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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?

Bob Ferguson is filing another lawsuit against another one of the Trump administration’s horrible policies. As the 9th Circuit gets more and more conservative, the side of the angels is going to be less likely to prevail. Still, the conditions of care for children in detention are abhorrent. I can’t believe we could make them worse.

Please join us this evening as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gets together to ask the important questions like, “Is buying Greenland part of Safe Seattle’s latest idea for dealing with the city’s homeless population?” and “Are other hate groups in on it?” Stop by…you’ll be glad you did!

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!

Robert Reich: The 5-step CEO pay scam.

Now This: March for Our Lives lays out bold plan for gun reform.

Today I Found Out: The terrifyingly effective Nazi de-bollocker.

Vox: Why the US and Iran are fighting over this tiny waterway.

The Dotard Трамп and Other Rapey Racists:

• Now This: The Dotard Трамп keeps using anti-Semitic “dual loyalty” tropes
• Chris Hayes: The Dotard Трамп pushes anti-Semitic trope — again!
• WaPo opinion: Трамп lacks the courage to act on gun reform
• Ari Melber: Former FAUX News reporter unloads on The Dotard’s embarrassing conduct
• Lauren Mayer: Unlike Трамп (Greenland’s not for sale):

• Lawrence O’Donnell: Psychiatrist on “The essential emptiness of The Dotard Трамп”
• Liberal Viewer: Трамп vs Obama—Who did Putin outsmart?
• The Daily Show: Kids tour the The Dotard Трамп Presidential Twitter library
• WaPo: El Paso hospital denies Трамп’s claim that doctors left operating room to see him
• Conan will help The Dotard buy Greenland
• Rachel Maddow: Whistleblower alleges undue influence on Трамп tax audit
• Trevor: Rep. Ayanna Pressley on the urgency of gun control and Трамп’s immigration cruelty
• Now This: Трамп cancels Denmark trip after learning he can’t buy Greenland
• Ari Melber: Echoes of gitmo? Трамп seizing “indefinite detention” powers
• Conan gets advice from the “Property Brothers” about buying Greenland
• Chris Hayes: The Dotard Трамп makes up a lot of awards
• Lawrence O’Donnell: The Dotard Трамп’s actions create obstacles for Трамп campaign
• Roll Call: Why can the Трамп administration make changes to the Endangered Species Act?
• WaPo: Трамп’s anti-Semitic outbursts
• Rachel Maddow: NY AG Letitia James undaunted by Трамп frenzy to keep finances hidden
• Trevor: Donsplaining:

• Now This: Asylum-seeking mom reveals the horrors she endured at the U.S. border
• Ari Melber: The Dotard Трамп insider says he’s a snowflake
• Mark Fiore: Sabotaging America First
• Rachel Maddow: Another cruel Трамп immigration proposal, another legal challenge

WaPo: Parkland survivors on gun control.

Vox: Why the US drinking age is 21.

Minute Physics: Why some days aren’t 24 hours.

Jim Jefferies: Curing diseases with biotech comes at a huge cost.

The Daily Show: Leading ladies.

Climate Crisis:

• Jonathan Mann: Eulogy For A Glacier (Okjökull)
• WaPo: Who is leading the 2020 climate change debate?
• Alternatino: What will America be like in 2045?
• Francesca Fiorentini: Can our planet survive capitalism?
• AJ+: The Sunrise Movement—Can the Green New deal fix Detroit?
• WaPo: Why you should be worried about the fires raging in the Amazon
• Now This: The Amazon is burning…here is what you can do.

Trevor: Crazy rich nation.

Adam Ruins Everything: How Gillette scammed women into shaving their legs.

Mental Floss: 22 weird old jobs from 100 years ago.

Wired: How this woman started diving in DIY submarines.

The Twenty-Twenty Vision:

• Now This: How the Iowa State Fair became a political mainstay
• Rachel Maddow: Governor Jay Inslee announces exit from Democratic primary race
• Trevor: Bill de Blasio campaigning on progressive change in the 2020 White House
• New York Times: Who is Julián Castro?
• Mother Jones: What sets his plan against climate change apart
• The New Yorker: What campaign songs tell us about presidential candidates
• Now This: The Iowa Corn Kernel Poll makes its bold 2020 election prediction
• Trevor: Q&A with Michael Bennet

Lawrence O’Donnell: What America Can Learn From Legendary Activist Dolores Huerta.

Physics Girl: Why are there giant concrete tunnels in the desert?

Samantha Bee: Full Frontal rewind on gun control:

Ari Melber: Parkland Activist—NRA’s “blood money” in gun companies’ pockets

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

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

We shouldn’t celebrate Koch dying

And the Lord knows I’m really trying

But the world is much worse

For him wasting his purse

On things like his climate denying.

I am still neutral for the Presidential primary. I have eliminated plenty of people, but there’s still a top tier. Elizabeth Warren is definitely in that tier. So I’m excited that she has a town hall in Seattle.