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Join us this evening for some hot political conversation over a cold, cold beer at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the back room of the pub. We start at 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 am glad to see Jay Inslee’s fossil fuel plan. It is ambitious. It is necessary to be bold on this existential problem. I hope all of the candidates will follow suit.

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week.

Stephen: Jon Stewart won’t let Mitch McConnell off that easy.

Vox: When white supremacists overthrew a government.

Minute Earth: How to turn cancer against itself.

Physics Girl: Five scary physics experiments!

Rachel Maddow: Clinic prioritizes patient care over GOP anti-abortion stunt

Trevor: Harvard pulls Kyle Kashuv’s acceptance.

Samantha Bee: Mitch McConnell—Dry rot of Democracy:

WaPo: The history behind Juneteenth and why it resonates today

Wendover: How air traffic control works.

The New York Times: Did Iran attack ships in the Gulf? What the evidence shows.

The Dotard Трамп And His Band of Liars and Thieves:

• The Late Show: Putin got a call from his biggest fan during a live Q&A
• Ari Melber: See Mueller’s shocking evidence The Dotard Трамп is trying to hide
• Stephen: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shows up in a Трамп tweet
• Rachel Maddow: Pence National Security Advisor kept Maria Butina tie secret at Senate confirmation
• Trevor: Трамп’s weird one-on-one with George Stephanopoulos
• Chris Hayes: The Dotard Трамп gives creator of failed economic theory the Medal Of Freedom
• The Late Show: The Трамп-Macron friendship tree is dead
• Our Cartoon President: The Cartoon Supreme Court visits Mar-A-Lago
• Jimmy Kimmel: The Dotard Трамп doesn’t like people who cough
• The Daily Show: The Dotard J. Трамп Presidential Twitter Library takes D.C.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Exclusive with new Трамп rape accuser:

• Rachel Maddow: The Dotard Трамп has chosen lobbyists to run EPA, HHS, DOD, and Interior
• Stephen: Why Preet Bharara didn’t return The Dotard Трамп’s call
• The Late Show: Трамп’s staffers are coughing for a reason
• Trevor: Roasting is Трамп’s game
• Ari Melber: Did FAUX’s Boy Tucker stop The Dotard’s strike against Iran?
• Stephen: The topics Hope Hicks refused to testify about
• Jimmy Kimmel: Words you can’t call Трамп
• Stephen: The Pentagon didn’t brief The Dotard on operations in Russia
• Chris Hayes: Paul Manafort and Sean Hannity (a.k.a. Client #3) exchanged hundreds of texts
• Seth Meyers: The Dotard’s rambling phone interview with Sean Hannity
• Our Cartoon President: Cartoon Трамп’s Mar-A-Lago song
• The Late Show: 45 Fest—The Трамп rally outside the Трамп rally
• Trevor: Tim Ryan is running for President and fighting for forgotten communities
• Chris Hayes: Sexual assault allegation against The Dotard Трамп
• Stephen: Трамп’s next move after Iran’s “big mistake”
• Rachel Maddow: Hope Hicks transcript provides window on 2016 dual Трамп tape crises
• Bill Maher: Cocked and loaded
• Seth Meyers: Трамп sits down with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos
• Jimmy Kimmel: The Трамп T-shirt no one needs
• Stephen: Trump lies to & lashes out at George ‘Little Wiseguy’ Stephanopoulos
• Lawrence O’Donnell: America’s history of concentration camps
• The Late Show: “Real News Tonight” investigates The Dotard’s Orlando rally
• Trevor: Are America and Iran on the brink of war?
• Chris Hayes: The Dotard is finally getting his big parade
• Stephen: Трамп’s 29th TIME cover is still fewer than Richard Nixon
• The Daily Show: Washington, D.C. reviews The Dotard J. Трамп Presidential Twitter Library

Jordan Klepper: Bill Nye talks manned Mars missions.

BuzzFeed: Questions you’ve always wanted to ask a refugee.

The Late Show: A preview of Obama’s new podcast.

Jimmy Kimmel: Backup plan for abortion ban.

Robert Reicht: America is More Radical Than You Think:

Minute Physics: Our ignorance about gravity.

Roll Call: Danny Glover, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Cory Booker on a reparations bill.

WaPo: Congress holds hearing on slavery reparations.

Vox: The weird rule that broke American politics.

Twenty-Twenty Vision:

• Stephen: Трамп kicks off his 2020 campaign with help from The Guzzlers
• Mark Fiore: The classic Трамп collection
• WaPo: Hannah explains how presidential candidates prepare for debates
• Our Cartoon President: Cartoon Трамп announces his 2020 campaign
• Late Show: Трамп workshops new 2020 campaign slogans
• Bill Maher: New Rule—Oprah 2020
• Daily Show: Трамп unveils Fresh New Platform for 2020:

• Samantha Bee: A message to Democratic presidential candidates—Run for Senate, goddammit!
• Conan: Joe Biden’s other stunning campaign promises
• Stephen: Трамп 2020 looks a lot like Трамп 2016
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп launches re-election campaign in Orlando
• WaPo: A tale of two Трамп presidential announcements
• Velshi & RuhleGovernor Jay Inslee on climate, jobs, & Joe Biden
• Stephen: An announcement about Howard Schultz
• Jimmy Fallon: Трамп polls Orlando rally audience for 2020 campaign slogans

Samantha Bee: How to take reparations from The hypothetical to reality!

Mental Floss: 31 facts about sharks.

The New Yorker: How space travel will create new laws.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

WaPo: A U.N. report shows Congress must act on Khashoggi’s murder, even if The Dotard won’t.

Roll Call: Why senators waving their hands about on the Senate floor.

Jordan Klepper: Who gets to sell weed in California?.

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

As Seattle gets denser, and more adults are wearing backpacks, we’re going to have to figure out some ethics. Like, public transportation. If it’s crowded, take it off and put it on the ground. There are signs for that. But even walking through busy streets, or standing, be aware of it. Don’t hit people in the face or make them dodge you.

Grandma, Grandma! What did you do when we started to find out that people were dying in US custody?

Well, sweetheart, I was very concerned. It was a difficult time. So I thought that I would spend my time and talent on the most important thing. I decided that if I didn’t nitpick the people opposing them, who would. So I went online, and I pretended that concentration camps was a phrase only used by Nazis. I, as you can see, was the real hero.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight. Please stop by for some political discourse over a drink.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the back room of the pub. We start at 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!

Dave Meinert is buying Mecca (second point). Just thought he could it ride out. Oh what’s a little rape and harassment? I mean, he only owns one restaurant, hasn’t he suffered enough? If anything, he’s the real victim of his repeated predatory behavior over many years. And I thought you were in favor of restorative justice, isn’t that where men don’t get punished in any way, and get to own another restaurant?

Stephen: Sec. Ash Carter lifted the military’s transgender ban

Trevor: Russia & China.

Samantha Bee: Multi-level marketing.

Jordan Klepper: Will this be the first person to walk on Mars?.

Jimmy Dore: “Nobody cares about me anymore,” aays Jeb Bush.

Lauren Mayer: Global weirding.

The Dotard Трамп and Other Colluders and Lickspittles:

• Seth Meyers: Трамп says he’d take foreign dirt on a 2020 opponent
• The Late Show: Трамп sends a signal to the bad guys
• Stephen: Трамп signals interest in 2020 election interference
• Our Cartoon President: Leaked—Cartoon Don Jr. Senate testimony
• WaPo: How the Трамп campaign downplayed an offer of Russian “dirt”
• Stephen: Sec. Ash Carter—“Not enough was done” to stop Russia in 2016
• Seth Meyers: Sen. Amy Klobuchar on her competition, impeachment and America’s infrastructure
• The Late Show: Are Dotard Трамп and Richard Nixon the same?
• Roy Zimmerman: COVFEFE—Grounds for impeachment:

• Ari Melber: Трамп’s damage control after embracing collusion
• Bill Maher: A stain in the Oval Office
• Stephen: Трамп’s “friend” Kim Jong Un is becoming a movie supervillain
• Seth Meyers: Rachel Maddow wants Democrats to stop overthinking Трамп’s impeachment
• Trevor: Murky Mexico deal, love notes from North Korea & bitter words for Biden
• Our Cartoon President: Jake Tapper unveils his latest political cartoon
• Jimmy Kimmel: The Dotard thinks the moon is a part of mars
• Stephen: Трамп takes soccer away from migrant children
• The Late Show: “Just Say No” to Congressional subpoenas
• Seth Meyers: Трамп lies about his poll numbers after Iowa speech
• Daily Show: World leaders enduring Трамп
• WaPo opinion: Трамп’s impeachment would be a constitutional, not a political, question
• Stephen: The truth about Трамп’s “big win” over Mexico
• The Late Show: Courtroom sketches of Don Jr.’s closed hearing
• Seth Meyers: Трамп returns from Europe as impeachment calls grow louder
• Stephen: Трамп’s super secret agreement with Mexico
• Trevor: Трамп’s Twitter engagement is down, and Trevor is here to help
• Our Cartoon President: Cartoon Трамп flashes back to his Vietnam deferment
• The Late Show: The President needed to vent
• Jimmy Kimmel: The Dotard Трамп gets NO CREDIT
• Ari Melber: “The Grimm Reaper”—Why McConnell is Трамп’s collusion enabler
• Seth Meyers: Late Night White House press conference
• Jimmy Dore: Rick Perry calls methane “Freedom gas.”:

• Chris Hayes: FEC Chair delivers stinging rebuke of Трамп call for foreign election interference
• Stephen: When Трамп doesn’t like the news, he interrupts it
• Mark Fiore: Strongman-in-training
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп’s collusion confusion & Sarah Huckabee’s departure
• WaPo: Did Sarah Sanders live up to her own standard?
• Trevor: Would Трамп accept foreign dirt on political opponents? YES

Vox: Green New Deal explained.

Jim Jefferies: How do you get people to act on climate change?

Full Frontal: Pride like it’s 1969.

Jon Stewart rips lawmakers—9/11 first responders “did their jobs…do yours!”

Bill Maher: The deadbeat dad party

Tiny Fingers Resistance: Republican Women:

The New York Times: Why Border Patrol is rescuing migrant families on the Rio Grande.

Twenty-twenty Vision:

• Stephen: One event, nineteen Democratic candidates
• Now This: Why Americans need a woman President, says Kirsten Gillibrand
• Trevor: Eric Swalwell on running for President and bringing hope to places that need it
• Stephen: Beto O’Rourke on impeachment
• Now This: Dem Eric Swalwell has bold gun reform and health care plans
• Stephen: Beto O’Rourke gets debate advice
• Seth Meyers: Rachel Maddow thinks the Democratic nomination should be hard-fought
• Stephen: These Democrats beat The Dotard according to polls
• Now This: Beto O’Rourke reveals three part plan to protect elections
• Trevor: Joe Biden reverses course on the Hyde amendment & Democratic candidates swarm Iowa
• Stephen: Joe Biden and The Dotard Трамп collide in Iowa
• Now This: Cory Booker gets real in round of 20 questions

Roll Call: A busy week in Congressional hits and misses.

Wired: Retired Navy SEAL explains how to prepare for dangerous situations.

Samantha Bee: YouTube woes.

Vox: New York is building a wall to hold back the ocean.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

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

With Sarah Huckabee Sanders leaving the White House, who will not give press briefings? Who will they find to spread gossip and administration spin? Who will be described as a “senior administration official” in the press when quoting them adds nothing to their story?

The store in front of the bus stop near Drinking Liberally always has delivery cars parked in it. At least at the time I am leaving. Yesterday. Yesterday! Yesterday, the delivery car pulled into the stop while the bus was at the red light. Don’t do that. I realize parking can be at a premium in Capitol Hill, but not so much at 10:30. In conclusion gaaah.

It’s Tuesday…and that’s Drinking Liberally night in Seattle. So please join us for an evening of politics over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the back room of the pub. We start at 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!

Remember when Howard Schultz was running for President? And we all heard stories about how terrible he was? Anyway, what happened to him? Is he still off somewhere being terrible? Nobody knows.

Jim Jefferies: Talking with conspiracy theorists in the age of bullshit.

Robert Reicht: Socialism—The same old scare tactic

WaPo: Male supremacy is a “gateway drug” for extremists.

Roll Call: The week in Congressional hits and misses.

SCTV: Senators.

Rachel Maddow: Missouri unnecessary pelvic exam rule invites ire of women voters.

Chris Hayes: New revelations from hard drives of deceased GOP operative.

Lauren Mayer: Summer Break (the Teacher Song).

John Oliver: Medical Devices

AJ+: The religion of libertarianism

The Dotard Трамп and His Gaggle of Grifters:

• Stephen: Wanda Sykes—What’s going on now is “not normal”
• Conan: Dana Carvey knows all of Трамп’s verbal tics
• Jimmy Kimmel chats chats with British teen who trolled The Dotard
• Trevor: If you don’t know, now you know—Boris Johnson
• Ari Melber: Lindsey Graham goes from Dotard Трамп’s a “jackass” to full MAGA
• Stephen: Brits greet Трамп with baby blimps and a giant penis
• Conan: Трамп tries authentic Irish cuisine
• The Late Show: Postcards from Трамп’s European junket:

• Conan knows why Трамп wasn’t invited to stay at Buckingham Palace
• Late Show: A special menu for Трамп’s UK state dinner
• Our Cartoon President: Cartoon Dotard Трамп shows the world his brain is good
• Jimmy Fallon: Talk like Трамп
• Stephen: Robert Mueller makes his final statement
• Conan on Трамп’s Royal faux pas
• Now This: The Трамп administration just made Cuba travel harder
• Stephen: What Трамп’s new tariffs will do to beer, avocados & tequila
• Jimmy Kimmel: The real reason The Dotard hates Bette Midler
• Trevor: Trump hits the U.K., beefs with London’s Mayor and gets negged by Buckingham Palace
• Chris Hayes: The Dotard Трамп changes his mind about that whole going to the moon thing
• The Late Show: The Трамп May press conference got weird
• Robert Reicht: The impeachment process explained
• Bill Maher: America’s royal fuck-up
• Stephen: The Dotard turns down an Irish castle for an Irish airport
• Now This: Трамп got royally trolled while in the U.K.
• Conan: Трамп’s London travel guide:

• Stephen Interviews Piers Morgan’s interview of The Dotard Трамп
• Our Cartoon President: Cartoon FAUX & Friends reboot as period drama
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп is on his best behavior in the UK
• Trevor: Трамп in the U.K. day 2—75,000 protesters and one weird tuxedo
• Stephen: Jared Kushner struggles with “Is The Dotard a racist?”
• Conan: EXCLUSIVE audio from Queen Elizabeth’s meeting with The Dotard
• Now This: Трамп mocked and ridiculed on first official UK visit
• Stephen: James Corden rates The Dotard’s royal performance
• Our Cartoon President: Inside Cartoon Трамп’s royal dinner with the Queen

Jimmy Kimmel: The Week in Unnecessary Censorship.

Pitchfork Economics: Strategies for building a robust and equitable recovery from recession.

Vox: The race to save endangered foods.

AJ+: The poor go to jail and the rich make bail in America.

Jim Jefferies: W. Kamau Bell on getting racially profiled in Berkeley.

Daily Show: Why are young Americans embracing socialism?

Rachel Maddow: Doctor with dubious past decided on unnecessary pelvic exam rule.

Roll Call: Is the military ready for climate change?

Twenty-twenty Vision:

• The New Yorker: How the Democratic candidates are trying to go viral at the debates
• Vice News: Why presidential candidate Seth Moulton revealed his PTSD
• Trevor: Getting to know Elizabeth Warren
• Roll Call: What is McConnelling? How campaigns skirt coordination laws to help PACs make ads
• Now This: Pete Buttigieg explains how we can fix our Democracy and more
• Bill Maher: Andrew Yang
• Conan: Bernie Sanders is outraged at Walmart’s pickle selection
• The New York Times: Why Biden’s first run for President failed

Jimmy Kimmel: Obama, Drake, Трамп & NBA finals.

WaPo: Sean Hannity (a.k.a. Client #3) calls for people to be imprisoned a lot.

Mark Fiore: Freedom gas.

Now This: How abortion “trigger bans” could endanger people overnight.

Jordan Klepper: Open carrying while White vs. open carrying while Black.

Roll Call: Former CBO director—If Congress wanted to change Obamacare, they “blew it” with their process.

Stephen: What the “straight pride” parade won’t have.

Jimmy Dore: Alabama’s new anti-abortion law.

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

I have seen many great shows at The Showbox. It will be sad if we see it go. Still, I saw a lot of great shows at other venues that aren’t there anymore. And live music continues. Hopefully new venues will take its place.

Important update! Last week I asked about where to watch the Women’s World Cup. Thanks to those who had thoughts. Here’s a better place to look. Hopefully this draws a conclusion to me posting about it.