Bob Strauss

Bob Strauss covers film and television for the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times' The Envelope, The Wrap and whoever else will pay him.

[Me @KirkWrites79]

Spencer Pratt blocking everyone who is questioning his mayoral run. This is not someone who cares about the residents of Los Angeles. He’s also clearly very weak and childish… and dumb.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Things your legal department has to do when you are a propaganda outlet peddling lies for a corrupt regime nonstop… Fox is poison…

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

LET’S KEEP IT REAL

According to Trump, Black jobs are in factories. And we already know if a Black person is a doctor, lawyer, engineer, executive, professor, pilot, or CEO, he calls it DEI.

Yesterday, Trump was asked why Black unemployment is still 7.3%, far above the national average of 4.3%.

His answer? Don’t worry, Black workers will do well when more factories and car plants open.

Apparently, in Trump’s America, our future is on the assembly line.

[The AZ - abc15 - Data Guru @Garrett_Archer]

Given California's system, NOT having more ballots left to count on Wednesday morning would be a HUGE red flag.

[Rep. Adelita Grijalva @Rep_Grijalva]

While you were asleep, Senate Republicans voted to give ICE another $70 BILLION—on top of the $170 BILLION they already approved in their Big Ugly Bill.

That's nearly a quarter-TRILLION (yes with a T) dollars to expand Trump's deportation machine with ZERO accountability.

The House must say NO.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

The Trump administration unveiled a new proposed rule that, if implemented, would forbid grant recipients from using federal funds to help Americans register to vote. https://t.co/wFvGb6UvwD

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

“The danger doesn’t arrive when tanks appear in the streets. It arrives when leaders lose the ability to say no. It arrives when loyalty replaces judgment. It arrives when public officials preserve powers they would never tolerate in the hands of their opponents.”

https://t.co/TTZtkwyWMs

[Jonathan Reiner @JReinerMD]

If only there was a Senator who could have prevented RFK Jr from becoming HHS Sec.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This is a mass burial at sea, on the USS Intrepid in 1944 following a kamikaze attack. Remember the incredible sacrifices made on our behalf

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

Trump made some statements about the riot on January 6th the other day. I thought I would pair it with some footage from the event he claimed was full of love. Over 140 law enforcement officers were injured that day some with life altering injuries. Several committed suicide.

[Jedi @dhe3g]

Fun Fact: The war in Iran costs us more in one hour than this program costs in a year.

[John Schindler @20committee]

I realize nobody in MAGA cares, but large-scale IC firings bring enormous counterintelligence challenges. Terminated "in access" employees with bills and mortgages to pay may get desperate. That's when the walk-ins start.

This is why the IC has avoided big RiFs, historically.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

The shooting of "Mr. Majestyk" (1974) starring Charles Bronson was supposed to start in the month of June 1973, but it was postponed to September. Had it been shot in June, the movie could have been filmed at Imperial Valley in California as it was the Melons season. Since the season had passed in California, the movie was shot in La Junta, Colorado, instead.

Charles Bronson plays the character of a Watermelon farmer, a type of role which was unusual for him. As Watermelons were an integral of the movie, one of the Newspaper reviews' title was,

"Don't screw with Bronson's melons."

("Charles Bronson Superstar", Steven Whitney, 1975 & "Richard H. Kline on "Mr. Majestyk"")

P.S: On this day, 52 years ago, Richard Fleischer's "Mr. Majestyk" (1974) premiered in London, UK.

[Scott Mendelson @ScottMendelson]

If the reviews and buzz are good enough, I’d imagine this will increase accordingly. Tracking is not a crystal ball (it’s a research tool for studios), and it’s worth remembering that Man of Steel, Superman and The Batman all “came on the boards” at around $85 million.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

OMG, trump National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett is an idiot.

Do you know how long it would take to build an oil pipeline to the Red Sea? YEARS. And that’s with no one shooting at you or launching drones at you.

That’s his solution to the current oil crisis?

[Elizabeth Barcohana @E_Barcohana]

No, it did not happen.

@spencerpratt (orange on the graph) received votes in every single ballot drop.

This is fake news.

[Gigi @Gigi_chienergy]

The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency.

As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created.

Texan here

A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided!

Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks.

Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier.

This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses.

How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

BREAKING via Reuters

A group of U.S. states including California and New York are preparing a lawsuit to block Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.

Full Story: https://t.co/GkVJ7TioM2

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

Hey, Lisa Murkowski, was selling your soul and selling out Alaska worth it?

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Remember when they said Zelensky desecrated the sanctity of the White House by not wearing a suit