Good San Diego County Taxpayers Association Bourbon 🥃 & Ballots 🗳️ event last night at @UClubSanDiego (pardon the AI, but the photo had too much glare) @MarkKersey went over some highlights of their positions, which you can see here. sdtaxpayers.org/tracker What was interesting is the report card they gave individual cities, which was just released, but not on their website yet. Some local East County Cities included @CityofLaMesa: A-, @CityofSantee: B- and @CityofElCajon: D+ The lowest was @CityOfNatlCity and @CityofSanDiego, who both received F's 😭

As locally elected officials, we have to do periodic ethics training. So on very first page, I see something that's not happening at the very highest levels of this country. 🤔

He called it "Markland" (Land of Forest) 🌲 Leif Erikson reached the Americas 500 years before Columbus. Why doesn’t he get more credit? Accounts of ’s voyage to present-day Canada were known to Europeans in Christopher Columbus’s time. wapo.st/4jQfkia #ColumbusDay

Not clear why the Bike Lanes would be painted over heading West on Hwy 94 near Skyline Church @SDCaltrans 🚲

I went to that branch growing up! ⚾️ @Padres, Yu Darvish make ‘transformational gift’ to Boys & Girls Club branch. The Clairemont branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego has a new name: San Diego Padres branch. tinyurl.com/yc5epta9 by @annieheilbrunn via @SDUT

'The forgotten empire': When Russia colonized California For nearly 30 years, part of Sonoma was ruled by Tsarist Russia, and it played a pivotal – if little-known – role in shaping the US. bbc.com/travel/article/20260… via @BBC

Today is Star Trek Day as it first came on the air 60 years ago today! And Captain Kirk (William Shatner) is sill going strong at 95 years old! #StarTrekDay #StarTrek #StarTrek60

Captain Kirk can tell us something about liberty! 🇺🇸 #StarTrek

Scary thought! What if America Went Completely Dark? The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years. nytimes.com/2026/08/18/magaz… by @cwhe via @NYtimes

They should do this all the time! @MarvelStudios fined $160,000 by @CityofSanDiego for covering Gaslamp arch during @Comic_Con 🦸‍♂️ City also issued $48,500 in fines for other hotel and building wraps. enewspaper.sandiegouniontrib… by @PhillipMolnar via @SDUT #ComicCon2026

Just do it! 🚲 Biking to work: Tips to get started and read the roads You don’t need fancy gear for commuting, but be on lookout for unexpected obstacles enewspaper.sandiegouniontrib… by @cbussewitz via @SDUT

Hats off to Ron Morrison, AKA “Mr. National City”as there is no bigger advocate for @CityOfNatlCity then him! 👏 After decades of public service, National City mayor bows out. Morrison won’t seek re-election, will retire from politics. enewspaper.sandiegouniontrib… by @SDUTmcdonald

I was in the San Diego @CA_DRE office today to file some paperwork for my companies, @SDCRE and @SDRRE. The location was much better than the last time I was there in Downtown San Diego. I hope the processing time is quicker than the four weeks, which I was told!

'Luckily there were nets' – terrifying crash for Sepp Kuss at @LeTour de France costs him stage 20 win, also fined for littering American crashed twice on run-in to Alpe d'Huez, with Richard Carapaz passing him cyclingweekly.com/racing/tou… by @AdamBecket via @CyclingWeekly #TDFF2026

The ‘hopeless, bad people’ just won Donald Trump's World Cup The U.S. president has relentlessly targeted Spain. Its soccer stars just had the last laugh. Today, the president who in March dubbed the country a “loser” had to celebrate Spain as the winner of a #WorldCup that Trump worked to make his own. He handed the sports world’s greatest prize to captain Rodri in front of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, King Felipe VI and a global television audience of more than one billion. politico.com/news/2026/07/19… via @politico

First @nff_landslag upsets Brazil @FIFAWorldCup and now @UnoXteam at @LeTour! #FIFAWorldCup #TDF2026 #norway

Watchdog panel says @CityofSanDiego’s admirable effort to create bike network is falling short in key ways A report sandiegocounty.gov/content/d… praises the city for ‘advancing bicycle infrastructure in a meaningful way,’ but complains of gaps in the network and situations where bike lanes end without adequate warning to cyclists. enewspaper.sandiegouniontrib… by @UTDavidGarrick via @SDUT