Bright, clear sunshine and well-warm temperatures this late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley — reportedly topped 85 not too long ago.
Seasonal glimpse way too far ahead.

A peep, too, on some really terrible people:

I'm not saying anything novel here but it really is just truly despicable to watch them use THEIR OWN COLOSSAL SCREW UP to slander the reporter THEY INCLUDED ON THEIR CLASSIFIED GROUP CHAT

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) 2025-03-25T23:11:59.950Z

A building correlation between Erdogan’s Turkey and T-Rump’s America: ‘“It’s kind of a nightmare that I wake up every morning and I read the news, and then I confuse what’s going on in Turkey with what’s going on in the U.S. It’s like they’re working from the same playbook. One of the things that Erdogan did right after the coup attempt was to purge the judiciary. He purged thousands of lawyers and prosecutors and replaced them with his own people.”‘

In cleaning up the blog’s spam queue earlier, I came across a comments-post from Monday, Nov. 7, 2016,  the day before the T-Rump/Hillary presidential election — the actual, real ‘Before Time.’
Although the post’s featured point was recreational marijuana measures on national ballots the next day, I did miss the actual boat:

Hopefully, too, T-Rump will be driven ‘completely‘ back down the sewer-hole from which he came, and at least this election will be in the rear-view mirror. T-Rump is so, so shitty, however, the stench will be in the air for awhile even well after the ballot-box ballet ends — weird-ass year.

How well did that shit work work out?

Instead, part-n-parcel:

My doctor asked me today if I experience a lot of stress throughout the day.I told him that my job is to cover Donald Trump.He didn’t need any additional elaboration.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-03-25T23:21:19.069Z

Serious. Way serious — missiles flying:

True, T-Rump is ‘so, so shitty,’ or not (see above video), yet once again here we are …

(Illustration out front: Pablo Picasso’s “Selt Portrait Facing Death,” oil, and found here.)