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September 2, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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Turning the page

August 31, 2025

SF Giants had an up and down August.

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

The player with those states? Mike Yastrzemski

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Hope springs eternal?

August 29, 2025

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Slow down..

August 21, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Victories come in all sighs

August 13, 2025

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

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

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

#TrumpisontheEpsteinList

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of today’s tweets:

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

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Who says there’s no good news these days.

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

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Looking for linings…

August 12, 2025

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

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

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

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

If he were brown it would be breaking news

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

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

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

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

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Dear media:

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

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

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

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

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Dogged days.

August 1, 2025

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

And the Rockies win, 17-10.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

Posted this on Twitter

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

·It only took 2 hours…

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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Las Vegas tourism especially has fallen off a cliff.

Down perhaps 15% this summer.

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

Trump lies. The economy dies

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

I miss Sherrod Brown

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

Translation, Donald will demand a bribe.

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

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

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Blazing speed

July 31, 2025

Mets are getting most unappreciated reliever in baseball in Tyler Rogers.. Just saying.

Only silver lining as a sad SF Giants fan is maybe we’ll get to see him blow away a Dodgers star in the post season wth 75 MPH heat

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LA Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani left his start today in Cincinnati in the 4th inning with cramping he blamed on heat (Temperature at first pitch was 90 degrees, with w/heat index near 100.) He hopes to make his next start.

Don’t suppose we can dream that billionaires might start caring about climate change if it starts injuring their half billion dollar investments.

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Rubio defends his master’s sanctions (revoked visa, freezing US assets) on Brazilian judge because Donald doesn’t like him prosecuting his buddy.

“Let this be warning to those who would trample on fundamental rights of their countrymen; judicial robes cannot protect you.” So other countries can go after US judges now? Okay then.

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If you’re anti-abortion but also anti-USAID, aid to starving children in Gaza, and in favor of cutting SNAP and school lunch, then maybe it’s time to drop the “pro-life” lie.

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If the Epstein Files exonerated Donald, Fox News would be reading them on air 24-7.

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Not that Jerome Powell is in the troll business but how much would I love to hear him say he’ll consider lowering interest rates “in two weeks.”

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The new “Rose garden” is the literal personification of “pave paradise, put up a parking lot.

One Donald’s Stepford ladies must have damaged an expensive heel in the grass… The next Democratic President is going to have so much work to do to repair the White House, let alone our democracy.

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Amy Klobuchar is talking about Trump’s EO to impose 50% tariffs on Brazil.

Why? (And Donald admits it! Because Brazil is prosecuting their ex-President Bolsonaro for trying to overturn his election loss.

So Americans pay more because Trump is mad his buddy is facing justice.

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Happy to have ban on Congressional Stock trading.

But while GOP is chortling over naming it the Pelosi Act, per Money magazine top 2 SENATE traders in 2024…

Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., 202 trades – $5,531,500.

Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., 71 trades- $4,407,000

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Good news that the evacuations went smoothly and the tsunami turned out not to be really damaging in Hawaii and the US West Coast

Bad news may be that many Americans may take the warning less seriously next time.

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Bone headed…

July 30, 2025

Meanwhile, in nonpolitical outrage department, Heliot Ramos, who was on 2nd & ran into an out at 3rd at what would have been infield single Sunday for Adames, just got himself picked off 2nd because he forgot infield fly rule. My son’s little league coach benched kids for that.

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The SF Giants are now on a five game losing streak. Although yesterday they did get three hits with runners in scoring position (None today.) The small mercies are getting smaller.

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Stephen Colbert quoting Eric Trump on his designing his dad’s newest Scottish golf course..


“We had an unlimited budget and we exceeded it..”

(yes, Eric said it)

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Sheldon Whitehouse, telling GOP Senators how much they will regret Emil Bove vote. Bove’s been condemned by Dems & GOPs who know him. Tells story of woman who rescued a sick snake only to have him fatally bite her. “You knew when you picked me up I was a snake. It’s my nature.”

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Trump’s Office of Personnel Management new memo says “during a break, an employee may engage another in polite discussion of why his faith is correct and why the nonadherent should rethink his religious beliefs.”

Does this apply to Mormons, Muslims, and Wiccans?


Had a freshman roommate who was Mormon. Many nice qualities but she was against not just alcohol but coffee and tea. Does this mean Mormon government employees can “politely” criticize their coworkers at the coffee machine and on their way to happy hours? For starters.-

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Meanwhile, Oklahoma Superintendent of Schools Ryan Walker, he who wants the bible taught in all public schools, was allegedly caught playing porn on his screen during a school board meeting. He now says board members who saw the pictures of naked women on his screen lying and that Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt might have told them to lie.

As my late great stepmother used to say “We’re not perfect but they’re nuts.”

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Not that I have ANY sympathy for Lindsey Graham

But now he’s going to be primaried for his South Carolina US Senate seat by Paul Dans, an architect of Project 2025. Graham may have been a very good boy for Donald, but as usual, it wasn’t good enough.

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Whatever he says… 15% tariffs on top of the US dollar falling about 10% again the Euro since Donald took over still means much higher prices for Americans.

(There’s a reason GOP hates math, they are so bad at it.)

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There was immediate pushback when Trump nominated Emil Bove to be a judge, and a whistle blower first came forward in June. Over 900 former DOJ employees wrote a letter against him.

Chuck Grassley, who will turn 92 in September, is pretending the testimony against Emil Bove is new. Is he lying, or forgetful?

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Meanwhile retiring Senator Thom Tillis had said vote against a nominee if there was credible evidence but he hadn’t seen any against Bove. WTF?

Even Stevie Wonder could see credible evidence against Bove.

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THREE whistleblowers now speaking out about Bove.

So far. What’s that line? If one person calls you an ass, ignore them. If two call you an ass, start looking for tracks. If three call you an ass, put on a harness.

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Donald actually posted a warning tonight about the potential tsunami hitting Hawaii and the west coast…

Well, it’s a good thing his and Musk’s DOGE cuts didn’t really affect NOAA and the NWS team who could help. Oh wait, never mind.

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Chuck Schumer’s finally quoted Amy Klobuchar’s simple message on the Senate floor. “Chaos up, corruption up, costs up.” Media keeps chasing latest fool’s gold shiny object Donald throws out. But chaos, corruption & ESPECIALLY costs are what really matter to Americans.

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At long last

July 24, 2025

In non-political news, a miracle has occurred.

Justin Verlander has won a game in an SF Giants uniform.

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Oddly enough, in May 2023 Verlander became the 21st pitcher in MLB history to win games against EVERY major league baseball team. Wonder what the odds were you could get that it would take 16 starts to get his first win for the SF Giants.

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Probably about the same odds you could get that on July 24 the best records in MLB would belong to the Toronto Blue Jays and the Milwaukee Brewers.

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Whatever Ghislaine Maxwell is bribed or threatened into saying now, remember, one of many reasons she is in prison is a conviction for perjury.

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MAGA Mike Johnson on Ghislaine Maxwell. She’s “person who’s been sentenced to many years in prison for terrible, unspeakable, conspiratorial acts against innocent young people. She can’t be trusted to provide accurate testimony.”

Like when she says Trump is innocent to get pardon?

Cory Booker on Senate Floor yesterday reporting WSJ reported Donald Trump was told in May his name is in Epstein files. And that Emil Bove may have been involved in covering it up.

Some of these GOP Senators have daughters & granddaughters.. How do they sleep?

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Seriously many MAGA were happy to demonize all trans kids to follow Dear Leader in his outrage over a small numberof trans athletes competing in sporting events – because “we have to protect girls.”

But when it comes to young girls being raped and Donald possibly being involved. Move along nothing to see here… not even “thoughts and prayers” for the victims

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As Russia gains ground on Ukraine, Senate planned July vote on sanctions, w/ 83 Senators on board on a bipartisan basis.

But now GOP stepping back because Velveeta Voldemort says he will impose tariffs if Putin doesn’t agree to a cease fire…in 50 days!

Fools or complicit?

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Latest Trump fundraising lie to deflect from Epstein files.

That Obama committed “the crime of the century” – Wait, I thought Biden’s autopen was the “crime of the century?” This is so confusing

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-NY Times headline

“F.C.C. Approves Skydance’s $8 Billion Merger With Paramount

The agency said the deal was approved after assurances that the new company would commit to unbiased journalism.”

Fixed it for them.

“And would fire Stephen Colbert.”

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So today’s question:

All these Republican Senators voting for things and nominees they KNOW are wrong.

Are they truly believers in a cult, or are they just too scared/craven to do the right thing? Asking for a country?

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No wonder MAGA politicians are rushing to post tributes to Hulk Hogan. They don’t have many real celebrities on their side and they just lost one

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Dana Carvey regularly spoofed George H.W. Bush on SNL.

And Bush actually invited him to the White House.

Wasn’t a fan of George H.W’s policies. But..

I miss having a President with a sense of humor.

I miss having a President:

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Numbers and other games.

July 23, 2025

No detail he won’t lie about? (while bragging about attending in 2024.)

“If you took an Alabama-LSU football game that holds 128,000 people… if you took that & doubled it, that’s what used to flow into our country on a daily basis.” Alabama-LSU game, a sellout, held 102,283.

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SF Giants have two starting pitchers on the All-Star team and Landen Roupp turns in the ace performance they desperately needed. Just like we all expected.

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Imagine your job required you to do something tough but necessary & instead of doing it you just went on vacation weeks early without finishing your other work.

That’s what MAGA Mike Johnson has done with the House because he doesn’t want a vote to release the Epstein files.

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Minnesota State Senator Bruce Anderson, 75, passed away suddenly

Didn’t know him but among those posting thoughtful condolences, Gov. Tim Walz, Lt. Gov Peggy Flanagan, Senator Amy Klobuchar. Anderson was a Republican.

Miss the days when bipartisan kindness wasn’t surprising.

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One of today’s “breaking news” “Former lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein, Roy Black has died.

Now, Black was 80. But I can’t be the only one whose first reaction was “did he fall out of a window?

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As a Democrat, I’ve sadly accepted that Bill Clinton, who I’ve supporteds since 1991, could be on Epstein’s list. Not quite getting all these GOP who are willing to do ANYTHING not to release list to protect Donald Trump. Beginning to wonder how many are protecting themselves?

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President Obamas office sums it up.

“Nothing in document issued last week undercuts conclusion Russia worked to influence 2016 presidential election but didn’t successfully manipulate any votes. Findings affirmed in 2020 report by bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Chair Marco Rubio”

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Would any reporter dare to ask Marco Rubio about that report?

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George H.W. Bush invited SNL’s Dana Carvey “wouldn’t be prudent” to perform his impersonation at the White House.

Donald Trump got Stephen Colbert fired. Petty scared little man.

Donald talking about trade and foreign visits: “I’ve been invited by a lot of people.” And he’ll tell us who in about two weeks?

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Trump told Mike Johnson to send House home early so they wouldn’t have to vote on Epstein files. But he wants Senate in session in August to confirm his judges. So to save Senate vacations, we just need bipartisan resolution to release Epstein files. Problem solved.

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Amy Klobuchar gets it: With Lawrence O’Donnell tonight as she did with Jake Tapper Amy talks about corruption with Trump & Epstein files. But pivots to broken promises on prices. Inflation is bad & getting worse, ACA premiums go up this year. Chaos, corruption & COSTS all up.

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Plus ca change…

July 20, 2025

Four days off and the post-All Star break SF Giants look a lot like the pre-All Star Break SF Giants.

Friday 0-9 with runners in scoring position…

As a few people said,Friday – 11 hits no runs, they scored as many runs today as they scored all week..

And then Saturday 3 runs on 3 hits.

Silver lining about the Toronto Blue Jays wins over SF Giants. In the AL East, the Blue Jays are leading the NY Yankees.

Due to a provision in Trump’s Big Beautiful Betrayal, many visitors including tourists to the United States will now have to pay a “visa integrity fee,” of $250.00. There are exemptions for Canada and countries in the Visa Waiver Program (which includes much of Europe, some countries in Asia, Australia and New Zealand..) And Qatar (thanks for the plane)

Hardest hit… visitors from Africa and South America. Just in time for the Olympics and the World Cup.

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And folks, does anyone think US travelers won’t face reciprocal fees? Or hassles?

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Fox News obsesses on daily basis in headlines about whether Biden’s signatures as President were faked. But while Epstein birthday card is biggest political story of the week they won’t even touch subject, even to question if it’s real. (More confirmation that Donald wrote it.)

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Whatever you think of Rupert Murdoch, the man is not stupid. Does anyone think Murdoch doesn’t have receipts?

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Daily Mail reporting “Bill Clinton wrote ‘warm & gushing’ letter included in Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous 50th ‘birthday book.” If files show Clinton guilty of being a client, as long-time supporter of the ex-President, will say Bill should go to prison. Sad but not difficult

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Trump has filed a lawsuit against the WSJ over the Epstein Birthday card… Discovery is gonna be a b*tch.

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CNN sanewashing CBS on cancelling Colbert Late Show “It was an “agonizing decision.”

CBS insiders insist that the move was financially driven, not politically motivated. And anyone believes the network of Jake Tapper & Scott Jennings why?

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Just a thought If we all tune in and help Stephen Colbert’s ratings skyrocket from now until May (while avoiding CBS otherwise), it may not change the network’s craven mind.

But it might convince another network to pick The Late Show up.

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You say it’s your birthday…

July 18, 2025

MLB on July 16

“There are no games scheduled today”

Montreal Expos twitter account “How you feel today is how we’ve felt for the last 7,591 days”

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From a social media friend from London today:

It’s less what he said, it’s more that Donald cared enough about ANYONE to send a 50th birthday card.

Remember, he said he didn’t even have time to do anything for Melania other than dinner on Air Force One.

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Wall Street Journal I owe you an apology, I was not familiar with your game….

(Seriously, might be a good time to support a newspaper with actual cojones by subscribing..)

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Inflation rate jumped in June.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is pretending it’s good news and that prices are falling. Who you gonna believe, me or your lying bank account?

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Random question. Donald he drinks Diet Coke, how would he know that Mexican Coca-Cola (which uses real sugar) is better?

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Something else about the Rescissions act. If this is now precedent, means that if Democrats take the House and Senate next year, they can take back any money Trump makes GOP authorize spending for this year!

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The Rescissions Act takes back money that Democrats and Republicans agreed to on a bipartisan basis. Republicans need 60 votes to pass their next budget. So why should GOP expect ANY cooperation in 2025 from Dems now that they are destroying the deal they agreed to last year?

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One of the saddest things about 2025. We knew how evil Donald Trump was. We didn’t know how gutless Congressional Republicans are.

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JD Vance badmouthed Disney as “woke” and “declaring war on America’s children.” But he took his kids to Disneyland. As JD cast the deciding vote to allow Trump’s efforts to defund PBS to proceed, will Vance now get his kids bootleg feeds of Sesame Street?

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In 1543, Henry VIII made it a crime for most English people to read the Bible in English. The point was to avoid questioning of the King’s interpretation of Scripture, or indeed questioning of him period. Sound familiar with Donald cutting education & public broadcasting?

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Asked a wise reporter decades ago why a politician – would be engaged in a coverup that no one believed and that was hurting him politically: He said, simple, if the truth is actually worse than he thinks people imagine it is.

If Fed Chair Jerome Powell is a “terrible Fed chair” can we fire the idiot who appointed him?”

This isn’t hard: Donald NEVER releases anything negative about his own health. He won’t even release the truth about his height and weight. Admitting an illness to distract from Epstein files must mean the files are very bad indeed.

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Starter stars and not stars….

July 15, 2025

An All-Star game decided by a home run derby may seem weird.

But how much more weird than an actual game decided by how fast a random player is who is put on second base with no outs.

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For those who wondered why players like Judge and Ohtani weren’t in the Home Run extra inning competition, apparently they had left the stadium when their innings were over…. presumably on the way to their vacations. .

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Don’t get me wrong, love SF Giants’ Randy Rodriguez too. But really would have loved to see Tyler Rogers in that 1st & 2nd nobody out situation in 7th vs Brent Rooker. (When Rooker hit a 3 run home run). Maybe he rolls over on 75 MPH curve.

(Rooker is 0-2 against Rogers in 2025. 2 fly outs.) #MLBAllStarGame

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Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker says he is very concerned & troubled about rescission bill with cruel cuts Trump wants, but he’ll vote for it anyway.

Wicker is 74 years old. Presume he’s not that ambitious beyond US Senate. So why is he selling out children around the world & here in USA

Conservative pundit Larry Kudlow claims that while inflation is up airfare and hotel/motel prices are down.

IF airline fares and hotel/motel prices are actually down…then the reason for that is that they can’t fill their seats/rooms Which makes sense, inbound travel is falling off a cliff and wonder how many Americans have decided they can’t afford to travel?

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Lisa Murkowski at least wasa no vote on rescissions bill.

Will never get over her yes vote on Big Beautiful Betrayal, but Lisa was right now.

“We need to be doing more as Senators, with our constitutional authorities, the power of the purse….” Understatement of the year.

(now if she can talk to at least one of her colleagues for the final vote)

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Fellow Democrats:

These numbers are votes for Pennsylvania US Senate in 2024.

3,399,295

3,384,180

About 15,000 votes gave McCormick win over Bob Casey.

Casey would have voted against rescissions etc. Forget NY Mayor race – FOCUS on 2026 US Senate races. (And the House)

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Trump now claims Epstein files are fake.

Which would require us to believe:

1. Every one of those underage rape victims is lying,

2. Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for nothing.

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If you’re GOP Senator wringing hands over the need to cut $9 billion to ALREADY approved foreign aid and NPR/PBS funding because of the national debt.

But you also voted to add trillions to national debt for tax cuts for billionaires. May I respectfully suggest you STFU?

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The only verb and noun in all of Donald Trump’s sentences now are “blame Biden.”

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Allons enfants

July 15, 2025

Has Donald Trump announced yet that if he had only had time to go to Atlanta tonight he would have won the Home Run Derby?

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ESPN rarely covers major league baseball

Today’s crazy weird split screen coverage of the Home Run Derby reminds serious baseball fans why it’s a good thing ESPN rarely covers Major L eague Bbaseball.

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71% of the US GDP comes from Blue counties. No wonder today’s GOP hates math.

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The markets didn’t even fall today on Trump’s newly announced potential tariffs. If you needed any more proof of the accuracy of TACO!!

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Now Trump says he is putting 17% tariffs on Mexican tomatoes.

Although the US already needs to import 70% of tomatoes from Mexico. We can’t produce enough to meet our own demands.

This BEFORE Trump’s ICE started deporting as many farmworkers as possible.

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How much would I have liked some reporter to ask Velveeta Voldemort Monday on camera in the Oval Office about Bastille Day.

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50 days is Trump talk for “by then either Americans will have forgotten about Ukraine or Putin will have razed Ukraine to the ground.”

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As Tom Homan says ICE agents are trained and “reasonable suspicion” is enough to detain someone, two questions. 1. How are they trained?

2. And who are these masked agents? Police officers, who face danger every day, do not wear mask.s

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Something else about Vance’s Disney visit (wonder how much it cost taxpayers btw, with all the security.) In 2022, Vance called Disney ‘woke’ and accused them of ‘declaring war on America’s children’.

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2 women fatally shot & state trooper injured by man with long criminal history & domestic violence restraining order against him. Fox News would be all over it. Except now deceased suspect was white American. So story has vanished.

Say THEIR names Beverly Gumm & Christina Combs

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Don’t leave early…

July 9, 2025

One of the all-time calls. But hey, how often do you get to call a catcher hitting a walkoff inside the park home run

Last one was in 1926…

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Apparently a Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level government officials. How did they know it was fake?

The imposter didn’t praise Trump every sixty seconds?

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SCOTUS today overrode lower court orders freezing Trump’s massive federal workforce layoff plans.

If you think Donald’s approval rating is low NOW, wait until he lays off hundreds of thousands. Will affect not just them but businesses where they spend $$ & services they provide.

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Actually today while workng watched most of Trump cabinet meeting ias background noise

Challenge ANYONE to watch Donald in action at these meetings & tell me he’s in his right mind.

Even Fox cut away as he ends by bragging about his White House decorating, finding trophies etc, “Sometimes I like frames better than the pictures.”

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How many times in a year do we need to have “one in a lifetime” weather events before some people acknowledge that climate change is real?

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Wonder if we could offer Donald Trump a Nobel Peace Prize in exchange for resigning?

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Does Donald have some sort of a dart board in the basement where he throws darts to figure out his next tariff move?

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Hurricane season has barely gotten started. So will Trump claim DOGE cuts at NOAA and NWS etc, aren’t going to affect anything that goes wrong when those storms hit too?

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Keep seeing Twitter attacks on immigrants who have been in US decades & have some minor infraction on their record as teenagers

Wondering how many of these trolls have ever say, drank underage, hunted/fished without a license, paid or received cash they didn’t report, etc?

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Brooke Rollins claims that “34 million able-bodied Americans on Medicaid will be able to replace agricultural workers… 22 million people on Medicaid are 50 and over. We’re gonna put Grandma to work picking fruit? Got it.

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Almost Going fourth

July 4, 2025

SF Giants won tonight in Arizona 7-2.

Robbie Ray pitched a complete game.

Wait, it’s possible to have a Giants game that ISN’T torture?

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Former middleweight boxing champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr has been detained by ICE for an expedited deportation.to Mexico.

Now, not a boxing fan, and Chavez Jr doesn’t seem like a nice guy. But seems like his greatest crime might not be just being brown, but not being a Trump supporter.


Reporter asked GOP Rep Troy Nehls “You’re not worried at all that Americans may lose their health care? Nehls “Just some Americans that aren’t Americans”-

So poor people aren’t American huh? Well, at least they are using their outside voices and not concealing their hate.

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“Alligator Alcatraz” has already flooded with a summer rainstorm.

While it’s easy to laugh at the incompetence this means in a hurricane people are likely to die.

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Trump today in Iowa described certain bankers as “shylocks”

So by the standards he set for anti-semitism with Harvard etc, Velveeta Voldemort should fire himself.

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Two starter devils in details on “no tax on tips.”

One, it’s capped at $25,000 But two, low income workers often don’t pay federal income tax.

And under $48,000 ,marginal rate is only 12%. Exemption, however, does NOT apply to social security/Medicare taxes. FICA taxes total 7.65%

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“Some folks in this town go to church and they pray – P-R-A-Y – on Sunday And they come to Congress and prey – P-R-E-Y – on the American people.” Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

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Donald today called former North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum the the Secretary of Energy and the former Governor of North Carolina

Can anyone imagine if Joe Biden had referred to North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper as the Governor of North Dakota? And Burgum is Secretary of the Interior, not Secretary of Energy.

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As if we don’t now have enough problems getting tourists to come to USA. Tonight, Donald issued new executive order calling for Interior Department to raise entry fees to national parks for foreigners. In 2024, international visitors spent $253.9 billion in USA!

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Creaking toward daylight..

July 3, 2025

Camilo Doval Last four appearances:

6/27 – 1 inning, no runs.

6/25 – 0.2 innings, 4 runs, 3 earned.

6/21 – 1 inning, 2 earned runs.

7/2 – 2 innings, 2 earned runs, blown save and the win. Watching baseball is supposed to be fun, right? #SFGiants

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Fox News still hasn’t covered seriously disappointing jobs report on their website But they have time to deceptively headline a transgender woman winning one of NINE categories (grouped by age) in Lyons Masters Cycling race yesterday.(She won the 55-59 year old group as it turns out. So not exactly a trendy teenager) Making the event sound like the Olympics

“Women cyclists speak out against USA Cycling after losing race to biological male” (The 2nd and 7th finishers complained.)

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Stephen Miller leading a federal complaint against the Los Angeles Dodgers over the team’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices.

Oh damn, and on top of all the other bad things Miller has done as a SF Giants fans now I have to back the Dodgers?

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The Big Beautiful Betrayal is incredibly unpopular and that’s before people realize how bad it is. And Trump’s popularity is already underwater. So why not vote “no” as his endorsement may actually hurt in 2026?

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The Florida GOP is actually selling “Alligator Alcatraz” merchandise, incuding women’s t-shirts.

If this were an SNL skit it would be attacked as despicable and over the top.

Which I suppose kind of sums up Florida GOP

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Trump on Alligator Alcatraz. “It is not a place I want to go hiking any time soon.”

As if Velveeta Voldemort hikes anywhere, ever. Even when he’s golfing he can’t even go more than a few feet without his cart.

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Difference between being Senator for your state & being national leader:

Lisa Murkowski sold out 49 states to get goodies for Alaska in Big Beautiful Betrayal.

Amy Klobuchar fights for Minnesota where 80% live in urban areas, but also for her rural voters & others in red states.

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Yes, this is a real USA Today headline

“Kim Kardashian reveals ‘we all cried’ at Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s wedding.” The only ones who should have cried is are those who will suffer due to Big Beautiful Betrayal GOP tax cuts.

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After the Senate approved the Big Beautiful Betrayal, they closed with a prayer from the Senate chaplain

Two lines “Help them to walk with forgiveness… Help them to walk with courage.”. They’re going to need the first because they didn’t show the second…

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Karoline Leavitt, as Trump adds expensive cologne to the list of products he hawks: “I think it’s frankly ridiculous to insinuate this President is profiting off his presidency.” Begs the question, is Press Secetary lying, or just a truly deluded cult member?

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DOJ wants to “prioritize” denaturalization Translation, taking citizenship away from Americans they don’t like. For now, foreign-born citizens.

For now. If you’re not afraid you’re not paying attention.

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If Trump was really proud of and confident in his big beautiful betrayal bill he’d have had the votes at noon so he could have a big beautiful press conference afterwards before his nap.

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Trump will turn on everyone sooner or later. Wonder why more wavering Republicans don’t decide to vote their consciences, save their souls, and avoid the wait.

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Per Time: “The Senate bill puts $100 billion into ICE & border enforcement, including $$$ to hire 10.000 new agents: $45 billion for detention facilities, $46 billion for border wall & $14 billion for deportation ops.”

This isn’t Donald’s short term project, it’s a permanent secret police force.

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For Donald, not only is no lie too small, but he keeps doubling down on them. Velveeta Voldemort has been increasing number of states where he says gas is under $2 a gallon, from 2, to 3 to 5… Cheapest gas in US is Louisiana. New Orleans gas is now about $2.79.

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John McCain would have voted no Mitt Romney would have voted no. Rob Portman would have voted no. I miss principled Republicans. Heck, I even miss Joe Manchin.

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Way after midnight…

July 1, 2025

Maybe it’s not true that nothing good happens after midnight.

But relatively few good decisions are made after midnight… And Republicans are trying to create a bill, on the fly, now at about 330a in Washington DC that would change the direction of our country for years.

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Boston Red Sox scored 13 runs Monday night, after scoring 15 runs on Saturday. Meanwhile Rafael Devers was 0-4 and SF Giants have scored 7 runs in last 4 games. Maybe Giants should have traded for Red Sox hitting coach?

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There are other GOP Senators who know Amy Klobuchar is correct; it’s a Big Beautiful Betrayal. They could follow Tillis. Or announce intention to resign. They’d sleep better, get well-paying job if they want, or write book that would sell much better than Jake Tapper’s

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If the Big Beautiful Betrayal really contained good things for most Americans, Fox News would be highlighting them nonstop.

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And the Big Beautiful Betrayal voting marathon continues on Monday a reminder how much state elections matter. The closest 2024 Senate rate was in Pennsylvania…. what a difference it could have made to have Democrat Bob Casey still as U.S. Senator from the state. And make it 52-48.

Anyone who thought Mitch McConnell was trying to save his soul by voting against Trump on a few occasions this year, think again.

He hasn’t issued as much as a whimper against the Big Beautiful Betrayal.

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GOP Big Beautiful Betrayal would be so awful for so many Americans in both red and blue states that it’s hard to imagine they think they can pass it and ever win an election again. Are Republicans planning ever to have an election again?

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So the suspect in Idaho who allegedly lured firefighters into an ambush, killing two and critically injuring a third, was apparently a white young man with MAGA parents. Another story you will never hear on Fox News

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Questions questions?

June 23, 2025

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Have to wonder, did we bomb Iran because someone called Trump TACO?

Or because he’s still pouting over no one showing up at his birthday party?

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Ratings for NBA finals through game seven were historically bad. First six games “far averaged about the same audience as the 2023 Rangers-Diamondbacks World Series — an infamously low-rated matchup that averaged 9.11 million for its full five-game run ?

Maybe one thing that could help? Stop separating the games by 3 days each? (Feels like longer) Wonder how many fans have their interest piqued by a game, and then can’t even remember when the next game is?

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Max Scherzer, 40, who hasn’t pitched since he started a game in March, is supposed to come off the 60 day IL to start for Toronto Blue Jays next week. Will Maxd get his first 2025 win before SF Giants’ Justin Verlander, 42

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Am reminded of a sign I saw as a child at a Vietnam war protest in Toronto: “Bombing for peace is like f*cking for virginity.”

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The same MAGA who think Padilla should get over being called Jose by JD Vance lost their minds over TACO Trump.

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Top Democrats in Gang of Eight (House & Senate leaders & ranking members House Senate Intelligence Committee), were not briefed before Trump bombed Iran – but all 4 Republicans were. All Eight are supposed to be notified. It’s a law.

SHOULD infuriate people on bipartisan basis. Will it?

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United Kingdom says while they were not involved in bombing Iran, ministers confirm govt was informed before strikes happened. So Trump told Great Britain in advance, but no Democratic member of USA’s own Gang of Eight, as he is required to do. This should be a bigger story.

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While Trump is living out his mad King fantasies with Iran, the Big Beautiful Betrayal is still alive in the Senate. Four GOP Senators need to step up and say no to the insanity.

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