Richard Bellikoff

Kid Rock Sells Entire Music Catalog For Extra-Large Bucket Of Cheese Balls

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Commentary: The unintended hilarity of Pam Bondi's finger-wagging testimony Poor 'SNL.' Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi’s unwittingly hilarious performance Wednesday before a House Judiciary Committee will be hard to top.

"Viewers were left asking themselves if the over-the-top dramatics they witnessed were in fact a midweek “SNL” comedy sketch, with Amy Poehler playing Bondi." www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Feds Fail Altadena: FEMA, ICE and Black History In late January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that was supposedly designed to help LA County fire victims recover more quickly by expediting city and county rebuilding permits.

"Now that we’re in Black History Month, . . there’s definitely a racist tie-in to the lack of FEMA relief. . . In Altadena alone, there were 19 fire deaths, 18 of which were African-Americans."
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Feds Fail Altadena: FEMA, ICE and Black History In late January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that was supposedly designed to help LA County fire victims recover more quickly by expediting city and county rebuilding permits.

"Our lack of federal support mainly stems from DHS priorities: Terrorizing migrants, U.S. citizens, people of color and protesters instead of helping disaster survivors, many of whom are people of color." www.argonautnews.com/opinion/feds...

What To Know About TrumpRx TrumpRx has officially launched. The Onion shares everything you need to know about the new government website.  Q: What is TrumpRx? A: A strange line item you’ll see pop up on your credit card bill 1...

"Q: What kinds of prescriptions can I get through TrumpRx?

A: TrumpRx offers low-cost access to medications manufactured by companies that have pledged not to hire any more Black people." theonion.com/what-to-know...

The MAGA Bubble Is Imploding Americans aren’t buying Trumpist gaslighting about the economy

"Americans are mad as hell, and they won’t be gaslit anymore." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-maga-b...

The MAGA Bubble Is Imploding Americans aren’t buying Trumpist gaslighting about the economy

"So while people inside the MAGA bubble keep insisting that Trump is a great president, the greatest president ever, presidenting like nobody has ever seen before, their cheerleading reeks of desperation. The MAGA implosion is gathering force." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-maga-b...

"Fake-out" is a euphemism for lying. Cruz got it right in 2016: Trump is a compulsive, pathological liar. He lied prenatally and he will lie posthumously.

I haven't seen it but I read the novella that it's adapted from, an old story about a thief doing one final job that will give him walk-away money. You can guess the ending. Looks like Hemsworth can do an American accent. Lots of local geography for those of us who live in Southern California.

Turning Point USA Announces Alternative Puerto Rico WASHINGTON—Hailing the move as a more wholesome and patriotic substitute for the current U.S. territory, conservative advocacy group Turning Point USA announced Thursday that it was setting up an alte...

"Kirk added that unlike the original Puerto Rico, the alternative would promptly receive disaster relief from the Trump administration." theonion.com/turning-poin...

Turning Point USA Announces Alternative Puerto Rico WASHINGTON—Hailing the move as a more wholesome and patriotic substitute for the current U.S. territory, conservative advocacy group Turning Point USA announced Thursday that it was setting up an alte...

"Of course, we’ll also be overhauling the music within our alternative Puerto Rico, replacing reggaeton and other aggressive styles with familiar, straight-ahead country music and Christian rock." theonion.com/turning-poin...

Culver City, a crime haven? Bondi's jab falls flat with locals Responding to Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi's jab, people who live or work in Culver City posted photos of clean streets, manicured parks and humming community events.

"Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi suggested at a congressional hearing that Culver City is home to domestic terrorists. Culver City’s mayor characterized Bondi’s comment as a “knee-jerk reaction” and touted the city’s reductions in crime." www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Making America Stagnate Again Deportations don’t create jobs and will increase deaths of native-born Americans. Who knew?

"With healthcare facing severe labor shortages, cutting off the supply of immigrant workers will raise the cost and reduce the availability of care — which will be especially hard on seniors, who . . account for more than 40 percent of health expenditures." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/making-ame...

Making America Stagnate Again Deportations don’t create jobs and will increase deaths of native-born Americans. Who knew?

"Without those immigrants, who will pay the taxes that support Medicare and Social Security?. . a cutoff of immigration raises the question of who will provide essential services to our still-rapidly-growing population of senior citizens."
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US could lose millions of tourists America could lose millions of tourists if the administration goes ahead with proposed social media requirements for certain visitors.

Make Tourism Great Again. www.newsweek.com/us-could-los...

Mark Kelly Records Video Telling Bartenders They Are Allowed to Refuse Hegseth's Orders “Our laws are clear: you can refuse illegal orders,” he told the bartenders.

"Staring stonily into the camera, the former astronaut warned that, if Hegseth appears to be above the legal blood-alcohol limit, any additional drink request would constitute an illegal order." open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

Trump orders Pentagon to invest in 'beautiful, clean' coal power President Donald Trump announced an executive order on Wednesday aimed at sustaining the United States’ coal industry through federal funding.

He'd like to order the auto manufacturers to make coal-fired vehicles. abcnews.com/Politics/tru...

Commentary: There's nothing phony about California elections. The same can't be said for Trump and his enablers The state's elections are on the up and up, but you wouldn't know it from Republicans like Mike Johnson, who keeps perpetuating falsehoods. The House speaker knows better. Or should.

". . the speaker is neither dumb nor uninformed when it comes to California and its elections. Rather, he’s scheming and cynical, sowing unwarranted and corrosive doubts about election integrity to mollify Trump and thwart a free and fair election in November." www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Marc Benioff makes ‘cruel’ ICE jokes at Salesforce event The Salesforce CEO joked about ICE agents being at a company gathering in Las Vegas

"Salesforce employees were not pleased. “It’s hard to believe this company still has values when you make completely off-base jokes about ICE in your opening keynote,” said one employee inside an internal Slack viewed by Gazetteer."
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The Banality of MAGA Evil Instead of criminal masterminds we got amoral, stupid grifters like Howard Lutnick

"Lutnick may be under wraps for a while, but don’t expect him to resign. Pushing him out would be a tacit admission that huge conflicts of interest, family business that enables crime and association with sexual predators are bad." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-banali...

The Banality of MAGA Evil Instead of criminal masterminds we got amoral, stupid grifters like Howard Lutnick

"Epstein, it turns out, was a major early investor in the crypto industry. In the backrooms of MAGA-land, passing around under-age girls is a lot like passing around insider crypto deals."
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Trump Demands Obama be Named After Him The demand appeared in a flurry of late-night Truth Social posts.

"Trump insisted that the 44th president be renamed “Barack Donald Obama Trump.” Trump said that if his demand was not met he would “immediately cut off all federal aid to Hawaii.”"
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The Movie That Inspired Gregory Bovino to Join Border Patrol Years before he led the Trump Administration’s immigration-enforcement effort in Minneapolis, Bovino saw the 1982 Jack Nicholson film “The Border.”

". . a crime thriller about corruption among U.S. Border Patrol officers. . . Years later, he would say that the film had inspired him to join Border Patrol. If that’s the case, it’s a little like entering the hospitality industry after watching “The Shining.”" www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

YouTube video by NBC News Donald Trump Makes Lewd Remarks About Women On Video | NBC News

Sexually explicit conversation by the leader of Ogles' party.
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DeSantis's 2028 presidential campaign slogan: Make Measles Great Again.

When he loses, he claims that he's winning, not matter how preposterous those claims are, such as his claim that he won Minnesota in all three elections. The most ridiculous claim is the big lie that he won in 2020.

Chappell Roan leaves Wasserman Music over exec's Epstein ties Roan is the highest-profile act to leave Wasserman after the release of Epstein documents revealing his intimate relationship with child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

"Billie Eilish previously left the agency in 2024 after separate allegations of Wasserman’s sexual misconduct surfaced."
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Olympics Update: Trump Wins Gold in Downhill Presidency “Obama never won this," he boasted.

"Notching a historic win, Trump set a new speed record for driving the world’s strongest economy into a ditch."

"Despite his victory, he remained bitter about the Super Bowl halftime show, telling reporters that “Bad Bunny took a job away from an American bunny.”" open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

Schiff endorses Swalwell for California governor Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has endorsed Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin) for California governor.

"Both are antagonists and targets of President Trump. . .They also both worked to impeach Trump during his first term, with Schiff serving as the lead manager of Trump’s first impeachment and Swalwell as a manager of Trump’s second impeachment." www.latimes.com/california/s...

In their final years, my elderly parents were cared for by immigrants from "shithole" countries in Africa.