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Man, Mark Miloscia’s worstness was really in evidence yesterday. Shit person with shit bill hating homeless people.

Also, he wants his homeless people map updated daily? That seems like a lot of resources. I assume the state will pick up the tab for this. Along with solving homelessness. No. OK.

Also, also, homelessness is not just a problem in “the ten largest cities in the state” and “the state’s two most populous counties.” I mean the guy works in Olympia. Is he unaware of homeless people there? I think that might be the case. I mean, it’s a terrible plan so don’t implement it anywhere, but if you think it will solve homelessness, why stop at Spokane Valley?

Al Franken explains the “Minnesota hot dish”.

Kimmel: Drunk Hillary Clinton on ups and downs.

Stephen: Lady liberty gets a well-deserved night off.

Putin’s Shit Show:

• Obama admits wiretapping Trumputin.
• Olbermann: Trumputin’s amazing speech sure didn’t age well
• Maddow: New facts on Russia influence on GOP platform
• Sam Seder: Idiot EPA Director Scott Pruitt says that CO2 produced by human activity hasn’t been proven to impact the climate
• Trevor: Trumputin’s unfounded accusations of wiretapping
• Conan: Trumputin talks to Obama about the tapp:

• Get out of the White House
• Late Show: Cartoon Donald Trumputin is visited by ghosts of Presidents past
• James Corden: White House tourists review Donald Trumputin’s appearance
• Jonathan Mann: 45
• Young Turks: Trumputin will believe anything aides put in front of him
• John Oliver: Trumputin’s Obama conspiracy
• Conan: Trumputin’s new and improved travel ban
• Olbermann: The crisis of Trumputin’s conspiracy theories.
• Four Trumputin cabinet nominees who are in limbo
• Kimmel: TMZ has all the Trumputin gossip.
• Maddow: Pence story on Mike Flynn “impossible” to believe
• Stephen: Ben Carson wants to put something in your head.
• James Corden: “Healthcare or a new phone” is the new “repeal & replace”
• Trevor: No, Ben Carson, slaves were not “immigrants.”
• Why FAUX News just can’t quit Drumputin.
• Stephen: This diagram makes sense Of Trumputin’s relationship with Putin:

• James Corden: President Trumputin tweets about the tapps
• John Oliver: Trumputin and the Russian connection
• Young Turks: Dan Savage DESTROYS Melania Trump on Savage Love
• Sam Seder: Al Franken says it is not okay for Sessions to commit perjury.
• Olbermann: The Russian developments that matter most
• Trumputin’s V.O.I.C.E. tip line for brown people illegal immigrants.

Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Professor has some difficulties with children.

Kimmel: The most and least sexually diseased states.

VOX: The Doomsday Clock explained.

Republicans Work Hard to Kill Poor People:

• Jonathan Mann: The G.O.P. are going to kill people.
• Kimmel: If you want health care, don’t buy an iPhone
• Trevor: The GOP still hasn’t figured out health care
• Mark Fiore: ObamaCare Lite.
• Stephen: The creators of TrumpCare on TrumpCare, “Don’t call it TrumpCare”
• Samantha Bee: Trumpcare bill, nasty, brutish and short
• Sam Seder: Paul Ryan demonstrates he has no idea how insurance works.
• Kimmel: Drunk Sean Spicer on Health Care.
• How is the Obamacare repeal bill being received on the Hill
• PsychoSuperMom: (Health Care’s) Complicated
• The Late Show: Doctor office signs discuss GOP health care plan
• Jonathan Mann: Paul Ryan doesn’t understand health insurance.
• Samantha Bee: The week that WTF:

• Maddow: Donald Trumputin weakens, hollows out State Department
• David Pakman: G.O.P. ObamaCare lies are blowing up in their faces.
• Stephen: TrumpCare, Russian ambassadors and other things bad for your health
• Trevor: Paul Ryan’s health care bluff
• Ezra Klein: The Republican health care bill makes no sense
• Stephen: Republicans release health care plan, and we are all gonna die.

Democratic strategist explains Party’s redistricting plans.

Late Show: TSA airport pat-downs are getting WAY more intimate.

James Corden: Meet Arizona’s sex positive political candidate.

Space from Maui.

Samantha Bee: Scott Walker is a human garbage disposal.

International Women’s Day:

• Late Show: A show without women.
• A day without a woman
• Full Frontal: A day without a woman
• Young Turks: NOBODY respects women more than Trumputin.
• James Corden can’t get the show going

Kimmel: Obama’s new relaxed outfit.

Armchair Presidents: Hip hip hypocrisy.

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

I know that I usually do local stuff, but goddamn the Jason Chaffetz iPhone garbage is super garbage. But as she often does, Imani Gandy has the best take.

So in case you’re wondering how, when it comes to health-care policy, Republicans are going to convince Trump voters that the shit sandwich the GOP is serving up is really a croque monsieur, they’ll continue to employ racial dog whistles that at this point are so loud and piercing one might best call them racial vuvuzelas.

Jason Rantz is being his regular ignorant bullshit spewing self about Sound Transit. I was just going to ignore it, or maybe just make fun of it on Twitter, but, well about half way through, see if you can spot what sets me off.

With no direct voter oversight, the Sound Transit Board of Directors is responsible for spending billions of dollars on transit expansion. That may change thanks to five Democrats teaming up with 24 Republicans in the Senate. Now, transit activists are apoplectic.

I mean ST3 was literally approved by the voters. It was put on the ballot by an elected legislature and governor. The board is made up of elected officials, including King, Pierce and Snohomish countywide elected execs. But when will we let the people have a say?

The lawmakers are pushing legislation that changes the makeup of the board. If passed, the ST board would be directly elected so that board members may face voter consequences for some of their actions (like bilking taxpayers out of car tab fees with an obscenely inaccurate formula). Further, it forces the board to create districts so that King County won’t be over-represented.

Any democratically drawn up district is going to favor the large population centers. King County has more people in ST’s region. There were 829,469 votes on ST3 from King County, 277,141 from Pierce, and 193,114 from Snohomish. If districts have an equal number of voters, there will be more than 60% of King County representatives to just be regular represented. There may be some population variations, but it’s a decent proxy.

Martin H. Duke, a blogger at Seattle Transit Blog, is not happy with these Democrats. In Duke’s world, no Republican supports high-quality transit and Democrats who see a problem with the current ST board structure must not care either.

“This bill is a transparent attempt to override the will of the voters in approving Sound Transit 3 by adding yet more veto points to the process,” Duke wrote.

That’s a great point! If the legislature is willing to give an ST board taxing authority so the region doesn’t have to go back to the legislature hat in hand every time we want to expand transit, that would be a compromise worth looking at. But that’s not the proposal.

He’s wrong. It doesn’t change the results of ST3. ST3 couldn’t be dismantled as a result of this bill. Instead, it’s an attempt to make sure the voters have a say in how their money is spent and that King County transit activists don’t get more money than they should. I am a big supporter of light rail but not happy with how it’s being approached. As a voter, I have no way to impact the decisions of unelected politicians when they waste my money.

Literally 1 of the 18 ST Board members is not elected. That’s the secretary of the Washington State Department of Transportation. You literally had the chance to vote on at least one of those people if you’re paying the taxes. Anyway, enough of this disagreeing about how to organize the ST Board bullshit, let’s call Martin Duke a communist in the jack-offiest way possible and for no reason:

Activists like Duke don’t want the board accountable to the voters because the voters don’t support some of the crazy ideas Duke and his “comrades” support. He speaks for a loud but small group of activists. Understandably, he’s upset that he’s about to lose his unearned power over Sound Transit.

Really, “comrades”? Comrades? I might even have ignored it if it wasn’t in quotes. But there’s no way that’s not wink wink nod nod calling Duke and other activists communists. Fuck off. Oh a person wants a different organizational structure for a subregional government agency and so they’re a communist. You know the scariest part of the Soviet Union is how they handled transportation governance in the Ural Oblast. Comrades? Fucking unbelievable.

One of the Democrats who supported the legislation is State Senator Guy Palumbo of the 1st district. He actually supports accountability where Sound Transit represents the voters, not special interests. I supported his efforts to defeat the disturbingly dishonest incumbent, Luis Moscoso.

The First District goes pretty far into King County. You think he should run on “King County won’t be over-represented” in ST next time he’s in a competitive race?

“I supported the bill because I believe that any government organization that manages $54 billion in tax dollars needs to be directly elected and accountable to the voters,” the Senator told me. “It’s a good governance thing for me, it has nothing to do with dismantling ST3.”

Is there a timeframe for that? Oh, it’s between now and 2041. Oh, and it’s in 2041 dollars, so less than that in today’s money and even less in when the voters voted on it dollars.

Senator Palumbo and his colleagues should be celebrated for breaking the Olympia gridlock. Instead, thanks to the reaction of militant transit activists, he’s getting harassed.

Did someone imply he was a communist?

He received an email where he was called a “bastard” with the sign off “Get cancer.” Shameful.

I mean, that sucks. The cancer thing. Bastard is something I’m guessing every elected official at every level has been called. Oh hey, remember when your colleague Dori Monson got people to harass Senator Kohl-Welles for changing state laws that say “fireman” to “firefighter”? I’m sure you were equally outraged about that, but I’m just having trouble finding it.*

“I understand they disagree about an elected board and reasonable people can disagree on policy,” Senator Palumbo told me. “However to paint it as me being anti-transit, or as wanting to roll back ST3 is patently false. I come from New York where there are real mass transit options, unlike the Seattle area. I am an open advocate for large new investments in infrastructure, far beyond what we have done in the Connecting Washington package and ST3.”

So take away another veto point in exchange. Give them the ability to raise an income tax and as much car tab as they want, and to not have to beg the legislature.

This is a common sense bill. It deserves some changes (Palumbo wants to make the board positions paid and I support that), but bully activists want to kill it. They’ve been getting a free ride on the backs of drivers for too long. Let’s change that and come up with policies that are truly supporting multi-modal transportation.

Oh God! The current proposal is to have the part time non experts not even be paid? Why are you going all out for that? Anyhoo, solid ending.

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Psalm 94:4-7
God, the wicked get away with murder—
how long will you let this go on?
They brag and boast
and crow about their crimes!
They walk all over your people, God,
exploit and abuse your precious people.
They take out anyone who gets in their way;
if they can’t use them, they kill them.
They think, “God isn’t looking,
Jacob’s God is out to lunch.”

Discuss.

Stephen: “O” Presidents.

Armchair Presidents: The CPAC Report.

The Trumputin Chronicles:

• Trevor: Media falls for Trumputin (again!).
• Olbermann: It’s time for a Grand Jury on Trumputin and Russia
• Young Turks: Fact-checking Trumputin’s speech
• Jimmy Fallon: Trumputin on his own speech.
• Kelly Conway is deeply sad.
• Stephen: Trumputin lays out his vision for moving forward
• Late Show: Waiting for Godot’s Obamacare replacement.
• Conan: Trumputin calls Obama to brag about his speech:

• Seth Meyers: Democrats call for Jeff Sessions’ resignation
• Trevor: Melania litmus test.
• Young Turks: Pence used private email and got hacked.
• Jonathan Mann: Sean Spicer Phone Check
• Olbermann: Why Trumputin is refusing to confront reality.
• PsychoSuperMom: If Trumputin’s lips are moving…
• David Pakman: Trumputin’s staff leaks story about Sean Spicer’s hunt for leakers
• Late Show: Jeff Sessions day planner
• Trevor: Sessions lied and must recuse himself from Russian probes.
• Seth Meyers: A closer look at the media fawning over Trumputin’s new tone
• Sam Seder: Jeff Sessions in 1999 tells us just what to do when a Lawmaker commits perjury
• Stephen: Jeff Sessions can’t recuse himself from the monologue
• Susie Sampson: Fake News; Real Dictatorship?
• Stephen: Late Show’s presidential leak-crets
• James Corden: Are we still applauding Donald Trumputin’s speech?
• Olbermann: Let’s be honest, Trumputin is banning Muslims and purging Hispanics.
• Watch Sessions lie to Congress.
• Stephen responds to Democrats responding to Trumputin.
• Young Turks: Trumputin lied about US steel for pipeline, everything
• Seth Meyers: A closer look at Jeff Sessions, Trumputin and Russia
• Conan: Trumputin calls Obama about Oscars and more.
• Jimmy Fallon Trumputin speaks
• Sam Seder: Trumputin announces “VOICE,” a Nazi-inspired way to persecute immigrants
• David Pakman: Trumputin told 51 lies in a 61 minute speech!
• Trumputin’s tremendous think about the Oscars.
• Trevor: Trumputin dresses up his act.
• James Corden: The secret behind Trumputin’s well done steaks.
• Stephen: After well-received speech, Trumputin’s team basks in the afterglow.

Jon Batiste and friends: Hey White people!

Trevor: The GOP versus constituents.

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

Please join us this evening for our regular weekly meeting of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally. Tonight Trump will give a fake State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress. (Really…it’s fake. Google it.) The fake-SOTU address begins at 6pm.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm. If you wish, show up early to watch the fake-SOTU address.

Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other 213 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

2 Samuel 13:10-15
And Tamar took the bread she had prepared and brought it to her brother Amnon in his bedroom. But when she took it to him to eat, he grabbed her and said, “Come to bed with me, my sister.”

“No, my brother!” she said to him. “Don’t force me! Such a thing should not be done in Israel! Don’t do this wicked thing. What about me? Where could I get rid of my disgrace? And what about you? You would be like one of the wicked fools in Israel. Please speak to the king; he will not keep me from being married to you.” But he refused to listen to her, and since he was stronger than she, he raped her.

Then Amnon hated her with intense hatred. In fact, he hated her more than he had loved her. Amnon said to her, “Get up and get out!”

Discuss.

Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Young Turks: Arizona’s fascist attempt to ban protests.

PsychoSuperMom: Hypocrisy, thy name is G.O.P..

Stephen: Senators Kid Rock and The Nuge

Young Turks: Bad news for Gov. Failed-trickle-downer.

President “Enemy of the People”:

• Stephen: One bathroom privilege Drumpr won’t take away—Toilet-Tweeting.
• Seth Meyers: A closer look at Drumpf’s wall and immigration policies
• Maddow: Drumpf admin spikes report that undercuts travel ban:

• Armchair Presidents: Last night in Sweden….
• Sam Seder: Drumpf gives us the inside track—a “nuclear holocaust would be like no other”
• Farron Cousins: Drumpf has spent more time golfing than attending security briefings.
• Stephen: Sorry, ISIS, you lost the title of ‘Enemy Of The American People’
• Young Turks: Drump gears up for a new war on weed.
• Jimmy Fallon: Worst president ever.
• Olbermann: He must go.
• James Corden: We should let President Drumpf play more golf.
• Seth Meyers: Hey, transgendered kids!
• Young Turks: Drumpf things the First Amendment is a joke
• Late Show: Bathroom signs have a message for Drumpf.
• Olbermann: The mistake Drumpf can’t ever walk back.
• David Pakman: Drumpf spends in one month what Obama spent on travel in 1 year
• Late Show: Donald Drumpf tries to say something bad about Russia
• Maddow: Drumpf administration’s litany of mistakes indicates malice or incompetence
• Armchair Presidents: Fine tuned machine.
• Sam Seder: The White House is in chaos.
• Jimmy Fallon: Drumpf goes to war with the press.
• Chris Hayes: Muslim adviser quits after 8 days of Drumpf administration
• Stephen: Drumpf bravely calls Slavery “Not good”.
• Young Turks: Idiot conservatives wave Russian flags at CPAC
• David Pakman: Americans increasingly think Drumpf is incompetent
• Late Night White House press conference.

A Special Four-Letter Tribute to Donald Drumpf:

• FDT:Garden State–The Shins
• FDT: Baby Groot dancing
• FDT: Love Actually cue card
• FDT: Dragonite and Charizard Dance
• FDT: Sid and the Science Kid
• FDT: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• FDT: Winnie the Pooh dances
• FDT: American Beauty
• FDT: Guardians of the Gallaxy
• Jimmy Fallon: Drumpf has some Swedish confusion.
• Farron Cousins: Drumpf hasn’t gone a day as President without lying.
• Stephen: A reliable source for news Drumpf will like
• Maddow: GOP Intel chairs push media for Drumpf
• Seth Meyers: Drumpf makes Christie eat meatloaf & compares himself to Lincoln
• Michael Brooks: Stephen Miller’s whole career plan seems to be ushering in raging White Supremacy
• James Corden: Report says Drumpf lies.
• David Pakman: Drumpf is a hilariously weak President. Sad!
• Stephen: Drumpf goes on a field trip…
• Farron Cousins: Most Americans believe Drumpf doesn’t know how to do his.
• Late Night: The umbilical brothers grab Donald Drumpf by the pantomime
• Randy Rainbow: You’re making things up again Donald:

• Jimmy Fallon: Donald Drumpf unveils Drumpf News Network
• David Pakman: Drumpf staff admits to planting fake news to counter his Twitter meltdowns.
• Thom: Is Drumpf Anxiety Disorder the newest public health threat?
• Young Turks: Drumpf bans top media outlets from White House.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Steve Bannon is the most powerful person in the Drumpf White House.
• Seth Meyers: Drumpf supporters hate the media
• Stephen takes a look at InfoWars and its carnival barker.

Late Show: No ObamaCare, no problem–try these GOP home remedies.

Young Turks: Statue of Liberty gets a sweet new sign.

Mental Floss: 28 facts about internet sensations

Stephen: Advice for avoiding campaign scandals–get it out there.

G.O.P. Snowflakes Find Now Town Hall Safe Spaces:

• Thom: Republican snowflakes are facing tough time at town halls….When they show up.
• Young Turks: Republicans were totally unprepared for the town hall backlash.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: G.O.P. are getting hammered in town halls.
• Late Show: GOP Town Halls devolved into angry mobs… and worse.
• Seth Meyers: Republicans face town hall protests, Drumpf golfs

Jordan Peele revives his Obama impression.

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

Not content to lose statewide running against Seattle, Senator Miloscia is now opposing safe injection sites. Here’s a press release about it. This is a month old, but I haven’t done a metacommentary piece in a while. Since it just passed out of committee (third item), now is as good a time as any to get back to it.

Sen. Mark Miloscia introduced legislation Monday that would ban the creation of heroin-injection sites in Washington cities and counties. King County has proposed creating two county-operated locations where heroin and other illegal narcotics may be consumed “legally” under medical supervision.

I’m pretty sure it’s not actually legal, since that’s not something a county can do. As such, I’m not sure why it’s in quotes. Who you quoting? There must be a better way to say that. Here are a few off the top of my head:

– without fear of arrest
– quasi-legally
– it’s-really-not-legal,-y’all
– the-legal-status-of-the-drug-use-isn’t-actually-the-issue
– illegally

In any case there will be doctors around in case they have overdoses. They’ll probably refer them to treatment if they think they can, like they do in Vancouver:

Through Insite, clients develop trusting relationships with our health care and social workers, making them more likely to pursue withdrawal management (detox), addiction counselling and other addiction treatment services.

Anyway, back to Senator Miloscia’s month old press release. I don’t know what I’m doing either.

“We must stop the push for decriminalization of drugs,” said Miloscia, R-Federal Way. “Standing idly by while addicts abuse illegal drugs is not compassionate, and it does not solve the problem.”

That’s the fucking plan: To stand idly by. To just hire people to fuck around on their phones while people shoot up. They’ll whistle a tune that they half remember from their youth. Maybe look up passively from time to time and give a thumbs up in the direction of the addicts before turning back to Instagram.

It won’t be harm reduction and redirection of people to treatment where possible. It won’t be making sure that people don’t pass around dirty needles. It’s just sitting idly.

His legislation is a direct response to a report issued by the Heroin and Prescription Opiate Addiction Task Force established by King County and the city of Seattle. The task force recommended two locations within King County where drug users can use illegal narcotics under medical supervision. The county recently approved funding for two injection sites in its 2017-2018 budget.

The people King County put in charge of this unanimously said it’s a piece of how we deal with the problem. But what if a grandstanding state senator decided his plan of do fuck all* was better?

Last year Miloscia toured Insite Coastal Health in Vancouver, Canada, the first supervised drug-consumption site in North America, to study the issue further.

He will proceed to say nothing about what he learned there for the rest of the press release. Instead he’ll take us home with a misleading statistic.

“Canada’s safe-injection site has completely failed and overdoses have skyrocketed,” Miloscia added. “We must focus our time, money and resources on treatment options that get people off illegal drugs, not encourage drug abuse.”

Overdoses are up in Vancouver, it’s true, and it’s tragic. They’re also up in lots of places where there aren’t safe injection sites. The reason seems to be fentanyl and other agents cut into heroin.

The Globe and Mail reports that overdose deaths rose to 914 during 2016. In contrast, there were 510 overdose deaths in 2015. It’s the province’s worst overdose rate in the 30 years it’s been keeping records.

In Seattle, KIRO 7 reports that the Seattle Fire Department has responded to 2,677 overdoses since 2014.

Canadian officials are blaming much of the rise on the inclusion of fentanyl, which is a synthetic opiate that can be cut into heroin. It is cheaper than heroin, yet much more potent, and can lead to overdoses. Fentanyl is suspected to be a factor in the recent surge in overdose deaths in Seattle, as well. What’s worse, is that another synthetic drug, carfentanil, has been found to have been mixed into B.C.’s heroin last fall. It is used as a large animal tranquilizer, and is cut into heroin for the same reasons as fentanyl. Though, it is even more potent.

Call me a dirty hippie if you want, but it seems like safe injection sites would be better places to test for fentanyl than in a hotel room. Or an abandoned lot near your dealer’s house. Or on your bathroom floor while your kids are playing in the next room.

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Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorshop.

Jimmy Dore get a call from Ted Cruz after his town hall with Bernie.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse does a science experiment test on the Senate floor.

President Pussy Pinching Putin Puppet:

• Kellyanne Conway’s interview tricks, explained
• Seth Meyers: A closer look at Drumpf’s batshit crazy press conference
• Young Turks: How many crazy things can Drumpf say in one press conference?
• Trevor: Hurricane Drumpf.
• Kimmel: The gist of Drumpf’s crazy press conference.
• Drumpf bullies the press:

• PsychoSuperMom: Hacked by the USSR.
• Olbermann: Is the Drumpf White House high???
• Jonathan Mann: What did he know and when did he know it?
• Fusion Comedy: Who is Stephen Miller?
• James Corden: Breaking down President Drumpf’s bizarre press conference
• Farron Cousins: Drumpf is having temper tantrums over SNL Steve Bannon skit.
• Sam Seder: Even FAUX’s Shep Smith slams Drumpf
• Trevor: U.S. diplomacy with Israel, Drumpf style.
• Late Night: Presidential self-reflections.
• Jimmy Fallon: Drumpf press conference cold opening.
• Michael Brooks: Drumpf Tweets blame Hillary Clinton, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, & the media for his chaotic administration
• Stephen Miller is a real life weasel.
• How Steve Bannon sees the world.
• David Pakman: Drumpf’s Mar-a-Lago dinner a total national security threat
• Maddow: What it looks like when a President fails
• Olbermann: Drumpf is beyond reckless with our national security.
• Trevor: Profiles in tremendousness—Senior adviser Stephen Miller
• Seth Meyers: A closer look at the Flynn resignation.
• Jonathan Mann: What the fuck is happening?
• Kimmel: Meet President Drumpf at Mar-a-Lago
• Samantha Bee: The great unchecked legislative fuckfest of 2017.
• Mark Fiore: QVC-OCRACY
• Colbert: Stephen Miller is invited to tell lies on The Late Show
• Seth Meyers: Drumpf’s embarrassing press conference.
• Olbermann: The enormous cost of Drumpf’s War on Immigrants
• Hamilton parody: Donald Drumpf Calls His Own Shots
• Michael Brooks: Kellyanne Conway SNL sketch is a little TOO REAL
• Liberal Viewer: FAUX News edits to hide Drumpf lies about “illegal voters”
• Three ‘1984’ quotes that are eerily relevant in 2017 and explain Drumpf’s rise.
• Trevor: The GOP weasels out of questions about Michael Flynn
• Songify the News: Alternative facts:

• Fusion Comedy: Keep it in the family.
• Jonathan Mann: Who’s gonna take the fall?
• Maddow: Intel officials withholding intelligence from President Donald Drumpf
• The noun Drumpf used the most in his crazy presser? Russia
• Michael Flynn gets voted off the Island.
• Young Turks: Drumpf’s press conference MELTDOWN!
• Seth Meyers: A closer look at Drumpf turmoil
• Kimmel: White House Valentine’s day cards

Samantha Bee: Paul Ryan—a portrait in courage.

Seth Meyers with John Oliver: Obama should chill with the vacation photos.

Jimmy Dore chats with Mitt Romney.

Black History Month:

• Full Frontal: Voting while Black in the 1960s.
• Sen. Tim Scott (R-GASC) on Black leaders who inspire him.
• Ashley Nicole: This Black History month, we’re still not there.
• Tim Scott (R-GASC) recalls taking his teary-eyed Grandfather to vote for Obama

Bassem Youssef: How to hate right.

Samantha Bee: A break from the apocalypse.

Jimmy Dore chats with Sen. Sharrod Brown.

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

Samantha Bee is going to need a bigger closet.

Three unreported attacks by Muslims on US soil.

The twisted history of Valentine’s day.

Fake news investigative journalism.

Mental Floss: Is there an explanation for déjà vu?

Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

The Narcissistic Swamp with Strong Sociopathic Tendencies:

• Stephen is a Bowling Green Massacre trufer
• David Pakman: Drumpf angry that SNL chose woman to play Sean Spicer
• Samantha Bee: Fluffer in Chief.
• Kimmel: New White House Communications Director
• Bill Maher with Al Franken:

• PsychoSuperMom: The ballad of Donald vs. Nordstrom
• Young Turks: How Drumpf deportations are breaking up families.
• David Pakman: Donald Drumpf is a threat to 1st Amendment & free speech
• Jonathan Mann: The courts have stopped your ban.
• Seth Meyers: A Closer Look at Drumpf abusing presidential power.
• Ari Melber: Kellyanne Conway may face a federal ethics inquiry
• Bill Maher: Is Drumpf tired of losing?
• Sam Seder: Drumpf’s call with Putin doesn’t go so well for the unprepared man-baby.
• Olbermann: Is this how Drumpf will deport millions?
• Jimmy Fallon interviews Education Secretary Betsy DeVos
• Kimmel: Drunk Sean Spicer’s big day
• Stephen: Drumpf says, “Voter fraud.” Stephen says “Bull.”
• Samantha Bee: Donald and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad sanctuary cities
• The White House shopping network!
• Donald Drumpf’s cry baby commercial.
• Late Show: Drumpf has the art world on edge
• Matt Yglesias: What Donald Drumpf doesn’t understand about trade
• Kimmel: Drunk Sean Spicer on Kellyanne Conway
• Maddow: Court hands President Donald Drumpf a loss and a lesson on EO ban
• Olbermann: Drumpf just made life worse for your pets.
• Stephen: Drumpf is literally keeping his staffers in the dark.
• Daily Show: Kellyanne Conway’s artful deceptions
• Sam Seder: Drumpf proves he can read by bizarrely & slowly reading ‘beautiful’ Muslim ban order to room of cops
• Kimmel: Drumpf TV
• Farron Cousins: Kellyanne Conway in hot water for impromptu “Drumpf brand infomercial”
• Sean Spicer becomes Melissa McCarthy during today’s White House briefing.
• Seth Meyers: A closer look at how Democrats are responding to Drumpf
• Jimmy Fallon: DeVos confirmed.
• Young Turks: Nordstrom stock UP since dropping Ivanka, Drumpf Tweet.
• Kimmel: Melania’s new line of greeting cards
• Stephen interviews Drumpf, post-game.
• John Oliver (with Stephen) doesn’t think he’ll get deported, but he’s being cautious
• Sean Spicer’s alternative alphabet
• Full Frontal: The original Drumpf haters:

• Jimmy Fallon: President Drumpf criticizes Nordstroms
• Olbermann: The travesties done in your name and mine
• Bill Maher: Make America learn again.
• Young Turks: Does Drumpf hate being President?
• Trevor: The Drumpf family’s White House hustle
• 1984 quotes that seem eerily relevant in 2017 and explain Drumpf’s rise.
• Kimmel: Does Drumpf know Putin?
• Stephen presents Drumpf with RobeForce One
• Seth Meyers: Sean Spicer criticizes Nordstrom
• David Pakman: 21 minutes into intel briefing, Drumpf Tweets about Ivanka & Nordstrom’s
• Kimmel: Drunk Donald Drumpf on why he got elected.
• Full Frontal: A moment with Ashley
• Roll Call: The Drumpf presidency at 3 weeks.
• Trevor: Is Steve Bannon the real President?
• Young Turks: “Pee-gate” dossier gaining credibility?
• Stephen: Betsy DeVos is donating more so our schools get less
• Seth Meyers: Check In—Drumpf federal hiring freeze.

Mental Floss: 24 scientific studies about food.

Full Frontal: We made a promise.

Sam Seder: Bernie Sanders Vs. Ted Cruz ObamaCare debate.

Bill Maher: New Rule, “Pity slicker”.

Farron Cousins: Angry voters are confronting terrifying GOP members oer potential ObamaCare repeal.

Roll Call: A chat with the first African American Senate Chaplain for Black History month.

Valentines and guns.

Sen. Warren is Turtlehandled!

• Trevor: Senator Elizabeth Warren reacts to being silenced.
• Sen. Warren and Sen. Turtle spar over Coretta Scott King letter
• Farron Cousins: New low for Republicans – silencing Elizabeth Warren for quoting Coretta Scott King
• David Pakman: Republicans ban Elizabeth Warren, it completely backfires
• Sam Seder: Elizabeth Warren silenced after reading Coretta Scott King’s 1986 letter about Jeff Sessions’ racism
• Roll Call: Hear Senate Democrats read Coretta Scott King’s letter opposing Sessions.
• Jonathan Mann: She Persisted
• Sam Seder: Asswipe Sean Spicer suggests Coretta Scott King would TOTALLY support Jeff Sessions now

Armchair Presidents: The big game.

Jonathan Mann: The ballad of Judge Robart:

Pussy hats explained.

America needs Mexico…here’s why.

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

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1 Samuel 18:25-27
“Say to David, ‘The king wants no other price for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies.’” Saul’s plan was to have David fall by the hands of the Philistines.

When the attendants told David these things, he was pleased to become the king’s son-in-law. So before the allotted time elapsed, David took his men with him and went out and killed two hundred Philistines and brought back their foreskins. They counted out the full number to the king so that David might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

Discuss.

Mental Floss: 38 facts about NASA.

Bill Maher: WTF is going on?

The Thin-skinned, Putin-puppet, Sociopath, Sexual Assaulter-in-Chief.

• Young Turks: Drumpf adviser Steve Bannon, “Media, keep your mouth shut.
• Seth Meyers: A closer look at “alternative facts” and the Women’s march
• Sam Seder: ABC interview shows Drumpf is actually totally FOR REAL CRAZY.
• Young Turks: Drumpf wants to make America torture again.
• Farron Cousins: Why is a White Nationalist writing Drumpf’s executive orders?
• Samantha Bee: Coronation street:

• Daily Show: Alternative facts.
• Mark Fiore: Alternative reality.
• David Pakman: Drumpf crushes Melania’s soul?
• Farron Cousins: Drumpf is already sued for violating the Constitution.
• Olbermann: How the media should respond to Drumpf now
• Sam Seder: Boston Mayor on “sanctuary cites”, “We will use City Hall itself to shelter anyone targeted unjustly”
• Lawrence O’Donnell: President Donald Drumpf’s first negotiation was a humiliation
• Seth Meyers: A closer look at Drumpf doubling down on lies and conspiracy.
• A Recap of Sean Spicer’s first week at the White House
• Trevor: Profiles in Tremendousness, featuring White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer
• Young Turks: Drumpf reveals his plan to make American consumers pay for the fucking wall
• Seth Meyers with Hey! Drumpf’s voter fraud claims.
• Farron Cousins: Drumpf to waste taxpayer money investigating a conspiracy he made up
• Sam Seder: Some protests.
• Maddow with Sen. Franken: “We have a strategy” for resisting.
• PsychoSuperMom: Tainted Gov.
• Trevor: Welcome to Drumpf’s reality
• Randy Rainbow interviews Kelly Anne Conway about “alternative facts”:

• Sam Seder: Carl Bernstein, “There is open discussion among GOP officials that Drumpf is mentally unstable.”
• Drumpf gets a GQ makeover.
• Young Turks: Drumpf signs gag order on Govt. scientists.
• Maddow: PPP poll shows Drumpf’s base deluded by false facts
• Jonathan Mann: I’m not going to pay for your fucking wall
• Farron Cousins: The GOP war on regulations will get a lot of people killed.
• Seth Meyers: Drumpf’s false claims and executive orders.

Ezra Klein: Democrats won the most votes. Why aren’t they acting like it?.

VSauce: The Brachistochrone.

Sisters March:

• Samantha Bee: Women march and sing.
• Women’s March on Washington
• Young Turks: Drumpf catalyzes the largest protest in history.
• Farron Cousins: Nearly 1 in 100 Americans marched last Saturday on largest national day of protest ever.
• Young Turks: Drumpf fumes over women’s march.

Bill Maher: New Rule.

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