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Bullying Nazi Trump wields his flatulent Big Stick in Yemen.

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 3.16.2025

The Houthis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthis are definitely a nuisance with their attacks on international shipping. A warlike violation of the law. Still, it’s instructive that Nazi felon Donald Trump goes after a renegade band in the impoverished nation of Yemen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen while bowing down before Vladimir Putin and collaborating with the Russian dictator in the destruction of American ally Ukraine.

Donald Trump has to wield his flatulent Big Stick somewhere.

What more likely place to brandish his Hard On than the hapless people of poverty stricken Yemen. Using the Houthis to threaten Iran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran in reality is a fulfillment of Trump’s perverted need to show the world he’s a Man.

Trump is the fascist who avoided military service during the American aggression against The People of Vietnam.

Trump is the fascist who avoided military service during the American aggression against The People of Vietnam alleging a “bone spur.” Trump wasn’t avoiding service because he opposed American aggression. He feared getting shot.

Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 3.16.2025

The United States will continue to strike Yemen’s Houthi rebels until they end attacks on international shipping, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Sunday.

“I want to be very clear, this campaign is about freedom of navigation and restoring deterrence,” Hegseth said in an interview for the Fox Business broadcaster.

The bully Trump assaults Yemen

“The minute the Houthis say, ‘We’ll stop shooting at your ships, we’ll stop shooting at your drones,’ this campaign will end. But until then, it will be unrelenting,” he added.

US President Donald Trump, posting on social media, also vowed to “use overwhelming lethal force” to end the Houthi attacks.

“To all Houthi terrorists, YOUR TIME IS UP, AND YOUR ATTACKS MUST STOP, STARTING TODAY. IF THEY DON’T, HELL WILL RAIN DOWN UPON YOU LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE!” he wrote.

Trump added a warning to Iran, demanding that Tehran “immediately” end its support for the rebel group.

https://www.dw.com/en/trump-admin-vows-unrelenting-strikes-on-houthis-in-yemen/a-71938189

In the interest of balance. Attached is the Wall Street Journal editorial.

Trump Takes On the Houthis

Air strikes target the Iran-backed group firing at U.S. ships and interfering with global commerce.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-takes-on-the-houthis-red-sea-iran-air-strike-yemen-combat-shipping-8db0ab9b?st=69MQDH&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

In the ‘country side’. “We (SFDPW) hardly ever get calls out here.”

SAN FRANCISCO – OUTER RICHMOND DISTRICT

Liz Heidhues – Guest Blogger – 3.16.2025

The proverb “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” did not hold true for Donna the Drain.

For several days, a blight of shoes and plastic bags had been discarded at the corner where Donna the Drain is located. No one had poked through the pile to take away anything at all.

The constant rain over the last week had turned the pile of shoes and bags into a sodden mess. It was polluting the corner where I, as an SFPUC volunteer, have kept Donna the Drain free of pollutants and trash since 2017.

Liz social media message to the San Francisco ‘311’ hotline – 3.13.2025

I noticed the ugly mess as I walked home from my class at Tat Wong Kung Fu Academy on Tuesday. But I waited two days before reporting it to the City.

This morning as I hustled down the hill towards St. Thomas the Apostle Church for Sunday service, I saw a miracle had transpired. The trash was gone! The corner was clean! The upshot. I wouldn’t have to clean it myself and lug it up our steep hill to our trash can.

As I walked down the hill towards St. Thomas, I saw a miracle had occurred. The mess was gone!

Who had performed this miracle? A DPW open bed truck, carrying an assortment of discarded battered possessions – broken chairs, ladders, an ironing board and more – was pulling up to the corner. A smiling city worker jumped out of the driver’s seat. “I’m so glad to see you,” I said.

We greeted one another as he pulled an iPad out of his pocket. The City worker, who undoubtedly sees plenty of trash, told me, “I wouldn’t want to see this on my corner either.” He then pulled up the screen shot of the ‘X’ post I had transmitted to ‘311’ three days earlier. His up to date technology had chronicled a record of my communication. The City had missed its deadline of responding within 48 hours but it had taken action. The City came out. I was gratified by the City’s high level of service.

‘311’ response to Liz

Out here in the countryside, junk abandoned on the corners often lingers for days. When the City worker told me “We rarely get calls from people out here”, not only was he explaining why DPW was late in responding, he was also affirming we live by the old proverb in my west side neighborhood. What we consider worthless could be highly prized by someone else.

Liz with the SFDPW worker on a Sunday morning.

Top photo: Local resident Elizabeth Heidhues is pictured in front of the drain she tends to as part of the city’s Adopt a Drain program, at the intersection of Anza Street and 40th Avenue, in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond neighborhood. Charles Russo/SFGATE

Liz Heidhues has been caring for Donna the drain since 2017, as soon as she saw the Adopt a Drain program advertised on a San Francisco Public Utilities Commission calendar she picked up from a local store. As a runner and a cyclist without a car, she said she was always encountering flooded intersections, so her motivation to adopt the drain was to keep her intersection from becoming flooded. She looked online and saw the drain on her corner was available, and she’s been caring for it ever since. https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Adopt-a-Drain-program-SF-16641794.php

Nazi Trump burns Voice of America. “Massive gift to USA enemies”

UPDATE

Lee Heidhues 3.20.2025

Wall Street Journal editorial – 3.20.2025

The reaction to Nazi Felon Trump’s dismantling of Voice of America has been Swift. Regrettably, Trump will get away with this blatant censorship. And there’s more to come.

A headline from Trump’s first term in 2017. I knew eight years ago it would get worse.

Al Jazeera headline 3.18.2025

Chinese state media revel in demise of Voice of America, Radio Free Asia

Shutdown of US-funded news outlets ends more than 80 years of uncensored news broadcasts in China.

Lee Heidhues 3.15.2025

Step by step the felon Nazi Donald Trump is destroying the free press. Just like Adolf Hitler did in Germany shortly after he became Chancellor in 1933. Are books next?

Book burning in Nazi Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empty_Library

On April 6, 1933, the Nazi German Student Association’s Main Office for Press and Propaganda announced a nationwide initiative “against the un-German spirit”, climaxing in a literary Säuberung, or cleansing, by fire.[2] Local chapters of the group were charged with the distribution of literary blacklists that included Jewish, Marxist, Socialist, anti-family, and anti-German literature and planned grand ceremonies for the public to gather and dispose of the objectionable material.[3]

In Berlin, the German Student Union organized the celebratory book burnings that took place on May 10, 1933, on a dreary, rainy evening.[2] 40,000 people crowded into the Opernplatz (as it was then known) as 5,000 German students proceeded past them, holding burning torches to ceremonially ignite the pile of books seized for the event.[4] Joseph Goebbels, Germany’s Reich Minister of Propaganda, spoke at the event, declaring that “the era of exaggerated Jewish intellectualism is now at an end… and the future German man will not just be a man of books… this late hour [I] entrust to the flames the intellectual garbage of the past.”[3][5] Thirty-four additional book burnings took place across Germany that month.[3]

Excerpted from France 24 3.15.2025

The head of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which started broadcasting into the Soviet bloc during the Cold War, called the cancellation of funding “a massive gift to America’s enemies.”

Nazis burning Books – May 10, 1933

“The Iranian ayatollahs, Chinese communist leaders, and autocrats in Moscow and Minsk would celebrate the demise of RFE/RL after 75 years,” its president, Stephen Capus, said in a statement.

Hundreds of reporters and other staff at VOA, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe and other outlets received a weekend email saying they will be barred from their offices and should surrender press passes, office-issued telephones and other equipment.

Trump, who has already eviscerated the US aid agency and Education Department, on Friday issued an executive order listing the US Agency for Global Media as among “elements of the federal bureaucracy that the president has determined are unnecessary.”

Kari Lake, a firebrand Trump supporter and former Arizona news anchor who was put in charge of the media agency after she lost a US Senate bid, wrote — in an email to media outlets she supervises — that federal grant money “no longer effectuates agency priorities.”

A White House press official, Harrison Fields, took a much less legalistic tone in a post on X, simply writing “goodbye” in 20 languages, a sarcastic jab at VOA’s multilingual coverage.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250315-trump-freezes-voa-radio-free-asia-radio-free-europe

Top photo: President Dwight Eisenhower speaks on Voice of America – circa 1950’s

Great Highway Park. Historic Day finally arrives for San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues – March 17, 2025

UPDATE

Succinctly reported in https://sf.streetsblog.org/

The entitled motorists have moved beyond political posturing.

It was barely 24 hours since the two mile stretch along the San Francisco Pacific Coast shoreline was permanently closed to cars.

It’s infuriating that the entitled motorists desire to slash, burn and break the law has sunk to the depth of criminal behavior. Motorists. A group in America which will never accept any limits on their false sense of entitlement. The political and community leader enablers of this crime need to be held accountable for this wanton act of vandalism.

‘heavily vandalized’ mural on Great Highway Park. Whodunit?

Lee Heidhues – March 14 , 2025

It’s a historic event Liz and I could only have dreamed for. The two mile stretch of road polluted by motorists for decades is undergoing a seismic transformation.

As of today Great Highway Park is a reality. Approved by 55 percent of the voters last November this stretch of land along the Pacific Coastline of San Francisco is now a cyclist and pedestrian oasis.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/upper-great-highway-permanently-closes-vehicles/3819089/

I “WASN’T BORN TO FOLLOW”
Looking down towards Great Highway Park from Sutro Heights – Photo Lee Heidhues

Great Highway Park is the latest victory for The People who who continue to advocate for a more pedestrian and bicyclist friendly San Francisco.

“Car-free for good and celebrating it” was the headline in the San Francisco Chronicle on April 30, 2022. Celebrating passage of the ordinance by the Board of Supervisors making JFK Promenade in Golden Gate Park a car free oasis. A legislative vote which was affirmed by the voters in November 2022 with a resounding nearly two-thirds YES vote.

Trump’s USA – German tattooist is hurled in ICE solitary confinement

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 3.13.2025

This is the Nazi felon Donald Trump Amerika in 2025. And it’s only going to get worse.

Excerpted from The Daily Mail UK 3.5.2025

A German tattoo artist says she was locked up in solitary confinement after she was detained 46 days while trying to walk through a checkpoint on the southern border.

‘After nine days, she said she went so insane that she started punching the walls and then she’s got blood on her knuckles.’

Brösche insisted the alleged solitary confinement was ‘like a horror movie.’

Jessica Brösche, 26, was arrested by US Customs and Border Protection as she tried to enter the country through San Diego, from Tijuana, on January 25th, ABC10 reported. 

‘I just want to get home, you know? I’m really desperate,’ she told ABC 10.

Her detainment included a ‘horrible’ eight days in solitary confinement, she added.

However, the company that owns the detention center – CoreCivic – told the outlet Brösche ‘was not in any kind of restrictive housing for eight days.’

But Brösche insisted the alleged solitary confinement was ‘like a horror movie.’

‘They were screaming in all different rooms,’ Lofving said. 

German tattoo artist Jessica Brösche, 26, says she was left in solitary confinement with over a week after being arrested while trying to legally cross the US-Mexico border

Lofving said she did not know where her friend was taken until she pleaded for help online and used the the federal Detainee Locator website.

She also claimed that a psychologist tried to prescribe Brösche anti-psychotic medicine, which she has refused to take. 

Brösche was traveling with her American friend Nikita Lofving as a tourist under the ESTA visa waiver program. The two had met in Tijuana and were carrying tattooing equipment. 

Brösche was traveling with her American friend Nikita Lofving

Immigration officials reportedly accused Brösche of working in the US the last time she entered the country with the ESTA program, an electronic system that determines whether someone is eligible to enter the US without a visa. 

ESTAs are only intended for tourists and people are not allowed to work in the US while visiting on one.  

Lofving told the outlet she asked officials if Brösche could be sent back to Mexico, but they said she would be deported to Germany in three to five days because she could not offer proof of residence in the Latin American country.

But Brösche says she spent days in a cell at the San Diego border before she was taken into ICE custody and brought to the the Otay Mesa Detention Center, where she was held for more than a month.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14460303/female-german-tattoo-artist-jessica-brosche-detained-ice-california.html

Chained, detained for weeks and eventually deported, two German tourists trying to enter the United States were recently tangled in a system responding to President Trump’s push to sharply restrict entry and deport people en masse.

The cases of Jessica Brösche, held for 46 days, and Lucas Sielaff, held for 16, and accounts of their rough handling by immigration officers, have grabbed headlines in Germany as a sign of what being caught on the wrong side of the White House’s immigration policy could mean for European travelers. New York Times 3.13.2025

Top photo: German tattoo artist Jessica Brosche incarcerated 46 days.

Putin justice. Russian journalists face major jail time in the Gulag

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 3.13.2025

UPDATE

On Thursday, Antonina Favorskaya, Artyom Kriger, Konstantin Gabov and Sergey Karelin were set to deliver their closing arguments. The verdict must be handed down within five days.

Now, this deadline has been pushed back by a week, with the defendants now scheduled to make their final statements on March 20. The circumstances for the delay were unknown at the time of publishing.

The trial has taken place behind closed doors. Few details are known, but the imprisoned journalists (outlined below) have been writing letters to stay in touch with the outside world.

3.12.2025

The convicted felon Donald Trump must be salivating as four Russian journalists stand trial and face six year prison terms for alleged “extremist” ties. The entire assault on the press is nothing more than a show trial so Vladimir Putin can show the Russian people who’s boss.

Two thugs agree the Press is an “Enemy of the State.”

Trump’s thug buddy Vladimir Putin treats journalists in a manner the criminal American president wishes he could introduce to America. Harassment, kangaroo court and imprisonment.

Fortunately there is the First Amendment in America which protects all journalists, including bloggers. Even the wannabe dictator Trump will be trumped in his rhetorical assault on the free press.

Americans can never forget that thug Putin detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich for over 16 months as an intimidation tactic against the press. He was freed. Unfortunately, Russian reporters can’t expect the same verdict.

One has to hope that a free press in America survives Donald Trump.

Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 3.12.2025

Four Russian journalists are currently on trial in Moscow, charged with involvement in an “extremist” group.

Left to right: The journalists Konstantin Gabov, Antonina Favorskaya, Artyom Kriger and Sergey Karelin have been on trial for alleged “extremist” ties Image: Maxim Shemetov/REUTERS

The group in question is the Foundation for Fighting Corruption, founded by the late opposition leader Alexei Navanly, who died in early 2024 in an Arctic penal colony under unclear circumstances. In 2021, Russian authorities designated and banned the foundation as extremist.

All four defendants deny the charges and argue they did not work for the foundation but rather were reporting on it independently.

On Thursday, Antonina Favorskaya, Artyom Kriger, Konstantin Gabov and Sergey Karelin will deliver their closing arguments. The verdict must be handed down within five days.

If found guilty, the defendants face up to six years in prison. The Russian human rights project Political Prisoners Memorial has classified them political prisoners.

The trial has taken place behind closed doors. Few details are known, but the imprisoned journalists (outlined below) have been writing letters to stay in touch with the outside world.

Top photo: Antonina Kravtsova in handcuffs being taken to court is more widely known under her pseudonym Antonina Favorskaya

https://www.dw.com/en/undue-process-russian-journalists-await-verdict-in-moscow/a-71901887

Daniel Lurie’s stealth campaign to destroy Great Highway Park

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 3.11.2025

The entitled motorists have an ally in Room 200 at City Hall.

In a brutal last ditch attempt to halt creation of an environmental oasis by the Pacific Ocean, Levi’s scion and billionaire Mayor Daniel Lurie has enlisted his legal fixer to destroy Great Highway Park

Proposition K was approved by 55 percent of San Francisco voters last November.

Daniel Lurie has been Mayor only nine weeks and his attempt to slash and burn the environmental legacy of his predecessor London Breed is evident for any who care to notice.

Rather than come out and publicly say he opposes Great Highway Park, approved by 55 percent of the voters last November, Mayor Lurie enlisted his campaign lawyer to slash and burn the voters will. The only conclusion one can draw from this turning his back on The People is that the Mayor has been bullied into submission by the entitled motorists.

It’s a crass political calculation that the environmentalists who have waged a successful battle can be safely politically ignored.

It’s a shame that even though the proponents of a more pedestrian and cyclist friendly San Francisco have emerged victorious in all the major battles; JFK Promenade, Slow Streets and Great Highway Park the spoiled rotten entitled motorists refuse to acknowledge reality.

Former Mayor London Breed was a champion for the environment and car free streets. She advocated for JFK Promenade and Great Highway Park. Those halcyon days of environmental progress are over.

Former Mayor London Breed, champion of both JFK Promenade and Great Highway Park, signs enabling legislation creating JFK Promenade in Golden Gate Park – May 7, 2022 – photo Lee Heidhues

Excerpted from The San Francisco Standard 3.10.2025

Opponents of Proposition K, the ballot measure that authorized the closure, and created Great Highway Park last November were expected to file a lawsuit Tuesday arguing that San Francisco voters don’t have the right to close the street to cars.

The lawsuit, led by Jim Sutton, alleges that the city ignored the state’s authority and unlawfully placed a measure before San Francisco voters. Sutton was Mayor Daniel Lurie’s campaign attorney.

Advocates for Proposition K – Great Highway Park. Will Daniel Lurie destroy their success?

The lawsuit also questions how the measure was put on the ballot, saying it bypassed the California Environmental Quality Act review process.

“This lawsuit is about standing up for the people who are being left behind,” said Albert Chow, a Sunset small-business owner and plaintiff. “Seniors, kids, and families will be forced to navigate more dangerous streets just so City Hall can score political points.”

Prop. K passed with 54% of votes in November 2024 after being placed on the ballot by five supervisors, including Joel Engardio of the Sunset, where the stretch of road is located. Approximately 64% of Sunset residents opposed the measure. Some have launched a recall effort against Engardio.

Top photo: Daniel Lurie prays that his Hail Mary to destroy Great Highway Park succeeds.

Trump should be in jail. Criminal presidents busted in other lands

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 3.10.2025

Donald Trump should be in prison.

American justice is disgraceful. The convicted felon Donald Trump is in the White House while the ex Presidents of The Philippines and Brazil have been indicted for their criminal acts and face major jail time. In these countries a compliant judiciary will not save them.

Where Trump belongs.

In the Philippines former President has been indicted by the International Criminal Court.

Excerpted from The New York Times 3.10.2025

Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, was arrested on Tuesday in Manila, after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity in his war on drugs in which, human rights groups say, tens of thousands of Filipinos were summarily executed.

He was taken into custody at the airport in Manila after returning from a trip to Hong Kong, according to the Philippine government. Mr. Duterte’s lawyer, Salvador Panelo, said the arrest was unlawful, partly because the Philippines withdrew from the court while Mr. Duterte was in office.

Mr. Duterte, 79, who left office in 2022, is a populist firebrand who remains one of the Philippines’ most influential politicians, and he has enjoyed relative immunity despite several accusations against him in connection with his antidrug campaign.

But Mr. Duterte’s arrest could be a major step toward accountability for thousands of Filipinos who have long sought justice for their loved ones, many of whom were gunned down by police officers, hit men and vigilantes. Activists say the vast majority of victims were poor, urban Filipinos, some of whom were minors and people who had nothing to do with the drug trade.

In Brazil Jair Bolsonaro has been indicted for attempting to overthrow an election he lost.

Well Well all you MAGA Trumpies. How’s your bank account now?

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 3.10.2025

What say now all you fools who fell for the BS being spouted off by the Convicted Felon Donald Trump? How are things looking now out there in MAGA land? This arrogant clown has been President only seven weeks and the economy is already in the tank.

The arrogant felon Trump. What me worry?

Too bad the intelligent ones are going to pay a price for your idiocy at the ballot box.

Excerpted from The Wall Street Journal 3.10.2025

Stocks slid Monday as concerns about the U.S. economy tipping into a recession grew.

The Dow gave up nearly 900 points, the S&P 500 fell 2.7% and the Nasdaq Composite tumbled 4% as shares of big tech companies extended their selloff. Tesla’s stock lost 15%. Shares of the other Magnificent Seven stocks—Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon.com, Nvidia and Meta Platforms—fell between 2% and 5%.

Bring on a Recession says the convicted felon Trump

President Trump over the weekend refused to rule out the U.S. entering a recession this year, telling Fox News there will be a “period of transition, because what we’re doing is very big.” In contrast, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told NBC News: “There’s going to be no recession in America.”

Some investors say that the Trump administration’s seemingly blasé attitude toward potentially setting off a downturn is rattling market watchers, who had believed that Trump’s pro-growth stance would boost the economy and markets.

“This is the first time we’ve had an administration pretty much say with a straight face…the objectives are going to cause pain,” said Shelby McFaddin, investment analyst at Motley Fool Asset Management.

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-nasdaq-sp500-03-10-2025