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Jon Ossoff, Democrat Senate candidate for Georgia, on the outrage on the right because he invoked Natalie Harp in a speech:

"It’s been amazing to watch this White House meltdown over this all week. And about Natalie Harp, these White House staffers are adults, public officials paid by the taxpayer with immense power in positions of public trust. And whether it's Natalie Harp printing out [Cankles’] daily dose of delusion and flattery, or Peter Navarro steering taxpayer-funded loans to [Cankles] family investments, or Pete Hegseth deluding the President daily into deepening this quagmire in the Middle East, no one cares about their feelings. The sailors on the Lincoln are fighting his war, a war based on lies, while he plays with his new ballroom, flies around on a jet given to him by a foreign prince, and retreats into this circle of sycophantic aides who tell him every day what he wants to hear, not what he needs to hear. This entire White House is responsible for lying the country into war, and for the rest of their careers, they will be known for having participated in this obscenity."

BAM!! I love that the GOP is raging about Ossoff's remarks on Natalie Harp because these are the same people who support a rapist, a pedophile, and avowed pussy grabbing sexual predator and now they are losing it because Ossoff claimed Harp and Cankles ware bumping uglies?

Except … Ossoff never said Cankles and Natalie are having an affair; he just said the two spend an awful lot of time together, whether she’s leaving him daily notes of affirmation, or checking his diaper bag before they board Air Force One.

That’s all.

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Marc Murphy, attorney and political cartoonist, on outrage over Democrat Socialists:

“Spare me the handwringing over Social Democrats winning elections. Republicans gave us fascists, actual Nazis, and the least competent President in history. You’ll survive Medicare for all and maybe better schools.”

Would you rather socialists and healthcare or fascists and dead Americans in Iran?

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Hunter Biden, on the GOP tossing the word “socialist” at the Democrats, and he wants you to listen to what the people they demonize are actually proposing:

“If you want to call it socialism, to say that you believe that it is a right for every American to have access to healthcare—then so be it. We're the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide free medical care to its people. And meanwhile, we have the worst results. I don't see what many of these people that are being labeled as socialists are asking for beyond anything that FDR promised with the New Deal. Social Security was once a radical idea. So were Medicare, unemployment insurance and a federal minimum wage. Public schools and libraries ask taxpayers to pay for services available to everybody, whether they personally use them or not. Americans don't spend much time worrying about what ideological label to slap on those things anymore. They just know that they make the country a better place to live [but] MAGA is trying to weaponize ‘socialism’ as a label meant to end the argument before it begins.”

Let’s start making the government work for We The People and if that means food we can afford, energy we can afford, no Wars for Profits, no tax cuts for billionaires then fucking sign me up.

Take a gander back through history and see which party has served the good of the country more often than not and which party has served themselves and the billionaire class.

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Mary T., Cankles’ niece, on Darline Graham Nordone:

“To the media, the woman running for Senate in South Carolina is Darline Nordone. If elected, she will help pass the Save Act, which means she won’t be able to vote because her married name—Nordone—doesn’t match the name on her birth certificate, which is Graham.”

In addition to being handed a seat in government just because her brother died, Darline stumbled big time in a debate this week. She was asked whether the U.S. has a national security interest in Taiwan and the South China Sea and admitted that “National security is not my thing.”

Do better South Carolina.

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James Talarico, Democrat candidate for Senate from Texas, on data centers:

“If these data centers can’t meet the demands of the people who live in these communities, they shouldn’t be built. It’s pretty simple: if these data centers can’t pay for their own energy, if they can’t recycle their water and fund the water infrastructure necessary to operate these facilities, if they can’t produce good paying union jobs, if they can’t get the consent of the people who live in these communities then they shouldn’t be built. Period. Full stop.”

So data centers are supposed to be good, but they can’t pay their own energy bills, they ruin the water, they destroy communities, and don’t offer good paying jobs?

Is there any answer other than, “No thanks”?

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Gavin Newsom, California Democrat Governor, on the treatment of sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, by this regime:

“Five thousand sailors and marines are being forced to remain at sea for [Cankles’] reckless war with Iran. Their families are sounding the alarm. He created the crisis and our service members are paying the price. End this failed war and bring them home.”

While he is spray-painting DC gold and building ballrooms and soiling his Pampers, our sailors are hungry, without hot water and the basic necessities, fighting a war of his making that he has no plans on how to end.

Vote Blue to hold Cankles’ and the entire complicit GOP accountable for the harm they’ve caused her and around the world.

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Bobservations

Carlos couldn’t bear to part with the old tiles from the kitchen countertops and tried to find a way to use them; most of his ideas involved gluing them to parts of the house and I put the kibosh on those. But then he got together with our contractor, Craig, and came up with trivets to use for hot pots and pans on the new countertops.

Keeping the old with the new is a fabulous idea.

This Tale of Tuxedo is from March 2011 … and is entitled “Consuelo Roca Jones: #11 of 1500” because I was going to post 1500 pictures of her; a goal I have yet to reach I believe. Anyway …

When we adopted Miss Jones, they gave us a small bag of cat food, and this toy. It has a ball that runs through a channel, and lights up as it does so, with a scratch pad in the center. Little Miss Jones loves to bat the ball around and watch it light up.

We also bought another scratching tool for all the cats, but Tuxedo has taken to it most of all. He loves to sit in it, play under, lay atop it, but, most of all, guard it from the other cats.

That's my boy!

Never let it be forgotten that DUI hire Pete Hegseth once spent $6.9 million on lobster, $15.1 million on ribeye steak, $2 million on Alaskan king crab, $1 million on salmon, $124,000 on ice cream machines, and $139,000 on doughnuts during a September 2025 end-of-year spending surge.

And now there’s sailors not being fed, given no toiletries and living in filth on the USS Abraham Lincoln.

I didn’t think I’d have to say it again, but this is why you don’t put drunken sexual predators in positions of power. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

Hakeem Jeffries says he doesn't support Medicare for all in the richest nation on Earth.

I no longer support Hakeem Jeffries who, as a member of Congress pays next to nothing for his healthcare.

Now, to cleanse my palate from both Hegseth and Jeffries here’s this:

Mackenzie Scott, the ex-missus Jeff Bezos, has just donated $70 million to Meals on Wheels as elderly people face a four-month wait list.

Her ex-husband, meanwhile, wants you to tip Amazon drivers working in the heat of summer while he pockets somewhere between $40 million and $8o million a day.

Just more proof that in this chaos it’s the women doing the right things.

ICEstapo officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.

But remember this one thing: spraying electric shock gloves with water can cause them to malfunction. Oops.

Kit Butler hails from Oxford, England and is just 28-years-old and stands 6’2” tall … do you need to know more or Would You Hit It?

Architecture Wednesday: Julia Morgan Designed 1911 Berkeley Home

At the top of Rose Walk in Berkeley’s North Hills stands 1400 Le Roy Avenue, a 1911 Arts & Crafts residence designed by pioneering architect Julia Morgan, commissioned by independent professional woman Jessie Wallace, and carefully reconstructed after surviving the 1923 Berkeley Fire.

The home dates to the first decade of Morgan’s practice, when her architectural philosophy was taking shape through residential commissions primarily in Berkeley. Morgan, California’s first licensed female architect and the first woman admitted to Paris’s École des Beaux-Arts, would go on to an illustrious career and she was posthumously awarded the AIA Gold Medal in 2014, the profession’s highest honor.

The home’s original client adds remarkable depth to its story. Jessie Wallace was a professional stenographer who enrolled at UC Berkeley at age 42, graduating in 1914. Her decision to commission Julia Morgan reflected broader patterns in Morgan’s early practice: many clients were women—educators, professionals, civic leaders—seeking homes that reflected new ideas about women’s roles in society.

Just three years after Wallace died, on September 17, 1923, a grass fire in Wildcat Canyon swept over the Berkeley Hills destroying more than 600 homes in a matter of hours. Rose Walk was heavily affected, with many original houses lost entirely and later rebuilt, but this home suffered minor damage though a thoughtful reconstruction preserved the home’s original footprint and architectural character.

The home features wood-framed construction with gambrel roof and clapboard siding. On the front façade, paired and tripartite dormer windows capture morning sun, while French doors and casement windows on the rear of the home toward porches and garden spaces. There are also original Morgan details including multi-pane wood windows, built-in elements, and a living room fireplace; the proportions, the light, and the way the rooms flow into each other are all deliberate, yet the home never feels fussy or formal which is pure Julia Morgan: elegant without being ornamental, spacious without being grand, connected to landscape without sacrificing privacy.

The main floor features a large front-to-back living area, family room, dining room and kitchen with stairs to the basement level where there is a bedroom, laundry and recreation room. On the second floor in a primary suite with attached bathroom, two secondary bedrooms one with access to a sleeping porch, a study and second bathroom.

The property’s location at the top of Rose Walk is integral to its significance. Rose Walk was designed in 1913 by Bernard Maybeck, Julia Morgan’s mentor, in the Beaux-Arts tradition. This spacious pedestrian stairway has connected Euclid and Le Roy avenues for more than a century and the walk and the houses surrounding it reflect a period when Berkeley’s hills were becoming a laboratory for new architectural ideas rooted in craftsmanship, landscape, and belief that the built environment could shape daily life for the better.

Rose Walk is one of those Berkeley secrets that locals treasure: a public space that feels intimate. Being at the top of it, with unobstructed Bay views extending to San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge, makes this Julia Morgan home a cut above others in the neighborhood.

This is a home for someone who values design, who appreciates Berkeley’s history, and who wants to live in a place that feels connected to something larger than just the four walls. It’s not for everyone, but for the right person, it’s everything. And that may explain why the home sold for $800K over its asking price.

As always, click to emBIGGERate …

A few years after this home was completed Julia Morgan took on a slightly larger, nearly thirty year long project along the California Coast and designed Hearst Castle.

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