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Youth and skill

June 5, 2026

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

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

Baseball is a very strange game…

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was voted down

GOP profiles in cowardice.

Hey media

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

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

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

Nice job media.

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

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

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

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

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

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And the hits just keep on coming

June 5, 2026

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

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

Baseball is a weird game.

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

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

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

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Short term memory is the first to go.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These lesser known people in red states can WIN.

Mary Peltola
Josh Turek
Dan Osborn

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Not to mention Sherrod Brown

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The day after

June 3, 2026

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

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

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

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So go figure.

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

And it wasn’t Wemby.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oops.

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

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

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

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

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Senator Maggie Hassan today

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

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

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

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

But it is NOT the bleeping “Rose Garden Club”

It is the “Rose Garden.”

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

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

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

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

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

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Hasan Piker made a last minute endorsement for Tom Steyer

If anyone needed another reason to vote for Xavier Becerra.

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

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

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

And his campaign spent less per vote than Steyer.

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Not so old men

May 29, 2026

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

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How young is San Antonio Spurs coach Mitch Johnson?

He was a four-year point guard at Stanford.

Two of his teammates? Robin and Brook Lopez

(Brook is still playing for the Clippers.)

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

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Giants had an off day


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

Almost all his Freedom 250 performers have dropped out.

So for retribution is Trump going to outlaw music now?

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

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

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

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

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

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

So far so good.

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

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

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

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

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CBS News has become an oxymoron.

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

So far so good.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Because they gave him a trophy.

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

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Jimmy Kimmel last night

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

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

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Is it safe?

May 27, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

An automatic team this year. No clutch.

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

Just saying.

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

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

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Trump is calling all his cabinet to Camp David.

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

So he needs more praise. Got it.

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

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

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

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

And Donald tore it up.

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

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

Uh, what’s left? MSP? PDX? Nope.

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

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

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Weekly thoughts

May 23, 2026

Hey SF Giants.

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

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Understand my favorite athletes may not share my political beliefs.


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

He apologized.

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


But now? W/ Trump historically unpopular.

And NFL teams being 70% black?


WTF was Jaxson Dart thinkng

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

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

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

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

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

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

This doesn’t happen for Donald Trump.

He could work anywhere, if he wants to.

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

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

What would make him popular?

A US invasion

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Hard to forgive Tillis for voting to confirm Pete Hegseth.

But I like Thom unleashed

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

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

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

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

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Last late night …

May 21, 2026

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

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

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

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Not the Onion

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

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

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

Cassidy and Cornyn just this week

Murkowski and Collins have never been on his good side.

Tillis is mad. and out of f*cks.

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

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

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

In two weeks?

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

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

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

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

Of course he dodged the question

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

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

Et tu, media?

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

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

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

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

And we wonder why Fox viewers still support him?

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

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

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

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

We’d be watching Colbert with our grandchildren

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

Then he played “Streets of Minneapolis.”

Well played, Boss.

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Written before the last Late Show.

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

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Calling occupants of interplantary craft…

May 18, 2026

Can’t understand why people call him an alien

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

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

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

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

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

Aimee Bock is a blonde white woman.

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

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

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

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

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

On their website, crickets. Not mentioned.

They don’t spin, they just hide.

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

Have they been listening to Donald?

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

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

But he wants the Epstein files released.

And THAT is why Trump wants him out.

A five year old could connect these dots.

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GOP Representative Thomas Massie wants the Epstein files released.

All of them

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

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Democrats probably have no chance in state wide race in Louisiana

But for all headlines about Trump having GOP control.

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

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

Primaries skew hardcore.

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

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

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

This should be a Democratic ad shown nonstop in October.

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

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LA Beaten

May 12, 2026

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

#SFGiants

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Like throwing a cup of water on a bonfire.

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Ball drop

May 10, 2026

Sunday is the NBA ping-pong ball draft lottery

Let the conspiracy theories begin.

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

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Media has forgotten something:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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VIrginia has a blue state legislature.

Don’t like what Tennessee has done in gerrymandering.

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

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

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

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

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But NOT the SNL cold open

Donald Trump talking about paving the White House Rose garden

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

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

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Sky high

May 8, 2026

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Ticket prices on the resale market are falling and there are reports that many tickets remain unsold

FIFA tripled the price of its best available tickets to the final , offering $32,970 seats for the July 19 match

Hoping to get some millionaires and billionares to make up for the empty seats?

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If someone had said preseason that the NY Mets and SF Giants would have the same records on May 7, SF Giants at least would have been pleased.

But that’s where we are.

Except both teams have a record of 14-23..

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President Trump said retaliatory strikes against Iranian targets “It’s just a love tap.”

“Just a love tap?”

Anyone still don’t think he’s an abuser?

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Marco Rubio is getting positive media coverage for his recent press conference and meeting with the Pope.

How long until he really upsets Trump for stealing Donald’s limelight?

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Too soon to think seriously about 2028. Have to survive 2026 midterms first.

But what delightful karma if Hegseth’s attacks on Mark Kelly helped vault him to the Presidency.

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Why isn’t it a bigger national story that World Cup hotels are not only not full, their business is way below expectations. 12.5 BILLION lost in inbound tourism for Americans in 2025 2026 will be much worse. #ETTD

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So RFK Jr, who insists that even puberty blockers are bad, has just blocked a proposed FDA rule banning children under 18 from using indoor tanning beds.

Puberty blockers are temporary and reversible.

Skin cancer not so much.

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If Trump had been told hanavirus was airborne would he have told Americans?

Asking for a country that went through this before.

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Ted Turner never minced words.

If he didn’t have Lewy body dementia in his later years have to think Ted have spoken out about CNN, the network he created, increasingly bending the knee.

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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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And they’re off..

April 18, 2026

NBA playoffs got underway today. April 16.

This year’s playoffs were adjusted to end a little earlier than last year. Game 7, if it comes to that, would be June 19

So not quite boys of summer.

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SF Giants and Washington Nationals played a game that is giving many former Little League parents painful flashbacks. #sloppy

Walker blew the save but got a scoreless 10th after Nats loaded bases in with no outs,- and no score

How many bobbled balls, errors, missed opportunities, etc?

And just plain weirdness. Ever seen a shortstop field a ball with a runner at 1st, step on second too late, then throw to first to get one out.

Baseball is a funny game.

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Reported on Fox News – “FBI Director Kash Patel vows to sue The Atlantic over bombshell report.”

Apparently no one ever told Kash about discovery.

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Thinking of all the causes and elections moderate and liberal billionaires spend their money on, sure would have been nice if some of them had banded together to buy Twitter.

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Headline at “The Guardian”

“Middle East crisis live: ships report attacks as Iran closes strait of Hormuz; Trump says deal still possible”

Deal still POSSIBLE?

I thought he ended the war yesterday. Again

How many market manipulation cycles is he gonna have over Iran?

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Seeing more nonstop Tom Steyer commercials this weekend

But maybe if Steyer, who has only ever run for President and Governor wants to try his hand at actual government he could move to the East Bay and run for Eric Swalwell’s Congressional seat?

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Remind me of how many Senators voted to confirm Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner as part of Trump’s cabinet?

So how many times will Trump claim to have ended the Iran war he started?

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Trump said US strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s key nuclear enrichment program.
In summer 2025.
And the Strait of Hormuz stayed open

So now Donald is saying same thing.
And is bragging about reopening the Strait.
And it’s only cost $50 billion & 13 US lives.

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Humiliating defeat for his endorsed “friend” in Hungary.

Not to mention many smaller defeats in special elections in the US

Is it just possible that people are now deserting Trump because he looks like a LOSER?”

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So media not even going to mention that Donald wrote in all caps on Truth Social, “IRAN HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THE STRAIT OF IRAN IS FULLY OPEN AND READY FOR FULL PASSAGE.”

The Strait of Iran?

Leaving aside that it didn’t stay open,

If Biden had made that mistake it would be headline news

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Steve Bannon: “If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.”

If you didn’t already have enough motivation to vote in November

Who knows whether the Butler assassination attempt was staged. But you don’t shut down an investigation if you want to quiet the questions. The scary thing – who doesn’t believe that Donald would be evil enough to try it?

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Stephen Colbert on Trump’s picture as Jesus (or Doctor Jesus?)

“Dude you can’t compare yourself to Jesus. For one thing, Jesus had a father who loved him”

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The Doordash Grandma testified before the House Ways and Means committee last year in Nevada & said she was from Nevada.

Now she says she’s from Arkansas.

If so, who paid for her travel – flights and lodging- to DC for her McDonald’s White House stunt?

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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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Difficulties

April 15, 2026

In all seriousness, even when the SF Giants trade for or sign good hitters, they seem to forget how to hit when they come to San Francisco.

Aren’t there ANY good hitting coaches out there?

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Meanwhile the first win or go home play in game tonight between Miami Heat and Charlotte Hornets, and with 46 seconds to go in a tight overtime game, the Amazon Prime broadcast shows

For a good couple minutes or more (at least there was a timeout) returning 26 seconds left in the game.

Almost as if letting billionaire Jeff Bezos’ streaming service instead of an experienced network carry an important game was a bad idea.

Metaphor for what’s going on in our country?

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Pretty stunning to hear GOP Senator John Cornyn talk about defunding (not even renaming it) anything connected with Cesar Chavez because you can’t have a predator associated with a monument.

Uh. He does realize Trump was actually CONVICTED of sexual assault by a jury?

Is there a smugger and less charismatic person in US politics than JD Vance?

Oh please oh please can someone ask Trump about Eric Swalwell and sexual assault allegations on camera?

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As big of a mess as the Eric Swalwell situation is, it could be much worse for Democrats.

Imagine if these allegations came out in mid May. Or worse, mid-October?

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“Be careful.’ Vance issues warning to Pope Leo when discussing theology”

So man who was an atheist until he converted to Catholicism 6 1/2 years ago is now WARNING the Pope?

Very on brand for the most narcissistic adminstration in history.

United & American Airlines both often have high prices at airports where they have majority of flights (For examples, SFO & Dulles for UA, Dallas & Charlotte for AA.)

And UA CEO Scott Kirby reportedly floated idea of UA-AA merger to Trump in Feb?

Heaven help consumers.

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Serious thought on Doordash.

Leaving aside idiocy w/ Trump photo op, if you want to support local businesses, they keep much more of what you pay if you can pick food up.

Apps take a hefty fee. (15-30%!!) And restaurants often have to cover food costs if a client complains about anything.

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