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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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VOX: When the only way to go free is to plead guilty.

Chris Hayes: Democratic turnout surges in Texas early voting.

The Dotard Трамп And His Gang of Stable Geniuses:

Rachel Maddow: Americans Google Alex Van Der Zwaan as Robert Mueller issues new charges .

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Francesca Fiorentini: Why the rich love destroying unions.

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R) is indicted on felony invasion of privacy charge.

Young Turks: Governor arrested for revenge porn.

Daily Show: How to make people care about the Great Lakes.

Were Neanderthals the first artists?

Gunz In ‘merica:

VOX: How the economy shapes our live lives.

WaPo: Sketching Robert Muller III—how accurate are pop culture’s portrayals?

Lewis Black: How territorial rats could fix New York City’s transit woes.

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

Open Thread Open Thread

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I don’t know enough about the case to comment one way or the other, but morally the legislature shouldn’t be exempted from public disclosure requirements. It’s 2018, if anything we should make these records available more easily. Maybe all electronic communications go on a searchable database after a certain amount of time to ensure we aren’t giving away personal information, etc. I realize that this sort of thing can be abused, but in general it’s the direction we should be going.

Open thread thread thread

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Over the weekend, I was walking around suburbia. It was the day after the storm, and I passed a rhododendron that had been toppled. I wasn’t sure if I should have pushed the root ball back into the ground. I decided not to wander onto some stranger’s property to do some half-assed landscaping. But I would prefer to live in a world where people did that, and it was OK.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottlePlease joins us this evening for another cocktail-enhanced and conversation-packed edition of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

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





Can’t make it to Seattle? Ok…then check out one of the 244 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, six in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or consider starting your own chapter.

We Have Failed

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Seeing the coverage of the kids who survived the Florida school shooting at rallies and in the Sunday shows, I couldn’t help think of how much we, adults in this country, have failed them. However they grieve is the right way, but they shouldn’t have to be there.

They deserve better than the world adults are giving them. They deserve better than being judged on how articulate they are less than a week after living through a horror and having their friends die. The fact that they are stressing about something more than grades or sports or who to go to the dance with is our fault. Shame on us.

HA Bible Study: 1 Kings 11:1-3

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1 Kings 11:1-3
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. They were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray.

Discuss.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Sam Seder: Alex Jones obsesses over sperm on Barack Obama’s face

Chris Hayes: GOP candidate’s parents donate to his Democratic opponent

Bill Maher does Vicente Fox.

Daily Show: Livin’ on the street—Whose fault is it when the stock market drops?

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Ijeoma Oluo—You can’t “win” a conversation about race

The Dotard Трамп and His Clown Parade:

Mental Floss: Valentine’s Day.

Trevor interviews Heroes of “The 15:17 to Paris”.

CP Times with Roy Wood Jr.: Unsung Black Heroes of Politics.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: At war with machines

Hasan the Record: Free speech—If you can’t beat ’em, troll ’em

Francesca Fiorentini: How tech giants feed off capitalism’s failures:

Wendover: How overnight shipping works.

ANOTHER GODDAMN SCHOOL MASS SHOOTING?!?!?

What the collapse of immigration bills means for Dreamers.

Bad polling is ruining everything.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Ted Lieu and the Democrats’ push to take back the House:

Jimmy Kimmel: This week in unnecessary censorship.

Young Turks: Republican candidate’s own parents don’t want him in office.

Trevor Noah’s Ark-eology: A hidden Mayan village & the Cheddar man

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

Open Thread

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I should say to start that there may be times when a box of food instead of SNAP benefits might be beneficial. Save a trip or two worth of gas. Maybe for disabled, people not having to go to the grocery store is a positive.

The proposal isn’t that. And that said, there is a problem with the plan beyond how it infantilizes poor people. It’s that grocery stores are one of the few places where all strata of society meet. This proposal seems like another way for middle class and wealthy people to not think about poor people in their communities.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleThe Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight. And it happens to be a special election night. So, if you haven’t already done so, mail or drop off your ballot, and then swing by and join us for drinks and good cheer.

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




Can’t make it to Seattle? Seriously? Ok…then check out one of the 244 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, six in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or go out and start one if need be.

HA Bible Study: Deuteronomy 22:13-21

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Deuteronomy 22:13-21
If a man takes a wife and, after lying with her, dislikes her and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,” then the girl’s father and mother shall bring proof that she was a virgin to the town elders at the gate.  The girl’s father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her.  Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, and the elders shall take the man and punish him. They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the girl’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.

If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl’s virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death.

Discuss.

Friday Night Mulitmedia Extravaganza!

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Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Monopoly’s tabletop abomination

How the FISA process works.

The Census Gets Political:

James Corden: Political monologue

Seattle Mayor Durkan wants ALL past misdemeanor marijuana convictions erased from people’s records!

Bill Maher and Bari Weiss on the #MeToo movement

Inside Amy Schumer: Shhhh-Nacks.

The Dotard Трамп and His Parade of Banana Republic Idiots:

WaPo: Holocaust denier is running unopposed in Republican primary for Congress.

Samantha Bee: This week in chaos—Nukes

Lawrence O’Donnell: Charlie Cook suggests a blue wave following Dem win in Трамп country.

Vox: The horrific reality of a war with North Korea.

Jimmy Kimmel: Jesus is your flu shot.

Ari Melbur: GOP redistricting trick, threats to impeach judges amid blue wave.

Black History Month:

Mark Fiore: Buster the little nuke!

The new face of the NRA.

Sam Seder with Ari Berman: Koch brother scumbags and the best elections money can buy.

Jimmy Kimmel demonstrates why denying gay couples wedding cakes is wrong:

The fight for birthright citizenship in America.

Vox: Why do taxpayers pay billions for football stadiums?

Stephen: Missouri Senate candidate Courtland Sykes prefers sexism over feminism.

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

Oppppoppenthread

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Fuck Rob Porter. Fuck this administration covering up for him. A lot of people should start resigning in disgrace, start with John Kelly. But also, the people who swore up and down that Kelly would be the grownup in the room can go too.

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