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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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The Late Show: Franzia has a message for bottled wine

Robert Reich takes on replies to his tweets

Jimmy Dore: Mitt Romney’s crazy solution to climate change

Trevor: The subminimum wage disability pay loophole

SNL: Football press conference

Rachel Maddow: Actual audit finds Wisconsin 2020 election was “safe and secure”

Vice News: Joel Castón is the first elected Representative for an incarcerated population

Amber Ruffin: ♫ Facebook values profit over public Safety? duh! ♬

Liars, Cheaters, Traitors and other Dotard Трамп Wannabes:

Al Franken: Al Franken on the “non-partisan” Supreme Court

The Late Show: Facebook’s new name search isn’t going well

Schmoyoho: ♫ Joe Biden sings Spooky Time ♬

The Remix Bros: ♫ Yung Gret—Blah Blah Blah REMIX ♬

AJ+: Why we’ll keep seeing climate disasters even if we “fix global warming”

Vice News: Death threats are creating a mass exodus of election officials

Robert Reich: America is on strike

Trevor: Why are so many workers going on strike?

Mark Fiore: Virtual reality for virtual Democrats

This Week in ТрампPlague:

Trevor: Sen. Tammy Duckworth on why the subminimum wage should be abolished

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Vox: Why the US is always hitting a “debt ceiling”

Comedy Central’s Drunk History: Revolutionary war stories

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Dulcé Sloan: Why low-income neighborhoods have fewer trees

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

Friday, Open, Thread,

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King County’s projection for the upcoming election is that 46% of eligible voters will participate. That means you — yes you! — can have an outsized impact on the result. Fewer people voting means that your vote will do more to help keep the yell at school board asssholes off the school board. It means your vote will go further in determining where city and county resources are spent. So use your power to vote every time, but know it makes a lot of difference this year.

Anyway, wash your hands right now. And if you haven’t been vaccinated yet, get the fuck on it.

Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday

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I have negative sympathy for everyone fired for not getting the COVID-19 vaccine. I mean if you’re exempt, great. But if you didn’t have a medical exemption, man fuck off. Fuck off if you have a good government job. Fuck off of it’s a private sector job. We’re talking about a miracle drug with minor side effects. It means that you are much less likely to pass a major disease to vulnerable people.

Honestly, it’s better that you aren’t out spreading the disease on the public dime. It stinks that you didn’t get vaccinated; Not that you were fired. I think of all of the people who did so much work to get to the place where you can get vaccinated easily and for free.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And honestly, get vaccinated so I don’t have to make fun of your dumb ass.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleLooking for something to do tonight? How about stopping by the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally for a dose of politics over a pint?

The Seattle chapter of DL meets every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm. We are still out on the patio (under an awning) in the back. The kitchen is still closed, but feel free to bring your own dinner. Note that a COVID vaccination card and ID are required to enter the Roanoke.


Chapters of Drinking Liberally can be found all over the place. If you can’t make the Seattle chapter, find a chapter near you.

Monday October 18th Open Thread

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Hey, if you’re in Washington State, you should have received a ballot. If you haven’t, you can contact your county elections office and ask for a replacement. It’s municipal elections, so it’s things you see on the ground.

Here in Seattle, the choice for the municipal elections actually feels like a choice. The Prosecutor’s race is a Republican versus an abolitionist. It’s very exciting, although I am old enough to remember the Sidran era, so am a bit pensive about the result.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And of you’re still unvaccinated, you’ve had plenty of time, just get vaccinated.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Seth Meyers: Sen. Elizabeth Warren calls out billionaires shooting themselves into space

Trevor: Why you should pray for the droughts to end

Vice News: What it’s like to document the death of ecosystems

The Parody Project: ♫ The Problem With Manchin ♬

The Трамп Cultists And Other Miscreant, Quislings, and Treasonist:

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

John Oliver: Misinformation

Trevor: How to ACTUALLY reduce abortions

This Week In The ТрампPlague:

Mark Fiore: AT&T and OAN, your conspiracies delivered!

Amber Ruffin: Why rich people are the reason America is broke

The Daily Show: Is profanity protected by freedom of speech?

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

Wednesday Morning Open Thread

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Congratulations to the Seattle Kraken on their first game. A win would have been nice, but that’s often not the case for expansion teams. We’ll see.

Personally, I don’t really understand the appeal of hockey. I suppose with sports, it’s more visceral than logical, and it just never grabbed me. But I love seeing people already excited on Twitter. Glad you’re having fun!

Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And if you aren’t vaccinated yet, for goodness sake, get vaccinated now; Make your appointment today.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottlePlease join us this evening as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets for some politics over an elixir.

The Seattle chapter of DL meets every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm. We are still out on the patio (under an awning) in the back. The kitchen is still closed, but feel free to bring your own dinner. Note that a COVID vaccination card and ID are required to enter the Roanoke.

Chapters of Drinking Liberally can be found all over the place. If you can’t make the Seattle chapter, find a chapter near you.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Trevor and his brothers debate government spending

Ari Melber: After wrongful conviction, man becomes civil rights lawyer in quest for justice

Honest Ads: If cryptocurrency was honest

SNL: Biden unites Democrats

Trevor: The Pandora Papers—How the mega-rich have been getting out of paying taxes

Full Frontal Rewind: Samantha Bee’s take on climate change

Amber Ruffin: How getting rid of the credit score system fights racism

The Psychopathology That Is The Cult of Трамп:

SNL Weekend Update: A Black woman who’s been missing for ten years

The Late Show: A first look at the trillion dollar coin

John Oliver: PFAS

Chris Hayes: Why Facebook’s business model is “Incommensurable with democracy”

SNL: Billionaire Star Trek

Tha God’s Honest Truth: Why are racists afraid of teaching critical race theory?

Lawrence O’Donnell: Return of beachfront property to Black family rights “A horrible injustice”

Bill Maher: The beginning of the end

ТрампPlague:

Robert Reich: The Democrats’ one chance to cut child poverty in half

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

The Late Show: The Social Notwork—Mark Zuckerberg’s worst day

Seth Meyers: Facebook’s disastrous week, from whistleblower bombshell to global outage

Mark Fiore: The Democratic land of Centristopia

SNL Weekend Update: Democrats delay infrastructure vote

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

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleTuesday means politics…and the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally will get together to chat, celebrate, and even complain. There’s room for you to stop by for a pint and some discussion, too.

The Seattle chapter of DL meets every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm. We are still out on the patio (under an awning) in the back. The kitchen is still closed, but feel free to bring your own dinner. Note that a COVID vaccination card and ID are required to enter the Roanoke.

Chapters of Drinking Liberally can be found all over the place. If you can’t make the Seattle chapter, find a chapter near you.

Open Thread!

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Holy cow, everyone. There’s light rail up to Northgate. Northgate. Northgate to Downtown. On a light rail. You don’t need to get a bus on the crowded freeway.

Some of you are recent transplants to the Seattle area, or lived further South. But I can remember as a teenager catching the 307 when I wanted to go Downtown. And it would inexplicably stop at Northgate. And then when you left Northgate it felt like forever. And the 41 to and from Downtown always felt so slow. I am glad that it will be much quicker. I can’t wait to try it out.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And for the love of God get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Stephen: “How does it feel to know you changed the world?”—Anita Hill’s testimony resonates decades later

Vox: Why nuclear plants are shutting down

Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian: “Bringing integrity to Christian homemakers” awards dinner

Seth Meyers: Manchin and Sinema derail Biden’s agenda as FAUX fearmongers about it

Roy Wood Jr.: Banger breakdown—“The Star-Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key

Samantha Bee: New Jersey is paving the way for reproductive rights

The Terrorist Organization That Operates Under the Name “Republican Party”:

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Steve Hofstetter: Some credit report advice

The Daily Show: Why do missing White women get more media coverage?

Vox: The end of oil, explained

Ari Melber: America is very Blue in 2021 but the Senate isn’t—Kornacki shows why

Stephen: Let’s not reward Congress for doing the bare minimum

ТрампPlague:

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Robert Reich: The real reason the economy might collapse

Seth Meyers: A political monologue

Vox: How 4 companies control the beef industry

Trevor: The scramble to fund the government—Keeping up with the Congressians

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

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