This is the way the world ends..

Posted September 20, 2025 by left coast sports babe
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Not with a bang but a whimper

Sort of describes how the SF Giants season is ending.

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

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…

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

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

Happening in threes

Posted September 18, 2025 by left coast sports babe
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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.”

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

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.)

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.

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.

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.”

“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?”)

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.

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.”

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?

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

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.

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…..”

High Gatorade mark…

Posted September 16, 2025 by left coast sports babe
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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.

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…

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.

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?

“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…


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.

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.”

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.

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.

Taking the fifth

Posted September 13, 2025 by left coast sports babe
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Riley Gaines is now a Fox commentator on Charlie Kirk shooting?

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…:”

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.


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.”

New York state of mind?

Posted September 12, 2025 by left coast sports babe
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Are the Mets ever going to win again?

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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?

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?

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)

Coming up Aces

Posted September 10, 2025 by left coast sports babe
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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.

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

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

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.

This actually did age well.

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

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

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

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


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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

Not quite after midnight

Posted September 7, 2025 by left coast sports babe
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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?

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

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.”

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. 🙂

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

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.

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…

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.

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.

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?

So you’re saying there’s a chance

Posted September 5, 2025 by left coast sports babe
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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?

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

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?

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.”

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.

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?

Diversions

Posted September 4, 2025 by left coast sports babe
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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.

And the Dallas Cowboys losing…

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….

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.

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’

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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?

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.

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…

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.

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

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?


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…

Good, bad, and really ugly

Posted September 2, 2025 by left coast sports babe
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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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Turning the page

Posted August 31, 2025 by left coast sports babe
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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?

Posted August 29, 2025 by left coast sports babe
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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

Posted August 26, 2025 by left coast sports babe
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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….

Posted August 25, 2025 by left coast sports babe
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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?

Posted August 23, 2025 by left coast sports babe
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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…

Posted August 21, 2025 by left coast sports babe
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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..

Posted August 21, 2025 by left coast sports babe
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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

Posted August 19, 2025 by left coast sports babe
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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:

Posted August 17, 2025 by left coast sports babe
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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

Posted August 16, 2025 by left coast sports babe
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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.”