"How can you live in California, with all those wildfires? You should move back to your native New York City, where conditions aren't so freaky and unpredictable." nypost.com/2026/02/22/u...

If I go to the 2028 L.A. Summer Games, I'll be 44 years older than when I went to the 1984 LA games, but so will everybody else who went to the '84 games. www.latimes.com/sports/olymp...

"The tensions between the Trump administration and Canada were largely cast aside at the men’s Olympic gold medal game, which the U.S. team won in overtime." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/w...

". . his tariff policy is wildly unpopular, the most unpopular ever, unpopular like nobody has ever seen before." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/tariff-pol...

"Porter may have outdone them all, at least in the use of profanity and props, by holding up one of her famous whiteboards and urging the crowd to join her in a chant of its inscription: “F—- Trump.”" www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

"And now, the president will also have to distract from his humiliation at being slapped back by a conservative Supreme Court. He’s no doubt going to spend the weekend rewriting his State of the Union address and thinking of more nasty jibes for the justices . . ." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

"As usual, Trump absurdly conflated what he wants with what’s best for the country. And as usual, he projected, charging that the justices who blocked his tariffs were “unpatriotic and disloyal to our Constitution” — and controlled by foreign interests." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

"At press time, Trump seemed to finally grasp why he couldn’t pardon Andrew but said he would not rule out running for president of England in 2028." theonion.com/aide-wearily...

"There were $3.7 million in reported business losses in just three months, July to September 2025 . . 70% of businesses experienced staffing shortages following enforcement action. A third of employers said workers were afraid to report to work." www.pasadenaweekly.com/news/economi...

House Republicans passed the SAVE Act to "protect" against voter fraud but their bill is nothing more than an infringement on voters' rights. Trump and his MAGA/GOP are the true threat to free and fair elections. #VoterID #Trump #GOP #JimCrow #Racism #Elections2026 #Congress

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Trump statement today: "Other alternatives will now be used to replace the ones that the court incorrectly rejected. We have alternatives, greater alternatives."

"The problem, of course, is that too many politicians don’t want to collect taxes on the superrich, because the ultra-wealthy have used their wealth to achieve immense political power." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-ultra-...

"Trump is driven by the same self-aggrandizing impulse that made him slap his name on the Kennedy Center. He wants to put his stamp on the world, to be the president who rid the globe of three regimes that bedeviled his predecessors: Venezuela, Iran and Cuba." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...

"I never imagined I’d miss being lied to by George W. Bush and his henchmen. . .But it was, in retrospect, a tacit acknowledgment that public opinion mattered, that a president couldn’t start a war without convincing Americans it was necessary." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...

"Perhaps Wasserman will resign and take the fall for cavorting over email with Maxwell. Meanwhile, the rest of America’s wealthy Epstein cabal continue to float above reproach, and reckoning." www.latimes.com/california/s...

"He said he deeply regrets his correspondence with Maxwell, “which took place over two decades ago, long before her horrific crimes came to light.”" What he deeply regrets is getting caught. www.latimes.com/california/s...

"Calling Andrew’s arrest “disgraceful,” Trump said it had made him “rethink the whole idea of becoming king.” “If you can be a member of the royal family and still get arrested, what’s the point in having a crown?” he said. #NoKings open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

"This waste of a lunch set me back $20. On the way home, I stopped to buy three carne tacos from a truck. Cheaper, tastier, better. Chipotle better hope its customers don’t discover it!" www.latimes.com/california/s...

“I’ve known Jeff [Epstein] for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” - Trump to New York Magazine, 2002

Unhappy birthday for the Andrew formerly known as Prince. nypost.com/2026/02/19/w...

"To say that a comparable project is impossible today is to say that democracy can’t be saved. And I’m not willing to accept that. Are you?" paulkrugman.substack.com/p/billionair...

"In his famous Madison Garden speech of 1936 FDR declared war on “Government by organized money,” and he won that war. Progressive taxation and mass unionization drastically reduced the wealth and even more drastically diminished the power of big money." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/billionair...

". . any project to save American democracy must include a push to reduce the extreme concentration of wealth at the top. We know that this can be done, because it has been done." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/billionair...

"Palm Springs relies heavily on Canadian tourists, who are declining to travel to the U.S. or shortening their stays because of Trump. The number of Canadian visitors to California plummeted more than 18% in 2025 compared with the year prior." www.latimes.com/california/s...

"It would be reassuring to think that Trump believes nothing he says about 2020: Cynicism in the presidency is less disturbing than delusion. But reassurance is not plausible." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

"The still-hidden materials go back to the 1960s and include 3,000 of Hugh Hefner’s personal scrapbooks containing nude images, pictures of sexual activity and, potentially, underage girls, Crystal Hefner warned." nypost.com/2026/02/17/u...

"“If they’re not standing on that podium, they’re traitors who should be executed, so when exactly do I get to do that?” said Trump . . . Trump added that even a gold medalist should be killed if they ever criticized him. . ." theonion.com/trump-asks-w...

"Under Trump 47, people who have enriched themselves by peddling medical misinformation are no longer just influencing policymakers. They have become policymakers." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-ka...

""Even just one hour in a hot car can have a huge impact on most babies.” Kennedy went on to state that organ failure and seizures while in the car were signs of poisonous substances leaving the infant’s body." theonion.com/rfk-jr-time-...

"“Despite his best efforts, Marco has yet to prove that he is a flaming enough asshole to be Trump’s heir apparent,” one source said. “JD has set the bar very, very high.”" open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

The billionaire thinks he can buy the nomination, with campaign commercials running relentlessly on MSNOW and on NBC during the Olympics and the NBA all-star game. There was a debate recently, but Swalwell and Porter didn't take part, so it was meaningless. www.latimes.com/california/n...

"So America’s hard turn against renewables and climate action won’t be decisive for the climate future as long as other countries continue to move ahead on green energy, which they are." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/turning-ou...

"We now live in a time in which U.S. policy is shaped by sheer, naked corruption . . . Notably, Middle Eastern petrostates, which have a strong interest in blocking the energy transition, have played a huge role in enriching the Trump family." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/turning-ou...

Reggie Miller just interviewed Barack Obama at the NBA All-Star game. Trump isn't attending because it's in L.A. and he knows that if he showed up, he'd get his fat ass booed. He hates L.A. and the feeling is mutual.

"So are Trump officials right? Are studies concluding that Americans, not foreigners, are paying the tariffs wrong? No and no. The evidence that foreigners aren’t paying the tariffs, which means that Americans are, is rock-solid." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/who-is-pay...

It opened two weeks ago in dozens of theaters in my area and now, it's only playing in two of them, and only in the afternoon.

"What we see now, with immigration dragnets in American cities and the horrific conditions in the administration’s detention facilities, is what the president promised in his campaign. He said he was going to punish immigrants for being immigrants . . ." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/o...

"Immigration detention is not a criminal procedure. And yet the Trump administration is treating it as a criminal punishment. It is using detention to inflict pain on anyone — immigrant or citizen — caught in its grasp." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/o...

Theme song for a blasé Congress. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcM3...

"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...

"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." www.argonautnews.com/opinion/feds...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"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...