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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Electile Dysfunction 2024:

John Oliver: TikTok ban

Cult of The Felon Von Shitzenpantz:

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

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

Wednesday Open Thread

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Good morning. I hope you survived the storm. Not too bad on the urban core of Seattle, but your mileage may vary. Anyway, here are some links.

– Still reading these essays in Assigned Media, but goddam. Any trans people reading this, I am glad you’re around.

– Seattle’s budget is yuck.

– Home Depot Unveils 12-Foot Turkey Carcass Skeleton

– Spokane looks to be doing good transportation planning.

– It’s good to have a police accountability agency, but it sure would be great if they did some police accountability.

– Still in need of a proper sign off, but it’s probably still a good idea to wash your hands.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleJoin us tonight as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets for a pre-bomb cyclone drink, with festivities and discussions about all things politics. Please stop by if you can.

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 of the pub. We start at 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.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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The Onion: Scientist explains how climate crisis would be averted if Greta Thunberg just tried a little harder

Electile Dysfunction 2024:

The Onion: Expert explains why, essentially, you’re fucked

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

Friday!

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– I suspect that it will be a theme of these open threads, but it’s tough to know how much Washington should do on its own and how much should be deducted to opposing awful things from the Federal government.

– Info Wars is good now. What a world.

– Algorithms have been pretty bad for the Internet.

– I have mentioned it before, but if you’re new to BlueSky and inexplicably looking for me, there you are. Darryl and Goldy are also there.

Wednesday Open Thread

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Between the election and Veterans Day, I haven’t posted one of these in a while and frankly, I have too many tabs open.

– The attacks on transgender people are not just a metaphor.

– Downtown Spokane is doing better than the naysayers suggest.

– I somehow got into my head that the new station on the 1 Line was already called 130th, but apparently there are 4 finalists.

– More and more people are taking the G Line.

– Welcome to the high minimum wage club, Everett.

– Seattle looking into using a King County facility in ways the county isn’t going to do?

– Also, Washington has shut down the vaccine locator. You should still get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible, but it’s no longer a struggle to figure out where to find a vaccine. So do I need a new closing?

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleThe Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight for both celebrating electoral success in Washington state and lamenting losses nationally. Please stop by if you can.

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 of the pub. We start at 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.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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LegalEagle: How to kill the Electoral College

Electile Dysfunction 2024:

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Trevor Noah: We treated President Biden like SHIT!

Cult of The Felon Von Shitzenpantz:

Grace Kuhlenschmidt: Non-voters teach her how to not give a fuck about politics

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

Friday Open Thread

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Dear Bob Ferguson,

Congratulations on your victory this week. I am writing to ask you to stand up to Donald Trump in his second term. I appreciate the way you did that as Attorney General, but I fear the pressure will be different as governor. There will be pressure and potentially a lot of money from the Federal government. And those resources could be used to build a better Washington. I am also worried that you didn’t do much to deal with the sort of problems that made Donald Trump more attractive when you were on the King County Council. I don’t know where this is going, except to say don’t give in and don’t make the not giving in the only thing you do.

XOXO

Carl Ballard

(I sent this to the AG’s contact page, not sure if there’s a transition office or something like that)

Wednesday Open Thread

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Weeeeeeeeeell fuck.

Good things in Washington for sure. A Democrat in every statewide office. I think the legislature will be able to keep making progress. Shaun Scott and Alexis Mercedes Rinck are going to help define who the Democrats are for the good, compared to their opponents.

Fuck man, fuck.

The initiatives are going to fail, so we can use that momentum. And maybe we don’t get a new Tim Eyman. Go waste your money somewhere else.

Jesus Christ on the Cross, man. Fuck. Fuck.

There will be a lot of opportunities going forward in the state to lobby to protest to write your legislators and city council members. There is also opportunity to push back against some of the horrors coming from the Federal government.

Fuck.

Election Day Open Thread

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Big day today. There seems to be no relief or escape from this freaking election. So distract yourself with some more election-related stuff….

  • Stephen Colbert and John Oliver: Seems like something J.D. Vance might have done….
  • Kat Abu: How rigged Polymarket odds could be used to steal this election for The Dotard
  • Jabari Jones: AI Трамп—Scammed!
  • Seth Meyers: Трамп simulates oral sex on microphone ahead of 2024 election
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Take Down Your Trump Sign (Don’t Let People See You Backed a Loser) ♬
  • Steve Shives: Wake up, it’s ELECTION DAY!
  • Elle Cordova: ♫ The Ballad of the Ballot ♬:

  • Stephen: Gov. Tim Walz on hot dish, MAGA knuckleheads, guilty pleasures, and car repair metaphors
  • J-L Cauvin: The Dotard reacts to Kamala Harris on SNL
  • Steve Kornacki: When to expect election results
  • Jabari Jones: AI Трамп—America, life or death
  • The Late Show: Suddenly Iowa is the center of the political universe
  • Ross Childs: ♫ Ladies are VOTING?!??!?!?!!?!? ♬
  • Roy Zimmerman: ♫ Vote Him Away 2024 ♬:

  • The New York Times: The (WA) County that got every President right (since 1980)
  • Steve Shives: The Republican closing argument
  • John Oliver: ♫ Election 2024 ♬
  • Grace Kuhlenschmidt: Should we trust election prognosticators?
  • SNL: 2024 pre-election

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