by Carl Ballard — ,
Are you surviving the smoke? It’s pretty gross. I live in the urban core, and according to Google Maps the farthest building I could see from my window is less than half a mile. And even that is an improvement from earlier in the week.
If you have to work outside, or go outside for any reason, I feel for you. Gross, gross, gross.
And, you still have to wash your hands. So wash your hands right now.
by Carl Ballard — ,
by Darryl — ,
Bill Maher: Side with teacher.
Roy Zimmerman: : I approve this message.
Biden—Harris 2020:
Samantha Bee: Why police aren’t protecting our kids in school.
Vox: How America can leave fossil fuels behind, in one chart
Seth Meyers: Jane Fonda on Nixon ordering her arrest and civil disobedience
The Dotard Трамп and Other Slackers, Prevaricators and Incompetents:
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week
Roy Zimmerman: Defenders of Marriage (performed in 2017).
Jimmy Dore: Mitt Romney really likes eggs!
ТрампPlague:
Trevor: Jane Fonda—Civil disobedience in the name of climate change.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
by Carl Ballard — ,
Another day, another threat from Amazon. I don’t know if it’s pandemic, or otherwise business related. Or trying to scare Seattle once again. The article mentions that they are moving some things to Redmond, a city with a head tax.
Anyway, wash your hands right now.
by Carl Ballard — ,
by Darryl — ,
Samantha Bee: How marginalizing women’s health created a market for pseudoscience products.
Biden—Harris 2020:
Jimmy Dore: Putin takes credit for defeating Kennedy dynasty!
The Dotard Трамп and Other Pimps, Grifters, and Corrupt Bastards:
Now This: Pastor speaks out on voter suppression in the Hispanic community
Racism in America
Robert Reich: How Big Money corrupts our politics (and how to fix it).
ТрампPlague:
The New Yorker: Greenland thrives after Трамп tried to buy the island
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
by Carl Ballard — ,
Sorry it’s so late! I had to get up early for work and then I forgot to write this. So I thought that I would write it at lunch, but that slipped my mind when I was making lunch. Then I went for a walk right after work and now it’s past 8:30…
Anyway, wash your hands right now.
by Carl Ballard — ,
The people who make police accountability more difficult make defunding more likely. Now we find out more about the investigation of the King County deputy who shot a man in the back. It’s pretty grim stuff. From an investigation clearly meant to exonerate to lying to the media, this investigation was no good.
As the article mentions, Initiative 940 passed since then provides more accountability. So I hope that will prevent situations like this from happening again. But if it doesn’t, I don’t know what to do other than defunding.
Anyway, wash your hands right now.
by Carl Ballard — ,
by Darryl — ,
The Late Show: The Jerry Falwell Jr. scandal is giving pool boys a bad name.
Samantha Bee: The Republican party’s fall look—Fringe!
Biden—Harris 2020:
Trevor: What is QAnon?
Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s best Christian: Fake Christian of the week—Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Bill Maher: American carnage
The Dotard Трамп and Other Grifters, Liars, and Cheaters:
MoveOn: Thousands rally to save the Post Office.
Jordan Klepper: What happened to the Federal Election Commission?
Racism in America:
Brave New Films: Poll worker emergency—Young people needed • Election 2020.
The Daily Show: America’s got suppression.
ТрампPlague:
Samantha Bee: What it means to be progressive with Pramila Jayapal.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
by Carl Ballard — ,
Did you go against my advice and watch the Republican convention? I saw clips and it seemed like they didn’t know what to do with speeches without an audience. The speakers would build and build and pause to a second of awkward silence.
The President solved this problem with massive norms and probably legal violations. That’s probably also going to be remembered more as a super spreader event than for anything he said. Disgusting.
But not disgusting is you washing your hands right now.
by Carl Ballard — ,
by Carl Ballard — ,
Will you be watching the Republican convention? I will not. It’s probably irresponsible to watch when there are people there live. Is it encouraging a potential super spreader event? And of course it will be a hate filled event for an awful people. I say give it a pass.
But don’t pass on washing your hands. Do it right now.
by Darryl — ,
John Oliver: Juries.
Lauren Mayer and Carla Ulbrich: Stand up and act!
Robert Reich: What do Russia and the United States have in common?
The Biden-Harris 2020:
Dulcé Sloan: Who did the 19th Amendment really give voting rights to?
Bill Maher: Think like a true QAnon.
The Dotard Трамп and Other Liars and Miscreants:
WaPo: Why she votes—12 female leaders share their stories of suffrage.
Robert Reich: Why Democrats and Republicans need to unite against the oligarchy
Samantha Bee: There’s a race problem in journalism.
ТрампPlague:
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week.
Trevor: Veronica Chambers—Reframing the story of the 19th Amendment
Brave New Films: Alec Baldwin says “Make America wote again”.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
by Carl Ballard — ,
I think that the Democratic Convention went pretty well. Probably too many Republicans, but as long as they were just talking about Biden is good people and not pushing policy, whatever. Kamala Harris and Barack Obama probably had the best speeches by politicians.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now.
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