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July 10, 2026

Can we have a bipartisan moment of glee – for Spurs fans and for those who believe in joy in sports

The San Antonio Spurts just signed Wemby to a five year, less than the maximum, multi-year contract extension

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https://www.si.com/nba/spurs/victor-wembanyama-selfless-contract-move-compete-long-term

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As Trump continues with his efforts to destroy the White House.

Who expected that Congress would act like they have less power than a random small town HOA.

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-JD Vance actually said this out loud on a podcast:

“My life is– dude, totally transformed. People go to the grocery store for me. I don’t have to cook anymore because I have an army of people willing to cook my food. No more TSA lines for me.”

If you’re struggling to put food on the table, just think, you could maybe now get a side hustle shopping or cooking for JD Vance..

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The reflecting pool..

His Qatar plane..

Americans should all shudder to think if the columns at the White House will hold up.

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Meanwhile, while almost NO one has shown up at the Great American State Fair

If you were thinking of going to Chicago and the Obama Presidential Center

“Museum tickets are currently sold out.

Demand for Museum tickets is high. We update availability on the second Wednesday of every month at 10 a.m. CT.”

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Number one Fox News website headline:

“Trump warns ‘they want to take out the US leader’ as assassination plot surfaces.

Because when things are going so badly nothing else will do, an “assassination attempt” is Donald’s perceived gold card of distraction.

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So was Rep. Tom Kean’s 117 day unexplained absence a dress rehearsal for hiding Mitch McConnell’s status?

And maybe someday for doing the same with POTUS?

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JD Vance continues to brag gleefully about vacations, and not having to shop or cook for himself, etc,

Every time JD says this sort of thing… it should come with the reminder to him and to all of us in the USA

That it’s at taxpayer expense. Our expense.

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So where’s the new bumpersticker?

“Honk if you haven’t talked to Mitch McConnell”

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Another reason to vote blue and work for US Democratic Senate campaigns this fall.

Seems pretty likely that Fetterman will switch parties. IF GOP keeps a majority or his vote would give them the majority.

Need to flip enough seats that this snake doesn’t matter.

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And just to follow up.

Trump left Turkey on OLDER Air Force One Jet, but then switched to new Qatar plane in Britain for flight to DC.

Assassination fears?
Trying to pretend there was credible threat?
Stunt?

He couldn’t have stayed with ONE plane?

And how much did this cost taxpayers?

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Giant attitude problem

July 8, 2026

When it comes down to cheering for a walk to break up a perfect game.

Matt Cain’s gem should stand alone!

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And when the biggest cheers end up being for Toronto’s pitcher after he threw 8 no-hit innings.

Sigh. At this point all SF Giants fans can hope for is that Trump becomes a Dodgers fan.

(Not that the Giants will win, but maybe someone else can.)

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It all started going downhill for SF Giants pitching when they didn’t resign Tyler Rogers.

The leader of the bullpen. And look at that ERA in Toronto. Hope he gets to go to the All-Star game.

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So Ryan Walker irritated many of the SF Giants fan base with blown saves.
Was sent down to AAA.
Returned, upset many more fans with his bible verse Pride Night statement.
And now has an ERA approaching 7.

So why isn’t he pitching now for some “Christian” softball team?

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A European reporter asks Donald Trump

“Why are you unable to end the Iran war?

Hey USA media, this is how it’s done.

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US is bombing Iran again.

That FIFA peace prize is looking as tarnished as Donald’s getting FIFA to overturn Balogun’s red card.

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I guess the NATO summit could have been worse with Donald there.

After the World Cup game Trump could have said he was going to attack Belgium.

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POTUS “I’ve been elected three times.”

His brain is murkier than the Reflecting Pool.

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Donald Trump in today’s press conference says “NATO laughed at us, everybody laughed at us, they don’t laugh any more, there’s no more laughing”

More like there’s plenty of laughing, it’s just mixed with crying.

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Trump is now calling the Iranians, “scum,” “sick people,” etc…

What’s next, he’s going to accuse them of being Democrats?

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So how long until we hear that the new Air Force One was vandalized by the same invisible people who cut up the reflecting pool?

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Never been a huge Newsom fan.

But in the wake of yet another politician resigning while still denying allegations, will always admire when after Gavin behaved badly in 2007 at end of his marriage to Kimberly Guilfoyle- affair with a good friend’s wife, he publicly stated: “I want to make it clear that everything you’ve heard and read is true, and I’m deeply sorry about that. I’ve hurt someone I care deeply about”

Refreshing then, and even more now.

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Foul play?

July 5, 2026

T.S. Eliot had the best line on FIFA rescinding Balogun’s World Cup red card.

“The last temptation is the greatest treason. To do the right thing for the wrong reason.”

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Even the Netherlands is going to be rooting for Belgium vs the USA now

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Glad that Folarin Balogun can play but as Trump praises FIFA, Donald and his cult members are just going to ignore the fact that Balogun can only play for USMNT at all due to birthright citizenship??!!

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Let’s be VERY clear, If Folarin Balogun,who is a US citizen only because his pregnant mother was not allowed to board a flight home to England, were a potential Nobel prize winning biochemist trying to cure cancer, then Trump would have gladly signed his deporation orders.

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“Reflecting pool vandals” are this year’s “They’re eating the dogs and cats.”

GOP hasn’t paid a penalty with voters for their lies, yet, so they keep on telling them.

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Random baseball thought

I get the difference between earned and unearned runs. But always seems a bit off when a run doesn’t count against a pitcher’s ERA when the error is his own.

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Meanwhile, as Donald’s new favorite insult seems to be “communist,” – McCarthyism: the political practice of making unfair, unsubstantiated accusations of disloyalty or subversion—particularly regarding supposed communist sympathies—without regard for evidence.”

“Trumpism” will someday be a more derogatory noun.

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MAGA claiming over 100,000 people in attendance tonight to watch Trump speak after 11p.

All of them rushed back through security after bad weather.

So it’s pretty clear, Donald absolutely doesn’t need a half billion dollar ballroom.

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Just noticed

@Freedom250 claims in Twitter bio “Freedom 250 is a non-partisan organization delivering presidential-level celebrations for our nation’s 250th birthday.” Uh,

@America250 is bipartisan. Freedom 250 was established by Trump to override it. No lie too small.

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To be fair, Donald Trump was the first President to preside over 5th of July fireworks!

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Some GOP want to claim it was liberals dressed up as Nazis, who marched in DC on the 4th of July

Uh, NEWSNATION – which is to the right of Fox News – posted videos that show that Thomas Rousseau, Patriot Front’s leader was there and proudly leading the march.

So why the silence, NY Times and other MSM?

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Seeing red.

July 2, 2026

Got to love MAGA trolls on Social Media screaming about Folarin Balogun’s red card.

While also demanding end to birthright citizenship.

Balogun, born to British-Nigerian parents, only eligible to play for USMNT because his 7 1/2 months pregnant mom wasn’t allowed to fly home to UK .

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Have long since made my peace w/ rooting for athletes who don’t share my political views:

But despite being SF Giants fan since 1986, Landen Roupp making such a public point about his homophobia on Pride Night made it easy not to mind him giving up 3 runs in first inning yesterday to the AZ Dbacks.

Then Ryan Walker, another who chose to write a bible verse, instead of just wearing a regular non-Pride cap, came in tonight when the Giants were up 6-0, gave up 4 runs without an out, although SF hung on to win 6-4.

Almost as if God is telling them “stick to sports?”

(or get a day job)

Illinois Governor JB Pritzer says out loud what many think, that Donald Trump has dementia.

Assume Donald will want to sue. Wonder if any of his advisors will tell him “discovery is a b*tch?”

Happy Canada Day, eh? (now belated)

(Has our US President said a word? Suppose given his usual comments about our neighbor to the north, we should be grateful he hasn’t.)

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I’d say the idea of Jeannine Pirro on SCOTUS has to be a bad joke But many if not most of Trump’s appointees to important positions are bad jokes.

Trump steals $1.3M from National Parks budget for Italian granite near Oval Office

When you can’t find a park ranger or a working bathroom at a National Park this summer, console yourself with the fact that POTUS is walking on fancy Italian granite…

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So if Mitch McConnell did pass away would Trump demand the news be kept private until after the 4th of July so as not to distract from his Freedom 250 party?

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As Washington Post reports Trump has skirted the rules to use a $500M no-bid contract to build his White House ballroom…

where are all the “Deficit Hawk” Republicans on this one?

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GOP lost their minds when Lloyd Austin did not divulge he was hospitalized for two weeks after prostate cancer surgery in 2024. Meanwhile Rep. Tom Kean was MIA for four months And has anyone in GOP released ANY update on Mitch McConnell who was hospitalized over two weeks ago?

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Troy Nehls, bragging of buying lobster & steak while 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck

“Maybe they don’t work as hard as I do”.

Nehls is retiring. He’ll have served SIX years in Congress; will receive full pension for life.

What a jacka**.

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Trump asked about $1 billion he made last year “The stock market’s up… everybody’s profiting”

Sure this is very comforting to 40% or so of Americans who own no stock even in retirement plans.

And to working class Americans who mostly don’t have stock & who voted for Trump

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Good news.

The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship

Bad news:

There were three SCOTUS judges who would have taken it away.

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Depression is a real illness & good for GOP Rep. Tom Kean for getting help.


But he got in hospital medical treatment and was able to keep his taxpayer funded job while missing work for FOUR months.


How many Americans could do that, especially as Kean & GOP have taken away healthcare subsidies?

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Then there were 28

June 29, 2026

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So who knows how far USMNT will go in the World Cup. But they are alive longer than both Germany and the Netherlands.

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So it’s been a rough year for the SF Giants.

At this point perhaps the most optimistic thing they can say “At least we’re not the Mets.”

(The teams have similar records – but the Giants payroll is about $222 million, while the Mets are $365 million.


Clearly many of the attendees at the “Great American State Fair” managed to steal the invisibility cloaks from the leftist reflecting pool vandals.

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GOP Family Values alert, The Daily Mail reported Ken Paxton, Donald Trump’s choice for US Senate from Texas, was seen with his mistress on a “secret” trip to Iceland.

But James Talarico once ordered a potato, egg and cheese taco…

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Not happy with SCOTUS decision allowing a President to fire  [the leaders of independent agencies for any reason or no reason, Ju


So does this mean that a Democratic president can immediately fire all Trump’s hacks, lackeys and cronies?

Fox News headline

“Conservatives revolt after Trump-appointed Barrett joins liberals in ‘shockingly wrong’ ruling.

John Roberts also joined the majority in allowing mail in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted later.

But of course the woman is one the Fox goes after.

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On deporting Haitians “”It’s a mistake for a number of reasons…You cannot fly into Port-au-Prince…It is clearly not safe…It is worse than it has ever been…It’s not in the U.S. interest, certainly not in Ohio’s interest, to have people who are working every single day, who are supporting a family, who are buying houses, fixing up old houses, starting businesses, and put deep roots in this country and really are contributing — and yank them out…That is a huge, huge mistake.”

Another bleeding heart liberal? Nope, Ohio REPUBLICAN governor Mike DeWine.

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Next rounds

June 27, 2026

Dear Buster Posey

Do not ever trade Logan Webb.

Sincerely,

Remaining SF Giants fans who haven’t given up on the team for the forseeable future

(Logan threw 7 innings of 1 hit ball vs Atlanta and the bullpen didn’t blow it for a 5-0 win)

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Meanwhile as a long time SF Giants fan who remembers games at Candlestick Park, can say definitively that the park had more fans on a Tuesday night against the Montreal Expos than Donald’s “Freedom 250” “Great American State Fair.”

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Clearly many of the attendees managed to steal the invisibility cloaks from the leftist reflecting pool vandals?

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In Saturday’s NHL draft, (admittedly it was the 7th round, the San Jose Sharks drafted 18 year old defenseman Alexander Karmanov. Who is 7 foot, 1 inch tall.

Is this Wemby effect transcending basketball?

The White House official social media account actually posted

·”America has always been, and always will be, ONE NATION UNDER GOD.’

Give me a break.

“The phrase “under God” was added to the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance on June 14, 1954, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill into law. “

Eisenhower, however, would be appalled by this administration.

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So the President of the United States, who thinks he should be “respected, does not know the difference between a passport for Americans and a visa for visitors. “Welcome, be good”

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All I can say about Donald Trump’s proposed new passport is “Thank God I just got my passport renewed a few months ago.”

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The US just struck Iran again.

Donald’s Nobel Peace prize campaign is going well ..

So clearly police probably have contact info for person who targeted Pete Buttigieg’s family with a false report & had him taken away from his kids overnight.


DOJ/FBI is arresting people over paint chips & putting their fingers in water; why hasn’t this person been taken into custody? Or at least been the subject of an investigation

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Aftter the tragic earthquake, there is anger in Venezuela over lack of government help.

But isn’t the US effectively in charge of the country now? In May, Trump talked about making it the 51st state.

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Rounded out

June 25, 2026

So who has Trump blamed Turkiye’s last minute goal again USMNT on?

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The 2026 NBA Draft is over.

And for anyone wanting nonpartisan amusement, save some of the “winners and losers” projections. Especially these days.

For comparison, Tim Duncan and Stephen Curry were drafted at 2 after four years of college

Most top picks these days are 19

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 Golden State Warriors actually picked the oldest player in the first round – Yaxel Lendeborg. He’ll be 24 when the NBA season starts. Older than most of the San Antonio Spurs starters.

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Realize as a sports fan that many athletes I root for don’t share my political/religious beliefs. And that’s fine. I have friends who I disagree with politically

But when players put their political/religious beliefs out there publicly it does invite controversy. Especially when they aren’t playing very well. Yes, I am talking to you, some SF Giants pitchers.

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Sean Duffy’s youngest child, who is seven, has Down’s Syndrome, which means the girl will probably hear many derogatory insults in her life from ignorant hateful people

But yesterday it was her father throwing around the term “libtard.”

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Amy Coney Barrett has 2 children adopted from Haiti

At same time she voted with SCOTUS majority to deny TPS status to people, including children, from Haiti.

So Haitian parents who love & want better life for their kids should just beg rich white Americans to take & adopt them?

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As some media report National Park Service official lie about reflecting pool being cut, despite 24-7 surveillance etc.

“If someone says it’s raining & another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out window & find out which is true.”

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Trump now put up a temporary Ferris wheel on the National Mall.

Okay, I’ve seen what happened with the reflecting pool.

Ride on that Ferris wheel? I’d rather get on a ride put up temporarily in a Kroger’s parking lot by an old drunk carnie.

Mike Lee, who has become a true cult member, is one of Donald’s staunchest allies on the “Save America Act.”

Senator Lee is from UTAH.

Which has 100% vote by mail.

Make it make sense.

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So oil prices are at least temporarily failing
Meanwhile, carrier fuel surcharges jumped over 30% when the war started. From about $2100 to $2800 on a business class ticket to Europe.
Anyone want to opine on when or if THEY will fall?

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The Save America act is an oxymoron.

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What a complete sh*t he is

“Trump cancels bipartisan housing bill signing in effort to pressure lawmakers on election legislation”

Got news for him.

Americans didn’t vote for him to rig elections.

Americans voted for lower prices, including w/ housing.

November is coming.

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When you’re a star

June 12, 2026

Texas Tech is doing a lot of sanctimonious handwringing about giving Quarterback Brendan Sorsby a chance and caring about the “young man” and how he needs to play for his recovery etc.

Not getting as much coverage. Sorsby, who played two years (and bet on games) at Indian,a, became a star in his last two years Cincinnati. He just transfered to Texas Tech. Has no allegiance to the school or vice versa. Probably hasn’t been to a class.

But the Red Raiders think hey can get them to the CFB playoffs, and he thinks they can make him a top draft pick.

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We know prefrontal cortex, part of the brain involved in decision-making, is usually not fully developed until about the age of 25.


And yet Spurs player who made inexplicable decision not to dribble out clock last night was De’Aaron Fox, old man of San Antonio’s starters at 28.

Jimmy Kimmel tonight on the UFC White House Circus.

“It is sponsored by Monster Energy drinks.”

‘One of the Monster Energy Flavors is Mango Loco – Which would actually be a perfect nickname for the President.”

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So Trump says repeatedly we have stopped immigrants coming into this country.

But he needed $70 BILLION more for ICE??!

While we can’t afford healthcare, daycare, etc. for Americans.

Make it make sense.

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Donald today called Graham Platner a “thug.”

In Trump-speak isn’t that a compliment?-

Trump: “I watch that thug that’s up in Maine. He’s a thug. And they’re trying to make excuses for him. I mean, he’s worse than any human being that’s ever run for office.”

-“Worse than any human being that’s ever run for office probably.”

Give me a break, not a Platner fan but he wouldn’t even be in the worst half of Trump’s cabinet.

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North Dakota GOP Senator Kevin Cramer, said today that people living outside of Washington, D.C., don’t care about Trump’s renovation projects and instead are focused on “the price of gas.”

Attacks by Trump on Cramer in 3.2.1…

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So what bets in the prediction markets did Trump and his family make on TACO Thursday?

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Pentagon was under lockdown Thursday due to “a hazardous materials incident.” Does it involve Pete Hegseth’s makeup?

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Trump says he has all the cards in his latest war.

More likely he has a low pair

Iran has a straight.

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While millions of Americans have a hard time even getting to see a doctor when they are sick, apparently President Trump was seen by 22 (!) specialists during his last checkup.

Not just a sign of healthcare inequality, but a sign that something is very very wrong.

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As the games begin

June 10, 2026

USA probably is never going to be awarded an Olympics or World Cup again are we?

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As an increasing number of stars now back out of the invitation to the UFC circus match at the White House, the Trump family – ie the Trump Organization headed by Donald and Eric, is selling gold coins priced as high as $12,000.

But don’t forget. Hunter Biden sold a few paintings.

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Need another reason to root for the San Antonio Spurs?

Lip readers said during Game 3 Trump was considering returning to New York to present the Knicks with NBA championship trophy if they swept.

So Spurs win kept him back in DC

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How furious is Trump really over Steve Hilton getting into the November election against Xavier Becerra? By beating out billionaire Tom Steyer for second.

Hilton just majorly messed up Donald’s dishonest claim that California elections are rigged.

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So Tom Steyer spent about a quarter BILLION dollars in his run for Governor, only to finish third.

It’s a free country, but imagine what he could have done with that money.

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MAGA bots and trolls are having a hard time with their James Talarico attacks. They can’t figure out if they’re supposed to call him another closeted gay politician or another Bill Clinton with women.

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Not getting as much publicity as his failed concerts, but Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Adam Sandler, Jared Leto, & Mario Lopez have ALL declined invitations to attend Trump’s UFC White House birthday event.

Almost as if NOBODY wants to be seen with Donald.

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I miss Stephen Colbert a lot.

But Jimmy Kimmel is growing on me.

After a montage of Trump promises on the war…

“This guy is about as close to a deal with Iran as he is to touching his toes right now.”

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And about Donald attending Game 3 of the NBA Finals: “The first sitting President who shut down an entire city to take a nap in front of a sold out crowd.”

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If you can wreck things there you’ll wreck things anywhere

June 7, 2026

Barack Obama is a serious basketball fan.

But as President he never attended an NBA finals game

He knew security etc would make things much worse for all other fans.

On top of everything else Velveeta Voldemort doesn’t care who or what he ruins.

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Have been a Spurs fan for decades in large part due to Gregg Popovich.

And I miss him as head coach. How much do I wish especially that Pop was coaching Monday to be asked what he thought of Trump attending the game in MSG?

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And while we’re on the subject of basketball, how much grief did Obama get for turning an outdoor tennis court at the White House into a basketball court, which required no demolition of buildings- just painting basketball lines, and installing retractable hoops? (And which the Obamas paid for.)


Not even talked about as NY closes area around MSG. Madison Square Garden is right above Penn Station Major hub for Amtrak, Long Island RR, NJ Transit. So is Velveeta Voldemort’s NBA finals visit going to f*ck up everyone’s commute and all the trains too?

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Wemby missed his last shot Friday night. Jimmy Kimmel didn’t. “You’d think Trump would be rooting for the Spurs. It’s what got him out of Vietnam.”

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Former Senator Bob Packwood died this weekend at 93. The one time very powerful GOP Senator had to resign in the 1990s when 19 women accused him of sexual misconduct.

Yes Virginia, there was a time when not just Democrats but top REPUBLICANS actually had to resign due to allegations of sexual misconduct.

Lost in Trump’s temper tantrum walkout from his interview w/ Welker “If it was up to me, I’d pay them the kind of money that they deserve… Lives have been destroyed. Many suicides, think of it,”

Uh, four suicides in the six months after January 6 were police officers.

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Even Fox News has this today “TRUMP DOUBLES DOWN ON $1.8 BILLION ‘SLUSH FUND’ THAT KILLED HIS AGENDA, SPURRED REPUBLICAN REBELLION.

The Telfon is wearing off faster than his cheap fake gold paint everywhere.

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Youth and skill

June 5, 2026

Don’t look now, but Bryce Eldridge is batting .293

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And the SF Giants, one of the worst teams in MLB, have the most grand slams in MLB – now six!

Baseball is a very strange game…

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His game winner didn’t go in. But if anyone else has tried that last shot fans would be screaming “why didn’t they give it to Wemby?”

As Molly Ivins book title said. “You got to dance with them that brung you”

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Spurs finished the 1st quarrter with a higher percentage (13-20) on field goals than free throws (4-8) Basketball can be a funny game. (and as it turned out, a couple of those FTs would have mattered.)

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Last night while Senate Vote-a-rama continued towards dawn in DC, Adam Schiff introduces a 430am amendment

“No payment shall be authorized that arises out of a claim from a President or a Vice President”

Does anyone here believe this slush fund is a good idea?

It was voted down

GOP profiles in cowardice.

Hey media

Not a Platner fan, but why is he a nonstop story and not Ken Paxton’s being impeached on TWENTY charges by a GOP led-Texas legislature, securities fraud charges and his wife’s filing for divorce on “biblical grounds?”

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Yes, Dems need to flip some GOP US Senate seats.

But while most Americans know who Graham Platner is, few have heard of Josh Turek.

Nice job media.

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Also he’s working class Navy vet, former National guard member, mechanic & former union leader at Kellogg’s plant. Andhe’s been married 25 years with 3 kids.

So why isn’t media talking about Dan Osborn? Who could win.

A Nebraska Senate seat counts as much as one from Maine.

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Remember constantly of what Amy Klobuchar said in 2024 of some Trump voters – in Fox News/right wing social media bubble they hear nonstop negatives on Dems. And NOTHING negative on Donald.

Wonder how many millions of MAGA don’t even know he falls asleep regularly on camera.

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And the hits just keep on coming

June 5, 2026

SF Giants manage to lose 16-2 then 8-3 to the Milwaukee Brewers

Then they (barely) hold on to win 1-0 and (barely) hold on to win 12-9. In the same week

Baseball is a weird game.

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Meanwhile Donald Trump has decided he will go to game 3 of the NBA finals, and while he says he is a Knicks fan he mentions none of their players but does mention Wemby as a great player

Now as a Spurs fan I must say this is one of the few times I actually agree with Donald.

But uh, Victor Wembanyama is FRENCH. How’s MAGA gonna take that

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Short term memory is the first to go.

How close are we to having some reporter asking Trump about his favorite player on the Knicks now and Donald responding “Patrick Ewing”?

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Trump seems so obsessed with attacking Kaitlin Collins these days you’d think she turned him down for a date.

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Jimmy Kimmel pointed out tonight that one of six statements made at every meeting open to the press is his adminstration/cabinet praising Trump.

“Say what you will about Bill Clinton, when he had hid staff “bleep” him he didn’t make us watch.”

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When old male cats get dementia some of them start spraying everywhere – due to combined confusion and a perceived need to marking terrority. Sounds like what Donald’s doing in DC with his signs and monuments. #TrumpPromenade

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Trump seems so obsessed with attacking Kaitlin Collins these days you’d think she turned him down for a date.

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So many posts about US Senate race & probable Democratic Candidate in Maine.

Can we start paying attention to OTHER races and candidates that matter?

These lesser known people in red states can WIN.

Mary Peltola
Josh Turek
Dan Osborn

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Not to mention Sherrod Brown

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The day after

June 3, 2026

We are now about 24 hours after the polls closed in California.

Which means we’re about 2 weeks from ballots all being counted.

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And of course Trump is pretending it is some sort of conspiracy. Ironic since he’s still trying to recount votes from 2020.

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So go figure.

A guy named Victor somehow won a game for his team tonight.

And it wasn’t Wemby.

Victor Bericoto for the SF Giants with his first MLB home run in a 1-0 win against the Brewers.

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Can media stop pretending it’s a big deal Spencer Pratt got about 30% of vote for Los Angeles mayor?

Heck, Steve Garvey, whose experience was simply being good at baseball (and who got two women pregnant while he was engaged to a third received 41% of the vote vs now Senator Adam Schiff.

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Wait, I thought Trump says Kaitlin Collins never smiles. “

“I never see a smile on her face. I see her standing there with hatred in her eyes.”

So we shouldn’t share this picture, it would upset Donald.

We shouldn’t share this picture, it will upset him.

Oops.

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Marco Rubio claims that Trump never falls asleep and by way of defense says Donald has called him at 2 a.m. and 5 a.m.
Not the flex he thinks it is: dementia patients often can’t sleep through the night and then can’t stay awake during the day.

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60 Minutes deserves a better home. MSNow? PBS? Netflix? Who wants to start the bidding war. Oh, and f*ck CBS.

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Amy Klobuchar speaking on the 40th anniversary of C-Span 2, notes that the presiding officer on June 2, 1986, their inaugural broadcast, was Senator Chuck Grassley-

(And he’d already been a Senator for five years.)

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Senator Maggie Hassan today

“Except for inflation, the economic data is very strong.”

Except for that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?

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Donald had a closed to press dinner in what he calls “The Rose Garden Club.”

It’s a small detail in the grand scheme of things.

But it is NOT the bleeping “Rose Garden Club”

It is the “Rose Garden.”

In the American people’s White House. Not Velveeta Voldemort’s Club.

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Will take probably serious two weeks for final results but Matt Mahan and Katie Porter both have conceded in the California Gubernatorial Primary.

They could have given those speeches last week… Or last month.

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I’m trying to imagine what the $200 million Tom Steyer spent in the California primary could have done and could do in swing districts and purple states across the country.

If Tom were only able to put aside his ego to let others lead and be elected.

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Hasan Piker made a last minute endorsement for Tom Steyer

If anyone needed another reason to vote for Xavier Becerra.

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Steyer’s cost for funding his campaign is probably going to be record breaking.

But there’s also $35 million spent by Matt Mahan campaign for about 210,000 votes.

Even if Mahan gets up to about 250,000 that’s about $120 a vote.

And his campaign spent less per vote than Steyer.

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Not so old men

May 29, 2026

Not only would most of the spurs, except Wemby, be carded trying to buy a beer, two of them, Dylan Harper and Carter Bryant, both 20, actually aren’t old enough to buy a drink in the US

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How young is San Antonio Spurs coach Mitch Johnson?

He was a four-year point guard at Stanford.

Two of his teammates? Robin and Brook Lopez

(Brook is still playing for the Clippers.)

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Meanwhile you know it’s been a tough year when as an SF Giants fan who was otherwise occupied Thursday to be able to think “okay the team absolutely won’t let fans down tonight.)

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Giants had an off day


Listing Milli Vanilli, a group who ended up admitting they didn’t actually sing on their records, and one of whose members is now dead, as performers for Freedom 250, is one of the most on brand things Trump has done.

Almost all his Freedom 250 performers have dropped out.

So for retribution is Trump going to outlaw music now?

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She was one of the later to withdraw, citing not being told that it was a partisan event. But can anyone imagine Trump listening to Martina McBride singing her hit about an abused woman setting the house on fire with her husband in it?

“Let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away, let the guilty pay
It’s Independence Day”

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How long until the Freedom 250 headliners come down to Kid Rock and Lara Trump?

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So Tuesday night, Ken Paxton got 885,949 GOP US Senate primary votes.

Just putting these numbers from the Democratic US Senate primary out there James Talarico -1,103,371 Jasmine Crockett – 943,168

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Night one watching Jimmy Kimmel (and the late night ABC local news instead of CBS)

So far so good.

This line – “Donald put the ‘me’ in Memorial Day.”

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Scott Bessent, justifying the $1.776 Billion Trump Slush fund says “no American should be targeted for political reasons.”

Thinking today that it’s hard to remember most of the cabinet in Trump’s first term.

Because they mostly weren’t attention whores and batsh*t crazy.

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CBS News has become an oxymoron.

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Night one watching Jimmy Kimmel (and the late night ABC local news instead of CBS)

So far so good.

This line – “Donald put the ‘me’ in Memorial Day.”

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So if Donald has 100% approval ratings or whatever he claims why has almost every performer listed for his Great American State Fair dropped out?

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Open note to MAGA trolls who say it’s fine if Trump goes to public sporting events because they have security.

Have they been to sporting events vs secure areas in DC?

Yeah, they check you going into a game. But NOTHING like the Senate galleries, for starters. Where they take everything. Even doublechecked my watch to make sure it did nothing but tell time.

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Has Trump blamed Romania for being hit by a Russian drone yet?

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Now Donald claims it’s going to be “the most successful World Cup they have ever had.”

Because they gave him a trophy.

It is going to be an economic disaster for hotels and perhaps for cities hosting the games.

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Jimmy Kimmel last night

“Trump’s approval rating among Americans is down to 37%. But in that Cabinet room it’s about 110%.”

If Kimmel is wrong it’s that he’s underestimating the 110%.

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Is it safe?

May 27, 2026

Apparently Donald was planning to make “a surprise appearance” at game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals had the Knicks not swept.

So he couldn’t go to his own son’s wedding but he was going to go ruin a game in NY for Knicks fans. Very on brand.

Does he know the Knicks, if they win, probably won’t go to the White House?

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So Donald Trump, who wants to show up & disrupt a Knicks game, thinks being in as public a space as Madison Square Garden in New York would be safe.
But claims even Secret Service can’t keep him safe at the White House without a bunker ballroom?
Make it make sense.

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Spurs didn’t bring their A game in Western Conference Game 5. But when officiating is as bad as it was tonight, and NBC signs off their coverage “brought to you by Draft Kings” it’s not a good look for the NBA.

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Ouch, Shawn Estes points out that the SF Giants when behind after six innings in 2026 are 0 and 26.

An automatic team this year. No clutch.

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It is not a routine annual checkup when you have one several times a year.

Just saying.

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Donald Trump has now been to Walter Reed three time in the last year for “routine physicals.”

But the medical facilities at the White House are better than most of us experience in our lifetimes. So whatever he is going to Walter Reed for is clearly very specialized.

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Trump is calling all his cabinet to Camp David.

“At the meeting, officials will discuss “recent successes of the administration including economy & small business wins, Task Force to Eliminate Fraud highlights, and foreign policy updates.”

So he needs more praise. Got it.

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Wait, Trump JUST scheduled a Cabinet meeting at Camp David; then moved it to the White House less than a day later – citing “bad weather?”

Either the voices in his head are shouting over each other or Donald’s cuts to National Weather Service are having serious effects already.

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Trump said on Memorial day that United States service members killed during the Iran war died to ensure Iran “will never have a nuclear weapon.”

Except that President Obama had a deal that ensured Iran would never have a nuclear weapon.

And Donald tore it up.

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Markwayne Mullen apparently wants to stop processing international passengers & cargo arriving by air in blue cities..

Including Denver, LAX, SFO, Chicago, PHL, JFK, Newark & Seattle.

Uh, what’s left? MSP? PDX? Nope.

Even the cities of Houston, Miami, Dallas & Orlando vote blue

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I don’t really care if RFK Jr is crazy enough to play with snakes, poisonous or otherwise. I DO care that he’s crazy enough to play with Americans’ health.

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Weekly thoughts

May 23, 2026

Hey SF Giants.

Great to see a game like today, but this is not the NFL, you need more than one great offensive team performance a week.

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Understand my favorite athletes may not share my political beliefs.


Drew Brees criticized kneeling as disrespecting flag in 2020. Outraged Saints teammates.

He apologized.

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Since many of my fellow Democrats are outraged by Jaxson Dart introducing Donald Trump at a rally, would like to remind them that New Orleans Saints QB Tyler Shough endorsed Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear.


But now? W/ Trump historically unpopular.

And NFL teams being 70% black?


WTF was Jaxson Dart thinkng

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Can we start the pool as to when Donald first turns on new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh?

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Donald Trump actually said of his new Federal Reserve chair “I want Kevin to be totally independent.”

Translation: “Totally independent until he does something I doesn’t like. And then I will make sure he will be totally f*cked.”

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Many of us have that relative who needs to make every holiday all about them.

On top of everything else the President of the United States is that relative.

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Many of us who are frequent travelers have experienced cell phone issues or wi-fi outrages that make it difficult to work.

This doesn’t happen for Donald Trump.

He could work anywhere, if he wants to.

Missing his son’s wedding is an excuse. For something.

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Raul Castro, who will turn 95 in June, is not that popular at this point in Cuba.

What would make him popular?

A US invasion

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Hard to forgive Tillis for voting to confirm Pete Hegseth.

But I like Thom unleashed

Talking about Trump’s slush fund “Stupid on stilts.”

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For most Americans, if they’ve heard of the Suez Canal crisis in 1956, it was in “The Crown.”

For the English & Anglophiles, it’s often considered the end of Great Britain’s reign as a superpower.

Trump’s deal, if it holds, may well be America’s Suez Canal moment.

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Last late night …

May 21, 2026

Two SF Giants alums pitching tonight in Yankees – Blue Jays game

Camillo Doval gave up a home run in .2 innings and now has a 5.68 ERA.

Tyler Rogers pitched a scoreless 8th ending with getting Aaron Judge to hit into a DP.
His 9th “hold” And he now has a 1.54 ERA.

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Not the Onion

Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr are behind “The Enhanced Games.” A mini-Olympics where PEDs are allowed and even encouraged.

Cheating meets reality TV. So on brand for the Trump family.

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So just how many GOP Senators has Donald thrown under the bus?

Cassidy and Cornyn just this week

Murkowski and Collins have never been on his good side.

Tillis is mad. and out of f*cks.

And Mitch McConnell, for all the evil he has done in this world, hears “time’s winged chariot hurrying near…”

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Asked about Stephen Colbert’s last show tonight, Donald Trump responded

“I’ll have a message at a later date.”

In two weeks?

DHS head Markwayne Mullen told travel executives that he’s serious about curbing international flights to U.S. airports in cities with “sanctuary” policies…Does this moron realize that most cities, even in red states, are blue?

What’s he going to do, try to make DFW the only international airport? Along with maybe Miami?

May I suggest he try this out a couple weeks before the midterms?

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During House hearing DOT Secretary Duffy was asked, how he managed to work while on his road trip, at the same time DOT & Trump administration has stopped allowing remote work for other federal government employees?

Of course he dodged the question

As the media talks today about the 2024 DNC autopsy report something is missing.

The nonstop 2024 bothsides-ing, sanewashing of Donald Trump, and nonstop attacks on Joe Biden’s age… by hose same journalists..

Et tu, media?

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Sean Duffy, justifying his corporate funded vacation: “Seeing your country, experiencing your country through window of a car is a beautiful thing. It actually unites America.”

More like it unites milllions of Americans in anger because they can’t afford gas for a road trip.

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Trump rants at Coast Guard commencement on being a “hot” country, while attacking others & musing about 3rd term.

Fox News headline “HAPPENING NOW: Trump recognizes parents, families in speech at Coast Guard Academy: ‘Thank you'”

And we wonder why Fox viewers still support him?

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As “acting” AG, Todd Blanche can stay in his position indefinitely.

And who knew the formerly respected Federal prosecutor might actually be worse than Pam Bondi?

As Trump keeps saying that the Iran war will be over “pretty soon.”

Wishing he’d told CBS to end the Late Show with Stephen Colbert “pretty soon.”

We’d be watching Colbert with our grandchildren

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Bruce Springsteen to Stephen Colbert “You’re the 1st guy in America to lose a show because the President can’t take a joke” And because Larry & David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want.”

Then he played “Streets of Minneapolis.”

Well played, Boss.

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Written before the last Late Show.

(Also the last time I watch the CBS local news before the late show..)

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Calling occupants of interplantary craft…

May 18, 2026

Can’t understand why people call him an alien

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1463077225003241

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Look, trans athletes competing at a high level is a tough issue. Though such a small number of actual athletes.

But have to love Charlotte Clymer’s tweet today “Wemby is destroying male sports with his unfair biological advantage.

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Meanwhile, a Canadian team actually still has a chance to win the Stanley Cup. Somehow.

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Minnesota US Attorney Daniel Rosen said Aimee Bock, convicted last year, should be sentenced to 50 years in prison for “masterminding the biggest pandemic era fraud in the US.

Aimee Bock is a blonde white woman.

But GOP will probably be furious somehow because Aimee Bock isn’t an Somalian immigrant.

(And as a friend said, will Trump pardon her if she blames someone Somali?)

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How long until GOP claims dead people are eating the dogs and cats?

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Again, if you want to know how state TV operates.

Wonder how Fox News is reporting the $1.7 billion trust fund that Trump demanded his DOJ set up for his supporters who were “wronged” by Democrats?

On their website, crickets. Not mentioned.

They don’t spin, they just hide.

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NY Times “Trump had been asked about extent to which economy factored into his plans to end the war and responded that disarmament was his sole concern.”

Have they been listening to Donald?

His ballroom is his sole concern. (that and the Epstein files)

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For those who don’t follow politics closely Thomas Massie is about as conservative as they come. MAGA all the way.

But he wants the Epstein files released.

And THAT is why Trump wants him out.

A five year old could connect these dots.

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GOP Representative Thomas Massie wants the Epstein files released.

All of them

If the files exonerated Trump and implicated Democrats Donald would give Massie the Presidential medal of honor.

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Democrats probably have no chance in state wide race in Louisiana

But for all headlines about Trump having GOP control.

There are 2,964,882 registered voters in the state.

401,000 of them voted in GOP primary, 344,000 in Dem primary. 25% turnout

Primaries skew hardcore.

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Can some election denier conspiracy theorist explain to us how Trump won when Obama and Biden were Presidents, and yet Democrats managed to rig an election when Trump was in charge?

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Speaker Mike Johnson, explaining why members of Congress need to be able to trade stocks (Yes this is real)

“We have to have sympathy. We need to at least let them engage in some stock trading so they can continue to take care of their family.”=

This should be a Democratic ad shown nonstop in October.

Maybe $174,000 per year (plus a large expense account) isn’t enough to take care of a family in New York City or Los Angeles, but in most of the country….

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LA Beaten

May 12, 2026

Okay, an OKC sweep wasn’t surprising. But who expected the Lakers would come closer to winning tonight in Los Angeles than the Dodgers?

#SFGiants

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Only two of the four NBA second round series – Spurs-Timberwolves and Pistons-Cavaliers, will go beyond four games.as both the Thunder and Knicks swept.

Between various channels and streaming services, wonder how many millions of Americans haven’t even figured out how to watch their preferred playoff games yet.


If a President falls asleep regularly in televised cabinet meetings but press conferences and Fox News doesn’t cover it, does he still make a snoring sound?

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If Trump only cared half as much about the United States of America as he does about his ballroom, his arch and now his reflecting pool.

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Hoping Hantavirus turns out not to be a big deal for Americans.

But it would serve us right if now that Trump withdrew the US from the World Health Organization, if WHO charged us a LOT of money to help.

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Trump said he obliterated Iran’s nuclear program last July. The Strait of Hormuz was open in February. We’re all now paying higher gas prices not because of national security, but because Donald wanted to distract from the Epstein files.

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So now that Senator Thom Tillis has dropped his objection to Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair in exchange for Trump DOJ dropping the sham investigation into Jerome Powell, a simple question.

How long after Warsh is confirmed will Trump order the Powell investigation to start again?

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Now “Price reflects effort necessary to expedite timeline of completing project ahead of our 250th.

If it was that important to have it down why not have started it earlier?

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“Cost of news reflecting pool repairs balloon by $11.3 million, to $13.1 million.

So anyone brought back from the Hantavirus cruise ship to the United States is apparently being given the option to stay in quarantine or to isolate at home. On the honor system… Trump administration trusts people more who may be contagious for a deadly disease than they do verified US citizens who want to cast a vote.

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Average price of a gallon of gas now is $4.52 a gallon & rising. It was $2.98 before Donald started his war on February 28.

And Trump plans to “solve” this by getting rid of the 18 cents a gallon gas tax, which will lower it to $4.34.

Like throwing a cup of water on a bonfire.

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Ball drop

May 10, 2026

Sunday is the NBA ping-pong ball draft lottery

Let the conspiracy theories begin.

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When Buster Posey shipped Patrick Bailey to the Cleveland Guardians he couldn’t get them to take Ryan Walker too?

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Media has forgotten something:

Under the Trump administration, federal government employees, no matter how productive they had been, were ORDERED to return to the office full time or lose their jobs.

But DOT Secretary Duffy says he did “some work” on his seven month road trip….

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(Now, he’s adding that most of this was done on weekends and spring break for the kids. – Apparently United Airlines gave them free tickets to and from many of the destinations. How nice for them.)

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Duffy’s statement on the man who managed to get over a fence and onto a runway where he was killed by a Frontier plane “No one should EVER trespass on an airport.”

He made no reference to the death of the trespasser. Nor did the DOT secretary issue a statement on the death of a Delta worker when a tug hit the jet bridge at Orlando Airport.

(Side serious note, as it turns out 12 people were injured, when the plane hit the man. But how much worse could it have been. What if the trespasser were armed? Or carrying bombs?)

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VIrginia has a blue state legislature.

Don’t like what Tennessee has done in gerrymandering.

But if this is how GOP wants to play it, why can’t the Virginia legislature just do the same thing and impose
same 10-1 map voters approved?

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Meanwhile, hard not to think that DOD Secretary Pete Hegseth and Dear Leader are treating attacks on small boats in the Caribbean like some sort of combination of video game and snuff film:

“U.S. Conducts Third Boat Strike in 5 Days, Killing 2 and Leaving a Survivor”

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The only problem with Colin Jost and Aziz Ansari’s as hard-drinking Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel on SNL is sometimes it’s hard to tellt they’re not the real thing.

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But NOT the SNL cold open

Donald Trump talking about paving the White House Rose garden

“Brooke Rollins (Sec of Agriculture) would get up & start making magnificent speech & she’d be standing in mud, her speeches would never be as good as they could have been, because she was always concerned about ruining her shoes.”

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Forget running Cabinet departments, is there a single member of the Trump administration most Americans would trust to water their plants?

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