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@billybinion One of the nice things about San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is that security screening services are provided by a private contractor rather than federal employees.

Just get rid of the TSA. Tests have repeatedly shown that it misses the vast majority of explosives anyway. It's mostly a form of security theater that makes everyone's lives more annoying. Abolish and privatize.

@TullMcAdoo Ireland is not a U.S. ally so he's not really talking to you.

Pete Hegseth: “Our ungrateful allies in Europe and some in our own media should be saying one thing to President Trump: thank you.” Oil is up 76% since January. Thanks for nothing.

@jimgeraghty The LA Times had a major expose on Chavez and the UFW…..in the late 1970s! They were then in their Synanon inspired cult phase. I don’t think the Times uncovered the sexual predator stuff, but there wasn’t a priority placed on the sexual conduct of public figures at that time.

In his later years, Chavez acted more erratically and strangely. From The New Yorker: "Chavez became openly paranoid during the seventies. Increasingly seized by what Pawel calls a “basic mistrust of almost anyone with outside expertise,” he began purging associates from the upper ranks of the union — quietly at first, and then in public confrontations. In 1977, taking a cue from Mao, he staged shouting matches at meetings to drive out colleagues. Sometimes he accused them of being spies for the Republicans or the Communists. (“You’re a f***ing agent,” he seethed at a confused plumber.) The paranoia was not baseless — Chavez, like many figures on the left, was under F.B.I. investigation — but the reaction was extreme. When some he expelled tried to use the phone, La Paz security threatened to eject them forcibly. By the late seventies, the union’s California roots were bearing pop-psych fruit. Chavez was much taken with Synanon, a rehab center turned life-style cult, originally based in Santa Monica. Synanon’s lucrative work revolved around an activity called the Game, in which community members attacked one another with true or invented accusations. Therapeutic work or even enlightenment — Synanon had already declared itself a religion — progressed by lobbing the hot potato of blame to someone else. Chavez loved the Game and wanted to start practicing it at La Paz."

After Chavez’s death, his fans and supporters airbrushed his image quite a bit. Mark Krikorian liked to remind progressives that Chavez was a proponent of a secure border and restricting illegal immigration, because illegal immigrants competed with native-born and legally immigrated farm laborers and drove down wages. Chavez referred to Mexican illegal immigrants as “wets,” and his United Farm Workers union engaged in violent vigilantism at times. Chavez reportedly made antisemitic comments and warned about Jewish conspiracies. Subsequent histories have argued that Chavez was a remarkable self-promoter who downplayed the contributions of others in the formation of the UFW.

@JalynneC35 Current and ex Giants did their part.

Logan Webb Tyler Rogers 🧡🖤

@susanslusser @sfchronicle Nice piece!

Giants sweating the details under Tony Vitello’s new regime of drills — and loving it; game-speed infield work, ear-splitting music to mimic crowd noise, plus experiments on the bases: it’s fun and it’s working: sfchronicle.com/sports/giants/… via @sfchronicle

@IonaItalia I assume any artist I like in any medium not only wouldn’t agree with my politically but is likely not a very good person. That’s a completely separate issue than if their works any good.

This is precisely my position on most of my favourite contemporary artists, writers, and musicians. They are idiots about politics but that doesn't matter. The Greeks were right: the artist is a conduit of divine inspiration. We must always separate the artist from the art.

@KenGardner11 @SouthernKeeks Sums up my view perfectly

@SouthernKeeks The whole thing has been...amazing to watch. And no, my view on Trump hasn't changed even a scintilla. Neither have my views since 1979 on what to do about the Iran regime.

@AlanMCole Self driving cars can’t come soon enough

A strong “high decoupling” belief is that anti-car people have a very annoying personal/political aesthetic, which makes it all the more unfortunate that they are objectively completely correct about cars being the greatest risk to my kid’s well-being.

@feelsdesperate It’s not coup, more like a bankruptcy proceeding

It would be really funny if Trump did a coup in Cuba when all the libs were there. Would be the most discouraging thing for them ever.

@jpodhoretz The production values of the Grammys have been much better than the Oscars the last 2 years. It’s actually a really good show. Of course it helps that being a music awards show they can pack it with back to back performances.

Oscar ratings down 10 percent. Once it was the Super Bowl. The movies are going the way of vaudeville

@SonnyBunch And of course this book is mandatory reading.

@SonnyBunch The Weatherman is the go-to comp for the French 75s, but I think the psychosexual lunacy is modeled on the Symbionese Liberation Army. But instead of the black male psychos that dominated the SLA, the French 75s are driven by the sexuality of the crazy black female leaders.

She's very close to getting it! nytimes.com/2026/03/08/opi…

@BillShaikin You know which was better baseball

2025 All-Star Game: 7.2 million.

@slowhoneybee Well Ireland is pretty damn anti-semitic these days, so he may have something there.

Do Irish-Americans appreciate Mamdani’s turning St. Patrick’s Day into yet another Libel the Jews Day?

@mattyglesias I think the U.S. is going to end up receiving Cuba through a bankruptcy court proceeding

Just to show I can do some Trump Positivity, I think this squeeze play on Cuba is going to work.

@asymmetricinfo Ireland? That’s white peoples problems

The Irish Catholic vote is somewhat diminished from my youth, but not THAT diminished. How do you miss a softball on the eve of St. Patrick’s?

@timkawakami @DannyEmerman @sfchronicle Makes me nostalgic for the golden age of 1980s LA sportswriting. Doug Krikorian, Melvin Durslag, Allan Malamud at the Her-Ex, and at the LA Times, Ostler, Jim Murray and…..Tim Kawakami?

Classic, hilarious and so sad (for readers) goodbye column from the great Scott Ostler. The funniest sportswriter who ever lived. Full stop. 27-time California Sportswriter of the Year. I might be low on that number. And a great guy. sfchronicle.com/sports/ostler/… via @sfchronicle

@ATabarrok @GarettJones Where do zombies who eat brains come in?

Two view of humanity. From a talk I gave some years ago. Relevant today.

@jonatanpallesen @jessesingal No that’s not correct. It shows you that fanaticism of the left while giving surface clues they’re the “good” guys. The only redemption in the movie is through family.

@jessesingal One Battle After Another clearly thinks open borders leftism is the good ideology, and the opposite side is cartoonish evil White guys.

One Battle After Another and Eddington, which were both great (I actually liked Eddington more) broke a lot of internet-melted brains by not winking at the camera and being like "And that's why *that* is the good ideology" thing

@bendreyfuss @jbarro Took my son to see it in the theater when he was 16. He said “yeah that’s a great movie but BOY is Kubrick pretentious!”

@jbarro I would argue that it is both boring and good

The only thing more boring than 2001: A Space Odyssey is people who are really proud of themselves for appreciating 2001: A Space Odyssey.