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.
Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!
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.
Open Thread Thread Thread.
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.
Wednesday Open Thread
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.
Open Thread Monday!
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.
Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!
The Daily Show: What the fuck is happening with climate change?
Samantha Bee: Washington D.C. needs to (puff puff) pass marijuana legalization pt. 1
Samantha Bee: Washington D.C. needs to (puff puff) pass marijuana legalization pt. 2
Race in America:
- Seth Meyers: Chauvin found guilty in George Floyd murder as calls for police reform grow
- Roll Call: “This is accountability”—Lawmakers react to Chauvin guilty verdict
- Amber Ruffin: Chauvin Guilty on all counts yet the clock is still broken
- VICE News: What’s changed in Minneapolis since George Floyd’s death?
- AJ+: Why is it so hard to convict police officers
- Mark Fiore: Counting for White people
- Now This: ♫ Stacey Abrams shuts down GOP Senator on GA’s new voting law ♬
- Amber Ruffin: ♫ At Last, A Murderer Will Go to Jail ♬
- Legal: Three convictions for the same crime?
- Stephen: njustice, but not indifference
- The New York Times: From Rodney King to George Floyd—Inside 30 Years of America’s police violence
WaPo: New urgency in Congress to push forward with gun reform after increase in mass shootings
The Late Show: Texas, here’s why you need to make Matthew McConaughey your next Governor
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week
Racists, Liars, Insurrectionists, Child Sex Offenders, and Even Worse Republicans:
- Jordan Klepper’s journey into the MAGAverse
- Jimmy Kimmel: MyPillow Mike’s 48-Hour yellathon & vaccine hesitancy among Republican men
- The Daily Show: Gov. DeSantis gets benched by baseball manager
- Lauren Mayer: ♫ Wrong side of history ♬
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Matt Gaetz’s Words of Advice (via Margaret Thatcher) ♬
- Legal Eagle: MyPillow nutburger “counter sues” for billions, and will lose
- Seth Meyers: John Boehner and William Barr memoirs
- Al Franken: Right wing media and the dangerous expansion of the disinformation universe
- Jordan Klepper: Mapping the January 6th attack on the Capitol
- Jimmy Kimmel: MyPillow Mike is booked on Kimmel, Tucker Carlson’s creepy laugh & Chris Christie for prez
- Stephen: Feds scan Instagram to catch grey hat wearing insurrectionist
- J-L Cauvin: Трамп and the GOP make condolence calls after the Chauvin verdict
- Jimmy Dore: Dumping nuclear waste into ocean doesn’t worry Rick Perry
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Maxine Waters Song ♬
- Seth Meyers: Republicans freak out about DC statehood and the Green New Deal
- The Late Show: Tucker Carlson’s under-policing freak out
- Jimmy Kimmel: MyPillow Mike reacts to Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Matt Gaetz, Political Firebrand or Just a Dim Candle? ♬
Now This: VP Harris on environment and climate crisis
John Oliver: Bankruptcy
WaPo: House passes bill that would grant D.C. statehood
Winlar: The safest gun….
This Week in ТрампPlague:
- The Late Show: Biden asks Americans to take one iota of responsibility
- WaPo: Health-care workers experience gratitude, grief and affirmation a year into the pandemic
- Seth Meyers: All U.S. adults now eligible for vaccine giving GOP problems attacking Biden
- Amber Ruffin: ♫ I’m Vaccinated Too So… Can We Hang? ♬
- Bill Maher: Fran Lebowitz on post-pandemic life
- Now This: Fauci on why everyone should want a COVID vaccine
- Stephen: Obama, Shaq, McConaughey & more encourage Americans to get the jab
Bill Maher: New Rule–OK Boomer
LegalEagle: Things your parents said were illegal…
Samantha Bee gives full frontal the presidential treatment
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Open Thread Friday!
Shot number one is officially in the rear view mirror. Everyone at Lumen Field was fantastic. Go there, go there, show me your number, go there, get a shot, wait 15 minutes, done. I was in and out rather quickly. My only side effect was that when I had my hands over my head, it was a bit sore. Not painful, but noticeable. That’s done now. In a few weeks, I can do it again.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now.
Wednesday Open Thread
Hey! Heeeey. I’m getting my first dose of the Pfizer vaccine this afternoon. I am so excited.
I believe that the benefits of me getting the vaccine are more for the society than for me; One less potential vector. But it also feels very personal. I am excited about not getting sick. I will be glad to be able to do things and see people, and that there is a timeline for it.
Anyway, wash your hands right now.
Monday Open Thread
The Tim Burgess plan to bully homeless people in Seattle without providing money shelter seems bad. And in bad faith. Like, you have to talk to the people on the ground, even when you disagree with their approach. They can tell you where you are wrong in a way people who generally agree with you can’t.
Anyway, wash your hands right now.
Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship
The Parody Project: ♫ Got To Please Yourself ♬
Liars, Grifters, Sex Offenders, and Other Types of Republicans:
- Stephen: Ecstasy, girls, cocaine and champagne awaited GOP officials at Matt Gaetz’s sex parties
- Jimmy Kimmel: Mike Lindell’s patriotic crap, Jim Jordan’s relentless stupidity & Matt Gaetz’s shady Venmo
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Who, What, and Why of Matt Gaetz ♬
- Seth Meyers: MAGA Congressman Matt Gaetz snubbed by Трамп amid growing scandals
- Rocky Mountain Mike: ♫ Matt The Gaetz ♬:
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Tucker feels “perfectly white” should pertain to more than just your teeth ♬
- Amber Ruffin: A fly on the wall of Matt Gaetz’s sex trafficking investigation
- Legal Eagle: Age of consent in Florida
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Dotard’s Butt’s a Sacred Relic ♬
- SNL Weekend Update: Matt Gaetz Venmo sex scandal
- The Late Show: Matt Gaetz scandal attracts Dumb X-Files
- J-L Cauvin: Liberal Comedian gets RECRUITED by Ralph Reed’s Faith and Family Coalition
- Robert Reich: GOP civil war & ceaseless police killings
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Who is Ted Cruz? ♬
- Jimmy Kimmel: Matt Gaetz is so toxic, even Трамп won’t meet with him
- Seth Meyers: The FBI seized Matt Gaetz’s phone amid sex trafficking investigation
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ When Republicans Meet-up to Bow Down ♬
- The Daily Show: FAUX News vs. FAUX News—Border conditions edition
- Stephen: #HeWhoShallBeNamed is America’s favorite trending topic
- Legal Eagle: Greenberg cooperation in Gaetzgate
- Steve Hofstetter: Matt Gaetz investigation explained!
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The National Republican Extortion Committee ♬
- Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп fanboy Matt Gaetz’s wild sex parties
- The Daily Show: The perfect app for all your non-sexual transactions
- Legal Eagle: Matt Gaetz, explained:
- J-L Cauvin: The Dotard Трамп delivers a powerful eulogy for Bernie Madoff
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Poor Tucker Carlson ♬
- Seth Meyers: Republicans want to cancel Dr. Fauci and major league baseball
- The Late Show: GOP shuts down Jesse Watters
Now This: Dem Senators introduce SCOTUS seats legislation
John Oliver: Long term care
The Late Show: General needs more time in Afghanistan for pizza slice
Race in American:
- Amber Ruffin: Why using police as debt collectors leads to the killing of Black people
- Samantha Bee: Attacks on the Asian American community Pt 1
- Samantha Bee: Attacks on the Asian American community Pt 2
- Now This: Celebs & politicians debunk reparations myths
- Trevor: “The Talk” that every Black family has about police
- Legal Eagle: Prosecution for the Daunte Wright shooter?
- SNL: Minnesota news
- Dulcé Sloan: How board games are striving for racial progress
- Samantha Bee: The murder of Daunte Wright
- Mark Fiore: The prior previous police shooting
- Stephen: Excessive use of force by police against Black men again
- Trevor: Officer Kim Potter charged for Daunte Wright’s death
- Samantha Bee: Hollywood’s walk of shame—The history of Asian stereotypes in pop culture
Stephen: Political monologue
Amber Ruffin: ♫ Biden’s war on ghost guns, explained…in song! ♬
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week
This week in ТрампPlague:
- The Late Show: The Xupermask is here… Just in time?
- Jonathan Mann: ♫ Covid Rainy Hotel Kind of Day ♬
- AJ+: The pandemic through the eyes of someone with OCD
- Founders Sing: ♫ Just Got My Vaccination ♬:
- Samantha Bee: Pandemic Video Diaries—When the pandemic ends, work begins
- Trevor: U.S. pauses Johnson & Johnson vaccine
- Jonathan Pie: Vaccine wars!
- Stephen: Women 18-48 are already quite familiar with drug side effects
- Trevor: Anti-COVID Floridians burn masks & Michigan needs more vaccine
- Lauren Mayer: ♫ Better Than Getting Covid (the Vaccine Side Effects Song) ♬:
- Vice News: What exactly is a vaccine passport?
- Jimmy Kimmel on vaccine safety
- The Daily Show: MyVaccine—The vaccine made for conservatives
Robert Reich: Does trickle-down economics actually work?
SNL Weekend Update: Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama on their podcast renegades
Roll Call: How Aaron Burr may have created the filibuster by mistake
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Friday Open Thread!
Good morning. If you can, please get vaccinated. Vaccines are still tough to get in walking or biking distance from my apartment. But it sounds like in parts of the state, vaccines are available. So please get vaccinated if you can. And if you’re competing with me for spots in Seattle, I hope you get it, but I am still going to try.
And in the meantime, please wash your hands.
Wednesday April 14 Open Thread
For Governor Inslee (and President Biden, and Democrats in Congress and the legislature, but this post is about Inslee) I am often not sure how much credit I should give for basic stuff. But this is going to be me praising him for a thing he should do.
So, after the State Supreme Court ruling that the drug possession law violated the state constitution, Inslee is commuting sentences. And you can imagine some other governor saying let the court deal with it, or actively pushing back. So the right thing is good.
Anyway, wash your hands right now.
Monday Open Thread
– Some counties could be going back to phase 2 for COVID-19 reopening. I don’t think King County will be one, but restaurants are quite crowded for how much of the population has not been vaccinated yet.
– This article about the cost of not vaccinating is interesting.
– I hope that the Seattle Chamber of Commerce will stay out of elections long term, but good for 2021.
– Light rail on the I-5 Columbia River crossing in the Federal infrastructure plan would be great.
– Wash your hands right now.
Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!
Jordan Klepper debunks the “good guy with a gun” argument
Trevor: What are NFTs?
Jimmy Kimmel: Hunter Biden on crack addiction, political divide, Ukraine, The Dotard Трамп Jr, laptop & finding love
The Proud Liars, Crooks, Racists, and Traitors of the Modern GOP:
- Daily Show: The rise and spread of White supremacy in America
- Stephen: Our grifter ex-President’s scheme to separate supporters from their cash
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Matt Gaetz—A Cautionary Tale ♬
- Joy Reid: House Ethics Committee launches investigation into Matt Gaetz
- Legal Eagle: The Трамп campaign scam
- Jimmy Kimmel: Things are going so well for Biden that Трамп says someone else must be running the country
- John Di Domenico: Трамп & Melania pawn stars?
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ You May Love Трамп, but He Doesn’t Love You ♬
- Rachel Maddow: Gaetz case renews attention on GOP fake candidate election schemes
- Lauren Mayer: ♫ How Do You Sing About a Creep Like Matt Gaetz ♬:
- Trevor: Culture wars!!!
- Joy Reid: ‘There were no fake Трамп supporters’—Joy debunks GOP false claims on Capitol riot
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ At Orlando AND Mar-a-Lago, You Can Pose with Dotard! ♬
- Now This: The Dotard launches “cancel culture” attack after denouncing it
- The Daily Show: Tucker Carlson—White supremacist mass shooter copycat
- WaPo: With Трамп out, Republicans rediscover their concern for the national debt
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Mealy-Mouth McConnell ♬
- J-L Cauvin: The Dotard CANCELS Baseball!!
- Jimmy Kimmel: Totally innocent Matt Gaetz sought preemptive pardon from Трамп
- Chris Hayes: Debunking the GOP’s false claims on Colorado voting access
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп, The Poster Boy Abdominous ♬
- Stephen: McConnell’s hypocrisy on corporate speech falls flat as big brands punish Georgia
- Legal Eagle: Трамп NDA invalidated by court
- SNL Weekend Update: Matt Gaetz under investigation
- Trevor: Georgia restricts voting & corporations snap back
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ QAnon Folks Thought Трамп Would Rise for Easter ♬
- Randy Rainbow: ♫ TED and LINDSEY! ♬:
- Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп complains about cancel culture, wants EVERYONE canceled
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Ted Cruz and Happy Thoughts ♬
- Trevor: McConnell wants corporations out of politics unless he benefits
- The Parody Project: ♫ The salad of Roger Stone ♬
- Stephen: Gaetz-Gaete–Creepy Florida man’s career implodes over sex trafficking investigation
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Matt Gaetz Received Blanket Pardon from Трамп ♬
- J-L Cauvin: Трамп EXPLODES at Brett Kavanaugh over Twitter Case!!
- Legal Eagle: Трамп CFO under scrutiny
- Desi Lydic FAUXplains Georgia’s new voting laws
- Jimmy Kimmel: Pence signs a book deal, Gaetz never paid for sex & MyPillow Mike’s $65 million problem
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Mitch McConnell to Corporate America: Open Your Wallet and Shut Your Mouth ♬
- Now This: GOP’s false comparisons on voting laws
- The Late Show: Tired of Coke standing up for democracy? Try Shasta!
- Trevor: Matt Gaetz’s sex trafficking allegations & Трамп’s newest scam
- Stephen: Gaetz-Gaete—MAGA die-hards stand behind creepy Florida congressman
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Liz Cheney isn’t worried about Matt Gaetz ♬
John Oliver: The national debt
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship
Now This: Artist reverses sexist ads from the past
The Week in ТрампPlague:
- Trevor: Morgan Freeman on why everyone should get the COVID vaccine
- Desi Lydic: How the pandemic drives more women to leave the workforce
- Keith Olbermann: I went to a hockey game. Never thought I might die. GET THE SHOT
- Trevor: Vaccine passports—What are they, and why does FAUX News hate them?
- Rachel Maddow: Set your concerns aside and get vaccinated. Do it for others if not for yourself
- The Late Show: ♫ Is A Fourth Wave Coming? ♬:
- SNL: Vaccine Game Show
- The Remix Bros: ♫ Lil’ KC’s Wind Of God Extended Deluxe Remix ♬
- The New Yorker: The pandemic through the eyes of a three-year-old
- Keith Olbermann: The market has already decided. Vaccine Passports are already here
- Rachel Maddow: Perfect storm of rampant covid variant & vaccine reluctance puts Michigan in crisis
- The Daily Show: The coronavirus vaccine vs. the fourth wave
- Trevor: Can we vaccinate as fast as corona mutates?
VICE News: WTF is a filibuster? And should we…nuke it?
Robert Reich: How corporations crush the working class
Desi Lydic: How the pink tax is ripping off women
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
April 9 Open Thread
Good morning. Here are some things.
– Some great reporting on the police officers on the Brady list in Washington.
– And speaking of police who shouldn’t be police.
– Get yourself on the Seattle mass vaccination site list. And keep on looking (and feel free to drop other locations in Washington in the thread.
– Wash your hands, you grubby weirdo.
– Biden’s judicial nominees seem pretty rad.
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