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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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Keeping score

May 1, 2026

16 Games, 16.1 innings, 1-1 record with 0.55 ERA, 0.73 WHIP, 10 strikeouts.

Would be nice to have someone like that in SF Giants bullpen.

But SF Giants didn’t make a competitive offer to now Blue Jays pitcher Tyler Rogers.

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The Orlando Magic were up 62-38 at half time with a 97.9% chance of winning in a close-out game 6.

And they lost to the Detroit Pistons 93-79.

Magic scored 19 points in the 2nd half.

Most embarrassing performance in Florida today not involving Trump’s speech at the Villages.

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We all know Donald cheats at golf.

We have only HIS word for what his doctor actually has told him after the tests.

Does Trump think if he keeps taking that cognitive test for Dementia he’ll somehow raise his score?

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Trump says hostilities with Iran have “terminated.”

But the Strait of Hormuz is still closed.

(and gas prices continue to skyrocket)

Explain it to me like I’m six years old.

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Good to hear United & American plan SHORT TERM to help Spirit Airlines fliers if they shut down.

But United CEO Scott Kirby has long said budget airline model is unsustainable.

And certainly budget airlines have put pressure on United fares.

Stand by for even higher fares!

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Sex is dangerous for many older men, especially anyone with heart conditions.

So GOP would be good if a liberal circuit court for “health reasons” outlaws mail order Viagra in the US?

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Wait. Trump says Iran is a “great victory” like Venezuela.

But he also says that we need to be patient with Iran because Vietnam went on for years.

So which is it?

Donald Trump went to going to the Villages retirement community in Florida supposedly to talk about his “no tax on social security” before yet another golf weekend.

Alas no reporter asked him about GOP candidate Sununu’s plan to institute work requirements for seniors on Medicare?

(or for that matter than the “no tax on social security” is temporary and only a relatively small tax credit.

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Never enough

May 1, 2026

NCAA is expanding March Madness to 76 teams.

Can’t wait to hear the screams in March 2027 from fans of the teams who end up rated 77th or 78th

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SF Giants lose a doubleheader by blowing leads in the bottom of the 9th inning in both games and finish April 13 and-18 aftter being swept by the Phillies.- who came in 9-19

Could be worse, but most fans had higher expectations for April than “at least we aren’t the Mets.”

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In 2024 56% of voters ages 50-64 voted for Trump & gave GOP control of House & Senate.

Now GOP Senate candidate John Sinunu says he will introduce legislation for Medicare work requirements for able-bodied Seniors!

None of those voters really wanted to retire anyway right?

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I would like to challenge even the most Trump loving Americans to find a single instance in 2024 when he campaigned on building a ballroom

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As Donald said goodbye to Charles today he was seen asking the King, ‘Are you going to come to Turnberry in a few months? The King said no.

But Trump added “I’ll be coming over for a couple of weeks.’

So taxpayers will be subsidizing another expensive paid vacation.

And it’s not just subsidizing Trump and family.

Secret Service must stay at Turnberry too and he charges them high prices… all the profit goes into his pocket..

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Donald’s new nominee for Surgeon General appears to be at least SLIGHTLY saner than the last one.

But, Nicole Saphier, a Fox News contributor, “sells a line of supplements called DropRx, including herbal tinctures for stress relief & focus.”

Will she divest? Or be another grifter.

Louisiana Senator John Kennedy says Trump has “oranges the size of beach balls.”

Is “oranges” his slang for diapers?

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And so it begins for US travelers. Due to fuel prices, United Airlines cancelling many flights today for summer travel on popular routes- SFO- Dulles, SFO to Chicago, etc & rescheduling ticketed travelers earlier or later.

Fewer flights. Higher fares. Thank you Donald Trump

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So Graham Platner supposedly is disavowing his most misogynistic and racist comments, some of them quite recent, and we’re supposed to accept that.

At the same time immigrants are being deported for transgressions 10-20 years ago or more.

“Siri, what is White Male Privilege?”

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There’s no difference between Democrats & Republicans.

The Supreme Court doesn’t matter.

Abortion rights are safe.

Any compromise on climate change is as bad as not believing in it.

Vote your conscience.

Just a handful of the far-left’s lies that have crippled democracy.

Jimmy Kimmel tonight

“I want to commend the handful of Republicans who have spoken out to defend our 1st Amendment rights. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and James Comer

Everyone of them I have made fun of repeatedly and viciously. And none of them have pressured ABC to fire me for it.”

Seems like King Charles and Queen Camilla had a successful US visit. If nothing else millions of Americans now know the British slang “Bell end.”

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Moving on up

April 28, 2026

NCAA just announced they will expand March Madness basketball tournament to 76 teams next year.

Can’t wait to see the first fans of teams ranked 77-80 scream that they were unfairly excluded.

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Plenty of places to see it online, and if you haven’t you should. But Victor Wembanayama blocked and launched the ball so far tonight the basketball should be an honorary part of the Artemis mission.

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As he gets indicted AGAIN by Donald’s DOJ James Comey has to wonder if he gave the most ungrateful man ever the Presidency.

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Violence is wrong.

But Donald says after WHCA dinner “People came together. Democrats that truly can’t stand me were saying, ‘Sir, could I just shake your hand? I’m leaving & seeing people, high-level people saying, ‘Sir, great job.”

“Sir” is code for “this did not happen.”

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Wrap your head around this one:

GOP Senators insisted President Biden didn’t have power to forgive some student loan debt.

Also GOP Senators, President Trump has power to start war, put his likeness on currency, buildings & withhold billions appropriated by Congress.

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Every minute media spends talking about Comey and what DOJ wants to turn into Seashellgate is a minute we aren’t talking about Trump being in the Epstein files.

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Fortunately just got my passport renewed about a month ago.

Paid to expedite it.

Will Americans now have a option to pay not to see Velveeta Voldemort’s faceon their passports?

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Will someone explain to me how even a fortified bunker ballroom will protect Donald Trump from the awful damage he apparently suffers from late night comedians’ jokes?

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As the US prepares to take stakes in struggling discount airlines am sure a man who managed to bankrupt casinos will do just fine in the highly competitive airline industry.

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So at least some GOP Senators think that while taxpayers can’t afford healthcare subsidies for Americans we can afford to subsidize a hideously huge ballroom for Donald and his rich donors and friends

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As ballots are mailed out NEXT WEEK, a major issue for me with Tom Steyer is his trying to do what hasn’t been done for a major race in California – buying an election.

Rick Scott & Bernie Moreno both started out largely self-funded. Eric Hovde came close to winning a Senate seat in Wisconsin

If Steyer wins, even if he isn’t awful, now many other multi-millionaires and billionaires will feel emboldened to buy their own elected office?

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Stumbling into the weekend

April 24, 2026

Dylan F*cking Harper. That is all. #Porvida

#GoSpursGo

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Meanwhile yes, the joys of multitasking with sports. This was a good Friday night to be a San Antonio Spurs as well as an SF Giants fan.

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(Adrian Houser, signed for $11 million a year, supposedly a bargain basement pick. Now 0-3 with a 7.36 ERA. How many of us would love to be that bad at our jobs for $11 million a year. Even one million a year.?)

So Trump wants Iran out of the World Cup and replaced with Italy.

Now as awful as Iran is, they didn’t start the war. Maybe FIFA should substitute Italy for the USA?

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All it needs is palm trees to look like a Florida motel pool….

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And now Velveeta Voldemort fell asleep on camera, again at one of his events.

it’s as if the Emperor was not only naked but stumbling disoriented through town.
GOP would be just smiling and admiring his dancing.

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Same meeting

Trump: Spirit were going to merge with People Express or one of them and Obama decided it was a bad idea. How did that work out? I think we just buy it.

Uh, People Express went out of business in 1987

Spirit Airlines started in 1992.

Another symptom of dementia, your memory goes but long term memory details linger longer.

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The last time Spirit Airlines was profitable was 2019

They have filed for bankruptcy twice in a year.

Maybe Trump wants the government to buy them because they remind him of his failed casinos. Or Trump Shuttle, which was never profitable either?

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Daily Mail headline

“Trump forced into humiliating retreat as probe into nemesis Fed chair Powell is dropped.”

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Fox News headline on same news:

Pirro closes investigation into Federal Reserve over building project

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Thom Tillis said he wouldn’t confirm a Trump nominee until DOJ dropped the sham investigation into Jerome Powell

And DOJ backed down..

See, Senate GOP, it can be done.

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Let’s put one simple condition on the US Government buying Spirit Airlines.

First Trump and his entire family and cabinet need to FLY on Spirit Airlines.

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Just what we expected.

April 22, 2026

Okay, Tyler Mahle beating Shohei Ohtani gives me Barry Zito over Justin Verlander vibes.

(And now, I didn’t expect that either.)

Yes, Ohtani didn’t get the loss.. But he blew past his pitch count. No decision.

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Not going to lie, I’d mentally pencilled in tonight’s Giants Dodgers game with Tyler Mahle vs Shohei Ohtani as a loss.

Baseball is the best sport.

New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel says he is getting counseling and won’t be with the team during the NFL draft, after the NY Post published pictures showing him looking affectionate with formerr Athletic reporter Dianna Russini at a resort in Arizona.

Am not the morals police and their marriages are their own business. But who in these ubiquitous camera phone days actually thinks they can get away with ANYTHING?

Guess at least they weren’t outed at a Coldplay concert

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Lindsey Graham just compared Donald Trump to a cross between P.T. Barnum and Ronald Reagan.

Barnum was a charlatan and Reagan had Alzheimer’s in his second term.

Okay then!

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Trump attacking the Supreme Court again.

Not a lot of gratitude for the people who kept him out of prison.

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There’s no proof of the rumor that a general stopped Trump from using the nuclear codes

What’s scary though is that it’s completely believable.

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The UAE, including Dubai, are some of the richest countries on Earth.

But Trump is now looking at paying them restitution for their losses during his war.

At the same time he’s telling us America can’t afford childcare and healthcare.

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Amy Klobuchar points out today 100 senators, all of them, agreed to fund all of DHS except extra $$ to ICE.

All of them – from Bernie Sanders to Ted Cruz!

House Republicans rejected deal. “Not a profile in courage.”

And $70 billion MORE will go to ICE, which is already funded.

What we could do with that money otherwise…

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Senator Adam Schiff also pointing out the insane cost of this insane war… $1000 for every single American family.

Could have paid for pre-K for every child in the country.

For starters..

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Xavier Becerra: “The governor’s office doesn’t come with training wheels.”

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Raining and reigning.

April 21, 2026

Still early in the MLB season, but how about these stats?

4-1, 2.28 ERA

And who’d expect they’d belong to Landen Roupp?

(Yes, he has 4 of the 10 SF Giants wins.)

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So is tonight a sign that things are improving? Or will it be the high water mark of the SF Giants season? #BeatLA

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When the SF Giants were up 3-1 in bottom six and it started raining, how many Giants fans hoped for a downpour to call the game?

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Sucks that Wemby has a concussion. But hoping he’ll be back within a week.

Although actually Spurs were ahead of the Portland Trail Blazers in game 2 until Harrison Barnes and Dylan Harper also got hurt.

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“Trump says the U.S. will extend its ceasefire with Iran at Pakistan’s request”

Well, it is TACO Tuesday

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Have seen Democratic and Republican administrations.

Never seen ANY administration so incapable of talking about their own accomplishments, whether legitimate or not, without bashing their predecessor(s).

Is Biden and Obama bashing mandatory in every Cabinet member’s speeches?

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“Five months. I would have won Vietnam, very quickly. I would have, if I were president. I would have won Iraq in the same amount of time”

Cadet Bone Spurs is speaking.

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Kevin Warsh, Trump’s nominee as Fed chair, has said that he will be an “independent actor, not beholden to the President.”

If that’s true he won’t last a Scaramucci

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Your reminder that no one was interested in redistricting for the 2026 election until Velveeta Voldemort ordered Texas to get him more GOP congressional seats.

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A Twitter friend shouted out the Atlantic reporters for posting their story about Kash Patel instead of waiting to put it in a book.

Amen.

Et Tu Bob Woodward?

(How many died because he sat on Donald’s admission that they KNEW Covid was airborne?)

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As Xavier Becerra surges & Dem Gubernatorial prospects in California seem better, thinking again of friend’s idea:

She thought Swalwell allegations just after he became frontrunner maybe weren’t leaked by GOP but by Democrats worried they’d come out in May, or worse, October.

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So Lori Chavez-Deremer is out as Labor Secretary.

Guess in the Trump administrations you can get away with drinking and misconduct allegations only if you’re male.

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Have no problem with Sade in the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame.

But again and not for the last time, Carpenters should be in there too.

Not just for all the hits, but how influential their music and arrangements turned out to be.

And Karen had one of the best voices, EVER.

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Hey big (and not so big) spenders…

April 16, 2026

SF Giants pitchers combined on a one-hitter today in Cincinnati.

And anyone who’s been watching this team lately and hearing that stat had to wonder “Did they win?”

(As it turns out, yes, 3-0)

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ESPN Headline “Dodgers smashed MLB’s spending record at $515M in 2025

Buried lede. Like paying Ohtani $1 million… Despite several contracts discounted to reflect deferred payments, the Dodgers’ total was seven times the $68.7 million payroll of the Marlins, the lowest-spending team, and more than the payrolls of the bottom six clubs COMBINED.

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Meanwhile in Las Vegaas…

Trump: I cater to the seniors, but I don’t happen to be a senior myself. Thank you very much

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News flash. Man who will be 80 years old in less than two months now forgets how old he is… Sad.-

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But yes, Trump has a hotel in Las Vegas. Which means that not only will he stay there, but he’ll spend a LOT of our taxpayer money at a hotel that the public could get rates tonight for $139 a night. (Wanna guess how much he is billing for Secret Service rooms.

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Would like someone to ask these GOP members of Congress still supporting RFK Jr. if their own children and grandchildren are vaccinated?

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Even the Daily Mail has this headline:

“Pete Hegseth reads fake Pulp Fiction Bible verse during Pentagon prayer service”

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Mike Johnson actually said both the Pope and President Trump “have lanes and he hopes they stay in them.”

So the Speaker is saying Donald has a lane? And he should stay in it? Would he like to elaborate on those boundaries?

Preferably on camera.

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I understand why Fox News hides Trump’s dementia, but why isn’t this a top headline with other media?

“Powell is a bad chairman, and I was surprised when Biden extended him”

Donald appointed Jerome Powell.

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Media is all over what Ruben Gallego may or may not have known about his good friend Eric Swalwell.

Fine, can media at least simultaneously talk about what Donald Trump knew about his good friend Jeffrey Epstein. Don’t think Gallego sent a birthday card like this…

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So now Trump is saying that for national security we NEEDED to…

Start a war with Iran
Take over Greenland
Build a ballroom-bomb shelter next to the White House

If we needed these things so badly why didn’t he campaign on them?

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I’m so old I remember when Jocelyn Elders, MD had to resign as surgeon general after saying “masturbation is “a part of human sexuality and… something that perhaps should be taught.”

Maybe it should have been better taught to a lot of men in Congress.

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US Senate, 50-49, approved resolution to end ban on mining near Boundary Waters Canoe Area.

It was 20 yr ban imposed by President Biden.

Thought GOP believed in unlimited Presidential power?

But now they’ll have no problem with Dems in Congress overturning many Trump actions?

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Before Trump’s lackey commission advanced his arch today, per NY Times “panel’s secretary, informed members that they had received a deluge of nearly 1,000 messages from the public: “100% of the comments were against the project.”

Just saying.

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JD Vance just said publicly:

“Stopping funding for Ukraine is one of the things I’m proudest we’ve done in this administration.”

Hey, Roger Wicker, Lindsey Graham, Joni Ernst, Lisa Murkowski and John Cornyn.

You’ve all been pro-Ukraine..

Heck so was Rubio.

Why the silence?

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ox News loves to cover Donald.

But for some reason they didn’t cover Trump’s claims:

“I started Artemis II”

“Biden nominated Jerome Powell.”

“It should be the Strait of Trump”

“Tillis is no longer a Senator.

Not to mention his “Arch de Trump”

Sure it’s just a coincidence.

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Scoreboard watching

April 10, 2026

Oakland/Vegas/Sacramento A’s ptichers combined to one hit the Yankees today to win 1-0

How long until the Dodgers just try to buy the As pitching staff

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Random fun sports comment:

Saw this MLB final score headline tonight from San Diego

Rockies 3 – Padres 7 – Final/12

How many sports can you see one line – and know EXACTLY how the game ended?

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Not sure how many know/remember but in July 1974, on House Judiciary Committee, 6 Republicans voted to impeach Nixon for obstruction of justice, 7 for abuse of power, 2 for contempt of Congress.

GOP members of Congress USED to have a backbone.

Must admit having Melania talk about Epstein to distract from the Epstein files is a heckuva flex.

-Is she trying to throw him under the bus first before he does it to her?

Small in the grand scheme of things but it is striking how bad Melania Trump, who has been in the US for decades, is still so bad at English. Especially as Donald has made attacks on immigrants, even legal immigrants, who don’t speak English well a cornerstone of his hateful rhetoric.

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Fox News Headline “Iran’s Supreme Leader urges Arab nations to abandon west in dire warning.”

Yeah, that sure confirms Trump’s Iran statement: “We’d have a different group of people & they are in control, but they’re much more moderate and, I think, much more reasonable.”

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If only we’d listened to Hillary…. I’d forgotten this part ofo one of her speeches . “So it really matters that Donald Trump says things that go against our deepest-held values. It matters when he says he’ll order our military to murder the families of suspected terrorists. During the raid to kill bin Laden, when every second counted, our SEALs took the time to move the women and children in the compound to safety. “

Trump and Hegseth had no problem killing women and children in their attacks on Iran.

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And now Trump is back fixated on Greenland – Remember Amy Klobuchar tweeting in August 2019 that the difference between Trump and Greenland is that Greenland is not for sale.

Like a woman who keeps saying no..

Donald takes that as a challenge. Predators are gonna predator.

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Turnarounds?

April 7, 2026

Daniel Susac, 7 hits and a walk in his first 9 AB

Patrick Bailey Pipp.?

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A day worried about a US President using nukes puts sports in perspective. But really really glad Wemby does not appear to be seriously injured. We need all the joy and fun we can get. (And the Spurs bandwagon is accepting riders.) #porvida

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So the Big Ten wins both men’s and women’s college basketball championships.

Still doesn’t make sense that one of those Big Ten teams is UCLA.

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Wondering what it will take.

If Trump wears a tan suit will Republicans finally turn on him?

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So is Trump going to demand a Peace Prize for not dropping nukes?

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And don’t forget that many consider women too emotional to be President.

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I’m so old I remember when Americans were the good guys trying to stop crazy dictators from destroying the rest of the world.

Donald Trump is treating most of the world like he’s a depraved child and we are neighborhood pets he is torturing for fun.

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Add to the list of questions the media needs to ask Speaker Mike Johnson

What does he think of Trump’s claim that HE took out Osama Bin Laden?

(Not to mention – did you see Dear Leader’s Easter tweet?)

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At this point it’s not just that he was threatening the death of a entire civilization.

It’s that most of us believe he’s crazy enough to do it.

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Amazing how many of the same media who took every verbal stumble Joe Biden, a lifelong stutterer, made as a sign of dementia, and yet listens to increasingly unhinged and nonsensical rants from Donald Trump and just shrugs.

CBS announced “Byron Allen’s ‘Comics Unleashed’ will replace late-night host Stephen Colbert.

Who else isn’t watching?

This man shouldn’t be in charge of an homeowner’s association, let alone be the US President.

So IF this ceasefire holds for a week or so, what country will Trump start a war with next to distract from the fact that there are credible allegations (and possible videos) of him raping children?

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Ceasefire “plan”reportedly includes allowing Iran & Oman to charge fees on ships transiting through Strait of Hormuz
Apparently Iran will use money raised for reconstruction.”

So we wasted billions, got 13 American soldiers killed & countless injured for THIS?

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New DHS Sec MarkWayne Mullen now questions if sanctuary cities should be allowed to process customs at international airports..

For starters, does he realize even DALLAS is being investigated by TX AG Ken Paxton as a sanctuary city.

Where exactly does he want planes to land?

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Not too much winning

April 5, 2026

Early days. But 10 games into the SF Giants 2026 season it’s a good spring also to be a San Antonio Spurs fan. Diversity helps in many ways. #Porvida

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SF Giants have scored 7 runs in their 7 losses…. 19 run in their 3 wins


I understand baseball is a streaky game but this is ridiculous.

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Meanwhile, I already really miss Tyler Rogers. IYKYK

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So with about 3-4s game left in in 82 game NBA season, we now know which 10 teams out of 30 will not be playing in the postseason.

And some wonder why some players may not take regular season seriously?

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Has Mike Johnson said he didn’t see Trump’s F-bomb tweet yet?

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ABC today reported “UCLA’s seniors have scored the last 170 points for the Bruins in March Madness.” Anyone watching men’s college basketball has to be thinking “seniors?”

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A few days again Donald said “U.S. “will not have anything to do with” what happens next in the strait…
That’s not for us. That’ll be for France. That’ll be for whoever’s using the strait.”

Today it’s “open the f*ckin strait.”

Does Trump even REMEMBER what he said last week?

Bought a Smithfield fully-cooked ham on sale. It’s shrinkwrapped in plastic, then wrapped in foil with plastic net bag around it.

Heating instructions say to “remove all packaging materials” before putting in the oven.”

If I didn’t already fear for our collective USA intelligence.

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Now, maybe JD Vance has no idea how unpopular he is.

Although considering his love for vacations maybe he realizes he won’t help Orban but hey, he and Usha will get a lavish taxpayer funded trip to Budapest.

I’m so old I remember when it was Easter weekend and if there was Presidential “news” at all it involved what the First Lady might be wearing to church.

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fundraising email just on Saturday.

Sent from Air Force One

Sat, Apr 4 at 12:39 PM

“RESPOND TO TRUMP. Right after I boarded Air Force One, I knew I had to get in contact with you.”

Uh, he’s not on Air Force One

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Not that I didn’t expect him to be crazy.

Didn’t expect all other Republicans falling at his feet.

Remember retired Senator Roy Blunt interviewed in later January 2025. He knew his former colleagues & said “for various reasons, some of Trump’s nominations would not be confirmed…”

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Serious question. Why does anyone care these days what John Fetterman thinks?

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So this one was too much for even Fox News to ignore.

Website headline:

“Trump issues profanity-laced threat against Iranian regime: ‘Open the f—– Strait'”

“Mommy, why can’t I say bad words if the President says them?”

Now down to just over 210 days before the midterms. 30 weeks.

Does Trump have a team focused on how to distract from his record, and the Epstein Files, until then?

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Great news that both American pilots who were shot down were rescued. But you can be happy about the rescue and still be mad about Trump unnecessarily having put them into harm’s way in the first place.

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Oops they did it again

April 3, 2026

Fortunately for Stanford, the Crown Basketball Tournament is not nationally televised.

(Yeah, I know the “Crown Basketball Tournament,” I hadn’t heard of it either.)

But Stanford was up with 3 with 9 seconds to go, missed a game clinching field goal, and then while trying to foul to avoid a game-tying 3 pointer, managed to foul a West Virgina player heaving the ball from half court. He then hit all three fouls and the Mountaineers won in OT.

But yeah, Cayden Boozer’s bad pass almost looks good by comparison)

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Not a good night for Los Angeles NBA Teams. Lakers lost by over 40 to the Thunder, and lost Luka to a hamstring injury. Then the Clippers faced the Spurs with Wemby resting, and lost by 20.

Might almost make you feel sorry for Los Angeles sports fans. Except… the Dodgers.

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CBS News first reported Pete Hegseth has asked highest-ranking (& much decorated) US Army officer, General Randy George, to resign immediately amid the Iran war.

Because nothing is so confidence boosting as changing leadership in the middle of a war you say you’ve won.

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Only reason for Pete Hegseth to fire top generals in middle of a war is that they refused to follow orders.

Only reason well-respected generals would refuse to follow DOD Secretary’s orders was that those orders were insane.

Americans are going to die for Pete & Donald’s egos.

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Wonder if Donald Trump realizes…

That Bruce Springsteen has a Oscar, a Tony and a Grammy (Plus Emmy nominations.)

More real awards than Donald will ever have.

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So Trump actually fired Pam Bondi… Not for being an awful AG. But for not being awful enough. Who can Donald find- and get confirmed- to be worse?

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Now bodycam footage shows Tiger Woods on the phone before he would talk to police after his latest crash. He then told officers: ‘I was just talking with the President.”

Was Tiger asking for a pardon or to be named Secretary of Transportation.

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Just saying, if Trump had carefully considered firing Pam Bondi he’d have a new nominee ready to announce today.

So either he put as much planning into this as he did into bombing Iran.

Or maybe he can’t find anyone to take the job?

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Apparently Trump considering nominating a conservative GOP Senator to take over as AG for Pam Bondi.

Let’s see, give up safe seat in US Senate to accept a job that if confirmed will destroy your reputation & you’ll still end up thrown under bus.

Sounds like a great offer.

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Not just fares & fuel surcharges going up.

United Airlines just announced 1st & 2nd checked bag fees fees will increase by $10 USD for travel within the US, or to Mexico or Canada.

For family of 4 each with a bag, that’s $80 added to their vacation price.

Trump war surcharge?

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Trump – It’s “not possible for the federal government to help pay for daycare when “we’re fighting wars.”

Democrats could pay a million dollars to a consultant and not come up with a line for a campaign ad as good as that.

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20 minutes

April 2, 2026

Okay, does anyone believe that Donald Trump in his right mind would have abandoned a prime time stage with all networks agreeing to cover it in less than an hour

And yes, it was barely 20 minutes…

An eternity in sports. Nothing in speech time.

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Very few positive ways to spin tonight’s rambling wreck on Iran, where Donald looked & sounded really old.

IF smart people around Trump see his decline and want to push him out, then suggesting he should make that prime time speech might have been an opening salvo…

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When “sundown” trends this time of year, we should be thinking “Passover.”

Instead, how many millions of us figure it refers to the current President of the United States?

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If anyone’s plan was to drink everytime Trump lies tonight hhey probably passed out in the first five minutes…

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The #PresidentialAddress SHOULD be The Gardens Court in Palm Beach Gardens.

Just looked it up, less than 20 minutes from Mar-A-Lago and it’s rated one of the top nursing homes in the country.

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Very few positive ways to spin tonight’s rambling wreck on Iran, where Donald looked & sounded really old.

IF smart people around Trump see his decline and want to push him out, then suggesting he should make that prime time speech might have been an opening salvo…

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Donald’s now saying this Iran war is not a big deal because World War I and II, and other wars lasted years…

And his war is “nearing completion.”

I’m sure that’s a comfort to the military who will actually be facing death, and their families.

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So per the NY Times, President Trump has discussed firing Pam Bondi.

Not because she’s awful.

But because she’s not being awful enough.

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As Ron DeSantis tries to out-Trump Trump with Florida voter suppression law…which will probably be blocked anyway.

Does he realize how many Republicans vote by mail?

And how many have moved from other states & thus may have a harder time obtaining the proof of citizenship?

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As Don Jr. shared a headline “NATO didn’t show up — now Trump’s asking why we stay.”

Actually NATO’s Article 5 has been invoked exactly once, on America’s behalf. After 9-11

Putin must be so proud of his puppets.-

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All these MAGA type who are cheering Pete Hegseth’s decision not to investigate military helicopter pilots who did a fly by at Kid Rocks’ house.

I am sure they’d be equally sanguine about it if some liberal helicopter pilot does the same for Jane Fonda or Bruce Springsteen.

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Is it just possible that Wednesday’s lost and rambling speech by Donald Trump trying to justify his Iran war may go down in history as more damaging to his Presidency as Joe Biden’s 2024 debate performance was to his?

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It comes with the terrority…

April 1, 2026

Headlne after listening to Nathan Lane talking about “Death of a Salesman”

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And meanwhile, a week into 162 game season, most MLB teams can dream.

Well, okay, not the As. Marlins, White Sox, but you get the point.

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Meanwhile, for at least a night, SF Giants fans remembered that baseball could be FUN.

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Tiger Woods just announced he’s stepping away from golf to seek treatment and focus on his health.

Hoping this means he’s also stepping away from driving, before he kills someone.

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Donald is so obsessed on his White House ballroom almost beginning to wonder if he views it as his future memorial and tomb?

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When Trump is finally gone from the White House will any phrase have been so degraded in general popular usages as “two weeks?”

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As Donald keeps threatening to cut off Federal money to states who don’t obey his mad demands, at what point does it occur to state governments that the Feds get that money FROM states. Mostly blue states.

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Hey MAGA

Would like to interrupt your “liberal judge bashing” for a simple fact:

The judge who blocked Trump’s “ballroom,” Richard J. Leon was appointed in 2002 by President George W.Bush.

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Trump telling European allies that the closed Strait of Hormuz is saying something Europe needs to fix is like an arsonist lobbing a flame grenade into their neighbor’s yard and then saying the resulting fire is not their problem.

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I don’t care if Kristi Noem’s husband wears women’s clothing.

I do care that the President of the United States has been credibly accused of being a rapist pedophile.

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Psst… every news story on Trump’s abominable planned future library is a news story not focusing on his even more abominable presence in the Epstein files…

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In Jan 2026, United Airlines “fuel surcharge” for business class ticket to Europe from SFO was $2130.00
Late Feb it was $2150.00
When war started it jumped to $2700.
Today it’s $2805
How long until $3K
If Trump’s war ever ends, how slowly will “fuel surcharge” go down? If ever

And yes, similiar level increases are happening even for the lowest fares.

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CNN paid Trump pundit Scott Jennings today

“I simply cannot understand why people are so angry about a ballroom that future Presidents will enjoy and is 100% privately funded. President Trump could save a kitten from a tree and it would still be a scandal.”

As if Donald would save a kitten from anything? Heck, he’d probably run over a kitten who had the audacity to run in front of his golf cart on a Trump course.

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Mistakes were made

March 29, 2026

Cayden Boozer should’ve tried to advance ball & been fouled instead of reckless pass. OTOH he didn’t blow 19 pt lead by himself As San Antonio Spurs fan tired of hearing team’s too young to win in NBA playoffs. But Mitch Johnson should have team watch Duke-UConn tape

#Porvida

If my father, a Duke professor for decades, hadn’t passed away in 2020 this Elite Eight game against U Conn might have killed him.

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ABS has a few kinks that need to be worked out.. What we also need is accountability for seriously bad umpires. Yes, talking about you C.B. Bucknor.

(Can anyone imagine Angel Hernandez and ABS together?)

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Weird off days.. SF Giants and NY Yankees had Thursday and now today off.

MLB Games unavailable on regular networks, even cable networks.

Is Commissioner Manfred trying to make the beginning of the MLB season as unappealing as possible?

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CNN Factchecker Daniel Dale, “Analysis: Trump keeps saying ‘nobody’ knew or expected things lots of people knew or expected”

How long until Donald demands CNN not have a fact checker?

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Does anyone think Kash Patel is the only Trump cabinet members whose email Iranians have hacked?

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Trump: “The military is building a massive complex under the ballroom, and that’s under construction, and we’re doing very well, so we’re ahead of schedule”

When your dementia is far enough advanced that you spill the secrets out loud…

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Does Donald Trump realize that having Kash Patel attack Eric Swalwell will actually make Swalwell more popular in California?

Hillary Clinton’s private email server was front page news for weeks.

Meanwhile FBI Director Kash Patel’s private emails are hacked – and shared publicly – by Iran and it barely makes headlines for a day.

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Seen by a friend – one of my favorite underreported #NoKings signs

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So many questions…

March 28, 2026

So the SF Giants ARE going to score a run eventually in 2026, right?

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If Tiger Woods wants to be self-destructive that’s his business.

But what if his rollover accident, in broad daylight, had killed a child crossing the street? Or another driver?

One accident or DUI might be a learning experience. Four accidents and 2 DUI’s are a pattern.

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Though have to ask. Has Trump presumptively pardoned Tiger yet?

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Also, it it s it time to ask what Donald Trump has on Mike Johnson?

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While Americans are waiting in endless lines thanks to President Trump and Speaker Johnson perhaps they can pass the time thinking about what will happen if there’s an emergency in the US requiring FEMA assistance.

FEMA funding was also in the Senate bill Johnson squashed.

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So is GOP Speaker Mike Johnson now declaring war on GOP Senate Majority Leader John Thune?

Or is he just launching an “excursion?”

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Iranian hackers have released emails from Kash Patel’s personal account.. Wonder while they’re at it if they could release some of the redacted Epstein files.

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So Kash Patel, man who is supposedly in charge of keeping Americans safe as FBI director, couldn’t even keep his personal email account safe.. All together now #ButHerEmails

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Just renewed my passport, paying expedited fees for fast service + priority mail. Efficient if expensive.

But same admin claiming voting by mail is not secure mailed my OLD passport back to me. Which has not only private ID but travel info for last 9 years..

By regular mail.

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For some reason this story isn’t on the front page of Fox News website

“Ten US service members injured after strike on Saudi air base as Rubio says war ‘over in weeks’”

Although if one American is harmed by an undocumented immigrant…it’s a top headline.

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Will Donald fire Bari Weiss because CBS News reported this? “Two of the Americans were very seriously injured, sources said. Eight were seriously injured, which is a different category of injury under the military’s classification system.”

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A Long Day’s Night

March 27, 2026

From SI.com‘s Jimmy Traina

“Netflix’s Opening Night Yankees-Giants Broadcast Was a Complete and Total Embarrassment

It was crystal clear that Netflix had no interest in catering to baseball fans during its first MLB telecast.”

No Lies detected.

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And as we move closer to an Elite Eight in NCAA’s men’s basketball tournament

Would be interesting to see a chart of how many on Elite Eight/ Final Four teams transferred from might have been Cinderella teams.

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From Donald again this morning “I’m the only President who ever took a Cognitive Test and I took it three times.”

Your reminder, cognitive tests are only given to people when they are suspected of dementia.

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Trump is not attending CPAC.

For a man who lives for applause and attention this means one of two things.

  1. He has deteriorated so much that he can’t appear in public without his White House minders.
  2. He knows even his MAGA base sees that he is failing on everything.

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Donald today

“I never wanna take [the National Guard] out of D.C. I mean, maybe somebody later on will do it, but I never wanna…We see these beautiful, strong people, and they’re so nice. They help, they open the doors for people, they carry bags, they pick up paper on the ground.”

Because that’s why people join the National Guard. To remember the days when they were Boy and Girl Scouts?

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Per the WSJ, “Trump told an associate that the war was distracting from his other priorities.”

Well, maybe Donald should fire the idiot who decided to start the war…

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250 years ago the United States of America declared independence from a mad King

So now a mad would-be King is demanding that his signature be placed on our currency.

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Republicans claim now SAVE America Act will not impose draconian requirements on voters this November.

Same Republicans who claimed that Roe V. Wade was settled law, and that Trump did not plan to enact Project 2025.

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So is it a crime to cover a signature on US currency with a Sharpie?

Asking for a few million friends

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Imagine if Joe Biden had referred to the Govenor of Philladilly…

As Donald stumbles and rambles through a Cabinet meeting –

“You can’t give lunatics a nuclear weapon.”

Not great for elderly narcisstics with dementia to have them either.

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ICYMI

Trump now says he will pay TSA agents by executive order.

After saying he wouldn’t sign ANY bill to pay them unless Senate passed the SAVE America act.

So he’s saying he had this power all along and made traveling public and TSA agents suffer for a political stunt.

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Opening daze

March 24, 2026

Anyone know how many MLB opening days and nights there are this week?

Instead of some overseas opener, MLB made the SF Giants and New York Yankees play Wednesday night, ONLY on Netflix (and radio)

At 5:05pm – a ridiculous time for fans to try to reach Oracle Park in San Francisco with traffic, and not the traditional day opener the SF Giants prefer. Not to mention that shadows will creep across the field in the late innings, making it hard for hitters to see the ball.

But the Giants are pretending that their real home opener is Friday, a day game. (Plus season ticket holders had to buy tickets for Monday and Tuesday against the “Sulantes” from Mexico.

Follow the money.

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In the meantime, have the Dodgers tried to buy the WBC Venezuelan champions yet?

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Who says NBA players don’t care about the regular season?

Asked about the MVP race, Victor Wembanyama could have spouted the usual “I’m just trying to help the team.”.

Instead “”I have thought about it,” Wemby said. “I think right now there is a debate. There should be, even though I think I should lead the race. I’m trying to make sure that at the end of the season, there’s no debate.”

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Trump apparently said that “For so many years people have been saying that Elvis and I look alike.”

Well considering that Elvis has been dead since 1977 and is almost certainly embalmed Donald could be right.

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Tom Homan on ICE: “We’re doing a security function at the airports. We’re gonna arrest criminals going through airports, we’re gonna look for human trafficking, sex trafficking, money launder– ah, you know, money smuggling”

Man who was recorded in 2024 by FBI agents accepting a $50,000 (!) bribe says what?

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About MarkWayne Mullen

He had a safe Senate seat in Oklahoma.

And gave it up for about 2 1/2 years as DHS Secretary for an increasingly unpopular President overseeing increasingly unpopular policies.

And Donald will probably throw him under the bus too

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And would never vote for MarkWayne Mullen as DHS, but just heard a replay of his hearing where he said “I make mistakes” and ” I’ll admit when I’m wrong.”

This ups the chances that in Trump administration Mullen will be fired sooner rather than later. Donald and his policies can NEVER be wrong.

Stunning how many MAGA trolls on social media today saying we should not make tragic Air Canada – fire truck collision political.

Same trolls who blamed everything transportation related for four years on Pete Buttigieg.

(there were no fatal commercial air accidents on Pete’s watch).

Another election warning:

To fly in US right now you either need a passport or a Real ID.

And Trump claims ICE is at airports to arrest “illegals?”

On top of everything else he’s saying out loud REAL IDS are not acceptable IDs – and thus will not allow US citizen to vote

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IF Trump is really correct that 99% of Americans support his anti-trans legislation jammed into the SAVE Act then why not make it a stand-alone bill?

IF supposed election integrity is so important then it too should be voted on separately.

IF he’s not lying about all of this.

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$weet $ixteen

March 23, 2026

As the first weekend of March Madness is over, no real Cinderella is still dancing

It’s no longer the stroke of midnight that ends these small school dreams… it’s the transfer portal.

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As much as I hate Trump’s idea of sending ICE to fill in for TSA, as someone in the travel industry can’t think of another move he can make that would so turn Americans against GOP before the 2026 elections….

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Heather Cox Richardson tonight points out

“Under Trump, ICE now highest-funded law enforcement agency in U.S., w/ annual budget higher than those of all other federal law enforcement agencies combined. Because ICE agents are considered “essential” workers, they, unlike TSA agents, are getting paid during funding fight.”

This ought to be fun – paid ICE agents working alongside unpaid TSA agents….

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A driver’s license is not proof of citizenship.

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So if Donald manages to get ICE agents, presumably masked, in place of TSA at airports, and they don’t like the way someone looks or speaks with an accent will they detain or arrest them just because they can?

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Republican fundraising email.

“If we don’t SECURE OUR ELECTIONS before November, Democrats will seize power & IMPEACH EVERYONE!

RFK Jr, Hegseth, Gabbard. GONE!”

Promise?

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Some facts on a man whose life deserved our thanks & respect:

Robert Mueller received Bronze Star for heroism & Purple Heart in Vietnam war.
He was appointed FBI director by George W. Bush & appointed Special Counsel by Trump’s acting AG Rod Rosenstein.

He was also a Republican.

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at least NY Times headline isn’t sanewashing Trump’s post yesterday

“Trump’s Reaction to Robert Mueller’s Death: ‘Good, I’m Glad.’”

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Leaving aside that recounts have shown over and over that the 2020 election was NOT stolen

Wouldn’t you think that if Democrats were as evil and powerful as Trump claims that they would have stolen the 2016 & 2024 elections when they held the White House and were in power?

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USDA Secretary Brooke Rollons “Over the last year we’ve brought almost all food prices down, with a couple of outliers”

I’m so old I remember when media ran nonstop stories about how despite strong economic indicators many people just didn’t feel economically secure under Joe Biden.

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Trump just told Congress to work through Easter if necessary to pass the SAVE Act.


So how many fundraisers is Donald having at Mar-A-Lago Easter weekend?

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Day one/won

March 20, 2026

Well, the High Point Panthers made it a good first day of March Madness for those with cat brackets.

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Meanwhile the San Antonio Spurs officially clinched their first playoff spot in years. After being down 10 with a few minutes to play. Some fans might have figured it was an off-night (including me)

Fun game, fun read.

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Now back to not fun stuff

2,403 Americans were killed on December 7, 1941.

And Velveeta Voldemort is joking about it?

He dishonors all their memories.

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GOP claiming now that the SAVE Act won’t disenfranchise voters, especially women, with often draconian rules to prove citizenship,

This is the same GOP that claimed Trump had no plan to implement Project 2025.

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Criticized last month on DOJ handling of Epstein files, Pam Bondi: “The Dow is over 50,000 right now…That’s what we should be talking about.”

Dow is now just over 46,000.

Does she want to talk about 10% drop in 6 weeks?

Or can she finally talk about the Epstein files?

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Trump claims on the war in Iran: “We’re substantially ahead of schedule.”

Wait, last week he said the war was “over in an hour”

This is so confusing.

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Many who looked up to Cesar Chavez as a hero were shocked, saddened and angered by the sexual abuse allegations now against him, including crimes against girls.

Yet no one questions taking his name off schools, streets, etc.

Because his admirers aren’t a cult.

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Not a regular Bachelorette watcher and the allegations that apparently got ABC to shelve this season are ugly.

But I miss the days when the worst ‘reality TV” scandals
were from shows produced for entertainment and not from actual news from the White House.

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Fox News is not reporting Donald Trump’s “joke” about Pearl Harbor.

“We wanted surprise. Who ​knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn’t ⁠you tell me about Pearl Harbor?”

They don’t even try to spin. They just don’t report the worst things he says.

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Whatever Donald says about the war ending, look what businesses are doing..

United Airlines just extended waivers to the mid-East (Dubai and Tel Aviv.) until June 15!

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