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Good morning. I am feeling rather well this morning, but I spent much of last week and the weekend hobbled. Fortunately, not COVID-19, but something nasty. It’s nice to be able to get tested for COVID, though. Just get that out of mind. It was free, but I did have to give them my insurance information, same as when it was King County.

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

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets this evening. We’d be pleased to have you stop by and join in on the conversation.

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.

Cheers,
Darryl Holman

Ronny Cheing: Global temperatures are going UP

The End of an Error:

• Chris Hayes: U.S. troops are finally out of Afghanistan—And it’s remarkable
• WaPo: Republicans slam Biden after previously supporting Afghanistan withdrawal
• The New York Times: “I won’t go 20 years back in time”—Young Afghan women speak out
• Rachel Maddow: With final exit, U.S. joins list of countries unable to break Afghanistan’s will
• Samantha Bee: It’s time to take responsibility for what we’ve done in Afghanistan
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Chickenhawks Longing to Renew Afghan Conflict ♬

Robert Reich: Is billionaire philanthropy a scam?

Parody Project: ♫ Miss Me ♬:

Samantha Bee: Racist and sexist school dress codes continue to fail students

Today’s G.O.P. and Other Deplorables Wearing the Taint of Трамп:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп, The “Law and Order President” ♬
• The Late Show: Madison Cawthorn threatens “bloodshed”
• Ari Melber: Трамп’s legal mess—New testimony in criminal probe ratchets up pressure
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Needy, Petty, and Pathetic—The Dotard Трамп ♬
• Chris Hayes: New details on Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan phone call with Трамп on Jan. 6
• Jordan Klepper: How do Трамп supporters feel about masks?
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Dotard Трамп’s Like Play Doh ♬

Ali Velshi: Biden wants action on climate change citing Ida floods and California fires

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

VICE News: An unprecedented fire season is devastating California… again

Reproductive Wrongs:

• Rachel Maddow: Supreme Court flop on abortion law prompts calls for reform
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп REACTS to the New Texas law by SNITCHING!!
• Samantha Bee: Fuck off, Texas!:

• Lawrence O’Donnell: Justice Sotomayor, “Stunning” SCOTUS decision creates “citizen bounty hunters” in TX
• Chris Hayes: Hayes on why abortion law design is particularly egregious
• Rachel Maddow: Women’s health law draws surge of support in wake of Texas anti-abortion vigilante law
• Ali Velshi: Biden and Pelosi vow action after Texas abortion ban

Now This: Powerful signs From the March For Voting Rights

Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian: Explaining humans to aliens

This Week in ТрампPlague:

• The Late Show: Snake King gets where DeSantis is coming from
• The Daily Show: Horsey Vax—The alternative medicine for anti-vaxxers
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ I’m Suspectin’ that Ivermectin Has Taken Over Your Brain ♬:

• WaPo: Mask mandate bans—What’s the legality of these laws in states like Texas
• Mark Fiore: The “I won’t kill you” card!
• Vice News: Florida schools are fighting the Governor for kids to mask up
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ You Are Not a Horse ♬:

• The Late Show: Fauci finally gets through to MAGA guy
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ I Know the Vaccine’s Safe (Song of the Honest Republican) ♬

Full Frontal: Tenacious unicorn ranch is pioneering a new and queer wild West

Now This: How restrictive voting measures impact Americans with disabilities

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

Good morning everyone.

Happy first day of school to Seattle, and first week of school for much of the rest of the region. Are you confident in the mask and vaccine requirements as a student, parent, or school employee? Are you a teacher hoping that the last year and a half of distance learning didn’t leave students unprepared?

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

Please join us tonight for an evening of politics and conversation over a pint, as well as a toast to the end of America’s longest war, 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 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 to everyone except Compassion Seattle. I don’t know enough about the legal case to have an opinion on the merits. But I do know that their garage initiative was garage. So I’m glad it won’t be on the ballot.

It does mean that the City Council and mayor need to step the hell up. They need to do more to house people. It’s well past time.

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

Full Frontal Rewind: Gun control

Pullin’ Out:

• WaPo: Трамп officials touted their Taliban talks before criticizing Biden’s Taliban talks
• Rachel Maddow: CIA Target Taliban leader freed by Трамп meets with CIA
• Now This: One hundred percent. Says Трамп.
• Bill Maher: The lesson of Afghanistan
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ After the latest losses in Afghanistan ♬
• Vox: How the US created a disaster in Afghanistan:

• Mark Fiore: How Biden ruined a perfectly good 20-year war, Part II
• John Oliver: Afghanistan
• AJ+: Four reasons the Taliban takeover happened so quickly
• WaPo: How the Special Immigrant Visas for Afghan allies work
• Bill Maher: Operation GTFO
• Vice News: Why 20 years of American aid couldn’t fix Afghanistan’s roads and hospitals
• The New York Times: 20 years, 4 Presidents—The words that shaped the war in Afghanistan

Robert Reich: The real Socialism in America is not what you think

The Clowns, Cowards, Con-artists, Criminals and Conspirators that Comprise the Current G.O.P.:

• Rachel Maddow: January 6 Committee shows seriousness about investigation
• The Late Show: Kylie Weaver’s ULTIMATE Dotard Трамп insult
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Mo Brooks and Ron Johnson in 2024! Truth in Advertising ♬
• Jordan Keppler: How do Трамп supporters describe Трамп?
• The Late Show: Mike Lindell vows Трамп 2021 reinstatement
• Rachel Maddow: Трамп supporters make a martyr of 1/6 rioter Babbitt, ignoring previous “law and order” stance
• Vice News: The MyPillow guy is lying, Republicans are listening
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ A Mike Lindell Limerick ♬
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп is also suing Nirvana!
• The Daily Show: Joe Biden—Crisis machine
• The Late Show: Tyler Templeton’s Трамп reinstatement miracle
• Rachel Maddow: FCC clobbers Трамп-supporting activists over racist robocalls
• act.tv: Watch the MyPillow Guy change his dates after he was proven wrong!
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Trump’s the Disease That Keeps on Spreading ♬:

• Seth Meyers: Kayleigh McEnany shamelessly claims Трамп didn’t have “crisis after crisis”
• Rachel Maddow: Трамп lawyers face accountability—“They used the federal courts to broadcast lies.”
• The Daily Show: Jordan Keppler’s journey into the MAGAverse
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Mo Brooks is Among the Dumbest Congressmen ♬
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard reacts to Sirhan Sirhan parole decision
• Rachel Maddow: Federal judge excoriates Трамп lawyers, refers them for disbarment
• The Late Show: True believers explain how Трамп will be reinstated as president
• Ari Melber: GOP spends 2021 recounting Трамп’s loss in several states

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Bill Maher: Conservative comedy

This Week in ТрампPlague:

• The Late Show: FAUX News already skeptical of FDA approved vaccine
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ “We Ain’t Got Worms” (An anti-vax, pro-Трамп, FAUX-viewer anthem) ♬
• Andre Antunes: ♫ Covid Rant goes METAL! [San Diego Board of Supervisors meeting Remix] ♬:

• The Daily Show: FAUX News on the FDA’s vax approval vs. Operation Warp Speed
• Joy Reid critiques Ron DeSantis’ recent policy choices impacting children
• act.tv: Florida doctors are fed up with the anti-vaxxers!
• Seth Meyers: FDA warns people not to use horse de-wormer Ivermectin to treat COVID
• Chris Hayes: Right wing nutburgers tout unproven covid treatments over preventative vaccines
• Jordan Klepper debates anti-vax mandate protesters in NYC
• The New York Times: Dying in the name of vaccine freedom
• Ari Melber: As COVID kills in red states, long war on science proves costly
• Eric Schwartz: ♫ The Stupid Vaccine ♬:

• Seth Meyers: Трамп rally crowd boos vaccines and Pfizer shot gets full FDA approval
• Chris Hayes: Doctors stage demonstration to protest unvaccinated
• Amber Ruffin: A brief history of what happens when we don’t listen to scientists
• Rachel Maddow: New facet of covid crisis—Misguided people taking Ivermectin anti-parasite animal drug
• The Late Show: Трамп maintains Death Cult Figurehead status
• Desi Lydic: FDA spokesperson debunks vaccine myths

Amber Ruffin: A year since George Floyd’s murder and no police reform bill

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

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.