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Pope Francis differed from Pope Benedict in many ways, including their choice of wine. wine-searcher.com/m/2025/06/the-…

If you wonder why I call myself an ex-progressive ... the email is from a fairly typical San Francisco progressive. Mesnick, in contrast, feeds and cares for homeless people all the time. He just doesn't agree with progressive messaging about homelessness.

Glad to see this. That lawsuit was absurd, but also a scary step toward Soviet-style information control

Lodi sommelier/wine blogger Randy Caparoso announces he is leaving Lodi. It's a blow for the region because Randy was a tremendous advocate. lodigrowers.com/oh-lord-a-blog…

Baltimore ended the first half of 2022 with 179 homicides, the worst first half of a year on record (since 1970). Baltimore just ended the first half of 2025 with 68 homicides, which is the fewest on record. That’s a 62 percent drop from 2022-2025

A beneficiary of climate change: a white grape that nearly went extinct because growers could never get it fully ripe. Now they can. "It's full-bodied but with freshness to handle it. It can have fennel and lemongrass notes, with ripe pear fruit." wine-searcher.com/m/2025/07/umbr…

All the Democrats who hated on Joe Manchin: if he had been in the Senate this morning, he would have been holding the deciding vote, and could have asked for any. modification he wanted. Instead, the Democrats got no input whatsoever.

Reminder ESPN celebrated women’s athletics by praising Lia Thomas, a man, for winning a women’s college sports title. This aired on the network just two years ago. Shameful. Apologize to all sports fans for this, ESPN:

In 2018, the NCAA ordered Louisville to give up its 2013 national title in basketball because it cheated. Just in case you were looking for precedent today regarding men giving up medals earned in women's sports. npr.org/sections/thetw…

Great column here. Progressives and MAGAs are alike in personality and tactics. One of the most prominent is constantly telling us what a disaster the country is, when in many ways, we've arguably never had it better. thefp.com/p/populists-ig…

President Trump says he's considering a "pass" for longtime farmworkers who are in the country illegally. Also, he said he plans to go forward with tariffs on July 9. wine-searcher.com/m/2025/07/trum…

I haven't done this $21 "guided coffee" and milk tasting, but it sounds interesting: sf.eater.com/dining-out-in-…

A bunch of would-be scalpers bought season tickets to the Sacramento A's because they thought they could profiteer, and now they're losing money because nobody wants to pay $150 to see the Sacramento A's. Where is the world's tiniest violin? sfgate.com/athletics/arti…

It was easy to miss in a week where everyone in DC is talking about the budget, but President Trump made a potentially significant announcement about farmworkers on Fox News on Sunday. wine-searcher.com/m/2025/07/trum…

Happy Return of the Living Dead day to those who celebrate.

Hey Lonely Planet I have your 328-page Paris guide and your Pocket Paris with me and neither has a Metro map, which is one of the reasons one brings a guidebook in the first place. Do better.

Today in Paris I went to the Museum of People Taking Selfies In Front Of The Art