Robert Lloyd
@robertlloyd.bsky.social
More than full time TV critic, L.A. Times. Sometime sideman. Picture drawer.
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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.
The Presidency as Protection Racket
‘Nice little state you got there. I sure wouldn’t want anything to happen to it.’
www.cato.org
February 13, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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.
Today I review “Can You Keep a Secret,” comedy the UK way. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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.
www.latimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Today I review “Can You Keep a Secret,” comedy the UK way. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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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
📸: Robert Michael / DPA / Reuters
February 12, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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
📸: Robert Michael / DPA / Reuters
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Retrograde Watch:
Rejecting science, Trump reverses conclusion that climate change is harming Americans
Hayley Smith, Ian James
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Rejecting science, Trump reverses conclusion that climate change is harming Americans
Hayley Smith, Ian James
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Rejecting science, Trump reverses conclusion that climate change is harming Americans
The 2009 endangerment finding affirms that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health and welfare. Its repeal marks one of the most significant deregulatory actions in U.S...
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February 12, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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February 12, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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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.
February 12, 2026 at 7:50 AM
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.
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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...
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.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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...
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Meet the L.A. restaurateur who designed Bad Bunny's Super Bowl casita
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.
www.latimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Meet the L.A. restaurateur who designed Bad Bunny's Super Bowl casita
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DAILY MEMO: ICE Is Still Active in Southern California
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February 12, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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.”
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
February 12, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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.”
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
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hello this is the official petition to bring back mass market paperbacks!! mmpbs are good actually and everyone should do them!! i think esp romantasy readers would really love that shit! and you can still spray those edges!!! bring back mass market paperbacks thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 10, 2026 at 8:02 PM
hello this is the official petition to bring back mass market paperbacks!! mmpbs are good actually and everyone should do them!! i think esp romantasy readers would really love that shit! and you can still spray those edges!!! bring back mass market paperbacks thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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NEW: Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, a 36-year-old LA protester, spent six months in jail accused of assaulting a federal officer with a *cloth hat.*
A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”
A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”
Case dismissed against LA protester accused of assaulting federal officer with cloth hat
Judge says US government acted in ‘bad faith’ in case of Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, 36, who spent six months in jail
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:40 AM
NEW: Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, a 36-year-old LA protester, spent six months in jail accused of assaulting a federal officer with a *cloth hat.*
A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”
A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”
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Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
February 10, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.
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It’s day 71 of the ICE occupation of MSP.
City council members and PTAs and neighborhoods and businesses are running crowd-funding campaigns to pay rent for our neighbors.
It’s February 10, and we’re going to need to do it all again in 18 days.
We need an eviction moratorium now.
And ICE OUT.
City council members and PTAs and neighborhoods and businesses are running crowd-funding campaigns to pay rent for our neighbors.
It’s February 10, and we’re going to need to do it all again in 18 days.
We need an eviction moratorium now.
And ICE OUT.
February 11, 2026 at 5:20 AM
It’s day 71 of the ICE occupation of MSP.
City council members and PTAs and neighborhoods and businesses are running crowd-funding campaigns to pay rent for our neighbors.
It’s February 10, and we’re going to need to do it all again in 18 days.
We need an eviction moratorium now.
And ICE OUT.
City council members and PTAs and neighborhoods and businesses are running crowd-funding campaigns to pay rent for our neighbors.
It’s February 10, and we’re going to need to do it all again in 18 days.
We need an eviction moratorium now.
And ICE OUT.
Short lived but not uninteresting Aaron Sorkin overworkplace dramedy. Oddly it premiered right about the same time as “30 Rock,”also on NBC and set backstage at a sketch comedy.
We carry the box set of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. New, original shrink-wrap, never been opened. 1 copy. mzs.press/Studio-60-on...
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: The Complete Series )(DVD, NEW)
New, shrink-wrapped, never been opened. In the first episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip , he beleaguered executive producer of a long-running late-night sketch-comedy series interrupts the live ...
mzs.press
February 11, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Short lived but not uninteresting Aaron Sorkin overworkplace dramedy. Oddly it premiered right about the same time as “30 Rock,”also on NBC and set backstage at a sketch comedy.
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Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
February 11, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
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wrote about Michael J. Fox's appearance on Shrinking, which was cool for a lot of reasons, some of them pretty important to me
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Tell 'Em, Michael J. Fox
I'm going to make this about me, eventually, but not before we talk about how cool this was.
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February 10, 2026 at 11:35 PM
wrote about Michael J. Fox's appearance on Shrinking, which was cool for a lot of reasons, some of them pretty important to me
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This is a highly efficient way to get women to simply stop engaging with male strangers entirely!
Social media is awash with videos of men filming themselves approaching women in public spaces and attempting to flirt. In many cases, the videos are filmed and uploaded without the women’s consent. https://cnn.it/4qtIsvB
February 11, 2026 at 1:23 AM
This is a highly efficient way to get women to simply stop engaging with male strangers entirely!
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L.A. County officials push new sales tax to offset Trump administration healthcare cuts
L.A. County officials push new sales tax to offset Trump administration healthcare cuts
L.A. County supervisors and healthcare advocates are pushing for a half-cent sales tax to cover services that are expected to be lost due to cutbacks in federal funding.
www.latimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:45 AM
L.A. County officials push new sales tax to offset Trump administration healthcare cuts
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It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines.
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Moderna says FDA refuses its application for new mRNA flu vaccine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine made with mRNA technology.
apnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:13 AM
It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines.
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Fascism cannot produce art that lives because living art relies on unqualified engagement with an other, a challenge to the self. Fascism can only ever conjure an ever more atrociously gilded mirror reflecting back faces that refuse even the realities of time.
From Melania to Kid Rock’s halftime show: why is Maga art so dreadful?
From Melania to Kid Rock’s halftime show: why is Maga art so dreadful?
As the right stokes culture wars, their alternatives to ‘woke’ Hollywood prove to be shoddily made and uninspired
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Fascism cannot produce art that lives because living art relies on unqualified engagement with an other, a challenge to the self. Fascism can only ever conjure an ever more atrociously gilded mirror reflecting back faces that refuse even the realities of time.
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NEW: Breijo breaks down what happened the day after Victor Villa of Villa's Tacos had a seconds-long appearance with Bad Bunny during the Super Bowl halftime show @latimes.com www.latimes.com/food/story/2...
L.A. taquería basks in the afterglow of its Super Bowl halftime show appearance
The lauded Villa's Tacos made a surprise appearance during Bad Bunny's halftime show, sparking long lines to the original Highland Park storefront.
www.latimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:14 PM
NEW: Breijo breaks down what happened the day after Victor Villa of Villa's Tacos had a seconds-long appearance with Bad Bunny during the Super Bowl halftime show @latimes.com www.latimes.com/food/story/2...
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Rule of being a person of color in the US: no matter how successful you are, it's not gonna matter to the racists, who are gonna suspect you for having taken something that belongs rightfully to them.
Leaving the obvious racism aside for a second -- Bad Bunny has sold over 100 million albums and just won the Grammy for Best Album of the Year and these chuds are acting like he's an obscure Tuvan throat-singing act or something.
By any objective measure, he is wildly wildly popular.
By any objective measure, he is wildly wildly popular.
Both these options sound objectively amazing, why do racists keep assuming everyone's racist?
February 10, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Rule of being a person of color in the US: no matter how successful you are, it's not gonna matter to the racists, who are gonna suspect you for having taken something that belongs rightfully to them.