Eagle: Don’t defy the Judge, Nutburger!
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ Cheeseburgers Aren’t Jeopardized ♬:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Larry Kudlow fears plant-based beer ♬
• Act.tv: Трамп owes $$ to Albuquerque!
• The Remix Bros: ♫ That’s A Good Thing Not A Bad Thing ♬
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп challenges Joe Biden to a train contest
• Robert Reich: How to stop Republicans from stealing elections
• Stephen: Cruz and Christie roundly mocked while Biden enjoys widespread approval of Congressional address
• The Daily Show: FAUX’s red meat panic
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп trashes the Oscars, Tucker Carlson cries “Child abuse!”
• The Late Show: Great moments in Joint Address history—George W. Bush’s “Axis of Evil”
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Kevin McCarthy, Republican hero, American zero ♬

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

The Daily Show: The ProbleMagic Kingdom!

Stephen: “If you have ideas, we want to hear them”—Sen. Sanders to GOP on climate change

Samantha Bee: Why Washington D. C. should be a state

Bill Maher: Old Malarkey

VICE News: Space Force is totally serious, stop laughing

This Week in ТрампPlague:

• Trevor: Keeping up with corona
• Stephen: Mask-holes like Tucker Carlson undermine efforts to end the pandemic
• The New York Times: How ICE’s mishandling of covid-19 fueled outbreaks around the country
• Trevor: The CDC’s new mask guidelines make no sense
• Vox: How rich countries are making the pandemic last longer
• The Late Show: Veuve Canard D’Epernay is your go-yo pandemic champagne
• Trevor: How the U.S. is incentivizing coronavirus vaccinations

The Late Show: ♫ Grandpa Joe Has A Biden Ticket ♬

Winlar: Five Little Monkeys

Bill Maher: Ben Sheehan on “court packing”

Vox: Why the US has two different highway fonts

The Daily Show: America’s foot problem

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

Hey people from Tacoma (What’s the official nomenclature? Tacomaians? Tacomaites? Tacomegians? Tacoma Tuesdays?) do you qualify for GRIT. $500 a month for a year could go a long way. It also seems like it will help the community writ large to have people a bit further from the edge.

Anyway, wash your hands right now, and schedule a vaccination appointment if you haven’t.

Good morning to a future car-free Lake Washington Boulevard. It would be nice to have a few months of no cars in as many streets as possible. What street near you should go car-free?

Anyway, please wash your hands right now.

Good morning. I hope that you are signed up for a vaccine. It seems like pretty soon the supply will be good everywhere. So please sign up if you haven’t already started the process.

And so now part of the issue in Washington is to get it to people who are reluctant, or who have trouble getting to a location. If you are reluctant, my only advice is that you just have to do it. It’s a chore, but one that has great benefits in the long term. For you and for the rest of the community.

If you are unable to get to an injection location, the Washington State Department of Health is doing home based vaccinations.

And everyone please wash your hands right now.