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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.