The @EPA and @epaleezeldin do not give two shits about the health hazards in San Diego. They've ignored the problem for DECADES.

Dear Hollywood celebrities, You exist for my entertainment. Some of you are great eye candy. Some of you can deliver a line with such conviction that you bring tears to my eyes. Some of you can scare the crap out of me. Others make me laugh. But you all have one thing in common, you only have a place in my world to entertain me. That’s it. You make your living pretending to be someone else. Playing dress up like a 6 year old. You live in a make believe world in front of a camera. And often when you are away from one too. Your entire existence depends on my patronage. I’ll crank the organ grinder; you dance. I don’t really care where you stand on issues. Honestly, your stance matters far less to me than that of my neighbor. You see, you aren’t real. I turn off my TV or shut down my computer and you cease to exist in my world. Once I am done with you, I can put you back in your little box until I want you to entertain me. I’m supposed to care what the director of fluffy tripe made for gullible people thinks about global warming or gun control? Get back into your bubble. I’ll let you know when I’m in the mood for something blue and shiny. And I'm also supposed to care that you will leave this great country if Trump doesn't end the war? Ha. Please don't forget to close the door behind you. We'd like to reserve your seat for someone who loves this country and really wants to be here. Make me laugh, or cry, or scare me; but realize that the only words of yours that matter are scripted. I might agree with some of you from time to time, but it doesn’t matter. In my world, you exist solely as entertainment So, shut your pie hole and dance, monkey!

Vote Red.

Manny sharing a moment with the new owners Jose E. Feliciano and Kwanza Jones in the clubhouse #padres

I keep hearing people complain that gasoline is over $6.00 a gallon. ($6.11 this morning at Costco here in San Diego.) And yes, I'd love to see it at $3.00 again. But before we declare gasoline the most outrageously expensive liquid on Earth, let's put things in perspective. For $6.00, I get a GALLON of gasoline. I pour it into a several ton machine machine, turn a key, and that gallon will haul the groceries, the beach cruiser, and whatever other junk I may carry about 25 miles down the highway. That's actually a pretty impressive day's work for $6.00. Now let's compare. A restaurant sells a 5-ounce glass of champagne for $18. That's about $460 a gallon. And how far does it transport me? Usually from the dinner table to the ladies' room. A fancy coffee shop can charge $7.50 for a 16-ounce latte. That's $60 a gallon. It doesn't transport me 30 miles. It transports me from "Leave me alone" to "Okay, now you may speak." Bottled water at a convenience store might be $2.50 for 20 ounces. That's $16 a gallon, for something that occasionally falls out of the sky FOR FREE. A 12-ounce energy drink at $3.50 works out to more than $37 a gallon. Apparently caffeine becomes a precious mineral once you put lightning bolts on the can. Buy one of those little 2-ounce bottles of "energy shot" for $3. That's $192 a gallon. At that price, it shouldn't give me energy. It should mow the lawn. Maple syrup at $8 for a 12-ounce bottle? About $85 a gallon. And its principal technological achievement is making pancakes sticky. Vanilla extract at $6 for two ounces? That's $384 a gallon. For $384, I expect the vanilla bean to come to my house and bake the cookies. Printer ink can cost thousands of dollars per gallon. And unlike gasoline, it sometimes refuses to come out because the printer has decided cyan is low. Even that $18 glass of champagne deserves another look. At roughly $460 a gallon, filling a typical 15-gallon gas tank with restaurant wine would cost about $6,900. Of course, after drinking 15 gallons of champagne, transportation would no longer be your biggest concern. So yes, $6.00 gasoline is expensive. But it's also a remarkable bargain when you think about what you're buying. You're purchasing enough concentrated energy to push several thousand pounds of steel, glass, groceries and humanity about 25 miles. Meanwhile, we'll cheerfully pay $7.50 for coffee, $18 for champagne, and $3 for water, then stand at the gas pump staring at the numbers like we're watching the national debt clock. Maybe gasoline doesn't need better pricing. Maybe it just needs a fancier name. "Handcrafted Premium Petroleum, locally pumped, small-batch refined, with subtle notes of octane and dinosaur." Put it in a 12-ounce artisan bottle and charge $14. They will line up around the block.

Tomorrow starts the voting for Alaska's Katmai National Park's Annual Fat Bear Week. Vote for your favorite fat bear every day. This is a single elimination tournament. For each match-up, vote for the bear you believe best exemplifies fatness and success in brown bears. The bear with the most votes advances to the next round. Only one will be crowned Fat Bear Week champion. (See the bracket in the 2nd picture.) My heart lies with 909 who lost both her cubs this year. (3rd photo) Pick YOUR fave! Fatbearweek dot org

Mexico’s daily 5 million-gallon sewage dump into San Diego waters has now closed Imperial Beach and Coronado Beach for the 4th of July, with eight other beaches under advisory. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! This massive sewage crisis is not helped by the lack of action from @CAgovernor, the president of Mexico @Claudiashein, or the @SDCountyHHSA, who all pretend like it's not freaking happening. Tijuana’s untreated shite continues to pollute our beach waters, creating a massive environmental and public health disaster. And now it is affecting tourism! We will lose 10's of millions of dollars this weekend because of it, and no one is being held accountable. Not to mention, over 1,100 Navy recruits have gotten seriously ill from the contaminated waters, and the Navy SEAL's had to move their training grounds further north to Oceanside because they kept getting sick. It is time for the @HHS to get involved and demand that Mexico repair its decades-long broken sewage system. WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH.

I saw the first meme somewhere and as always, asked two different AI's if the numbers were real. They both said mostly, with a few corrections. I then asked @Grok to make a corrected version. See the 2nd picture. If anyone tells you prices are too high under Trump, you show them these.

I will never forget this post by the @nytimes from 2019. They actually said PLANES took aim at the World Trade Center. Can you effing BELIEVE that? They haven't changed a bit. Still not worthy of lining my hamster's cage. #neverforget911

God and the Soldier, we adore. In time of danger, not before.The danger passed and all things righted. God is forgotten and the Soldier slighted. - Rudyard Kipling

California’s proposed billionaire tax (the 5% one-time levy on net worth over $1 billion for people who were residents as of January 1, 2026) was sold as an easy way to tap people who “can afford it.” A lot of them didn’t wait to find out. Before that residency date, at least six high-profile billionaires publicly left the state — including Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, and Travis Kalanick — and advisers say others left quietly. Hoover Institution researchers estimated those public exits alone pulled about $536 billion in wealth, nearly 30% of the tax base, out of California. The problem is that one time tax was only expected to bring IN $40 billion. Wtf??? This is NOT a one-year problem. California depends on rich people. The top 1% of tax filers pay roughly 40% of the state’s personal income tax — and income tax is most of the General Fund. When a billionaire or a $10-million household stops being a California resident, the state loses not just a wealth-tax check but the income tax they would have paid every year after that on wages, stock sales, and capital gains. So once you count the lost future income tax, the wealth tax can leave the state about $25 billion WORSE off. IRS data already showed California with the nation’s largest net outflow of taxable income. Texas now has more Fortune 500 HQs than California. When the rich leave, Sacramento does not invent new billionaires. It uses reserves, delays payments, borrows, freezes programs, or looks for new revenue. That “new revenue” is the part most people miss. The remaining taxpayers — the ones who cannot move to Florida or Texas — are who get hit next: higher fees, gas and energy costs, extended “temporary” income-tax surcharges, or the next ballot measure. The slogan was that billionaires would pay so you wouldn’t have to. After they leave, the budget they used to carry still has to be paid. YOU are who is left.

Spike Lee rolled into the NBA All-Star Game draped in a keffiyeh sweater and Palestinian flags — while the first Israeli All-Star in league HISTORY was actually playing. He got courtside seats and was treated like a king. Enes Kanter Freedom showed up to a WNBA game in a shirt that said one thing: “WOMAN. Noun. Adult human female.” He got thrown out. Banned from the arena. Branded a “potential threat.” One statement is protected theater. The other is treated like violence. WTAF?

Here comes the midterm election variant, right on schedule. 🙄

Ask your favorite AI how the new California tire laws will affect your wallet, not to mention your safety. See that last photo... These tires will k*ll a LOT of people. Thx for NOTHING @CalEnergy. A lot of deaths will be on YOUR hands. And @CAgovernor for allowing more horrific things to happen on your watch.