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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Trevor: Conservatives slam Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s green new deal.

Jimmy Dore: Chris Christie “names names!” in new book.

Full Frontal: Black History Month—Rosa Parks.

Roy Zimmerman: Rise Up with the Girls’ Choir of Wilmington.

Vox: Why safe playgrounds aren’t great for kids.

Kurzgesagt: Loneliness.

The New Yorker: How gender politics play out on the red carpet.

The Dotard Трамп and Other National Emergencies:

Wendover: How Hong Kong changed countries.

Trevor: The opioid crisis—Трамп blames Mexico & big pharma blames addicts

John Oliver: Brexit III.

The Atlantic: Band-aids over bullet wounds.

Real Engineering: Designer babies—The problem with China’s CRISPR experiment.

Bill Maher: Geospatial inequality

Stephen: Obama takes in a basketball game.

WaPo: The modern anti-vaxxer movement explained.

Jim Jefferies: The fight for the right to be naked in Hawaii.

Daily Show: Jaboukie Young-White makes the case for climate change “preparations”

Campaign Venti-Venti

Mental Floss: 100 year-old words.

Roy Wood, Jr. Black contributions to music.

The Atlantic: America’s dopamine-fueled shopping addiction.

Vox: American segregation, mapped at day and night.

Jimmy Dore: Congressman Peter King elated over Ilhan Omar controversy.

Late Show: It’s not easy being the green new deal.

Vox: What the #$@!% are these?

Seth Meyers: The real national emergency is climate change

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

Open Thread?

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I am on vacation! While you suckers are toiling away at your bullshit job, I will be, um, on a train. Seriously Amtrak is great, but I am a bit nervous about going crazy being on a train for 22 hours. The most I have taken before is 13 hours. My itinerary is pretty full, but if there’s something I have to do in the Bay Area, let me know.

Open Thread!

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I don’t understand what makes me mad on public transportation. I was in the bus tunnel* and there was a metal grate loose. Some teenager was standing on and off it and making noise. It should have annoyed me but I didn’t notice it until someone started yelling at him. And I was much more upset with yelling guy than clanging guy. I would have thought that I would be equally, or nearly equally, upset with both. I had to stifle a laugh when clanging guy started clanging again with yelling guy walking away.

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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleThe Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight for an evening of politics over a drink. Please stop by.

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




Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 264 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, eight in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or start a new chapter for your community!

Oh, Pen Thread.

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Are you doing OK in the national emergency? Did the fact that Congress only appropriated some wall money stop you from living your life? In some ways it feels like it was before the emergency, but that can’t be right.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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WaPo: Brexit explained for confused Americans.

Trevor: A year after the Parkland shooting, the fight for sensible gun control continues

Samantha Bee: Thicc, not sick.

Late Show: NYC returns its Amazon purchase.

SNL: Meet The Press

Minute Earth: Why earthquakes are so hard to predict

Roll Call: The week in Congressional hits and misses.

Trevor: 21 Savage gets arrested for overstaying his visa.

Vox: The 70% top tax rate, explained with potatoes.

The Dotard Трамп and Other National Emergencies:

The Daily Show: The Green New Deal

Stephen with John Oliver: Brexit and whatnot.

WaPo: What’s the deal with the Green New Deal?.

Bill Maher chats with Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Stephen: Jeff Bezos invents a new euphemism for penis

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

BuzzFeed: I want you to stop being oily.

Seth Meyers with Stacey Abrams: Voter fraud is a myth.

Stephen: Russia is attempting to hack our brains.

Yes, Virginia, There is a Racism:

Robert Reich: Inequality of place.

Stephen: Bill & Melinda Gates talk taxing the wealthy.

Full Frontal: Valentines for billionaires

SNL: Black history month presentation.

Bill Maher: New Rule—You can’t always get what you want:

Samantha Bee: Green new deal

Trevor: Kamala Harris wants to legalize weed and Amy Klobuchar’s temper is questioned.

WaPo: A play-by-play of Kamala Harris admitting she smoked weed.

Roy Wood, Jr.: CP Time—The history of civil rights marches

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

Admitted Liar, Tim Eyman, is Accused of Shoplifting

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Tim “Biggest lie of my life” Eyman has been accused of shoplifting. It appears he stole a chair, valued at $70, from an Office Depot in Lacey. Have a look for yourself:

Via KOMO News:

When [officers] responded, one of the employees told officers he had noticed an office chair near the entrance was missing, checked surveillance video and saw a man wearing a shirt with the words “Let the voter decide” emblazoned across the front, the police report said.

Surveillance video from the store showed Eyman walking from a service desk where one employee said he was helping him sort out an issue with his printer, the police report said. Eyman then can be seen walking into the foyer, sitting on a displayed office chair, spinning in it and wheeling it out the front door.
The employee said he did not pay for the chair.

Eyman then walked back into the store to exchange a printer for two other ones. An employee helped him out to his vehicle but was stopped just short of it and told by Eyman, “I’ve got it from here,” the report said.

The officers investigating the theft have “forwarded a recommended charge of third-degree theft to the City Attorney.”

Of course, Eyman owes the State a boatload of money after being held in contempt of court following his refusal to turn over court-ordered documents. He is also being sued by WA AG Bob Ferguson for pilfering and misusing initiative campaign funds.

The lawsuit and fines have, apparently, led to a divorce, and to Eyman declaring bankruptcy late last year.

So…I suppose he was just trying to furnish his new bachelor pad?

The list of shading behaviors that Tim Eyman has been accused of and, in some cases, has confessed to is long: lying and stealing donor’s money for his own personal gain, campaign finance violations, misappropriating campaign money, and contempt of court.

Alas, it appears we can add shoplifter to the list.

It’s like the guy is building his resume for a 2024 GOP Presidential nomination.

February 15 Open Thread

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It’s pretty awful that we’re going to have a declaration of a national emergency over nothing. And it’s so obviously an impeachable act, but add it to the list of things that he won’t be impeached for.

Open Thread

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You would think that if I was snowed in that I would at least be able to stay on top of Open Threads. But since I often write them on my commute, I guess not. Anyway, Seattle passed its levies, so yay.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleThe Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally will meet tonight, despite the snow, the sleet, the cold. We will not be denied our weekly forum for engaging in civic discourse, debating political philosophy and examining the democratic ideals bequeathed to us by the Founding Fathers. Some of us just need a drink.

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




Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 264 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, eight 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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Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Roll Call: The evolution of the SOTU.

Minute Physics: Shells of cosmic time.

Amazon Pecker Pix:

Bill Maher: New Rule—The Republicans are the problem:

Jonathan Mann: Billionaires are bad.

Trevor: Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN-5)—Getting down to business with the congressional freshman class.

The Dotard Трамп And Other Co-conspirators:

Real Engineering: Why SpaceX built a stainless steel starship.

Roy Wood, Jr.: The State of Black Shit

Bill Maher: The state of our union

Mental Floss: 19 common things science hasn’t figured out.

Trevor: About Liam Neeson’s racist confession.

Election Vente-Vente

Vox: America’s cocaine habit fueled its migrant crisis.

Samantha Bee: Real Black history (abridged)

Amber Ruffin’s drunk history: The Little Rock nine take on segregation in schools.

Kurzgesagt: Building a Marsbase is a horrible idea—Let’s do it!

The Atlantic: How should Americans tackle anti-Semitism?

Troubles in Old Dominion:

Daily Show: Worst scandals in Presidential history—Obama’s Jacketgate.

Wendover: Living underwater—How submarines work.

Jonathan Mann: Ban billionaires.

Roll Call: The week in Congressional hits and misses.

Jim Jefferies has some words for the NFL.

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

Snopen Thread!

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Everyone stay safe. Check your bus to make sure that it isn’t a snow route now. Give yourself extra time to get places. And give a thought for the people who have to work in this mess.

Op’n T’d

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Finally, we’re going to get to the most important post imaginable! Why are people yanking the stop cord on the bus when it has already been pulled? I get if you’re absent minded or something, but then when it doesn’t make a sound, instead of looking up to see the lights show a stop has been requested, just pulling the cord more and more aggressively. Maybe it’s just new bus riders in the cold snap.

“State of the Union” Open Thread

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6:05: Here we go!

6:06: Prepare for an onslaught of lies, lies, lies, lieslies.

6:07: There is a small crowd here at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern for Drinking Liberally.

6:08: Why is Melanie wearing pajamas.

6:10: He has said absolutely nothing so far.

6:11: Wait…”The Great Crusade” wasn’t the liberation of Europe! He is basically feeding his base with anti-Islamic dog whistles.

6:19: The economy is good. That’s because Trump inherited the Obama recovery, and he hasn’t totally fucked it up. Yet.

6:22: What companies have come back to the U.S. as a result of the G.O.P. tax scam?

6:23: The U.S. is a net exporter of energy. But that was achieved under Obama. “Thanks Obama!”

6:29: I hate these fucking anecdotes. For every Alice there is a Joe Arpaio, so fuck off, Drumpf.

6:32: Here comes the bullshit “dangerous southern border” part of the speech.

6:33: “Caravans of refugees are coming!!!!!11!1!!1!” When, exactly, did Republicans become such fucking cowards?

6:37: Human traffickers, MS 13, and caravans, OH MY!

6:42: Let’s see…Drumpf says 300 girls rescued from 1000 pimps!?! That is a very large pimp to girl ratio!

6:45: Drumpf describes his wonderful “barrier”. Did he get some funding from Mexico yet?

6:46: “Walls work and walls save lives”. That should convince the Mexicans.

6:48: “More women serving in Congress than anytime before.” Drumpf does get sine credit for that, but not how he thinks!

6:50: “First ever program focusing on economic empowerment for women in developing countries.” Bullshit. Obama and Clinton had such programs. Hell, Shrub probably did as well.

6:52: USMCS is pretty much a slightly modernized NAFTA.

6:56: Drumpf declares a war on “global freeloading”.

7:01: Drumpf is all about paid family leave. We’ll see how long that lasts.

7:06: Yay for more nuclear weapons! “Mush Room Cloud! Mush Room Cloud!”

7:16: Drumpf says “radical regime of Iran” as if he is trying to convince people (and himself) it is true.

7:23: The State of Our Union is 75 years ago.

7:29: Drumpf gives a stirring speech asking us to chose greatness. Tomorrow he will Tweet something about “Cryin’ Chuck”.

7:40: Ummm…happy lunar new year?

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