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All the climate strikers are hella rad. Seattle schools (and other Washington State schools) should give them an excused absence. For goodness sake.

A new restaurant has opened near me. I can’t speak to the quality of the food. But! I can speak to the music. Too goddam loud on the weekend. I could not get to sleep. Should I talk to someone in there? Should I complain to the city? Should I just use ear plugs?

PS this post makes me officially old.

Please join us this evening for some politics over a pint, some civics over a cider, some campaigning with champagne, or some electioneering over…umm…Everclear? Whatever your taste in governing or guzzling, stop by the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Look for us in the back room of the pub beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 265 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, seven in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or start a new chapter for your community!

I’ve been under the weather for a bit.

Trevor: Big Pharma pays up for their part in the opioid crisis.

Samantha Bee: It’s time to cancel the Electoral College.

The Late Show: We’ve got your back-2-Congress supplies.

Bruce W. Nelson: A mangy fetlocks lullaby for tired adults.

Vox: The gun solution we’re not talking about.

Minute Physics: Protecting privacy with MATH.

The Dotard Трамп and Other Sharpies and Racist Dullards:

• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп wants to ban vaping to protect Melania’s son
• Stephen: The Трамп family—A political dynasty for decades to come?
• Jim Jefferies: Talking to reporters about Трамп’s attacks on the media
• Rachel Maddow: DOJ pursuit of Трамп vendetta against McCabe takes odd turn
• Stephen: Bolton lost Трамп’s support after angering Kim Jong Un
• Lawrence O’Donnell: House Judiciary Committee votes on new rules for impeachment
• Lauren Mayer: It’s Raining Lies:

• Trevor: Трамп fires John Bolton
• Seth Meyers: Трамп faces scrutiny over personal properties and hurricane lies
• Samantha Bee: The well-documented case of Трамп’s undocumented employees
• Stephen: Трамп to rally crowd, “I’m never leaving office”
• Jimmy Kimmel: The Dotard “fires” Bolton & offers more lies
• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s sharpie scandal has triggered multiple investigations
• Stephen: It’s a lot of fun to work for The Dotard
• The Late Show: Bigly shop of horrors
• Samantha Bee: Here’s how taxpayers are funding Трамп’s resorts
• Stephen: Трамп ignores Pence and Bolton, invites Taliban to Camp David
• Trevor: Трамп siphons money for his wall
• Stephen: Pro tip, Mr. Dotard…don’t go after Chrissy Teigen on Twitter
• Francesca Fiorentini: How Трамп plans to keep America white:

• Seth Meyers: Трамп lies about the Bahamas & explains Bolton firing
• The Late Show: The Taliban aren’t the only ones getting invites from The Dotard
• Ari Melber: In legal blow court revives corruption suit against Трамп
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Трамп advisers looking for “escape” from China tariffs
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп cancels Taliban & slams Legend & Teigen
• Mark Fiore: The Sharpie presidency
• Stephen: A stupid President saves us from a smart warmonger

NY Times opinion: Why blaming video games for violence is wrong.

Samantha Bee: What’s up With Rudy Giuliani’s 9/11 tribute video?

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Hasan Minhaj testifies at student loans hearing.

Now This: New college student pep talk from Michelle Obama.

The Atlantic: How black Americans were robbed of their land.

Twenty-twenty Vision:

• Stephen: Several Democrats are beating Трамп in head-to-head polls
• Bill Maher: Snap, Crackle and Pop
• Trevor: The Democratic debate
• Now This: Kamala Harris talks about her own Medicare for All plan with Ady Barkan
• NY Times: Best moments of the Democratic debate
• Stephen: Jake Tapper thinks Warren, Biden & Sanders will go all the way to the convention
• Full Frontal: Staffers draw the candidates from memory
• Now This: Why is Beto O’Rourke running for president?
• NY Times: Who are Трамп’s Republican challengers?
• Stephen: Jake Tapper weighs in on Julián Castro’s attack on Joe Biden
• Joy Reid: Beto O’Rourke on how and why to ban assault weapons
• Jimmy Kimmel breaks down the Democratic debate
• The Late Show: Deep in the Heart of Texas:

• Seth Meyers: Eric Holder’s family didn’t want him to run for president in 2020
• Lawrence O’Donnell: The real 2020 lesson from the NC-09 special election
• Now This: Elizabeth Warren’s best moments in the Democratic debate were attacks on corporations
• Stephen: Sparks fly at third Democratic debate
• Samantha Bee: We’re gonna need a bigger vote

Roll Call: Congressional Hits and Misses.

Drunk History: The true story behind the legend of Billy the Kid.

Now This: Alarming map shows sea ice melting since 1984.

Jim Jefferies: Why we should all care about saving the tuna.

Robert Reich: The secret GOP plan to keep power.

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

Did you watch the debate? It seemed like Governor Inslee was given a more prominent role than when he was on stage. At least people praising him and his ideas for a bit. Nice to see before it fades.

It is the anniversary of 9/11. 18 years ago an unprepared President who hadn’t done the basic work of protecting America ran scared from place to place as thousands of people died in a city he hated. Then everyone pretended that he was brilliant.

It’s Tuesday. And that means the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets. Stop by, if you can, and join the conversation.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Look for us in the back room of the pub beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 265 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, seven in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or start a new chapter for your community!

I hope you enjoyed the storm. It was rather fun to watch, but it did delay the Reign FC game I was at for longer than we were able to wait. It seems like a good lightning storm is becoming more common in the Puget Sound area than it was when I was growing up. Maybe that’s perception, but I think of those sorts of storms as an East Coast phenomenon.

Trevor: Fires ravage the Amazon

WaPo: The boy Tucker has some issues with New York City and its mayor.

Jim Jefferies: Ancestry tests have a lot of issues.

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses, recess edition.

Full Frontal: Climate change.

The Dotard Трамп and Other Evil Meteorologists:

• Stephen: Did Трамп break the law by altering hurricane Dorian map?
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп hard at work not working
• WaPo: The Dotard now says his trade war is hurting the stock market
• Stephen: Hey former Трамп administration officials, your future is bright
• Trevor: The Dotard Трамп’s disastrous hurricane Dorian response
• Schmoyoho: I Don’t Care—Трамп & Boris sing Sheeran & Bieber:

• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп has “never heard” of a Category 5 hurricane
• Seth Meyers: The Dotard keeps lying about hurricane Dorian and Alabama
• Bill Maher: Weather vain
• Stephen: Trump’s hurricane tweets not overburdened with accuracy
• The Late Show: The Dotard Трамп’s masterclass—Another thing nobody asked for
• WaPo: How Трамп’s impulses keep undercutting his political agenda
• Stephen: The Dotard is obsessed with proving hurricane Dorian’s threat to Alabama
• Lauren Mayer: Трамп killed The Onion:

• Bruce W. Nelson: Me and my magic sharpie
• Seth Meyers: The Dotard’s incompetence and corruption on display as hurricane nears
• Jimmy Kimmel: Deep Fake News with Трамп & Pence on RuPaul’s Drag Race

Daily Show: Obama’s Dijon burger—The worst scandal in presidential history!

Bill Maher: New Rule—The fudge report.

Jim Jefferies: The NFL’s serious brain damage problem.

Vox: The mysterious rays shooting at us from space.

Mark Fiore: The platitude primer.

Twenty-Twenty Vision:

• WaPo: The political journey of Joe Biden
• Stephen: Afghan veteran Pete Buttigieg has a vision for ending the war
• Seth Meyers: Sen. Bernie Sanders on fighting climate change and eliminating private insurance
• WaPo: The political journey of Bernie Sanders
• Stephen: The only thing that can stop Joe Biden
• The Late Show: Hey uncle Joe, you need Gaffely
• Stephen: Dems lay down hard truths about climate change
• WaPo: The political journal of Elizabeth Warren
• Seth Meyers: Sen. Bernie Sanders on the health care industry and his athletic past
• Mother Jones: Elizabeth Warren cuts through the dumbest climate argument.
• Stephen: Mayor Pete wants to solve problems for the next generation
• WaPo: The political journey of Kamala Harris
• Stephen chats with Joe Biden

Hasan MinhajThe Two Sides of Canada

Seth Meyers: Political monologue.

Jimmy Dore: Peter King defends cop who choked Eric Garner:

Vox: The chart that predicts recessions.

Daily Show: America endures another mass shooting.

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

Glad Howard Schultz is officially no longer running for President. I mean try not to help Donald Trump win reelection. A weird vanity campaign was never going to help.

I, for one, look forward to going to Starbucks occasionally, again. I was never going regularly, but if I’m thirsty, iit’s nice to have another option, who isn’t actively making a Trump second term more likely.

What the hell is happening in the UK? Several years of uncertainty post Brexit and now who knows? Snap election? Bills limiting how to leave? Two unpopular weirdos vying to be PM? I generally prefer the Parliamentary system to the US (and we’re having our own problems at the moment too) but geez.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight. It’s pretty simple. We grab a drink and we chat about all things politics. Won’t you join us this evening?

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Look for us in the back room of the pub beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 265 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, seven in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or start a new chapter for your community!

Sky News: America’s opioid crisis.

Jim Jefferies: The nuclear button.

Jonathan Mann: Bret Stephens is a bedbug:

Comedy Central: The story of Labor Day.

Ayman Mohyeldin: DOJ ruling reveals Comey did not break the law

The Dotard Трамп and Other Natural Disasters Worth Nuking:

• WaPo answers The Dotard’s question, “Could you nuke a hurricane?”
• Lawrence O’Donnell: High Трамп disapproval fuels Democrat’s hopes to retake Senate
• Now This: Трамп caught lying about Melania and Kim Jong-Un
• Ayman Mohyeldin: House Democrats to probe Трамп’s push to host summit at his resort
• New York Times: Трамп is building tent courts along the border. Here’s what they look like.
• WaPo: “He should just shut up”: San Juan mayor lashes out at Трамп’s tweets
• Chris Hayes: The Dotard launches an existing “Space Command”
• Now This: The Dotard reportedly suggested nuking hurricanes
• Full Frontal: Трамп’s henchmen pt. 2
• Rachel Maddow: “The most inhumane of all of The Dotard Трамп’s policies”
• Now This: Why it might take a comedian to beat The Dotard
• WaPo: Трамп once said he never has second thoughts. Now he has some.
• Ayman Mohyeldin: The Dotard falls out of love with FAUX News.
• Randy Rainbow: Cheto Christ Stupid-Czar:

• Lawrence O’Donnell: Трамп admin action poses huge risk for immigrants with serious health issues
• Bruce W. Nelson: I hereby order!
• Chris Hayes: Directing someone explicitly to break the law is an impeachable offense
• Now This: How one rich American is helping to burn the Amazon for profit
• Joy Reid: Rate of Трамп offenses outpaces House impeachment investigation.
• WaPo: ‘We don’t work for you’: FAUX News’s Neil Cavuto keeps calling out The Dotard
• Rachel Maddow: Трамп admin deportation threatens life of immigrant who helped FDA research
• Now This: Трамп caught lying repeatedly about trade war with China
• Lawrence O’Donnell: GOP Senators worried about economy under The Dotard Трамп

Jim Jefferies: Porn preferences in the South.

Rachel Maddow: Трамп aims to open vital U.S. forest to logging, drilling, and mining

Now This: Kishi Bashi explores America today through Japanese internment.

Mark Fiore: Pharmagon—Your antidote to profit based killing.

The Atlantic: When a child wants to save the planet.

Weird History: How you could have survived the Black Plague.

Twenty-Twenty Vision:

• VICE News: Joe Walsh acted like Трамп for years. Now he’s trying to take him down.
• Chris Hayes: We should run the presidential election the way we run EVERY other election
• Robert Reich: 9 ways to stay sane during the primaries
• Now This: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doubles down on Electoral College criticisms
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Top Democrats beat The Dotard Трамп handily in new head-to-head polls
• WaPo: Here are the Republicans challenging Трамп in 2020

Hasan Minhaj: The real cost of cruises.

Bruce W. Nelson: From my cold, dead hands.

Roll Call: Why do members of Congress have to gavel in and gavel out during recess?

Jim Jefferies and Rory Scovel: Russians keep getting mysteriously injured or killed.

News Broke: How the Handmaid’s Tale is the Christian right’s playbook:

Minute Physics: How to build a lava moat.

Fire and Rain:

• AJ+: California is burning. Can the green new deal save it?
• Reflect: Трамп was a “no show” at G7 meeting on Brazil’s wildfires
• Sky News: The Amazon rainforest ablaze
• VICE News: The new face of climate change—The climate migrant.
• The New Yorker: Why is the Amazon burning, and what’s next?

Wendover: The US’ overseas military base strategy.

Vox: The mysterious rays shooting at us from space.

Today I Found Out: The first car and the incredible road trip that saved it from obscurity.

Chris Hayes: Remembering Barack Obama’s biggest scandal.

The Atlantic: Social-media companies threaten democracy.

Jim Jefferies: Death is Big Business.

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

So, wolves. Maybe don’t get so upset about reintroduction of wolves that you threaten state workers trying to get input. Maybe don’t be such a dung brained jerk that you cause meetings to be canceled.

In conclusion: What the fuck? What the actual fuck?