A teenage farm girl w/ her baby in that rental in hilly San Francisco, her high school sweetie fighting for his life over the horizon. The knock at the door. Two Army soldiers in crisp, neat uniforms. The hand with the telegram. Never could forget that white glove.

Disagreeing w/ dad, as a kid, felt like intellectual patricide. Why should I? He was always right. He cut my hair & kept it short. A veteran, the '60's unrest did not suit him & he mowed my head shorter like he was making a statement with my scalp until I found a new barber.

Trump & RFK Jr. will protect us from Ebola - if they completely change course.

Cities & states are extorted by professional sports teams. Give them $ billions or they will move! Why can't the billionaire owners & millionaire players build their own stadiums? If states/cities are expected to fund their projects, give them equity in the team as a venture capitalist would expect.

Both Obama & Biden met with Putin & Xi & never groveled or billowed cloying flattery, like Trump does, yet MAGA claims Trump is the mightiest president EVER! Heck, we can believe them or our own eyes.

A bit irked by the note of surprise in my Gen Z daughter's voice when she found an ancient photo of her parents & said "You guys were hot!" Me: "Yes, yes we were.":

Portland can be pretty:

Trump won't let MAGA lose the House or Senate. For him it is existential. A complete shitstorm will follow if the DEMs take either. I expect him to issue a blizzard of edicts right before the election to create as much confusion as possible, then use emergency measures, backed by 25,000 ICE goons.

Acting AG, & Trump's personal att'y, Blanche, "settled" a case w/ his boss & forked over $1.7 BILLION of our tax dollars to Trump, a slush fund, with no oversight, to be handed out to his various minions. Nothing about this should be legal. This is how shithole countries do business.

Last fall, I mentioned that my millennial son was the managing editor of a new magazine, Nautical Northwest. So far, they've published 3 issues & it is going fantastically. Covers pretty much anything sea-salty in the PNW. This is a great podcast, but I didn't know how to post it here:

Proposed IRS data sharing with immigration authorities and ICE raids have made filing risky for those who are undocumented

We used to throw rotten apples at cars as they passed our hideout & we'd laugh because they couldn't do anything about it or catch us, then a man who remembered being a child used it against us & found our secret place & punished us with his hand for being something he used to love.

Grandpa was in the navy in WWI, a minesweeper out of Edinburgh. Got a photo in a kilt. Hitchhiked to France & cadged a ride w/a Belgian trucker into the city as the Armistice held & a party exploded. A kid in uniform kissing half the women in Paris & they kissed him back.

There is no good reason to believe that the Trump administration can handle this Ebola threat well. Presidents Obama & Biden acted quickly & appropriately to keep a lid on it. RFK Jr.? Are you kidding me?

Those gas prices! Good grief! I just want to fill up my tank, not buy a golden ballroom!

USA had a long-term strategy on China, but Trump wrecked it, just like he wrecked nuclear containment in Iran, & just like he wrecked NATO, & just like he wrecked ...

In America, religion is voluntary. Do it on your own time & Do it with your own dime.

President Trump sold between $5 million and $25 million each of Microsoft and Amazon stock in February and purchased millions of dollars’ worth of the companies’ stock in March, according to disclosures filed with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. https://wapo.st/3RcLmZF

Trump blew through over $110 million of our tax dollars playing golf this term w/at least 88 outings so far, much of that money spent at his own properties. A candidate promising not to play golf at all will draw a lot of attention one would think.

A teenage farm girl w/ her baby in that rental in hilly San Francisco, her high school sweetie fighting for his life over the horizon. The knock at the door. Two Army soldiers in crisp, neat uniforms. The hand with the telegram. Never could forget that white glove.

Trump doesn't know how to govern obviously.

Here's some bad news for MAGA: Simply putting on a silly red cap won't make you GREAT! To be great you have to say & do great things. There is some sweat involved.

Trump: Take $1 BILLION from our National Parks & Spend that $1 BILLION on a Golden Billionaires' Ballroom. I've heard of warped priorities but that has to be some sort of record.

The USA could be mired in the Iran quagmire for years. You can bet Russia & China would absolutely love that & will do all they can to make that a reality. Trump shooting off all our expensive weaponry like fireworks, leaving us without ammunition? The price of a barrel of oil more than doubled?

Trump wants to pay everyone of the Jan 6th seditious rioters, most convicted of crimes, more than a MILLION bucks. All those Capitol police who were beaten, tasered, maced, ... while defending our Capitol, & the families of those who died, should sue those rioters, civilly, to claim that money.

Another corrupt slush fund: $1.7 BILLION "settlement" so that anybody who was "unfairly treated by the Biden Administration" - including the Jan 6th rioters - can each get a pile of taxpayer money.

Trump Gold Card, selling American citizenship to rich foreigners for $5 million, hawking our national identity like so many bottles of Trump Vodka.

Just think: they could have gotten an Iran with no nuclear weapons program for the low, low price of Trump not backing out of the successful JCPOA.

Maybe one interesting golden object might look striking on the shelf in the Oval Office. It's a shame there are 5,674 of them.

53 Republican senators. 53 scarecrows. 53 rubber-stamps. 53 ass-kissers.

A big reason to oppose Trump's ballroom, arch, blue reflecting pool, etc ... Is that his artistic taste is so bad & we don't want to uglify our Capitol.

Isn’t that gold just hideous? He’s stuck in the King Arthur palace with Dollar Tree decorations.

It's unfortunate that the only American president with an obsession for decoration, color patterns & frilly things is the same one with the most atrocious aesthetic taste.

Right?! How many of those southerners were wealthy plantation owners? 1%? Ooooh there’s a pattern here huh…

You can hardly argue with Xi for taking a long look at this old, morbidly obese, ignorant, orange groveler & declare: "The USA is a declining nation."

This bizarre schizophrenia of the trumpers. On 1 hand, a misty-eyed devotion to the USA's European historical & cultural ties, enough to remake universities & alter immigration rules. On the other hand, a fierce hatred for Europe, so NATO is gutted & trade wrecked. WTF?

All corporations are creatures of our law. We have the power to define them any way we want to, so, for starters, specify that corporations are NOT persons with the same rights as human beings & forbid corporations from participating in politics. Stick to business.

Trump is tearing America apart, and Xi knows it as well as every intelligent American.

Xi not only came to Biden, but Biden didn't bow down to Xi, unlike Trump.

Xi knows something about Trump most Americans don't — and he smells blood in the water www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

"[President Xi said] America is a nation in decline and I said, 'You're right.'" - Donald Trump, president of said nation for six of the last ten years

Cool, the Trump admin issued Xi his own statue.

The summit produced nothing but a US president gushing like a starry-eyed fan-boy over the Chinese Communist leader, Xi. How many kneepads do you think Trump wore out? - 1? - 2? - 5? - 10 or more?

Take one nepo baby. Soak in emerald fortune for 18 years. Sprinkle with narcissism. Infuse with delusions of grandeur. Illegally import to a democracy. Bake in ketamine and drop in the keys to the castle. Serve to the uneducated masses.

Nobody died on Normandy Beach for this:

Voter ID? How about Donor ID? Nobody can spend a dime influencing our politics, be it elections or governing unless they are human beings & American citizens.

You like your freedom? So does everyone else. Not everyone will have the same take on life. You do you & I'll do me.

How's Trump doing? Electricity prices on the largest power grid in the USA leapt 76% in the 1st quarter this year, with rising demand from data centers driving the increase, (Bloomberg). The 13-state electrical grid serves 67 million people in the East.

Most Americans hold our Supreme Court in distain. It's popularity at 39% or so, according to some polls. Expect a complete shitstorm when Trump names the replacements for Alito & Thomas after the midterms.