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Down and not quite out

September 30, 2025

Anyone who doesn’t think women are fit or tough enough to be in combat has never watched a WNBA playoff game

You do not want to be sitting around for next 8 months because you let another team play harder than you.” Former Spurs asst coach & current Aces head coach, Becky Hammon Neither Las Vegas nor Indiana let other team play harder One of best basketball playoff games ev

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How many NBA teams passed on then Spurs assistant coach Becky Hammon because she wasn’t “head coach material.” Gregg Popovich must be smiling tonight.

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Coulda, woulda, shoulda. Yes, SF Giants weren’t top team in the NL by a longshot But in a three-game wild card series with Logan Webb, Robbie Ray & a revitalized Justin Verlander, they COULD have knocked off anyone. And Buster Posey remembers 2014 with ONE star pitcher…

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So if per Pete Hegseth, every member of the the military must take a fitness test twice a year can we start with the Commander in Chief?

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Self-described sexual assault survivor Joni Ernst spent her time on Senate floor today attacking Chuck Schumer for allegedly being useless. Meanwhile the DOD Secretary SHE helped confirm announced he is basically eliminating women in military’s ability to report sexual assault.

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Senator Joni Ernst is a combat veteran and retired lieutenant colonel in the US Army. She voted to confirm Pete Hegseth, wonder if Ernst would able to qualify for the military under the “highest male standards” Hegseth wants to impose?

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Senator Amy. Klobuchar says she doesn’t understand why GOP colleague behind closed doors says Trump is wrong but still vote with him.. Amy’s taking high road. But I don’t have to.

One word #Cowards

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Mike Johnson lies & says of ACA subsidies: “They are arguing a December policy debate for a September funding issue.” Wrong, as Amy Klobuchar also keeps pointing out, premium hike notices go out Nov 1. “This is not a January issue, this is not a December issue, this is a NOW issue”

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Meanwhile the “Free speech” MAGA crowd is trying to cancel another network/show – today apparently Netflix. Can we start calling them MAHA – Make America Hypocrites Again?

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Fox News headline tonight.

When they’re right, they’re right. “Trump faces 3rd shutdown.” (Shutdowns during President Biden’s term – 0)

Fox News actually thinks this is a positive headline for Donald? “Trump taunts Democrat leaders with ‘Trump 2028’ hats in Oval Office as shutdown approaches”

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What gets me is that we all know Donald reneges on deals so he could very easily pretend to save healthcare for millions of Americans and then try to go back on it by EO later…

But he WANTS the pain now. #TrumpShutdown

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GOP has the White House.

GOP has the House

GOP has the Senate

And GOP is pretending that Democrats caused the shutdown

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Could be worse part 2 -baseball and beyond

September 30, 2025

June 12, 2025 SF Giants were 40-29 and holding the top NL wild card spot. Could be worse.

NY Mets were 45-24 with the best record in all of baseball.

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Never been a Mets fan. But sure would have loved to see Tyler Rogers strike out Shohei Ohtani with a 74 MPH curveball in the playoffs.

Hoping Buster Posey signs Tyler back for 2026

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And well, we won’t have Bob Melvin to kick around anymore.

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Only in America do you post at night about the last mass shooting and before noon the next day there’s another one. It’s the guns, stupid.

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For all those saying Democrats should just accept a stopgap to keep the government open and then negotiate… DEMOCRATS DID THIS ALREADY IN MARCH 2025.

Didn’t work then, won’t work now.

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Stephen Colbert quotes Trump sending troops to Portland over false Fox News report “Wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different than what’s happening? Remember Don DeLillo’s White Noise? “For most people there are only 2 places: where they live & their television set.”

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JD Vance lies and says “Democrats are basically saying to the American people, we want to give hundreds of billions of dollars to illegal aliens for their health care.

Same JD Vance who when pressed on claiming “they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats” admitted “he felt the need “to create stories so that the … media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people”.

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It still stuns me that the same state of Wisconsin who re-elected Tammy Baldwin somehow still managed to re-elect a tool like Ron Johnson.

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If Congressional healthcare benefits lapsed during a government shutdown, Republicans would have made a deal with Democrats weeks ago.

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Does anyone think Donald Trump’s saying he will “chair the Board of Peace to oversee the new Gaza” is anything but him planning to built Trump resorts in Gaza?

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GOP Sen. Roger Marshall, asked on Donald’ Trumps insane racist AI video of Jeffries & Schumer: (The video had a sombrero on Hakeem’s head. )

“Sometimes president plays with the press like a little boy & a flashlight & a dog. He’s shining the flashlight here & he’s shining it there…..” But he’s not a little boy. He’s the POTUS. In theory.

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Healthcare subsidies do not go to undocumented immigrants. GOP knows this. So why are they trying so hard to take healthcare away from Americans?

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Whatever lies GOP tells it is not radical to want Americans to be able to have and keep access to healthcare.

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MAGA Mike Johnson says he’s against ACA subsides but wants Dems to vote for “stopgap” to keep govt open so “we can have those debates.”

Uh Mike sent House home rather than debate Epstein files. And he won’t even swear in newest Dem rep.

He doesn’t want to debate, he wants GOP to rule.

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Not expecting Republicans to suddenly change their minds on gun control because of two major mass shootings in less than 24 hours… But just maybe GOP could start pushing back a little harder on Trump’s efforts to cut mental health funding for veterans?

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Serious question. We’ve often heard over the years about the FBI having stopped potential mass shootings before they happened… Is it possible that with Kash Patel’s FBI so focused on going after Trump’s perceived enemies they’ve missed signs in Minnesota, Michigan etc?

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Could have been worse….

September 27, 2025

Good news, Stanford rallied from 12 points down for a last minute comeback and won 30-29 against San Jose State.

Bad news, Stanford needed to rally from 12 points down for a last minute comeback to beat San Jose State.

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It did work out when Spencer Bivens came in to put out the fire.

But SF Giants manager Bob Melvint putting Ryan Walker into today’s game with a 4-2 lead to try to save the last start of the year for Justin Verlander should have been listed under “Insanity” in the dictionary

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With the government about to shutdown, Trump took Friday off to attend the Ryder Cup.

Now “Europe has set a record for largest Ryder Cup lead going into Sunday singles under format that dates to 1979: Europe 11.5, USA 4.5.” Almost as if #ETTD

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Noticing the Sunday Shows lineups: ABC, NBC & CBS, CNN all have both Democrats and Republicans.

Fox News Sunday has just J.D. Vance, while Fox Sunday Futures has 3 Republicans & John Fetterman.

And some wonder why Fox News viewers have a warped view of the world?

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Trump now telling parents to have five separate vaccine appointments. At the same time he and GOP are stripping healthcare from millions of Americans. And many working parents already struggle to find time for every doctor visit.

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For those worried that Trump’s will use potential shutdown as justification to order agencies to fire federal employees working for programs that are “not consistent with the president’s priorities.” We know he wants to fire those people eventually anyway.

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Sinclair’s ABC stations stopped preempting “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” starting Sept. 26. Sounds like genuflecting before Trump took a back seat to ratings and profits…

Oh please. As Trump says he is now releasing Amelia Earhart files, remember, the aviator was 39 when she disappeared. An age when Donald probably would have said “She wouldn’t have been my choice.”

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If he didn’t write this card, Fox News would be talking about it, with a handwriting expert, nonstop.

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Rich get richer

September 26, 2025

Top 10 payrolls in MLB

All but the Astros, Rangers and Braves will make the playoffs.

(They never did know how to spend money in Texas.)

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RANKTEAMTOTAL PAYROLL
1Dodgers$348,867,360
2Mets$339,505,504
3Yankees$297,900,541
4Phillies$289,556,399
5Blue Jays$253,608,426
6Astros$231,140,374
7Rangers$223,543,444
8Braves$217,340,553
9Padres$215,787,481
10Cubs$210,695,945-

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And Republicans shouldn’t be feeling smug and safe. Comey was a Republican. John Bolton is a Republican, Liz Cheney is a Republican, Mike Pence is a Republican….

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So uh, if this Comey case actually gets to trial, does that mean the former FBI director can bring up Russian collusion as a defense?

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For all GOP meekly standing by as Donald directs pure retribution indictment against Comey.. James handed Trump Presidency w/ his Oct 2016 statement on Hillary’s emails. John Bolton endorsed Trump in 2016 & almost was his SOS. Sooner or later, everyone ends up under the bus.

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Today it’s a Comey indictment… Anyone keeping a list, or starting a bingo card, of all the things Trump has done to distract from the Epstein files?

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Donald is putting a whole new spin on the phrase “Trumped up charges!”

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Coffee prices are up over 20% in the last year.

Hey MAGA, Donald isn’t just distracting you from the Epstein files. He’s trying to distract you from the fact it’s getting harder to wake up in the morning

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Trump says today he’s going to take “a little money” and “give it to our farmers..

But I thought tariffs only hurt other countries.

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“I settled seven wars” is Donald’s new “big strong men with tears in their eyes…”

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Yes – real Fox News headline about Trump new UN ambassador.

Waltz calls UN mishaps during Trump speech ‘unacceptable,’ vows funding freeze until reforms.

Waltz says escalator, teleprompter & audio problems during president’s address are under Secret Service investigation.” USA is not now a serious country

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Returning the favor

September 25, 2025

After the St Louis Cardinals eliminated the SF Giants from post-season contention, the SF Giants did the the same to the Cardinals today.

Not that either at this point were over 1-2% “So you’re saying there’s a chance…”

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Tyler Rogers was traded from the SF Giants to the Mets at the end of July

And he STILL leads the Giants in “holds” for 2025 with 20.

No one else is close (Rodriguez had 13, Miller had 10.)

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Meanwhile, this SI headline “Tom Brady Has Had Enough of the ‘Paranoid and Distrustful’ Who Claim He Has a Conflict of Interest.” (In being a minority Raiders owner & a broadcaster) And why should anyone not believe the HOF QB suspended over “deflategate?””

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GOP leader John Thune says Democrats demands are “unhinged.” It’s unhinged to care about healthcare for millions of Americans? It’s unhinged to want to stop President from taking away money Congress has approved? Okay then. When someone tells you who they are, believe them

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Okay, who had this Fox News headline on their batsh*t bingo card? “Secret Service investigating after president, first lady forced to walk up escalator.”

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Joe Biden is 82 years old. If the escalator broke while he was in the UN, he and Jill would have just laughed and quietly walked up the stairs.

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So is Trump actually trying to turn the UN escalator into a Reichstag Fire moment?

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz yesterday on Donald’s rant “Not only do they need to be fired, they need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. It’s a miracle the President ever made it up the stairs.”


Before I started paying attention to Amy Klobuchar I was not familiar with “Minnesota nice” snark. But it’s an art form. Thank you Governor Walz.

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Went to high school near Orlando, and our congressman was Richard Kelly. He’s notable now only as GOP congressman convicted of taking bribes in 1980 Abscam scandal. Kelly was before his time. These days Trump would promote him.

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Jimmy Kimmel’s return last night was his most-watched monologue ever. Wonder how many viewers watched the show on Youtube for the first time? Sinclair may inadvertently have accelerated an increasing American exit from broadcast television.

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Can’t be the only person who has watched Jimmy Kimmel more in last two days than like ever…

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This is the way the season ends

September 23, 2025

With a lot of bangs (from the Cardinals) and after a couple big innings, an offensive whimper. 8-3 lead after 6 innings blown. #SFGiants

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Misery loves company. SF Giants’ Ryan Walker statistically is almost the worst closer in baseball. 16 saves, 7 blown saves

The only worse closer in 2025 is Tanner Scott 22 saves, 10 blown saves. #BeatLA

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Indiana Fever have been playing on fire without Caitlin Clark

And Las Vegas Aces, including A’Ja Wilson, probably underestimated them & came out flat in game 1 of round 2 of WNBA semi-finals. Not tonight. Aces 90-Fever 68.

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Las Vegas coach Becky Hammon said after game one she implored her players to get “a little feisty”

Wonder if there were a few adjectives her public statement left out.

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If Jimmy Kimmel is really that unfunny Sinclair and Nexstar should air all his shows and let ratings make the decision. It’s not about profit, it’s about fear of antagonizing Donald.

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It makes sense if you realize that everything RFK Jr. and Trump are trying to blame autism on comes down to blaming women.

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The UN escalator wouldn’t do Trump’s bidding this morning. Making it braver than almost any U.S. Republican.

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Joe Biden is 82 years old. If the escalator broke while he was in the UN, he and Jill would have just laughed and quietly walked up the stairs.

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And now GOP Senator Bill Cassidy is asking for evidence on Trump’s Tylenol and pregnancy claims. It would have been so much easier if Dr. Cassidy had just voted “no” at RFK Jr’s confirmation…

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Last sentence from Amy Klobuchar tonight on “The Last Word”

“Presidents should take responsiblity.” She’s right. Can anyone remember Trump taking responsibility for ANYTHING?

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Beyond summer

September 22, 2025

Shawn Estes on SF Giants “They picked a bad time to play the worst baseball…” Uh, that bad time was late June and July and early August….

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Meanwhile, understand that Willy Adames, who signed with the SF Giants and left the Milwaukee Brewers, won’t be in the postseason.

But, maybe the Brewers could make him their designated Gatorade thrower? IYKYK

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Donald Trump will address the UN general assembly Tuesday

. White House says speech will be focused on American strength, and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Donald “will articulate his straightforward and constructive vision for the world.” Wanna bet?

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“Tough it out” “Fight like hell not to take it (Tylenol)” Trump hates women. But we knew that from E. Jean Carroll, over 2 dozen other women, and his Epstein birthday card. For starters.

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Tylenol was only OTC drug approved to treat not just pain relief but fever during pregnancy. (Advil & ibuprofen can cause birth defects. ) Fevers also can cause birth defects. It’s not just quack medicine. It’s cruel, will cause pregnant women pain & worse. GOP hates women.

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So how long until Trump tells pregnant women they can’t have painkillers during labor and delivery?

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Carol Leonnig on MSNBC points out the Tom Homan case didn’t start with iooking into Homan FBI agents in Texas had subject in another investigation keep mentioning that Homan was soliciting bribes, so they finally looked into it. And yes, he was RECORDED accepting a bag of cash.

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Sinclair Broadcasting now says their 30 ABC affiliated stations will not air Jimmy Kimmel when he returns to air Tuesday. Am reminded of when “One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” book was banned in our high school when a parent complained. The book sold out at local stores!.

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Unexpected..

September 21, 2025

Okay, who had the Indiana Fever making the WNBA playoffs without Caitlin Clark

And then upsetting the Atlanta Dream in round one.

And then winning game one of round two against the Las Vegas Aces?

Now all you liars put your hands down.

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Meanwhile while the Mets have been in near free fall for weeks, who had the team most likely to catch them for the second wild card be the Cincinnati Reds?

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And the New Orleans Saints are putting themselves in position to decide between drafting Arch Manning or LSU’s Garrett Nussmeier.

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For years, Pac 12 college football games finished way too late for anyone on East Coast…

But Michigan State-USC, w/ 4th quarter starting after 11p Pacific time, finished too late for many fans on WEST Coast. (Have to wonder how Spartans were feeling after 2a their time too)

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FBI didn’t randomly go after Tom Homan. “Investigation launched in Texas summer 2024 after “subject in separate investigation claimed Homan soliciting payments in exchange for awarding contracts should Trump win presidential election.” MSBNC has receipts.


And the $50,000 cash is what he took from FBI undercover agents. Wonder how much he took from others?

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Wait, Donald now says he stopped the conflict between Cambodia and Armenia. For those who aren’t into geography – Distance between Cambodia and Armenia is approximately 4,188 miles. They don’t exactly have much to fight over.

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Trump attack on liberals; “one part of our political community believes they have monopoly on truth, goodness & virtue, & concludes they also have a monopoly on power, thought & speech.” WTAF? Donald just got a COMEDIAN fired. He wants to shut up anyone who criticizes him.

-Somebody get grandpa a map.

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Two white American men w/ histories of domestic violence killed five police officers responding to DV calls in the last month (UT & PA.) One white American man murdered Charlie Kirk. Why is only Kirk’s murder being ascribed to a “they?”

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Meanwhile, while Big Beautiful Betrayal cut $187 billion from food stamps & CBO estimated 10% of those enrolled- about 4 million people- would lose at least some assistance, Trump’s USDA is now ending government’s annual report on hunger..

Pro life my ass.

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For years, women have been told aspirin may be dangerous during pregnancy & to take Tylenol. Now, perhaps to placate his insane HHS Secretary RFK Jr, or to distract from the Epstein files, Trump is going to warn against Tylenol. Yet another way to make women suffer.

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On top of the absurdity of pretending there’s a link between Tylenol and autism, Monday’s announcement will be just one more way that Trump team is attacking and scapegoating women. (While ignoring that older FATHERS have a higher chance of autistic children.)

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As Trump mocks Biden’s cancer & calls him an SOB, reminder, when Donald was shot, Joe issued immediate statement saying he was grateful Trump was safe & “There’s no place in America for this kind of violence. We must unite as one nation to condemn it.”

We are not the same.

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This is the way the world ends..

September 20, 2025

Not with a bang but a whimper

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Sort of describes how the SF Giants season is ending.

(Let’s hope the same isn’t true for our democracy.)

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Although, Clayton Kershaw gets a generous called strike three for his last pitch to SF Giants Rafael Devers, maybe his last start as a Los Angeles Dodger. Well, to be fair, if anyone’s earned it.

Still wish we could have seen Madbum take him deep one more time…

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Just saying, these WNBA playoff early round games are a lot more interesting than most NBA playoff games.

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So now the President who keeps demanding a Nobel Peace prize has a draft bill to start a drug trafficking war… which would authorize him to kill anyone he thinks MIGHT be involved with drug smuggling.

Okay then…

A third boat obliterated and alleged drug trafficker killed So is Trump just going to start blowing up random boats now to distract from the Epstein files?

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Btw, Florida Judge Steven D. Merryday, who threw out Trump’s lawsuit against the NY Times, is a Republican appointed by George H.W. Bush, who supported Ron DeSantis in cases against COVID rules. NOT a liberal.

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RFK Jr’s new vaccine advisers declined to recommend COVID vaccines “leaving the choice up to those who want a shot.” What’s next – seatbelts becoming optional again?

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So how can anyone question if “The View” is really a news program, without doing the same for “The Five?” Asking for a country, and a GOP-led Congress, that knows better.

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Sept 12, this quote talking about Charlie Kirk’s “senseless murder.”

“I’ve seen a lot of extraordinarily vile responses. Some people are cheering this, which is something I won’t ever understand.” The speaker?

Jimmy Kimmel during his monologue.

Seems like media ought to cover that too.

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Amy Klobuchar has been making this point over and over.

Four Republicans would have kept RFK Jr from dismantling our HHS.

Four Republicans would have kept Kash Patel from dismantling the FBI.

Four Republicans would have kept Pete Hegseth out of DOD, or rather what he calls DOW.

She’s not saying it but I will. Many of the 53 Senators know better. What’s their excuse?

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Happening in threes

September 18, 2025

Two WNBA game threes, decided by a hotel of three points. (Aces 74-73 over Storm. Fever 87-85 over Dream.)

(Meanwhile despite sold out games and #ratings, many if not most losing players have to fly to Europe to play because of low WNBA salaries…)

SF Giants have literally scored 1 run total -on 1 hit per game- through the 9th inning of their last 2 games. And they somehow won one of those games.

Not tonight, they were 0-7 with RISP vs. Dodgers Forget “Nothing like it.” Team motto should be “One hit away.”

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Meanwhile, who knew that the Indiana Fever, even without Caitlin Clark, have become a pretty darn good WNBA team?

I love sports.

How many NBA teams passed on Becky Hammon because they didn’t think she was head coaching material?

@LVAces

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As RFK Jr’s panel now recommends children don’t get MMR II vaccines,

Sen. Bill Cassidy has now invited HHS Secretary to testify before the Senate Health committee. “Because Trump called for radical transparency….”

If Cassidy only had had a vote at RFK Jr’s confirmation…

(And if he only had a vote now in the Senate.)

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Could any reporter ask any GOP member of Congress if they would feel okay with a future Democratic president firing Greg Gutfeld because he/she didn’t like what Greg says on his show?

Asking for a country.

There’s a reason it’s the FIRST amendment.

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3 officers murdered in an ambush responding to a domestic violence call in Pennsylvania.

2 others shot & labrador retriever killed. Not a word from Trump.

That’s how we know killer was young white male US citizen. Cody Becker, Mark Baker, Isaiah Emenheiser #sayTHEIRnames

I am so old I remember when the way to get a television show off the air was enough Americans changing the channel to have the ratings go down.

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Is it possible what really upset Trump was Kimmel mocking response to being asked how he was holding up after death of his friend Charlie Kirk?

“I think very well & btw, see all the trucks, they just started on the new ballroom…

Kimmel “He’s in the 4th state of grief – construction.”

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“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” is mob speak.

‘On Sept 30, the ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) fee for tourist and other visitorsvisa waiver countries increases from $21 to $40. $21 included $17 for travel promotion.

New fee has $10 for ESTA system operations + $13 levy for US Treasury General Fund(!!?) Is Trump TRYING to kill tourism?

(And where’s that $13 for the General Fund going?”)

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Hearing GOP Senator Todd Young honoring 100 yr-old vet: “I would do anything for my country.”

It’s not that today’s GOP wouldn’t do ANYTHING for their country. They won’t even vote to release Epstein files because they’d rather protect pedophiles. Maybe one in particular.

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Stephen Colbert commenting on British reports that despite Windsor Castle using fine Egyptian cotton, Trump had his own bed linen shipped in from the US. “That’s not surprising to me. Always suspected that Donald sheets his own bed.”

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Stephen Colbert “Welcome to the “Emmy-winning Late Show. We should have gotten canceled years ago…” Speaking of Emmys. Donald Trump doesn’t have one.” Is Donald going to try to cancel the Emmys now too?

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Trump actually said yesterday “he’s 1st American president to ever visit Windsor Castle.” Uh.

Actually the fourth. But tell us again how Joe Biden was old.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/see-every-u-president-visited-132858609.html

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How many times did late night talk show hosts make fun of Joe Biden? How many of them did he have fired? Asking for a country that still has a Constitution with the First Amendment.

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So many claim to support free speech. But Molly Ivins was a true free speech warrior

In 2003, on when Texas declared MLK Day a holiday: “And the Klan announced that it was coming to Austin to have a big march and a rally to protest this terrible thing. Now, it’s always awful, it’s always a real pain in the butt when the Kluckers come to march. It upsets the black citizens, it upsets the Jewish citizens. Skinhead kids turn out to cheer for them, people get in fist fights on the sidewalk, and everybody’s mad at everybody for a good six months. And it is one’s bounded duty as a good American citizen, as a civil libertarian, a believer in the constitution and the principle of free speech, to stand up for the right of these blue-bellied nincompoops to spew whatever vicious dribble they want to. It says so right there in the first amendment. And I will tell you that this is a stand that will make you about as popular as a whore trying to get in to the SMU School of Theology…..”

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High Gatorade mark…

September 16, 2025

On Friday night Sept 12, the SF Giants beat the LA Dodges with a walkoff grand slam by Patrick Bailey.

They haven’t won since.

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Meanwhile, in the NFL, there is controversy over Fox News broadcaster and Oakland Raiders part owner Tom Brady sitting in the coaching booth for games, and getting potential inside information before pre-games that could benefit his team..

The man who got the benefit of most NFL calls on the field might now be getting preferential treatment and inside information as an owner? I am shocked, shocked…

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As we remember Robert Redford in “All the President’s Men,” remember that Richard Nixon was openly hostile to the Washington Post, but publisher Katharine Graham refused to bow to him. Jeff Bezos, you’re no Katharine Graham.

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As Trump visits Great Britain… A YouGov poll in July found 16% of Britons surveyed say they have a positive view of him…. That high?

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“I’ve never loved my country more desperately. God Bless America.” Stephen Colbert, accepting his Emmy award.

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RIP Robert Redford. This exchange from “The Way We Were” always stuck with me. Hubbell, “I don’t see how you can do it.” Katie “And I don’t see how you can’t” Worth watching if you haven’t seen it, or if you have forgotten. Set partly during the McCarthy era…

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NY Times, once again with a headline that is, to say the least, understated. “In an Era of Deep Polarization, Unity Is Not Trump’s Mission President Trump does not subscribe to the traditional notion of being president for all Americans.”

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MSNBC reporting that ICE came into Hyundai plant with warrants for four Hispanic men. And left with almost 500 handcuffed & shackled South Korean men. Men now complaining about really bad treatment… Why would ANY foreign government consider building a plant now in USA?

So are any of the big law firms who genuflected before Velveeta Voldemort now being asked to donate legal services to his efforts to sue the NY Times? Asking for a country who would really like to see the release of the Epstein files.

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Molly Ivins was one of my heroes. While liberal she believed in free speech. Left half her estate to the ACLU.

Can still remember meeting her in 1993 at Printer’s Ink in Palo Alto and hearing her say “Ya’ll think free speech is easy. It’s not. If you believe in it you have to believe in free speech for Skokie neoNazis.”

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Trump fundraising email today:

“The Radical Left wants one thing & one thing only: TO IMPEACH ME AND REMOVE ME FROM OFFICE LIKE A DOG!”

1. Liberals want many things, healthcare, education, vaccines, food security, clean air/water etc…

2. But on a simpler note, he uses “dog” like it’s a slur.

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Meanwhile, over in England, Queen Camilla just said she is sick and is avoiding meeting Donald, leaving the duty to her husband.

We are all Camilla.

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Taking the fifth

September 13, 2025


Riley Gaines is now a Fox commentator on Charlie Kirk shooting?

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This woman has profited more out of a tie for fifth place than most swimmers do from an Olympic Gold medal

Meanwhile, for those of us who enjoy sports as a fun distraction from the rest of the world. “The NCAA announced Thursday that it is pursuing gambling infractions cases involving 13 former players from six different schools…:”

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NY Times. “How Law Enforcement Got the Man Suspected of Killing Charlie Kirk F.B.I. leaders touted the immense federal deployment assigned to find the assassin. But their big break came with a single tip — from the suspect’s own family.”

Shorter translation. His dad turned him in.

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I don’t think it’s getting enough coverage how sociopathic this POTUS response is…

Reporter “: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?

TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they’ve been trying to get for about 150 years. And it’s gonna be a beauty. It’ll be an absolutely magnificent structure.

-Nor does he get called out enough. on complete BS


Donald. ” California doesn’t have ballot boxes. They send out 38 million ballots, nobody know where they are going and they come back, Democrats get more than Republicans. It is unfair…

In California you are notified when your vote by mail ballot is being sent

And then when they receive it, and when it has been verified and “will be counted.”

And they do verify.

My husband once scrawled an illegible signature. He got his sent back with a letter saying, return it with a signature that matches or bring it in person.

-National Guard members have civilian jobs in their regular lives. How many lives and businesses is Donald upsetting with these deployments?

If social media seems worse post Kirk murder.. Utah Governor Spencer Cox. “Many posts fueling outrage are not from fellow Americans. Our adversaries want violence. Bots from Russia, China, all over world, trying to instill disinformation & encourage violence.”

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New York state of mind?

September 12, 2025

Are the Mets ever going to win again?

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Although today now NY Mets reliever Tyler Rogers just shut down the Phillies lineup on six pitches.

None above 84 MPH.

But yeah, he’s been in the league since 2019. They’ll figure him out soon.

#ForeverGiant

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NCAA just banned three D1 men’s basketball players permanently as Committee on Infractions found they participated in gambling.

This included not just betting on their own games but “manipulating” their own performances. More on story later this week brought to you by Draftkings?

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Senate Republicans today trigger ‘nuclear option,’ changing rules to speed up Trump nominees

Almost as if they never think Democrats will be the majority again.

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So Israel attacks Qatar and Russia violates Poland’s air space but it’s okay, because Donald and his reality show DOD secretary are on the job renaming it the Department of War.

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Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden regularly went out for meals in Washington DC Imagine if any of them had been out to a photo op meal while Russia sent drones over a NATO county. GOP and media would be calling for their impeachment.

Some people don’t want most people to vote.

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Really hope they catch Charlie Kirk’s killer alive. Not that I would be against him getting the death penalty, but the conspiracy theories as to motive and everything else would be off the charts if he was “shot resisting arrest.”

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Kash Patel’s FBI has been focused on Trump’s perceived enemies. Not on possible domestic terrorism. After the Minnesota school shooting it came out that the killer had been posting online about plans… Were there signs before this shooting too?

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Molly Ivins was a hero of mine She used to stay defending free speech was hard, because it meant defending people & speech you really didn’t like. But it was important. She was right. Think Charlie Kirk was wrong at the top of his lungs. But he didn’t deserve to die for it.


Maybe this would be a good day for President Trump to consider reinstating Secret Service protection for Kamala Harris?

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I’m sorry Charlie Kirk was murdered. Hoping his killer can be brought to justice.

But we don’t know the suspect or motive yet In the meantime, talking about assassinated martyrs Melissa Hortman. (and Gilbert)

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Coming up Aces

September 10, 2025


The Las Vegas Aces just activated Cheyenne Parker-Tyus. She is eligible for the last two games of the season and the postseason. Cheyenne missed the 1st 42 games of WNBA season because she gave birth to a son on July 1 . Weaker sex my ass.


In a divided country sometimes doesn’t seem like there’s anything Democrat and Republicans agree on. Except that the San Francisco 49ers made the right move by waiving Jake Moody.

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Not sure what the MLB record is for stumbling into the playoffs.

But seeming like the New York Mets are looking to break it…

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JD Vance “Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump”?

Mr. “grab them by the p**sy?” Mr. “I moved on her like a b*tch?” Mr. “If she wasn’t my daughter maybe I’d be dating her?” Since you asked, yes, it sounds EXACTLY like him.

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This actually did age well.

The birthday book certainly puts a new possible spin on Putin’s reputed Trump “pee tapes.”

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SCOTUS at least temporarily is allowing ICE to question & detain people based on factors like a person’s ethnicity or them speaking Spanish. FIFA, if you’re listening, not too late to move the World Cup and avoid a disaster.

Hey Fox New viewers, especially women They won’t show you this, but this is how your leader Trump feels about women.

·”Things that take place in the home they call crime….If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this is a crime.”

As Trump got a West Point group to cancel an award for Tom Hanks, who has done serious work on behalf of veterans, think it’s time for the Oscars to give Tom a lifetime achievement award. Not only would it be the right thing but #RATINGS

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Donald pretended to be “brave” to meet his cabinet at a DC restaurant Trump doesn’t have the cojones to meet with Epstein victims.

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The past, present & future of MAGA.

1. There’s no Epstein birthday card

2. Trump didn’t sign the birthday card.

3. The signature is a forgery

4. So what if he signed the card.

5. The girls were asking for it.

6. The girls should be punished for lying about Dear Leader. #Cult

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So if he lied about signing a birthday card what else has he lied about?

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Watching Trump use government to attack all his perceived enemies, increasingly wondering, are GOP members of Congress just political cowards

Or have Donald’s minions dug up dirt on most of them?

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So some GOP politicians are claiming that a fraudster knew in 2003 – back when Trump was a Democrat- that Jeffrey Epstein would be convicted of horrific sex crimes & Donald would become a Republican President. And so they faked Trump’s signature? Two words Yeah. Right.

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If he’s innocent, why didn’t Trump just say the Epstein birthday card was “locker room banter?”

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John Thune and John Cornyn are wringing his hands over some of Trump’s nominees “having had to put their lives on hold” because of what he calls a Democratic blockade.

Funny, I missed GOP outrage when Tuberville blocked over 450 (!) military appointments.

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ICYMI.

GOP/MAGA is fine with Russia bombing Ukraine into rubble; killing civillian women and children on a daily basis.

They are good with deporting Ukrainian refugees who may be killed when they return.

But when a Ukranian woman is murdered here, they profess outrage.

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Not quite after midnight

September 7, 2025


How many people on the East Coast went to bed and turned off this Bills Ravens game? Heck, how many Buffalo Bills fans went home?

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Lost in the insanity of the last four minutes of Bills-Ravens game. Buffalo got ball at their own 27 with 25 seconds left in first half. No time outs. And Josh Allen got them, (pass, spike, pass) downfield for FG where review had to prove there was 1 second left.

(And it didn’t even take a defensive F*up like the one that caused the “Minnesota Miracle” vs. New Orleans

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Am a Saints fan but this from Josh Allen “People who left the stadium, that’s okay, we’ll be fine. Have some faith next time.”

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Back to baseball, as the SF Giants go back to reality


So of course the first game the SF Giants lost in the past two weeks in truly awful fashion happens to be a blown win for Justin Verlander…


As competitive as he is, what about Justin Verlander trying the closer role for SF Giants next year?

Or late inning(s) of a tie game. Could pick up a win or more that way too. 🙂

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Anyone think If asked this morning at the White House, Trump could have named the two men in the US Open final?

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Imagine you’ve splurged for a bucket list trip to the men’s final. And you miss part of it because a “monstrous man baby” decided he wanted to spend millions in taxpayer dollars and show up to watch.

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Fox News apoplectic on “Free speech” over UK comedian being arrested at Heathrow over tweet urging violence against trans-activists. (He was ordered to stay off Twitter.) Please. Trump wants to take Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship because he doesn’t like what she says about HIM.

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As much as Fox News loves to praise Dear Leader’s deportations I’m waiting for all the stories of Americans who are thrilled to have gotten the construction, manufacturing, hospitality, agriculture etc jobs GOP CLAIMS immigrants have been taking from US citizens…

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And what Fox News doesn’t cover often says as much as what they do. Fox website not covering Trump’s bragging on new “Rose Garden Club” at White House. Almost as if they know viewers would be appalled by fancy dinners for GOP politicians/donors while Donald slashes food assistance.

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So was Trump unhappy because a Spanish speaking man won the US Open today?

Or because he couldn’t threaten Rolex into enough free watches over his threatened Swiss tariffs?

Fellow Democrats.

Didn’t seem to matter on a national level that New York City elected a man now indicted for multiple felonies as their current mayor. Why should it matter if NYC elects a democratic socialist this time? We have more important issues to argue about.

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1 in 10 jobs in USA is supprted by tourism. World Travel & Tourism Council projected in May that United States will lose $12.5 billion in international visitor spending in 2025. USA was only country out of 184 economies that will see decline in 2025. Are we great yet?

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So you’re saying there’s a chance

September 5, 2025

SF Giants have won 11-12 and are now up to a 4.2% chance of making the playoffs.

They’re just f*cking with us, aren’t they?

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So again, the man who begs daily for a Nobel Peace Prize is renaming the Pentagon the Department of War… Okay then…

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A question for anyone with a MAGA friend or relative. If it were YOUR daughter or granddaughter raped by Jeffrery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, how would you feel about Ghislaine being transferred to a country club prison?

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The Kennedy name is still golden in America.

If only Senators had paid more attention to Caroline: “I’ve known Bobby my whole life. No surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets, because Bobby himself is a predator.” “My father & both uncles, RFK & Ted, would be “disgusted” by him.”

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Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, in ending all of the state’s vaccine mandates: “Who am I to tell as a government or anyone else to tell you what to put in your body?” So, small mercies, he’s going to say women have the right to contraception and the abortion pill?

Disney World is a BFD. And parents and grandparents will consider California’s Disneyland or something else if Florida drops vaccine mandates.

But why is none of the media talking about what getting rid of vaccine mandates may also do to Florida’s convention business? Orlando alone has recently gotten about $4 BILLION a year from meetings/conventions.

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Not just a dismal August jobs report of only 22,000 new jobs, but nonfarm June payroll date was revised to say economy actually LOST 13,000 jobs. So who’s Velveeta Voldemort going to fire this time?

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Diversions

September 4, 2025

Yeah, there are more important things, but one advantage of being a sports fan is that as scary as the world can be, you can still take pleasure in small things. Like the Dodgers being swept by the Pirates.

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And the Dallas Cowboys losing…

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Some talk about how the brawl in Colorado this week really bonded the SF Giants as a team. Believe it but as a woman sports fan have to laugh. Overgeneralization perhaps but women often bond over great conversation, men bond fighting together….

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But okay SF Giants at a 4.6% chance of the postseason are now the 7th place team with the biggest chance to end up as the final wild card.


Sports broadcaster Kate Scott has been assigned to call Vikings-Steelers on Sept. 28 for Westwood One, the official network audio broadcast partner of the NFL. She will become the first female play-by-play announcer to call an NFL game.

Remember her from KNBR years ago. You go girl.

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Exactly ONE year ago today. Sept 4, 2024. What a difference a year makes. Trump teases releasing Epstein client list if elected: ‘I’d certainly take a look at it’

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It’s actually pretty simple. And need to keep saying this

If the Epstein Files didn’t have Trump’s name in them then Velveeta Voldemort would have them released and read nightly on Fox News to prove the accusations are a Democratic hoax.

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New Ohio Senator Jon Husted praising Trump & attacking DC as having been crime-ridden. Cleveland is regularly on list of most dangerous cities in the US.

So why aren’t he & Gov. DeWine asking for National Guard in Ohio? Ohio, please fix your error & bring back Sherrod Brown.

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On different note, bipartisan coalition who have introduced legislation to ban stock trading by members of Congress is something.

One of most unusual groups of legislators to ever share a dias: Led by RI Dem Seth Magazine & TX GOP Chip Roy. Including Anna Paulina Luna & AOC.

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Surprise, Fox News did not covering the Epstein victims’ news conference.

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Am all for severe penalties for drug dealers.. But Fox headline “Jaw-dropping footage shows moment U.S. missile vaporizes Venezuela ‘drug boat’ as Trump reveals 11 Tren de Aragua gang members were killed.” Besides due process issues do we trust Trump as to who IS a gang member?

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Legislation passed on bipartisan basis in Congress to give gold medals to police officers who protected US Capitol on Jan. 6. 140 officers were injured, 15 hospitalized.

Where are GOP members of Congress who KNOW pardons were wrong and compensation for rioters is much worse?

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So a trans person shoots kids in school and GOP wants to take guns away from all trans people.

An anti-vaxxer tries to shoot employees at CDC building and kills a police officer. By that logic shouldn’t we take guns away from all anti-vaxxers? For starters.

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Lawrence O’Donnell points out something not getting enough attention: Today in RFK Jr’s hearing. Idaho GOP Senator Mike Crapo refused to put RFK Jr under oath… As if perjury would have stopped him, but still…

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Trump administration today said it will drop Biden plan to require airlines to pay passengers cash compensation for airline caused flight delays. American, Delta and United all donated $1 million to Donald’s inaugural.

Chaos up, corruption up, costs up.

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Has Donald even tried to fabricate an excuse why voting to release the Epstein Files would be a “hostile act?”

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Many countries have the death penalty for drug smugglers. Singapore and Indonesia for examples. So by Trump logic, if Americans travel to either country and their government suspects them of drug trafficking they can just shoot them?

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As Trump increasingly is using government to go after all his perceived enemies now wondering.. Are some of these members of Congress genuflecting before him because he has threatened to audit their taxes, financial records, mortgage records, etc and/or those of their families?

So the man who begs daily for a Nobel Peace Prize is renaming the Pentagon the Department of War… Okay then…

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Good, bad, and really ugly

September 2, 2025

Biil Belichick’s UNC Tar Heels were beaten by TCU 48-14

“We’re better than what we were tonight… ” Belichick said. So he thinks his team should have only lost by two touchdowns?

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Meanwhile, on Sunday, Justin Verlander threw 121 pitches, including 10 strikeouts, leaving with a 7-0 lead, after h five innings, which got him career win 265. As I’ve said before, at 42 , Justin remains one of the most competitive people alive.

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Wonder if he’d considering trying becoming a closer at 43?

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Senator Bill Cassidy, MD, is countering arguments on Twitter against giving the Hepatitis B vaccine at birth. While I appreciate effort he is making, he has the Twitter reach (fewer than 100,000 followers) of tens of thousands of educated people. And uneducated people. But he had an actual VOTE on RFK Jr.

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WTF? NY Times reports than Jan. 6 rioters now want COMPENSATION for their prosecutions. With a panel perhaps overseen by Jeanine Pirro!. So uh, how many of the over 140 officers injured on that date will be allowed to testify? Brian Sicknick would if he could.

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Perhaps yet ANOTHER distraction from Epstein files But Donald, or a staffer writing for him, has announced that Rudy Giuliani, “will receive THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM, our Country’s highest civilian honor.” Your reminder that Giuliani has been permanently disbarred.


Anyone need more reason to despise RFK Jr? His 1st wife committed suicide, after finding journal of his adulteries. Her family wanted Mary buried near their home, RFK Jr won court case against them to bury her in Kennedy compound. Then had her MOVED further away from the main family.

https://www.politico.com/story/2012/07/rfk-jr-moved-wifes-grave-078430

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NY Times headline: “Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science” What was their first clue?

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I’m so old I remember when Republicans wanted Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to step down just because he wasn’t forthcoming about being in the hospital for treatment.

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