Archive for August 2025

Turning the page

August 31, 2025

SF Giants had an up and down August.

Could have used a lefthanded hitter with 7 home runs and 13 RBI this month slugging .630.

The player with those states? Mike Yastrzemski

As former Yankee  Mark Teixeira runs for Congress, and many in DC realize Democrats thus might not win a Congressional baseball game for the foreseeable future…dear Gabe Kapler. You are a Democrat, maybe it’s time to give up on the coaching side for a while and run for office.


For a while there we were wondering…. Did Gavin’s tweets kill him?

And right on cue after Donald wasn’t seen in public for four days, Fox News jumps in with the headline “Bill Clinton’s health in question after he is seen with possible medical device…”

If he IS having a complicated medical procedure, your reminder, his administration wants to cut funding, for medical research AND take healthcare away from millions of Americans.

Marco Rubio was confirmed 99-0. Based on his record, Senators of both parties thought he would be one of Trump’s more reasonable choices. So some made an excusable mistake.

But based on HIS record Senators of both parties knew RFK Jr. was dangerously insane. No excuses.

Here’s four Republican Senators up for re-election who voted to confirm Robert Kennedy for HHS Secretary

Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, John Husted, Dan Sullivan,

Husted, from Ohio, was appointed to take Sherrod Brown’s place. Ohio, you can correct this error by putting Sherrod back in the Senate

Just maybe it wasn’t a good idea to put a man who had part of his brain eaten by a worm in charge of our nation’s healthcare system.

Hey media, if you’re too scared or can’t get access to Donald, what about asking every GOP Senator when they return in September if they and their children are vaccinated. And for those under 65, ask particularly about COVID


As a friend said “We all have to make compromises in life. But we all have a line. Where is Marco Rubio’s line?”

Thinking like in Mean Girls “The limit does not exist.”

Trump just had DOT cancel $679 Million for offshore wind projects . It’s ALL retribution. In 2012, Trump went to Scotland in hopes of stopping wind turbines near his Aderdeen golf course “His opposition has become govt policy in world’s biggest economy.”

Hope springs eternal?

August 29, 2025

On a lighter note, not too many lighter notes lately, the SF Giants have now won 5 in a row and have a 1.2% chance of making the post season… so you’re saying there’s a chance.

With two home runs yesterday shouldn’t Willy Adames throw post-game Gatorade on himself?

Former MLB player Mark Teixeira is running for Congress and pledges “to work with Trump to “end radical work indoctrination” and secure the border. Teixeira’s grandfather emigrated from Guyana. Donald probably wouldn’t have let him in.

As RFK Jr continues his efforts to destroy the US healthcare system and Republicans stand idly by… I know most of them are old white men, but you’d think their kids and grandkids might matter to them.


Too soon to know for sure but seems like this latest mass shooter may have been posting his plans online- and the FBI was too busy going after Trump enemies to pay attention.

And whatever the Minneapolis shooter’s motive turns out to be, we know he was a deeply disturbed individual. And he had no problem getting at least three guns. Only in America.

Not much discussed w/ so much other insanity is Trump apparently has at least 1 cult member going through mortgage applications (& presumably other financial records) or people he doesn’t like in hope of finding something he can call a crime. Don’t think it can’t happen to you?

All you need to know about today’s GOP: they still haven’t hung the commemorative plaque to honor police who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, a plaque mandated by Congress on a bipartisan basis in 2022. But they are fine with full military honors for Ashli Babbitt.

I’m sure Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy MD has done a lot of good in his medical career. But alas the single biggest thing Cassidy has done to affect our health in the USA is to cast the deciding vote for RFK Jr as HHS Secretary. And many people will die because of that.

Same MAGA screaming about “mental health” not guns being the problem had no problem with major Trump cuts to mental health programs. Including a $1 BILLION cut in funding for school mental health

Bad enough Trump fires everyone Biden or another Democrat appointed for not being crazy enough. And Donald’s is going after appointees from 1st term for not being crazy enough. But now his administration is firing their own RECENT appointees for not being crazy enough?

Pandamonium

August 26, 2025

IYKYK

It’s August 27, Six teams in the NL are such locks for the postseason that only ONE other team – the Cincinnati Reds at 4% – has even a 1% chance of making the playoffs

The teams? Phllies, Mets, Brewers, Cubs, Dodgers, Padres.

All but the Brewers in the top 10 payrolls in baseball

  1. New York Mets, $323,099,999
  2. Los Angeles Dodgers, $321,287,291
  3. New York Yankees, $293,488,972
  4. Philadelphia Phillies, $284,210,820
  5. Toronto Blue Jays, $239,642,532
  6. Texas Rangers, $220,541,332
  7. Houston Astros, $220,217,813
  8. Atlanta Braves, $214,836,398
  9. San Diego Padres,  208,909,333
  10. Chicago Cubs, $196,288,250

The SF Giants gave Justin Verlander five runs of support and did not blow the leadh.

Ths is Verlander’s FIRST win as an SF Giants player at home. Indeed ever at Oracle.. Hope this isn’t a sign of the acopalypse.

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Never been to a Cracker Barrel. But have to be amused that their rebrand didn’t even last a Scaramucci.

So being MAGA means you mock liberals for caring about their pronouns, while you lose your mind over a restaurant changing to a generic logo?

Trump does not have the authority to fire Lisa Cook Trump does not have the authority to fire Lisa Cook Did I mention that Trump does not have the authority to fire Lisa Cook?

Despite his house & office being searched… John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former NSA is not backing down. Disagree with the man on most everything but he has more cojones than any GOP member of Congress.

I did not have “John Bolton, member of the resistance,” on my bingo card.-

Trump is declining Maryland Governor Wes Moore’s offer to walk the streets of Baltimore with him.

He claims it’s because the city is a “hell hole” We all know the real reason. Donald can’t really walk any more

The President convicted of 34 felonies says “I’m not a dictator, I just stop crime….”

Ghislaine Maxwell is a monster

But she speaks with a soft British upper-class voice.

Not hard to see how she impressed at-risk young girls as she procured them for rape.

In Salem witch hunt days, accused women were tied up & thrown into water. If they floated, they were guilty witches, if they sank they were innocent. But often dead. Abrego Garcia’s choice, plead guilty & go to Costa Rica, plead innocent & be deported to Uganda, feels like that.

So does Donald think all this performative ICE stuff will distract people when they need to take out a loan to buy a hamburger?

Receipts don’t lie. Amy Klobuchar tonight sums it up for regular Americans on Donald Trump: “He cannot fire his way out of this economy.”

And he’s NOT stopping crime. Trump is sending troops to cities, while he is defunding the police Democrats need to keep talking about this

Estimates are Donald is spending over $1 MILLION dollars a day in DC on his National Guard stunt. And now much is it costing other states’ economies to have the Guard, generally reservists, uprooted from their regular jobs and lives? Where are GOP deficit hawks on this one?

Fox News STILL headlining drunken Cincinnati July brawl with racial overtones on their website

1. People I know in Cincy have moved on. Brawl happened outside a late night club & no one died. 2. If Cincinnati is so bad why didn’t Trump tell GOP Ohio Governor DeWine to send National Guard THERE?

Taylor Swift is engaged to Travis Kelse.

So what is Velveeta Voldemort going to do to because he will hate her having all the headlines!?


Can Trump actually fire Lisa Cook? Legally no, And SCOTUS may decide not to let him tank the economy. But every minute we are talking about this we are not talking about the Epstein files.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles Heck, release the Birthday Card

So you’re saying there’s not a chance….

August 25, 2025

It’s August 25, and the Colorado Rockies have been eliminated from postseason contention.

Sadly too late for the Rockies to be considered for the Little League World Series?

Los Angeles rookie Dalton Rushing, asked if Padres Dodgers rivalry is “the best in baseball” – “I think so. I think it’s pretty safe to say.”

Uh, Dalton, not only is Padres Dodgers rivalry not the best in baseball, it’s not even the best in California.

#BeatLA

SFGiants

Donald Trump is now demanding Roger Clemens “one of the greatest pitchers of all time” be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. For some reason he hasn’t said a word about Home Run King Barry Bonds. Very white of him.

If your commute involves a bridge, any bridge, wrap your head around the fact that the President of the United States may cut off funding to repair the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore because he doesn’t like Maryland’s governor…

Meanwhile, as Ukraine’s survival hangs in balance, we still haven’t seen Epstein files & inflation gets much worse, -Fox News top Sunday am headline:

“Former Biden SOS Antony Blinken asked to leave NY beach by lifeguard”

In the actual story “

Lifeguards enforced beach closures as hurricane brought dangerous conditions. (Turns out Blinken and a friend were sitting in chairs on the beach and told to leave.

And then his from Fox ” And “Blinken is no stranger to controversy over how he spends his leisure time.”

The people who are pretending that Wes Moore’s delayed-due-to-a-paperwork-error Bronze Star from Afghanistan wasn’t earned, are the same people who genuflect before Comrade Bone Spurs.

Fox News top headline on tragic Florida truck crash w/ immigrant was apparently at fault & 3 died. Don Jr sending emails “Trump sends own pen to sign booking of illegal alien trucker.”

Has Donald said anything about cop killer in Utah, or the CDC shooter,

or the assassin of Melissa & Mark Hortman? For starters?

JD Vance said “If you go back to WW2 or every major conflict in human history they all ended with some kind of negotiation.” So he’s saying that Hitler and Eva Braun in their bunker negotiated whether or not he’d shoot himself before she took cyanide?

Holding the cards?

August 23, 2025

If the MLB season ended today the teams with the three biggest payrolls in MLB, Mets, Dodgers, Yankees, would actually all make the playoffs. But only as wild cards.

Over 40,000 people showed up at Oracle Park to see Bay FC today play the Washington Spirit. Bay FC did lose 3-2. OTOH, 2 is more than the SF Giants often score at Oracle

Sunday, Aug 24, is Ukrainian Independence Day. Canadian PM Mark Carney has just landed in Kyiv, Ukraine. Donald Trump after his morning Truth Social rants, will no doubt head to the golf course

Report = Trump to sign order directing DOJ to criminally charge flag burning.


From Boy Scout Handbook “US flag worn beyond repair may be burned in a fire. Ceremony should be conducted w/ dignity & respect & flag burned completely to ashes.” Oops

“Justice Dept. Sent Congress Epstein Files That Were Already Public.” GOP will do ANYTHING to avoid having to #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Could we start by releasing the birthday card?

Remember all those Boston Red Sox fans furious when the team traded Devers to the SF Giants in June? The Red Sox have moved ahead of the NY Yankees in the standings, embarrassed NY 12-1 today in Yankee Stadium and have beaten the Yankees EIGHT straight times.

Fox News wants people to be outraged that a Democratic socialist may be elected Mayor of New York City.

While they shrug off that the President of the United States in the Oval Office is fan-boying a picture of himself with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

Remember being shocked as a teenager that supposedly decent people in Amsterdam could have turned Anne Frank’s family in to the Germans. Not any more.

Many MAGA would betray them now and brag about it on Twitter.

WTAF? Donald Trump today attacked San Francisco & said “I own a big chunk of the Bank of America building.” Uh, the building, featured in “Towering Inferno” has been named 555 California since 2005.

But Donald used same line word for word in 2015 “I own a big chunk of the Bank of America building.”

Siri, what is dementia?

Donald’s fundraising email today is headlined “I want to get to heaven.”

What is this new obsession?

We all need to keep saying this, and reminding those trying to paint her as a “victim” now.

Ghislaine Maxwell not only helped Jeffrey Esptein recruit and procure young girls, the victims themselves say she physically participated in raping them.

Again this is a direct quote from Velveeta Voldemort this morning. “Some people refer to it as the Trump Kennedy Center, but we’re not prepared to do that quite yet. Maybe in a week or so.” He is insane. What excuse do his Republican sycophants in Congress have?

If John Bolton is so bad surely we should fire the person who hired him as National Security Advisor.

Hey GOP bending the knee to Donald – you don’t have to like John Bolton to realize, if it can happen to a wealthy white Conservative male former Trump supporter, it can happen to you.

Slouching towards September…

August 21, 2025

Juan Soto says he believers the Mets are “100%” a playoff team.

He’s probably right. Because the NL currently has only SEVEN teams over .500

Stanford plays Hawaii on Saturday in both teams’ college football opener.

The game is scheduled for 130p Hawaii Standard Time, 730p on the East Coast. Might be one of the few game East Coast Cardinal fans might be able to stay up late enough to see. (Many games will start in California at 730p-8p)

Serious point. Many MLB players are black or Latino. In many cases English is not their first language. Washington Nationals have about 6 weeks of home games left in DC.

Will players soon be told to stay home/in hotel rooms except for games, rather than risk being detained/ attacked by ICE on the street?

Gavin Newsom, talking about how Donald is creating a private army -$175 billion in bill for ICE, homeland security…

“He’s trying to rig elections, set up conditions to claim elections not won fair & square. Open your eyes to what is going on in United States of America in 2025.'”

Something that isn’t reported on enough. Unlike previous Presidents of both parties, Velveeta Voldemort doesn’t even go out to dinner in DC now that his hotel is closed.


Listening to Trump and his minions throwing out dishonest statistics on a regular basis, have to wonder how they decide on the numbers? Does Velveeta Voldemort throw ketchup bottles at a dart board?

GOP claimed to hate deficits, until they could increase them w/ billionaire tax cut.

GOP demanded Epstein files, untll Trump was named in them.

GOP supported Texas insane gerrymandering, until California retaliated with same tactics.

Almost as if GOP has no real principles.

But really, has a single Republican explained why they support Texas gerrymandering redistricting but not California’s retaliating? I’ll wait.

It’s official. California’s special election is ON for November 4th. The People of California will be able to cast their vote for a Congressional map.


California is letting our citizens decide. Texas doesn’t trust their citizens.

First it’s Bed Bath and Beyond, how long untll K-Mart says they won’t open new stores in California either?

Actual Donald quote from today

We are going to be regrassing your parks, new sprinklers systems. It will look like Trump national golf club.  Grass has a life. You know that? Grass has a life. We have a life, and grass has a life. The grass here died about 40 years ago

GOP now pushing “a driver who cannot sufficiently read or speak English is unqualified to drive a commercial motor vehicle in America.” But one can be president?!!

Is there ANYTHING Trump won’t do to distract from the fact that his name is in the Epstein files?

Slow down..

August 21, 2025

Meanwhile in Washington DC, NY Met (sigh) Tyler Rogers version of an immaculate inning.

Six pitches, all strikes, 83-86 MPH except for one 74 MPH slider. Three outs.

Don’t tell ICE, thinking most MLB hitters would say him being that effective throwing junk should be illegal.

SI.Com actually has this headline “College Football Preseason Bowl Projections.”

And if you care, you just might have too much time on your hands.

WTAF? Jeanine Pirro has announced she that Washington DC will no longer consider it a felony for civilians to carry shotguns and rifles in the city.

Allowing average people to carry guns in DC in a hot humid summer, when the city is full of National Guard… What could possibly go wrong.

(FWIW, many believe D.C.’s strict gun laws may have deterred some January 6 rioters from bringing firearms to the Capitol that day,

Jack White of “”Seven Nation Army” (yes, I don’t know their music either) called Trump’s Oval Office “gaudy” & “vulgar,” Trump Communication director Steven Cheung:

“Jack White is washed-up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media; He has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career.” Doesn’t that describe most PRO Trump celebrities?


Your reminder that for all Velveeta Voldemort and ICE Barbie claim that immigrants are freeloading off of hard working Americans, most of ICE arrests are of people when they are at WORK!!

Today’s effort for Trump to distract from skyrocketing inflation & Epstein files is trying to get rid of exhibits about slavery at Smithsonian. But he doesn’t have authority over Smithsonian. Congress does. Can’t wait to see GOP members of Congress defend slavery.

Dana Bash on CNN gives GOP Rep Tim Burchett platform to spout lies about DC being a cesspool… And probably won’t get much attention but Burchett used his time also to claim government was wrong about Lee Harvey Oswald being the only person who shot JFK in Dallas. It’s a cult.

Remember when Trump was trying to suppress COVID cases;”I like the numbers being where they are?” And when he fired BLS leader for numbers he didn’t like?

Now he claims Democratic cities lying about decreasing crime rates. Every accusation is a confession. #CookingTheBooks

With all the across the board inflation right now, not getting major headlines how bad beef prices are. Not like Americans like their steaks or hamburgers…

Did not have radioactive Walmart shrimp on my bingo card….

Louisiana, Tennessee & Ohio, all sending National Guard troops to DC. New Orleans, Memphis & Cleveland are regularly listed in most dangerous cities in US. Sure would be nice if GOP Governors actually cared less about pleasing Trump & more about protecting their OWN residents.

Every day there’s another outrageous stunt from Velveeta Voldemort… All of them have one thing in common. Donald is trying to distract us from the Epstein files. What’s he going to try tomorrow?

Out of order

August 19, 2025

Rob Manfred is talking about “geographic re-alignment” and changing baseball so it no longer has two leagues

Could put Giants and Dodgers in different divisions… While having Mets, Yankees, Red Sox, Phillies all in one. Who’d have ever thought we might miss Bud Selig?

Meanwhile, after sweeping the Padres, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts insisted his team wouldn’t overlook the lowly Rockies.

Perhaps they didn’t. But Colorado beat LA on a walkoff 4-3.

Louisiana National Guard said in statement that “as directed by president of the United States,” it was sending 135 members to DC to“protect federal buildings, national monuments and other federal properties? WTAF? Good thing it isn’t hurricane season Oh, wait..

Trump didn’t even stand at the White House entrance greeting European leaders as they arrived Is he making a point for his boss Putin?

Or is Donald just too old and low energy to be upright for that long?

“I won in a landslide” He did NOT win in a landslide

Once again, the question, dishonesty or dementia?

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Donald “We’re really honored you guys came over.” Uh, EU leaders only came over to provide backup for Zelenskyy against a mad would be tyrant.

(and yes, he said, “you guys” – despite two women leaders attending.)

Donald Trump paused his meeting with EU leaders to call Vladimir Putin. Well, makes sense, when making very important decisions sometimes you need to confirm with your boss.

She (Melania) has got a son… So is he saying Barron is not HIS son?

Doesn’t matter if he says it six times or six hundred times. Donald Trump has NOT settled six wars

Good and bad sports:

August 17, 2025

After the Little League Classic today in Williamsport the Seattle Mariners and NY Mets followed the Little League tradition and had a handshake line.

But did they all get juice boxes and cookies?

MLB added extra wildcards to claim it keeps more teams feeling like they have postseason chance late into season.

As of Aug 17, top 6 teams in each league are so far ahead that only 1 NL team (Reds) & 3 AL teams (Royals, Guardians, Rangers) have even 10% chance of being wild cards.

The only Trump 2028 I want to see is Velveeta Voldemort being sentenced to 20 to 28 years…

Trump actually posted “President Zelenskky of Ukraine can end the war immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight.” Putin and Russia started this war This is the political equivalent of Donald telling Zelenskyy “if rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it.”


After his Friday fiasco honoring Vladimir Putin can we nominate Donald Trump for the Noble Piece of Sh*t prize? The award could be presented at Four Seasons Landscaping.

How bad did the meeting with Putin go for Trump? Top headline on Fox News website tonight (no joke) “Former FBI boss Comey reveals Taylor Swift obsession in bizarre video attacking Trump” WTF?

California Democratic voter here.

Admittedly there are times I have found Gavin Newsom irritating in the extreme. But some of the traits that have driven me crazy over the years are so perfect for this moment.

When you hear hoofprints think horses not zebras And the explanation, that Donald was shaken because of something Vlad showed or told him Friday, especially with the rumours Putin has had something on Trump for years, is the simplest.

Fox News has spent weeks trying to convince us that a single late night brawl on a hot July night outside a nightclub was emblematic of a bigger problem in Cincinnati. So why aren’t they furious that Gov. Mike DeWine took OHIO National Guard troops and sent them… to Washington DC?!

Meanwhile, just outside DC, while so many genuflect, Mary Chapin Carpenter at Wolf Trap has changed her old lyric from wonderful “Stones in the Road” about children in the late 60s selling out as adults.

From “we doctor the receipt” to “And we don’t bow to kings.” Never liked her more.

But remember, every story written or broadcast about the absurdity of the National Guard and increased ICE action in Washington DC is a story not written or broadcast about the Epstein files.

Meeting rock bottom

August 16, 2025

SF Giants Friday night

1 run in 1st, Rays score 1 in 2nd 2 runs in 2nd, Rays score 2 in 3rd 3 runs in 3rd, Rays score 3 in 4th.

Giants loaded bases w/ no outs in 8th, leadoff double in 9th. But never scored again.

Rays win on 1 run in 9th. 2025 season in nutshell #NothingLikeIt

And yet, since June 13 when the team was tied for first with the Dodgers, the Giants are not the worst team in baseball.

That would be the Mets. (truth)

NCAA handed Jim Harbaugh a 10 year ‘show cause penalty’ which takes effect after his current show cause penalty, So he can’t be hired by a college team until Aug. 7, 2038.  When Jim, now the coach of the LA Raiders would be 74.

As if then he’d WANT to go back to college football

As if, the way things are going, we know college football will definitely still exist in 2038.

Who says Trump got nothing out of today.

1. For another news cycle no one is talking about the Epstein files.

2. He made his boss look good.

Donald Trump’s week summed up:. I need to distract Americans from my good friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. So I’ll show them how good friends I am with Vladimir Putin.

Firing BLS head for posting facts… T

Trying to take over DC..

Fancy new ICE trucks…

Fake summit with Putin.. Anyone got a guess for what Donald’s gonna do next week to distract from Epstein files?

All you need to know about how Velveeta Voldemort views democracy: Donald said he called Putin’s closest ally, Belarus Pres. Lukashenko, a long-ruling dictator long shunned on bipartisan basis in US. Trump said they had a “wonderful talk.”.

All you need to know about how good mail in voting is. Donald says Putin is against it.

Meanwhile from a British friend

From a small town in the Cotswolds. Especially love “Not too post to protest.”

Fully and not so fully loaded?

August 14, 2025

Tyler Rogers pitches a scoreless 1 1/3 inning, but Ryan Helsley, also acquired at the trade deadline, gives up two runs in 8th as reeling NY Mets blow a 3-2 lead to lose 4-3 to Braves. Sometimes with these late-inning collapses, Tyler has to figure he’s back with SF Giants.

Who says there are no good news headlines these days? “Ohtani pitches into 5th but Dodgers swept, now 2nd in NL West”

In Washington D.C for a few days. Are these now going to be regulated like gun stores?

So let me get this straight. The gospel according to Trump DOJ

Attacking U.S. Capitol police with poles, tasers and bear spray gets you a Presidential pardon.

Throwing a Subway sandwich at an officer gets you charged with a felony.

Man who threw a Subway sandwich at officer in DC has been charged with a felony. But don’t worry, Trump has a plan. His administration’s plans on tariffs, deportation etc will make Subway sandwiches so expensive, fewer Americans will be able to buy them let afford to throw them.

Just in before posting late Thursday night, a judge released the man, saying the incident didn’t rise to the level of a felony. Guess it wasn’t a fully loaded sub?

From Fox News “Trump reveals his game plan for meeting with Putin in Alaska: ‘It’s like chess'” WTAF? Does anyone think Donald can play checkers let alone chess?

Well, the crime rate in Washington DC will definitely be lower Friday. Velveeta Voldemort will be in Alaska.

Tom Cruise apparently turned down a Kennedy Center honors from Trump, citing “scheduling conflicts..”

Give Donald credit. He’s made himself more toxic than scientology.

Anyone think Donald Trump has actually listened to the words of Gloria Gaynor’s “I will survive?”

2025 Kennedy Center Honors will be televised on Sunday, December 21, 2025, from 8:30-11:00 p.m on CBS. Who besides me will NOT be watching?


“Trump said he didn’t want to host the program but was invited to do so and agreed.” So was this his attempt at stand up comedy?

Governor Newsom has found his calling. If trolling Trump was an Olympic sport Gavin would have a gold for sure!

Now Melania Trump is threatening to sue Hunter Biden for $1 billion over ‘defamatory’ claims because he said in an interview “According to his biographer, Jeffrey Epstein introduced Melania, that’s how Melania .. the first lady and the president met.” Has she heard of discovery?

Senator Mark Kelly is right to be outraged. “Active duty military who served from 15-18 yrs being forced to resign AND denied early retirement benefits for being transgender. They made a commitment, risked their lives & served honorably. To Trump & Hegseth, that doesn’t matter.”

Victories come in all sighs

August 13, 2025

Shohei Ohtani hit into a triple play and the Los Angeles Dodgers lost 7-6 to the Los Angeles Angels

And that’s probably the best headline SF Giants fans can hope for these days.

All of this insanity – Firing competent people Meeting with Putin on US soil. Putting police on the streets of Washington DC makes sense if you remember one thing

#TrumpisontheEpsteinList

Apparently Trump plans to pause monthly jobs reports. But don’t worry, he will start them up “in two weeks.”

This line from Karoline Leavitt : “The president is very honored and looks forward to hosting President Putin on American soil.” “Honored?” Uh, Putin is BANNED from visiting 125 countries.

So Kim Davis, who is trying to get SCOTUS to overturn gay marriage, has been married four times with four children by three different men. A real poster child for the sanctity of marriage.

Trump increasingly relying on lies & perception to become authoritarian. Don Delillo nailed it in “White Noise”

“For most people there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set.” And when that TV set (or streaming equivalent) is tuned to Fox News…

As a California voter who hasn’t always supported our Governor, I admit until recently I was not familiar with Gavin Newsom’s troll game!

One of today’s tweets:

FINAL WARNING DONALD TRUMP — MAYBE THE MOST IMPORTANT WARNING IN HISTORY! STOP CHEATING OR CALIFORNIA WILL REDRAW THE MAPS. AND GUESS WHO WILL ANNOUNCE IT THIS WEEK? GAVIN NEWSOM (MANY SAY THE MOST LOVED & HANDSOME GOVERNOR) AND A VERY POWERFUL TEAM. DON’T MAKE US DO IT!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

Who says there’s no good news these days.

Sherrod Brown is running in 2026 to get back to the Senate.

Looking for linings…

August 12, 2025

Thinking the season for SF Giants fans has now been reduced to being happy when the Dodgers and Yankees lose.

Hah, true story: 1992 when Giants thinking of moving to Tampa & Padres were in town. Tony Gwynn was signing autographs before game, even for a lot of SF fans gathered around the San Diego dugout.. While Tony signed for my son, told him some of us might become Padres fans if Giants abandoned us.

He said “Wouldn’t you root for the Dodgers?” I can still hear the universal chorus of loud NOs!


If you only follow Fox News & right wing media you probably don’t know there was another mass shooting today. In a Target in Austin, Texas At least 3 killed “Suspect described as WHITE male wearing shorts & Hawaiian shirt.”

If he were brown it would be breaking news

There was almost certainly only one question Trump demanded to be answered by his newly nominated BLS commissioner, Ej Antoni:

“Will you promise to say the jobs numbers are what I tell you they are?”

Kim Davis, the clerk who refused to marry gay couples, now is asking the Supreme Court to overturn the right to gay marriage. Kim has been married four times with four children by three different men. A real poster child for the sanctity of marriage.

Donald Trump covered a multitude of subjects and insulted a lot of people today at his press briefing. You know who he didn’t mention? Officer David Rose. Murdered in Atlanta by an angry white anti-vaxxer. Say his name #DavidRose

Dear media:

Could ONE of you summon the courage to ask Donald Trump why if he has the authority to call out the National Guard to Washington DC that he did not do it on January 6, 2021? Asking for a country. And Brian Sicknick’s family.-

Also media. This is no joke. Do some research. Talk to hotels. It is very possible Epstein diversion Alaska-Russia summit has this has been secretly planned for couple weeks. Anchorage hotels are never cheap during summer but they aren’t insane. The city is not THAT popular with tourists.

But clients on July 31 asked for 2 rooms aug 14-16. City was nuts. 50% or more over normal prices. Embassy Suites (!) over $1000 a night, most things sold out. Actually literally said to one of them “what the heck is going in on Anchorage?”

In DC, the worst crime is coming from inside the (White) House.

Race to the bottom…

August 11, 2025

New SF Giants slogan? At least we’re not crashing as far as the Mets?

Or the Yankees.

And if the Toronto Blue Jays, now leading the NL East, win the World Series, what’s next?

Donald threatens to punish MLB unless they protect American teams?

Nothing against Tim Tebow, who posted a picture of him holding his baby girl while working on the computer.

But many MAGA are praising him for “humanizing fatherhood.”


If Tebow takes a picture changing a diaper MAGA internet will demand Tim be nominated for sainthood

Russia complaining multiple countries are mounting “titanic efforts” to undermine upcoming summit between Putin & Trump. Considering Vladimir’s war criminal facing arrest by ICC, who’s been invited to US by convicted felon, makes SENSE most of world would want to undermine it.-

Would any of the “deficit Republicans” in Washington like to speak out against cost of deploying the National Guard to DC as part of Velveeta Voldemort’s “Project Divert from the Epstein Files”?

Even the conservative tabloid NY Post says 10 most dangerous states in the US:

New Mexico Colorado Louisiana Tennessee Arkansas Alaska Washington California Nevada South Carolina And Trump wants to convince Americans they are most at risk visiting Washington DC?

Velveeta Voldemort had WH portraits of his recent predecessors moved out of sight Understand how elderly oveweight insecure white man might feel threatened by portrait of Barack Obama. But just how little of a man do you have to be to be threatened by portrait of George W. Bush?

Sucker punches

August 10, 2025

This was the first weekend of preseason football.

Apparently you could bet on it.

May I respectfully suggest that if you bet on preseason football you might have a gambling problem?

In the “pitchers are athletes” category:

Hall of Fame Closer Mariano Rivera. 55, tore an Achilles tendon while going after a fly ball at the Yankees’ Old-Timers’ Day game on Saturday and needs surgery. #ETTD

So wait, now ICE wants Supreme Court to allow them to stop and question/detain people in the US just for speaking Spanish? Uh, what about going into South Boston and demanding to see documents from everyone speaking with an Irish accent?

When you remodel and are too cheap to hire Four Seasons Landscaping:


Meanwhile, social media report: must admit, I almost thought about not blocking a bot/troll tonight because at least when they posted a nasty misogynistic reply to me they at least used “you’re” (not your) correctly to start the profane insult.

So how much of Alaska will Putin ask for?

Transgender people in sports is a complicated issue.

Transgender people who have served in military between 15 & 18 years is NOT complicated. They’re not “medically unfit. They’ve served US & risked their lives for years.

They’re being kicked out the military for nothing involving their service. They at least deserve retirement benefits.

Period.

In Atlanta, police officer was murdered today Fox News IS covering story. Sort of. ATLANTA TRAGEDY Pregnant wife left without husband after police officer killed near CDC headquarters Not in Fox Story: Shooter allegedly targeted CDC as he blamed COVID vaccine for illness.

Saturday, reports are that the black police officer was murdered yesterday by a white anti-vax US citizen allegedly trying to shoot up CDC buildings. Story already off front page of Fox News website.

But Fox TOP story Saturday “Ancient space rock blasts through Georgia roof, stuns scientists with its origins.”

NY Times Headline “After Almost Losing Trump, Putin Gets His Ideal Summit.” Fixed it for them. “After Donald made noises about forgetting their deal, Vladimir reminded Velveeta Voldemort who owns him.”

At now FBI director Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing he was questioned by Amy Klobuchar about an enemies list. He angrily said “There is no enemies list. That’s a fabrication.”

Isn’t perjuring yourself at a Senate hearing a fireable offense?

Even if you’re a Republican who voted for Trump. Firing competent FBI agents just because they were assigned to investigate January 6, affects all Americans. This is a gift to potential terrorists.

Dying to own the libs…

If most Americans approve of how you’re governing you don’t need to redraw maps to win… Just saying.

With most Trump appointees as far as how low can you go, to quote Mean Girls ‘The limit does not exist.” So what in the world did Velveeta Voldemort possibly tell now fired IRS Commissioner Billy Long that even Long wouldn’t do?

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is claiming South Park is “so lazy to just constantly make fun of women for how they look.” South Park is many things, but “lazy?” Though to be fair it probably took less time to make the cartoon, than to do Kristi’s wardrobe and hair extensions.

Remember the OUTRAGE in 2021 when VP Kamala Harris spent about $500 of her own money on really nice cookware in Paris?

Imagine if she’d told Secret Service to raise the water level in a lake so she and her family could kayak.

Off days

August 8, 2025

Wrap your head around this “Pirates’ Skenes allows career-worst 7 hits, still blanks Reds.”

Career worst 7 hits in a GAME?

For a random example this week “The Tampa Bay Rays put up at least seven runs in a single inning (the fourth) for the third time this season”

The NFL Preseason started tonight and yes, it was possible to bet on the games. Thinking if you really care enought to research and bet on preseason games, you just MIGHT have a gambling problem.

If Trump’s plan to allow Americans to invest their 401ks in crypto and and private equity, what happens if they get scammed or lose their money? Are we just going to start putting the elderly on ice floes?

This isn’t difficult. If the Epstein files showed Trump to be innocent he’d demand they be read in primetime on every major network


Netanyahu now says Israel wants to take Military control of ALL of Gaza. All those Pro-Palestinian protestors who disrupted Democratic events in 2024 and and voted against Kamala Harris must be so proud.

In Florida: 21 people have fallen ill after drinking raw milk

If ONLY someone had invented a way to remove harmful bacteria from milk…

And what now? Will Trump, or DeSantis, fire the head of the Florida Department of Health who reported this?

So close

August 7, 2025

You think you had a bad week -non political edition.

Imagine being a Colorado Rockies pitcher.. In a three game series in Colorado vs Toronto, the Rockies scored 6 runs. The Blue Jays scored 45.

Has Donald told Switzerland yet how many gold watches they need to give him to reduce tariffs?

You don’t need a strategy session for telling the truth.

You don’t need to redraw congressional districts if what you’re doing is popular with voters.

You don’t need to fire the messenger when your policies bring good results. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Stephen Colbert on RFK Jr, just pulling $500 million for vaccine development: “We have 10 months of this show so I want to want to give a measured nonpartisan response – “F*ck you you roid-addled nepo-carnie.” No lies detected.

And now from the latest mass shooting, at Fort Stewart, we are told “There is no longer a threat to the public.” Until of course the next mass shooting.

JD Vance has a four-year old daughter. How can he justify his efforts to keep Epstein/Maxwell victims from getting justice? Asking for a disgusted country.

Again, why does Trump administration need a meeting at JD Vance’s house on Epstein files if their plan is just to tell the truth?

To be fair, Rubio had a decent if conservative record as a Senator so none of his colleagues knew how awful Marco would be as Secretary of State.

But EVERYONE knew that RFK Jr would be a dumpster fire at HHS. Zero excuses for anyone who voted to confirm him.

Let’s make a deal

August 6, 2025

ESPN plans to acquire NFL Network and the RedZone from the NFL. What’s Velveeta Voldemort going to demand for THIS deal to go through?

NY Yankees have dropped 5 in a row and if the season ended today would miss the postseason.

No punchline, just fun writing that.

Padres 10, Diamondbacks 5. Not that crazy a score. But in 11 innings?!! Tell me you ran out of pitching without telling me you ran out of pitching.

This headline “Top Trump officials will discuss Epstein strategy at Wednesday dinner hosted by Vance.” You know when you don’t need a “strategy?” When you just tell the truth.

Will keep reminding folks as Velveeta Voldemort’s adminstration tries to pretend Ghislaine Maxwell was a victim. She is not a victim. She is not just a procuress. She is a convicted child molester who participated in raping girls. Thank you for your attention to this matter.


So what happens when an increasing number of Americans file for unemployment and Velveeta Voldemort wants to keep the numbers low? Will he have their applications rejected? Or just fire anyone who reports the actual numbers?

So MAGA has ARREST THEM trending because Texas legislators have fled the state rather than vote on gerrymandering. If that’s an arrestable offense then when is DOJ going to arrest GOP House members who fled DC rather than vote on releasing the Epstein Files?

DOT Secretary Sean Duffy reportedly preparing to unveil expedited plans to build a nuclear reactor on the actual moon.

Guess he figures while you’re stuck in the airport getting repeated texts on flight delays, or sitting on the tarmac #23 for takeoff, that a nuclear reactor on the moon is a better diversion than worrying about further delays or near misses between planes.

So Velveeta Voldemort campaigned on promise of free IVF. And now Donald won’t even mandate that women can get IVF at any price, saying he can’t do it without ‘Congress first approving legislation to do so.” As if there’s ANYTHING else he’s respected Congressional authority on?

Trump is claiming he “is entitled to five more seats” because he won the “highest votes in the history of Texas.” Uh, leaving aside that George W. Bush won Texas with over 61.1% of the Vote, Donald had 56.3% in 2024. He didn’t even do better than Mitt Romney’s 57% in 2012!

Even when the NY Times says something a bit negative they are still sanewashing.: “Trump’s Demand to Trading Partners: Pledge Money or Get Higher Tariffs’ NY Times is leaving out the demands for stuff like free planes or that Brazil not prosecute his buddy Bolsonaro

On that 90,000 sq ft ballroom, planned to be bigger than entire current White House… Karoline Leavitt claims “White House currently unable to host major functions honoring world leaders in other countries without a tent.” She really thinks world leaders will want to come here?

Why isn’t this a bigger story?

Proposed White House ballroom will be 90,000 sq ft. The ENTIRE White House, including Executive Residence, East AND West Wings, currently has total floor area of approx 67,000 sq ft. Donald’s gilded party room will more than double the White House size.

Gentlemen, lift your umbrellas.

August 3, 2025

MLB’s Bristol Motor Speedway Classic sounded like great made-for-TV event.

Game to be played on the infield & 85,000 tickets sold. And ESPN reported the results of the rain-delayed game. A 4-2 Braves win over the Reds.

Not saying that the rain delay was.. overnight. So yes, a fun game. But also as reminder of why MLB doesn’t have team in Tennessee or North Carolina. (at least w/ outdoor stadium)

The Rockies put closer Seth Halvorsen on the 15th day IL with elbow strain.

Sad but a bit surprising. The 30-80 Rockies HAD a closer?

22 runs for SF Giants against NY Mets iin three games as they win the weekend series 2-1.

And out in the Mets bullpen are some New York relievers saying to new teammate Tyler Rogers…”Uh, didn’t the SF Giants trade you here because they couldn’t hit?

Donald Trump says he will name a new Labor Statistics official in “days” after he fired the last one. Translation, once Velveeta Voldemort has figured out who of his potential candidates will donate – and lie- the most.


NY Times’ Peter Baker “Trump’s war on facts has reached a new level and the message is clear: Government officials who deal in data now fear they have to toe the line and adopt his version of reality no matter how false or risk losing their job.”

If only Baker worked for a newspaper who had the power to expose Velveeta Voldemort’s insanity instead of sanewashing him.

And yes, actual NY Times headline this weekend

“Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook.” Says the newspaper that regularly bends the knee to sanewash Donald for access.

And one more

Really NY Times? This headline “Lashing Out Over Russia and Jobs Data, Trump Displays His Volatile Side.” “Volatile SIDE?” When it comes to volatility, Trump is a mobius strip.

“They’ve wanted a ballroom at the White House for more than 150 years.” Can anyone seriously give me an example of who “they” are? Other than the voices in Velveeta Voldemort’s head?

How long until ALL reports dealing with the economy will be delivered by Karoline Leavitt and written in Sharpie?

Senator Alex Padilla is correct: “If Republicans were confident on their policy agenda, they’d be eager to defend it with the people and to defend at the ballot box next November.

You don’t need to gerrymander when voters actually like what you are doing.

Pretty clear Donald wants to turn the White House into a tacky American version of Versailles. Does anyone think Velveeta Voldemort knows what happened to the last King to live at Versailles?

Fox News is all about fear

And they’re headlne is still headlining a drunken brawl in Cincinnati where nobody died.

Meanwhile, crickets on 4 murdered in Montana. Police looking for 45-year-old Michael Paul Brown, a US army veteran. Yes, the suspect is white.

Dogged days.

August 1, 2025

Colorado Rockies down 9-0 in the 1st against the Pirates, then down 16-10 in the 8th.

And the Rockies win, 17-10.

I remember Little League games like this. Especially in tournaments when teams run out of pitching.

Was crushed to see the SF Giants trade Tyler Rogers, my favorite Giants pitcher.

Was less crushed to put it mildly to see them trade Camilo Doval. Yankees fans tonight may understand why.

My post from yesterday: “Biggest headcase, brightest lights. What could possibly go wrong? (Wishing now former SF Giants pitcher Camilo Doval well, especially now that he is some other fans’ problem.)”

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Small detail in the controversy over renaming the Opera House at the Kennedy Center for Trump’s current wife. Melania is his THIRD wife.

Not exactly Christian family values. Though suppose it is operatic.

In 2024, Donald Trump made murder of NYPD’s Jonathan Diller during a traffic stop part of his Presidential campaign and attended the officer’s wake.

In 2025, let alone not attending the funeral he hasn’t even mentioned murdered NYPD officer’s Didarul Islam’s name. I wonder why.


Jobs numbers not only bad for July, but down 258,000 from June and July.

Increasingly convinced they are cooking the books on inflation too. The numbers don’t match grocery store receipts.

What’s next, Trump going to fire whoever reports how many Americans apply for SNAP and other food assistance.

Posted this on Twitter

A very very bad jobs report – “much weaker than expected.” AND previous months have been revised drastically downward. 258,000 for May and June less than reported. What’s Velveeta Voldemort doing to do about it? Fire the people who compile the data?

·It only took 2 hours…

Meanwhie, not making this up : Trump in a Newsmax interview on Karoline Leavitt: “She’s become a star. It’s that face. It’s that brain. It’s those lips. The way they move.”


“If she weren’t my 27 year old married press secretary maybe I’d be dating her..?”

(seriously not going to post it but if you’ve seen the interview…. he draws out “lips” – In many companies someone would be fired for that sort of sexual innuendo towards an employee)

For all the excuses Texas Republicans are using today to pretend their redistricting isn’t about getting more GOP House seats by disenfranchising minorities, no one is even trying to pretend the only “emergency” isn’t that Trump told them to do it. I miss Molly Ivins.

BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfar, who Trump is trying to fire for telling the truth about jobs was confirmed in the Senate in January 2024 by a vote of 86-8 – including then Senator JD Vance.

Wonder if a single Republican who voted for her, knowing she was capable, will defend her now?

Press Secretary Barbie Thursday started her press conference saying it is past time for Donald to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Velveeta Voldemort does seem obsessed with that Peace prize. Wonder if they offered to give it to him in exchange for his resignation?

Las Vegas tourism especially has fallen off a cliff.

Down perhaps 15% this summer.

Two reasons. Las Vegas is loved by British and Canadians. Both of whose tourists increasingly aren’t coming to US now And Las Vegas is also loved by middle America. Where residents increasely can’t afford to travel.

Trump lies. The economy dies

Multimillionaire car dealer & now Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno is pontificating today on Senate floor about cost of renovating the Federal Reserve. Funny, he is isn’t saying word one about the $200 million for a White House ballroom no one asked for.

I miss Sherrod Brown

Trump sent letters to 17 of world’s biggest drugmakers demanding lower prices by Sept. “If you refuse, we’ll deploy every tool in our arsenal to protect American families from abusive drug pricing practices.” Every tool in our arsenal?

Translation, Donald will demand a bribe.

Trump had posted that the August 1 trade deadline “will not be extended.” He is now giving Mexico a 90 day extension. It’s breakfast TACO time.

Meanwhile with tariffs announced at 39% on Switzerland, how many luxury gold watches will it take for Velveeta Voldemort to reduce them?