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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottlePlease join us this evening as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gets together over conversation and drinks. Tonight we will raise a glass in honor of former Seattle PI columnist Joel Connelly, who died last week at the age of 78. Joel was a regular at our DL until a few years ago. He was a friendly and calming presence, and was always willing to share with us his wisdom and recollections from a lifetime in politics and media.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the back room starting about 8:00pm.

Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.

Comments

  1. The SLPC paid the KKK to stage hate crimes.

    U.S. Department of Justice
    @TheJusticeDept

    🚨HAPPENING NOW: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center (“SPLC”). Our indictment alleges SPLC secretly funneled MORE THAN $3 MILLION in funds to members of white supremacist and extremist groups.

    2:35 PM · Apr 21, 2026

    So the SLPC could claim continued relevance.

    Because claiming Ben Carson was an extremist did not work out so well.
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  2. Looking like VA’s gerrymandering referendum will narrowly pass. It’s failing by 4 points but the gap is quickly narrowing and most of the outstanding votes are blue.

  5. At present there is no Iranian leadership with which to negotiate. Anyone non-military has been arrested.

    So you libbies get to call DJT47 a chicken while he collapses the Iranian economy to get to the military. How fun for you!

  6. lying troll cult chud this morning:
    “Let the bombing recommence.”

    His cult leader’s response this evening:
    🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮

  8. 5,

    That’s a fuck ton of words to say
    “one Nacho Cheese Doritos® Locos Taco please!”

    Enjoy! And thank you for choosing Taco Bell.

  9. @1 According to DOJ’s indictment, SPLC at most collected information by paying informants, something law enforcement does all the time. If this is a crime,* they’ll have to prosecute a lot of cops and FBI agents. Of course, what this really is, is DOJ going to bat for the hate groups SPLC targets.

    * Buying information, as far as I know, isn’t a crime. If it is Facebook, Amazon, Google, and every other big tech company is going to jail. This indictment is nothing more than a PR stunt, and will be tossed when it gets to court. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

  10. @5 For a rudderless state they’re pretty effective at closing the strait. The reality is Iran began planning for decapitation strikes 20 years ago, and decentralized their military commands, so the U.S. is dealing with a hydra. Good luck trying to cut the heads off all those snakes.

  11. With passage of redistricting in VA here’s where the redistricting rubber hits the House majority road:

    VA-01 Safe D
    VA-02 Likely D
    VA-05 Safe D
    VA-06 Likely D

    These are all currently MAGA incumbent rated Lean R or better by Cook.

  12. For a rudderless state they’re doing a pretty good job of keeping the strait closed

    …and rapidly progressing to a nuclear weapon they can reach Israel or Diego Garcia with.

    All thanks to the Insane Failing Cult Leader.

  14. 7,

    OC representing Atlantic is going to absolutely drool for the opportunity to depose that clown and put his calendar and daily diary through discovery.

    Too bad their client duty obliges them to seek dismissal first.

    It’s already a matter of public record (filmed live) that he got drunk at the Olympics while traveling overseas at taxpayer expense “on official duty”.

  17. @5

    Al Jazeera English had it right this evening when they reported “the Iranians sent diplomats for administers and high-level government officials into the negotiations with the president’s son-in-law”

    I guess all those Iranians are dead just like the sunk ships that attacked tankers this weekend.

    I would be happy to lend you a shovel

  19. @ 15

    … risks running out of ammunition if more conflicts arise in the coming years, multiple sources told CNN …

    Well, then, I guess it’s a good thing that we’ve got that vaunted Military Industrial Complex.

    Oh, and helpless middle-income people in blue states to tax who thought they voted for taxes to be levied on someone else.

  20. Devin Cow fired tonight from fake company “Trump Media” after huge Russian crypto sell off.

  21. Tulsi is next. She’s been given until November. Not even an ambassadorship.

    Each of these fucks that gets tossed aside are also excluded from the mass pardon plan.

    It’s going to be fun watching her twist and crumble under interrogation.

  22. Insane to think that he would think that nobody would report his actions.

    People love to gossip. And morons like him have no business being in the position that he is, and not because he might not be the most capable or completely incapable, but because he had and has no respect for the job, his country (is he an anchor baby or are his parents immigrants?), or work ethic, and no morals.

    UnAmerican to sue. Pathetic little B.

    https://www.rawstory.com/kash-patel-figliuzzi/

  23. Lufthansa cancels 20,000 flights in the coming months without directly saying they’re running out of jet fuel.

    Donnie, you’re doing a heck of a job!

  24. It’s looking more and more like Putin has made a calculation that he’s got just about all he can out of MAGA.

  27. @22

    You should read the filing. It was totally written by ChatGPT. At no point does it attempt to explain how the report was made with knowledge it is false, and as an attempt to liable the subject. It basically just says “I’m the FBI head. You should trust me. I say it’s false. I want $250 million.”

  28. @23

    Bob says that ain’t so, and America has plenty!

    Stock Market is doing great, All be it it’s one big sham, manipulated by a moron, and his crony stock brokers, I mean they have to have an income for their drugs, right?

  29. @22 “UnAmerican to sue.”

    What are you talking about? Litigation is America’s favorite sport!

  30. @27

    Insane to think that he would think that nobody would report his actions

    Not to mention showing that behavior on National Television.

    😳😳

  32. 28,

    Most of the Insane Failing Cult Leader’s MAGA chuds aren’t in the market.

    Even the lying troll (assuming you can believe him) is not in equity, other than the old motels on Casino Road that he inherited.

  35. New district maps in both California and Virginia were widely approved by voters.

    Not so in Texas, where MAGA zombies in the state leg and the MAGA Governor shoved their new maps forcibly and violently down the throats of innocent voters without any consent.

    Figures.

  38. Hindsight is always 20/20. Maybe the Israeli military leadership should have listened to that all-women tank crew who noticed something fishy was occurring with the Palestinians. The leadership ignored the ladies’ report of suspicious activity, and the October 7th attack ensued, which has lead us to this current mess with Israel and, consequently, Iran.

    But maybe this was Netanyahu’s plan all along?

  41. Hunh . The documentary “leaving Neverland“ is scrubbed from HBO’s streaming service just in time for the new biopic that doesn’t mention the child sexual abuse scandal.

  42. Comey cancels hearings, and for all practical purposes disbands oversight committee because Americans want Bondi to answer for why she hid the Epstein files and why the new guy says he won’t release any Epstein files even though a congressional law requires him to do so.

    November 2024 will be about Epstein, gas prices, tariff refunds to corporations, Epstein, drunks in the White House, Epstein, exploding prices, Epstein, Epstein, Epstein…

    And Alzheimer’s.

    2027 is gonna be interesting what with the frog matches.

  43. Bob (who ever you are), did the Israelis knowingly ignore the indications of the October 7th attack as a way to attack Iran? Is Israel trying to make the US do the heavy lifting in Israel’s goal of a “Greater Israel?”

    Are the Israelis trying to be the big regional power in the Middle East? Has America been duped into supporting this aggression?

  44. More @1

    The theory of the case — that the SPLC defrauded donors by promising to “dismantle” hate groups while secretly paying informants inside said hate groups, a tactic that it has carried out for nearly half a century — is completely absurd.

    The theory ad absurdem is any undercover action is illegal because the target doesn’t know LE is an agent/Snitch/mole to act like a member.

    Good luck with the first judicial hearing DOJ.

  45. @44 They had to go to Alabama to find a grand jury dumb or racist enough to indict an anti-hate-group organization for paying informers.

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