Robert Lloyd

Large banner featuring Trump's face is displayed on Justice Department headquarters A large banner featuring Donald Trump’s face has been hung on the exterior of Justice Department headquarters in a physical display of the Republican president’s efforts to exert power over the law en...

It's been obvious that the former Justice Department has become the taxpayer-financed Trump law firm. Now they're making it official.

'We don't want to be big.' How smaller companies are shaking up animation For the companies behind Oscar nominees 'Arco' and 'Little Amélie,' lower budgets and smaller staffs are the fastest route to what they really want: creative freedom.

'We don't want to be big.' How smaller companies are shaking up animation www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

When Jesse Jackson Came to ‘Sesame Street’: ‘I Am! Somebody!’

I wrote about the time Jesse Jackson brought the movement to Sesame Street. [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

AVC: You’ve made 41 films. Does it feel like you’ve made that many? FW: No. But once it’s done I rarely go back and look at it again. AVC: At the end of it all, is there something that you’d like to be remembered for in this genre and this form? FW: Well, I’d like to be remembered for the 41 movies I’ve made! AVC: Certainly you’ll be remembered for those. But, is there— FW: No, but certainly, making movies is an effort is an attempt to leave a trace of your existence. AVC: Can you imagine doing anything else as a career? FW: Yeah, I thought of being Roger Federer, but it’s too late.

Frederick Wiseman in 2015: www.avclub.com/frederick-wi...

Netsuke of a hare. Artist : 'Ranko', 19th century, Japan

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…

Well the FCC has bullied the Colbert Show into not airing an interview with James Talarico (which they've put on YouTube) — I look forward to all of my former professors at Scalia Law condemning this massive intrusion on the First Amendment.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

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“[James Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said.

Belfast, Maine.

TV Pick: 'At Berkeley' "At Berkeley" (PBS, Monday).

A review of Frederick Wiseman's "At Berkeley," from 2014, when he was a mere sprout of 84, with many more films to come. Apologies in advance for the dropped words. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Your one-stop Frederick Wiseman shop. zipporahfilms.com/store

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RFK’s confirmation by Bill Cassidy, Lisa Murkowski, Thom Tillis, and Susan Collins - all of whom knew better - is one of the most craven and indefensible confirmation votes in our nation’s history.

No more Wiseman films. The greatest.

Jill Scott: Tiny Desk Concert One of the most requested artists for the Tiny Desk is finally here. Jill Scott shares some new music along with the classics we've been yearning for.

One of the most requested artists for the Tiny Desk is finally here. Jill Scott shares some new music along with the classics we've been yearning for. n.pr/4qImbtU

The fact that these sentences always end with "... which we will cram with more work for them" and not "... so we moved to a four-day workweek" really illustrate the hollowness of some AI evangelists' promises that AI will deliver us to some kind of post-work utopia.

Amber Ruffin's 'Bigfoot!' musical offers hope to anyone who's been othered Amber Ruffin is a comedy veteran who's worked in improv on two continents, had her own show, authored two books and worked on Late Night with Seth Meyers for years. Now she's out with an off-Broadway musical.

Amber Ruffin is a comedy veteran who's worked in improv on two continents, had her own show, authored two books and worked on Late Night with Seth Meyers for years. Now she's out with an off-Broadway musical. n.pr/4aU8Z0k

Because people like to point out that people in Los
Angeles like to point out that it's raining I'd like to point out that it's raining in Los Angeles.

If those who claim the authority of law do not obey the law, and the law does not stop them, then they do not have the authority of law, because there is no longer any law.

The Presidency as Protection Racket ‘Nice little state you got there. I sure wouldn’t want anything to happen to it.’

Trump can’t pardon election felon Tina Peters for state crimes, so he’s squeezing Colorado instead—moving Space Command, canceling $100 mn in grants, and vetoing a clean-water pipeline. This type of presidential coercion threatens federalism and rewards election misconduct, this CATO paper argues.

Review: With distinctly British humor, 'Can You Keep a Secret?' makes light of insurance fraud This wicked British comedy starring Dawn French and Mark Heap centers on a man who pretends to be dead so his wife can get his insurance payout — hijinks ensue.

Today I review “Can You Keep a Secret,” comedy the UK way. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

In today’s Winter Olympics photo of the day, see the Ukrainian Olympic athlete whose memorial helmet got him disqualified from the Games: theatln.tc/ATHGnQrA

📸: Robert Michael / DPA / Reuters

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Back around 1980, Bud Cort performed a brilliant serial reading of "Catcher in the Rye" over KPFK, which I listened to daily as I typeset the L.A. Weekly. Anyone else hear that? It seems to have been unfortunately available since.

CBS Evening News inverts its network's own reporting on ICE arrestees’ low rates of violent criminal histories

For example… This is pretty bad.

www.mediamatters.org/cbs-evening-...

Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

Meet the L.A. restaurateur who designed Bad Bunny's Super Bowl casita Fuegos LA's Federico Laboureau makes more than empanadas and other Argentinian specialties. For Sunday's halftime show, the restaurant owner and production designer helped bring the casita to life.

Meet the L.A. restaurateur who designed Bad Bunny's Super Bowl casita

DAILY MEMO: ICE Is Still Active in Southern California
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NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:

Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”