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:
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:
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:
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:
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”?
Game on, boys and girls! It’s election day, and the polls have closed in half the states.
Kindly note that this is an election thread. Keep on topic or kindly shuttle your ass to the open thread below.
I’m headed to Drinking Liberally now, so surprise me with your insights in the comment thread.
6:01: Well…at least Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) has won!
6:04: Beto still leads by a hair. And Klobuchar (D-MN) has won.
6:05: Looks like Felons in Florida are going to be able to help elect the next President!
6:07: Cool…I am just getting caught up here after arriving at DL. Hey…a D is leading in NE for Gov? Interesting.
6:16: My early assessment is that this is not really a blue wave. More like a blue splash. There are some very pleasing results, like Ted Cruz trailing a punk rocker–Ted Cruz is a weasely punk. But many races are going, more or less, as expected.
I feel like people are not making a big enough deal about Florida restoring voting rights to formerly incarcerated people. There are about 1.5M people (20% of FL’s Af-Am adult population)who stand to benefit from this. In 2016, Trump won Florida by just over 100,000 votes.
— ana marie cox (@anamariecox) November 7, 2018
6:32: Oh…cool.
Donna Shalala flipped the second House seat of the night for Democrats on Tuesday by beating Republican Maria Elvira Salazar. https://t.co/f4i4tDLKGA
— Stone Cold (@stonecold2050) November 7, 2018
Many of you hear “Donna Shalala” and think, “Oh yeah, Clinton’s HSS secretary.” But Donna Shalala was the Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin—Madison when I earned two degrees. She signed my diplomas. I’ve chatted with her. So…cool.
6:59: WOW! Kansas! Gov!
BREAKING: Democrat Laura Kelly defeats GOP's Kris Kobach to become next governor of Kansas, @NBCNews projects. https://t.co/GEzfm4Reei pic.twitter.com/pIb9gRfKrF
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) November 7, 2018
Looks like everything is going to come out just as expected. D’s take House by OK margin but not blowout, R’s gain a little ground in the Senate. D’s gain some governorships and state houses.
— Samuel Minter (@abulsme) November 7, 2018
Look at it this way. We won't have Attorney General Ted Cruz.
— Joan McCarter (@joanmccarter) November 7, 2018
7:21: MSNBC is now calling the House for Democrats.
The NYT currently projects a national popular-vote margin of D+9.2%. For comparison, the last five largest margins, considered wave elections:
1994: R+7.1%
2006: D+8.0%
2008: D+10.6%
2010: R+7.2%
2014: R+5.7%By historical standards, it's a popular wave.https://t.co/IRkQLDZ2dX
— Sam Wang (@SamWangPhD) November 7, 2018
HELL YES THEY ARE.
Three flipped gov seats. A whole bunch of House flips. A whole bunch of down-ballot statewides. https://t.co/YUUyfiacaK— Christina Reynolds (@creynoldsnc) November 7, 2018
Good. We fucking hate you. https://t.co/DBkbSf8heT
— Mike (@vidae01) November 7, 2018
It’s been a wild couple of years feeling like our democracy has been held together with spit and bailing wire. Today, we’ve wheeled ‘er into the pits to clean off the grunge, replace some nuts and a few bolts, do some serious alignment and, perhaps, a rebuilt the top end. Please join us Tuesday evening for an Election Day rally at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.
But, before you stop by, if you haven’t done so please be sure to return your ballot in a drop-box. Here’s how you can find a ballot drop box near you.
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 for our usual 8pm starting time. For election night, some of us will show up much earlier.
The Roanoke will have TVs tuned to election coverage. They have free WiFi. And you can buy drinks! If you insist on hearing every word of coverage, bring headphones and a device to stream audio. What can I say? Bars can be noisy.
We’ll be live-blogging the election right here.
Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 259 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, seven in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or consider starting your own chapter.
Please vote. Get your ballot postmarked or dropped off by tomorrow, Washington. Vote for a cleaner environment. Vote for holding team baby cages accountable. Vote because all of the trolls here are voting, and you don’t want them to have more power than you. Vote because corporations can spend millions of dollars on initiatives and candidates, but ultimately you get to decide.
Samantha Bee: Larry Krasner—Finally a good DA?.
Robert Reich: The American social contract
Nancy Pelosi: Chocolate taste test.
Vox: NAFTA, explained with a toy car.
The Orange Nationalist, Dotard Трамп, and Other Sociopaths:
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.
Jim Jefferies: Staying healthy is actually killing us.
Wendover: The magic economics of gambling.
Comics discuss the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.
VOTE!
WaPo: How social media is changing the presidency
The Atlantic: Holocaust survivors remember Kristallnacht.
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.
Stephen: Leader Nancy Pelosi makes a midterm prediction.
The Altlantic: You should be worried about your DNA privacy.
Racists Suck:
TED: How I climbed a 3,000-foot vertical cliff.
WaPo: The life of the first woman Supreme Court justice.
Roy Wood, Jr.: Black Floridians who made history.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Vote. Get your ballot postmarked or dropped off by Tuesday. Volunteer.
The country is in trouble, and it will be after the election. There is no magic trick to fix it. But Democrats in Congress is a step forward. It means checks on executive power. It means we can push for more universal health care. It means we can push environmental legislation. You can help.
I am rereading Don Quixote for the first time in decades. I’m not very far into it this time, but the good stuff is as good as I remember. The windmills hold up. The book burning is great: I had forgotten that it has a discussion of an earlier Cervantes book. So good!
But Christ on the Cross, the stuff that roots it in its time is not good in ways that I had forgotten about! A long digression about how you can’t trust Arabs, yikes. I remember some of these things, but it’s worse than I remember.
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