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:
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:
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:
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!
Elizabeth Warren was in town yesterday. It was a packed and quite the barn burner. I especially liked the section where she talked about how the government works fine for the people at the top, but that it could work for the rest of us. Very different from the GOP message that government is inherently a mess. Also, I was one of the last people to take a picture with her, and it was several hours after she spoke.
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:
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:
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:
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.
Please join us this evening as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gathers for a night of political conversation over a pint. 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!
Matt Shea is a paranoid weirdo. The district is pretty solidly Republican, so I don’t know why they don’t kick him out of the party. Or primary him. I am glad for the conservatives and Republicans who call his bullshit. I am just dismayed by how few there are.
Ari Melber: Bill Nye The Science Guy: “We need sweeping changes”.
Seth Meyers: Experiencing the effect of climate change in virtual Reality.
Vox: What the US gets wrong about minimum wage.
Now This: Newark’s water crisis has residents speaking out.
Francesca Fiorentini: If the economy is great, why aren’t we?
Jim Jefferies: Addiction.
The New Yorker: Why Stacey Abrams is leading the fight against voter suppression.
Seth Meyers: Kathy Griffin gave a speech about the First Amendment at the University of Oxford
Wired: Bill Nye explains the science behind solar sails.
Wendover: How to stop an epidemic.
The Dotard Трамп And His Fellow Racists and Rapists:
Comedy Cellar: Is it OK to be happy about Jeffrey Epstein’s death?
Trevor: Jeffrey Epstein’s death & America’s prison problem.
Vox: Why Route 66 became America’s most famous road.
Full Frontal: Investigating the case of Jerry Falwell, Jr., the pool boy, Michael Cohen, and Tom Arnold.
The Late Show: Exclusive footage of North Korea’s latest missile test
Seth Meyers: Jake Tapper on debates and Rep. Steve King’s “crazy remarks” on rape and incest.
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.
Rachel Maddow: Mitch McConnell at nexus of increased Russian leverage on U.S..
Twenty-Twenty Vision:
Slate: The Atlantic slave trade in two minutes.
Ali Velshi: 400 years from slaves arriving on Virginia.
Full Frontal: BBQ and reproductive justice.
Now This: FAUX News hypocrisy on white nationalist terrorists vs Muslim terrorists exposed.
Robert Reich: Is America becoming a third world country?
Bill Maher: New Rule—Armed and lonely.
Trevor: Tucker Carlson takes a sudden vacation following his hot take on white supremacy.
Seth Meyers: George Takei was sent to a Japanese-American internment camp at age five.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Matt Shea is trash. Obviously. But these new revelations about him have, I regret to inform you, broken my brain. Team Rugged. Team. Rugged. Team…Rugged.
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