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Good morning you beautiful people. What a lovely, drizzly morning. Walking down wet streets for the first time in forever. How fantastic. Anyway.

I was in the Central Library for longer than just grabbing a book and leaving for first time since it completely shut down. It’s just the lower level and the computers. I don’t know why this in particular, but it made me sad how slow the reopening is going. Like, how long until I can just grab a random book of poetry, read a few and put it back? I know there’s a deadly disease, so I’m glad they’re taking their time. But it’s such a great location when it can be.

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

What the actual fuck is going on in the Klickitat County Sheriff’s Office? Like how do you combine all of that bullshit into one office? Like, weird COVID-19 garbage should be enough to keep him away from office, and it’s not even the height of his garbage. It’s really incredible. Just lawlessness. Terrible person, and terrible office.

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

What are you up to this evening? The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally will meet tonight for conversations over a drink. You are welcome to stop by.

The Seattle chapter of DL meets every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm. We will be on the patio in the back. The kitchen is still closed, but feel free to bring your own dinner. Note that a COVID vaccination card and ID are required to enter the Roanoke.

Chapters of Drinking Liberally are re-opening all over the place. If you can’t make the Seattle chapter, find a chapter near you.

Good morning. Now that the mask mandate is back in Washington, I want to make sure you do one simple thing. Please, please, please don’t take your mask off to sneeze. You absolute fuckers.

I mean, come on. You have a mask on for a reason. And sneezing into the bus or plane, or whatever is the exact opposite of that reason.

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

The Late Show: Come visit the Colorado River

Vox: How the US made affordable homes illegal

The Cult that Calls Itself the “Republican Party”:

• The Daily Show: The Dailyshow-ography of Lindsey Graham—Married to the game
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп reacts to Library of Congress with tough negotiating
• Rocky Mountain Mike: ♫ Reinstatement Day ♬:

• Ari Melber: Трамп lost, so why are Трамп ideas watering down police reform bill in 2021?
• Jordan Klepper’s top 10 moments with Трамп supporters
• The Remix Bros: ♫ Mike Lindell (aka My Pillow Guy) REMIX ♬
• Andre Antunes: ♫ Anti-Biden preacher goes Metal! ♬:

• Lawrence O’Donnell: Voting rights activist—“We’re going to fight” effort by Georgia GOP to takeover local elections
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ A Scatological Lesson for Трампsters ♬

Dulce Sloan: How do we get more Black women in the Senate?

Amber Ruffin: Immigrants are not the doom of America

This Week in The ТрампPlague:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Use “Трампblock” to Avoid a Painful MAGA Reaction to the Son” ♬
• Ari Melber: Watch Sean Hannity get fact-checked by CDC Director on live TV
• Stephen: Covid Trufers claim unvaccinated sperm will be the next Bitcoin
• Joy Reid: Dr. Fauci—Hospitals becoming overrun due to COVID is a tragedy
• Rachel Maddow: FAUX News hosts push people to animal anti-parasite drug as junk science covid medicine
• The Late Show: Get vax-free seed at Gary’s Man Seed Emporium
• Stephen: Anti-vaxxers bring the crazy at public meetings in California
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ Spreadneck Moron ♬:

• Now This: Schools across U.S. fight bans on mask mandates
• Al Franken: Tucker Carlson—Most COVID-vaccinated American?
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Ted Cruz (the disease) ♬
• Seth Meyers: DeSantis bans mask mandates & Трамп says COVID was “over” when he left
• Ari Melber: Returning to lockdowns in 2021? Why COVID is worse than ever in some places
• Stephen: An epidemic of disinformation—Dr. Jon LaPook on barriers to defeating covid
• Lawrence O’Donnell: GOP Governors endanger children by playing politics with COVID-19

Full Frontal Rewind: American greed

Withdrawal Method:

• Seth Meyers: As US withdraws from Afghanistan, refugees must be evacuated immediately
• Mark Fiore: How Biden ruined a perfectly good 20-year war
• Now This: Трамп took credit for U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan
• Stephen: “They do not blame America for withdrawing”—Clarissa Ward on reactions to the U.S. Military exit
• The Daily Show: 20 years went by so fast
• Bill Maher: Graveyard of empires
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard Трамп demands Joe Biden resign!
• Rachel Maddow: Трамп admin deliberately sabotaged refugee process, stranding Afghan allies
• Seth Meyers: John Bolton and Mike Pence criticize Biden’s handling of Afghanistan
• Joy Reid: Mike Pence’s hypocrisy on Трамп’s Taliban deal is the absolute worst
• Stephen: Taliban promises a gentler touch with women and civilians in new charm offensive
• Ari Melber: Трамп’s own security adviser blames him for surrender to Taliban

John Oliver: Ransomware

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

I am mostly on board with Governor Inslee’s vaccine and mask mandates. If anything, they could lean harder on vaccination. I also don’t love making vaccinated people wear masks, but it’s better than not having an enforcement mechanism for the unvaccinated. Still, keeping the pressure on for state employees to get vaccinated is a good step.

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

Good morning to everyone who didn’t protest homeless people using the Silver Cloud. Seriously, fuck them. Awful, awful people who should be ashamed of themselves. Protesting in favor of an empty building. Demanding people still live on the street. Fuck off.

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

Please join us tonight for an evening of politics and conversation over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

The Seattle chapter of DL meets every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm. We will be on the patio in the back. The kitchen is still closed, but feel free to carry in food. Note that a COVID vaccination card and ID are required to enter the Roanoke.

Chapters of Drinking Liberally are re-opening all over the place. If you can’t make the Seattle chapter, find a chapter near you.

I am back from a lovely vacation. But I did forget to hit Publish.

Anyway, it looks like the heat wave was probably more deadly than we originally thought. I guess those heat events are here to stay. Or at least more common. Pffft

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

John Oliver: Opioids III—The Sacklers

Cracked: If megachurches were honest (Honest Ads)

Now This: How new census data impacts the future of U.S. politics

WaPo: How climate change could shift where tornadoes strike most

Traitors, Traffickers, and Terrorists of the Трамп-era G.O.P.:

• Ari Melber: Трамп crime? Bombshell new testimony reveals DOJ pressure to support “Big Lie”
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп’s “Patriotic” Followers ♬
• Seth Meyers: Rudy Giuliani drowns in legal bills and Mike Lindell melts down at cyber symposium
• Rachel Maddow: The one line that exposes Трамп’s real plan to overturn the 2020 election
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Republicans, a steaming plate of contradictions ♬
• Stephen: “FAUX News has lost control of the monster that it created,” says Brian Stelter
• Rocky Mountain Mike: ♫ Hooked On Their Stealing ♬:

• Ari Melber: Трамп’s inside job busted by Barr’s replacement in 2021 testimony
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп—Finally Successful Celling ♬
• LegalEagle: I tricked Rudy Giuliani into congratulating me on 2,000,000 subscribers
• The Daily Show: For the record, it was 14 words
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Is Трамп Striving to Reduce His “Bottom Line”? ♬
• Rachel Maddow: Facts so far in Трамп coup probe suggest criminal referral likely
• Seth Meyers: Bombshell emails reveal Трамп planned coup with loyalist Jeffrey Clark
• Founders Sing: ♫ You’re all a buncha suckers ♬
• John Di Domenico: Трамп announces shadow Cabinet ahead of reinstatement on 8.13 or 8.21 or 8.31 or Sept or Oct or Nov.
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ In Appreciation of Those With Трамп Intolerance ♬
• Seth Meyers: Judge rules Dominion lawsuit against Трамп allies can move forward
• Rachel Maddow: Resignation of U.S. attorney takes spotlight in probe of Трамп effort to overturn election
• Ali Velshi: Трамп implemented a “calculated, premeditated plan to pressure the DOJ”
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ What a Dreadful Current Crop of GOPers ♬

Amber Ruffin: Black parents’ tax dollars pay for White kids’ “segregation academies”

The Late Show: Captain Planet has… given up

LegalEagle: When pets are legally people

Robert Reich: The media bias nobody is talking about

Lauren Mayer: ♫ Just ‘Cause You’ve Got a Dick Doesn’t Mean You’ve Got to Act Like One ♬

The Week in ТрампPlague:

• The Late Show: Marlon Brando Stars as “The Covid One”
• Rachel Maddow: Fauci worried about delta variant spread “If we don’t do the right thing”
• Stephen: The vaccine conspiracy train makes stops at Ivermectin
• Now This: Dr. Reiner, “Don’t get your medical advice from the Governor of Florida”
• The Late Show: Sen. Rick Scott and Joe Camel celebrate American decision making
• Mark Fiore: Patriotism is our passport
• Joy Reid: Politics expert says of GOP COVID deniers, “The Republican Party only cares about ME”
• Seth Meyers: Getting to know the lambda variant
• The Late Show: Ron DeSantis’ ludicrous anti-mask defense
• Stephen: Covetton Med has luxury therapies for long covid sufferers
• The New Yorker: One woman’s mission to get vaccines to her rural Alabama town
• Ari Melber: How a “mini-Трамп” is running Florida into the ground amidst covid-19 deaths
• The Late Show: ♫ I saw a vaccinated tiger ♬
• act.tv: Another day, another perfect #PsakiBomb:

• Stephen: The ТрампPlague got Stephen uninvited from Barack’s 60th (and other covid news)
• WaPo: How to safely travel with the covid-19 delta variant surging
• The Late Show: Sen. Rand Paul’s anti-vax mandate rant

WaPo: Late-night hosts react to Cuomo’s resignation

Vox: The law that broke US immigration

Dulce Sloan: What happened to America’s public pools?

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

Happy Thursday, everyone.

Carl has access to WiFi for a few minutes edition.

Join us this evening for a night of political chat over a drink at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

The Seattle chapter meets every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm. We will be on the patio in the back. The kitchen is still closed, but feel free to carry in food. Note that a COVID vaccination card and ID are required to enter the Roanoke.

Chapters of Drinking Liberally are re-opening all over the place. If you can’t make the Seattle chapter, find another chapter near you.

Here’s one.

John Oliver: Emergency medical services

The Daily Show: New York rolls out protective measure to keep citizens safe

The Treasonweasels, Truthless Turkeys, and other Terrible Tools of the Трамп Tribalists:

• Ari Melber: “100 times worse than Nixon”—Historian warns of Трамп’s “coup” in damning 2021 emails
• John Di Domenico: Трамп slams Cuomo’s 11 counts of sexual harassment
• Ali Velshi: Трамп DOJ official prepped to ask GOP in six states to void Biden win
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Imagine if you will ♬
• Bill Maher: The big liars
• Keith Olbermann: Mccarthy’s excuse for talking of hitting Pelosi. Is he stoned? No, seriously – is he?
• Chris Hayes: This Трамп loyalist “Aimed a nuclear weapon” at U.S. democracy
• LegalEagle: DOJ won’t defend Mo Brooks
• Ari Melber: Трамп’s “attempted coup”—Bombshell evidence reveals how close Трамп came to overthrowing democracy
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп visits the U.S. Capitol for the first time since January 2021
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ An Honest Assessment of Dotard Трамп ♬:

• Ari Melber: Rep. Gaetz turns on FAUX News after sex crimes probe blackout
• LegalEagle: Трамп notes urged DOJ to declare election corrupt
• Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian: Hello & goodbye to world history
• Ali Velshi: Missouri Governor pardons right wing characters and leaves wrongfully convicted man in prison
• WaPo: Трамп asks judge to block release of tax returns
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп demands Andrew Cuomo resign
• Ari Melber: Loser mentality—GOP plans Трамп attack on 2024 loss
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Kevin McCarthy, A Man with no Shame ♬
• Ali Velshi: The truth behind Tucker Carlson’s disturbing trip to hungary

The Daily Show: Should gay couples be equal?

Full Frontal Rewind: Climate change

This Week in ТрампPlague:

• The Late Show: Sen. Ron Johnson and deadly asteroid agree on value of human life
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ If You Don’t Need a Mask Because God’ll Protect You, Then Why Do You Need a Gun? ♬
• WaPo: Lindsey Graham tests positive for the coronavirus
• Joy Reid: Joy Reid calls out GOP leaders re-tooling party around vaccine refusal
• Ali Velshi: Who will and will not need a covid vaccine booster soon
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Let’s bring back syphilis ♬
• Rocky Mountain Mike: ♫ I’ve Seen Unvaxed People ♬:

• Lawrence O’Donnell: Parents sue Arkansas Governor and lawmakers over mask mandate ban
• Lewis Black Rantcast: Fuck covid
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Donald Damages Democracy ♬
• Mark Fiore: Wonderful unvaccinated people
• The Late Show: Rep. Matt Gaetz pulls in for a cocaine pit stop

Robert Reich: How the system is failing young people

Trevor: Happy birthday, President Obama!

Ari Melber: Obama at 60—See the 44th President’s incredible journey to the White House

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