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Oh, yeah, I put those up on this website sometimes.

Good morning to the 70% of King County residents 16 years old and above who are vaccinated with either the Johnson and Johnson shot or the second of the 2-shot vaccines. It means that in 2 weeks we’ll have 70% of people with full immunity. So things like mask mandates can ease off.

I am proud to live in a county that was able to do that relatively quickly. It has been a real drag, this past year. But of course there remains a lot of work.

So, please, everyone else, get vaccinated if you can.

Seattle’s Drinking Liberally will meet in person on Tuesday! Please join us for an evening of politics over a pint.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm. The kitchen isn’t currently open but will be soon. Carry-in food is cool when the kitchen is closed. Occupancy limits are still in place, so admission will be first come-first serve.

Good morning to the new terminal cranes only. It was too rainy to go out and have a look myself, but I love seeing the pictures. I hope it’s a boon to shipping in the region.

Also, probably unrelated, but has it seemed to anyone else that there are a lot of cargo ships hanging out in the Puget Sound? Is this actually happening, or just my imagination? The last time I can recall so many ships was the West Coast Longshoremen striking.

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

Stephen: Biden preps for Putin

John Oliver: Asian Americans

Amber Ruffin: ♫ What gender are potatoes? ♬

Samantha Bee: We need to talk about the intersex experience

Mark Fiore: History for White people

The Liars, Thieves, Child Molesters, and Grifters of Today’s GOP:

• The Late Show: MTG learned a different calendar song than the rest of us
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ IF Donald Trump Wore his Pants Backwards ♬
• Seth Meyers: The GOP’s insane election conspiracy theories now include “Italygate”
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ I Can’t Believe We Have To Keep Explaining This Stuff To Adults ♬
• Jimmy Kimmel: Remember Трамп’s “perfect call” with Ukraine? Rudy Giuliani made one too!
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Mike Pence, eye to eye ♬
• The Parody Project: ♫ King of corona ♬:

• Rocky Mountain Mike: ♫ It’s The Backside Of Your Pants We View ♬
• Stephen: Exactly what you thought, but so much worse than you imagined
• Al Franken: Mitch McConnell explains his stance on immigration, Biden’s agenda, and the insurrection
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Hey there, politicians ♬
• Daily Show: Ted Cruz, Elise Stefanik, Proud Boys—Who’s who on the far right
• The Late Show: Трамп’s tech idea gets Pony Express endorsement
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Louie Gohmert’s green new deal ♬:

• Seth Meyers: Mitch McConnell shamelessly says “The era of bipartisanship is over”
• The Parody Project: ♫ GOP (Jim Crow 2.0) ♬
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп successfully wears pants
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Representative Paul Gosar, the kind of guy even his siblings hate ♬
• Robert Reich: The real threat to American democracy
• The Late Show: Serial killer Jason feels Mitch McConnell’s pain
• Seth Meyers: Damning audio of Rudy Giuliani Ukraine call leaked amid criminal probe
• Bill Maher: Irreconcilable differences
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Waiting for Трамп to expire ♬
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard explains his powerful backwards pants
• Legal Eagle: Sidney Powell says Трамп will be reinstated
• Rocky Mountain Mike: ♫ Louie Gohmert’s Dark Side Of The Moon ♬:

• John Di DomenicoLeaked Трамп & Malaria accidental Zoom call
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп’s Back on Stage! (Where Song Ideas Come From) ♬
• Stephen: Fact-checking The Dotard’s pants-on-backward scandal
• Now This: FAUX News host makes sexist, racist comments about VP Harris
• The Remix Bros: ♫ DJT’s Smart REMIX ♬
• The Late Show: EXCLUSIVE AUDIO—Rudy Giuliani’s weird call with Ukraine
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Mike Pence turns the other cheek ♬

Amber Ruffin: ♫ Everything wrong with the living wage in America ♬

Legal Eagle: Florida law violates First Amendment?

Stephen: Biden Battles cicadas en route to Europe while VP Harris swats away border questions

Amber Ruffin: Since Joe Biden became president…

Jonathan Mann: ♫ Abolish The Filibuster ♬

Bloomberg Law: The long fight for environmental justice continues

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

The Week in ТрампPlague:

• Stephen: Vaccine magnetism? These anti-vax theories come straight from Crazytown
• Robert Reich: Seven lessons we need to learn from covid-19
• Now This: Nutburger anti-vax nurse thinks she is magnetic
• The Late Show: Lindsey Graham’s alternative Трамп-covid timeline
• Bruce W. Nelson: Mangy becomes magnetized
• Stephen: “This is major”—Samantha Power on Biden’s Pledge to donate 500 million vaccine doses
• The Daily Show: U.S. misses vaccine goal, incentives get wilder & Florida bans cruise vaxx checks
• Now This: Biden announces plan to donate 500M vaccine doses
• Jimmy Kimmel: Anti-vaxxers spreading garbage disinformation
• The Late Show: ♫ The return of the cold! ♬

Samantha Bee: How “no promo homo” laws target sex ed in Arizona

Now This: Inside the fight for D.C. statehood

Amber Ruffin: On “critical race theory”

Michael Kosta: The end of democracy, explained

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

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

Jeez, just let the CHOP Art people have their event. Honestly, whatever you think of CHOP, or how it ended, celebrate the art. Or just let other people celebrate it. You actually have the ability to ignore it if you don’t like it.

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

Oh shoot. I forgot to write this until now. Sorry.

Anyway, there’s still time to wash your hands right now and to get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.

Seattle’s Drinking Liberally will meet in person on Tuesday! Please stop by our gathering at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm. The kitchen isn’t currently open but will be soon. Carry-in food is okay when the kitchen is closed. Occupancy limits are still in place, so admission will be first come-first serve.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Chapters of Living Liberally are reopening all over the place. Find a chapter near you. Or start a new chapter for your community.

– Is anyone else following the King County vaccine tracker on Twitter? I love seeing the updates.

– Anyone else excited about taking the bus to a trail? Has anyone done it in the past?

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

– Here are some interesting looking LGBTQ businesses that you can visit during Pride Month, or any other time.

The Daily Show: Can bias training really change police behavior?

Samantha Bee: Why no progressive agenda can survive the Senate filibuster

The Remix Bros: ♫ Kamala Harris Laughing REMIX ♬

Robert Reich: The unchecked power of police unions

The Week in ТрампPlague:

• Now This: COVID-19 vaccine prizes and perks
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ I Just Don’t Trust a Vaccine (SATIRE) ♬
• Jimmy Kimmel: Selfish Americans delay herd immunity
• WaPo: Barbershop offers coronavirus shots to help Black community end pandemic
• Rachel Maddow: COVID-19 forecast murky as states drop mask requirements

VICE News: Why the Tulsa Race Massacre is so important to the reparations debate

The New York Times: Why do so many sexual assaults in the U.S. military go unpunished?

Now This: : Texas Democrats stage walkout to stop voter suppression bill

Grifters, Thieves, Child Molesters, Traitors and Other Flavors of Republicans:

• J-L Cauvin: Трамп REACTS to Coach K retiring from Duke basketball
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп to Be Installed in the White House ♬
• Keith Olbermann: It must be Biden who calls for Michael Flynn’s arrest. Democracy must defend itself
• The Daily Show: How The Dotard is handling retirement
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard delivers an emotional Memorial Day 2021 speech
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Republican Administration Blues on piano ♬
• Legal Eagle: Charges coming for Трамп?
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ I don’t want to know ♬:

• Now This: Трамп allies call for military coup to depose Biden
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ If That’s What Dotard Wants ♬
• Lewis Black’s Rantcast: Ted Cruz
• Jimmy Kimmel: Gaetz gets goofed and other MAGA failures
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп’s Failed Blog Joins Long List of Failures ♬
• Samantha Bee: How (and why) Black voter rights are under attack (again), Pt. 1
• Samantha Bee: How (and why) Black voter rights are under attack (again), Pt. 2
• Keith Olbermann: Трамп resumes his scampaign while we hesitate to indict and arrest him and the cabal
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ How Great to be a Republican! ♬
• Legal Eagle: General Flynn endorses coup?
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard reacts to Facebook’s 2-year ban
• Forbes: Facebook will keep Трамп banned for two years
• Desi Lydic Foxsplains EVERYTHING
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ PROOF that Marjorie Taylor Greene is from Outer Space ♬
• Rachel Maddow: GOP election misinformation scheme violates federal law
• Mark Fiore: Republican voting enhancement
• Rocky Mountain Mike: ♫ Bye, Bye Blog ♬:

• The Daily Show: 20 minutes of Fox News contradictions
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Rand Paul, Cocaine and Quail Sex ♬
• Keith Olbermann:The GOP push in Texas must be met as we would any other terrorist threat
• VICE News: All the ways Republicans are trying to make protesting a crime
• Legal Eagle: Did Mike Flynn violate military law?
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп THANKS Joe Manchin for keeping the filibuster
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп quits his blog
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Dotard Трамп has Lost his Mind ♬

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Now This: Why Congress needs a nonpartisan Commission for the climate crisis

VICE News: The complicated history of citizen’s arrest laws

The Daily Show: Pink tax, wage gap, gender discrimination—Stories of being a woman in America

Now This: Rep. Jayapal (D-WA-7) fights to expand health care access

Full Frontal: Here’s why your gas stove is killing you

The Daily Show: Young changemakers

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

Look, I think you should get vaccinated because it will stop or slow down a horrible disease. Because it makes you much much much less likely to pass that disease on to your friends and family, to your neighbors, and to a suffering world. But if a chance of winning the vaccine lottery is what gets the shot in your arm, it has the same effect. And who couldn’t use the money? So good luck on that front.

And you can win the wash your hands right now lottery. The prize is diseases dying in the sink, and going down the drain.

Darryl noted yesterday that Drinking Liberally is back. It is so great to be vaccinated. To touch other people. Hell, even not having to worry about the dingy bathroom is a blessing. It’s great to be back with people.

I also took the bus for the first time in over a year. And am back to work from work. The return to normal is happening so quickly. It’s great.

If you haven’t been vaccinated, you should. It’s free. The more people get vaccinated the better for everyone. Let’s stop this horrible virus.

Also, please wash your hands right now.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally is back! Please join us Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern. We have a lot of catching up to do after our 15 month hiatus.

We will, once again, meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm. The kitchen isn’t currently open but will be soon. Carry-in food is a-okay when the kitchen is closed. Occupancy limits are still in place, so admission will be first come-first serve. That said, we’ve had some folks checking the place out and they report that there is still plenty of room on recent Tuesday nights.

Stop by, if you can!

Cheers,
Darryl Holman

The Late Show: ♫ Here are some examples of Asian Americans! ♬

VICE News: A therapist breaks down how our bodies carry racial trauma

Liars, Grifters, Seditionists, and Other Categories of Republicans:

• Legal Eagle: Трамп DOJ spied on reporters
• Jimmy Kimmel: GOP throws out MyPillow Mike and Trump’s crazy Memorial Day message
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Who’s That Yelling Through the Mail Slot? MTG ♬
• Keith Olbermann: “Too soon” for a 1/6 commission? Fine. Kill it. Go straight to a special prosecutor.
• Seth Meyers: Prosecutor in Трамп case convenes grand jury to consider indictments
• The Late Show: ♫ It’s Not Richard Marx’s Fault That People Hate Rand Paul ♬:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Gaetz/Greene campaign song ♬
• Amber Ruffin: Marjorie Taylor Greene harasses AOC & invades Amber’s studio
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп could face prison and QAnon’s UFO conspiracy
• act.tv: Rick Santorum actually claims he got “savaged” for his comments about Native Americans!
• Bill Maher and friends: The GOP’s slow-moving coup
• SNL Weekend Update: ♫ Jeanine Pirro on the Mexico–United States border ♬
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ We’re winning the battle of wits ♬
• Stephen: Will Jeff Bezos release “The Apprentice” tapes to shame The Dotard?
• WaPo: Investigation of Трамп Organization now explores possible criminal conduct
• Seth Meyers: Marjorie Taylor Greene condemned for comments on mask mandates
• Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian: Live from ANTIFA’s corporate headquarters
• Jimmy Kimmel: Human boil Ted Cruz starts trouble with Jimmy Kimmel again
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Cancun Cruz, The Princeton Pansy ♬
• act.tv: Witness to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s aggression… shocked and troubled!
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ These Nuts (Down in Arizona) ♬:

• The Late Show: These great guys are fully against forming a commission
• VICE News: The Arizona recount is even dumber than it sounds
• Mark Fiore: Take a normal tourist visit
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Ted Cruz Puts the “ted” in Maladjusted ♬
• Stephen: No. 45 sweats as cable news speculates about criminal charges and a flipping CFO
• John Di Domenico: Orange Acres episode 8—Трамп & Melanie charged with not doing their job!
• Legal Eagle: Трамп’s DOJ tried to unmask Devin Nunes parody account
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Profound Wisdom of Marjorie Taylor Greene ♬
• WaPo: How calls to ‘pack’ the Supreme Court evolved over the years
• SNL Weekend Update: Seditious Republicans to block January 6 investigation
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп REACTS to the NY Grand Jury announcement
• Seth Meyers: Arizona Republicans push forward with insane 2020 election “audit”
• Trevor: The fight to overturn the 2020 election—Somehow still going
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Ain’t it Grand! Трамп’s Grand Jury Being Called ♬:

• VICE News: Oklahoma just made it easier to run over protesters
• Robert Reich: The danger of collective Amnesia
• The Late Show: Muscle delivery for AR-15 loving Ted Cruz
• Lars von Retriever: ♫ Трамп AMERICAN IDIOT ♬
• Jimmy Kimmel: Ted Cruz trolls the Army, Трамп scams taxpayers & Marjorie Taylor Greene’s horrid Holocaust comment
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Wondering What Republicans Might be Trying to Hide ♬
• act.tv: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries lays out the facts about Jan 6th

John Oliver on Sponsered content

Lewis Black rantcast: Spam calls

This Week in ТрампPlague:

• Stephen: Dr. Francis Collins discusses the complexities of herd immunity
• Michael Kosta: What free shit can a COVID vaccine get you?
• Stephen: Dr. Collins on the Wuhan Lab theory and the origin of COVID-19
• VICE News: The pandemic “bike boom” isn’t going anywhere
• Stephen: Covid-19 origin theories

Bill Maher: The fault in our stars

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Vox: How Native Hawaiians fought the US Navy, and won

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

It’s 2 weeks after my second shot today. Hell yeah. We’re all touching each other’s eyes. Or whatever normal human contact is. I forget. But anyway, it’s pretty fantastic. I haven’t even rolled out of bed yet, but I feel a sense of liberation.

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