True reporters, like Sy Hersh, dare to expose what they’re told not to.

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 12.9.2025

I have followed Seymour Hersh writing for decades. I became transfixed when I read his classic “The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House” published in 1984. A compendium of the treacherous foreign policy instituted by President Nixon and carried out enthusiastically by Henry Kissinger. Countries in the Western Hemisphere to the near East and Asia, specifically Vietnam and Cambodia, were in their Machiavellian sights.

Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet who overthrew the democratically elected President Salvador Allende on 9.1.1.1973 shakes hands with Henry Kissinger. The story of Nixon and Kissinger’s involvement in the coup is written about in detail in Sy Hersh’s book.

The soon to be released documentary “Cover-up” is must viewing for those who want to know what genuine, honest investigative reporting is all about in the era of Donald Trump and his relentless assaults on the media. A mainstream media which has been cowed and compliant. Enabling this liar to attack the core of American democracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh – **An American journalist icon**

Excerpted from Variety 8.25.2025

As “Cover-Up” reveals, the key lesson of Seymour Hersh’s career is that when it comes to crucial stories of corruption, just about every situation is layered, booby-trapped, woven with deception. The movie is called “Cover-Up” because cover-up is the metaphysical state we live in. The true reporters, like Hersh, are those who dare to expose what they’re told not to.

When Hersh, in the documentary, talks about how American media works, how it’s too cozy with power, he can sound a lot like the Noam Chomsky of “Manufacturing Consent.” But part of what’s so compelling about “Cover-Up” is that Hersh, in his heyday, wasn’t a pie-in-the-sky purist agitator like Chomsky; he was a regular guy who simply wanted the truth to get out there.

The film captures how he sort of fell into journalism, after helping to run his family’s dry-cleaning business on the South Side of Chicago. He was originally a crime reporter, and got his big break in 1963, when he went to work for the Associated Press. Assigned to cover the Pentagon, he would walk out of the scripted press briefings and, instead, wandered the halls and used his sports chatter to befriend high-ranking officers.

That’s how he got wind of the My Lai story, when an officer referenced what was going on with Lt. William Calley (without actually naming him). “Cover-Up” takes us inside the process of how this complex story was brought to light.

A false mythology of the massacre lives on to this day (that American soldiers went “crazy” with violence in the jungles), but the far uglier truth is that the murder of Vietnamese civilians had been ordered as a way to inflate the casualty numbers (which was the Army’s yardstick of success). My Lai wasn’t the only My Lai — far from it.

The story, which Hersh broke in 1969, made his name.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cover-review-laura-poitras-enthralling-121321596.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall

https://screenanarchy.com/2025/09/toronto-2025-review-cover-up.html

San Francisco Public Works reacts to dangerous street conditions

SAN FRANCISCO – MASONIC AVENUE NEAR GEARY BOULEVARD

Lee Heidhues 12.8.2025

It was only 10 days ago that I took a hard fall on Masonic Avenue on the pavement in front of the shuttered Lucky Penny Restaurant at 2670 Geary Blvd. Suffering physical damage and a blow to my peace of mind. Happily a number of good citizens, including a nurse from nearby Kaiser, came to my aid.

**I returned to the site of The Fall three days later with Liz**. I will not be deterred from doing my shopping.

Feeling something needed to be done to publicize the dangerous streets I posted a recitation of the mishap (see below) and perhaps, more importantly, notified the Department of Public Works. https://sfpublicworks.org/

I learned the property owner is responsible for maintaining a safe sidewalk in front of their land. This morning I went shopping at next door Trader Joe’s and was pleasantly shocked to see white paint painted all along the sidewalk. The property owner has been notified that the dangerous condition must be rectified.

**The treacherous sidewalk in front of the shuttered Lucky Penny Restaurant**

**Be careful walking past the Lucky Penny. It’s dangerous.**

Like the Reaping Day scene out of The Hunger Games I involuntarily became a “Tribute.” The dangerous pavement has been a years long hazard. I crashed to the sidewalk in what resulted in a serious fortunately not fatal injury.

Tripped up at Trader Joe’s. A dangerous fall to the rocky street

Top photo: The Lucky Penny Restaurant. Trader Joe’s is next to the black car on the right.

Petty politics at the Tat Wong Academy – Master Chow is out

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 12.6.2025

A heartfelt plea to the Tat Wong Kung Fu Academy.

It is totally shocking and uncalled for that Master Jeff Chow has been cast aside and no longer providing his mastery of martial arts.

It appears the only reason for his expulsion is office politics at the Tat Wong Academy. There’s no question about his competence and ability to motivate the students.

**Liz Heidhues gets into the action at the Tat Wong Academy**

It’s hard to understand why an institution which prides itself on improvement of the body and mind can be so petty and venal. Totally ignoring and disrespecting the opinions and feelings of its student population.

The following messages sent to Tat Wong from long time student Liz Heidhues and her husband blogger Lee are heartfelt pleas to stop this petty political posturing and return Master Jeff Chow to his rightful place in the martial arts world.

Dear San Francisco Team

I have been attending Tat Wong Academy since 2018 and have been taught by many different sifus – including Joe, Philippe, Brandon, and most importantly the best – Master Chow.

Master Jeff Chow has been a student of Grand Master Tat-Mau Wong for more than twenty-six years, and has been a chief instructor at the Tat Wong Academy since 1998. He was awarded the title of Master in 2013 and is currently ranked internationally by The World Organization of Wushu Kung Fu Masters at 8th degree Black Belt.Master Chow has been fighting Sanshou for the past 15 years and is a competition champion. He was the Silver Medallist for the 2006 Pan American Games in the Sanshou 65-kilo weight category, and proudly represented the USA in 2007 as a USA World Team member. In 2009 and 2011 he served as the official USA Sanshou team coach.He is also a Gold Medallist from many International traditional form and lion dance competitions. Every day Master Chow passes on his skills and passion for Kung Fu to our students, our Sanshou fighters and our Lion Dance performers. Master Chow says, as both a teacher and a martial artist: “I will never stop my kung fu and sanshou training, because they continue to teach me about myself. I hope to inspire my students to feel the same.” He also adds: “Nothing is worth doing unless done well. So stay focused and dedicated and the results are always worth it.” – Featured in the Tat Wong website https://www.tatwong.com/

I also have a cordial relationship with Grandmaster Tat Wong, having met him when the school was housed in the old Hibernia bank at 7th Ave & Clement.

I would like Grandmaster Wong to know I am not happy with Master Chow’s ouster.

Master Chow delivers a class worth paying for.

**The array of belts earned by Liz Heidhues at the Tat Wong Academy since 2018**

He makes us work our muscles and our minds, inspires us to practice the different forms with passion and speed, and I walk away from his class feeling a sense of accomplishment from a good physical workout.

Master Chow grew up at the Academy. He know his stuff.

There has been no outreach to the students about the removal of Master Chow as our teacher. This is very poor customer relations. I do not want to continue the program if he doesn’t return.

Legacy Customer

Elizabeth Heidhues

Black Belt Club

**Liz Heidhues on her way to a Black Belt is awarded her Red Belt by Master Jeff Chow – 2.4.2025**

Tat Wong Kung Fu Academy

I am writing on behalf of my lifetime partner and wife Liz Heidhues.

Liz is extremely upset and disappointed that Master Chow is no longer the instructor.

In talking with Liz over the past seven plus years since she joined Tat Wong it is evident that the physical workout and coping skills Liz has learned have become an essential part of her life.

Now this has suddenly and with no warning been yanked away from Liz.

It’s not right.

Why Master Chow has been eliminated is impossible to understand and hard to accept.

He needs to be at Tat Wong to continue his work and making life in San Francisco safer for all of us.

In Solidarity,

Lee Heidhues

Lifetime partner and husband of Liz Heidhues

Top photo: Liz Heidhues on the way to Black Belt status is awarded her Red Belt by Master Chow – 2.4.2025

Conductor Jonathon Heyward leads the Seattle Symphony in “Mars” from Holst’s The Planets at Benaroya Hall. #ListenBoldly

U.S. Flips History by Casting Europe—Not Russia—as Villain

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 12.6.2025

Looking afar from the West Coast of America to most Americans Europe seems far away and inconsequential. Only as a tourist destination and photo op.

The reality is that Europe is an integral bastion economically and culturally for the United States.

It’s shocking to read that Donald Trump is striving to turn this centuries long relationship on its head as he seeks to solidify his indecipherable relationship with Vladimir Putin. Trump’s not so secret goal is to let Europe fend for itself while he withdraws into Fortress America.

Excerpted from The Wall Street Journal 12.6.2025

Nathalie Tocci, director of the Institute for International Affairs in Rome and a former EU diplomatic adviser, said the document lays out a fairly coherent vision of a world dominated by three big powers—the U.S., China and Russia—who have areas of cooperation and zones of influence.

“I think it’s fairly clear that Europe is seen by the administration as being on the colonial menu” for domination by either the U.S. or Russia, she said. “So to me, the real question is: ’What else needs to happen for us Europeans to wake up to this?’ ”

For years, the U.S. government has published an annual National Security Strategy that lays out how Washington sees the world and its approach to dealing with looming threats, from China to Russia to drug-traffickers in Latin America.

This week, the Trump administration’s version seemed to reserve its harshest tone for a new target: America’s closest allies in Europe.

The 30-page document painted European nations as wayward, declining powers that have ceded their sovereignty to the European Union and are led by governments that suppress democracy and muzzle voices that want a more nationalistic turn.

It says the continent faces “civilizational erasure” through immigration that could render it “unrecognizable” in two decades—as well as turning several North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies into majority “non-European” countries. It concludes the region could grow too weak to be “reliable allies.”

**Trump has castigated the European countries for not spending sufficiently on the military.** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Germany. **The German government now is considering reinstituting compulsory military service. Germans are protesting.**

The document underscores how radically the Trump administration is reshaping traditional American foreign policy, and it is likely to deepen divisions in the trans-Atlantic alliance, which has largely kept the peace in Europe since World War II and promoted Western values across the world.

The document landed like a bucket of cold water in European capitals. European leaders reading the document need “to assume that the traditional trans-Atlantic relationship is dead,” said Katja Bego, a senior researcher at Chatham House, a think tank in London.

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/u-s-flips-history-by-casting-europenot-russiaas-villain-in-new-security-policy-cbb138fa?st=5dzpKf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

A genuine Nazi. Trump dropped a flamethrower on the News Media.

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 12.5.2025 – UPDATED 12.9.2025

More seriously—more sinister—the White House has just put up a wall-of-shame webpage tracking media outfits and reporters who “misrepresent” or “lie” about the administration. Names are named, outfits identified and shamed. All this is meant to intimidate; it institutionalizes attacks on the media and, considering the broader context, potentially prompts and gives permission to unstable people who might want to act in the president’s supposed defense. The webpage, paid for by taxpayers as part of the White House website, looks not like an insult but part of a sustained campaign. It is a threat. It should be taken down. Peggy Noonan in Wall Street Journal 12.6.2025 – https://www.wsj.com/opinion/were-in-an-era-of-political-violence-cc359449?mod=hp_opin_pos_3

Donald Trump is a Clear and Present Danger to democracy.

I don’t know what’s more distressing.

The White House launching a Media Offenders Website titled ‘Hall of Shame’ https://www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/ or the general silence with few exceptions from the American media whose First Amendment rights are being trampled.

The shock of all this is that the publishers should be at the proverbial barricades. Press freedom and the First Amendment are under attack. Journalists, editors and publishers must be aware that when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 he destroyed the free press in Germany. If they’re not unaware they’re deluding themselves.

**‘Art of Catastrophe’ – Charlotte Salomon**

Trump will never get that far. But his intimidation tactics using the power of the Federal government is sending a chilling message

**Trump’s genuine Nazi like assault on the media. Utilizing the White House to intimidate journalists**

Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 12.5.2025

A new government website lists journalists and media outlets that Donald Trump’s administration considers liars. Experts say the move endangers free media ― and thus erodes democracy in the US.

The website set up by the Trump White House amounts to threatening media outlets, Jonathan Katz, a fellow in governance studies at the think tank Brookings Institution, says, too.

“It can have a chilling effect on free speech, on independent media,” Katz told DW. “We’re watching carefully to see how this affects press freedom in the United States.”

It’s no secret that the current US administration doesn’t have too high an opinion of journalists. President Donald Trump recently called a female reporter asking him about his involvement in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal “piggy.”

And in a press briefing on Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt talked about how much of her job is taken up by dealing with what she labeled inaccurate characterizations published by White House correspondents.

“The fake news that we see pumped out of this building on a day-to-day basis — it’s honestly overwhelming to keep up with it all,” she said.

In response to what Leavitt said were “fake news and … attacks” being spread by reporters, the White House has created a website that lists media outlets and reporters who, according to the government, publish false, biased or misleading stories.

The new “Media Offenders” website includes featured “Offenders of the Week” as well as a “Hall of Shame” that consists of four pages (at time of publication) of media reports the White House has sorted into the categories bias, lie, false claim, malpractice, omission of context, mischaracterization, circular reporting, failure to report and left-wing lunacy.

In a statement released on December 1, the White House said by creating the website, it “dropped a flamethrower on the Fake News Media.”

**Adolf Hitler addressing fellow Nazis – The crushing of the press in Nazi Germany is something Donald Trump would like to do in America**

https://www.dw.com/en/how-white-house-attack-on-journalists-affects-us-press-freedom/a-75040640

Top photo: Donald Trump only wants to hear what makes him look good. He closes his ears to everything else.

Felon Trump is envious. His buddy warmonger Putin jails journalists

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 12.4.2025

**Soul mates Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump**–

It’s no surprise that Felon Trump is best buddies with Russian thug war mongering president Vladimir Putin. The former KGB agent who has no problem with his compliant courts jailing Russian journalists and political foes.

**Vladimir Putin with his KGB ID circa late 1980’s**

What Putin does to journalists in Russia is something that Felon Trump would like to do in America.

And not to only journalists. Felon Trump wants to prosecute his political foes. Trump has been successful in 2025 in making the once independent Department of Justice led by his flunkie Attorney General https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Bondi a revenge sledge hammer.

Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 12.4.2025

A Moscow court on Thursday upheld five-and-a-half year prison sentences for four Russian journalists, including two former Deutsche Welle reporters who previously worked for the organization’s Moscow bureau.

Konstantin Gabov and Sergey Karelin, along with Antonina Favorskaya and Artyom Kriger, were convicted in April on charges of participating in an “extremist organization” — a reference to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), an NGO founded by opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Navalny, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, died in February 2024 while imprisoned in an Arctic penal colony.

Russian authorities classified the FBK as an extremist organization in 2021, a designation that has since been used to prosecute journalists, activists and opposition figures associated with Navalny’s movement.

Prosecutors said the group created materials for the FBK YouTube channel. All four journalists denied the charges, saying they did not work for the foundation but merely reported on its activities.

Following Thursday’s judgment, the group is now expected to be transferred from pre-trial detention centers to penal colonies to serve their sentences.

Their conviction has sparked international criticism and raised concerns about press freedom in Russia.

**Konstantin Gabov and Sergey Karelin, along with Antonina Favorskaya and Artyom Kriger, were convicted in April on charges of participating in an “extremist organization”**

https://www.dw.com/en/russia-appeal-rejected-for-journalists-tied-to-navalny/a-75019836

Lurie picks new top cop. Local SF media jumps on the bandwagon

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 12.3.2025

The local media has bowed down and stopped critical reporting of police abuse in San Francisco.

Instead the print and broadcast media have become enthusiastic cheerleaders and hopped on Mayor Lurie’s law and order bandwagon.

Meet the new Chief Derrick Lew. Same as the outgoing (temporary) Chief Paul Yep.

It should be obvious to anyone paying attention to San Francisco politics that Mayor Daniel Lurie had two major goals in the selection of a new Chief of Police

Keep the focus on fighting pervasive drug crime by selecting a Chief at the forefront of the battle;
Maintain a solid relationship with the powerful and increasingly outspoken Chinese community.

**Mayor Lurie and Derrick Lew surrounded by local legislators.**

One critical voice in all the cheerleading has been former Supervisor Rev. Amos Brown. In late November The San Francisco Chronicle published a long piece about Derrick Lew’s involvement in an incident during which Lew was shot at and ended in the shooting death of former Mayor London Breed’s cousin by SFPD.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/derrick-lew-police-chief-21197383.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL2JheWFyZWEvYXJ0aWNsZS9kZXJyaWNrLWxldy1wb2xpY2UtY2hpZWYtMjExOTczODMucGhw&time=MTc2NDgyMjkyOTk2Nw%3D%3D&rid=OTJhM2RhZWItNDMzYy00ZjMxLTgyMTQtZTU2ZjE2NDIzNDRl&sharecount=NA%3D%3D

Rev. Brown wrote a letter to the editor decrying the sensationalism of the piece. And maintaining it exacerbated tensions between the Black and Chinese communities.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/letterstotheeditor/article/police-chief-san-francisco-21208013.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL29waW5pb24vbGV0dGVyc3RvdGhlZWRpdG9yL2FydGljbGUvcG9saWNlLWNoaWVmLXNhbi1mcmFuY2lzY28tMjEyMDgwMTMucGhw&time=MTc2NDgyMjgzODk0Mw%3D%3D&rid=OTJhM2RhZWItNDMzYy00ZjMxLTgyMTQtZTU2ZjE2NDIzNDRl&sharecount=NA%3D%3D

Excerpted from Mission Local 12.3.2025

Deputy Chief Derrick Lew has today been named chief of the San Francisco Police Department by Mayor Daniel Lurie, succeeding interim chief Paul Yep and former longtime chief Bill Scott.

Lew is a 22-year veteran of the department. He joined the SFPD in 2003 and served at Taraval Station covering the Westside. In 2006 he was nearly killed by a cousin of Mayor London Breed in Silver Terrace; Lew’s partner then shot and killed Charles Breed, who had earlier allegedly shot and killed two people.

**New Chief Derrick Lew takes over the SFPD**

Lew received a medal of valor for the incident.

He is a 52-year-old city native and, like fire chief Dean Crispen, is a graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep — meaning both the police and fire chief are St. Ignatius grads.

Lew has had a rocket-like trajectory after being promoted to commander in July 2024. Police sources said he was the right leader to reflect the department’s current priorities, which have shifted away from street patrols and toward larger, more coordinated investigations: “He is more about quality rather than quantity.”

Derrick Lew, 22-year department veteran, named new S.F. police chief

Top photo: The new Chief carves up the Thanksgiving turkey – photo SF Examiner

Tripped up at Trader Joe’s. A dangerous fall to the rocky street

SAN FRANCISCO – TRADER JOE’S ON MASONIC

Lee Heidhues 11.30.2025

It’s fitting that Trader Joe’s was rung up because rocks were found in one of its best selling products. ‘Almond Windmill’ cookies. One of the blogger’s favorites. Maybe it’s time for Trader Joe’s and San Francisco to clean up the dangerous rocky pavement at Trader Joe’s doorstep. (see story at top. SF Chronicle 7.29.2023)

Trader Joe’s may be a premier destination for food enthusiasts. But as the blogger’s recent dangerous mishap proves, getting there can be dangerous for one’s health.

**The lines are long at Trader Joe’s on Masonic**

The streets of San Francisco leading to the store at Masonic and Geary are dangerous, treacherous and need to be repaired.

The blogger took a hard fall in front of Trader Joe’s the day after Thanksgiving. Leaving him cut and bruised. Swollen lips, battered nose, a damaged tooth and a severe bruise on his arm.

Fortunately for the blogger several citizens rushed to his side, went into the store and came back with kleenex to stop the bleeding. And, best of all, a nurse from nearby Kaiser administered some first aid and escorted the blogger to the 38R bus stop across Masonic.

**The blogger two days later recuperating in the sun at Sutro Heights Park.**

As the following photos vividly display the pavement adjacent to Trader Joe’s is treacherous. Particularly when the shopper is utilizing a cane to complete his shopping chores. The blogger tripped on the uneven pavement and crashed to the pavement. It was a scary and unnerving experience. The San Francisco Department of Public Works needs to repair this hazard immediately.

**The dangerous broken pavement at Trader Joe’s doorstep. The spot where the blogger crashed to earth. The blood is still visible**

**The spot where the blogger landed face first on the rocky pavement on November 28, 2025**

**Three days later the blogger surveys the scene of the fall.**

When the Beatles recorded their song ‘Day Tripper’ in 1966 they were thinking about something other than someone crashing to earth in San Francisco 69 years later.

Photos of broken pavement and Lee Heidhues three days after the fall – Liz Heidhues

Media control. Trump launches tracker. Calls out ‘media offenders’

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 11.30.2025 UPDATED 11.9.2025

Donald Trump is now utilizing the extensive power of the federal government to clamp down on First Amendment free speech rights. Make no mistake. Trump is a master of the media. Now, with all the levers of power at his disposable, this convicted felon, racist, misogynist is shredding the media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

People need only to look at Hitler’s Germany, Putin’s Russia for guidance on how to suppress the media. Dictators are Trump’s favorite leaders and he is utilizing their perverse playbook to quash free speech.

Where is the American media in reporting this real threat to First Amendment and its own livelihood?

Deutsche Welle 11.30.2025

The Trump White House launched a new page on its website on Friday called “media offenders,” listing news sites, reporters, and stories it claims misled the public.

US President Donald Trump calls lawmakers’ actions “seditious” and “treason.”

This week, Trump called a female reporter from The New York Times “ugly” after she co-wrote a data-driven report about the president showing signs of aging.

The president, who is 79, drew fire two weeks ago after telling a Bloomberg reporter to be “quiet, piggy” when she tried to ask a follow-up question about disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s emails.

The top publications cited as “media offenders of the week” were the Boston Globe, CBS News, and the Independent. Reporters from those outlets were singled out for stories about a controversial video released last week by six Democratic lawmakers.

The lawmakers, all of whom are military veterans or former intelligence officials, reminded service members they are not obligated to follow illegal orders.

In a video posted online last week, the lawmakers said, “Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad, but from right here at home.”

“Our laws are clear: You can refuse illegal order. … You must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution,” they added.

What the ‘media offenders’ page looks like

The page included an “offender hall of shame” with a list of stories the White House considers mistruths.

Each story is explained and categorized under labels such as “lie,” “omission of context,” or “left-wing lunacy.”

The White House described the site as “a record of the media’s false and misleading stories flagged by The White House.”

The page also features a leaderboard of news sites the administration claims reported stories incorrectly.

The Washington Post tops the list, followed by MSNBC (recently rebranded as MS NOW), CBS News, CNN, The New York Times, Politico, and The Wall Street Journal.

There’s also a section with “repeat offenders” with outlets that the Trump administration objects to.

Trump administration escalates fight with media outlets

All outlets on the leaderboard, along with others, turned in their Pentagon press badges last month after rejecting new rules imposed by the Department of Defense.

The rules would leave journalists vulnerable to expulsion if they reported information, classified or otherwise, that had not been approved by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for release.

Trump has also been involved in court battles against The New York Times, CBS News, ABC News, The Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press over the past year.

Trump widens hostilities against female reporters

The administration’s broader conflict with media outlets has also taken a personal turn. In recent weeks, Trump has faced criticism for insulting female reporters.

The Associated Press contributed to the report.

https://www.dw.com/en/white-house-launches-media-bias-tracker/a-74954883

Bendi is back. We sought his return. Deja vu moment came true

SAN FRANCISCO OUTER RICHMOND DISTRICT

UPDATE – 11.30.2025

Bendi has been found safe and sound. He is home, again. After a bit of sleuthing we learned that Bendi, wandering the nearby corner several nights ago, was taken in by kind neighbors. We located the neighbors via their social media posting. They treated Bendi very well during his stay. A comfortable home, plenty of food, good shelter. And most important, good neighbors who looked after him. We are so happy and look forward to once again seeing Bendi at our front door and back porch.

Lee Heidhues 11.30.2025

Our dear tuxedo cat companion Bendi is gone, again. Bendi had been our dear visitor for well over a year. Spending most days making life a joy before being taken to his home down the street each evening.

Due to a series of medical crises afflicting me beginning last August we could no longer enjoy Bendi’s companionship. Regrettably, we have failed to welcome Bendi back into our home. Even though he is constantly at our front door and back porch. Now he’s gone.

We have not seen him for several days.

We so much wish for his return when we will open our doors, again, for this marvelous companion.