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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Trevor: Big Pharma pays up for their part in the opioid crisis.

Samantha Bee: It’s time to cancel the Electoral College.

The Late Show: We’ve got your back-2-Congress supplies.

Bruce W. Nelson: A mangy fetlocks lullaby for tired adults.

Vox: The gun solution we’re not talking about.

Minute Physics: Protecting privacy with MATH.

The Dotard Трамп and Other Sharpies and Racist Dullards:

NY Times opinion: Why blaming video games for violence is wrong.

Samantha Bee: What’s up With Rudy Giuliani’s 9/11 tribute video?

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Hasan Minhaj testifies at student loans hearing.

Now This: New college student pep talk from Michelle Obama.

The Atlantic: How black Americans were robbed of their land.

Twenty-twenty Vision:

Roll Call: Congressional Hits and Misses.

Drunk History: The true story behind the legend of Billy the Kid.

Now This: Alarming map shows sea ice melting since 1984.

Jim Jefferies: Why we should all care about saving the tuna.

Robert Reich: The secret GOP plan to keep power.

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

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottle

It’s Tuesday. And that means the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets. Stop by, if you can, and join the conversation.

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!

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Trevor: Fires ravage the Amazon

WaPo: The boy Tucker has some issues with New York City and its mayor.

Jim Jefferies: Ancestry tests have a lot of issues.

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses, recess edition.

Full Frontal: Climate change.

The Dotard Трамп and Other Evil Meteorologists:

Daily Show: Obama’s Dijon burger—The worst scandal in presidential history!

Bill Maher: New Rule—The fudge report.

Jim Jefferies: The NFL’s serious brain damage problem.

Vox: The mysterious rays shooting at us from space.

Mark Fiore: The platitude primer.

Twenty-Twenty Vision:

Hasan MinhajThe Two Sides of Canada

Seth Meyers: Political monologue.

Jimmy Dore: Peter King defends cop who choked Eric Garner:

Vox: The chart that predicts recessions.

Daily Show: America endures another mass shooting.

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

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleThe 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!

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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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.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottlePlease 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!

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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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.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottlePlease 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!

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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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.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleIt’s a Tuesday in the dog days of summer. That means the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally will be gathering for an evening of post-primary politics over pints. Please join us!

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!

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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The New York Times: How Americans learned to love their front lawns.

Francesca Fiorentini: What’s scarier to racists than reparations?

Mark Fiore: Make the apocalypse great again!

The Dotard Трамп and Other Tools of The Russian Mafia:

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Vox: Why so many suburbs look the same

Gunz-n-Nazis-in-America and Putin’s Mitch:

Full Frontal: Spring breakers—Young voter edition featuring Allana Harkin

Jimmy Kimmel: The Dotard can’t even spell his own name

Bill Maher chats with Richard Engel.

Vox: All student debt in the US, visualized.

Twenty-Twenty Vision:

Wired: Why cities are banning facial recognition technology.

Robert Reich: The myth of the rugged individual.

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

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleIt’s election night in Washington state. So fill out your ballot, drop it off at the nearest ballot box, and then join us for an evening of electoral edification and political pontification at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

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. Show up a little earlier to catch the 8pm ballot drop.




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!

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Jim Jefferies: The TSA isn’t actually very good at stopping terrorism.

Now This: Even FAUX News is #MoscowMitch on his inaction against Russian interference.

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.

Chris Hayes: The Ronald Reagan tape.

Vox: Where Manhattan’s grid plan came from.

The Racist Slumlord Dotard Трамп and His Racist Enablers:

Full Frontal: Kentucky wants to break up with Mitch McConnell.

Lauren Meyer: #MoscowMitch & #LeningradLindsey:

Jenny Hagel on the Political Protests in Puerto Rico.

Robert Reich: The 5 biggest myths Republicans use to avoid raising the minimum wage

Twenty-Twenty Vision:

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Robert Reich: Where your tax dollars really go.

Wired: Scientist explains climate change using maps.

Ben Folds sings his new song “Moscow Mitch”:

Vox: Why the US has so many tornadoes.

Stephen: Rahm Emanuel—Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line

Ari Melber: Mitch McConnell earns “Moscow Mitch” moniker blocking security bills.

Seth Meyers: Jose Antonio Vargas explains what politicians get wrong about immigration

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

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleThe Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally meets tonight for drinks and political conversation. Tonight is the first night of Democratic Debate 2, so stop by and watch the debate.

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. The debate starts at 6pm, so show up early if you want to watch it.




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!

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Jim Jefferies: The American “work ethic” is completely stupid.

Joy Reid: Why is Mitch McConnell blocking bills to protect U.S. elections?

Samantha Bee: How to get away with widespread election interference…again!

Minute Earth: The bacteria that made life possible are now killing us.

Roll Calls: The week in Congressional hits and misses.

The New York Times: How walls ended up along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Dotard Трамп and His Band of Co-conspirators, Liars, Racists and Rapists:

The Atlantic: The death of the non-unanimous jury.

Stephen: John Oliver Describes Boris Johnson, England’s Very Own Трамп

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

CH: Alabama’s other abortion options:

Trevor: If you don’t know, now you know—Asian nations reject Western trash.

Stephen: Jon Stewart-backed 9/11 first responders bill finally passes the Senate.

Roll Call: I.C.E, C.B.P. and O.R.R. What’s the difference, explained.

Twenty-twenty Vision:

Now This: Tennessee community forms human chain to protect family from ICE arrest.

Wired: Scientists explain how moon mining works.

Daily Show: Student debt in the U.S. reaches an all-time high.

Full Frontal: The border can be fun!

Stephen interviews CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell.

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

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