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The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets this evening for some politics and conversation over a pint. Please stop by.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the room at the rear of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 260 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, eight in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or you might consider starting your own chapter!

Can whoever is killing sea lions please stop? It seems like not fucking killing sea lions would be the default. Come to think of it, I have lived my whole damn life not killing sea lions.

If you see a sea lion today, just let it be. Same tomorrow and the next day. Pretty soon you’ve gone a week without killing any sea lions. Then a month of no killing sea lions. Because you know it, not killing sea lions becomes a habit.

Farron Cousins: Motel 6 agrees to massive settlement for turning guest info over to ICE

Seth Meyers: Minority voter suppression.

Roll Call: Lame duck Congressional hits and misses.

Rachel Maddow: GOP gerrymandering—Democratic votes not matched by seats gained:

Chris Hayes: Cindy Hyde-Smith stumbles in senate debate.

Mental Floss: Cooking facts and life hacks!

The Atlantic: The most extreme railway in the world.

WaPo: Cindy Hyde-Smith’s controversial comments, a timeline.

Lauren Mayer: Thanks for rich liberals!

Louis Black: Flat Earth International conference.

Mother Jones: Lockdown!

The Dotard Трамп and His Band of White Nationalist:

• Jimmy Kimmel: The Dotard Трамп pardons some turkey
• Stephen: The Dotard Трамп goes to battle with another war hero
• Farron Cousins: Трамп says Republicans lost because he wasn’t on the ballot
• Ari Melber: Bombshell—Трамп ordered Hillary Clinton, James Comey prosecution:

• Ari Melber: Former DOJ Prosecutor, “I could draft Трамп indictment right now”
• Young Turks: Трамп picks a fight with a Supreme Court justice
• WaPo: Here’s why private email accounts can be problematic in the White House
• Stephen: Melania Трамп has more staffing demands
• Chris Hayes: President Dotard Трамп links cheap oil, Saudis and Jamal Khashoggi murder
• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s weird lie about raking in Finland
• Ali Velshi: Ivanka Trump used private E-mail for government business
• Rachel Maddow: The Dotard Трамп defies CIA with lie about Saudi role in Jamal Khashoggi murder
• Stephen interviews Chris Wallace’s interview of Dotard Трамп.
• Jimmy Kimmel: Dotard Трамп furious over Ivanka’s emails
• Stephen: Why hasn’t Трамп visited U.S. troops in a war zone?
• Late Show: A tale of two email controversies on FAUX News:

• Ari Melber: Why Трамп’s own lawyer is Robert Mueller’s most important witness
• Stephen: Трамп flubs the name of the disaster zone he’s in
• WaPo: What Matthew Whitaker has said about Hillary Clinton
• Mark Fiore: You’re welcome America first.
• Seth Meyers: Трамп turns on allies, stands by Saudi Arabia
• Stephen: Трамп pardons peas, carrots, and Saudi Arabia
• Ari Melber: Трамп WH rattled by rare rebuke from Chief Justice John Roberts

Trevor: Kristen Gillibrand is fighting for New Yorkers and celebrating the “Bold & Brave”.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Vox: The roots of America’s democracy problem.

Ari Melber: New Blue Congress breaks diversity records, plummets average age.

Jim Jefferies: Why immigrants should be celebrated, not feared

Trevor: Khizr Khan paying tribute to Democratic values in “An American Family”:

The Atlantic: A dangerous job at the highest point on Earth.

Chris Hayes: A humanitarian crisis unfolds in California

Real Engineering: Britain’s most daring WW2 raid

Stephen: Justice Sonia Sotomayor allows Stephen to approach the bench

Trevor: Pete Souza on being the eyes of the White House in “Obama: An Intimate Portrait”.

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

Man, what the hell, Republic? If you care about the Second Amendment, form a well regulated militia. You actually can do that. I mean protect yourself from invading Canadians, or insurrectionary elements or whatever. But this is silly.

Please join us for an evening of politics over a pint at this evening’s Thanksgiving warm-up edition of 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 room at the rear of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 260 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, eight in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or you might consider starting your own chapter!

When you call the police on Black people, you are running all sorts of risks. There are worst cases, but even if they don’t happen, it’s still pretty bad. So sometimes you “just” humiliate someone supervising a parental visit.

The role of police in that instance wasn’t to remove fear. It was to move it from the white employees to the Black man minding his business.

Trevor and Jaboukie Young-White discuss Amazon’s move to NYC.

Minute Physics: Impossible muons.

Lynzy Lab: Subtract the Divide.

Bill Maher: Just don’t go there.

The Dotard Трамп and Other Soulless Grifters:

• Stephen: Only Трамп can politicize forest fires!
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп can’t control himself around Putin
• John Oliver: Draining the swamp
• Stephen: The President’s new punching bag—Sean Hannity
• Hallie Jackson: Judge sides with CNN, White House must restore Acosta press pass
• Robin Williams on The Dotard Трамп
• WaPo Opinion: Don’t panic about the future of the Mueller investigation—yet
• Jimmy Fallon: Трамп wants to fire his Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Secretary
• Rachel Maddow: Трамп aims to placate Turkey to cover Saudis on Khashoggi killing
• Seth Meyers: Getting to know Matt Whitaker
• Stephen: Elvis, Babe Ruth, and the rest of Трамп’s Medal of Freedom winners
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трампy Bear
• Late Show: Policy time with Трамп and Kelly
• SNL: Jeff Session’s farewell:

• James Corden: Dotard Трамп will soon be a beautiful butterfly of bitterness
• Stephen: The White House has reached peak insanity
• Late Show: Kim Jong Un reaffirms his promise to Трамп
• James Corden: Трампy Bear is very real and very weird
• Jimmy Kimmel: Melania Трамп says YOU’RE FIRED
• Stephen: Melania Трамп says “You’re fired!”
• Chris Hayes: Трамп makes some questionable ambassador picks
• Seth Meyers: Late Night White House press conference with Трамп
• Jimmy Kimmel: The Dotard Трамп is Spinning Out of Control
• Late Show: A message from the White House on cereal
• Jim Jefferies: Трамп’s dangerous attacks on the press (feat. April Ryan and Sean Spicer)
• WaPo: She gave the GOP millions this midterm season. Now she has the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
• SNL with another farewell to Jeff Sessions
• Stephen: Ivan Drago wants to fight… Russian stereotypes
• Late Show: The President is afraid of a little rain
• WSJ: What Трамп did to silence Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal
• Jimmy Fallon: Obama responds to Трамп’s memorial visit rain check
• Hallie Jackson: Unique security detail for Betsy DeVos to cost tax payers millions
• Mark Fiore: Fight the victims
• Stephen: Whose Boat Is This Boat? An animated holiday classic
• Трамп signs of dementia, volume 6
• Jimmy Kimmel: The Dotard Трамп’s awful response to California wildfires
• Stephen: Acting AG Matt Whitaker’s history of time-travel, toilets & bigfoot

Robert Reich: How blue states help red states.

WaPo: From Chicago to the White House—The life of Michelle Obama’s mother.

Jimmy Kimmel: A chat with Michelle Obama.

Mind Warehouse: The most protected Presidents in the world.

Wendover: Why China is so good at building railways.

Post-Midterm Madness:

• Seth Meyers: The Dotard is depressed after the midterms
• Late Night Writer Ally Hord explains why Florida always has trouble with elections
• Trevor: Democrats plan their House takeover and fire up THE SUBPOENA CANNON
• Late Show: Getting to know your Congressional body
• Seth Meyers: Трамп and his fellow grifters lie about “voter fraud”
• Jimmy: Florida—where everything is wrong!
• Stephen: Meet the new faces of Congress
• Trevor: The Florida recount explained
• Late Night: All aboard the redemption train—Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith
• Jimmy Fallon: Трамп’s post-midterm blues
• Stephen: Does Трамп Understand How Elections Work?
• Seth Meyers: Трамп panics as the Blue Wave gets bigger
• Bill Maher: Burning down the House:

• Trevor: Florida’s midterm election drama
• Jimmy Kimmel checks in with Florida recount officials
• Lauren Mayer: Congress finally looks more like America
• Stephen: The Big Blue Wave makes one man really angry
• Trevor: A dead brothel owner makes history in Nevada
• Seth Meyers: Трамп and his fellow grifters lie about “voter fraud”

Roy Wood, Jr.: CP Time—Contributions of the black soldier.

Vox: The Kamasutra is not (just) about sex.

The New Yorker: How doomsday preppers get ready for the apocalypse.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

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

I am pretty much fine with a leadership fight after an election. So a challenge to Nancy Pelosi in and of itself seems fine. It’s a little weird coming right after a major pickup in the House. I think Nancy Pelosi is great, but leadership challenges help define the party.

I am on the bus after Drinking Liberally, and am behind someone who smells strongly like vaping. I have smelled worse many times on the bus, or on the light rail. Hell, many times on this route.

But what is our obligation to smell reasonable on the bus? And did this person move in that direction by switching from smoking to vaping?

Please join us Tuesday evening for the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. We’ll be raising a toast or two to some fine election results.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the room at the rear of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 260 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, eight in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or you might consider starting your own chapter!

A century since the war ended. While other wars have happened, are happening, and will happen. But 100 years ago yesterday the guns stopped.

Jimmy Kimmel: Americans aren’t that divided!

New Yorker: A hundred years of American protest, then and now.

Physics Girl: How to make a square vortex ring.

Midterm Madness:

• Stephen: The midterms have Stephen feeling… emotions
• WaPo: How historic are women’s gains in Congress?
• Full Frontal: Meanwhile in Texas
• Jimmy Kimmel: Midterms
• Seth Meyers: Democrats take back the House and The Dotard fires Jeff Sessions
• Stephen crunches the mid-terms
• Vox: What happens when women win elections?
• Jonathan Mann: Brian Kemp should be thrown in jail:

• Jimmy Kimmel: Midterm election results
• Stephen: The midterms news that wasn’t bad
• Jimmy Fallon: Rachel Maddow gets lost behind election boards
• Heads of State: An election day message from Dotard Трамп
• Amber says what: Midterm elections, Donald daters
• Stephen with Alex Wagner and John Heilemann: The Dems’ House win is a Big Fucking Deal!
• Samantha Bee: Get your fudgin’ money out of my democracy!
• Randy Rainbow: Voting!
• Stephen: A Florida recount? Where have we seen this before?
• Samantha Bee: Stacey Abrams v. everybody
• Vox: The big lie Republicans are telling this election
• Bill Maher: Split decision
• Key and Peele: The Black Republicans strike again
• Stephen: Midterms 2018—The good, the bad, and Ted Cruz
• Трамп: and the 7 deadly sins
• Late Show: How to concede to a dead politician:

• Stephen: The worst intern assignment at the White House
• Seth Meyers: 2018 midterms elections
• Jim Jefferies: You’ve voted for the best, now check out the rest
• Samantha Bee: That went OK!
• Stephen: Cartoon Dotard Трамп, “The midterms are all about me… maybe”
• Vox: Why every election gets its own crisis
• James Corden: Трамп’s crazy day after historic midterm elections
• Seth Meyers: Democrats take control of the House
• Stephen sings “We’re stuck in this together”

Mental Floss: Beer facts and life hacks.

Trevor with Cory Booker: Bending the arc of the moral universe toward justice in America

Robert Reich: It’s time for Medicare for all.

Jimmy Kimmel: We must protect Ruth Bader Ginsburg at all costs.

Stephen: Protect Ruth Bader Ginsburg at all costs.

John Oliver: Immigration, invasions, and family separation.

The Dotard Трамп And Other Losers:

• Late Night: Point, Counterpoint—The migrant caravan, birthright citizenship, 2018 midterm elections
• Trevor: Трамп’s anti-press press conference and Jeff Sessions’s forced resignation
• Seth Meyers: Trump freaks out after Democrats win House
• Stephen: Jeff Sessions bids Stephen adieu
• Jimmy Kimmel: Dotard Трамп Jr. dating Gavin Newsom’s ex-wife
• WaPo: What “acting AG” Matthew Whitaker has said about the Russia investigation
• The Atlantic: Трамп is trying to change “what it means to be American”:

• Bill Maher: The slow-moving coup
• Stephen: Трамп and Putin’s weekend in Paris
• Late Show: The White House’s exaggerated Acosta videos
• WaPo: Трамп’s temper tantrum
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп loses his shit as presser
• Lauren Mayer: Caravan!
• Stephen: The Dotard mocks GOP candidates who didn’t embrace him
• Trevor with Jamil Smith: How Трампism prevails even as Трамп is refuted
• WaPo: Fact-checking The Dotard’s post-election out-of-control press conference
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп only hires the best people
• Trevor: The Dotard Tweets a meme at Iran and India erects a record-breaking statue
• Mark Fiore: The Victory Presser.
• Bill Maher: Bob Woodward, Fear
• Stephen: Hasan Minhaj won’t say Трамп’s name on his show
• Jimmy Kimmel: Team Трамп spreading doctored Jim Acosta video:

• WaPo: Watch two versions of Acosta video side-by-side
• Jimmy Kimmel: The Dotard couldn’t even fire Jeff Sessions himself
• Trevor: Jeff Sessions, you’re fired. Guy from CNN, you’re hired.
• Stephen with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: Трамп’s AG appointment is unconstitutional

NowThisWorld: Violent extremism in the U.S..

The Atlantic: What if you controlled the budget? An experiment in Democracy.

Stephen: Republicans and Democrats have different sexy thoughts.

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

Jeff Sessions is a piece of shit. Obviously fuck him for ever. And yet, his successor is going to be worse. This seems to be the story of the Trump administration. There is no bottom.

We recently hired a new college graduate. I am a little thrown by her using phrases sincerely that I would only make with a hint (or more) of irony. I don’t know what to do with “woot” when it’s just a genuine expression of happiness.

I guess my question is, is this confusion how the olds feel when I use “rad”?