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Tonight on “The David Goldstein Show”, 7PM to 10PM on Newsradio 710-KIRO:

7PM: Should pharmacists be required to, um, you know… do their job?
New state rules went into effect this week requiring pharmacies to fill valid prescriptions, and several pharmacists immediately sued, claiming dispensing some forms of birth control would violate their religious beliefs. NARAL/Pro-Choice Washington Executive Direct Karen Cooper joins me for the hour to discuss this and other threats to women’s reproductive rights.

8PM: Should felons have the right to vote?
The state Supreme Court this week upheld WA’s felon voter laws, some of the most restrictive in the nation. Aaron Kaplan from the ACLU and Assistant Secretary of State Nick Handy join me to discuss what impact of laws that have permanently disenfranchised over 160,000 Washingtonians and one-quarter of the state’s African American men.

9PM: TBA

Tune in tonight (or listen to the live stream) and give me a call: 1-877-710-KIRO (5476).

PROGRAMMING NOTE:
I’ll be filling in for Frank Shiers this week, Monday through Friday, 9PM to 1AM. Join me Monday at 9PM when Brian Robinson from Save Our Sonics, and Chris Van Dyk from Citizens for More Important Things join me to discuss their strange new alliance.

Tonight on “The David Goldstein Show”, 7PM to 10PM on Newsradio 710-KIRO:

7PM: Are you afraid?
The headlines keep screaming about “massive car bombs” in London and Glasgow, but fifty gallons of gas, a propane tank and some nails is no Oklahoma City. Are you willing to give up your civil liberties and commit to “The Long War” to battle threats like this? Is the greatest economic, political and military power in the history of the world really threatened by attacks such as these?

8PM: Is the Clinton Obama nomination inevitable?
Hilary Clinton was long assumed the inevitable Democratic candidate for President, but the second quarter fundraising results suggest it won’t be quite that easy. While Clinton estimates about $27 million raised for the previous quarter, Barack Obama will raise a record $32 million, for a total of $56 million from an astounding 256,000 contributors over the past six months. Is President Obama inevitable?

9PM: Do we have the Will to fix our transportation problems?
Fellow HA blogger Will Kelley-Kamp joins me in the studio to share some unconventional wisdom on the upcoming Sound Transit II/RTID proposal. Are we willing to tax ourselves to build 50 new miles of light rail? And will our grandchildren forgive us if we don’t?

Tune in tonight (or listen to the live stream) and give me a call: 1-877-710-KIRO (5476).

Tonight on “The David Goldstein Show”, 7PM to 10PM on Newsradio 710-KIRO:

7PM: The Stranger Hour with Erica C. Barnett
The Stranger’s Erica C. Barnett joins me for a recap of the week’s local news, and a preview of what’s coming up in the week ahead. (That’s right, ECB can predict the future!) Josh Feit may also join us to give Postman his take on why reporting matters.

8PM: How did Cary carry the day?
When Cary Moon of the People’s Waterfront Coalition first proposed replacing the aging Alaska Way Viaduct with a surface boulevard, the powers that be said she was crazy. Three years later, the “surface plus transit” option is emerging as the consensus solution. Cary joins us for the hour to talk transportation and urban planning, and to explain how she moved her idea from crazy to consensus. It’s a textbook lesson in effective activism.

9PM: Who is Freewayblogger?
Over the past four years Freewayblogger has put over 4,000 anti-war signs along the roads of California and other western states. His travels bring him to Seattle this weekend, and he joins me in the studio to talk about his unusual odyssey. We’ll also be joined by HA co-blogger and Hominid Views proprietor Darryl. But I’m not sure we’ll let him speak.

Tune in tonight (or listen to the live stream) and give me a call: 1-877-710-KIRO (5476).

Tonight on “The David Goldstein Show”, 7PM to 10PM on Newsradio 710-KIRO:

7PM: “The Stranger Hour” with Erica Barnett
We’re kicking off a new feature, in which a writer from The Stranger joins me for the hour to recap the week’s local news, and give a preview of what’s coming up in the next issue. Erica Barnett is my first victim, and topics will include the Sound Transit II and Regional Transportation Improvement District (RTID) plans that have just been finalized, as well as a discussion of Seattle’s controversial nightlife ordinance.

8PM: Do you believe in Obama?
4000 “Obamans” paid $25 to $100 a head, and crowded the WAMU Theater last night to witness presidential Barack Obama “make history.” Or at least, that’s what many in the crowd thought Obama was making. I’ll play clips from the rally, give my own assessment of the candidate and his supporters, then take your calls on what you want in the next president… and what you think you’ll get. It’s an on-air straw poll.

9PM: Questions over choice.
Congresswoman Cathy McMorris announced this week that her 1-month old son has been diagnosed with Down Syndrome. At 38-years-old, McMorris would have surely been advised by her doctors to screen for genetic abnormalities via amniocentesis. One can only assume that her religious convictions led her to decline. Would you abort a Down Syndrome fetus? McMorris made her choice — shouldn’t other women be allowed to make theirs?

Tune in tonight (or listen to the live stream) and give me a call: 1-877-710-KIRO (5476).

PROGRAMMING NOTE:
Tune in tomorrow when I’ll be joined by Seattle Port Commissioner Alec Fisken, and Sasha Abramsky, author of American Furies: Crime, Punishment and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment

Tonight on “The David Goldstein Show”, 7PM to 10PM on Newsradio 710-KIRO:

7PM: Are the Sonics making a “good faith effort” to keep the team in Seattle?
The Seattle Times’ Danny Westneat chronicled today the changing moods of two Sonics bloggers, who have gone from working with Clay Bennett’s ownership group to secure arena financing to criticizing his efforts as “a complete and 100 percent zero.” Blogger Brian Robinson of SonicsCentral.com joins me in the studio to discuss the state of the Sonics. Is Bennett making an honest effort to keep the team in Seattle? Westneat doesn’t seem to think so.

8PM: Do you believe?
According to a new Gallup Poll, nearly one in three Americans believe the Bible is the literal word of God. Um… I’m betting nowhere near one in three Americans have actually read the Bible cover to cover. Meanwhile, tomorrow marks the grand opening of the Creation Museum in Peterburg KY, which argues that the Earth is 6,000 years old, and I suppose that the dinosaurs didn’t fit on Noah’s Ark. Even if you’re a person of faith, is this something we should be proud of, that so many Americans reject science?

9PM: TBA?
And update on the food safety crisis, plus other issues of the day.

Tune in tonight (or listen to the live stream) and give me a call: 1-877-710-KIRO (5476).

Tonight on “The David Goldstein Show”, 7PM to 10PM on Newsradio 710-KIRO:

7PM: And I suppose that means The Stranger isn’t part of our media elite?
What does our local media elite’s chumminess with our local business elite have to do with a $100,000 no-bid contract issued by Safeco Field? The Stranger’s reclusive Josh Feit comes into the studio to explain all.

8PM: TBA

9PM: What’s up with Oregon?
TJ from Loaded Orygun joins me for our monthly rundown of what’s happening South of the border.

Tune in tonight (or listen to the live stream) and give me a call: 1-877-710-KIRO (5476).

The Food and Drug Administration doesn’t keep epidemiological data on dog and cat illnesses and deaths… but the nationwide veterinary chain Banfield does. And according to an extrapolation of data from its 615 veterinary hospitals Banfield estimates that as many as 39,000 cats and dogs may have been sickened or killed by contaminated pet food.

The hospital chain saw 1 million dogs and cats during the three months when the more than 100 brands of now-recalled contaminated pet food were sold. It saw 284 extra cases of kidney failure among cats during that period, or a roughly 30 percent increase, when compared with background rates.

“It has meaning, when you see a peak like that. We see so many pets here, and it coincided with the recall period,” said veterinarian Hugh Lewis, who oversees the mining of Banfield’s database to do clinical studies.

There are an estimated 60 million dogs and 70 million cats nationwide.

In other news, one person has died and more than three hundred have fallen ill in two separate incidents in China, after eating porridge suspected of containing rat poison. According to Wikipedia:

[…] canned and jarred gluten is commonly eaten as an accompaniment to congee (boiled rice porridge) as part of a traditional Chinese breakfast.

Hmm.

I’m filling in again for Frank Shiers this week, Weds thru Fri, 9PM to 1AM on Newsradio 710-KIRO.

9PM: Should ex-felons have the right to vote?
Florida of all places just enacted legislation that quickly restores voting and other civil rights to convicted felons after they’ve finished serving their sentence, but a similar bill in the Democratic-controlled Washington Legislature (SB 5530) remains stuck in committee. But no less an authority than the American Correctional Association says that our current felon disenfranchisement laws “serve no correctional purpose – and may actually contribute to recidivism.” Jennifer Shaw from the ACLU of Washington joins me for the hour.

10PM: Do you remember Seattle?
Local writer Clark Humphrey joins me for the hour to talk about his book Vanishing Seattle, which explores a city where timber and fish were more lucrative than airplanes and computers, a place of kitschy architecture and homespun humor, a place bounding with hope for a brighter future (as seen at the 1962 World’s Fair). What do you miss (or not miss) from your vanishing Seattle? Call in and give me, a relative newcomer, a well needed history lesson.

Plus an update on the expanded pet food recall, some good old fashioned Ann Coulter bashing, and more fascinating conversation! Tune in tonight (or listen to the live stream) and give me a call: 1-877-710-KIRO (5476).

Coming up: My favorite Republican, Gen. JC Christian of the blog Jesus’ General joins me Friday at 11PM to give us his peculiar insight into the minds of the extreme far-right.

It may be Christmas Eve, but it sure as hell won’t be a silent night on “The David Goldstein Show” from 7PM to 10PM tonight on Newsradio 710-KIRO. I don’t have any scheduled guests at the moment, but I’ve got a number of topics I’m just itching to discuss, including:

• Is it time for a state income tax? Republicans complain that Gov. Gregoire’s new budget will result in budget deficits several years out, but our sales tax heavy tax system would produce long term deficits even if we freeze the size of state government. At what point do we face reality and either reform our tax structure (the most regressive in the nation) or just simply accept our destiny as the Alabama of the West?

• Is this a Christian nation, or just a nation of Christians? And either way, why do so many politically prominent Christians feel so comfortable getting so damn pissy about it? Locally, mega-church preacher and Republican activist Pastor Joe Fuiten describes Jews as a bunch of money-grubbing merchants who should thank Jesus for their yuletide profits… and barely anybody bats an eye. Nationally, Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) warns that if we don’t reform immigration “there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office.” Heaven forfend.

• Who’s afraid of the big bad Rossi? For two years now we’ve been hearing from the WA GOP about how they’re going to get revenge for the 2004 gubernatorial election, which they claim was stolen, but which actually turned out to be an excruciatingly close tie that broke just barely for Gregoire, in turn breaking the hearts of Republicans who came oh-so-close. First it was Ron Sims who was supposed to pay the piper, and I-912 was supposed to be a shot across the bow. Then Mike McGavick was supposed to benefit from a statewide backlash. (Yeah. How’d that work out for you?) And now a new poll shows Gregoire besting Rossi 51 percent to 40 percent. Ouch. So, is Dino Rossi a one hit wonder, or the next governor of Washington?

• An inhabited island off the coast of India has disappeared beneath rising sea levels. Oops.

Tune in tonight (or listen to the live stream) and give me a call: 1-877-710-KIRO (5476).

PROGRAMMING NOTE:
I’ll be filling in for Dave Ross and Ron Reagan all week, from 9AM to 1PM.

Sometime last year Darcy Burner and I had a conversation about what role the netroots might play in the upcoming election, and I told her what I told all candidates: don’t expect us to raise much money. In fact, I was so convinced that the local netroots were not yet developed enough to function as an effective fundraising tool that I only created HA’s Act Blue page as an afterthought, sometime near the end of March. I thought maybe we might manage to raise a couple thousand dollars.

Man was I wrong.

In a little more than seven months, 361 HA readers have now contributed a total of $30,090.39 to Darcy Burner and Peter Goldmark… over $4,600 coming during the last 24 hours. Wow.

Your incredible generosity has already accomplished two very important goals. Your contributions helped demonstrate the grassroots support that brought big donors and the DCCC into these campaigns. Without you, these races never would have become competitive.

And… your contributions have also helped demonstrate the growing power and efficacy of the netroots. If we were a PAC, our $30,000 would have made us one of the largest grassroots PACs in the state. This is the kind of money that forces politicians to take notice.

HA’s fundraising is even more amazing when you put it in perspective. Over the past seven months HA’s daily readership has averaged about 2,500 unique visits a day. (It’s now up to about 3,300.) That means on average, about one in every seven HA readers has contributed via our Act Blue page. Even more impressive, we’ve raised about $12 for every reader — that’s about four to five times the dollar-per-reader ratio of high profile sites like Daily Kos. Astounding.

So I want to thank all of you for your generosity and trust. When I first started pitching for Darcy and Peter, you had no assurances that either would make their race competitive. I promised you that you wouldn’t be throwing your money away, and you trusted me with your hard-earned cash. So again, thank you.

That’s it. I won’t be asking you for any more money this election cycle. But if you still want to contribute to Darcy and Peter they could definitely use your time. Personally, I plan to contribute a few hours via MoveOn’s innovative Call For Change program. Just sign up online and MoveOn will give you a script and some phone numbers to call.

Both races are going to be awfully close. Whoever turns out the most voters wins. Let’s do whatever we can over the next 10 days to make sure that the winners are Darcy and Peter.

Really… can any of our state’s newspapers be trusted to report objectively on I-920, the initiative to repeal WA’s estate tax, now that it has been revealed that our state’s newspaper industry is one of the primary movers and shakers behind the campaign?

Recently it was revealed that the Columbian, the Skagit Valley Herald and the Ellensburg Record had all made substantial financial contributions to the Yes campaign, and todays latest PDC filings show a $25,000 contribution from the Wenatchee World. And despite the fact that Seattle Times publisher Frank Blethen made a show of swearing off a financial role, it was recently revealed that Jill Mackie, the Times‘ VP of External Affairs, and Blethen’s full-time lobbyist for estate tax repeal, has been making in-kind contributions to the campaign.

A lot of questions remain to be asked, and our state’s reporters simply aren’t asking them. Would you want to ask these questions if you knew the guy who signs your paycheck is so heavily invested in this issue?

I’m gonna wing it a bit tonight on the “The David Goldstein Show”– Newsradio 710-KIRO, from 7PM to 10PM — fewer guests, more time for callers. So, um… please call in.

7PM: Civility in politics? Is that a good thing? Is it even possible? We’re going to talk about Councilman Reagan Dunn’s latest partisan attacks on King County Records and Elections, and GOP Senate hopeful Mike McGavick’s call for a new civility in the other Washington. I’ll try to be civil about it… but I doubt I’ll succeed.

8PM: Is the New York Times guilty of treason, or is the Bush administration just looking for an excuse to crack down on the press?

9PM: Seattle Developer Martin Selig just spent $630,000 to lie an estate tax repeal initiative onto the ballot. But believe it or not, when it comes to misleading, destructive, special-interest-funded initiatives, things may actually be worse in Oregon. Carla and Torrid from Loaded Orygun join me on The Blogger Hour to discuss what’s gone wrong with the initiative process south of our border, and what that portends for Washington state.

Tune in tonight and give me a call: 1-877-710-KIRO (5476).

One of the reasons political consultants favor negative attack ads, is that they generally work. It’s a lot easier driving up your opponent’s negatives than it is driving up your own candidate’s positives. And requires a lot less smarts and creativity too.

Another reason is that it is so damn lucrative.

Take, for example, last month’s unprecedented $1.5 million smear campaign attacking Democratic attorney general candidate Deborah Senn… (almost) secretly financed by the US Chamber of Commerce. According to PDC reports, longtime GOP consultant Bruce Boram’s firm, Catalyst Consulting, was paid at least $20,000 for his efforts managing the campaign.

And what were his efforts? He didn’t actually write the ads, or book the airtime. No, he made a few phone calls, contracted out the real work, and pocketed an Eyman-like $10,000-a-month fee.

Wow. $10,000 a month to throw mud at Senn. That must be a full-time job, right? You know, like the $3,641 a month Boram also earns as Executive Director of United for Washington. Or the $4000 a month Boram was earning as chief political consultant and spokesman for GOP 8th district congressional candidate Dave Reichert.

(Speaking of Reichert, while he did fire Boram after the controversy broke, he’s still employing Boram coconspirator and United for Washington Associate Director Valerie Huntsberry. You still have some housecleaning to do, Dave.)

Nasty work, but nice pay if you can get it. Hell, for $20,000, even I would be tempted to run a smear campaign against Senn… and I voted for her.

Loose ethics and even looser money leads to dirty politics.

So much to blog… so little time. But first…

The Lie of the Week.

In an email to supporters and the media this evening, titled “Fundraising is up for two property tax reduction initiatives,” Tim Eyman continues his math-challenged ways by claiming I-892 has “reached $300,000, with an additional $90,000 brought in during the the month of May.”

That struck me as a little odd, considering I-892 ended April with over $235,000 in contributions, and $235,000 + $90,000 equals… uh… wait, there’s something wrong with my calculator.

Or maybe… Tim is lying?

Considering that just yesterday he refused to concede to Dori Monson that $400 million times 1% equals $4 million (not the $12 million he’s been claiming,) I thought I’d check out his C4 form and get to the heart of this. Sure enough, line 4 shows contributions of $89,775.

What Tim doesn’t tell you is that $25,000 of that was due to a double entry corrected two lines later on line 6. Subtract an additional $7,300 of “in kind” contributions, and what you get is roughly $57,000 in contributions, down signficantly from April’s $75,000 haul.

There can be only two explanations for Tim’s numbers games. Either he is incredibly dishonest (I believe I may have posited this thesis once or twice before.) Or he really doesn’t understand his own initiatives, he really doesn’t understand his own finances, and he really doesn’t understand basic math. In which case, he is just incredibly, well… stupid.

Anyway, the Lie of the Week notwithstanding, the big news about I-892 is that an initiative campaign that should have drawn easy money from an industry that stands to earn billions from its passage, is turning out to be a nail biter.

With his $3100 a week salary, his usual poor money management, and his seemingly inexplicable decision to add an extra layer of profiteering to his signature gathering costs by contracting through Roy Ruffino (I have my theories about this charade,) Eyman’s campaign has quite a bit of overhead.

The street price for I-892 is currently $0.75 per signature, which after being marked up twice, can’t possibly be costing him much less than $2 each, possibly more. He needs 200,000 valid signatures, which means he’d be nuts to turn in fewer than 220,000. I just can’t see how he brings this one home for less than $500,000, and even that would be cutting it close.

Of course, the gambling industry could easily pony up $200,000 in the final weeks of the campaign, but he still has over $100,000 in the bank, which tells me he hasn’t bought a lot of signatures to date, so I’m wondering if he might run out time before he runs out of money.

I-864 Death Watch

If I-864 is still alive, it’s barely twitching. Tim raised less than $40,000 in May, bringing him to a grand total of $218,000. That might seem like a lot of money, if he didn’t spend it like a drunken sailor (you know, booze, hookers, tattoos, pointless direct mail campaigns… stuff like that.)

On the most important expenditure, paid signature gathering, he’s only spent $40,000 total thus far, with a paltry $10,000 left in the bank. Signatures have got to be costing him at least $1.00 each… maybe a $1.50. So let’s say he has 40,000 signatures there.

The bulk of his funds have been spent on sending out petitions in three large direct mail pieces, which also double as his primary source of fundraising. Let’s just say, if getting signatures was as easy as renting a mailing list and sending out a bunch of petitions, I could get an initiative legalizing crack cocaine on the ballot with $150,000 and a catchy PAC name (Let’s Get Washington Cracking!) But let’s be gracious and give Eyman another 40,000 in volunteer signatures there.

That’s well short of the 200,000 he needs to qualify for the ballot, not even counting the 20% extra you want to shoot for to make up for disqualified signatures.

Tim has been taunting us for months in his emails by ending his fundraising appeals:

Don’t ever forget this quote from a critic: “We all know that if he raises $400,000, then it’s on the ballot.”

The quote was attributed to Steve Zemke, but I said it too, and it was based on the assumption that he would spend most of the money on paid signature gatherers, not junk mail.

In any case, he’s barely halfway there, and rather than pulling in $200,000 in the final month of the campaign, I’m going out on a limb here and predicting he raises about a tenth that.

If wishes were court decisions…

Before the PDC reports came in, I was going to blog on a Seattle Times editorial demanding the State Supreme Court to overturn Governor Locke’s veto of the “top two” primary, on the sound legal basis that the Seattle Times editorial board doesn’t like the veto. [Justices should rule for people’s primary]

This was reminiscent of a Times editorial last year saying the court should halt my horse’s ass initiative because they didn’t like being forced to print the word ass in a “family newspaper” … as if I was holding a fucking gun to their head.

(Note the intentionally ironic use of profanity.)

Now, I’m no lawyer (much to my mother’s chagrin,) but I’m pretty sure the Supreme Court is supposed to decide these things based on the law, not policy. A thesis I would delve into in more detail… if the P-I hadn’t already done so in an editorial. Which would have been a very timely commentary if not for the fact that it was printed after the court handed down a decision upholding the veto.

And finally… Collin Levey has stopped returning my emails

Wall Street Journal Seattle Times editorial columnist Collin Levey took a break from her usual grueling research to wax poetic on her fond memories of Ronald Reagan:

As somebody who was 5 when Reagan took office, I belong to a generation that already has to make an effort to recall the despair and pessimism that preceded him.

Hmmm. Considering she was only 5 when Reagan took office, I can only assume that the despair and pessimism she recalls has something to do with potty training.

Unless, of course, these recollections aren’t really hers, but rather those of, say… Wall Street Journal columnist Allan Murray!

Speaking of which… last week she attacked Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” as a “dishonest infomercial,” without actually having seen the film, a characterization she based on a pair of columns by Mr. Murray that supposedly refuted Mr. Moore’s claim that Saudi’s had been allowed to fly out of the country, through restricted airspace, in the days following the attack.

Well, today’s St. Petersburg Times reports that is exactly what happened. [TIA now verifies flight of Saudis]

I’m sure she’ll issue a correction in her next column.

More Perfect Union: Big Pharma’s 20-year War On America EXPLAINED

Robert Reich: No Labels isn’t what it claims to be

Desus Nice: Why are taxpayers paying for stadiums?

Commentary and Comedy Covering The Chaos Club:

• Jimmy Kimmel: Republicans groveling for Трамп, The Dotard storms out of court & GOP swipes WAY RIGHT for Speaker
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Republicans IDENTIFY as Brave ♬
• Stephen: Трамп torpedoes Tom Emmer’s Speaker bid and Jenna Ellis flips and U.S. spells “Us”
• GZERO Media: Who is Mike Johnson (in 60 seconds)
• Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ ♬The Party That I Used To Vote ♬
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard reacts To Jenna Ellis PLEADING GUILTY
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ Flipping! ♬
• Parody Project: ♫ GREENE GREENE—The Censure ♬:

• Ari Melber: Трамп’s coup bomb goes off! DOJ gets the goods as lawyers confess & WH vet flips
• Seth Meyers: Трамп called to testify, storms out of court after Judge fines him $10,000
• The Late Show: Meet the GOP House Speaker candidates
• Bill Maher: The MAGA party
• Darrin Bell: Animation of a political cartoon—The NEXT mass shooting Republicans will ENABLE
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ “Bing Bing Bong Bong”, The Immortal Words of The Dotard Трамп ♬
• Tommy Campbell: Jenna Ellis Flips on Трамп—is Rudy next?
• Stephen: Upsetting facts about Speaker Mike Johnson and Clarence Thomas’s secret payments
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп is definitely going to jail, House of Representatives unravels & the Ted Cruz curse
• Seth Meyers: Трамп distances himself from Sidney Powell amid another surprise guilty plea in GA
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Sarah Huckabee Sanders, lectern queen ♬
• SNL Weekend Update: Jim Jordan dropped as Speaker nominee, Трамп gag order
• Ali Velshi: “A self-cannibalizing party”—House GOP uses “alarming” threats of violence during Speaker chaos
• Stephen: Uh-Oh, George Santos is in big trouble
• Liberal Redneck: New Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson:

• Tommy Campbell: Трамп lawyers flip, Jim Jordan’s done, Lindell invites Kimmel on telethon
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп said “Republicans Eat Their Young” ♬
• Jimmy Kimmel Live: Трамп won’t stop violating gag order and GOP moves to expel Santos
• Bill Maher: Meet Mike Johnson
• SNL: Jim Jordan cold open
• Ari Melber: Трамп rattled over RICO and prison as two lawyers confess and flip
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ “Turning on” The Dotard Трамп and Turning on The Dotard Трамп ♬
• Rachel Maddow: “The Republican party is sick”—Maddow notes atypical nature of current House speaker vacancy
• Darrin Bell: Animation of a political cartoon–The latest mass shooting Republicans will ignore
• Stephen: GOP moderates take down Jim Jordan & Трамп freaks out as Powell and Chesebro flip
• Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ Do The “Lock Him Up” ♬:

• Mark Fiore: Who’s Speaker Now?
• Seth Meyers: New GOP Speaker was a Jan. 6 architect & more Трамп allies testify against him
• Alex Wagner: Inexperience, low profile key to Johnson ascension
• LegalEagle: Трамп gagged, immediately violates gag order
• Chris Hayes: Трамп doesn’t get his “Legally Blonde” moment and storms out of court
• Jimmy Kimmel: Pence’s very sad photo and Трамп’s attorney amnesia
• Stephen: Election denier Rep. Mike Johnson is House Speaker and Трамп threatens Meadows
• The Late Show: MAGA Mike Johnson
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп, Pimple or Wart? ♬
• Ari Melber and friends: Трамп prison odds increase as two lawyers flip

Robert Reich: Zombie myths—The economic lies that just won’t die

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

LegalEagle: When police raid a newspaper for no reason

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